[cookcounty]

"The Bush Administration has been nothing short of a complete and total public relations nightmare. I don’t see how or why anyone running for president would look at the way Bush has let the media basically beat him into a pulp without so much as a whimper, and think that this is exactly the kind of approach that is needed"

My sentiments exactly.

W's media team is astonishly incompetent. I'd be embarrassed to sit at the same table with these wimps and milquetoasts.

[tioga]

over the last eight years those responsible for getting him elected are all gone.......that has not been a good thing for Bush.....and the shamnesty lost all his conservative support. Bush’s choice.

[torchthemummy]

W's media team is astonishly incompetent. I'd be embarrassed to sit at the same table with these wimps and milquetoasts.

I've always tried to be fair with my assessment of Bush but now that we are near the end I have to say that compassion is all fine and dandy but there is a point where your enemies will see you as weak which emboldens them (geez sounds like the Bush rationale in the one bright area - national defense). As amazingly hostile as the press has been in the last eight years there is a point where you don't just use the bully pulpit but you shake it. How about a daily presser at 6:30pm when the national news shows air?

People will respect you if you point out calmly but bluntly the difference in opinion without needing to denigrate.