- A thinly disguised disinformation piece by Peter Baker
of the Washington Post tried to engender sympathy for the president, supposedly
holding multiple private meetings at the White House with philosophers
and other "great minds" to try and understand the failures of
his administration:
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- "A President besieged and isolated, yet at ease,
Bush, grasping for answers and fixated on Iraq, remains resolute,"
wrote Baker last Monday. Hogwash. Bush is kept on an even keel by a steady
flow of anti-depressants and other mood stabilizing drugs. Otherwise, he
is extremely depressed about his abysmal ratings and tends to drink too
much.
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- Like the scheduled meetings Bush has with conservative
Christian leaders (with big TV ministries), these meetings with philosophers
and image makers are carefully crafted to give the impression of a leader
searching deep in his soul for meaning. In fact, the president is only
worried about image. Karl Rove, the mastermind behind these sessions, knows
how the invitees will whisper about their "special status" with
the president and telegraph throughout their networks how wonderful the
president is in private. This is pure disinformation.
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- Here's more from Baker: "At the nadir of his presidency,
George W. Bush is looking for answers. One at a time or in small groups,
he summons leading authors, historians, philosophers and theologians to
the White House to join him in the search. Over sodas and sparkling water,
he asks his questions: What is the nature of good and evil in the post-Sept.
11 world? What lessons does history have for a president facing the turmoil
I'm facing? How will history judge what we've done? Why does the rest of
the world seem to hate America? Or is it just me they hate?"
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- Bush is a script reader and script readers don't agonize
much over what they are hired to read. They do, however, (like movie stars)
worry about their image. That part is truly agonizing for Bush. Perhaps
he does not yet realize the PTB have chosen this bumbling Skull and Bones
"Christian" because his naive sincerity is effective at fooling
mainstream and evangelical Christians. Neither does bush realize that the
PTB are setting him up to take the blame for the coming nuclear retaliation
that will befall the US in light of its globalist intervention around the
world.
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- "To some of those invited to talk, Bush seems alone,
isolated by events beyond his control [dictated by others], with trusted
advisers taking their leave and erstwhile friends turning on him... Burdened
by an unrelenting war, challenged by an opposition Congress, defeated just
last week on immigration, his last major domestic priority, Bush remains
largely locked inside the fortress of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. in the seventh
year of a presidency turned sour. He still travels, making speeches to
friendly audiences and attending summit meetings, such as this weekend's
Kennebunkport talks with President Vladimir Putin of Russia. But he rarely
goes out to dinner, and he no longer plays golf, except occasionally chipping
at Camp David, where, as at his Texas ranch, he can find refuge... [how
sad... compared to what the rest of us are suffering with more national
debt, a falling dollar and much higher inflation]
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- "Bush is fixated on Iraq, according to friends and
advisers.'Nothing matters except the war.' ... The polls reflect the events
of Bush's second term, an unyielding sequence of bad news. Social Security.
Hurricane Katrina. Harriet E. Miers. Dubai Ports World. Vice President
Cheney's hunting accident. Jack Abramoff, Tom DeLay and Mark Foley. The
midterm elections. I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Alberto R. Gonzales
and Paul D. Wolfowitz. Immigration. And overshadowing it all, the Iraq
war, now longer than the U.S. fight in World War II.
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- "And yet Bush does not come across like a man lamenting
his plight. In public and in private, according to intimates [the purveyors
of disinformation], he exhibits an inexorable upbeat energy that defies
the political storms. Even when he convenes philosophical discussions with
scholars, he avoids second-guessing his actions. He still acts as if he
were master of the universe, even if the rest of Washington no longer sees
him that way."
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- This is a decidedly one-sided view. Other sources tell
a more realistic story of alcohol abuse, occasional trysts for emotional
relief and the medications that must be used to keep Bush from going into
a tailspin. Some also marvel at the way in which various First Ladies keep
putting on that brave smiling face, knowing what they know about each president's
sometimes sordid private life.
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