Posted on 08/21/2006 3:30:36 AM PDT by Aussie Dasher
No doubt, President Bush has one knee on the canvas. What is in doubt is whether he's buying time or simply cannot get back up.
Just look at the serious body blows he has taken lately:
His bold Bush Doctrine of striking down terror before it shatters us is in disarray in Afghanistan, Iraq, even here at home.
His magnificent ambition to plant the seeds of liberty and spread freedom throughout the enslaved world is unraveling.
His sworn obligation to protect Israel, one of America's few authentic allies, at all costs, and never to accept a peace in Lebanon that resurrects the status quo ante is down the drain.
His stern warnings to Syria and its master Iran to keep their filthy hands off Israel are derided.
His pronouncement that the Free World cannot abide a nuclear North Korea is shrugged off.
His warning, through a United Nations resolution, to Iran that it must by the end of this month abandon its nuclear-weapons program is answered by sneers, insults and invective from Tehran, followed by a salvo of serious Iranian rockets to show it means business even if he doesn't.
His enemies from the left in Congress grow bolder and nastier by the day in what they say of him, threatening impeachment if they regain control of the House of Representatives this November.
Opportunists like a second-term senator from Nebraska within his own party are warming up to walk across his face in quest of the 2008 Republican presidential nomination.
Opinion polls, of dubious veracity themselves, are allowed to go unchallenged, thus becoming their own self-fulfilling prophesies that the president is going down the pipes.
The leftist "mainstream" media have abandoned all pretext of accuracy and objectivity, now daily making up bogus anti-Bush stories, trying to outdo one another in venality. While all that's been going on, what counterpunches has the president landed? None that come to mind.
Something quite alarming is going on, and it's showing increasingly in the president's public appearances.
His body language of late has been ... well ... just awful.
Gone are the televised events in which he leans across a podium, full of energy and believability, sharing his convictions and enthusiasm with responsive audiences.
Is This Our President?
Now, his TV-appearance arrangers have him standing awkwardly alone, shifting uncertainly from one foot to the other. In the background sit or stand a few unknowns, all scowling as if in disbelief or suffering acute indigestion.
The president's own visage is scarcely recognizable. Disappeared is the buoyant smile, the twinkling eyes.
His syntax, usually a problem (actually not, since its candid openness was a big plus with most Americans, who speak the same way he does) has been all right. But he now seems unable to articulate anything.
Here is a man who is either grievously sleep-deprived, physically and emotionally drained, or weighted down, in honest despair, by realities that would terrify any mortal.
It Must Be Tempting
Is he on the verge of saying to himself, "To hell with it. I did my best. And all anyone wants from me now is my head on a pike. They can take this job and shove it. I'm heading home to Crawford."?
Or does he know something the rest of us don't know – and probably wouldn't want to know? Does he see apocalypse just over the horizon? Is global nuclear winter nearly upon us, and there's not a blessed thing he can do about it?
Or does he know what has to be done to save this nation, and the rest of civilization? Is it crushing his very soul? Is it like looking straight down the throat of doomsday?
Is he buying time – letting Enemy win all the little battles – so he can furiously regroup, retrain, rearm in order to make the dreadful preemptive move that only can win the ultimate war?
Totally Out of Character
Everything we've come to know about this remarkable, decent man from Texas tells us he has steel inside, not flab, that he is not afraid to do what's right regardless of political consequences. It is impossible to think of him in terms of capitulation to anything.
Yet what is the alternative? Is he about to confide in us, his people, that, like it or not, we are all – including him – going to have to face, and make, a life-or-death decision unprecedented in history?
That's enough to wipe the smile off any man's face.
No one who admires and wishes him well wants to think he is down on one knee, having to take the full count because he has been cruelly beaten, defeated, humiliated, immobilized.
Now Let Us Pray
No one of sane mind wants to believe he is kneeling there, having to take the count up just short of 10 in order to buy every split-second of precious time to get us ready for the indescribable.
Yet, that may well be the lesser of two intolerable possibilities.
This good man, our 43rd president, needs – deserves – the nation's prayers. Even more than did our 16th president.
Abraham Lincoln had to wage a war he hated to save the union he loved. George W. Bush has to agonize about saving civilization.
Those who believe in prayer had better get busy.
A dude with a resume of fine credits writes an epistle with mostly single sentence paragraphs...... what smarts.
Here's another bleat, though:
Reagan was EXCELLENT at going over the heads of the media. I think the media knew this and it irritated them.
I remember that late in Bush41's term he asked for some airtime and the media wouldn't give it to him!
I hate the thought of a government newspaper and TV station. But if the media can deny access to the president (can they really? I don't know) then they win and we lose.
And yeah, while I admire his commitment to Democracy and bless Sharanksy for writing his book, Dubya ain't no Reagan, that's fer shur.
His bold Bush Doctrine of striking down terror before it shatters us is in disarray in Afghanistan, Iraq, even here at home.
His magnificent ambition to plant the seeds of liberty and spread freedom throughout the enslaved world is unraveling.
Nonsense.
I'm going to go even farther. I predict he won't be reelected! In fact I'd be real suprised if he even runs.
I come here to get away from all the Bush bashing and the "republicans ain't got a chance in '06 or '08" crap, now Newsmax is in on it? What next? Rush??
And, in the meantime, let any one who does not have a sword sell his Pradas and buy one. By which I mean, not only is there a duty to get current and vocal on the treachery of the MSM, there is also a need to get involved with emergency preparedness and the kind of things that non-military, non-LEO folks can take to be ffective when the compost hits the air-conditioner -- as it surely will if the MSM win.
Okay, maybe I sound like a kook. Maybe I AM a kook! But I think the most dangerous enemy we currently confront is the MSM.
Long ago I read, and maybe it's even true, that if you pour a drop of whiekey on a scorpion it will sting itself to death. (Good thing I don't have a sting in my tail, I would have died long ago -- but then, I'm an Aries not a Scorpio -- I probably would have butted myself to death.) I think the MSM is suffering a toxic lunacy which imperils the life of the nation. Really.
FYI. Our President needs our prayers.
For all of Reagan's greatness he made a serious mistake in regards to Beirut.
This article in nonsense.
I saw the President in person less than two weeks ago, and he is healthy, confident, committed, unconcerned about the phony polls, and fighting with every fiber of his being for the safety of the American people.
He feels our prayers, and is going to continue to do what is RIGHT regardless of outside pressures or silly articles that his administration and policies are moribund.
Some people can't see beyond the end of their noses and are too weak to stay the course when things get tough.
PRAISE GOD that our President is not one of them.
To you it 'seems' like we are adrift these days, but fortunately, you are dead wrong.
There is nothing the left wants more than to discourage and defeat conservatives and our cause, and allow the RATS to take over Congress in November.
That's why articles like this are written, and that's why anti-Bush freepers glom onto them and try to bring us all down.
Don't let them succeed at achieving their goal.
This article is unmitigated nonsense.
Bush is holding a Press Conference now!
NewsMax is about as useful a source as the NYT.
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Agreed.
No matter how many times these quacks claim President Bush's policies aren't working doesn't make them right. We haven't been attacked in almost 5 years, cells have been broken up and each of the 3 members of the axes of evil are being dealt with in their own special way. It may not be to everyones liking but the WOT is still going on and we are winning.
Glad to watch a confident, successful President, and observe his very positive 'body language.' :)
THANKS for that toby! Deserves to be repeated in bold.
WE ARE WINNING!!
btw, he is being very feisty in this press conference, making this article even more silly.....
to the writer of this piece... YAWN. Man up already. sheesh.
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