Praise & worship from MSNBC / WaPo: "Bush catches critics off guard"

[Human Torch]

Bush catches critics off guard
Weakened president still can set terms of debate

ANALYSIS
By Michael Abramowitz and Charles Babington
The Washington Post
Updated: 9:49 p.m. MT Sept 6, 2006

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14707867/

With a series of forceful speeches on terrorism and a dramatic announcement that he has sent top-tier terrorism suspects to the Guantanamo Bay prison, President Bush this week has demonstrated anew the power of even a weakened commander in chief to set the terms of national debate.

All week, the White House has made plain its desire to refocus the attention of voters this fall away from a troubled and unpopular war in Iraq in favor of Bush's vision of a worldwide struggle against Islamic radicalism and terrorism. Yesterday, Bush sought to turn a legal defeat at the Supreme Court into a political opportunity.

By challenging Congress to immediately give the administration authority to try notorious al-Qaeda figures such as Khalid Sheik Mohammed by military commissions, he shifted the argument with Democratic critics of national security policies and competence. As Bush framed the choice, anyone against his proposal would be denying him necessary tools to protect American security.

His success in catching much of Washington by surprise showed that a president who polls show has his political back to the wall still has formidable tools: the ability to make well-timed course corrections on policy, dominate the news and shape the capital's agenda in the weeks before Election Day.

:rofl:



President Bush speaks about terrorism to an audience that included lawmakers and family members of Sept. 11 victims in the East Room of the White House on Wednesday.

[CJCRANE]

1. You sure that's not Pravda?

Reads like state-sponsored bullsh*t to me.

[liberal N proud]

3. The American media and KKKarl used Pravda as a guide

when the created the American Media Propaganda complex.
Made up a varying degrees of propaganda so as not to raise suspicion among those who are in the middle but a strong enough message to feed the morons who can't think for themselves.

[Joe Bacon]

11. The Whoreshington Post Is Pravda on the Potomac

Show me one clown who works for that paper who is NOT a Bush ass-kisser

[rfranklin]

2. Bush demands Congress void the Constitution for show trials....

should be the headline. The trials will go like this--

"He's a bad man!"

"What did he do?"

"Secret, can't tell ya!"

"Okay..."

"We will execute him because he is a bad man!"

"Okay..."

And we will be once again saved and protected by Our Great Leader.

(When I was a kid, the Soviet Union had trials like this and we laughed at the absurdity.)

[no_hypocrisy]

4. A good defense is a good offense. This way * doesn't have to justify

his illegal detention program and future kangaroo courts. It looks like a visionary innovation.

Rove does it again.

[GeorgeGist]

5. Such nonsense is not difficult...

"..President Bush this week has demonstrated anew the power of even a weakened commander in chief to set the terms of national debate."

when you have an off-base media that considers itself competent to judge of who is off guard.

[bronxiteforever]

6. MSNBC is kidding right? We will just forget about a war and

refocus on his fight against terror? I have news for the news shows-wars are not forgotten. Especially expensive, prolonged bungled wars that killed american soldiers and destroyed a country that appears to be broken beyond belief thanks to us.
I would have more respect if the press started calling him "Lyndon Baines Bush".
Shrub is a one-note piano in a complex world.

[Vinca]

7. They should be calling it the "Bush Terror Tour." nt

[ihelpu2see]

8. yup that is what $20 million of our tax dollars will get you

another AD campaign for the illegal war and torture. check it out $20 mill.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/30/AR2006083003011.html

[OnionPatch]

9. His "formidable tools" are his lapdog media

[leesa]

10. These freaks will just never stop, will they? I wonder what it must be

like to live your life in complete denial of the reality surrounding you. Your money can't insulate you THAT well, can it?

[orwell]

12. But I thought this...

...was a flip-flop.

Oh that's right, clever two word slogans are only operational when you are trashing Democrats.

[Lindacooks]

13. Wow, look at all the white, gray-haired heads in that pix.

And bald.

Not to mention empty.

[Bake]

14. TRYING to set the terms of the debate

Polls of late have consistently shown that the public has NOT forgotten about Iraq, does not approve of it, and does not associate it with the war on terror. * is all about trying to say the polar opposite, that Iraq IS the war on terror.

This is just more of the Pukes' smoke and mirrors. I believe the public sees through it THIS time. At least I fervently hope so.

Bake