Posted by
flagwaver on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 2:02:28 PM
What has gotten into President Bush? I was watching his press conference on FNC today and was pleasantly surprised by his attitude and answers to the press on questions about the economy and the energy situation. For the first time in a ling time, President Bush went right after the questioners and their premises, and he made sure that he was going to be heard. I especially liked how he told the assembled media that the talk now about how drilling for American oil reserves now would only impact things in 7 years or so, that if they had taken action when he first suggested it we would be reaping the benefits now! And he followed that up by saying that it would in fact help the situation today, because it would impact the futures markets; if the speculators knew that America was about to start producing more oil it would bring prices back to earth because it introduces more supply into the market pipeline.
Listening to this I thought I would fall out of my chair! For all of the talk of Bush being stupid, ignorant, and disengaged he was at his finest today against the loyal opposition,er…assembled media (yeah, that’s it!). He also shot down the idea of opening up the strategic oil reserves; he pointed out that opening up the reserves might help some in the (very) short term; it would not do anything about the future crunch and would just cause another problem by depleting the reserves. Where has this guy been for the last 3-4 years?!
I guess that knowing that you’re pretty much done in the job can be liberating, and allow you to say what you want. Hopefully he keeps it up through the end of his term, because that presser today was must see TV!