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Home » The Sunday Paper » The Sunday Paper (Repackaged Edition) — Updated

The Sunday Paper (Repackaged Edition) — Updated

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This is some­what redun­dant, and for that I apol­o­gize, but here’s how The Washington Post cov­ered my meet­ing with the President in today’s edition:

President Reaches Out to a Friendly Circle in New Media

By Michael Abramowitz

Washington Post Staff Writer

Sunday, September 16, 2007; A07

The day after his prime-​​time speech on Iraq, President Bush sat down for a round-​​table inter­view not with tra­di­tional White House reporters but with blog­gers who focus on mil­i­tary issues, includ­ing two par­tic­i­pat­ing by video link from Baghdad.

Judging from some of the accounts of the Friday meet­ing, the pres­i­dent offered up lit­tle news. Here is what one of the 10 blog­gers, Ward Carroll of Military​.com, described from his notes as some of Bush’s most notable comments:

“This strat­egy is my strategy.”

“I’m defin­ing a hori­zon of peace.”

“I don’t mind peo­ple attack­ing me.… That’s pol­i­tics … but I do mind peo­ple impugn­ing the integrity of our generals.”

Still, the hour-​​long meet­ing in the Roosevelt Room offered Bush another oppor­tu­nity to break through what he sees as the fil­ter of the tra­di­tional news media, while also reach­ing out to the providers of a new source of infor­ma­tion for sol­diers, their fam­i­lies and oth­ers who fol­low the con­flict in Iraq closely.

“More and more we are engag­ing in the new-​​media world, and these are influ­en­tial peo­ple who have a big fol­low­ing,” said Kevin F. Sullivan, the White House com­mu­ni­ca­tions chief.

Bush told the group that, to his knowl­edge, it was the first time a pres­i­dent had met with blog­gers for a chat at the White House, one of the par­tic­i­pants wrote. The blogs rep­re­sented at the meet­ing are gen­er­ally pro-​​Bush and pro-​​military, and the ensu­ing reports were highly sym­pa­thetic to the president.

“At this meet­ing President Bush came off as more com­fort­able with the mes­sage than I’ve seen him appear on TV or in speeches,” wrote Carroll, a jour­nal­ist and for­mer Navy pilot. “No deer-​​in-​​the-​​headlights stuff here. Truly unwa­ver­ing and pas­sion­ate. Facts on the ground notwith­stand­ing, he believes the United States can win the Iraq War. And to be hon­est, being around him made me believe it at that moment too.”

Matthew Burden, a for­mer Army offi­cer who blogs under the name Blackfive, raved about how Bush slapped his hand and called him “brutha.”

“The President was very intel­li­gent, razor sharp, warm, focused, emo­tional (espe­cially about his dad), and gen­uine,” Blackfive wrote. “Even more so than this cyn­i­cal Chicago Boy expected. I was over­whelmed by the sin­cer­ity — it wasn’t staged.”

Bill Ardolino, who par­tic­i­pated from Baghdad, wrote on ind​cjour​nal​.com that he asked Bush about progress in Anbar province and Fallujah and that Bush’s answer “hon­estly sur­prised me in its length, level of detail and grasp of events on the ground.”

Bush told Ardolino: “The mil­i­tary can only do so much. There has to be follow-​​up with jobs and hope. We rec­og­nize that the man on the street needs to feel like his gov­ern­ment cares about him.”

Bush talked about the dif­fi­culty of set­ting up work­able bureau­cratic processes in Iraq, accord­ing to Ardolino’s post, and the grow­ing pains “that this soci­ety needs to go through” to achieve sta­bil­ity. “We shouldn’t expect instant results with a soci­ety that was bru­tal­ized by Saddam Hussein,” Bush told the group.

Ward and George W. (zoom).jpg

When it was all over, the blog­gers seemed wowed. “All in all, it was an amaz­ing day for Military​.com and one I’ll never for­get,” Carroll wrote. “In fact, I’d rank the event a close sec­ond to the time I sat in with Cheap Trick. It was that good.”

