BUSH, PART DEUX
Excuse the French reference, GWB, if you're reading today. I also apologize for the infrequent posts of late. I just want to add, and Bush would agree with this - and is likely not bothered by it - that last night's speech (and his wonderfully snippy press conference today) won't win him any converts to his WOT philosophy among those whose minds are made up that WOT is bad and that greedy, evil, corrupt, imperialistic America is bad. It probably won't even win him any converts among those oft-celebrated undecideds.
Those bandwagoners and goalpost-shifters - er, make that those folks - won't be converted until more concrete signs of progress are made such as months without a GI death, stability measured in terms of an insignificant threat of a civil war, and perhaps captured terror stars such as OBL, assuming he's alive and not mountain goat feed.
Rather, Bush's biggest victory at the moment is among his base, those committed to fighting the WOT the right way, under the belief that the terror mullahs are weilding a bastardized Islam to serve their radical ends, which might have been the most brilliant line in the Sunday's speech.
The base always agreed with POTUS on these issues, but now that we see that, after all of these years, he's finally willing to dig in his heels and fight, fight the way that the GWB of Texas did against Ann Richards and the Democratic machine when he showed all that promise of being a true right wing leader, he's given us a reason to more formidably fight WOT, and some rhetoric to more passionately stand behind.
I've got to say, I like Bush far more when he's angry and truly engaged than when he's playing nicey with the Democrats and being almost sickeningly PC. To bring it full circle, last night must have made a lot of liberals around the globe go, "le gulp."
Those bandwagoners and goalpost-shifters - er, make that those folks - won't be converted until more concrete signs of progress are made such as months without a GI death, stability measured in terms of an insignificant threat of a civil war, and perhaps captured terror stars such as OBL, assuming he's alive and not mountain goat feed.
Rather, Bush's biggest victory at the moment is among his base, those committed to fighting the WOT the right way, under the belief that the terror mullahs are weilding a bastardized Islam to serve their radical ends, which might have been the most brilliant line in the Sunday's speech.
The base always agreed with POTUS on these issues, but now that we see that, after all of these years, he's finally willing to dig in his heels and fight, fight the way that the GWB of Texas did against Ann Richards and the Democratic machine when he showed all that promise of being a true right wing leader, he's given us a reason to more formidably fight WOT, and some rhetoric to more passionately stand behind.
I've got to say, I like Bush far more when he's angry and truly engaged than when he's playing nicey with the Democrats and being almost sickeningly PC. To bring it full circle, last night must have made a lot of liberals around the globe go, "le gulp."
posted by MJS at 6:56 PM
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