Galvanizing Support vs. Preaching to the Choir
Ed:
It's a lot like preaching to the choir. We just lost over 5,000 dead, all innocent non-combatants. Galvanizing support right now, at home, from working classes or professionals is the least of his problems.
I respectfully disagree. IMHO, not everyone was sitting in the choir like you were, so galvanizing support domestically WAS a very big priority for Bush.
For example, here are a couple of alternative viewpoints for you to consider.
1) "By Friday Bush was getting bigger. He gave a speech at the Washington National Cathedral prayer service that impressed even Democrats who can't stand him. Al Gore — at Bush's invitation — was sitting two rows behind him during the service, silently making the point that the once vast differences did not matter anymore. (The attack even brought a reconciliation between Gore and Bill Clinton. The two sat up till dawn talking about it at Clinton's New York home before sharing a military transport plane to D.C.) Bush then traveled to ground zero in downtown Manhattan. He picked up a bullhorn, slung his arm around one rescue worker and spoke to the others—and to the world—with a grace that was both convincing and, somehow, unmistakably American. "The people who knocked down these buildings," he said, "are going to hear all of us soon." He didn't insist that he was resolute. He didn't have to."
-- Reported by James Carney, John F. Dickerson and Douglas Waller/Washington
2) On CNBC's "Hardball" tonight, Chris Matthews interviewed David Gergin, former adviser to President Clinton, and elicited this response:
MATTHEWS: "So David, how's this guy doing as President right now?"
GERGIN: "Well, Chris, a couple of weeks ago, a lot of people were calling him 'W'. Now they're calling him 'President'. That's a BIG change!"
Try not to forget that the people on Silicon Investor are NOT representative of your average American citizen.
JMHO. YMMV. WTFDIK.
Razor
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