Posted on 09/19/2005 12:12:34 PM PDT by areafiftyone
As the petty carping from Senators Reid and Kerry indicates, President Bush’s speech from Jackson Square was a success. Again, he accepted responsibility for the torpid response of federal authorities. He showed empathy for the victims and recognition the poor had borne the brunt of the New Orleans disaster.
He came prepared with a credible agenda of action. And the biblical allusions fit well with Southern and religious folks, black and white. Not a great speech, but Gersen did the job, put the President out front and center as Big Boss in the rebuilding of New Orleans.
Also, New Orleans and Louisiana officials, Democrats though they may be, are unlikely to keep attacking a fellow who is going to decide how $65 billion is spend in their back yard. After mishandling the crisis, the president has been on top and out front for two weeks. While the memory of his stumbling and bumbling will be part of his legacy, the worst is behind him, the story now gets better with the recovery and rebuilding of New Orleans, a story Americans will like.
Media and Democrats who continue to snipe will soon appear to be what many are: inveterate Bush-baiters and Bush-bashers. Nevertheless, there is no denying that George W. Bush is now at the nadir of his presidency. The aura of 9/11 is gone. His approval is at 40%. Iraq appears an insoluble mess with the real potential for a strategic and economic disaster. Gas prices are biting. The immigration situation—and the president’s inexplicable refusal to protect the border—is killing him with his populist base.
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"Petty carping" is a particular speciality of our protofascist friend Herr Buchanan.
Look who's talking, Patrick....
Pat ran aground several years back, and has been rotting ever since.
"is there any one policy view buchanan has that you agree with?"
Maybe a detail or two is wrong but I found this piece informative factually and the tone of its opinion reasonable. Pat's voice rises above the partisan cable/radio inspired bickering.
Stable, level-headed. Maybe a surprise, but Louisiana is 10,000 miles away from Israel.
Low tide/High tide?? At least his ship didn't sink like Pat's years ago.
I think that Pat is trying to pay back Bush for winning in 2000....but he is also trying to help drive a wedge in the Republican Party...
so if there is a candidate NOT to his liking in 2008, he will try to get infighting so bad...that there will be a struggle..and that candidate might get beat...
Who knows....but I have read some of the things that Buchanan has written...and I put him in the same catagory as I do Robert Novak...he may be CALLED a Republican or conservative...be he and Novak aren't either.
As a Christian, Bush will now demonstrate the resurrection power of God.
Wait till it sinks in that Bush proposed the
Gulf Opportunity Zone - GOZ.
Flip it around and whaddya get? ZOG!
Pat Buchanan's vanity run for President in 2000, when he had zero chance of winning, nearly put Al Gore in the White House by drawing votes away from Bush in Florida.
I agree, I feel like I'm at DU when a Buchanan or WorldNetDaily article is posted. People resport to ad hominem attacks rather than attacking the message. But when a liberal does it to someone they like, watch out!
Yeah, immigration. But that doesn't take away from the fact that I loathe his side of the Right with a passion.
If you want a Google GMail account, FReepmail me.
They're going fast!
I this keeps up, there is NO WAY President George W. Bush will be re-elected in 2008! What are we going to do????
This is pathetic. Exactly how did the President mishandle the crisis? When did he bumble and stumble? When he called the Governor urging her to order an evacuation? When he declared an emergency before the storm hit so he could shake Blanco and Nagin out of the inactivity? Or maybe it was when he ordered the storm to fizzle out and it didn't. Yeah...that must be it.
BINGO!
If you want a Google GMail account, FReepmail me.
They're going fast!
Buchanan took too many right hooks to the head when he was a boxer....he's whacky most of the time.
"but he is also trying to help drive a wedge in the Republican Party..."
No, he's trying to give Republicans a wedgie.
A report from someone who really has reached the depths of non-credability about someone with the toughest job in the world. The only thing positive anyone can say about Buchanan is his opinions and motives are so obvious no one needs to waste time reading any more of them.
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