Goodwin: We need straight talk from W

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/322679p-275713c.html

Are we losing the war in Iraq? Have the American people decided that hellhole of a country is a lost cause? Will the growing cries for a withdrawal of troops become too powerful to resist?
Those are the questions President Bush faces as he prepares Tuesday's prime-time speech. It might be his last, best chance to keep the country behind him.

In the short run, the speech is shaping up as a make-or-break moment. Bush knows he's reached a turning point on the homefront. He can read the polls. He sees public support is falling like a rock and, with each day bringing more grisly death and destruction, the nation is growing restless.

Unless he can stop the slide, Bush won't have the backing to stay the course or to avoid the lame-duckitis that would doom his entire agenda.

To judge from Friday's dress-rehearsal - aka a press conference with the Iraqi prime minister - Bush's pitch needs work. The claims that "we're optimistic" and that "progress is being made" are not convincing.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. any actions planned to show Bush what we think?

Just wondering. I'm thinking of making up a bunch of shopping list memos from Freedom Press and leaving them around town on Wednesday morning. Check out the site if you haven't seen them-they're great!

http://www.justicefornone.com/handbills/

[Paranoid Pessimist]

2. The problem is, he has convinced himself. n/t

[iconoclastic cat]

3. Welcome to DU! I agree:

If Bush has the same thought twice about anything, the thinks the second time as incontrovertible proof.