Reply #6: networks got dupped!!--thought it was to be a major policy speech. te he [View All]

[rodeodance]

......Originally coy about carrying the speech, the networks cancelled some reruns to run it live, persuaded by the White House press office that there was a major policy statement coming. There wasn't. And Bush probably did himself no favors by broadcasting a pep talk intended for troops already committed to action to much more skeptical civilians.

In a way, his most remarkable achievement, with his social security reform dead in the water, his United Nations ambassador-designate held hostage by the Senate, and the continuing maelstrom in Iraq, is to look like a lame-duck president only six months into his second term.