Monday, August 21, 2006

Time to Go Back to Work

It must be time for me to go back to work; I watched the news conference that the Occupant of the White House held today.
I can remember White House news conferences back to the time of President Kennedy. The best presidents kept their responses brief and focused. While they were willing to use humor, it was usually tied to a response somehow, and they didn't get into chatty banter with the press corps. After all, they were presidents. A few, Nixon, Ford, Carter, and Clinton, had definitely grown up in the middle class, but they understood that they held high office and had to show their affinity for the masses in other ways. Even Bush 41 tried to act presidential.
Other presidents exercised restraint. This one rants, basically repeating over and over that he's right and anyone who disagrees with him is wrong, louder and with more gesticulation as the conference goes on. He reminds me of a preacher at a revival who keeps on and on, hoping that if he just keeps going long enough, some poor sinner will come forward at the altar call. Bush just doesn't understand that he's not going to convert the press corps. They're paid to be skeptical of any president.
It makes me wonder why his minions let him speak to anyone without handlers being present.

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