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Is Bush Following in Lincoln's Footsteps?
By Michael Lewis, Human Events
March 24, 2006
The eerie parallels between Lincoln and George W. Bush are not small. Bush and Lincoln both conducted wars that were undermined and parodied by the press; after all if the press reported the news and not their opinion of the news, they might lose their reader base, which relies on the New York Times editorial page to feed them the right opinions.
Both presidents had low approval ratings. It occurred to me that every Republican president with the exception of Teddy Roosevelt and Eisenhower has been drastically unpopular despite the landslides of 1968, 1972, 1980, 1984, 1988 and 2004. In 2004, Bush won by the widest margin since 1984, garnering nearly 52% of the vote. If you believed the polls, logic would demand that half of those who voted for Bush in 2004 now think he is a total moron. I doubt it. The Times uses polls of their liberal readership to prove their editorial positions.
Bushs March 21 press conference was right out of a Commander in Chief episode. Liberal windbag Helen Thomas accused Bush of wanting to go to war since 2000. The President was clearly irked by her idiocy, and responded adamantly that no president wants to go to war. In yet another attempt to slam Bush, the press corps bombarded him with questions that called into question the purpose in Iraq, stating that they have no reason which they can fathom for being there. Funny thing is, I can think of about a million and one reasons to be there; most of them are in mass graves and one is on trial. Some are sitting in a scrap yard as former aircraft, and still more are probably in Syria.
for full article: http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=13479
By Michael Lewis, Human Events
March 24, 2006
The eerie parallels between Lincoln and George W. Bush are not small. Bush and Lincoln both conducted wars that were undermined and parodied by the press; after all if the press reported the news and not their opinion of the news, they might lose their reader base, which relies on the New York Times editorial page to feed them the right opinions.
Both presidents had low approval ratings. It occurred to me that every Republican president with the exception of Teddy Roosevelt and Eisenhower has been drastically unpopular despite the landslides of 1968, 1972, 1980, 1984, 1988 and 2004. In 2004, Bush won by the widest margin since 1984, garnering nearly 52% of the vote. If you believed the polls, logic would demand that half of those who voted for Bush in 2004 now think he is a total moron. I doubt it. The Times uses polls of their liberal readership to prove their editorial positions.
Bushs March 21 press conference was right out of a Commander in Chief episode. Liberal windbag Helen Thomas accused Bush of wanting to go to war since 2000. The President was clearly irked by her idiocy, and responded adamantly that no president wants to go to war. In yet another attempt to slam Bush, the press corps bombarded him with questions that called into question the purpose in Iraq, stating that they have no reason which they can fathom for being there. Funny thing is, I can think of about a million and one reasons to be there; most of them are in mass graves and one is on trial. Some are sitting in a scrap yard as former aircraft, and still more are probably in Syria.
for full article: http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=13479
