Supporting the troops?
James Wolcott notes President Bush’s bizarrely detached behavior at his press conference yesterday, mere hours after news came that a helicopter crash in Iraq had killed 31 American soldiers.
I think this is one of the things that disheartens me so much about this President. To me, from my perspective, it seems that he just has no compassion. Say what you want about Clinton, but he seemed to genuinely care about people. Was it an act? I don’t know, but it doesn’t really matter. My President represents my country, and so I want him to reflect—at least in some part—my values. I want him to express some awareness about the world the way I see it. I don’t have to agree with him about everything, but I have to know that he might at least make the effort to hear my point of view if we were ever in a room together.
I don’t get any feeling from this president that he is the least bit concerned about freedom, liberty, or justice, at least not in the way I understand how these concepts are demonstrated. He seems devoid of grief, shame, or embarrassment, and that just doesn’t seem American to me.
Thursday, January 27th, 2005 @ 6:12 pm 
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January 27th, 2005 at 11:02 pm
Couldn’t agree more with you. But then I don’t ever listen to or watch Bush – he actually makes me physically sick! There’s a real revulsion with him. I don’t think he’s a nice person at all and I fervently believe he doesn’t give a rat’s ass about anything but himself and his silver-spoon compatriots. He isn’t American in any sense of the word and how 51 percent of “Americans” could have been so duped still has me scratching my head.
January 28th, 2005 at 2:10 pm
I guess it’s the Lincoln thing: He’s fooling some of the people some of the time. I guess I never figured someone could turn that so much to their advantage.