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I think we need to win this argument. W looks defensive & did not smile yesterday. He should be laughing out loud at these clowns.

Voters want cheerfulness & confidence.
Kerry needs to be put on the defensive right now.

I think the argument is this:

Realists see the world as dangerous
The premis of the President and his advisers is that bad people need to be stopped

The premis of the left is that bad people will be nice if we are nice....theirs is a utopian vision which is based in delusion....

Bush has articulated this but needs to ask this of the left:

Prove to us that we and the world are safe if we continue to do what we did under Clinton.

He should be laughing out loud at these clowns.

I'd like to see the focus group that says that seeing their president laugh at the news media will make them more likely to vote for a person they don't already like.

The press will write that Bush was cautious and defensive in his interview. Had he laughed at them, he would have been belligerent and arrogant in the face of contested facts. Which to your mind would make you more comfortable with a sitting president?

Bush did not go on Meet the Press to win any DUer's vote. He went there to show that he wasn't afraid of facing the questions, and he pulled it off to my satisfaction. I would have rather liked different questions; such as about this guest worker program, why he didn't mention the Mars mission in his State of the Union address.

It was also a screen test for the upcoming debates between whomever the RATs put up as their sacrificial victim of 'voting fraud and conspiracies by the right wing to steal the White House again.'

Absolutely! W can win all arguments but he's been slipping in the polls... many people are obviously sucking up that Rat drivel, IMHO the GOP needs to just assume now that Kerry will be the nominee and President Bush needs to get out there and campaign with the cheerfulness and confidence you correctly say the voters want!