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02/08/04 |
President Bush made a rare Q&A appearance---on 'Meet The Press' this morning with Tim Russert. Tim asked some hard questions and Bush looked terrible. He was all puffy faced and his answers were canned and terrible. HE was a mess.
What the heck is going on? How could the powers that be let him out there like that. He looked and acted like a drunk on the morning after.
Bush is going to have to get it together or he doesn't stand a chance in NOvember.
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Clarification/Follow-up by tomder55 on 02/09/04 5:49 am:
Here was Peggy Noonan's (Reagan's speach writer) take on the Russett interview this morning :
Speeches are the vehicle for philosophy. Interviews are the vehicle of policy. Mr. Kerry does talking points and can't give an interesting speech. Mr. Bush can't do talking points and gives speeches full of thought and assertion.
'Philosophy takes time. If you connect your answers in an interview to philosophy, or go to philosophy first, you can look as if you're dodging the question. You can forget the question. You can look a little gaga. But policy doesn't take time. Policy is a machine gun--bip bip bip. Education policy, bip bip bip. Next.
If I worked for President Bush I'd say spend the next nine months giving speeches, and limit interviews. If I worked for Mr. Kerry I'd say give a lot of interviews, be out there all the time, and don't try to wrap your points up in a coherent philosophy, which is something a good speech demands. '
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