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04/14/2004 Archived Entry: "At least one person saw what I saw."
At least one person saw what I saw.
Tom Shales gives a pretty accurate description of The East Room Train Wreck.
"Not his favorite venue" was how Paula Zahn of CNN described Bush's attitude toward news conferences. He's had only 12 since taking office, and this was only the third to air live in prime time. One reporter even asked Bush if what we had here was a failure to communicate. Had he not clearly articulated his intentions to the American people? "Gosh, I don't know," Bush said in what seemed an unguarded, honest moment.Bush similarly struggled, a few minutes earlier, to cite the single biggest mistake of his presidency. He looked baffled and incredulous. "I'm sure something will pop into my head here," he said, noting the intense "pressure" of holding a news conference on TV. Of course people watching throughout the country expect a president to be able to handle that kind of pressure without blinking, based on the assumption that this is one of the milder forms of pressure that come with the office.
Earlier still, Bush stopped in mid-answer and for a few seconds appeared to have lost his train of thought. Looking anxious, he fell back on phrases and thoughts he'd used earlier, saying he and the world changed after 9/11, which was a truism, and that in the 21st century, America is no longer protected by the oceans on either side. But that's been true since the invention of nuclear weapons and of missiles to deliver them from halfway around the world.
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On NBC, reporter David Gregory, who'd been among those asking Bush questions in the East Room of the White House, said the president was "filibustering at times" with his meandering responses. Indeed, most of the questions seemed to go unanswered. A reporter asked, twice, why Bush and Vice President Cheney insisted on appearing together when they testify before the 9/11 commission. Bush ignored the question both times, uttering familiar generalities instead.
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i need someone to refresh me on some of the lies that he told last night. i watched, and i realized them at the time, but sleep has whiped them from memory. anyone???
Posted by cathcatz @ 04/14/2004 10:17 AM NY
Sorry, Cathcatz, can't help you with any specifics. The only overt lie I detected was the fiction that George W. Bush has the qualifications to be the chief executive of the most powerful empire, sorry, country on earth.
There's nothing quite as tedious as a dry drunk who's found Jesus.
Posted by Metropolitan99 @ 04/14/2004 12:45 PM NY
good enough, actually, i've come up with some of my own. here you go.
lie #1... aids treatment in africa... made it a priority in his mistatement of the union address and brought it up again last night, but has made it impossible for the treatment to actually get to the people that are infected with hiv/aids because he is insisting on using the over-priced american meds patented by his cronies, instead of allowing for equally effective generics made in india. the world aids fund is underfunded, by our administration and therefore cannot afford the meds. it's the difference of $200/year to treat one person, versus $1,000 a month!!!!! that's just sick. LIE
lie #2 ... no one could have envisioned flying planes into buildings, on such a massive scale... yet, when he was at the g-8 summit in genoa (and this is all from last night and his own words), they had anti-aircraft guns set up around the complex. okay, so why would you think that they needed anti aircraft guns, if the possibility didn't exisit for al qaeda to highjack planes to use to crash them into buildings??? does al qaeda have an airforce that we dont know about? LIE!
lie #3 ... oil revenues would cover the costs of the reconstruction of iraq and they are larger than we had originally thought. ... well, no. our tax dollars are covering the costs in iraq and we will continue to pay for the reconstruction of iraq to put more money into the pockets of halliburton and the rest of the defense contractors that are making billions on this war. oh, and according to his own tax return, which was released to the public, cheney received $178,430 from halliburton in 2003... no conflict of interest there, huh???
Posted by cathcatz @ 04/14/2004 12:58 PM NY
Cathcatz,
I see someone has been doing their homework. Thanks for limiting the lies to only three, I'd hate to read the complete list.
Posted by Metropolitan99 @ 04/14/2004 04:15 PM NY
