Media: Bush Is The ‘Picture Of A Beaten Dog’

[marmar]

from ThinkProgress:



Media: Bush Is The ‘Picture Of A Beaten Dog’»

In the wake of yesterday’s congressional meltdown over the bailout bill, President Bush gave a speech this morning, meant to reassure the public and the volatile financial markets. Just four minutes long, the address expressed disappointment in Congress and warned that “the consequences will grow worse each day if we do not act.”

Bush’s speech is unlikely to have much of an effect. Immediately following the address, MSNBC turned to New York Magazine’s John Heilemann, who commented:

I don’t think that comforts anybody. I don’t think that moves a single vote. With due respect and sympathy for the man, that was the picture of a beaten dog. That was the picture of presidential impotence right there. He looked terrible like his bell had been rung. He looked drawn to me.

The Wall Street Journal’s Peggy Noonan added, “It strikes me lately, when the President talks about the economic crisis, that he seems like a commentator upon the crisis as opposed to the leader in the crisis. There is the sense that he is watching it saying we need to do something, as opposed to we will do something.” Watch Bush’s speech, followed by MSNBC’s commentary: http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/30/bush-beaten-dog/


As the Washington Post writes today, yesterday’s failed bailout vote “marked the biggest legislative defeat of Bush’s tenure and underscored the vanishing influence of a president who could once bend a pliant Congress to his will on wars, taxes, surveillance and a host of other high-profile initiatives.” ......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/30/bush-beaten-dog/

[Benhurst]

1. That's our press for you. They can't tell the difference between

a beaten dog and a dead duck.

[Moochy]

3. Thats Nooner for you

Her "insights" are always revealing but not in the way she intends.

[LynnTheDem]

2. Did someone cause the deaths of 4,489 of George W. bUsh's

family and friends???

"beaten dog" my fucking ass. George W. bUsh, war criminal, has caused the deaths of 4,489 uniformed Americans just in Iraq. George W. bUsh has caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi men, women and kids.

"beaten dog" is how George W. bUsh has treated Americans, America, the world.