The beginning of this article reads like a karl rove inspired editorial regarding the chimps speeches and his poll numbers. At the end I found some truth....
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"My worry continues to be whether words and deeds match up," said Barton, now an Iraq specialist at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "I think he underestimates how difficult the follow-on period after the election will be."
Thomas E. Cronin, a political scientist and presidential historian at Colorado College, said Bush's Iraq speeches will help him "a little bit, but not much."
On the other hand, said Cronin, "if he doesn't do those things, he loses any capacity to be an agenda-setter."
Michael O'Hanlon, a Brookings Institution military analyst who has supported Bush's decision to invade Iraq, said he doesn't think the president had "enough new to say to justify four speeches."
"Yes, he's showing his focus and his resolve, and that's all good. But he's also not introducing many new policy ideas," O'Hanlon said. "And his interpretation of how things are going in Iraq is, as far as I can tell, simply too rosy."
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/13395589.htm