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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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From: Doug R	10/5/2004 1:26:33 AM
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President Petulant Dan Froomkin covers the White House for the Washington Post. His roundup of press commentary on the Beloved Leader’s crash-and-burn performance Thursday quotes a number of people making the point that the bullying, childishly irritable Bush the country saw on Thursday was the real, normal Bush that the people who work for him see all the time. (Karl Rove is even quoted as saying that Bush’s performance doesn’t really count as irritable – for Bush.) The genial, aw-shucks, let-me-pray-and-cry-with-you Bush is the illusion, with no more substance than the million-dollar stage-set “ranch” the thoroughly suburban Bush bought just a year before he ran for President. That persona has been carefully protected by keeping GWB away from any situation in which he might be asked a hostile question, such as whether he still believes that America can’t win the war on terror. But it shattered like glass when Bush was confronted with someone who dealt with him as an equal rather than as royalty. Now Bush’s problem, and Bush’s handlers’ problem, is whether that persona can be glued back together well enough to last the three hours of the last two debates. If the real Bush insists on reappearing, he’s probably toast November 2. washingtonpost.com reachm.com

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