Posted on 01/29/2006 10:57:47 AM PST by voletti
"He was a great President. But boy, they mistreated him. He did what he thought was right."
George W. Bush's entry for himself in some future history book? Actually, it was the President describing Abraham Lincoln last week during an epic 100-min. question-and-answer session with 9,000 soldiers and students at Kansas State University. Bush hastened to say he was not comparing himself with that iconic wartime President: "I would never do that." But that's how this President sees himself, according to friends. And last week he began reminding us, selling himself with more vim and certitude than at any other time since he was re-elected 15 months ago.
Buffeted by Katrina, the cia leak and Iraq, Bush was teetering on the edge of irrelevance after a largely wasted 2005. But he found his voice in an improbable place: at the center of what looked like a serious scandal. Bush had personally tried to keep the New York Times from revealing the existence of a White House-authorized program to tap calls coming into and going out of the U.S. without a warrant if they involved a suspected terrorist, and just last week he told the Wall Street Journal, "I'm sorry we're talking about it."
But the eavesdropping controversy turned out to offer a foothold. "If somebody from al-Qaeda is calling you, we'd like to know why," Bush declared, while polls showed Americans weren't particularly concerned about warrantless wiretapping if authorities were using it to try to fight terrorism. Starting Feb. 6, the Senate will plunge ahead with hearings on eavesdropping, and Bush could face trouble if facts come out indicating he has described the program inaccurately or incompletely. After Bush delivered his war-on-terrorism defense of the program, however, Democrats seemed to have lost their stomach for battle.
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That's because the president has more class in his little finger than Carter and Clinton put together.
Katrina was Bush's fault. No doubt! He responded faster than anyother President ONLY after Gov. Blanco realized she was too incompetent to do anything. Oh and nevermind the Billions pissed away on Levy rebuilding that went into fountains and Mardi Gras floats!
CIA Leak was a predictible bust. Now ready to bite the press in its own @ss with the NYT leak of confidential CIA prison infromation!
Iraq so far has had 2 elections and one of the lowest costs of American lives after 3 years of war on a volentary army.
Too bad the economy, and record housing has been all but forgotten in 2005!
If you really wanted to extend the Lincoln comparison, you could point out that his Democrat opponents were such arrogant jerks, they continually ridiculed his lack of intelligence and compared him physically to an ape. Sound familiar? If not, put on a hazmat suit and spend a few minutes on Democrat Underground.
Caught Richard Reeves on C-SPAN today, mainly talking about his new book about President Reagan. For a liberal Democrat, Reeves was surprisingly fair-minded in his comments about Reagan, although he managed to work in some barbs directed at the current President Bush. He quoted something that read like it was a Democrat describing Reagan, which turned out to be the historian Arthur M. Schlesinger (the father of the Kennedy court historian) characterizing FDR as a charming person of limited intelligence.
Starting Feb. 6, the Senate will plunge ahead with hearings on eavesdropping, and Bush could face trouble if facts come out indicating he has described the program inaccurately or incompletely.
hmmm....so you don't trust your glorious leader....I'm deeply saddened....tell me..how many fingers am I holding up? hmmm..
..Columnist Mike Allen..."person of interest"
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