Bush Expresses Empathy With Workers (says sounds like Bill Clinton)

[rodeodance]

I originally did not think i would like this article--but it really shows how Bush has to try to change tactics to get his polls up.
Lots of work you know.



http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/22/AR2005062200862.html?referrer=email

Bush Expresses Empathy With Workers
At Md. Nuclear Plant, He Talks About the Economy's Impact

By Jim VandeHei
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, June 23, 2005; Page A04

President Bush sounded a bit like Bill Clinton yesterday, telling Americans who are out of work, short on cash or frustrated by the rapidly changing economy that he feels their pain.
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But Bush did not promise new policies. Instead, a top aide said, the president was reviving a strategy first tested in 2002 to present his agenda as one aimed at the working man and woman. "It's a familiar message . . . but one we have turned to again because we want people to consider the legislative priorities . . . in the context of a larger strategic goal of creating economic security for working families," said a senior White House aide, who demanded anonymity to discuss the tactical shift.

With recent polls showing Bush's popularity sagging, the White House is searching for a new way of connecting with the American people on economic issues and the war in Iraq. Bush aides had forecast that the president would begin speaking more forthrightly about problems in both areas, trying to disabuse some Republicans of concerns that he risks seeming indifferent or out of touch. Yesterday's event reflected the shift in tone, but it also made it clear that the president is not altering in any fundamental way his policies or arguments for them.

The event also highlighted a contrast between Bush and his predecessor. In general, Bush aides have been disdainful of what they regarded as Clinton's overly reactive and insincere politics of empathy. In times of trouble, however, the current president has tried to match Clinton's empathetic notes -- though usually not his practice of proposing scores of narrowly focused policies to target constituencies. Bush, aides said, thinks Clinton downsized the presidency and does not think his own policies need to be changed......

[dhinojosa]

1. Pfft. But Bush did not promise new policies?

What happened to the party of ideas. What an incompetent asshole.

[edbermac]

2. George feels our pain...

After all, he's the cause of it...

[Mari333]

3. That lazy little turd never worked a day in his life

lying sack of dung.

[SteppingRazor]

4. HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Oh, man, that is so... HAHAHA!

Oh, God...can't stop laughing. Tee heehee! Remember when that woman stood up at a Bush appearance and said she worked two jobs? And Bush smiled happily and said something about how nifty that was, how hard-working, how American? AS IF SHE WANTED TO WORK TWO FUCKING JOBS?!!!!

Yeah, Bush gets us working Americans. Gawd, what a pile of pig vomit.

[wherewingstakedream]

6. I agree with you but it is worse

The woman he was talking to said she was working three jobs!

[SteppingRazor]

8. Bwahahaha! Stop! Your killing me! n/t

[wherewingstakedream]

17. I aim to please!lol and

the little bastard ended his conversation with her by asking her if she ever got any sleep and laughing AT her! What gall--coming from the idiot son of an asshole who never has done an honest days work in his entire life and goes to bed every night by nine at the latest!

[fob]

24. He's right she worked THREE jobs and bush* said "How uniquely

American".

And with that I won't be surprised if you NEVER stop laughing.

[Fire Walk With Me]

25. The gag-twister is that Bush just outsourced all of her jobs.

That wacky Bush.

Google for Bush's careers. Not much work is in evidence. Was cheerleading hard work, or was he a benchwarmer?

[Lisa]

28. you'll love this -- actual audio of *'s quip!

Unfortunately, there is no accompanying video image, so you'll just have to imagine him smirking away as he utters it.

http://www.dubyaspeak.com/puredubya.phtml

Even better, it looks like the White House edited the transcript to make it sound like he was building rapport with her prior to that comment.

[liberal N proud]

5. He wouldn't know their pain from is asshole

bu$h has never had to worry about how to pay a bill in his life.
Maybe how to get out of paying one.
Feeling their pain is so hollow coming from a man with a golden spoon up his ass.

[ixion]

7. narrowly focused policies: Gay Marriage, Flag Burning, Terry Schiavo

freedom fries.

