President's Evasion Raises Truth Issues

Washington Post ^

[BeHoldAPaleHorse]

A solid republican would never do that.

Pennsylvania's "I'm a better conservative than thou" Republicans here on this board did exactly that.

[DCPatriot]

"Journalists by nature shy from pinning the "liar" label on any political leader,..."

BAWWWHAWWWW! Stopped reading right there.

[Unmarked Package]

"He had already interview Gates for the DefSec position..."

Are you certain of that assertion? The statement President Bush made in the press conference contradicts it.

Quoting from the article (which is what I heard the President say in the press conference):

"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."

[Unmarked Package]

"So why would Bush fire him the day AFTER the election, when firing him a month before the election would have helped Pub chances at the polls?"

I take President Bush at his word. He stated that he did not want to make a major change in DOD leadership, affecting our military in a time of war, that could be viewed as a decision made purely for political reasons before an election.

We all know that angle would have been exploited by the Democrats and slammed mercilessly by the Democrat Media for weeks. Republicans did the same against Bill Clinton for attacking Iraq to divert attention away from the Monica Lewinsky affair three days after his grand jury testimony. Of course, Clinton had the cover, not the scorn, of the huge Democrat Media cabal to help him run that ruse.

[hosepipe]

[ Pennsylvania's "I'm a better conservative than thou" Republicans here on this board did exactly that. ]

True.. What do you call a Rhode Island republican?...

On the other hand the word conservative means "more of the same"... i.e. same old, same old..

Republicans had better get radical or there will be more of the same..

[The_Victor]

Well...of course YOU just don't understand the complexity of it all. The nuance. The depth. The intellectualism or the wisdom behind todays new media. You DO understand, don't you? That's why YOU are not qualified to be a professional, talented, well educated, omnipotent (pompous ass) journalist

Actually, I understand exactly how they do it. The "journalist" just quotes someone else (unnamed sources if necessary) whenever they call the President a liar. That way the "journalist" can say, "It's not me saying that," with a straight face.

[unixfox]

Yeah right, and Hillary has stated she won't run for president either.

Another loser media story.

[incredulous joe]

How 'bout that new cover of TIME -- "the Loe Ranger" -- it must have been preprinted.

[glorgau]

June 4th, 1944

Q: General Eisenhower do you know the exact date location of the projected invasion?

A: No, I have no idea, but it might happen someday.

What a liar!

[floridareader1]

a false analogy. lol