Rove is channelling JFK with Bush's admission of responsibility...
Edited on Tue Sep-13-05 11:28 AM by DeepModem Mom
for the Katrina response. My guess is he sees the TV speech Thursday as Bush's JFK moment, similar to JFK's Bay of Pigs taking of responsibility. I wonder if it will work?
He should've done this weeks ago. We'll see if it makes a difference.
JFK didn't wait till his polls sank and his administration tried to blame everyone else before accepting full responsibility. I'm guessing the attempts to foist blame on local and state governments haven't worked.
3. There are a lot more dead people in the Gulf states...
than there were because of the Bay of Pigs.
This puts him in a predicament in my view. Most of his blind followers are saying he and the fed did a great job. Everybody else is pissed at him. So now he apologizes for something his followers don't think he's responsible for. His detractors take his apology and say... now what? It shouldn't just end here.
If a mass murderer apologized... would he be set free?
11. Not a chance - * has never taken responsibility for a damn thing
in his whole life. He's gonna start now? On national TV? The only way he'll do that is if he's doped to the gills (which is not out of the question you know)
And just remember JFK was greeted with a shit storm of criticism after he took responsibility for the bay of pigs - he didn't do it because it was politically expedient (Although I would be lying if I said politics had nothing to do with the decision)He did it because he was president and this is what president's do.
I suspect *'s speech will be along the lines of: "while nothing went wrong and whatever went wrong is not my fault, I accept full responsibility for what went wrong, even though nothing did go wrong and it was not my fault."
12. JFK's approval numbers went up after his admission
If I remember right it went to 80%.
Now he made the admission just a couple of days after the Bay of Pigs and in the speech he said that he was doing so as head of government. "Success had a hundred fathers, failure is an orphan".
But the point is that this was done RIGHT after the failure and he did so as "captain of the ship". Bush has simply acknowledged what just about everybody in America already knows....he fucked up, big time.
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