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You mean Americans need to stand "tall" and not "cry" Bush will be gone in 3 more months but the disasters facing our nation will not go away so quickly
No I did not say Americans need to stand up tall and not cry.
I said the Pres as it will do no good and only one's who want that are his critics . It will not serve the country for him to do this thus he should not.
It would do no harm, though, if the president stood before the press and answered some questions, to reassure us that he had some vague notion about what in hell is going on. Which he doesn't, and that's exactly why is not visible.
As for "being protected in time of attack", I never got the sense that Churchill spend the entire blitrz in a bunker. He was out in the open, at the BBC studios, telling the people that he knew what was happening and he had it under control. Every day of WWII, Harry Truman took his usual walk down Pennsylvania Avenue, alone, with no secret service.
You do realize that a country all of a sudden out of nowhere in a terrorist attack with planes being used as missles and no one knows what is going on and if any other forms of attack is a tad different than WW2 ?
WASHINGTON — With his administration's financial-sector rescue plan facing resistance on Capitol Hill, President George W. Bush scheduled a prime-time TV speech Wednesday evening in hopes of persuading the public that the massive proposal is necessary to combat a growing crisis.
"The president believes it is important for the American people to fully understand the depths of the crisis affecting our country, how that affects them," White House press secretary Dana Perino said.
The address is set for 9:01 p.m. ET.
I'll be watching. I really hope he emphasizes the need for calm while Congress/Fed hash things out. If he does pull a "sky is falling" doom and gloom speech and push for rapid approval, it'll actually make me more skeptical of the bailout.
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