"As you can tell, I'm upbeat..", the president says from a stage in front of 7,000 screaming fans. He no longer has to run for reelection or sell himself. But Bush is still selling, pitching the unsexy policy widgets of "personal retirement accounts," "thrift savings accounts" and "an ownership society."

"You can tell he has God within him!" says Zig Ziglar, the sales guru and motivational speaker, in a phone interview from Montgomery, Ala., where he is hosting a seminar.

"The president walks with his shoulders erect!" lauds Tom Hopkins, a professional trainer and author of "How to Master the Art of Selling" and "Selling for Dummies." "He makes great eye contact! He is buoyant! He walks at a fast pace! You can tell he's a great listener!" These are all the marks of successful salespeople, Hopkins says. Great salespeople like Tom Hopkins, he keeps telling us. "I have had so much success in real estate! I've set so many sales records!"

In Tampa late Friday, an adorable little girl asks Bush if his Social Security plan "will help me when I grow up," and the audience goes "ahhh."

"Yes," the president says, a sweet ending to his grueling, or "challenging," sales call.

Somebody get this girl a personal savings account. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1548-2005Feb5_4.html)"