NYT Ed: responses to questions were distressingly rambling and unfocused

The New York Times
April 14, 2004
Mr. Bush's Press Conference

Happily, President Bush finally held a prime-time news conference last night. Unhappily, he failed to address either of the questions uppermost in Americans' minds: how to move Iraq from its current chaos, and what he has learned from the 9/11 investigations.

Mr. Bush was grave and impressive while reading his opening remarks, which focused on the horrors of terrorism and the great good that could come from establishing a free and democratic Iraq. No one in the country could disagree with either thought. But his responses to questions were distressingly rambling and unfocused. He promised that Iraq would move from the violence and disarray of today to full democracy by the end of 2005, but the description of how to get there was mainly a list of dates when good things are supposed to happen.

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The second issue that has overwhelmed the nation in recent days is the 9/11 investigating commission. While repeatedly expressing his grief over the deaths related to the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, Mr. Bush seemed to entertain no doubts about the rightness of his own behavior, no questions about whether he should have done something in response to the domestic terrorism report he received on Aug. 6, 2001.

The United States has experienced so many crises since Mr. Bush took office that it sometimes feels as if the nation has embarked on one very long and painful learning curve in which every accepted truism becomes a doubt, every expectation a question mark. Only Mr. Bush somehow seems to have avoided any doubt, any change.

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The United States has experienced so many crises since Mr. Bush took office that it sometimes feels as if the nation has embarked on one very long and painful learning curve in which every accepted truism becomes a doubt, every expectation a question mark. Only Mr. Bush somehow seems to have avoided any doubt, any change.

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Ow. I've never seen The Grey Lady apply a sledgehammer like this.

How could this have happened?

THANK GAWD.

The whole rude SIR thing was EFFED UP!
The lying
The FAUX thing
The daily press briefings...

If he loses the media...he has lost the election.

...as he was throughout the 2000 campaign. The press chose to ignore the addled brained daffy prince's organic brain syndrome resulting from years of poly-substance abuse. What's new?

Since Kerry will follow the dictates of our Fortune 500 oligarchy in regard to Iraq and other matters, our elite media will gladly support him too.

If the Democratic voters had picked a more liberal candidate, we would be seeing nothing but raves for Bush's performance tonight.

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Couldn't agree more.

and why we need to keep tugging the party back to the left, a place the country desperately needs to rediscover.

Page one is STILL filled with articles that lie for the GOP and kiss the Chimp's ass.

THere's a strange disconnect with the Screw York Times editorial and the rest of the paper (except for Krugman!)