Posted on 05/07/2006 2:53:36 PM PDT by redgirlinabluestate
If there's an unintended consequence of lousy poll numbers, as President Bush is fast discovering, it's that sagging fortunes beget plenty of unsolicited advice, in this instance, how to put President Humpty Dumpty back together. The Washington Post, a reliable Bush critic, suggests that the president rebound by taking on climate change and lobbying reform, and "fess up to detainee atrocities." Fred Barnes, a Bush devotee and executive editor of the conservative Weekly Standard, has suggested a White House shakeup of 1906 proportions: elevate Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to vice president; shift Dick Cheney to the Pentagon after bidding adieu to Donald Rumsfeld; score bipartisan points by putting a Democrat -- Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman -- in charge of the State Department. I'd add an important item to any other Bush recovery agenda, and it has to do more with posture than policy or penance. My theory: While the president's troubles are substantial and not going away anytime soon (Iraq, gasoline prices), there's a separate problem. The president, simply put, needs to lighten up a little and show that he's having a good time, polls be damned. Less so than his predecessors, it would seem, Bush hasn't tapped his office for all it offers in ways intellectual, spiritual and, yes, even hedonistic. If he is, it's a well-kept secret. During the day, the president's speeches are defensive.The events seem same-song with familiar-looking backdrops and audiences. After dark, the White House is seldom open for business: Official dinners are few and far between, as are invites to movie nights in the White House theater, which seats about 40 and shows first-run films.The first couple's private evenings are exactly that: private,with Texas outsiders generally more welcome than Washington insiders. The funny thing is the Bush White House didn't start this way.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
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
The number one reason to keep him.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
You just posted the silly article. I never thought you bought into it.
I changed my tag line to expedite the process
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?
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.
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
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.
I agree, and this does not surprise me.
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
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