Posted on 09/12/2002 7:02:45 AM PDT by Howlin
Peggy Noonan disappointed me a bit last night, Gergen is always a blathering idiot ... but Barnacle saw Bush as some of us here do, and he understood the commitment, strength and resolve of the man. Noonan and Gergen and Matthews are playing patty-cake with the "what-ifs" regarding U.N. action, they're jibba-jabbing about whether Bush's cowboy tendencies have been muted by smarter people (i.e. Powell), and Barnacle's saying "nah, we're going - world blessing or not." Barnacle was inspired, as we all should have been revisiting that day and what has transpired since.
Matthews is such a dorky political mechanic he doesn't understand the intrinsic force of right vs. wrong, good vs. evil, and win vs. lose that guides the great leaders throughout history. I really have only followed Presidents from late term Nixon forward ... and Reagan and Bush 43 are different from the rest. On issues of import, they see the world in black and white, and they have the courage to act. Thank God.
That's my bold, controversial and unwarranted Michael Rivero-esque theory of intrigue, conspiracy and wonderment for today.
The most startling impression I'm left with is how "real" he is. He's out there talking from the heart, not politicing, posing for the cameras or wrapping himself up in his own rhetoric. He's pretty much a WYSIWYG President.
How refreshing.
But, no military campaign is mired in a "hopeless quagmire" until Maureen says so. She used the term F-15 "Strike Eagle" once, and she likes the way Tom Cruise wears flight suit.
She's much prettier than Catherine Zeta-Jones too. Michael Douglas was obviously threatened by a smart, independent woman.
That's all Kofi's capable of : talking. President Bush didn't pull his punches while reminding him of his IRRELEVANCE this morning <G>
Whew...I have FINALLY gotten up to my OWN posts from today....only a couple of hundred more to go! This has been the BEST thread I've seen in a LONG time!
It was humorous how Democrat elitists misread him. Cheney ran the office, remember. His Daddy got him the job. His brother fixed the Florida election. He was a back slapping frat boy. Bush was a bumbler, a dullard. That was the image crafted for him by the media, and accepted by the left.
Americans didn't see that. They saw an honest, conscientous leader. They didn't think he was stupid.
From the first time I watched him operate, during the New Hampshire primary, I always saw him as an astute, disciplined executive. He was clear and sincere.
I think he was honestly committed to creating a new atmosphere of cooperation and bipartisanship in D.C. The Dems took this as weakness and naivete. It wasn't weak, but it WAS naive.
Many here try to marginalize Bush supporters as blind acolytes. That's insulting, but moreover, it's ignorant. I vote for President based on my read of his overall ideology ... but more importantly, his judgement, character and discipline. I liked the way he treated Laura. I loved the way he handled that nutjob Gore during the debates. I liked the way he handled the Chinese/surveilence plane event. It was never a crisis. Bush won my proxy early on - I don't micromanage every single legislative accomodation he makes, I trust him to pick his battles wisely. I don't have access to his information, his strategy and his constraints. Nobody here does. I support him because he's a conservative, he's a good manager of a good team, and he's honest and strong.
He's a winner. He wins the right way, for us.
Absolutely true. Too many Americans need to take those blinders off and see what the UN has really become: the power behind the greenie environazis is: the UN. The power behind the Third Way movement is: in the UN. In addition, every terrorist action anymore, every one of their atrocities, is justified BY them TO the world by...you got it...UN 'resolutions'.
No, we don't need the UN to execute this mission. The United States and our staunchest ally, Britain, are all that is necessary. Oh, yeh, we can successfully go it alone, but we appreciate Britain's support, both the moral support and the physical military sullort.
Awwww....but the SUSPENSE is the BEST PART!
Probably. I LOVE all the old-timer-left-wing reporters who're now trying to get into "fair and balanced" mode in a pathetic attempt to save their totally biased careers.
LOL...I sure HAD been had...it wasn't until I went to backspace to "whitehouse.gov" to get the link for the transcript of the UN speech to send to my mom, who missed it because she was driving back to VA from vacation up here that I realized it. I don't get the alphabet networks, because I refuse to pay extra for them, so I didn't even know aout the 60 Minutes II interview until this thread.
I DID, however, read the REAL transcript on the CBS website. It was an AWSOME and extremely powerful interview. Well worth the read.
I LOVE GW. I said it before, and I'll say it again: if we weren't both already married, I'd have proposed to him two years ago!
Not one other candidate had that quality. Not one.
I also saw him do an impromptu press conference in both Spanish and English, translating back and forth for both groups of speakers. Therefore, I knew he wasn't stupid. Ha!
Brit Hume on Fox during the roundtable talked about President Bush's strategy with the UN and said he wouldn't be surprised if the next step is "OK. we are going to nuke Baghdad" and the UN says "Oh, no! Please let us do a conventional invasion!" LOL!
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