It has come to me in a flash…it isn’t that Bush knows what’s what and spins it or lies about it. BUSH REALLY DOES NOT KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE WORLD.
Think about it: He freely admits that he does not read the paper, he does not watch the news. All of the data he has is filtered and spun before it gets to him. He is protected from any dissent or criticism, and he basically never hears, sees, reads or faces anything that hasn’t been crafter to the purposes of his handlers.
So when he talks like things are going just swell in Iraq…well, in his carefully crafted little reality, they are. He does not know or hear or understand anything that Cheney and Rove don’t want him to know or hear or understand. How could he? Where would he?
And if nothing else, that should freak everybody out.
The debate is really…am I right? If you think he has a real understanding that has not been spiced and flavored and spoon fed to him, what do you base this belief upon? Do you think it would serve Karl and Dick to give him all the information? If so, can you explain why, given that he really doesn’t do much thinking, planning or deciding for himself?
Maybe. For an instance, last night when he said that Kerry “forgot about Poland”, you got to wonder if he remembers the President of Poland saying he felt as if he had been hoodwinked about Iraq.
I always get this impression that Bush is out of reality when he speaks of world support… or european support. Like he really beleives there is a wide support for him beyond the US.
Quite frankly, if I had the choice between reading an article in the WaPo and a classified document with a heavier saturation of facts, guess which one I’d choose. Being President doesn’t come with a six-hour extension to one’s day.
I know as an absolute statement of fact what type of news summary service the White House gets. And it’s a good one. It takes relevant portions of all the major and minor papers and news programs and summarizes them by content for ease-of-absorbtion.
Do I believe the President logs on and browses? No. But I do believe he gets relevant parts communicated to him by flunkies. That’s what they’re there for.
I beleive you misapprehend Stoid’s point; her concern is that the “rlevant pats” are cherry-picked and edited by “flunkies” to give Dubya an unreal picture of the world.
Does Dubya read the news summarry or is it read to him?
I really dislike Bush and I think he’s a horrible President and I’m praying he loses, and yet you still sound to me like the dumbest partisan on the Internet.
Of course Bush knows what’s going on. Can’t you recognize SPIN? He’s saying everything is fine because it’s his sales pitch. His strategy in the debates, such as it is, is to keep repeating the mantra that makes a lot of voters feel at ease; “everything’s okay, I am a strong leader.” It’s all spin, and it works.
Bush claimed in the debate that 100,000 fresh Iraqi troops had been trained. The Pentagon says it’s more like 8,000. Is the president being lied to, or is he well-informed, and personally lying? I’m not comfortable with either option.
Mr. Bush’s hand-picked leader of Iraq spoke before the US Congress the other day, sounding strangely similar to a Bush stump speech. The truth has come out that he was coached in his speechwriting. I don’t really blame Mr. Alawi for saying exactly what Mr. Bush wanted us to hear. He knows who gave him his job.
Yeah, but in order to get a full and balanced picture, you need to read more than one. I’d love to have time to read both locals, the Washington Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Christian Science Monitor - at a minimum. But I don’t, so I settle for the Denver Post and fit in some others as available and as time allows.
I have no doubt that the news is available to Bush, I’m not sure he cares.
Since Bush is on a steady course, polls-wise, to win re-election, I think there are two possible conclusions: (1) this is not true, and/or (2) the electorate is unswayed by this fact.
Since it’s largely irrelevant how true it is if enough people vote for the man, I’d suggest that (2) is the more critical item.
Let’s face it - Dubya Bush has had everything done for him for all of his life.
His entrance into Yale? Getting into the Guard ? His various business ventures? (Some were almost successful).
Would ANY of that have been possible if Dubya was just an ordinary citizen with no clout? So when someone has had a lifetime “cushy” existence, how can you expect that person to be an innovative, energetic, “take charge”, well-informed kind of President?
Personally, I think he will get re-elected. He “throws the bull” people want to hear - America is #1, Support Our Troops, God Bless America, etc. And he don’t talk none of that fanciful, big-word talk neither.