Tuesday, February 22, 2005
Up, up, and away!
President gets more popular (which irks some)--because people see that he's a good and honest guy. Well, he gets more popular with the 48% that didn't already know that...
UPDATE: The LA Times editorial on the tapes is generally positive--and you know that means that they must be devestatingly in favor of the President.
Here's a sample of the editorial which shows the positive spin:
UPDATE: The LA Times editorial on the tapes is generally positive--and you know that means that they must be devestatingly in favor of the President.
Here's a sample of the editorial which shows the positive spin:
The George W. Bush revealed in two years of surreptitiously recorded private conversations with a former friend is more complicated and appealing than the uncompromising, language-mangling leader whom Americans are accustomed to hearing. His struggle to fit his morality to his politics is illuminating, if not exactly comforting.I disagree with the last statement, though. I think it's tremendously comforting that the President is struggling with important moral questions. It shows he's thinking critically, cares, and is not a dogmatic idealogue. Almost exactly the opposite of how he's been portrayed for the past several years.
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