He's a terrible speaker and not glib enough when much or most of the public takes or confuses smarmy, oleaginous glibness as the God's honest truth.
I don't get it. It's very disappointing, depressing and disturbing. I hope I'm wrong. Please correct me or fill me in if you disagree. I'm willing to listen and learn.
Thanks.
You’re not wrong.
President Bush has never thought it part of his job to defend himself or his policies. His standard response is, “We’ll let history be the judge.”
Part of his oath of office is to protect us from all enemies, foreign and domestic. We clearly have domestic enemies in the form of the Democratic leadership, but President Bush can’t be bothered to push back.
He’s personalized the attacks, which he had no right to do. He gets to play the martyr and feel sorry for himself, and he gets to be the southern gentleman and good Christian who turns the other cheek. He had no right ot do any of that. He had the duty to fight back, for our sake, not his.
Part of it also is his resentment at the GOP for not standing up for him, so he won’t stand up for them. The story is that McCain blocked him from attending the GOP convention in person, and Bush was enraged, because he thinks he’s been doing a good job.
The thing I like about McCain is that he doesn’t personalize things, and he is willing to make the hard calls. He was right about Fannie Mae, he was right about Iraq, and—it pains me to say this—he was right about Rumsfeld.
President Bush was simply not the right man for the job. He lacked the emotional maturity to see the big picture and see how he—as an individual—doesn’t matter when compared to his role as president.
McCain’s speech at the convention was amazing. He said he had been a selfish person until he had the crap kicked out of him for five years, and then he became America’s man.
I believe him, and I believe he won’t make the same mistakes President Bush has.
Oh, he’ll make his own mistakes, I’m sure! But he’ll fight back, and he’ll explain his policies and include us in the discussion.
He won’t shrug off his responsibilities and say, “We’ll let history be the judge,” which is really just a cop-out.