And why are BushCo's narrowly-focused policies towards his 'base' not mentioned?

Why are narrowly-focused policies any worse that disastrous, sweeping, massively underfunded policies?

Why doesn't the LMSM ask relevant, important questions?


With reporting like this, the US may never know.

[Tyler Durden]

9. The only pain * feels that I want to hear about is...

The pain in his ass as his new 300 pound roommate named "Bubba" ("You MAH li'l puppy now, Boy") in Leavenworth penetrates his rectum repeatedly.

In fact, I want tapes, or pay per view.

[habitual]

10. He laughs in peoples faces

while he says to them outright:

If you don't like my policy, i will continue to say it is good until you do. If that doesn't work, I will change my message again, but NEVER my policy decision.

[Tyler Durden]

11. No, he PISSES in their faces.

...

[brentspeak]

12. "You have my sympathy"

[dbt]

13. "Message: I care."

Worked real well for Poppy, dinnit?

:rofl:

[salin]

20. grocery scanners? what are those?

but ah love pork rinds!

[Cha]

14. The Mike Malloy show wants the

transcript from this speech..seems it was bush at his "jaw-dropping stammering and dyslexia" best.


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3927295

[barb162]

15. he is incapable of any empathy or compassion for anyone

if he wants to show he cares, he can get some laws passed to stop the outsourcing and layoffs, fair trade laws, pass huge tax bites against employers who outsource, etc

[mom cat]

16. Putting manure into a pretty dress doesn't make it smell better.

[Patty Diana]

18. Bush to way to mentally deranged to experience empathy_the

only time he fucking smiles is when he's talking about torture, rape rooms, sex slaves and war____

[CBHagman]

19. VandeHei, the reporter, has been spinning, though.

Note that he refers in the article to Bush's "sagging popularity." The actual poll numbers show Bush's disapproval rating is higher than his approval rating. That's not sagging popularity. It's a reversal of fortune, a split in the population as to what kind of job Bush is doing.

I might also mention that following the death of John Paul II, VandeHei did two or three articles attempting to link Bush to JP II's legacy, mostly by bringing up Bush's "culture of life" rhetoric. It was disgusting.

So I watch VandeHei very carefully. Dana Milbank has already been declared persona non grata by the White House, if I recall correctly, so I think VandeHei is trying to ingratiate himself.

[ckramer]

21. Do not believe him

Eight traits of a psychopaths:

1) glibness and superficial charm;

2) grandiose sense of self-worth;

3) pathological lying;

4) conning and manipulativeness;

5) lack of remorse or guilt;

6) shallow affect;

7) callousness and lack of empathy;

8) and the failure to accept responsibility for one's own actions

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So this is just some shallow affects from him, what do you think?

How many items can you match here? --> 1, 2, 3, 6, 8....



This guy runs the country down the drain.

[Iowa]

26. Great list - and so true!

I worked in the mental health field and know a sociopath when I see one. Bush is it.

[0rganism]

22. Just like Bill Clinton, minus 25 points in the approval ratings

By now, even the republicans are figuring out that they got more accomplished with Slick Willy in charge.

[VegasWolf]

30. and minus 50 IQ points. nt

[WhiteTara]

33. you just made * smarter by half!

You are so kind!

[Gyre]

23. He's not a good actor

that smirk just has a way of saying it all, except to the dumbest and ugliest Americans (aka repiglicans), who interpret it as sincerity.

Gyre

[GoddessOfGuinness]

27. Wasn't it Gingrich who came up with "I feel your pain" ?

I was always under the impression that Clinton genuinely cared about people's suffering regardless of whether he said so or not. You'd never convince me of that with Dumbyass.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

29. "Message: I care... BWAHAHAHAHA"

[Catherine Vincent]

31. And Bush* had the nerve to get upset during the 2000 debates

when McCain compared him to President Clinton. He wasn't (and still isn't) worthy to be compared to Clinton.

[Megahurtz]

32. What a Bunch of Hot Air.

:nuke: