* must have taken moment to wonder how his mojo deserted him completely

[dajoki]

WP
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/26/AR2005092601472.html?referrer=email

Stop, Children, What's That Sound?

By Eugene Robinson

Tuesday, September 27, 2005

There was a clear winner for best slogan at the huge, spirited, good-old-days antiwar demonstration that filled the streets of Washington on Saturday: "Make Levees, Not War."

It's no surprise that George W. Bush wasn't around when the multitudes of protesters -- police said 100,000, organizers claimed 300,000 -- paraded past the White House. After all, this is a president who restricts his town-hall meetings to townspeople who agree with him. He left his poor wife, Laura, to suffer the mocking crowds, who overshadowed the book festival she was hosting on the Mall.

The president's absence was understandable, though. His painstakingly crafted image of leadership and competence was so damaged by the botched response to Hurricane Katrina that he could hardly afford a repeat performance on Rita. So while a genuine Vietnam-era protest march was making its way past his house, complete with an appearance by Joan Baez, the president was on the road playing the role of flood-control commander in chief.

At the end of the day, though, he must have taken a moment to wonder how his mojo could have deserted him so completely. Rita turned out to be no Katrina, so there was no massive relief effort to command. The president still couldn't find his bullhorn moment. Meanwhile, his capital was overrun by the opposition in a spectacular demonstration of how unpopular the war in Iraq has become.

[obxhead]

1. kick

[KarenS]

2. Does he even know that his numbers are tanking??

If he doesn't watch the news, or read the newspaper,,,, has one of his handlers been brave enough to put a dvd together to let him know???
:shrug:

[dajoki]

3. they're too afraid to tell him n/t

[fooj]

4. "playing the role of flood-control commander in chief."

Telling, isn't it?

Peace.

[dajoki]

5. yeah...

that is a good line.

[NightOwwl]

6. Surprise, surprise...

The emperor has no clothes.

The man behind the curtain is a big zero.

There is no there, there.

I'm shocked, shocked, I tells ya!

[dajoki]

9. yeah me too...

:sarcasm: :sarcasm:

[calimary]

7. Maybe that's why he's looking so bad lately, and why it's led to MANY

suspicions that he's drinking again (if indeed, he ever really stopped).

Speaking of which, my mother sent over her copy of the "National Enquirer," and there it is smack-dab on the front cover, upper right-hand corner -
"KATRINA DRIVES BUSH TO BOOZE
Laura panics as he hits bottle again!"

THAT is perhaps the coup de grace. Not only is the Enquirer no longer avoiding him, look at the story they decide to run with! That, all by itself, is telling, and very metaphorical.

Yep - he's lost his mojo alright. But then again, he never REALLY had it to begin with. It was handed to him with his trust fund, bought and paid for and manipulated and string-pulled by somebody else.

[dajoki]

8. very well said!! n/t