I'm comin for You!
Posted on 07/06/2006 8:33:28 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Bush: I'd rather be right than popular
President, wife sit down for wide-ranging birthday interview
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush isn't troubled by some of the weakest approval ratings of his presidency, he said Thursday in a wide-ranging birthday interview with CNN's "Larry King Live."
"When history looks back, I'd rather be judged as solving problems and being correct, rather than being popular," Bush said.
"The president that chases the opinion poll is the president that will have failed policy," Bush said in an exclusive joint interview along with his wife, Laura, at the White House.
Some members of Congress are nervous about the effect Bush's political problems might have on their own fortunes in this fall's midterm elections.
But Bush predicted that Republicans would keep their majorities in the House and Senate, "Because we're right on winning this war on terror, and we've got a good economic record," he said. "People are working under the leadership of the Bush administration and the Congress."
When it comes to the most controversial single decision of his presidency -- invading Iraq -- the president told King he would make the same choice again, even knowing that Saddam Hussein's regime did not have weapons of mass destruction.
"We removed a tyrant," Bush said. "He was an enemy of the United States who harbored terrorists and who had the capacity, at the very minimum, to make weapons of mass destruction. And he was a true threat."
The president also said he believes recent missile tests by North Korean leader Kim Jong Il could present an opening to rally international pressure on the Pyongyang regime.
"I think he wants us to either fear him or pay attention to him. And I view it as an opportunity ...
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Tell me. In the 2 elections since CFR was passed have you seen any lack of money or ads in any race in the country? Hell Bush has personally raised 125 million for the RNC this year alone. Grow up.
Well I do!
In all the times I've run across an annoying comment, it's never occurred to me to tell the poster to "take it to another thread." I either ignore it or put up my own argument. Guess that's just me.
The next sound you hear will be liberals grinding their teeth down to the pulp.
I'd rather see you throw up on yourself.
I knew sooner or later the complainers were going to post. Overall, I like the President and enjoy the fact that he has restored dignity back into the WH.
Wanna bet?
The Medicare drug bill is enough to rank him with FDR and LBJ, two of the worst presidents that ever lived.
This is not a thread about immigration.
And it's not just ME that says that:
Well you apparently haven't heard the news that Bush is leaning towards a security-first approach.
"I love this president."
Me too!
He's GRAND!
Like another freeper on this thread, the issues you are raising are so meaningless from historical point of view.
Only to people who cannot see greatness.
Which is what Clinton did
LOL. Yeah we are all going to eat dog food because of it. Ya'll are the most miserable people on the planet. It must suck to get up every morning spitting mad.
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