[A Citizen Reporter]

"He is taking the focus away from his claim of concern about Iraq by traveling around the country, making it seem like everything's okay....so people are going to be thinking,"

Honestly, I usually think that what you bring to the conversation has some substance. But this segment above does not. It makes really makes no political sense, especiallly in the local elections that are being run in 2002.

[nicmarlo]

I was obviously paraphrasing Dick. And I agreed with his assessment of the situation.

A lot of people (a/k/a uninformed who watch liberal alphabet channels) will see Bush traveling around the country and hear what Brokaw, Jennings, Daschole & Co are saying, at every possible opportunity while the media shows clips of Bush in Florida, W.V., Colorado, etc. They won't see him as a president concerned with Iraq; they will see him as a politician campaigning for the Repubs.

[nicmarlo]

He also said the same thing happened with Clinton, and he gave him the same warning; Clinton's poll numbers were dropping because he went campaigning around the country and he was perceived as being a politician rather than as presidential.

Granted, there's absolutely no comparison between Clinton or Bush; and I could never stand to hear Clinton talk anyways. But we're not talking about us, we're not even talking about Republicans. The shift in poll numbers, up or down, really reflects the undecideds, the Rats, the independents, and the idiots.