Who says GWBush isn't an open & accessible Preznit?

wusspants.

"Hm, you've got a pretty little mouth."

Here's what I'd ask him:

"Lyndon Johnson, the greatest modern proponent of big goverment, father of the Great Society, Commander of the ill-fated Vietnam adventure, etc., increased spending 4% annually during his presidency... that included the Space Race and Cold War."

"You, however... a REPUBLICAN.. have increased spending by 8% annually. What gives?"

Oh wait, this is not on Fox.

http://www.calpundit.com/blogphotos/Blog_Danziger_Bush.gif

He has a real talent for asking the tough questions... and not allowing his guests to answer.

when russert is interviewing Democrats. not necessarily when he's interviewing Republicans.

"They're just wrong. There may be no evidence, but I did report; otherwise I wouldn't have been honourably discharged," he said.'

Cough, chortle.

It's interesting that he finally said something like this, though:

He said it would be to learn lessons from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to help future decisions about countries such as Iran and North Korea, once labelled by Mr Bush as part of an "axis of evil".

He said the Iraq war was necessary in part because Saddam Hussein was a "madman", though he conceded that there were other "madmen" leading nations he said the use of force was not always necessary.

In North Korea, for example, he said "the diplomacy is just beginning".

I wonder what he means by 'diplomacy'.

According to gossip Nancy Reagan hates him.

"Again, I repeat to you, the capacity to have good intelligence means that a president can make good calls about fighting this war on terror."

"And the American people need to know they got a president who sees the world the way it is. And I see dangers that exist, and it's important for us to deal with them."

"Saddam Hussein was dangerous with weapons. Saddam Hussein was dangerous with the ability to make weapons. He was a dangerous man in the dangerous part of the world."

[insert Dean Scream here] Aaaaaarrrghhh! WHY?

President Bush: It's so secret we can't talk about it.

Cooooool.

A friend's husband is doing his law degree at Yale (he has a PhD. already and was the head of a Clinton White House task force). He is doing this degree EXPRESSLY to enter politics as a candidate afterward. His dad was also a former head of the FDA. What are the odds on S&B wanting him to break bread with them?

I can't believe Bush has had a grand total of 3 press conferences, almost all of them happening around 9/11.

Bush: See, free societies are societies that don't develop weapons of mass terror and don't blackmail the world.

The approach might have been 'give 'em enough rope.'

I'm waiting for one of those backgrounds that BushCo are so fond of using as propaganda in the background of press conferences to say 'open and accessible'. Hee.

I think the number is somewhere in the teens. However, when you compare it to other presidents it looks friggin rediculous. The other president who had similar numbers was Nixon, which makes sense when you consider alot of the admin officials are former Nixon types.

I'm a war president. I make decisions here in the Oval Office in foreign policy
matters with war on my mind. Again, I wish it wasn't true, but it is true. And the
American people need to know they got a president who sees the world the way it
is. And I see dangers that exist, and it's important for us to deal with them.

BUSH: Well, because he had the capacity to have a weapon, make a weapon. We
thought he had weapons. The international community thought he had weapons.
But he had the capacity to make a weapon and then let that weapon fall into the
hands of a shadowy terrorist network. It's important for people to understand the
context in which I made a decision here in the Oval Office. I'm dealing with a
world in which we have gotten struck by terrorists with airplanes, and we get
intelligence saying that there is, you know, we want to harm America. And the
worst nightmare scenario for any president is to realize that these kind of terrorist
networks had the capacity to arm up with some of these deadly weapons, and then
strike us. And the President of the United States' most solemn responsibility is to
keep this country secure. And the man was a threat, and we dealt with him, and we
dealt with him because we cannot hope for the best. We can't say, Let's don't deal
with Saddam Hussein. Let's hope he changes his stripes, or let's trust in the
goodwill of Saddam Hussein. Let's let us, kind of, try to contain him.
Containment doesn't work with a man who is a madman. And remember, Tim, he
had used weapons against his own people.e changes his stripes, or let's trust in the
goodwill of Saddam Hussein. Let's let us, kind of, try to contain him.
Containment doesn't work with a man who is a madman. And remember, Tim, he
had used weapons against his own people.e changes his stripes, or let's trust in the
goodwill of Saddam Hussein. Let's let us, kind of, try to contain him.
Containment doesn't work with a man who is a madman. And remember, Tim, he
had used weapons against his own people.e changes his stripes, or let's trust in the
goodwill of Saddam Hussein. Let's let us, kind of, try to contain him.
Containment doesn't work with a man who is a madman. And remember, Tim, he
had used weapons against his own people.

"...Kneel before Zod!"

There are any?

I guess I qualify more than most, though.

I give Bush a D+. In his defense, he didn't fuck up too badly, which is the only way of measuring a television "performance" by a pol. He apparently has conviction in his actions, which I suppose is good. But really, he came off as desperate in trying to defend the Iraq thing--repeating himself over and over is bad strategy. His defense of massive new spending programs was dishonest in the way it was parsed.

The biggest problem are guys like Russert who think they are going to trap him. No, Tim, that doesn't ever happen with you. Who does Russert think he is? When you get a pol against the wall, they just evade. Russert is slightly more pressing, but like all the rest he is a lot more worried about keeping his job than going on the attack and keep repeating the question until it gets answered. But every pol who goes on there knows that all they have to do is repeat the talking points ad nauseum, and Russert will just take it like a bitch.

Beautiful.

hmmmmm.