Perspective as to W's Game--another side to MTP Interview?

andrewsullivan blog ^ | 2-9-2004 | Sullivan, Andrew

[ontos-on]

BUSH'S MBA: A fellow student and subsequent professor analyzes George W. Bush from the Harvard Business School perspective. It's interesting reading. Money quote:

By reputation, the President was a very avid and skillful poker player when he was an MBA student. One of the secrets of a successful poker player is to encourage your opponent to bet a lot of chips on a losing hand. This is a pattern of behavior one sees repeatedly in George W. Bush’s political career. He is not one to loudly proclaim his strengths at the beginning of a campaign. Instead, he bides his time, does not respond forcefully, a least at first, to critiques from his enemies, no matter how loud and annoying they get. If anything, this apparent passivity only goads them into making their case more emphatically.

Only time will tell, whether Saddam ever had any WMDs. Their non-existence has not been proven. Only time will tell whether or not Osama bin Laden (or his corpse) will be taken into custody by American Troops. Only time will tell whether or not Iraq will continue to make progress toward a transition toward a peaceful democratic government. George W. Bush knows much more information about these topics than his domestic political opponents do. At the moment, they are betting a lot of their chips on one side of these questions.

We will see by November who has the winning hand.

[Right_in_Virginia]

He wasn't talking to Russert. He was talking past Russert.

I agree. I watched the interview and felt he was talking to me. Russert was annoying--an intrusion.

The President was firm, on message, gracious, trustworty with a clear vision.

I was once again grateful for his leadership.

[nutmeg]

The only good news for Democrats is they could save $$ by switching to Geico.

LOL! What a great tag line! ;-D

[Neets]

With a capitol "T".

[RightWingMama]

if there's one consistency in this universe, it's that whenever Algore has an opinion on something, you can bet in very short order something will come out to make him look like a complete fool.

We can only hope.

[Dolphy]

He wasn't talking to Russert. He was talking past Russert.

Exactly. It's what leaders do while middle management types keep harping on some conspiracy or gossip.

[Amelia]

Bush also looked very tired

I thought he was tired of answering the same old questions again and again.

[TheExploited]

I felt yesterday that Bush was talking to us not to the MTP audience. It was a message to the loyalists...Let's Roll.

[TejasRose]

Frankly, I don't think Algore has, in the last 4 years, been right about anything in politics

Algore just ain't right (ya know, in the head)!!

[beckysueb]

Me, too. That is so important right now. Just don't listen to them. Just trust God and George.

[eureka!]

"I listened to some of the interview. Sounded to me like W was sandbagging. He's holding info for later - after the dems are all on film screaming and ranting their lies, then W will show what wimpy liars they are."

Yep. Letting out lots of rope for the Rats....

[nightowl]

Did no one hear the answer W gave to Russert when asked if he knew where Bin Laden was. W said that he WOULDN'T answer that. HUMMMMMM! I have seen this NOWHERE in the press or on FR. Russert told W that Sen. Grassley said we would get Bin Laden this year. That was the context of the question. October surprise?

[Servant of the 9]

Algore just ain't right (ya know, in the head)!!

On Fox News tonight, Mort Kondrake referred to him as demented and said we were very lucky he had not won in 2000.

Even Mara Liason (sp) the house liberal admited he had lost his mind.

SO9

[Dog]

We just witnessed this in Paksitan.

The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities...It is best to win without fighting. Sun-tzu, The Art of War. Planning a Siege

[Dog]

There was a thread on that comment yesterday .....a freeper did pick up on it.

[ontos-on]

Was Grassley just off the reservation...or part of strategery?

[armymarinedad]

I went and read the complete article. It answers a lot of questions on why Bush is doing some things that are driving conservatives crazy. There is a method to his madness. I encourage all to read the article. It explains why he is the President and we are not.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=3378

[ontos-on]

My favorite quote from the 2000 campaign was the one of W simply saying:

" I know what I am doing."

I hope he knows a lot better this time, I really don't want another "close election", IYDM.

[swarthyguy]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23218-2004Feb8.html

RUSSERT: Do you have a pretty good idea where Osama is?

BUSH: You know, I'm not going to comment on that.

[Dog]

Bingo.