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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-25-06 08:17 AM
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'...and aides say his folksy style has helped endear him to Middle America.'
Okay this is just a line out of a article about the Bushies doing their normal tricks with words (but everyone is on to it now) and there was this.

Funny article all around

But two weeks before elections likely to hinge on growing public frustration over Iraq, Bush and his top aides are scrambling to redefine the terms of the wartime debate, hoping it will help stave off a Democratic takeover of Congress

"It shows political desperation," said Martin Medhurst, professor of rhetoric at Baylor University in Waco. "The question is whether Bush's rhetoric will come into alignment with reality in Iraq, which has not been the case before."

Bush has insisted he does not "do nuance," and aides say his folksy style has helped endear him to Middle America.

Normally unflappable, Snow, a former Fox News commentator and conservative radio host, has stumbled in recent days trying to explain the rhetorical twists and turns.

He became so exasperated at one briefing he bumped his head on the microphone as a reporter complained of contradictions in the distinctions he cited between "tactics" and "strategy."

Here is what he actually said on Monday-talk about spinning yourself into the ground
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