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Debby
Citizen
Username: Debby
Post Number: 1441
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, December 20, 2004 - 10:45 am: | 
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I swear to God, he just said that at his press conference taking place right now. I'll post the transcript when it is available. |
Debby
Citizen
Username: Debby
Post Number: 1442
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, December 20, 2004 - 10:48 am: |
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...and when fielding a question about resignations and new appointments
"and as to the D of I (Dept. of Intelligence), I am gonna find someone who knows a bit about intelligence...and at the appropriate time, I'll let you know" |
Straw's world
Citizen
Username: Strawberry
Post Number: 4157
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Monday, December 20, 2004 - 10:48 am: |
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oh my god! Did he just say Russia should have access to out sites so they can better figure ways of securing theirs??
OH MY GOD!!!
go back to work. |
notehead
Citizen
Username: Notehead
Post Number: 1817
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, December 20, 2004 - 10:53 am: |
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"The truth of that matter is, if you listen carefully, Saddam would still be in power if he were the president of the United States, and the world would be a lot better off."
—George W. Bush, second presidential debate, St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 8, 2004 |
Debby
Citizen
Username: Debby
Post Number: 1443
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, December 20, 2004 - 10:55 am: |
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Yes. That's what he said. Pretty unbelievable. Ronnie is rolling over in his grave. |
cjc
Citizen
Username: Cjc
Post Number: 2924
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Monday, December 20, 2004 - 11:20 am: |
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But Madeline Albright must be positively glowing. |
themp
Citizen
Username: Themp
Post Number: 1308
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Monday, December 20, 2004 - 11:29 am: |
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I am evolving a theory of GWB as I listen. Finally cracked the nut: he sees all the forces that oppose him as necessarily united. So, the same guy who attacked Al Gore in the debates for "fuzzy math" can scoff at the "actuaries" who don't think him medicare plan will pay for itself ("I know some ACTUARIES don't see it that way yet, but I feel in my heart they're wrong" or something like that). So nerdy economics experts are part of this "elite" or whatever that won't listen to his good ideas.
And what is "negotiating with yourself"? Clearly, it is a device for not revealing any part of your plans in advance, but what are we supposed to perceive it as? I don't understand the spin on this one. |
Madden 11
Citizen
Username: Madden_11
Post Number: 561
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Monday, December 20, 2004 - 1:34 pm: |
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What's the problem? Bush has a sense of Putin's soul, and apparently it's all good. |
themp
Citizen
Username: Themp
Post Number: 1309
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Monday, December 20, 2004 - 10:52 pm: |
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Philosophical Bush. The president fielded the first of two questions on Donald Rumsfeld with this rumination, delivered very slooooooowly with lots of emphatic hand gestures: “The Secretary of Defense is a complex job. It’s a complex job in times of peace; and it’s a complex job in times of war.” He answered a question regarding the Bernard Kerik nomination in similar, pedantic man-child fashion: “We’ve vetted a lot of people in this administration. We’ve vetted a lot of people in the first term; and we’ve vetted a lot of people in the second term ... The lesson is to keep on vetting.”
Sensitive Bush. He answered the second question regarding Rumsfeld this way: “I know Secretary Rumsfeld’s heart. He’s a good, decent man. He’s a caring fellow ... a good human being.” As for the first man whose heart Bush famously assured the world he understood, Vladimir Putin came up early in the press conference. Bush answered a question about the U.S. position on Putin’s recent power grabs in Russia with a rather remarkably tepid acknowledgment of “a difference of opinion” on the matter between the two countries. The important thing to know, Bush reiterated, was that he and Putin had a “good personal relationship,” which is a crucial, crucial thing, given that disagreements can be aired among people with such “close” relationships in a civil and mutually respectful manner. (In other words, his answer wasn’t exactly “freedom is on the march”.)
Principled Bush. The president got a tad petulant when fielding questions on Social Security. His emphatic response to any and all queries about his position on the subject was an indignant, righteous refusal to answer: “You’re not going to get me to negotiate with myself,” he repeatedly told the perplexed reporters. “I know what you’re trying to get me to do. You’re trying to get me to answer ‘Why this,’ ‘why that,’ to take positions -- don’t bother to ask me.” Rather than merely dodge the questions, Bush seemed intent on staking out an explicit, principled position in favor of dodging the question. There may have been a method to this madness above and beyond Bush’s stated explanation that “Congress writes legislation” and therefore he, as the president, shouldn’t be setting specific guidelines for a Social Security reform proposal. The president isn’t usually a big separation-of-powers, checks-and-balances kind of guy.
Inexplicable Bush. He fielded a question about the recent revelations of prisoner abuse at Guantanamo Bay with some standard-issue boilerplate, then ended his answer with a bizarre assurance: “We’re gonna continue to push this issue hard.” Push what? Prisoner abuse?
Hubristic Bush. The president, strangely, seemed perhaps at his most passionate and animated when describing his guest-worker proposal and his intention to push for it in Congress, apparently not quite grasping the fact that immigration may turn out to occupy the central axis of intra-GOP conflict this term between Congress and the White House |
notehead
Supporter
Username: Notehead
Post Number: 1828
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 21, 2004 - 11:40 am: |
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I doubt Dubya knew he was describing himself when he said (on May 22, '01):
"If a person doesn't have the capacity that we all want that person to have, I suspect hope is in the far distant future, if at all." |
Debby
Citizen
Username: Debby
Post Number: 1449
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 21, 2004 - 12:26 pm: |
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Carefully considering options and outcomes before going to war is tantamount to giving France a "veto", but Vladuhmer has some nukyaler issues... "No problem, C'mon over".
They don't have a hard time securing their sites, they have a hard time ending the black-market for plutonium. |
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