Posted on 11/10/2006, 12:17:21 PM 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 ...
Thanks, Mr. President! And I do not appreciate how Bush told an "untruth" a few days b4 the election, and did a complete flip-flop one hour after speaking to Nancy Pelosi.
Give me a break !!!!!!
Sorry but I couldn't get past this whopper.
"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.Expectations change. It's totally within his right to play his cards close to his chest, especially so close to the election. Did anyone listen to yesterdays press conference? All I can say is: Tony Snow for President!
Those two crazy Bush brothers (Bill and George) are two of a kind, aren't they?
***rolls eyes***
How about Lynne Cheney for Veep?
Oh please! How many times have you seen a print journalist let his/her hair down on a talking head program and reveal his attitudes toward a particular politician? Lots of times. Yeah, they might not say 'liar' in a news article, but the word is thrown around in editorials & other forums like they have an endless supply of hand grenades.
It would be funny if it wasn't so bogus and sad.
Clinton lied under oath and the press yawned and said "it's just sex".
Bush withheld the details of his tactical staffing decisions from the press, and that's considered a major crime.
Both
Bogus
And
Sad
Tony Snow and Lynne Cheney.
That ticket gets my vote.
I really like Jeb Bush. He is still very popular in Florida, and had a flawless 8 years here.
GWB is quite a bit less impressive.
And had we removed Newt as Speaker long before impeachment, we might have saved at least 5 seats in the House in 1998.
Get over it, newbee. Bush's advisor's probably made the call. He was determined to keep Rummy, but he was probably the only hold out left. The man did what he had to do.
Clinton lied and Bush just told an untruth. Big difference!
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Rumsfeld was an excellent Sec. of State. Iraq wasn't going to be solved in a day and neither is the War on Terror.
Now with the Dhimmicrats in office the War on Terror probably will not be solved, but they will come to attack here as they know that terrorism works so well. Who knows? Maybe if the terrorists commit more acts of terror, then we will elect more Muslim CAIR members and Julius Streicher type anti-Semites (homo erotic pornographer, James Webb, uses the epithet neo con -- which is like the [k word].
Terrorism works wonders! In Spain and here, too.
As far as I am concerned, Bush, Cheney, Rove and Rumsfeld should have just told outright lies to any journalist anytime they open their mouths. Just feed them complete crap and smile about it.
They get accused of it anyway. I hate, despise and have the deepest contempt for any branch of the media. There is one thing that makes me really perk up these days...
The Slow Death Spiral of the NY Times and the rest of them.
I used to think that America's betrayal of its Vietnam veterans was a fluke.
No more. The American people have shown that they will dishonor their warriors at every adverse turn.
B.S. Cutting Rusfeld would have been played as a sign of weakness and doubt by the media. It would not have helped at all.
Clinton lied and Bush just told an untruth. Big difference!
Clinton lied in court, under oath and Bush just told an untruth to the press.
Huge difference!
And, apparently, in some parts of Florida...:)
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