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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (502396)	12/2/2003 7:35:09 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

It's hard to keep track of what Bush says. Sometimes he (or those working his input device) makes things up and sometimes he simply doesn't know. Lately though the stress appears to be getting to him as he probably can't filter out all of the protesters and negative press. msnbc.com "President Bush’s Thanksgiving trip to Iraq was a generous and bold-hearted gesture of support to American troops. What made it such a success, however, was that it managed to severely limit an otherwise unavoidable aspect of travel—contact with foreigners... How does the chief representative of the world’s oldest constitutional democracy lose a popularity contest to the leader of a Leninist party? ... “The trip’s planners reduced the risk of confrontations—but only by broadcasting to the British public their tacit acknowledgement that the visit was unpopular and unwelcome... “Bush came to an economic group [APEC] and talked obsessively about terror. ... What is most dismaying about this state of affairs is that for the last 50 years the United States has skillfully merged its own agenda with the agendas of others, creating a sense of shared interests and values. When Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy waged the cold war, they also presented the world with a constructive agenda dealing with trade, poverty and health. They fought communism with one hand and offered hope with the other. We have fallen far from that model if the head of the Chinese Communist Party is seen as presenting the world with a more progressive agenda than the president of the world’s leading democracy." ------- Bush wasn't just defined by 911, he's still living in it. That can't be good. In the 'multilateral' talks with N. Korea, China comes out as the most reasonable member of the group keeping NK and the USA as far away from each other as possible. How in the world, in just 3 years, did it come to this?