Posted on 05/23/2003 11:42:50 PM PDT by UnChained
The libs often accused the President of being a puppet figurehead for Dick chaney and others who represent the "real" power in the administration. I don't buy it but much of what our president has said gives me pause.
Like his father who didn't seem to grasp the "vision thing" GWB doesn't seem to have developed a real passion for conservative ideals. My first clue was during the campaign and debate when Candidate Bush spoke of modifying social security. GWB said the following words repeatedly in various speeches: "We need to find a way to let young people keep some of their money and invest it."
""LET" them keep ""SOME" of their money? It's amazing he won with fiery rhetoric like that.
More recently I heard something that grabbed my attention. The president was speaking about he need for the Senate to vote on the blocked judicial nominations. The way he inflected the words in that speech indicated that he didn't write the speech and he didn't really grasp the significance of what he was saying.
I work at a TV station and our news anchors never gather news or write copy. They are merely photogenic people with good eye-to-mouth coordination. Sometimes, the fact that they are reading someone else's writing off a teleprompter shows up by the wrong word emphasis the use as they speak.
The president said the filibuster was "jeopardizing JuDICial independance" which the heavy emphasis on the word judicial.
Inflection carries a lot of content in English and what I heard said to me that Bush didn't write the speech and didn't seem to care about the issue at hand.
Perhaps he suffers form a verbal dislexia that makes him use the wrong emphasis at times or maybe his detractors are right. He really does have handlers. It really sounded as fake as our talking heads at the station when they speak someone else's thoughts.
Say hi to Woodruff, King and Brown for me.
....and tell Kagan that sinkspur has the hots for her
Sorry, I guess I shouldn't type and sleep at the same time.
I was listening to Alan Colmes on the radio tonight on the car radio (wife was in the mall) and he said Clinton wasn't a liberal. Now ask 99.99% of the people here on FR and they will say Clinton was a flaming liberal.
Colmes said Clinton wasn't liberal because he was for welfare reform and some other GOP issues.
Turn this around 100% and apply it to Bush and you get the same Bush isn't a conservative mantra. Yes he is and he's also a President of All the people and needs to pander to the 10% on the other side to get reelected just like Clinton pandered to 10% on our side !
Think about it !
No this writing is trite and tired...and totally without redeeming value....
Go back to sleep and dream of your talking heads. I really doubt you would be willing to spend a large amount of "muhla" in a bet that your statement is true.:)
What are you saying? That he was really Peggy Noonan perhaps?
Getting a little wild with the quotation marks there, UnChained?
Not to be nitpicky or anything. (We save that stuff for President Bush, right?)
Bush uses certain speech techniques to properly enunciate words that might trouble him.
That said, as to whether Bush is a "proper" Conservative I'd say Bush is --- well --- Bush. In 2000 this nation got really lucky and elected a good man on his way to greatness.
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