23 ao\u00fbt<\/a>. GW est aux abois, non? Abandonn\u00e9 de toutes parts, Stephen compte les d\u00e9missions de 16 personnalit\u00e9s de premier plan autour du pr\u00e9sident, \u00e0 commencer par Rove et son porte-parole Tony Snow. Sa c\u00f4te de popularit\u00e9 est de type nixonien (Nixon du temps du Watergate : entre 26% et 28% de satisfaits). Le parti r\u00e9publicain est \u00e0 la d\u00e9rive. L’Irak s’ab\u00eeme dans un d\u00e9sordre sans fin.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tGW implose-t-il? Est-il au bord de la crise des nerfs, comme Nixon (toujours lui) au temps du Watergate? Pas du tout, il est en vacances<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t\u00abPresident George W Bush himself, 61 last month, is about to break a record previously held by Ronald Reagan: before the end of this month, according to my calculations, he will have surpassed the old Gipper’s record of having taken 436 days’ holiday while in office.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbIndeed, this past week, Air Force One touched down at Waco airport in Texas I swear this is true for the 66th time since Bush took office, so he could relax at his 1,583-acre ranch (there’s not so much as a hint of any livestock to be seen or heard there) nearby. Nor should we forget how could we? that, barring anything extraordinary happening, the 43rd US president still has almost 17 months left in the White House.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tLe pr\u00e9sident GW Bush s’inqui\u00e8te-t-il du d\u00e9part de son mentor Karl Rove, celui qu’il nommait boy genius<\/em> et qu’on surnommait le cerveau de GW Bush? Peut-\u00eatre les nerfs de GW sont-ils plus solides que le cerveau de GW Bush. Rove avait les larmes aux yeux lors de la c\u00e9r\u00e9monie de l’annonce officielle de son d\u00e9part, le 14 ao\u00fbt, GW \u00e9tait rigolard, plaisantin, et expliquait que le travail de Rove apr\u00e8s son d\u00e9part effectif, le 31 ao\u00fbt, serait de soigner le legs historique de la pr\u00e9sidence GW Bush : \u00abRove’s job after 31 August, once he is released into the big-bucks world of the lecture, talk-show and publishing circuits, will be to spin the Bush-Rove legacy. He seems less optimistic than Bush, telling TV viewers: The president will say to me, Don’t worry about it. History will get it right and we’ll both be dead.’<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tStephen conclut ce portrait du pr\u00e9sident, alors que la crise gronde partout, que Washington attend dans l’angoisse de fixer le destin de l’Irak et de la puissance am\u00e9ricaine : \u00abAnd 1,500 miles away, in Texas, America’s president is furiously biking away while Iraq and Afghanistan burn. Yet history will come to see him as the brave hero who did what he knew was right even if it takes centuries to come round to that conclusion.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tAlors, GW Bush est-il un E.T.? Un de ces \u00eatres venus d’ailleurs, insensibles \u00e0 ce qui ferait succomber le premier mortel venu ou le plus grand pr\u00e9sident connu? Rien en lui qui ressemble, de pr\u00e8s ou de loin, aux angoisses d\u00e9pressives ou alcooliques d’un Lincoln ou d’un Nixon. Accabl\u00e9 de sarcasmes, brocard\u00e9, moqu\u00e9, confront\u00e9 \u00e0 son \u00e9trange politique qui a r\u00e9duit toute sa pr\u00e9sidence \u00e0 l’entretien d’une guerre sans fin, sans autre ambition semble-t-il que de refiler la patate chaude irakienne, br\u00fblante m\u00eame, \u00e0 son successeur, sans autre perspective que de faire durer les guerre sans espoir le plus longtmps possible… GW Bush semble absolument intouchable dans sa tour d’ivoire, son ranch texan, ses certitudes sommaires, ses promenades en v\u00e9lo de randonn\u00e9e. Calmement, en battant des records de vacances, il attend le verdict de l’Histoire. Cet extraordinaire pr\u00e9sident a du avoir des assurances d’En-Haut \u00e0 ce propos. Il ne s’en fait pas.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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\tMis en ligne le 25 ao\u00fbt 2007 \u00e0 18H07<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u00abBush: is the president imploding?\u00bb, le pr\u00e9sident est-il en train d’imploser?, c’est le titre de l’article de Andrew Stephen, dans le Newstatesman, publi\u00e9 le 23 ao\u00fbt. GW est aux abois, non? Abandonn\u00e9 de toutes parts, Stephen compte les d\u00e9missions de 16 personnalit\u00e9s de premier plan autour du pr\u00e9sident, \u00e0 commencer par Rove et son porte-parole… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[868,3099,1480],"class_list":["post-69154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-bush","tag-psychologie","tag-rove"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}