Posted on 03/15/2008 9:56:55 PM PDT by smoothsailing
Bush's Bull's-Eyes
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
Posted Friday, March 14, 2008 4:20 PM PT
Leadership: If you wonder why we run many of President Bush's speeches verbatim, we can think of at least three reasons — the most important of which is that most of what he says is right on the money.
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The other two are that (a) Bush's speeches are rarely covered in any depth by mainstream media hostile to much of what he says, and (b) when the speeches are covered, only a couple of points — of interest to selfsame media — usually are highlighted.
With so many problems confronting the U.S., it's a shame there isn't more direct, unfettered communication between the people and their president. Maybe if the public was given a chance to hear the president out, the president wouldn't be held in such low esteem in public opinion polls.
Bush's address Friday to the Economic Club of New York was only the latest in which he has spoken forcefully and authoritatively on a major issue.
The economy, we're told, suddenly tops Americans' list of concerns (now that it's doing poorly, as the media keep reminding us, and that the previous No. 1 concern, the war in Iraq, is going well, as the media are loath to report).
Sure enough, the first headlines to cross the wires — "Bush Concedes Economy Troubled" and "Bush Acknowledges Weakness In U.S. Economy" — read just as we expected. And let's face it, many people never get the past the headlines.
The Bush we watched and listened to, however, brought to mind anything but "trouble" or "weakness." As in other recent speeches, he spoke passionately about America's ability to rebound from economic downturns —.....
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Pingaroo!
did IBD just cut and paste a press release from the White House and pass it off as an editorial?
The Democrats raised the bar fairly high as far as what is acceptable or not in our economy. Even at Bush’s best economic times was not good enough for the Democrats.
The question would seem to remain, if one of them is elected to the White House, would they be able to hurdle that same bar that they themselves put in place?
Despite his strong words, I am baffled by his support for biofuel mandates. How can mandates allow the creative force of the marketplace to find viable energy solutions? Perhaps he does not realize that biofuel mandates are working against development of conventional energy sources. How come ethanol distilleries can be built in many places but oil refineries cannot be built or expanded?
But his speech brought up a lot of good points (52 months of growth, recovery from Enron-type deals, natural disasters, two wars. Oh - and that 9/11 thing. And is optimism in the ingenuity of the American people to get us through these tough times.
I do hope he is correct. Although living the past 20-30 years on a borrowed dime is like living on borrowed time (folk's overextended on credit).
I agree 100%. I work in the financial markets and have my tv tuned to bloomberg all day. Generally when the prez gives a major speech they show it. I believe he gives great speeches but the media ignores and all the public gets is the half truths about what he said.
John
They won’t have to, the bar only applies to Republican administrations.
The media and the Democrats have spent the last 7yrs trying to beat down this economy. They don’t have much economic failure to show for their efforts.
Our nation is strong, the pettiness of the media is all the leftists have.
But even that is slowly falling away.
The left is stilling trying to impeach Nixon.
I happened to catch the speech too. It was a good one - passionate, humorous at times, and eminently sensible. These things just don’t get reported upon, or not in a representative fashion.
Isn't that the truth.
And they're still beside themselves with Joe Mccarthy as well.
I don't think the Left will ever grow up, they still want flowers in their hair.
folks, the Left’s hostility to the President didn’t cause Bear Stearns to implode, nor will Bush’s optimistic demeanor do anything to stave off the global financial crisis. We have a problem here, more serious than has been seen in most of our lifetimes, and it has little to do with the MSM ‘having it in for Bush,’ with Obama’s preacher, or any of the other superficial BS that passes for political discourse in this country.
Agreed - a serious problem.
Thanks for the ping
I have my opinions why this is so, but it would take too long to spread the blame to all his advisor's. So let's just say those around him did the country a disservice.
How much of this is because of the dim congress elected in 2006?
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