[kabar]

That all well and good. Like I've been telling you repeatedly on here and you refuse to liste to...unless you have a media that's willing to actually REPEAT what the President is telling the people...his message will never get out.

BS. The President's press conferences are widely telecast live and unedited. The idea that the President is unable to get his message out because of censorship by the MSM is too conspiratorial for me and underestimates the power of the President's bully pulpit. Let him make another address to the nation.

And I never thought I'd see the day when a Conservative...a REAL conservative would advocate LETTING the Dems cut off funding? Do you WANT soldiers to die?

If the Dems cut off funding for the troops, which I seriously doubt, they will pay a political price. As a Vietnam veteran who spent a year in country [including during the Tet offensive] and another 8 months off the coast, I DON'T WANT our soldiers to die. What I do want is for our political leaders, including the CIC, to speak up in the most forceful terms about the need to win this war and not have the sacrifice of brave Americans be considered a "waste" as Obama said.

You are living in a reality that is not up to date with the current situation. The fact of the matter is that in today's environment in D.C. Reagan would NOT have the success he did in 1981. As I stated above...the DBM has tightened it's grip on what the message is they want the people to see. They are the water carriers for the Connumists that call themselves Democrats in D.C. and they have no compunction against outright lying in what they report.

I worked for the USG for 36 years. I have some idea as to how it works. I also live in the DC area.

[rodguy911]

If you have all this experience in govt. and the military yet haven't figured out how the DBM slants things to the left and how we talk about sins of omission almost daily here, you surely have not been paying attention.

[FreeReign]

What I do want is for our political leaders, including the CIC, to speak up in the most forceful terms about the need to win this war and not have the sacrifice of brave Americans be considered a "waste" as Obama said.

2007 SOTU | President Bush | Excerpt:If American forces step back before Baghdad is secure, the Iraqi government would be overrun by extremists on all sides. We could expect an epic battle between Shia extremists backed by Iran, and Sunni extremists aided by al Qaeda and supporters of the old regime. A contagion of violence could spill out across the country -- and in time, the entire region could be drawn into the conflict. For America, this is a nightmare scenario. For the enemy, this is the objective. Chaos is the greatest ally -- their greatest ally in this struggle. And out of chaos in Iraq would emerge an emboldened enemy with new safe havens, new recruits, new resources, and an even greater determination to harm America. To allow this to happen would be to ignore the lessons of September the 11th and invite tragedy. Ladies and gentlemen, nothing is more important at this moment in our history than for America to succeed in the Middle East, to succeed in Iraq and to spare the American people from this danger.

The President has clearly identified the need to win in many speeches. The above small excerpt is just a sample of what he said in the SOTU to an audience of what, 40-60-80 million people.

The problem is not with the President. You really need to face that fact.

[maica]

The President's press conferences are widely telecast live and unedited.


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Will you at least admit two things:

1) that these conferences take place around 11am on a weekday, and whether because of strategy or safety concerns are not publicized by the White House more than a few hours ahead of time. Even people who might like to tivo or set a vcr are often unprepared to do so.

2) by a magnitude of powers, what most people hear as 'news' is what they hear from Leno, Letterman, Colbert, npr, mtv, and a hundred other outlets who filter the President's words.

[Txsleuth]

It sounds to me like you want Pres. Bush to get into a "sound bite contest", or a spitting war with the anti-war crowd in the Congress.

Not only would it not be portrayed "fairly" on the MSM...it would take Pres. Bush out of the "grown up" catagory...down to the "cry-baby" catagory that the dems, the MSM, and the White Flag republicans are.

He has FAR too much other worries and work to do than get into that kind of fight..and I daresay that if he DID..and it went the way the MSM would make SURE it went..

YOU would be the first to be on these thread complaining about his "failures".