– Ward

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  1. Don Bacon says:
    September 16, 2007 at 2:40 pm

    Ah, to be called “brutha” by George Bush, a man whose unpop­u­lar­ity in the US is only exceeded by that in the rest of the world except per­haps El Salvador, Poland and Burkina Faso. Could there be a higher tribute?

    Reply
  2. American G says:
    September 16, 2007 at 4:52 pm

    Hey Don,
    I am glad your here. You bring the other side of the argu­ment to the table. You are being an American and exer­cis­ing your rights to speak out. Congratulations! Now, you are a big anti-​​war, peace lov­ing guy. That’s cool. I am all for peace. I am sure your against the invasion/​liberation of Iraq. However, what about Afghanistan? What is your view about the US being in Afghanistan. Should we just pull of out there too?

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  3. Don Bacon says:
    September 17, 2007 at 12:08 am

    Yo American G,
    Welcome to pol​i​tic​stech​.org
    The US isn’t in Afghanistan, NATO is and the US is a part of it. Six years after the Northern Alliance and the US over­threw the Taliban gov­ern­ment that we pre­vi­ously sup­ported, NATO is fail­ing in its mis­sion to rout the Taliban and al-​​Qaeda. There is grow­ing inse­cu­rity not only in the coun­try­side but in Kabul.
    Consider that an American Embassy staffer in Kabul going to the U.S. Agency for International Development office across the street is required to use an under­ground tun­nel that links the two com­pounds.
    So the US is now prepar­ing to nego­ti­ate with the Taliban, some­thing it could’ve done six years ago. It’s tied together with the mess in Pakistan, but hope­fully the US and NATO will be able to leave soon. I wouldn’t want to be there, would you?

    Reply
  4. Wren Mandagorn says:
    September 17, 2007 at 4:09 am

    Hey Don,
    Just a small cor­rec­tion.
    The US is in Afghanistan as both part of NATO and also has around 15,000 troops based in the North of the coun­try NOT tasked with NATO.
    Secondly the grow­ing inse­cu­rity is the fault of many NATO coun­tries not allow­ing there forces to actu­ally fight. In the most dan­ger­ous areas only the UK, US and Canada are allow­ing there forces to do the job prop­erly, but other NATO coun­tries are not allow­ing there forces to assist, and in many cases are not sup­ply­ing even sim­ple assis­tance such as heli­copters and trans­port air­craft sorely needed by the 3 nations.

    Reply
  5. mang says:
    September 17, 2007 at 6:40 am

    Whatever, man. That’s hardly the only rea­son, or even a main rea­son, for the grow­ing inse­cu­rity in Afghanistan.
    Anyway, I can’t decide whether Abramowitz wants to make Ward Carroll look like a stooge or not. I thought his arti­cle was pretty neu­tral, rather than specif­i­cally pro-​​Bush.

    Reply
  6. j house says:
    September 17, 2007 at 8:56 am

    Re Don’s com­ment, I’m not a big fan of the President but I will say the US pres­i­dency should never be a pop­u­lar­ity contest…that is what gave us Clinton in ’96 and his refusal to make tough choices when the AQ threat was grow­ing. If you are a pop­u­lar President in this coun­try after 7 years ser­vice, you aren’t doing your job, espe­cially at a time of war.
    Imagine how pop­u­lar the President would have been had he slashed the US bud­get in line with his tax cuts the past 7 years…ok, he would have been pop­u­lar with fis­cal con­ser­v­a­tives, but those folks that deem him ‘unpop­u­lar’ today would have hated him even worse.
    It is all a mat­ter of indi­vid­ual per­spec­tive, Don.

    Reply
  7. Ward says:
    September 17, 2007 at 11:42 am

    Hey, mang, I don’t need no WaPo writer to look like a stooge. I do that just fine on my own.

    Reply
  8. Don Bacon says:
    September 21, 2007 at 12:04 am

    In the photo, I rec­og­nize Ward, but who’s the guy on the left?

    Reply
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