I posted a quote about Bush calling private border patrol groups to be vigilantes - from Fox News, so it isn't liberal spin.
And someone else posted a transacript from a White House press briefing where McClellan was given the opportunity to clarify Bush's comments and did not do so.
You can engage in Clintonesque attempts to parse away Bush's meaning because the Minutemen where not specifically mentioned, even though they were the group in the news at the time, they were the group Fox was mentioning legal action against in the press conference, and Bush followed up immediately after that comment. If it makes you warm and fuzzy to do such, hey, that's your perogative.
But you don't fool us or many other folks.
No you didn't post that dirtboy. You posted where someone said ABOUT his comments that is what he said. When that is not what he said. Indeed it is spin. OR else you would be able to post where he said " the minutemen are vigilantes". He never said such a thing dirtboy.
When he did not say they were vigilantes there is no need to clear anything up. What you claim needs to be cleaned up is spin to start with.
It is you that parse when you attempt to claim that read between the lines interpratation equals what someone actually said. There is a very big difference there and I would hope you could see that.
W was asked if he supported the minutemans actions. He ducked that and answered with what he does not support. Which as he said is vigilante actions. The minutemen have undertaken no such activity and have clear rules about what they are there to do and what they are not there to do.
If w said the minutemen were vigilantes you would not have to reach so far trying to claim he did. Talk about fuzzy...oh yeah you got that down pat.
W;'s position on immigration and mine are far from the same. I am not defending his position held since he became president. I do not see a need to stretch the truth into something it is not. You wanna know why?
Here is why.
Dan Rather:The Documents are fake but the story is true.
See that yet? What you try to do here with a claim that he said something he never said is exactly the same thing and I abhor such lame attempts at dissent....especially when the truth is all you really need to oppose where he has been on immigration as an issue.
Do notice that he is now stating that border enforcment has to come first. I think this is a bit if a swing and he understands that the people will accept nothing less. He may get his guest worker program but the illegal flow has got to come to an end.
You can say people said that W said the minutemen were vigilantes (which is what your post did) and that is true. You cannot say he actually said it and produce a quote, reason being, that quote doesn't exist.