It beats having him blather about issues without saying anything.
Bush couches bad news around small talk
President Bush needed to change the subject.
“If I might say, that is a beautiful suit,” he told NBC News correspondent Kevin Corke at yesterday’s news conference in the Rose Garden.
“My tailor appreciates that,” replied Corke, wearing a $1,500 custom pinstripe number by Tom James with bright-red tie and pocket square.
“And I can’t see anybody else who even comes close,” Bush added, drawing laughs from the assembled scribes in wrinkled navy blazers.
Then the president spied CNN’s Suzanne Malveaux, pointing at her Benetton suit with pink pinstripes. “Suzanne, I take that back,” Bush amended with chivalry. Moments later he bestowed on her the day’s “best-dressed” honors.
“Kevin and I coordinated,” she explained.
CBS News’s Jim Axelrod was feeling left out. “My best suit’s in the cleaners,” he told the commander in chief.
I’m feeling a little nauseous.
Finally, a subject the President can get his mind around. *eyes roll*
OH MY GOD THE PRESIDENT ENGAGED IN SMALL TALK! ROLL YOUR EYES, EVERYONE! IT’S THE END OF THE WORLD!
3. Have to admit, the prezdent is the Master at small talk.
#5: Or when you don’t want to talk about the war, the economy, the elections or any of the other things the people he supposedly governs are interested in.
Make sure you read the end of the article and how Bush was mightily displeased with his people for getting him to have a press conference.
This is the best place I have ever eaten at.
Signed,
Clueless
Oh and this is unquie to this administration? I’d suggest everybody goto c-span.org and watch the press conference for themselves, he talked about a whole range of issues & this small talk took up about 2% of the total time. Uncle Dave you’re slipping if this is the best anti-Bush material you could find today.
8. Let me guess, did he use any of these buzzwords?
Terrorists
Al Queda
Stay the course
Freedom
Evil
Terror
Those who hate our freedom
I’d go read it but its would be pointless.
I would hope he’d use some of those words, as they define the current geo-political state. Go watch it for yourself and find out.
OK, OK I’ll go watch it.
#8: It’s the best Bush can come up with today.
Don’t for get the president’s newest buzzword: unacceptable.
Oh and I particularly like “pressure” instead of “torture”.
While the Bush Administration has certainly made mistakes, he admits as much in the press briefing, the President was simply trying to enliven the group of reporters. To the matter of the President’s presentation, his “blathering” as it was so glibly phrased, he covered a wide range of issues where he laid out America’s foreign & domestic policy. The best Bush can come up with eh? I’d point to the economy as one positive example.
15. mxpwr03 Sorry man, I tried. I cant watch him speak anymore, I cant believe anything he says, even when he can articulate it. Its not my fault, its just too painful to watch argghhhhhhhhhh!.
But you can like him if you want to. I dont care.
#15, …The best Bush can come up with eh? I’d point to the economy as one positive example.
Comment by mxpwr03 — 10/13/2006 @ 1:53 pm
And you really think the economy is a positive example? How many people are truly better off then they were six years ago? Our high paying jobs have been replaced with low paying service jobs. Many savings and retirements were wiped out by Bushes economic policies. America’s trade deficit has soared to unthinkable heights.
Geeze, I’d hate to hear what you would consider a negative example.
I swear, I’d watch his painful act every day as a member of Queer Guy for the Straight Guy if he gave up his day job.
Refering to #17
Yes… let’s do away with this bullshit notion that the economy is good or even that it is recovering…
Things are rocking hard for you if you are already in the top 2%… The actual buying power of your dollar has declined every year since 2000. If you were lucky enough to get salary increases that at least kept pace with inflation, your dollar still buys less and your overall outlay to health care is greater. Plus, the further down the economic ladder you slide, the more expensive day to day living actually becomes.
The right loves to brag about growth of industry. Well, it’s time for us to stop being fooled by GNP or other traditional economic indicators. We aren’t sharing in industries success so we shouldn’t feel inclined to ooh and ahh over their numbers. There are children going with adequate food, shelter, or clothing… So maybe its time to eat the rich.
If you want to discuss further read this article http://www.nationalreview.com/nrof_comment/carter200506240838.asp and counter the points made. So much of the arguments leveled so far are effects of free market forces, not fiscal policy.
#19, …So much of the arguments leveled so far are effects of free market forces, not fiscal policy.
Comment by mxpwr03 — 10/14/2006 @ 12:42 pm
Did you fall asleep during economics class? I know what they teach in grade two lately is roundly criticized, but that is one of the stupidest comments I have heard lately. And I have heard the right wingnuts come out with some pretty stupid arguments.
Fiscal policy controls how the economy works. BTW, the free market is only a theory, not a practice. The market economy grows, contracts, moves, ripples, and shifts all under the direction and / or influence of the Federal Government and to a much lesser extent the local governments.
Eff the National Review and their wingnut opinions. The only ones backing Bush’s policies are those at the very top end of the food chain who gain. Bushes philosophy is to rob from the poor and give to the rich. And if you can defend that philosophy then you are a worse person then I originally thought.
[please note I edited my own comments for language and tone]
Mr. Fusion,
Did you fall asleep during debate class? The core of an argumentative response is typically an argument, and yet your response just restates the rhetoric of the left to combat the alleged rhetoric of the right. Moreover, it reeks of ignorance. Fiscal policy does NOT control how the economy works, it merely sets limits as to how far it can grow on its own. The free market controls the economy; if the government’s actions were the sole mechanism of controlling the economy, then we would be living in Communist Russia, not capitalist America. The market does grow, contract, move, and ripple, but it would do that irrespective of fiscal policy; fiscal policy is merely useful for nudging it in the opposite direction when it gets a bit out of hand.
“Rob the poor and give to the rich,” “top end of the food chain,” what a dumb response. You’re letting your emotions drive your response and it’s keeping you from contributing anything but ridiculous, cliche answers you probably got from moveon.org. Let’s see some actual, bonafide evidence that proves that Bush’s actions are NOT responsible for the Dow reaching all time heights, or other tangible signs of our economy’s incredible success right now. Leave it to a liberal to provide a lame, derivative response founded solely on crybaby anger instead of something containing some substance.
21, mxpwr03
First, the Fiscal Policy DOES influence and even controls the economy. Don’t believe me? Go ahead, start you own TV station. Better still, market your own drug. Or import your own raw hemp fiber to make your own line of clothing. Try importing some Canadian lumber or antibiotics. Start your own automobile company and ignore the Government when you sell it. Better yet, what business would you like to start?
Second, if you believe Government influence equates to Communist USSR status, then you are a bigger idiot then you let on. Or maybe you don’t pretend. There is not a country today where the government does not, to some degree, interfere in the economy. It is all a matter of degree.
Rob the poor to give to the rich? Well, who benefits from low minimum wage. Not the guy earning the minimum wage. In fact, the minimum wage keeps all wages artificially low except those who have a controlling organizations, such as physicians, lawyers, accountants, professional engineers etc. Even those organizations feel the Government’s influence though on wages. Whose wages are totally free? Yup, those who control the check signing machines.
Fourth, the Dow Jones is a bull crap indicator. It is 30 companies and their stock price. Their stock price is based upon what someone “thinks” their stock is worth, not what the stock is actually worth. It is the short term profits that influence the stock value, not the long term viability of the company. This is what has sunk so many American companies lately; sacrificing tomorrow to make a profit today. (see Sony, GM, and Ford for examples)
Fifth, because you have yet to post something of substance, you closed with the catch all slam Leave it to a liberal to provide a lame, derivative response founded solely on crybaby anger instead of something containing some substance