Where is our "Leader"??????

[Racenut20]

Celebrating the anniversary of democracy in Iraq with a visit to Baghdad? Dressing up in an Easter Bunny flight suit for the troops?

Attending Easter services in Iraq by hosting a group of good 'ole Right Wing Christians. Is Ralph Reed, Pat Robertson, or Jerry Falwell with him? God talks to them all you know. Perhaps He has a few suggestions to pass on to the troops.

Noooooooooo ! He is filming a fishing show with Poppy on his bass pond in Texas so he can spend millions on tv showing you what a "regular guy" he is.

Did Condi make it to Texas in time to get included in the show? Is she, among her other talents, a fisherwoman?

I guess we will just have to tune in to see.

[radfringe]

1. will "re-emerge"

Bush's Low Profile Questioned as Violence Flares in Iraq
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A355-2004Apr9.html
By Dan Balz and Jim VandeHei
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, April 10, 2004; Page A01

Explosive violence in Iraq and persistent questions about the administration's handling of terrorist threats before Sept. 11, 2001, have plunged President Bush into one of the most difficult moments of his presidency, as he seeks to maintain public confidence in his leadership while facing what experts say are mostly unattractive options to put U.S. policy on track.

In the face of these challenges, Bush has yielded the stage, remaining largely out of sight at his Texas ranch as others in his administration explain his policies. Bush's silence in the face of mounting U.S. casualties in Iraq and concerns about the administration's timetable for transferring power to the Iraqis has brought criticism from Democrats and Republicans alike.

"If it were I in charge over there, I would have him out early next week to explain this whole thing," said a Republican strategist close to the Bush team who demanded anonymity as a condition of speaking freely about the administration. "He should restate what we're doing over there. He needs to provide a bigger picture to give voters more confidence that we know where we're going."

"It is not helping them for the president to be out of the picture," said Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger, national security adviser in the Clinton administration. "If they think the American people are not troubled with what they see every day, starting with Fallujah, and then dead Marines and then the hostages -- if they think that is not roiling the waters, they're sadly mistaken. . . . We have too much at stake in Iraq to lose the American people."

---snip---

Administration officials said Bush will discuss Iraq in his radio address today and will reemerge Sunday, when he goes to nearby Fort Hood to meet with the families of soldiers in Iraq. He will be out in public again on Monday when he appears at a news conference with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.

[No Mandate Here.]

2. It must be groundhog day tomorrow

[VolcanoJen]

4. That promises to be one helluva contentious news conference.

Hope Mubarak brings some earplugs...

[izzie]

7. I love that picture of the kid on May pole day.

I wonder if he knew why they danced around the maypole?Funny, in the 30's schools still had fairs on that day and they had maypoles.

[DoYouEverWonder]

3. You would think the Commander in Chief

would have better things to do this week, than to horse around on vacation.

Now of course, he told us that he was going to surround himself with competent people who would take care of everything for him. However, last October he deputized Condi Rice to take control of running the Iraq War, so maybe she's in charge? But didn't we see her on Thurs at the 9-11 Commission? So it would be safe to assume that for most of the week she was too busy and distracted, getting ready for her testimony and now she's off at the pig farm, hanging out with W & Co for Easter. So if W's too busy, and Condi's too busy, who the hell is running Iraq?

[tkmorris]

5. I have no idea where Dennis Kucinich is

but I will try to find out...........

[seventhson]

6. Condi's more like a wolverine than a fisher but they're both scary looking

especially if you are the fish (like we are).

[GhengisKhan]

8. Bush's holiday guests !!

Hi DUer's..my first post so I'll make it unique :

I've just returned from the racetrack in Sydney and overheard two of the guests in a marquee mentioning that they leaving tomorrow for the Bush ranch in Texas..Andrew Peacock , the former Australian Ambassador to Washington and his wife Penne Peacock, Texan born and a great friend of Laura Bush.

So that's whats on the menu at the Bush ranch...probably an Aussie/Texan BBQ for conservative Peacock ( know as the "Colt from Kooyong" in his politician days because of his perpetual suntan..also an ex-lover of Shirley McClaine .. Shirley should have known better)and his US heiress and former beauty queen wife.

meanwhile Iraq burns !!:thumbsdown:

[newyawker99]

9. Hi GhengisKhan!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast: