NYT: Before Speeches, a Bush Strategy to Regain Edge

[RamboLiberal]

When President Bush and his top aides gathered in July to sketch out a strategy for the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, it was clear to all that they had to try to reset the clock — back to a time, before Iraq, when portraying Mr. Bush as a steely commander in chief was a far simpler task, and before Hurricane Katrina, when questions about the administration’s competence did not weigh so heavily.

From those discussions emerged the speeches Mr. Bush has delivered over the last week, the leading edge of a remarkably intensive and aggressive campaign in which he has tried to regain ground he has lost for more than two years, by turning the conversation away from Iraq and back toward the broader war on terror.

It is a carefully calibrated strategy that will continue in coming days, first with an appearance Sunday morning by Vice President Dick Cheney on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” the vehicle he used to advantage at key moments after Sept. 11 and then Mr. Bush’s appearance that night at ground zero in New York and a prayer service at St. Paul’s Chapel.

On Monday, for the first time since the first anniversary, in 2002, Mr. Bush will visit all three sites of the attack that remade his presidency — New York, Shanksville, Pa. and the Pentagon. Then he will cap the day and bring to a close this phase of his effort to portray himself and his party on his terms with a nationally televised speech from the Oval Office.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/09/us/politics/09elect.html?hp&ex=1157774400&en=d4abd05b4556b46a&ei=5094&partner=homepage

[unschooler]

1. Does ANYBODY listen to Bush's speeches anymore?

Of course, it will help that he'll get endless TV coverage. :puke:

[aquart]

2. Still all PR, no substance.

Or, as they say in Texas, "All hat and no cattle."

[Straight Shooter]

3. Dog and pony show.

The fact that he's even having to go through all these intense efforts just proves the point that he's being seen as a failure by more and more people every day.

What a loser, trying to drag us all down with him. Pathetic.

[truthisfreedom]

4. i wouldn't know. like much of America, i always have something more

pressing than listening to herr führer's repeat speeches.

[Ignacio Upton]

5. We need to count this propaganda blitz

And point out in ads how Bush has been a failure.

[The_Casual_Observer]

6. No results, just speeches.

That will fix everything

[napi21]

7. It's not gonna work this time Shrub!

Did ya ever hearof "Actions speak louder than words?" "It's not what ya say but what ya do!"

Oh We have a boat load of those old sayings. Maybe YOU didn't hear them in YOUR house!

[muesa]

8. Demographics

<=30% who will vote for GWB no matter what=>|<=40% who decide elections=>|<=30% who will never vote for GWB=>

Which is why a 60%-40% split is generally a major "land slide". Bushie is not doing too good with that 40% who decide elections - in fact they are laughing at him and mocking him as much as we are.

[bhikkhu]

9. "if I could turn back time,

if I could fine a way
I'd take back those words that I said
and you'd staaaaayyyyy"

[BadgerKid]

10. Need less planning to dupe America and

more planning to end occupation of Iraq.

[deacon]

11. The senate body slammed him yesterday about the saddam

al qaeda link so good luck with that. Why isn't the times simply printed bush is lying in every speech? Amazing.

[Mountainman]

12. An administration that thrives on fear and tragedy. How sick is that?

Johnson wanted a Great Society. Too bad he had the Vietnam war to tend too. FDR (the only thing we have to fear is fear itself) had the New Deal. Kennedy had the New Frontier. Carter tried to foster human rights and justice around the world, too bad he had a miserable economy to tend to. Wilson had the League of Nations to prevent new wars.

Bush promotes fear, fear, fear, terror, terror, terror, war and more war to boost his ratings. How can you be proud of that?

[DeepModem Mom]

13. NO shame! nt

[MODemocrat]

14. Won't be watching the Bush circus

It would be useless to waste my time watching these fakes. I've never watched a Bush speech, and won't
be watching this PR blitz that the enabling News Media are so proud of.It happened on their watch, and
I'm convinced that Bush and Cheney etal let this happen and nothing's going to change that.

This is one way of getting Cheney out of his bunker and into the limelight. How despicable.

:puke: :puke: :silly: :silly: :silly:

[Miss Chybil]

15. It's amazing how much mileage these people can get off the dead. nt

[rocktivity]

16. Never listen to a Bush speech again

Thanks to the handy dandy Bush Speech Modulator!

Invented by YouTube.com and The Daily Show, The Bush Speech modulator is a high-tech device that compresses every speech Bush has and ever will make as president into a tidy fifty seconds! Just activate the Modulator every time a Bush speech is announced, and in a fraction of the time, you'll know as much about what he had do say as if you'd actually listened! Save your valuable time while amazing your friends with the Modulator's near-psychic accuracy! So bookmark, link to or download the Bush Speech Modulator NOW!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJbHRfBInd8

:headbang:
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