Posted on 06/14/2004 6:20:15 AM PDT by veronica
Excellent summary of the situation today. But needless to say few Americans will read it, and the leftist American media will be on the attack against Bush from now through next November. So today's tranquillity won't last long.
While there are still pockets of economic distress, the nation, at large, has recovered.
Yes, I'm afraid that you're correct on all counts.
It's up to Bush and his team to go over and around the press, as Reagan did, and make the case.
Yeah, but the key point is unavoidable - Kerry is entering the final stretch of the horse race with no legs (he's still got the face for a horse race though).
Pres. Bush is a genuis at the strategic level. He is less gifted tactically. In the bloody trenches--the newsrooms and sound stages of the media elites--he, and we, are getting trounced.
But what he was thinking was,
"France will never stop resenting what it owes America."
It's SUCH a b!tch being a third-rate country on a downward slide!
Good article, veronica!
The media is a real problem. Reagan was also faced with a hostile media (who seem now to have forgotten how much they hated and ridiculed him and even his wife).
But he may have had better people helping him confront the media, his acting experience and background with the entertainment industry probably helped him, and things were nowhere near as vicious. There was no Michael Moore out there passing off blatant lies and calumny as truth - and winning awards for doing so.
On the positive side, there is the Internet, where at least some of the truth can get out.
But you're both right, it still doesn't seem as if Bush has found away around the media blockades to really get out to the American people. He needs better advisers, I think.
Bill and Hillary could have done us all a great favor by making a similar excuse;
then we'd have been spared the spectacle of their falling asleep during President Reagan's funeral service.
Cojones of steel vs. the marshmallows of the left.
Lying, deceitful, manipulative, societal engineering Marshmellows of the left.
We shall see how this one plays out, but keep in mind that Bush managed to edge the VP of a popular president before it was clear to the electorate that the economy turned in November/October that year. That is no small achievement in my view.
Lots of people are demanding that Bush do this or that a long ways before Nov. The old saying don't shoot until you see the whites of their eyes may hold here. Bush may be being very tactically smart holding back some reserve for the traditional election season.
He just needs to stay on task. Take the war into Syria and Iran before the election and he'll have plenty of opportunity to get the message to the American people.....
Nice article, but I don't see Bush's critics floundering at all. I watched the Sunday news programs and listened to the radio this AM and the liberal echo chamber was in full swing. Amongst the moving goal post statements and innuendo I heard this weekend were:
Bush should go to the UN in order to get more international aide. . whats that you say? He got a UN resolution and no more international aide is following? Well, then Bush should do more to internationalize this effort (read, suck Chiracs bleep) by being more international. Reagan is a prime example of a leader with whom the Eurowennies disagreed, but still liked. . nevermind all those massive protests in Europe against Reagan that we are hoping you have forgotten.
Americans are dying in Iraq for nothing since there will be no Iraqi government to hand power to and there is no exit strategy oh and every Iraqi hates us. . .whats that you say, an interim government is in place and fully supports the U.S. presence there? There is an interim government and there will be a hand over in power? Well, the terrorists are still being terrorists and blowing things up. That should just magically stop. If we had not invaded Iraq, Saddam could still be in power systematically killing his own people, rather than the terrorist doing it willy nilly and the terrorists would just be sitting around right now twiddling their thumbs. In other words, if we had not invaded Iraq and minded our own business the terrorists would have left us alone. Nevermind that is exactly what we were doing prior to 9/11, I will just pretend that you in the audience are too stupid to think of that point yourselves.
Bush's popularity is plummeting and all the news for him is bad. . whats that you say, there has been good news for him and his numbers are stabilizing, that nobody seems to have a reason to vote for Kerry other than voting against Bush? First off, the news is bad because we create the news and will ensure it is all bad, que up another Abba Dabba Do photo. Second off, he is unpopular, I have interviewed at least five of my closest liberal friends and they say Bush is unpopular, so he must be, especially since I agree with them. Also, the LA Times says so. echo. .echo. . echo. .
Bush led us to war on false pretenses, there are no WMD's and there are no Saddam Al Queda links. . whats that you say, the UN even says that Iraq smuggled the WMD's out before, during and after the war (hmmm, could it be the UN fan dance delay gave Saddam time) and that Iraqi documents say that Saddam had links to terrorism. .whats that you say. .eh, sorry, never heard it, fingers in ears, not reporting it. NO WMD's, NO AL QUEDA TIES, THOSE ARE OUR STORIES AND WE ARE STICKING WITH THEM.
The 9/11 families blame Bush for 9/11. . whats that you say, they don't? Well, the four Jersey Bimbs we have been talking to do and that is enough for us. . next up on Hardball. . .
Bush ordered torture to be used in Iraq and asked for memos to be written by the AG. . . what is that you say, the soldiers involved in the Abba Dadda Doo fraternity prank (read abuse) scandal are being prosecuted, that the Geneva Conventions don't apply to terrorists, the memos being referred to were to obtain a legal opinion as to how far we could go without violating treaties (that the terrorists could give one shyt about), and that the Abba Dabba Doo fraternity prank (read abuse)prison scandal has now morphed so that ligitimate techniques being used to interrogate terrorists (sleep dep, fear (call in the dogs), etc) are being called torture? Well, any mistreatment is bad. We must afford these terrorists an ACLU lawyer so that we can get no information from them and they can attack the U.S and we can blame Bush. We demand more be done to protect the U.S. without anything actually being done. Isn't it a cutesy wootsy political delimna we have created. Sure it may get a million Americans killed, but the capitalist pigs deserve to die just like we deserved 9/11.
American casualities in Iraq are down you say. . well, that was never the story you see, it was always about Saudi Arabia and the civilian casualites there.
Bush delivered an excellent eulogy at Reagan's funeral you say. . .well, Bush Sr. gave the better, more emotional eulogy and showed what a dunce Bush Jr. really is.
Bush is no Reagan. .what is that you say, he may not be, but he is facing challenges to this country that were similar to what Reagan faced? Well, Ron Jr. made a passing remark in his eulogy that can only be interpreted as meaning the Ron Sr. secretly converted back to being a Democrat during his last days on earth and, if he had lived but a little longer, would have endorsed John Kerry fully.
BUMP!
Kerry is left with "I'm not Bush!"
And he doesn't realize just how damaging that is as the election approaches.
I'm still laughing at how Kerry has begged McCain SEVEN TIMES to be his VP. If that isn't a damning indictment, what is?
Schroder's problem is easy to fix; all he has to do is invade France. They'll surrender in four hours or so, and this time, Germany gets to keep them.
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