Reply #69: I'm not able to decipher this bunch at all. I wish I could. I can tell [View All]

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from your post, AnneD, that you have a birdseye view on this caper, and I am envious of your ability to parse it out like that.

My limitation with Bush is the absence of language. Reagan, as far as I'm concerned, was a monstrously failed president, but his handlers at least figured out that if you stuck him in front of the Statue of Liberty in a white shirt, the matinee idol would be speaking into the hearts of sentimental voters.

With Bush, I don't see any of that at all. Rove is probably as underhanded as it gets, but no one in the president's inner circle now how to manipulate an image. And that is odd to me. Especially with someone like Dubya, who is in desperate need of some image manipulation.

For all the cowboy tough talk, I've never seen the little fool on a horse. Have you?

There's some disconnect between what was done to make Reagan look halfway sentient and what isn't being done to make Dubya persuasive.