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I guess you could say that this is some of the things liberals are asking.
This is an op-ed by Eugene Robinson who is known to be somewhat liberal.
I’m not saying he is right or wrong. I think you should read it and decide for yourself.
Written by GussOne hopes the leader of the free world hasn’t really, truly lost touch with objective reality. But one does have to wonder.
Last week, George W. Bush invited nine conservative pundits to the White House for what amounted to a pep talk, with the president providing the pep. Somehow I was left off the list — must have been an oversight. But some columnists who attended have been writing about the meeting or describing it to colleagues, and their accounts are downright scary.
Kate O’Beirne, who joined the presidential chat in the Roosevelt Room, told me that the most striking thing was the president’s incongruously sunny demeanor. Bush’s approval ratings are well below freezing, the nation is sooooo finished with his foolish and tragic war, many of his remaining allies in Congress have given notice that come September they plan to leave the Decider alone in his private Alamo — and the president remains optimistic and upbeat.
Bush was “not at all weary or anguished” and in fact was “very energized,” wrote Michael Barone of U.S. News & World Report. He was “as confident and upbeat as ever,” observed Rich Lowry of National Review. “Far from being beleaguered, Bush was assertive and good-humored,” according to David Brooks of the New York Times.
Excuse me? I guess he must be in an even better mood since the feckless Iraqi government announced its decision to take the whole month of August off while U.S. troops continue fighting and dying in Baghdad’s 130-degree summer heat.
It’s almost as if Bush were trying to apply the principles of cognitive therapy, the system psychiatrist Aaron T. Beck developed in the 1960s. Beck found that getting patients to banish negative thoughts and develop patterns of positive thinking was helpful in pulling them out of depression. However, Beck was trying to get the patients to see themselves and the world realistically, whereas Bush has left realism far behind.
Big Mo Says:
July 20th, 2007 at 12:20 pmVisit Big Mo
blah, blah, blah. That’s what I get from that editorial. Nothing new or unusual in it. Same old same old that libs have been yammering about Bush for 3-4 years now.
Libs never have and never will understand Bush, and that’s what drives them so crazy. Bush is not a man who mopes around, for example.
And libs are continually ticked that Bush just won’t see THEIR version of reality, ergo Bush has no sense of reality.
And because conservatives refuse to see things that oh-so-clever and “reality-based” editorial writers do, they are either boot-lickers or have no sense of reality either.
Whatever.
~J~ Says:
July 20th, 2007 at 12:37 pmVisit ~J~
Frankly, it’s not up to a newspaper opinion columnist who has an unabashedly bad opinion of the president to be trying to be his psychiatrist.
People on the left don’t realize why the people on the right get so upset with the press. It’s because of columns like this.
I’m so tired of hearing we are fascists, Nazis and anything else that would conjure up Hitler or Mussolini.
This president has never governed by the polls but by what he feels is right, and if prayer and reading the Word of God offends some on the right or the left then too bad. He prays and he reads his Bible.
He thinks he’s doing the right thing and is sticking by his principles. If he cared about his popularity he’d be switching positions every day. We’ve had that before with a couple of presidents and got dizzy trying to figure out what our policy du jour was.
If the Republican party takes a hit in the next election because the president stood on principle I may not like it but I will admire him for it and the party will get stronger because of it.
If this man thinks he can do the job better he has every right to jump into the race at any time to see if he can be elected.
People complained about Nixon being depressed and talking to portraits of dead presidents in the middle of the night.
Now this guy is complaining because Bush isn’t acting that way. Do you want a person in a depressive state in charge of the country? I doubt you would because I can tell you from experience it affects everything you think or do.
Guss Says:
July 20th, 2007 at 12:53 pmVisit Guss
I guess that means you don’t like the editorial.
Guss Says:
July 20th, 2007 at 12:55 pmVisit Guss
Can I apply your comments to the other editorial also?
~J~ Says:
July 20th, 2007 at 1:01 pmVisit ~J~
If you think it’s applicable do what you want.
Guss Says:
July 20th, 2007 at 1:05 pmVisit Guss
, No. 4 is from somebody who’s desperately searching for something real to say. I apologize.