Nicely put.
Posted : October 1, 2004 at 11:54 am [America/Los_Angeles]
[via Mathew Gross: Best Summation]
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Tonight, for the first time in a number of years, George Bush the individual — a wholly different creature from the stage-managed president — was forced to face his times. And the truth is that George isn’t cut out for these times. He’s not a capable war leader. His moral clarity is a kind term for simplicity, not a synonym for vision. His straight talk is all there is, he’s not obscuring a capacity for complexity that he chooses to obscure for the sake of uninformed audiences. Tonight, George Bush was by turns petulant and belligerent, and by all accounts lacking. But the truth is that this is how George always was, the lie will be the conservatives who attempt to spin this into a single bad night. That Bush has turned in better performances before is all part of the problem. The Emperor, after all, has a coterie of very fine tailors. It’s just that they insist on making clothes that are far, far, too big for him.
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My favorite lines from Ezra’s article is in bold. Could not have said it better.
- Anand
Category: United (or not) State of American Politics 2004