White House Press Gaggle - Tuesday, August 8, 2006

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[dinasour]

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It seems that Tony has sent the goslings back to school, specifically Crawford Middle School. I think this is a perfect venue for these things.

[syriacus]

Thanks for posting this!!

[weegee]

Q Tony, Kofi Annan released a letter today saying that there were grounds for an inquiry into whether Israeli air strikes constituted a pattern in violating international law. Does the President think there are grounds for such inquiry?

Why doesn't Kofi Annan announce a plan for inquiry into rampant antisemitism in the news media and staged photo events capitalizing on controlled strikes?

[HonestConservative]

Thanks, dina.

Tony isn't taking any nonsense with the children today is he?

[weegee]

picture of the White House Press Gaggle...

[swmobuffalo]

"MR. SNOW: For the umpteenth time, I will remind you that the President is not trying to conduct foreign policy in the war on terror in response to public opinion polls, but to the realities on the ground, and I am sure that that is going to be an important consideration voters are going to have to make this November: Who really does take seriously the threat of the war on terror; do they acknowledge or not that terrorists are still trying to hurt Americans and American interests around the globe; and who has the most credible way of addressing it. And that is a debate we look forward to having."

Outstanding answer!

[taillightchaser]

I'm shocked---no questions from the jackals about mother sheehan. Shocked, I tell you!!!

[MNJohnnie]

Not to Junk Media in the White House Press Whores Club.

Washington DC is NOT the world's Imperial Capital and the President of the US is not the God Emperor of Earth. NOT every problem in the world can be fixed by the US President snapping his fingers.

I guess most of you "Journalists" were too stupid to realize you were being spun when Clinton took credit for everything that went right in the 1990s. I guess that explains your lack of any sort of grasp on factual reality.

[Chuck54]

Thanks for the ping Dinasour. Always glad to refresh FR and find a ping from you and Tony. What a team.

:)

[uncbob]

there's a new Washington Post poll out today as to which political party people would trust to do a better job handling the U.S. campaign against terrorism? And Democrats got 46 percent, Republicans got 38 percent.

Yep American public really is knowlegable

[dinasour]

For the umpteenth time, I will remind you that the President is not trying to conduct foreign policy in the war on terror in response to public opinion polls

Amen

[dinasour]

Tony isn't taking any nonsense with the children today is he?

I have a hunch we may be a little slow on the live ones while he is in Crawford, and maybe afterwards since the briefing room is being renovated (Perhaps they will install ejector seats).

Does anyone know when they are coming back to DC?

[dinasour]

Kofi Annan released a letter today saying that there were grounds for an inquiry into whether Israeli air strikes constituted a pattern in violating international law.

I believe that is Article XXXIV of the "International Law" which clearly states that Jews are never allowed to shoot back.

[HonestConservative]

I heard somewhere that it was a 10 day vacation.

Also, when I was in school, when Lincoln was President, the running joke with the rookies was always to tell them where the (nonexistent) pool was.

I'm wondering if Tony is pulling the same thing with the "lake"?

[dinasour]

> Always glad to refresh FR and find a ping from you and Tony

This thread tends to pick me up a bit, when politics are in a bit of a funk.

[blackie]

[dinasour]

there's a new Washington Post poll out today as to which political party people would trust to do a better job handling the U.S. campaign against terrorism? And Democrats got 46 percent, Republicans got 38 percent.

My answer: This is a perfect example of why all polls are crap.

[elc]

Hmm, why do I get the impression that 46 percent of the people who were polled identified themselves as Democrats and 38 percent Republican? Or some similar lopsided demographic.

[pinz-n-needlez]

Thank you, Tony!!!

And thank you, Dinasour, an island of sanity in a sea of spinning.

Let's all sit on the dock a bit and dangle our ankles in the water a bit to regain our equilibrium.... :-)

Pinz