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

To: SilentZ who wrote (528933)	1/25/2004 1:41:08 AM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

It was terribly funny. After the Dean performance I walked into my home and my 13-year-old gave me an mp3 of Dean. My kid is smiling and tells me "Dad. He even mentioned Oregon. I mean Dad! Oregon!" The boy was incredulous. I listened to the recording and heard what was definitely a strange thing. "...and then we're gonna go to Washington, D.C. and take back the White House? Yeeeeeah!" Definitely strange. Well, just about an hour ago I actually watched a video of the Dean speech for the first time. I saw him say the words. To hear them in context of the rest of his speech and with the backdrop of his supporters, it just did not strike me as that odd of a moment-- certainly not so odd as to warrant calling the man "mad" or "insane" or any of the names so many people have called him. To be sure, Dean is my ideological enemy. I detest everything the man stands for. But I think people have just completely overreacted to this speech. The guy was just encouraging his young supporters, undoubtedly using a bit of "rah rah" fervor to overcome and mask a lot of pain over just having incurred such a heavy political blow. Was the speech "presidential?" Whiskey Tango Foxtrot is that? Lincoln wasn't really "presidential." Jackson wasn't presidential and neither was Taft. This "presidential" garbage is just a bunch of "movie star" hooey we've made up in fairly recent years. Instead of following the big hair, dull, unoriginal packaged behavior we have now somehow come to think is innately "presidential," Dean was just being "coach." Not wise in this climate, no. But it ain' no big thang. I'll get some sleep and use this video sometime Monday as a lesson to my wonderful son about perceptions, facts, context, the general fickleness, stupidity and gullibility of the public, and the ruthlessness and lack of honor amongst leftists, particularly those of the media.