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Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Bush at Glynco: The strain starts to show
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Elsewhere you can read about President Bush speech at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Glynco. This is just a passing note of how he gave it.
He seemed tired.
Granted, even presidents have the right to come off that way every now and then. But we couldn’t help thinking back to the big rally Bush attended not far from here in the closing days of the 2002 congressional campaign, when everything appeared to be going the Republicans’ way and the future, though threatened by terrorism, seemed bright for this president.
It could just have been the rigors of an early-morning flight that caused Bush to speak more slowly than usual, as he tried to gin up support for the newly minted compromise on immigration. But thinking back over the trials the administration has faced since that triumphant 2002 rally, it was easy to read more into it.
