I am sick and tired of pseudo-right-wing-populists and Republican hacks pretending as if President Bush's glaring inarticulateness is some sort of virtue. As if making up words and being unable to communicate points simply and clearly somehow makes a privileged oil heir "connected" to the common man. The fact is that Bush's inability to communicate our strategy in Iraq, both to the American public and the international community, is harming the chances of that strategy succeeding. Andrew Sullivan nails it:
The president has said nothing cogent about Karbala; nothing apposite about al Sadr; nothing specific about what our strategy is in Falluja. Events transpire and are interpreted by critics and the anti-war media and by everyone on the planet but the president. All the president says is a broad and crude reiteration of valid but superfluous boilerplate. This is not war-leadership; it's the abdication of war-leadership.
It is a sad state of affairs in America that this president is the best leader "conservatives" can produce. But he is what he is, and the alternative this November is a disaster. That said, the administration MUST find a way to communicate its message at this critical time for our national security.
