Curious.
It’s really curious to me how it has apparently become “reasonable” here on FR to blame President Bush’s lack of “PR” for the election of Barack Obama,....
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You don’t think that many voters were swayed by the media’s constant and unanswered distortion of what Bush was doing?
He had the country with him right after September 11. And then his political enemies started chipping away at his popularity. It started in small pieces, but soon huge shards were on the ground.
I honestly believe that Bush was convinced that he needed to just concentrate on the WOT and doing the right thing. If he gave much thought to his critics, he believed that they would finally understand and get behind him. He was naive. A great PR team would have helped deflect the media’s onslaught.
Of course, the PR missteps are not totally to blame; McCain was a terrible candidate.
I still think that Bush is a good and decent man, but he is a lousy politician. Unfortunately, good and decent are not enough in our modern political arena