I mean.......NO one watching him speak last week would say that. And the fact that you DID say it made it look like you hadn't seen him at all.
To the point of whether or not he's fighting back........you may want him to get down and dirty, but he won't. He's more gracious than most of us are, but to say that he hasn't been fighting back, is just plain and simple wrong.
btw, it was HIS decision, against advice to release the Saddam tapes. The facts are coming out without his saying a word. THAT, groove........is fighting back.
But in the long run, are the people (in any great numbers) getting the message?
Okay so he may not have stumbled over himself as much as usual last week. But he's still not a great comunicator, and that makes a world of difference in trying to sway public opinion. It seems to me that last weeks speeches were okay, but they were no public opinion shifting remarks or great new plans that were so grand that they got natioanl media attention or public attnetion. None to turn the tide of public opinion in any of his speaking and definitely no grand differences in his speaking than normal.
All this is my opinion, but I do keep up with what he is saying and doing, and I compare it to the load megaphones that the press has, and who gets believed by the public? The Pres. or the MSM? And I know the the President can sway public opinion to the truth if he just fought back, and I mean fighting back harder than a few speeches and conferences in one week. Get out an around the country like he's campaigning and give motivational speeches about the WOT on a megaphone to crowds in cities nationwide, and it will get covered by the media.... and yes I am an armchair presidential advisor.... that's a joke, so nobody cut me down for typing that....