Bush Sez Only Mistake Appointing Disloyal Men: Prez Debate 2

Published on October 9, 2004 By blogic In Politics

Those of you who watched last night's debate know what I'm talking about. Bush was asked to list three mistakes, and basically insisted that he'd made none. None. You may remember that he gave the same answer some months ago, when asked at one of his few press conferences.

None? Anyone who's interviewed for a job knows that saying "none" means you're appallingly arrogant or frighteningly out of touch with reality. Bush should be at least half way competent enough to bullshit a better answer. Iraq is a mess. Generals are saying that. Senators are saying that. The CIA is saying it. And Bush says he's made no significant mistakes? Today, the New York Times documents that the Bush economic "recovery" is an embarrassment compared to those of both his Democratic and Republican predecessors, and he can't think of anything he would have done differently?

Bush lives in a bubble, and is out of touch with the reality in Iraq, and the reality in America. Bush has demonstrated that he's not only unwilling to learn from his mistakes, he's so cocooned from reality that he doesn't even know he's made any.

Comments (Page 2)

Politically Active

on Oct 10, 2004

oligarchy314, you are more full of crap than is Blogic. In response to the question, Bush basically said "I have made mistakes," not naming anything in particular. That was clearly a way to avoid the question because he knew that naming any mistake would cost him political support. And yet he says the political tides don't influence his position and Kerry is a flip-flopper. He clearly isn't immune to political pressures.

drmiler

on Oct 10, 2004

Reply #16 By: Politically Active - 10/10/2004 8:46:09 AM
oligarchy314, you are more full of crap than is Blogic. In response to the question, Bush basically said "I have made mistakes," not naming anything in particular. That was clearly a way to avoid the question because he knew that naming any mistake would cost him political support

I think that you are the one full of it. Everyone is saying Bush never admitted to making a mistake. Then what is the lie " I have made mistakes"????? This being pulled from your own post. No one is IMMUNE to political pressures.

apdelong31

on Oct 10, 2004

-No you are!

-No YOU are!!!

-Stupidface

-Stink breath

Politics bring out the best in everyone. I agree blogic is getting a little caught up in the moment, but I wouldn't say he's any worse than marvin, marvin isn't living in the real world.

CrispE

on Oct 10, 2004

blogic:

I think what many didn't like was the way the admission of error being something others would make the decision on. For example, a boss might make the decision that one of his workers did the wrong thing and fire him but the worker might think that he did nothing wrong. This statement of Bush's is very much in that vein.

What people were looking for was a statement of contrition. They wanted, "I know now that I shouldn't have __________" with a statement about fixing the error. That is what is being debated around the media and internet this weekend. Liberals find it a defining moment because it appears arrogant. Conservatives find it a statement of strength. But undecideds seem to see it closer to the liberal point of view than the conservative or so it seems to me. Of course, that's just my opinion of what I've read, but it is still my opinion.

Daiwa

on Oct 10, 2004

Bush is smart enough to know that no matter what he says, only time & the playout of events will determine whether his major policy decisions were mistakes or not. What the left thinks his mistakes have been is public record. I respect him for not willingly stepping on that land mine just to satisfy either the press or the Kerry campaign's demands because it would simply be handing them a loaded gun.

If you seriously think the response would simply go something like this: "Thanks, Mr. President, for showing us you are contrite. You are a wonderful man, worthy of re-election now that we know you are capable of self-awareness. Go forth and prosper.", I want some of what you're smoking. All of this is just arrogant, insulting and crass political posturing.

McAwful & his hyenas would rip into him every day till the election, using any admission of error as just more of what they call proof that we need a change in the White House. They are far worse than Kerry himself, who is pathetic enough - he's been given a free pass on letting all the hyenas he's hired and befriended have a frickin' feeding frenzy of hate and made one feeble attempt to reign them in and bring some civility to his campaign. And now he's starting to publicly echo the worst of them.

Time to get over it.

Cheers,
Daiwa

Daiwa

on Oct 10, 2004

BTW, Kerry can't win a civil campaign, which is part of the problem. If he can't use lie after lie after lie to paint Bush as the worst President since Hoover and the most evil human being since Hitler, he can't win. Talk about misleading, to use one of his favorite words.

0.02

Cheers,
Daiwa

blogic

on Oct 10, 2004

While my original title "Bush Shockingly Denies Ever Making Mistakes: Prez Debate II" was certainly dramatic, I think the gist was accurate. Presumably the Bush supporters will be happier with my updated title: "Bush Sez Only Mistake Appointing Disloyal Men: Prez Debate 2".

bakerstreet

on Oct 10, 2004

No, he never used the word "disloyal". You can't tell the truth even when you try.

Daiwa

on Oct 10, 2004

The gist was complete and total bullshit and the new title confirms it.

Cheers,
Daiwa

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