Ambi:

There are two reasons why the GWOT has lost focus. The nature of the war itself makes it hard for the public to keep it in their consciousness. It is a war in the shadows. The public does not get a sense of all the activities that go on in the fight. Since the objective is to stop things from happening, victories are non events. Second is the Democrat’s Copperhead-like campaign to discredit the war and the President. The MSM, where most people still get their news, has created the image in the public minds of an administration either flailing away in the dark without any effect or one that is hyping the non-existent threat. Bush cannot counter this line of argument because the war does not lend itself to a front constantly moving in on Berlin or Tokyo.

You, of course, are entitled to your opinions on Bush’s pedestrian nature but that itself is the product four years of MSM propaganda. Bush is neither stupid nor pedestrian. He is a regular guy. Many people make fun of his allegedly mediocre C+ gpa at Yale. I have news for you and anybody younger then 45. A C+ average would indicate the Bush was an above average student. He went to school before grade inflation took hold. The average grade at any first class university prior to 1970 was C. If you went to one of the so-called Public Ivy’s (like I did) 40% of the entering class flunked out in the first year and it wasn’t because they were stupid.

Bush was a History major when History was considered a real discipline. By comparison, Gore was journalism student and nearly flunked out of Harvard and Kerry was Poli Sci which was considered a easier major then History.