I didn't know the AP was in the business of editorializing.
The steel tariffs issue is lame. Bush didn't flip flop - foreign states lodged a successful complaint against the tariff.
Is this a wire story or an editorial?
Sounds like AP's really getting desperate these days ...
An event called 9-11 happened that shifted Bush's position that nation building for countries that harbor terrorists. I think it is a noble shift in the President's plan to protect us and the world.
The only issue I can't defend Bush on is McCain/Feingold. A very big mistake there, but now I think the President knows he made a mistake signing it into law.
Holding out on steel until WYO 'court issues an adverse ruling, and oders imposition of sanctions is a 'flip-flop'.
Wonder what they would have said if he had continued to hold out?
Kerry = "nuanced"
Bush = "damned if you do; damned if you don't"
For example George Bush went to Pennsylvania yesterday, is in New York today, and will be in Maryland tomorrow. He shifts his positions almost as much as Kerry.
Kerry even flip-flops on the flip-flop charge.
GOP Ignores Bush Flip-Flops in Pinning Label on Kerry.
Please tell me you're using the original AP title so I can stick it to the Dispatch.
What in the WORLD is going on at FoxNews? This piece of garbage was actually posted right under their banner about 1/2 an hour ago.
Since the AP is objective and balanced, I'm sure they will also hit Kerry to offset this attack on Bush.
In fact, by the time the election is here, I exepct there will have been an exactly equal number of anti-Bush and anti-Kerry hit pieces from the AP.
(Yeah right.)
Is the AP a registered 527?
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_A week after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Bush said he wanted Osama bin Laden "dead or alive." But he told reporters six months later, "I truly am not that concerned about him." He did not mention bin Laden in his hour-long convention acceptance speech.That's not a flip-flop. Bush still wants Usama dead or alive, he's just trying to tear down the rest of al-Qaida and work to stabilize Pakistan as best as one can.
"I'm a war president," Bush told NBC's "Meet the Press" on Feb. 8. But in a July 20 speech in Iowa, he said: "Nobody wants to be the war president. I want to be the peace president."No flip-flop here either. Nobody wants to lead a nation into war. But some pea-brained reporter seems to have forgotten about 11 September 2001 and the significance of that day. I'll clue you into reality here: three thousand Americans perished, killed by terrorists. Of course Bush would prefer peace, but the terrorists shattered that peace, and Bush will commit to fight the war until the enemies cease to exist, at which time we shall have peace. Simple, pea-brain, simple.
Bush keeps revising his Iraq war rationale: The need to seize Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction until none were found; liberating the Iraqi people from a brutal dictator; fighting terrorists in Iraq not at home; spreading democracy throughout the Middle East. Now it's a safer America and a safer world.More evidence that media personnel have pea-sized brains--and don't even engage them. Bush had several reasons for going to war in Iraq. None of the reasons given contradict any other reason. Just because Bush emphasized one reason or the other on one particular day didn't mean that he ever abandoned any previously-emphasized reason.
"Fighting terrorists in Iraq and not at home," makes "a safer America and a safer world" because it "liberates the Iraqi people from a brutal dictator," which in turn enables the "spreading [of] democracy in the Middle East" and would have enabled the "seizing [of] Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction," had they been found. See, I've just combined all of your reasons into one succinct, rational sentence that does not contradict itself.
Try doing that with John F. Kerry's positions on Iraq that he emphasizes on successive days this week. Once you've reduced them into a succinct, rational sentence that does not contradict itself or betray the candidate as a purveyor of sedition or cheerleader of traitors, then you can start whining. Meanwhile, I don't want to hear anymore from you, pea-brain.