[DrC]

“How can something like that ever materialize on a teleprompter???”

I concur that it can’t. But during Bush’s first 8 months, he was getting slammed in the press (notwithstanding he’d gotten a solid tax cut enacted and No Child Left Behind approved by both houses in Congress) and those brief remarks at the 9/11 site were so genuine and heartfelt that everyone realized we had a leader on our hands who was not going to whimper away with his tail between his legs but instead stand up to the perpetrators and ensure they paid a heavy price for their perfidy.

[downtownconservative]

I completely agree! O’bambianna is missing the “leader-ship” gene. It’s not in his DNA. He throws commissions together to cover himself front and back. They get to come up with solutions (ostensibly) and he gets to blame them when things don’t work out.

He reminds of the boss in the in the Dilbert cartoon series.

[research99]

"But during Bush’s first 8 months, he was getting slammed in the press (notwithstanding he’d gotten a solid tax cut enacted and No Child Left Behind approved by both houses in Congress) and those brief remarks at the 9/11 site were so genuine and heartfelt that everyone realized we had a leader on our hands who was not going to whimper away with his tail between his legs but instead stand up to the perpetrators and ensure they paid a heavy price for their perfidy."

I think you've got the right idea, but the wrong event. The entire nation pulled together in the days after 9/11, and GWB acquired their support with the speech he gave about a week after 9/11. Recall the comment that followed by Pat Buchanan: "Tonight, George Bush became President".