Posted on 11/10/2006 4:17:21 AM PST by floridareader1
Did the president of the United States make a rare admission on national television that he had told an untruth?
Or had he merely engaged in a dodge of the sort that is common in politics?
Journalists by nature shy from pinning the "liar" label on any political leader, but President Bush's acknowledgments that he had not been forthcoming about his plans to dump Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld have kicked up a fuss at the White House and sparked a debate about the limits of presidential evasion.
Six days before the election, Bush told three wire-service reporters in an interview that Rumsfeld and Vice President Cheney were doing "fantastic" jobs.
"You see them staying with you until the end?" asked Terence Hunt of the Associated Press.
"I do," Bush replied.
"So you're expecting Rumsfeld, Secretary Rumsfeld, to stay on the rest of your time here?" asked Steve Holland of Reuters.
"Yes, I am," the president said.
On Wednesday, the day after the election, Bush at a news conference said that "that kind of question, a wise question by a seasoned reporter, is the kind of thing that causes one to either inject major military decisions at the end of a campaign, or not. And I have made the decision that I wasn't going to be talking about hypothetical troop levels or changes in command structure coming down the stretch."
The president added that he had not made a definitive decision because he had not held his "last" conversation with Rumsfeld and had not yet spoken to Robert Gates, his nominee to take over the Pentagon.
Was that on par with President Bill Clinton's hair-splitting defense in the Monica S. Lewinsky investigation that "it all depends on what the definition of is is"?
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
One month before the election there was nothing the GOP could have done to prevent what happened in this election.
Even if Dubya had resigned, it wouldn't have made a dime's worth of difference.
I like that idea, but let's roll her out with my candidate in '08
"Bolton/Cheney -- Annoying Terrorists, Appeasers and Soft-headed Elitists!"
Easy to say two days later but there is no proof whatsoever that this would be the case.
I hope you can detect the sarcasm in my post.
And he makes up false names for his wished-for illegal-alien amnesty.
Maybe, but lets not nit pick. Fabricator, fibber, prevaricator, storyteller,defamer, libeler (or libeller), slanderer; perjurer; distorter, falsifier; equivocator, palterer; gossip, gossiper, talebearer; charlatan, cheat, cheater, confidence man, counterfeiter, cozener, deceiver, defrauder, dissembler, dissimulator, double-dealer, fraud, hustler, mountebank, and pretender are all quite common for the liberal press if their target is a Republican.
B.S. Cutting Rumsfeld would have been played as a sign of weakness and doubt by the media. It would not have helped at all.
But cutting Rumsfield immediately after the election is a sign of strength?
There is no question the GOP would control the Senate if he had made the decision before the election. Can we pin this one on Karl Rove?
I don't think removing Rumsfeld had anything to do with the result of this election. One man, and a patriot and a man who has devoted a lot of his life to us selfish people is not the major reason we lost. We are.
Boo freaking hoo.
Not many options when you can't tell the press "None of your G-D business."
I like Jeb too.
I was making a joke about Clinton and Bush.
The biased media won this election for the dems. Now that the constant media hate fest has quieted down , people are going to wake up and wonder what the hell they'd just done. They're not going to be very happy with the liberal propaganda machines.
And you know this for a fact, huh? Are you God?
Please explain.
floridareader1
Since Sep 9, 2006
'Nuff said, and a vanity to boot!
Just keep banging your forehead against the door jam, loser!
Does it matter? Bush lied, the liberals control both houses.
Thank you America.
Clinton LIED under oath.
There is no question because you say so? Back up your assertion and please don't cite such reliable sources as "It is common knowledge that...." or "Everyone knows that....". What evidence do you have to back up your post?
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