It sounds like what Lincoln had to endure.
Bush's stretegy of changing the tone has worked brilliantly in most cases.
It has worked when he has defended himself, as he has done most vigorously lately. When the rabid criticism from the Democrats has been met with his silence, he a nd the nation have suffered.
True, silence is not the answer. Defending oneself by being aggressive, confident, AND civil is what he does best.
I still think his silence in defending the war over the summer was a strategy to embolden the defeat/retreat/traitorous democrats to come out and say what they really think. Now he's got them on the Ropes and only Murtha, Pelosi and a handful of others are still clinging to the idiotic retreat rhetoric of september.