President's Interview May Surprise Some

USA Today | Peter Johnson

[Jolly Rodgers]

Jolly, calm down. You are quite angry about the president.

Nice try, but such unsophisticated attempts at pop psychology really don't work.

So what if he prepares his answers--any good person worth their salt would do it. But how do you make tears come out? I have never been able to cry on command. Do you think that Clinton bit his lip everytime he wanted to cry--you know, cause pain and the tears come? Perhaps I now understand why Clinton did what he did.

Acting coaches teach people how to evoke emotions, including tears. Even mediocre high school drama kids can master it with practice. Get a book. Read a few biographies. Not just the recent hit pieces, but those that go back into the past. Presidents don't get to be Presidents without mastering the techniques of media. Would you really respect a man who went into an interview of this magnitude totally unprepared and decided to just wing it and see how he looked afterwards? It doesn't happen. The handlers would NEVER allow it.

[Jolly Rodgers]

Hey, if you have an agenda about the president both you and Jolly take it someplace else. This is no time to be fighting as the occasion is way too important to read the comments by you two.

You haven't time for honesty?

[Jolly Rodgers]

Can I recommend a good laxative?

That's very mature of you.

[Jolly Rodgers]

I'm not learning much about Bush from your comments, but I am getting a hint that you have difficulty recognizing honesty, integrity, and faith when it is before you.

And you think that by watching a carefully scripted interview on the boob tube you are able to discern these things?

Neither the presence, nor the absence, of a wide range of emotions, in ones public demonor, proves a whole lot. To understand what is really happening, one first must become a truth seeker, then one can begin to recognize such when it passes by.

Are you implying that you have tapped into some kind of netherworldly power that reveals these things to you?

Until then, reactions to superficial behaviours are rather superficial.

Twighlight Zone...

[Jolly Rodgers]

Your rebuttal to the resident Negative Nessie would be more than welcome.

Calling in the Mongolian Hordes, huh? Why must you resort to such cheap tactics?

[Jolly Rodgers]

First of all my admiration of the president is b/c he is the real thing.

And you know this how?

[ThePythonicCow]

There's art for the sake of art, and there's art that is driven to express something more important. Just because someone is good at something doesn't mean that they're shallow abusers of the craft.

But you wouldn't know about that yet.

Nor about maturity.

And yes, I do have time for honesty. I will have to look elsewhere for that, however. Good day.

[isthisnickcool]

It's kind of an unwritten standard to do it that way.

Yea. As you see. I know the drill. I didn't even add "/sarcasm off".

even though you've never met me. ;-)

Gee, I wouldn't want to draw conclusions about you because I have never met you. Nope! No way! Or, say you were acting within your post, just because I presume like some other poster you were a good actor. /sarcasm off for sure this time

[MJY1288]

Jolly, I'm not sure who p*ssed in your Wheaties tonight, You havn't seen the interview and neither have any of us. Why don't you wait and watch it before you criticize the President and insult your fellow FReepers. It's now 9/11 here on the right coast and you ring in the anniversary trashing the President and your fellow FReepers... Shame on you

[SevenofNine]

Copycat you didn't know

Dubya acting coach was Ronald Reagan yeahhhh remember he did visit Bush Sr when Bush Sr was VP and Ronnie was Prez

He learn from AlMighty Ronnie

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

Cheap tactics? You are a fine one to talk. I am sure you have never seen sunshine because you are the most negative human, if you are human, to ever post on this forum.

I did a search on your previous posts, and you have never had a positive or kind thing to say about anyone or anything.

So post all you want, but if you ever bother to come out of your dark and paranoid underground bunker, you might be able to look in the mirror and see that you are a miserable person whose only joy in life is to spread your unhappiness around like fresh manure.

[grimalkin]

It's now 9/11 here on the right coast and you ring in the anniversary trashing the President and your fellow FReepers... Shame on you.

As with Clinton, shame is a foreign concept to some.

[NYCVirago]

One question. A little boy walks up to the President with a picture of his missing father, a firefighter in the WTC. Do you think Bush would be sad about that after the cameras went off, and he was home alone? Would Clinton? Would Bush look on it as an opportunity to hit on the mother? Would Clinton?

Excellent analysis. After 9/11, Clinton rushed back to NYC to "comfort" people -- of course, he only seemed interested in comforting the young women!

[JennysCool]

Nature --and modern medicine -- offer relief from your problem. You should be celebrating, not casting aspersions...

[CyberAnt]

Well ... I recognize willyone as one of the group who only come here to try to get the rest of us to explode. It's a little game they play - watching the rest of us go ballistic over their outrageous statements.

Your game is over! We know you don't come here and say the things you do because you want to have an honest conversation. You come here only to disrupt the thread. You come here and make your stupid remarks just to get somebody's goat!

Take a hike!!

[Cultural Jihad]

Interesting article. I'll be sure to tune into 60 Minutes tomorrow night.

[MJY1288]

Bravo!

We all can disagree with his politics, But to compare him to Clinton is sophmoric. GWB might not please everyone on this forum, but he is not a scumbag. The entire image of the White House has been restored to the honor and dignity it deserves. I voted for George W. Bush and despite his compromises with the RATS, He has far surpassed my expectations of him. Here is a guy who was written off by all of the media and half of America. But yet he was able to get a tax relief bill on his desk along with many other FUNDEMENTAL changes in foriegn policy and accountability in domestic policy that is never wriiten about by 90% of the press.

This guy has been in office all of 19 months and IMHO he has done a great job, especially when you consider what he has had to face since he took the oathe of office. How many times did we hear from the media and others how GWB would not be accepted on the world stage? Bet you wont hear those reports now. The entire world is waiting for his speech on thursday and it isn't because they don't take him seriously.

Kudos for your thoughtful post

FReegards,

MJY

[TLBSHOW]

I know a few of the people that were with him those days and they said he looked really bad. Bad skin tone I think they said. They were disgusted with him.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Hmmm...he "sees black and white". Maybe thats why some "true conservatives" hate him; they allow for seeing "grey". ;)