The extraordinary thing about Bush is his simplicity. By that I don't mean simpleton. He is very bright. He is stright ahead. The Democrats have not yet figured this out. If he says something I don't believe Bush has an ancillary calculus. If he says something you can believe him. The very best thing about the president is his core beliefs, which I think Mrs. Bush had a lot to do with. He has discombobulated them with his beliefs which are foreign to them. He is not ashamed to put his belief system front and center. Then they try to ascribe some meaning to it that they would have used it for. When he said Christ was the person who had the most influence on him , they all thought he was pandering to the Christian right. He was answering the question. When the pundents got thru dissecting his statement they didn't understand. But Bush and millions of fundamentalist and evangelicals did understand. He simply gave Jesus the preeminence in his life that the Lord deserved. Bush had them in derision. Now in his wake he has slayed all democrats,liberals, leftist media types. It must be sweet to see Dan Rather going down because of his own venom, after the way Rather tried to sandbag Bushes father. Bush has made nice nice with the left, but now must carry thru on the concervative prescriptions he spoke of in the campaign. Fundamentally President Bush is a good man who mean what he says and says what he means.
The dems use his straight talking and his "simple" way of looking at things to make people think he is looking to retalitate for all percieved wrongs.
Tonight, H&C had Geraldine Ferraro on and she was talking about how terrific Kofi Annen is, and that the only reason that Bush isn't backing him now, against the call for his resignation, is because right before the election Kofi said the Iraq War was illegal and immoral. Therefore, she said, Bush is "paying Kofi back". Actually, I think Bush has known the character of Annen for a long time, and is glad that he is going to get his comeuppence.
I think that is also what the media think---that because they say negative things about him, he pays them back. Well, duh!!!!!