{"id":1888,"date":"2007-01-12T00:54:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-12T00:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/01\/a-roundup-of-reactions-to-bush.html"},"modified":"2007-01-12T00:54:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-12T00:54:00","slug":"a-roundup-of-reactions-to-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/01\/a-roundup-of-reactions-to-bush.html","title":{"rendered":"A roundup of reactions to Bush&#8217;s speech at Thunder Run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thunderrun.blogspot.com\/2007\/01\/president-bushs-speech-reactions-around.html\">David of Thunder Run<\/a> has an excellent round up of the reactions from the left and the right on Bush&#8217;s speech.  He should be commended for reading so many reactions on the left \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\nI think that I benefited from reading and not watching Bush give the speech because I wasn&#8217;t distracted by his presentation (which is usually quite bad),  I think the substance was the issue not the way he presents himself.  I know many find him inarticulate and fault him for not selling the war and I agree that it would be great if he were another Reagan but when you go to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/\">White House website<\/a> and read his speeches you see that he gets it, he makes an excellent case for the war in Iraq.  He isn&#8217;t a great communicator but he does have good speech writers and you can tell that he cares about this issue and that he won&#8217;t give up.  That&#8217;s what I want in a leader, someone who will be guided by principle and won&#8217;t be swayed by the desire to be popular.  He understands what needs to be done and he does it, that&#8217;s a good leader, not someone who is all rhetoric but no substance.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tag_list\">Tags: <span class=\"tags\"><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Bush\" rel=\"tag\">Bush<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Iraq\" rel=\"tag\">Iraq<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/war\" rel=\"tag\">war<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/troop\" rel=\"tag\">troop<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/surge\" rel=\"tag\">surge<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David of Thunder Run has an excellent round up of the reactions from the left and the right on Bush&#8217;s speech. He should be commended for reading so many reactions on the left \ud83d\ude42 I think that I benefited from reading and not watching Bush give the speech because I wasn&#8217;t distracted by his presentation&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-under-the-sun"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A roundup of reactions to Bush&#039;s speech at Thunder Run - Reformed Chicks Blabbing<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/01\/a-roundup-of-reactions-to-bush.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A roundup of reactions to Bush&#039;s speech at Thunder Run - Reformed Chicks Blabbing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"David of Thunder Run has an excellent round up of the reactions from the left and the right on Bush&#8217;s speech. 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