Not Your Sweetie

NY Observer Editorial:


The callow, smug, inarticulate man who was the lead player in a farce called "White House News
Conference" gave us no new reasons to go to war, no sense of the dangers involved and no
confidence in his
leadership. The television appearance itself—more a blustering tape loop than exchange with the
press—could only be called a national disgrace; President George W. Bush’s performance in front
of a docile
collection of game-show hosts posing as reporters ought to frighten all of us. We live in terrible
times,
dangerous times, and all this man can do is mouth platitudes and assertions put on his podium
cards by his
war-crazed handlers. Eight times he interchanged the war on Iraq with the attacks of Sept. 11,
2001, and
eight times he was unchallenged.

Amazingly, in the immediate aftermath of the President’s disgraceful performance, news outlets
described
him as "solemn" and "determined." These pieces must have been put together before the
President actually
spoke, because there was nothing solemn or determined about him; "clueless" and "lost" would
have been
closer.