After 9/11, no one will be able to convince me that President Bush has ANY problems with real communication. The difference is that some of us (you?) require slickness in your definition of communication skills. I don't.
The MSM will never show the President as he really is. They had to after 9/11, but the best thing they can do to make people hate him (which is their only goal) is to hide him, and show only soundbites that back up their template.
Ask the people in Cleveland or Wheeling if he communicated well. Ask them if they got the message.
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....
This is exactly what he is doing. He only gets covered locally. The MSM continues their virtual ignore policy.
It isn't slickness it is presenting your case and keeping people reinforced to believe in you and your ideas. This is where the President has failed. Is it fair? No, but since his enemies are not going to put their tails between their legs and run away in shame as they should if they had any President Bush is going to have to keep fighting back and motivating people. Motivation is important and it doesn't mean you have to lie or cheat, it means you sell yourself and your accomplishments in the best light. The President has a lot to be proud of Iraq is not falling apart and almost every milestone set in the plan for Iraq has been met to date, our economy is growing at an outstanding rate and unemployment is at record lows. The President's no child left behind policies have been a success even though I believe spending more money on education was unwarrented he has accomplished the raising of standards as was needed. Also the President's energy policy has been key to the resurgence of coal and in states like WV miners are being hired faster than they can be found. There is a lot to be proud of and that is what the President needs to remind the public of. Negativity is like a virus, people tend to believe the worst about things even if it is not true.
This President has faced the worst unjustified onslaught of any because of one thing the acquisition of power by the Democratic party. This same party gave President Clinton a get out of jail free card after his White House pulled the FBI files on political enemies, trumped up charges to fire the Travel Office staff, used his office to obtain sexual favors from underlings, ran the White House like a frat house, Vince Foster's suspicious death, White Water, Somalia, Bosnia, etc. We could go on probably week by week and identify REAL consistent political corruption but all that didn't matter.
Now when our soldiers need the support of the American people to do a job that was long over due after the most serious attack on American soil in our history the left have been let overwhelm the trenches and conduct a pysops war undeterred in what is becoming the second most serious terrorist attack on American soil by legions of traitors and cowards, who express open allegiance with the enemies of liberty, are not just attacking our physical wellbeing but the very soul of the country and the ability to do what is right in the face of a clear and present evil.
good explanation, Thanks.