Bush doing fireside chats? Spare me!

From AOL news: GOP Senator Calls for Bush to Broadcast Iraq Updates WASHINGTON (Nov. 27) - The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee on Sunday suggested that President Bush use an FDR-style presentation to update people on progress in the war in Iraq.

Sen. John Warner, R-Va., recalled that during World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt often went on the radio in "fireside chats'' to explain to the nation in detail the conduct of the war in Europe and Asia.

"I think it would be to Bush's advantage,'' said Warner, who served in the Navy during the war.

"It would bring him closer to the people, dispel some of this concern that understandably our people have, about the loss of life and limb, the enormous cost of this war to the American public,'' he said.

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I can see it now. Bush is wired, and Karl Rove is feeding him lines from backstage.

What can Warner be thinking? Bush has lost so much credibility that he may as well make a guest appearance on the "Simpsons" spouting platitudes and drivel. The idea that Bush could emulate FDR is rediculous. I remember FDR. Bush is no FDR.

Our young people are dying in a vain cause, our standing in the world community has never been lower, and we are sinking into a morass of debt and economic malaise.

"When will they ever learn"?