Did President Bush use the 9/11/06 speech as a forum for the upcoming presidential elections?

Answer 1

I thought so, and he was very tasteless about it. The occasion should have been to remember those whom we lost on that day. Instead, Dubya manipulated it in a way to bring attention to himself.

Answer 2

Congressional elections, sure. Any time a major politician makes a speech just a couple months before an election, you can be certain that election strategy figured into it. The republican strategy is to run on the terrorism issue, just as they've done in every election since 9/11.

Presidential elections? Nope. The next presidential election is two years away. In politics, that's an eternity, and Bush isn't allowed to run again anyway.

Answer 3

Ofcourse he did. He just reminded that terrorism is alive and that the democrat were too soft hearted to fight it.
The screaming and the 9/11 attacks would be enough to bring revenge in the hearts of his supporters and thats all he needs to continue his bloodthirsty foreign policy.
Why Iraq?
Remember everyone was supporting the united states after 9/11 and he took the totally unneccesary step of attacking Iraq.
He has destroyed Iraq with each day more than 100 odd dying.
In Iraq every month 5000 are dying and in America only on 9/11 did 5000 die.
For the death of 5000 Americans the US government is bombing countries and killing more.
For the 5000 dying every month, what should the Iraqi government do if it was a superpower.
Would it be justifiable if Iraq was a superpower and they bombed America?

Answer 4

No. The next presidential election is in 2008, and President Bush is prohibited from running for a third term by the Twenty-Second Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Answer 5

Let’s ask this question – What would Bush have done if he had not got his Grudge War? What would he have done for the American people? His failure as a president will most likely go down in history as being caused by his war. He has used 9/11 and terrorism for every thing he has done. He has nothing else to show for his time in office short of out of controll spending on his war!

Answer 6

relies upon the balloting favoring which applicants... i think of they could go alongside with their plan if any of the CFR individuals could have been given a super gamble to get elected and proceed the artwork. yet from all the precautions he has taken to get his patriot act into existence, and the CDC Anthrax element, i'm quite constructive that he anticipate making use of it a approach or the different to acertain its means over the U. S.... additionally, with the contemporary AL-Quaeda warning and ''signs and indications'' feeled with the aid of Chertoff, i assume he won't wait too long earlier permitting this act, just to no longer seem too lots on the brink of the election to look suspicious... So all in all, they are over 50% threat that he will definitly do something along with his patriot act, yet wether or no longer he will cancel the election or postpone it, its yet another count... we will see quickly, regrettably!!

Answer 7

I have long since given up listening to his speeches. All presidents use speech writers; we can get whatever details we need in the newspapers the next day and save the emotional response that could get your television damaged. Know what I mean?

But of course he used it for pumping up his party; that is his job.

Answer 8

Absolutely

Answer 9

It's not presidential elections which are up-coming - it's mid term elections.
But yes, he did use it to attempt to garner support for his party so that he can maintain control over both houses.

Answer 10

Yes