After listening to 30 minutes of our "dear leader" <gag> ramble on about "freedom" and "terrorists" and "fighting them over there so we don't have to fight them here," blah, blah, blah, I was left with only one question...
Why in the world did Bush give this speech??
follow me on the flip, would you?
OK, so before this speech, where did Bush stand? 1) His poll numbers are tanking, 2) the sheeple are finally starting to wake up to the fact that this was an unnecessary war entered under false pretenses, and 3) more than anything, people are calling for 2 things from this President: a clear plan and an exit strategy from this mess.
Yet he did not give an inch on those 2 points. Instead there were just more of the same old tired lines and empty platitudes. Do Rove and Co. really underestimate the American people that much, to think tonight's drivel would appease them? Not that average Americans have given them much reason NOT to underestimate them, but they are finally starting to wake up and it feels like the tide is starting to turn.
It makes me wonder...who thought this speech was a good idea?? What did they think it would accomplish?
Rove, Cheney, and the rest of the Bush puppeteers are evil geniuses very capable of manipulating public opinion for their own ends, so why in the world did they send Bush out there with this weak-assed speech that accomplished absolutely nothing? It didn't fire up the base (because they had heard it all before), it didn't inflame the opposition (because we had all heard it before), and it didn't win over anyone that may have been on the fence about his policies.
Bush isn't up for re-election and he's not going for votes here, so why all of a sudden is he clamoring for prime-time media coverage, when we can count on one (maybe two) hands the number of times he's done that in his 4+ years in office? I could understand if he had major "news" to report (ie, we got Bin Laden or Zarquawi), but this speech was nothing--worse than nothing, it was 30 minutes of nothing that got no applause until the crowd was prompted by Bush staffers.
Does anyone see any political advantage that Bush could gain from this speech? I've thought about this for a few hours now, and I've got nothin'. So if he doesn't gain anything, why in the world did he do it?