Bush turns to old pal for PR

[emad]

Texan friend of Alastair Campbell takes task of softening US image

Paul Harris in New York
Sunday March 13, 2005
The Observer

It must be the toughest job in PR - trying to make a sceptical and frequently hostile world learn to love its only superpower.
Step forward Karen Hughes. She is one of President George Bush's closest confidantes and the woman now charged with precisely that task: convincing the world, especially Muslims, that the United States has their best interests at heart.

Hughes will this week be officially nominated to the post of Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs. Behind the complex title lies the challenge of selling America's image abroad. It is a battle of hearts and minds aimed mostly at the Muslim world. That will mean boosting efforts to repair the massive damage done by the bloody aftermath of the toppling of Saddam Hussein and continued worries over America's aggressive diplomatic spats with Syria, Iran and North Korea.

Hughes will serve under Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice who has already made high-profile tour of international capitals. In common with many of Bush's inner circle, Hughes, a former television reporter, sees herself as a Washington outsider, loyal to the President, not the government.

She has the image of a Texan homemaker, but behind the mumsy front is a highly skilled PR operative who has been at the heart of Bush's rises to power. 'She clearly has a dynamic with him, where she understands him, where he is coming from, his thought processes. She can finish his sentences,' said Norm Ornstein, a politics expert at the American Enterprise Institute.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1436553,00.html

[acmavm]

1. Not even Ms. Huge will be able to dress up the pig that is bush** enough

to fool the world. The rest of the planet is already onto this bunch. The only delusional idiots seem to be in this country.

[izzie]

2. I almost lost my last meal on this one.

It is just to funny to be true. I know Bush lives in a bubble but really he does go to far in being out of it.

[MrModerate]

3. Sure she can finish his sentences . . .

Has to, because he can't do it for himself. Look at the tapes of his father and brother. That "Bush Syntax" has to be genetic. Or maybe they all were born syphilitic as an inheritance from good ol' Prescott who caught it while cornholing Josef Goebbels (just speculating now).

[rock]

4. A butch female to convince the Arab world

Why didn't I think of that?

[applegrove]

5. Softening? What are they going to kill all of us who know the truth?

The moment Bush shows up at a home for unwed - inter faithed & immigrant mothers is going to be the moment I get re-enraged.

Come on' do it! I dare ya! come Bush ... do it! Go to places you will destroy and pretend that you care.