" Mideast strife derails Bush comeback "

[montana500]

Mideast strife derails Bush comeback

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14049387/




What a deceiving title.

[niyad]

1. what comeback? his poll numbers continue to slip, people are waking

up-- wonder how they figured there was any comeback happening?

[Robbien]

2. The comeback the media kept saying was coming

The media wanted one so bad they hyped the coming every other minute for the last six months. Appears they hyped it so much that to them it was a real thing.

[sutz12]

5. Don't you remember?...

he had a 2 point uptick after Zarqawi was killed. That was powerful momentum. The press was worried that it mightn't last through the summer. :sarcasm:

I think the press is worried there will be a conservative massacre this November. The only thing that can prevent a Democratic sweep this fall is Diebold and company. But I suspect that if too many upsets happen, there will be rioting in the streets. I know I'd be tempted.

[EST]

3. In their attempt to be "fair and balanced," can we now

expect a decidedly sympathetic paen to the democratic view of this incompetent maladministration and its wildly impractical crusade to make the world safe for republican thuggism?
Not bloody likely!

[zippy890]

4. this article is worth reading

it points out 2 things to me, both scary in terms of 2006 elections

1)"Bush has three months to paint the Middle East conflict in terms of his vision of the fight against terrorism."
The repubs are good at doing this, its what they are best at- distorting reality.

2)The dems are notoriously bad at being able to capitalize politically on a perceived failure of leadership. Right now bush is doing nothing and a part of the world is burning- this does not reflect well in the public as he looks weak and ineffectual. Not a world leader.
Yet the dems do not take the risk of pointing out this failure of leadership,

feels like the summer of 2004 to me.

WAKE UP DEMOCRAT LEADERS!

[enki23]

6. strife should *bring* a comeback

this is probably it.

[liberal N proud]

7. IF the asshole wants a comeback he should be brokering peace

NOT WAR!
People are starting to realize where the bu$h war doctrine is taking the US and the world. I am sure that having your mouthpieces running around shouting WW III is helping a lot.

[zbdent]

8. It's funny, they'll blame everything but themselves for anything

and when you consider it was the fact that, the more people learned about his Social Security plan, the less they liked it, they want the population uninformed ...