Can Bush lighten up and smile a little bit?

SF Chronicle ^ | May 7, 2006 | Bill Whalen

[SoCalPol]

During FDR's time there wern't any TV in every home with
Liberal News 24/7 and other programing with leftwing bent.
Many Americans don't have a clue about history, world affairs, etc. and only get their info from TV

[Howlin]

...they are terrified of that man.

The number one reason to keep him.

[Nick5]

There was a radio in every house and America listened to FDR all the time. Every big city had multiple newspapers and there were often three editions a day. FDR had powerful enemies. His programs were constantly under attack. But he kept us together. We need a man with Bush's ideas and FDR's ability to keep us together. It betrays the ideals of self-responsibility to keep blaming the other side.

[Nick5]

There was a radio in every house and America listened to FDR all the time. Every big city had multiple newspapers and there were often three editions a day. FDR had powerful enemies. His programs were constantly under attack. But he kept us together. We need a man with Bush's ideas and FDR's ability to keep us together. It betrays the ideals of self-responsibility to keep blaming the other side.

[MOgirl]

...they are terrified of that man.
"The number one reason to keep him."




Hello,

Amen! A lib I know had this to say about Cheney, "There's just something about him, he shoots people, and I just can't get behind that." (She is the only lib I still talk to, I view it as a science experiment, viewing how stupid a human can be before they forget to breathe...) Glad to be here, MOgirl

[SoCalPol]

People spend more time with TV than the folks of the 30s & 40s with radio and most was general programing.
In no was can the radio argument be equated with TV of today.
Not only the Leftwing words but selective films which stays with people the most.

[Howlin]

Does she really think he did that on purpose?

It's probably a good thing to keep her around, though; you know, just to have somebody to check your reality against!

[Nick5]

Well, then, I suppose you're right, it's all just too much for Bush to overcome. Maybe it's too much for anybody to overcome. Guess we're doomed. And here I was, hoping for a future for my children.

[Bahbah]

You all missed my point entirely. I agree with you.

You just posted the silly article. I never thought you bought into it.

[Blackirish]

I changed my tag line to expedite the process

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I'll help

[Nick5]

P.S. Do you think what Bush is up against is any less difficult than what King David was up against, or Gideon, or Patton for that matter? And did you ever hear them or their supporters complaining that the deck was stacked against them? You don't think every one of those leaders took every one of their failures as their own responsibility?

[SoCalPol]

What is going on in the world is far beyond anything we faced in WWII.
Bush was handed a pile of sh__ when he started.
Also on the subject of borders, I wanted the border closed when Clinton was prez. I am sitting 15 miles north of the busiest border crossing in the world.
If clinton could have gotten a handle on this along with the towel heads and having been offered UBL several times, folks need to get the big picture on what has been going on the past 15 yrs.

[MOgirl]

Does she really think he did that on purpose?



Hello,

I asked her just that. She mumbled something about how when she has gone target shooting (I know a lib with a gun, how odd) that she never shot anyone. I told her to stop listening to NPR and reading USA Today, and get back to me when she could have conversation that included facts, truth, and reality. (She really gets mad at me when I tell her how wrong she is, but hey, somebody has to do it)

Glad to be here, MOgirl

[redgirlinabluestate]

You just posted the silly article. I never thought you bought into it.

The silly article was written by Bill Whalen from the Hoover Institute. Looks like he is a Republican who worked with Pete Wilson and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Perhaps he was actually trying to help Bush with some constructive criticism even though most of us disagree with it. One thing that he did suggest --- Bush appearing with Laura more often before a wider audience --- is a good idea. I think the more people see Bush --- the more they like him.

Here's a bio on the author:

http://www.hoover.org/bios/whalen.html

[SoCalPol]

You are really reaching.
Many situations happened in the torah for God to intervene
to move people away from the multi gods.
We arn't in B.C. I don't expect the Red Sea to part again.

Patton, My great Uncle served with him. Still can't equate.

[Bahbah]

think the more people see Bush --- the more they like him.

I agree, and this does not surprise me.

[Doctor Raoul]

More projection by the "Angry Left".

[redgirlinabluestate]

Wow! Look at what the same author wrote about Bush a few years ago.... How the times have changed.

http://www.hooverdigest.org/021/whalen.html

[RichInOC]

Have more fun? That's just some inspired advice, Bill. The Bushes do go out and do the fun stuff. They have done the talk shows. And do you know what happens when they do? Do you know what your paper and other media outlets mostly do with it? Unless you can spin something out of it, you guys bury it. One and done, if that. Because on your level, it's not "news". It's not exciting. It's not controversial. You don't get Emmys and Pulitzers and Peabodys for covering Dubya and Laura doing the fun stuff. You don't get acclaimed for being truthtellers to power for covering it. That puff-piece stuff's for the hicks at the affiliates and the smaller papers...well, it would be if it weren't for the fact that most of those guys take their lead from you. You crap on them every day, and then you wonder why they don't look like they're having fun. You people are pieces of work.

[isrul]

Think the author would be satisfied if Bush smiled more? Nah. Then he would probably say Bush looked simple minded.