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What I find funniest about this whole sad procedure is that while it is designed to make him look strong--all of his sound bites surrounded by loving approving crowds, it makes him appear week--unable to face any criticism.
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I just think it's kind of sad that marketing (aka propaganda, which is what all marketing is, at bottom - and before you blast me for using that word, just know that I'm using it in its definition as "information presented to persuade" and not it its perjorative political sense) has been allowed to trump the principles that I was brought up to believe this country was founded on.
Fortunately (and this might be a naive belief on my part), I think that most people in this country are smart enough to know that its just marketing, as well. It just bothers me that the president's men think Americans are stupid enough to continually do that stuff.
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I want to underline what some people said. When President Bush (or other politicians) are speaking in a public context using public funding, it's their job to be working for the public interest. Obviously, that's a terribly nebulous term and one which I'm not even going to try to define. However, one thing I'm pretty sure it's not is pushing their own highly questionable agenda without transparency or accountability.
I'll make the same point as so many others and say that they disagree with someone is a poor criteria to claim that someone is going to be excessively disruptive (heck, there's a case to be made for the extremely enthusiastic people for someone are going to be excessively disruptive). However, I'd also like the make the point that if a politician in speaking in a public arena but is oriented towards serving his private interest at the expense of the public one, it doesn't matter if it is disrupted. It's almost better that it is. What he would be doing is wrong and a betrayal of his office and preventing him from doing so is not necessarily a bad thing.
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