Many Iraqis Relieved at Bush's Remarks

AP ^ | Wed, Apr 14, 2004 | BASSEM MROUE

[TheLion]

Last night, Bush basically ignored the press and took his message to where he wanted it to go...the American people and those in Iraq that want freedom.

[livius]

I think there might be a "sympathy" bump. The press overplayed their hand.

[facedown]

Where do they get these reporters, anyway?

Northeast and West coast journalism schools.

[livius]

None of these reporters wanted what, theoretically, reporters want: information.

They wanted to bring down the President of the United States.

[livius]

He did, and I think he won. The really painful thing to watch, though, was the way the press (which spent its days in the 90s licking Clinton's toes) assaulted him.

[TheLion]

That is why he ignored them! One thing I don't understand is why he doesn't call on a few conservatives there to ask questions? There are a few available.

[wingman1]

"...they cannot even formulate a question worthy of this time in history."

That says it all. I, too, heard the woman on Rush today. I conclude that there are decent people in the Democratic Party who do know right from wrong, and who will be pulling the GOP lever this year.

[wingman1]

I rarely watch the networks. I think the guy who disgusts me the most is David Gregory. What a punk. A year or two ago, Bush got the best of him, I believe it was in France. A very nice put down of a deserving pompous a$$.

I really believe that when the Presdident and his staff get out of camera range, they whoop it up after bringing the worst out in the American media. They were the big losers.

Our President has things under control - even when things appear to be going badly.

[McGavin999]

they cannot even formulate a question worthy of this time in history.

What is really funny is that they don't realize they are a part of history. They don't even know that future generations are going to read their moronic questions with disgust. Future, perhaps more decent, journalism students are going to think about the chances they threw away to ask valid, meaningful questions. Instead they will go down in history asking this president "what mistakes did you make?" and "are you going to apologize?"

[livius]

I had forgotten about the nauseating David Gregory.

[livius]

Few of them (conservatives) work for the major nets, alas.

[CalKat]

What was wrong with David Gregory addressing Jacque Chirac in French? Would it be disgusting for a foreign journalist to ask a question of George Bush in English?

[foreshadowed at waco]

I think that people who have a visceral dislike of Bush are like me in the sense that I had a severe visceral reaction to Bill Clinton--he had millions of devotees but he just gave me the creeps. They saw charm where I saw swarm.

[CasearianDaoist]

Well I do and I do not agree with you. Yes, of course, you are right, how can you just not like the guy?

I do not condone but I have some insight into the Libs' hatred. Bush shows them up for what they are, what they are not and what they can never be.

I am a boomer too and only slightly younger than W. I came from a working class background in the rural Midwest. In manner and in character - if not in accomplishment and talent - there were many people just like Bush where I grew up. I also went to elite schools including the ivys. To put it mildly, there were less people of this sort there, though more back then there are now I imagine.

Many Boomers thus privileged became these self-deluded little snobs that have it in the back of their minds that they are better than where they came from, and where they came from is the good ole' heartland of the USA, hicks and all. Many of my generation imagine themselves to be a sort of "gentry" or a "natural aristocracy;" that by virtue of what they take to be their superior education, intellect, intelligence, taste and, of course, their "creativity" all should surely see just how exceptional they truly are, that their opinions are naturally superior and that they just obviously have the right to run the country. It is sort of a "Divine Right of Twits."

This notion that they have of themselves is comically at odds with the reality of their pasts, presents and futures. Those of us boomers that did not completely have our heads up our rumps got over this problem by the age of 30 or so, generally went into business (lots went into technology, BTW) and over the course of our (productive) lives became conservatives to one degree or another. The rest of this privileged, indulged, indulgent, cosseted and self-important bunch still cling to this creamy dream world of theirs and in our world they inhabit every parasitic, unproductive and "creative" niche of this society from the Media to Wall St. to Law School to the Academy to the Nonprofit to the political machine of the Democrat Party.

They hate him simply for the reason that he reminds them of what they are not nor could even be. It is thrice cruel, bitter and painful: he squarely put before them not only the awful truth that they are not who they think they are, that not only are they not the sort he is, but they are not even the sort they grew up with. Old Uncle Joe who ran a grain elevator was actually a better person then they are. Little did they suspect this.

And he is just so natural, comfy and happy to be just another plain and simple spoken American, and he went to Harvard too. It drives them nuts.

It is like politely showing a surely drunk the door, and you know how they feel about that.

[CasearianDaoist]

surely drunk= surly drunk (actually I am right on both counts.)

[CasearianDaoist]

with the possible exception of Dick Cheney, who obviously terrifies the press

Hehehe...boy, is that the truth. I wonder exactly why this is so. Does he remoind them not of their fathers but ther grandfathers? Their bosses? The dean of whatever school they went to?

I love to watch this spell he casts on them: The effect is at once magical and comic. Too funny.

[daybreakcoming]

My Mother(lifelong Demo) is finally realizing her old Democrat party is gone. The attempted ravaging of President Bush last night pushed the envelope for her.

The Democrat party is doing to itself what we Republicans could never accomplish.

[Doc On The Bay]

HMMnn.

The "Bad Guys" Attack Us--& Kill a LOT of Ours.

We THEN ATTACK a MAJOR SUPPORTER of the "Bad Guys (MILLIONS of Dollars to the Families of "Homicide Bombers...")

The Bad Guys get SO UPSET that we have attacked them, that they send Dozens of "Fighters" to Iraq.

Our Military--TRAINED to "Deal With" the "Jihardists"--is NOW "Confronted With" the "Best" "Warriors of Militant Islam" in Iraq; NOT in America.

Once again, Tell me how "W" "Got It Wrong??"

The Radical Islamic Suicidal Maniacs are NOW focused on Iraq--where our Soldiers are--Not on America. ---& This is a "Bad Thing???"

I'm EMBARRASSED to have to Say This;--EVERY Psychopathic, Suicidal Jihadist who dies in Iraq is One Less who might Die & Kill in America.

Iraq is "Flypaper" for the Suicidal Psychopathic "Jihardists" of Islam.

Better Iraq than America.

Doc

[livius]

Great post #34! We must be about the same age, with the same track record.

As for Cheney, I'm not sure what it is that scares them. He's enough older to come from an unapologetic generation, however, and the press twits may not know how to deal with this. Billy Jeff made "apology" the word of the day, even though his apologies were pretty selective and he never meant a one of them. Nonetheless, that what was the press was seeking from the President last night, another "apology."

I think the press and the rest of the world demands a sort of hunched, defensive posture from any (conservative) public figure now. The problem is that Cheney doesn't give it to them, and they have no idea how to handle this.

[livius]

I couldn't stand Clinton, either. But I never wanted him dead, and I doubt that you did, either. That's the difference - Dems are literally out for blood now.