Analysis: Bush Stubborn Streak an Issue

Analysis: Bush Stubborn Streak an Issue
http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-bush-digging-in,0,1527312.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines

By TOM RAUM
Associated Press Writer

April 3, 2004, 1:03 PM EST

WASHINGTON -- While his re-election campaign is capable of lightning-quick responses, President Bush himself is often slow to respond to major dilemmas until forced to do so by rising political heat.

Bush had refused to allow national security adviser Condoleezza Rice to testify before the panel investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks -- even after members of Bush's own party, including the panel's Republican chairman, complained.

He finally relented last week, but not until the White House had gone into full damage-control mode.

Perhaps learning from that episode, the administration did a quick public relations pivot later in the week when OPEC announced a price-rising reduction in oil production of 1 million barrels a day.


Bush has often found himself boxed in by his own statements, sometimes making it hard to act until the pressure becomes overwhelming.

has to back off. He has been over-reaching lately. Bush* does what Rove tells him to do and when Rove tells him to do it.

For most of Bush's term (especially after 9-11), it seemed he could do no wrong. Every major media outlet was supporting him. Now that questions are being raised thanks to Paul O'Neill and Richard Clarke and others, he can't have his way all of the time.

Just like the spoiled child he is, his stubborness is finally being met with discipline.

past the first day at training camp. The "Turk" would cut him immediately.

Leaders, like QBs, have to be able to scramble, call audibles, change the play midway through, improvise, etc. * can't do that. We need someone else who can do all those things. Like Kerry.


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If there was only a brain functioning behind this stubbornness. Sometimes I wonder about this man's thinking process and decision-making skills. This is obviously a very rigid man who has trouble thiking things through to their logical conclusion.

I really do pity his caretakers; it's got to be hell taking care of this man and watching over him all the time. Make sure he doesn't say something stupid - which he manages to do lots of times anyway. Such a clown.

Even his own mother said the same thing: "George just doesn't listen to either one of us", chuckled Barbara Bush.

he began to bask in the glow and also began to think he REALLY is the President and truly knows how to govern and analyze the political landscape. Hence, he stopped giving Rove automatic consent and his congenital stubborness and arrogance is one thing Rove finds difficult to manipulate.

KKKaren probably is better at defusing this - so they called her back - and Rove will have to work thru her to get Dumbya to do what he wants This isn't going to sit well with KKKarl - especially when he gets charged in the Plame affair and doesn't have as much time to plot campaign strategy with his own diabolical twist.