The only thing lacking is your grip on reality. What good is speaking from a pulpit when nobody hears your message. Go to WWW.Whitehouse.Gov and you will find a full list of every one of Bush's speeches. You can read them in their entirety. Than do a quick google search to find out how the press covered them. Ronald Reagan had just as many problems getting his message out as Bush. His second term was plagued with similar whining from all sides. Among other things, one of the problems both presidents have had to deal with is a bunch of weak kneed "supporters" whose first instinct is to whine when all the planets in the universe don't line up according to their desires.
Who has the weak grip on reality? You got to play the game to have a chance. You cant sit back and allow the Dems and the media to set the agenda. You make provactive statements, you introduce new programs, you challenge the Dem leaders, in essence you do something to create NEWS, you don't just make 40 speech of the year on WOT.
You also do a series of one-on-one interviews with White House reporters and network anchors (after all do you think these network primadonas are going to turn down a chance to show off how smart and attractive they are...there is a reason they choose to operate in front of a camera rather than do a real job). You play to the medias vanity. Hold more prime time news conferences. Make your important point as a statement at the beginning and then take the questions. The more obnoxious the questions, the more sympatatically the average viewer will listen to his responses.
You also go on the road more and do tons of interviews with local media in red state markets with Dem Senators up for election. You dont sit in Crawford Tx with an old hag Sheehan attempting to get the world to believe she was controlling your every move.
Also since you control the reins of government you can do things that will change the story or at least step all over the Dems story of the day. Make the bird flu announcement, start a Justice Department Investigation of CIA leaks that were attempts to hurt the WHite House and participate in Kerry's presidential campaign. Jawbone the oil companies about gas prices. Tell them that if they dont invest in new refinary capacity they will face windfall profit taxes. Find something to veto and say why, then challenge the Dems to overide. Do enough and then the story will become the President is attempting to change the story. Continue on and eventually it will be what the president is saying that day.