President Bush will give a speech tonight in the first of a series of addresses leading up to the scheduled June 30 transition in Iraq. I find it interesting (and telling) that none of the broadcast networks will be covering it. (Three cable news networks have said they would carry it live.) Apparently the White House didn’t formally request coverage. Maybe because it’s not one of these Oval Office or East Room dealies? He will be speaking from the Army War College in Pennsylvania. Will there be an on-site audience? I don’t know. However:
Dan Bartlett, the White House communications director, made the rounds of the morning shows today explaining that President Bush will not be stepping forward with new policy proposals for Iraq tonight so much as reiterating “what President Bush has been saying all along,” as he put it on NBC’s Today show.
In that case, perhaps the lack of TV coverage is just as well.
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Hmmmm. Interesting. It makes me wonder just how unpopular his statements are going to be, because what kind of politician doesn’t ask for free publicity during an election year?
Unpopular or without substance? I’d go for the latter… he’s going to be speaking in front of a very friendly audience. He didn’t say anything new really… just further proof that he didn’t have a plan before he went in and he really doesn’t have one now. But, admitting he didn’t have a plan and scrambling to put one together now is starting to look much worse than just acting like you had a plan all along… that just happens to not really exist… ahhh, the politics of stupidity =)