It's true, Bush is rather low key. Although he seems to have become more aggressive lately, I've noticed.
Still, I think a good press secretary should be sort of an attack dog, ready to sally forth and bite the reporters before they bite his boss. Or her boss? Has there ever been a female press secretary?
"Has there ever been a female press secretary?" LOL that you don't remember Dee Dee Myers. She was canned pretty quick.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/clinton/interviews/myers3.html