Mistakes Of The Father (Blast at Bushie Happy Talk)

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.msnbc.com/news/986201.asp?0cl=c1

As the entire universe of political pundits knows, George W. Bush’s father lost the White House because he looked and sounded out of touch about the economy. Regular folks were suffering from the recession and the 41st president of the United States just couldn’t empathize enough in public.

SO HIS SON, or 43 as he likes to be known, is dedicated to proving that he feels our pain. In stump speech after stump speech, the economy dominates the president’s message. Acutely conscious of the father’s mistakes, this Bush White House wants to talk about jobs, taxes and growth in words we can all understand.

But what if the White House is fighting the wrong election? What if the president is applying the right lessons to the wrong problem?

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Now, however, he seems hopelessly out of touch. With every comment on the situation in Iraq, Bush is repeating his father’s mistakes. In his earnest desire to tell us the good news about Iraq, the president loses his most precious asset—his credibility—in handling what is still plainly a crisis. He seems to live in a parallel universe where Iraq is a normal country that merely suffers from a little crime in the capital city. “The more progress we make on the ground, the more free the Iraqis become, the more electricity is available, the more jobs are available, the more kids that are going to school, the more desperate these killers become,” the president said on Monday, “because they can’t stand the thought of a free society.”

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. very much so

by the way, notice they missed wolfie by a floor

That means VERY GOOD INTEL.

Damn and they still claim that these are just dead enders....

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