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

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (564964)	4/15/2004 12:36:56 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 769667

Bushspeak One final take on President Bush's 62-minute press conference Tuesday night, this from the Weekly Standard's Fred Barnes: "He was heroically on message, relentlessly repetitive, but effective in his own way," Mr. Barnes wrote yesterday. "Washington hates this type of public performance, which is characteristic of Bush. The press, the political community, the inside-the-Beltway lifers — they prefer a rich display of details, a bit of nuance, and some wit. Reporters, particularly, are soft on presidents who seem to like them or at least pretend to — or who pander to them. "Bush, of course, gives them none of that. He's not aiming to please the Washington crowd — the political elite. His audience is outside the Beltway — the mass — and he does surprisingly well in appealing to it. How does he do it? By being plain spoken and amiable and down to earth. By sounding more like Midland, Texas, than like Georgetown or Chevy Chase," Mr. Barnes wrote.