In Economic Drama, Bush Is Largely Offstage

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/03/washington/03bush.html?hp

The first hint that President Bush might be detached from the nation’s economic woes was in February, when he conceded that he had not heard about predictions of $4-a-gallon gasoline.

Then Mr. Bush went to Wall Street to warn against “massive government intervention in the housing markets,” two days before his administration helped broker the takeover of the investment bank Bear Stearns.

Now Mr. Bush is in Eastern Europe, one of eight foreign trips he is taking this year. As he delivered his farewell address to NATO on Wednesday, Senate Democrats and Republicans were holed up in the Capitol, scrambling to produce a bill to help struggling homeowners, the kind of government intervention Mr. Bush had cautioned against.

For a man who came into office as the nation’s first M.B.A. president, Mr. Bush has sometimes seemed invisible during the housing and credit crunch. As the economy eclipses Iraq as the top issue on voters’ minds, even some Republican allies of the president say Mr. Bush is being eclipsed and is in danger of looking out of touch.

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1. The mean, dim-witted bubble-boy cares not a bit for

people who work for a living. He has been out of touch since the first of his 5 arrests was voided and covered up, and his girlfriend had an abortion before Roe v. Wade. He's never made an honest dollar in his life and is an abject failure as a student, parent, businessman, governor, and president, and yet is filthy rich and subject to no laws - how could he NOT be detached from real life?