Posted on 08/21/2006 3:30:36 AM PDT by Aussie Dasher
No doubt, President Bush has one knee on the canvas. What is in doubt is whether he's buying time or simply cannot get back up.
Just look at the serious body blows he has taken lately:
His bold Bush Doctrine of striking down terror before it shatters us is in disarray in Afghanistan, Iraq, even here at home.
His magnificent ambition to plant the seeds of liberty and spread freedom throughout the enslaved world is unraveling.
His sworn obligation to protect Israel, one of America's few authentic allies, at all costs, and never to accept a peace in Lebanon that resurrects the status quo ante is down the drain.
His stern warnings to Syria and its master Iran to keep their filthy hands off Israel are derided.
His pronouncement that the Free World cannot abide a nuclear North Korea is shrugged off.
His warning, through a United Nations resolution, to Iran that it must by the end of this month abandon its nuclear-weapons program is answered by sneers, insults and invective from Tehran, followed by a salvo of serious Iranian rockets to show it means business even if he doesn't.
His enemies from the left in Congress grow bolder and nastier by the day in what they say of him, threatening impeachment if they regain control of the House of Representatives this November.
Opportunists like a second-term senator from Nebraska within his own party are warming up to walk across his face in quest of the 2008 Republican presidential nomination.
Opinion polls, of dubious veracity themselves, are allowed to go unchallenged, thus becoming their own self-fulfilling prophesies that the president is going down the pipes.
The leftist "mainstream" media have abandoned all pretext of accuracy and objectivity, now daily making up bogus anti-Bush stories, trying to outdo one another in venality. While all that's been going on, what counterpunches has the president landed? None that come to mind.
Something quite alarming is going on, and it's showing increasingly in the president's public appearances.
His body language of late has been ... well ... just awful.
Gone are the televised events in which he leans across a podium, full of energy and believability, sharing his convictions and enthusiasm with responsive audiences.
Is This Our President?
Now, his TV-appearance arrangers have him standing awkwardly alone, shifting uncertainly from one foot to the other. In the background sit or stand a few unknowns, all scowling as if in disbelief or suffering acute indigestion.
The president's own visage is scarcely recognizable. Disappeared is the buoyant smile, the twinkling eyes.
His syntax, usually a problem (actually not, since its candid openness was a big plus with most Americans, who speak the same way he does) has been all right. But he now seems unable to articulate anything.
Here is a man who is either grievously sleep-deprived, physically and emotionally drained, or weighted down, in honest despair, by realities that would terrify any mortal.
It Must Be Tempting
Is he on the verge of saying to himself, "To hell with it. I did my best. And all anyone wants from me now is my head on a pike. They can take this job and shove it. I'm heading home to Crawford."?
Or does he know something the rest of us don't know – and probably wouldn't want to know? Does he see apocalypse just over the horizon? Is global nuclear winter nearly upon us, and there's not a blessed thing he can do about it?
Or does he know what has to be done to save this nation, and the rest of civilization? Is it crushing his very soul? Is it like looking straight down the throat of doomsday?
Is he buying time – letting Enemy win all the little battles – so he can furiously regroup, retrain, rearm in order to make the dreadful preemptive move that only can win the ultimate war?
Totally Out of Character
Everything we've come to know about this remarkable, decent man from Texas tells us he has steel inside, not flab, that he is not afraid to do what's right regardless of political consequences. It is impossible to think of him in terms of capitulation to anything.
Yet what is the alternative? Is he about to confide in us, his people, that, like it or not, we are all – including him – going to have to face, and make, a life-or-death decision unprecedented in history?
That's enough to wipe the smile off any man's face.
No one who admires and wishes him well wants to think he is down on one knee, having to take the full count because he has been cruelly beaten, defeated, humiliated, immobilized.
Now Let Us Pray
No one of sane mind wants to believe he is kneeling there, having to take the count up just short of 10 in order to buy every split-second of precious time to get us ready for the indescribable.
Yet, that may well be the lesser of two intolerable possibilities.
This good man, our 43rd president, needs – deserves – the nation's prayers. Even more than did our 16th president.
Abraham Lincoln had to wage a war he hated to save the union he loved. George W. Bush has to agonize about saving civilization.
Those who believe in prayer had better get busy.
Also..........please cite your evidence that "there is no indication that Bush is going to do what is necessary to stop Iran from getting nukes".......and with it your credentials that you know national security secrets that the rest of us are not privy to....
Careful now......by her own admission you're dealing with a very (sniff)serious, (sniff)conservative, (sniff, sniff) educated person so be sure to pay proper homage when responding.........you're welcome - Trading Zone 17 Wfan!
I can see you don't have the class to ping the person you're talking about. Says a lot about you and it's not good.
That's the Dumbest Post of the entire day.
Since you seem to be in the know, how many female advisers does Bush have?
Those deleted posts upthread were pretty unpleasant.....
Gee...one little faux pas and I get to hear it from you?.......over a 140 posts and you finally decide to weigh in on a little technicality?.....that also say a lot about you and it's not good either.
It seems like all around me people are influenced so strongly by the media. We must fight the media for those who put us first, our military and Prez Bush.
My technician at work tells me this morning that he was listening to NPR. Before he could continue I said *Why are you listening to NPR at all ?**
Then he starts regurgitating the lies he heard. Can you all guess, they were siding with Hez-bull-ah. To me this is beyond what I can stand.
If our fellow apathetic Americans were even 1/4 informed as most here, the media could never get away with it.
Speak up. It is up to us. Being silent is like giving in.
Those of us who are well informed need to keep letting the MSM braindead masses understand what's really at stake here.
The sympathy for Hezbollah, and the efforts to understand 'why terrorists hate us' is beyond comprehension.
And since the MSM is lying daily, it IS up to us to tell everyone we know what's really going on.
On a positive note, ABC is airing a miniseries about what led up to 9/11 (on Sept 10 and 11), and it reveals the ineptness and treason in the Clinton administration that led up to the disaster that has fallen on the shoulders of President Bush.
It's a must see for everyone.
AMEN to your post! There are alot of us out here praying for the President, the Troops, and our Country everday!
And as for some of the other early threads stating that "W" may be behind in the polls as far as a third-term, may I suggest a write-in campaign!!!!
Has there ever been a write in candidate win a presidential election? ;)
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