National Review and Bush’s Meet the Press Performance
National Review, of course, is staunchly pro-Bush.
Good stuff. Or at least Good Stuffing.
To be honest, my expectations were low.
But you see… Georgie benefits from “low expectations”.
Bush will never be a silver-tongued smoothie, but there’s a benefit to that. He also never sounds rehearsed – and no amount of rehearsal is likely to change that.
Put another way: the man is inarticulate.
A pundit-type just said to me: “If he loses this year, this will be the day he lost it.”
Nay. That would be the State of the Union Speech… wherein he stood up against “Big Steroid”. But maybe the MTP appearance will be the day he was unable to “stop the bleeding”???
I’m taking comfort in the fact its Sunday morning and most people were doing something other than watching meet the press.
Now that’s thinking positively!
President Bush looks like he’s afraid of Tim Russert. He’s stammering and unsteady. For the first time, I’ve felt a twinge of fear myself about the November election.
No need to worry. We’ve got Kerry of all people as “Mr. Electable” on what’s obstensibly “my” side.
The sainted President Reagan failed to do that, opting for a “Morning in America” touchy-feely campaign. As a result, the Iran-Contra incident could be treated as a “scandal” when a more thematically principled campaign would have afforded The President a policy base from which he could have either (a) provided substantive help to the Contras or (b) mounted a sound policy defense to the initiatives he did take.
I don’t want to touch that one.
I kept wincing as the president bobbled his answers. Even when he gave what on paper is a decent enough answer, he looked nervous, stumbly and intellectually unsure. He did himself no favors with this interview. I know Bush is not known for being eloquent, but it did strike me that we should be able to expect better than this from the President of the United States, at least after three years in office.
Yeeash.