Most Americans don't even listen to this stuff, and of those that do, you can probably figure than a good portion loathe the Clintons anyway, a few love them, and the rest wonder why the Clintons have such bad manners.
Bush has a hostile press. What seems like reasonable response to this stuff would be twisted into "picking on Clinton by the VRWC." It wouldn't work.
Now individually we all can do a lot...letters, calls, etc. letting the press know that we think these comments are terrible. But the President and his staff cannot.
Look at this mess today...and I don't for a minute believe Ari even mentioned Clinton by name. It will be on the evening news, and no doubt Clinton will get to give a response. He gets face time, and nothing is gained. Better by far to ignore them in an official capacity, and let grass roots, friendly columnists and tv shows, and radio talk show refute it.
Feel free to criticize the dems all you want. Bush has to be cautious...until we get the Senate back.
He's doing his best to clean up Clinton's mess he left behind, not to mention fighting terrorism all over the world, get our econamy back on even keel and fight off every scum-bum that has a beef with him or who is after his job (Daschle).
I sure pray things take a turn for the better for him and the tables turn on all the worms that seem to have nothing better to do.
Now with the Crossfire changes adding Carville and Begala, things are going to heat up fast. I was so troubled last night over the same feelings that I used to get back in the campaign days. I am a true Bush fan, but he must begin to counterattack these vicious remarks or things will only get worse and pretty soon everyone will believe them. He can be a Teddy Roosevelt and he needs to get his bull horn out of the museum and take to the cities and towns and get his message out.
The democrats have their full machine in force now and with the likes of MCCain and his trumpet, Bush will lose the momentum he has so courageously worked towards.
There are days when I hear Daschle use his passive aggressive tone about his being very disappointed about this or that, that it makes me feel that Clinton has never left and that the dems have all of the power.
I think that's exactly what happened.
I think that's exactly what happened.