Posted on 09/13/2005 10:42:25 AM PDT by Uncle Joe Cannon
#40 - the world has gone nuts.
No, he doesn't. He has adopted the Rumsfeld-Cheney Bunker Defense which does not permit admitting personal mistakes.
He has been ill-served by his staff; if they are too afraid to tell him the truth then they should resign.
If he is too removed from the facts on the ground and is too unsure of himself to listen to contrary opinion then he should go back on the wagon.
His mother needs to lay a little good ol' Texas Whupass on the boy.
The rarest phrase in a liberal's vocabularity.
The commander-in-chief should always take responsibility first until he finds out who really messed up. Then he fires their butts and straightens things out. (And maybe we find out no one messed up.) Lots of leaders have taken responsibility for things they didn't even know were going on. Can they know it all? No. But they are responsible for it until they learn the truth.
Or would you rather hear President Bush stand before the country and say, "I didn't know what was going on. I'm not responsible. It's someone else's fault."
He's a man and can take it like a man.
"...and to the extent that the federal government didn't fully do it's job right, I take responsibility,"
This is key.
He didn't take responsibility for Nagin's and Blanco's blunders.
"Blunders" is an understatement
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