Bush and Blair are trying to make lemonade. It’s sad to watch. What say you?
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Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
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I can’t watch.
No, make that I won’t watch.
When we take our country back from this despot then I’ll pay attention to Presidential news conferences again.
Blair looks shaken.
Blair: there is no point in rehashing the decision to invade Iraq. We need to get over that and help Iraq rebuild.
BooMan: This spilt milk argument only goes so far. Can’t we imprison you and help Iraq rebuild at the same time?
you deserve a bottle or two of your favorite beer..strong stomach to watch those two. Keep some ginger handy.
Can I wait for coverage on The Daily Show or do I have to watch it now? LOL!
they’re delaying Keith Olbermann an hour to show this waste of time…oh well, I can watch the first quarter of Detroit/Miami, or catch the first period of Anaheim/Edmonton…sports is the grand diversion from reality…
Bush: there is no doubt that the Iraq war has produced a sense of consternation in the American public.
BooMan: how the fuck did you dig out a word like consternation and acually pronounce it correctly?
I cannot understand why that man just shamelessly kowtows to everything Bush says and does. Talk about bowing in utter obeisance.
Have some dignity, geez…
Tony Blair has the ability to make a cogent argument. I will give him that.
I’m at the point where I can’t stand to watch Bush on TV.My late wife couldn’t stand to see him from the time of his “first election”.
Painful. I had the TV turned away and could only hear the sound. I got the odd impression that both men had taken a fistful of downers. I’ve since turned the TV a little so I can see it. This is a lame duck shooting gallery, or would be if we had a less timid press corp. The guy who asked about Snow, looked as though he peed his pants as soon as he was called on. Blair is awful. He’s usually such a good speaker who is quick on his feet, I find his stammering performance tonight a little stunning.
…I’d rather have
Tea MF!
(If you haven’t heard the “English comeback” to the Narnia rap…it’s a scream!)
is anyone watching the post-conference tweety coverage?
Is Tweety fawning and licking spittle from his lips? Is he all a-twitter and driveling with enthusiasm? Has he said anything yet about the golden light that emanates from G.W. and is reflected in Tony’s adoring eyes?
Indeed he is. Nothing about the golden light, but plenty of fawning. Tweety drools, Noron calls the fuckers resolute and then my wife put in her General Hospital tape and I feel much, much better.
Get past the usual rhetoric here and note that Blair was in Iraq this week, where al-Maliki told him the “multinational force” could probably leave in no more than 18 months. And for the first time in five years, Bush admitted his mistakes in rhetoric (“bring it on”), and the war.
Based on the last 15 minutes (all I heard), if Bush can deliver a good speech on Monday, his numbers will somewhat recover. Like you I’ll be reading the post-mortems tomorrow morning, but if history teaches, now is not the time to misunderestimate.
Think of the effect on the public if – like Nixon’s “China Gambit” – the administration seals a “secret deal” with Iran, and most of the troops come home. You’re the logician. Walk a few steps in their shoes, and figure out how you’d make a “comeback”.
The general public is a fickle beast, and easily swayed.
Logic or not, I don’t see the Bush making any significant troop withdrawls from Iraq at all for any reason unless the neocons in the administration are driven from power completely first.
and easily swayed?”
is that why his numbers have been grinding lower and lower and lower for the last eighteen months without a statistically significant interruption?
i don’t think so.
Anger and self-righteousness only go so far with the electorate, and the “left” has been stuck in that rut for at least three years. I agree with you and sbj, but also remember the way this guy operates. Rove, Cheney, and Rummy are now “tainted”. What happens if all three go down the road, and are replaced by “moderates”?
Yesterday’s mea culpas could be the beginning of the Rehabilitation of George Bush. Disgusting, but possible.
phah! isn’t that the mother’s milk of the right?
on terror, religion, abortion, immigration, gay rights, etc, etc, anger and self-righteousness seem to have sustained bush’s base well over the last decade or two.
apparently now james dobson and tom tancredo feel that dubya hasn’t been angry or righteousness enough these days. they’re abandoning him.
the left have yet to even begin feeding at that trough. it’s long since time they started.
that should read: angry or righteous enough …