Do Americans like to see their President cry?

[newsguyatl]

I'm just wondering. Not sure how I feel about this, but Bushco's new ad clearly shows Bush choking up during the RNC Convention.

Is this appealing to Americans as a whole? Or would they rather see someone more in control of his emotions?

Like I said, I'm rather split on it.

How do you guys feel?

Seems to me, this is a risk.

Remember the Muskee moment?


www.georgebush.com

compare it to a similar one for kerry -- http://www.democrats.org/strength/index.html


which man would YOU rather have in control of your security?

i know MY answer to that.

[BootinUp]

1. I'd say not

A little more cold calculation in the most powerful leader of the world please. At least when dealing with world or domestic issues. If he was interacting with someone on a personal level, thats a little different.

[Maddy McCall]

2. Everyone will see it for the opportunism that it is...

Taking political advantage of a horrific situation. I think it will hurt him more than help him.

Now, if I break up with a guy, and he cries, that's fine. But Bush tearing up---well, that's just gross.

[rocktivity]

3. During one of his "vacations" in Crawford, he learned to cry on cue

Of course, it looks totally phony when he gets choked up.

:headbang:
rocknation

[newsguyatl]

7. LMAO!

[ScreamingMeemie]

4. Choking up perhaps over the senseless deaths of American soldiers?

Perhaps....But he's not doing that. :hi:

[Catfight]

5. Maybe as he bows his head over a flagged draped coffin, but we

know he's afraid to be around dead soldiers.

[BUSHOUT]

6. I didn't see the tears, but it all rings hollow given the news today. n/t

[msongs]

8. the resolute leader goes soft- flip flop flip flop etc and

which bush are they gonna vote for?

Msongs
Riverside CA

[RebelOne]

9. Well, I really want to see him cry on Nov. 3, when with luck,

Kerry wins the election.

[bunkerbuster1]

10. a Nirvana lyric that seems oddly appropriate

"the finest day that I ever had
was when I learned to cry on demand
love myself better than you
I know that it's wrong, but what should I do?"

...except that Chimpy doesn't know it's wrong, of course.

[Dob Bole]

18. hehe....

He's also on a plain...stuck at 47/48% of the popular vote.

[Peanut Gallery]

11. I didn't watch the RNC convention

But I do remember that after 9/11 Bush was criticized for being emotionless (I can't remember the context exactly - maybe it was that he hadn't given a press conference yet), and during a press conference shortly thereafter he produced some crocodile tears. It reeked of insincerity.

If a president truly wants to reach out to average people, he will skip the pretend TV preacher compassion and instead create and support policies that benefit them.

[liberal N proud]

12. Only on Nov 3rd when the President is an asshole

[michigandem2]

13. I say no....

because I dont' want to see a grown man crying about mistakes he made that he can't even admit too...what is he gonna say while he is sobbing..."its hard work, please just know its hard work--so hard it makes me cry to think about the hard work I have ahead"? please..I think crying makes you a Girly man

[fishwax]

14. I'd love to see gw cry

I'm really hoping for it on 11/2.

[Zero Gravitas]

15. I want to see him cry on national TV

next Tuesday night...

[Catherine Vincent]

16. Depends on what they are crying for.

One instance is when Clinton shed some tears after the republican congress voted to impeach him. F'ing bastards made my president cry.:grr:

[Rose Siding]

17. I thought it appropriate after Sept 11 but now

it speaks more, either of a lack of control or of a calculated marketing strategy.

[dubyaD40web]

19. I never want to see the President... but bush on the other hand?

He's not a President. He was appointed, not elected, therefore, by definition, he's just "sitting in" for a term.

And man, I want to see him bawling like a French soccer player.
I can't wait to hear his concession speech.

[Orsino]

20. Only tears of remorse

I would like the prez to have even a moment of illumination, in which he is able to see and appreciate the damage he and his handlers have wrought. I'd like him to understand how hard his successor will have to work just to *begin* to undo it. I'd like him to have to answer to the subsequent generations who will be cleaning up after him.

Whatever it takes for him to go back to Crawford and never darken the nation's door again. He had his chance to prove that there was some validity to his wacked-out beliefs, and they have failed by every measure.

[DrFunkenstein]

21. Only during nationally televised Party conventions

Otherwise I'd think he was some sort of fag or something - not that there's anything wrong with that, as Seinfeld would say.