Posted on 03/14/2008 2:19:02 PM PDT by Parody
The president believes leaders of free countries should support morality and calls it a "sad day" when a leader such as New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer is found to have been patronizing prostitutes, possibly in violation of federal law.
But he won't get into what other people think of Spitzer's activities.
White House assistant press secretary Tony Fratto responded to questions from Les Kinsolving, WND's correspondent at the White House, on the New York situation that has dominated headlines for days.
"Would it be accurate to say that our president realizes the great importance of any leader of a free country in setting a national example in supporting morality?" Kinsolving asked.
"I think the president pretty clearly supports morality," Fratto said, prompting chuckles in the press gallery.
"What does … I'm delighted," Kinsolving continued. "What does the president believe to be the effect on our nation's young people of one of our nation's top national leaders refusing even to comment on her state's married governor's repeated use of prostitutes, in apparent violation of the Mann Act?"
"I think what the president said is it's a sad day, and I think I'll just leave it at that," Fratto said.
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
"Spitzer's whoring and money-laundering."
"What'd he have to say?"
"He's agin' it."
Who's he talking about?
;->
While you're right about Governor Spitzer, Mr. President, you know what also makes for a very sad day??? "Leaders" who leave our borders wide open and the illegal aliens who come across with impunity to rape, rob and murder ordinary citizens and people here legally. That's what Mr. President.
(Jeesh. If Karl Rove had been as politically bright as people had said, he would never have let his former boss get near a camera without handlers.)
Many men lately hide behind the skirts of prostitutes to take down even scummier lawyers. Thank feminism for this situation.
One day a foreign invador will kill men in America, and it will be OK. That day is coming soon. Feminism is a terrorism vector.
I watched his speech before The Economic Club of New York this morning, cringing throughout, but was especially taken aback when he spoke against American "nativism". Although I voted for the man twice and largely got through the previous seven years of his tenure by avoiding watching him speak, I must now admit that he really may be as dim-witted as his critics have claimed.
I enjoy watching a bully and a thug like Spitzer get taken down hard by his own vices. Sweet revenge on an arrogant, holier than thou ass who bullied and intimidated countless people during his career in “public service.” Apparently daddy is worth $500 million, so Spitzer will be back to paying for high priced whores soon enough.
What is American nativism?
Wasn’t referring to Spritzer’s demise - I like it as well. I WAS referring to the thirst for pictures of the Whore and the rewards she will be given for essentially being a F’d up, lazy ignorant individual who uses things she never worked for to get money out of sick, weak men. What’s to like about that and why would anyone pay any attention to her let alone pay her big bucks to pose so that equally ignorant men will buy a smutty magazine. The whole thing is pathetic from start to finish.
My very favorite thing watching the average drooling idiot to hurl the tired ‘Bush is Stupid’, and behind the guy’s back no less.
Empirically, he mustn’t be that stupid. He’s got quite a resume, and managed to pull off winning the WH, twice.
Not the world’s greatest orator, relative to other’s I’ve seen in politics, however, and I saw the same speech, he’s record on the economy is more than credible. He inherited a recession, dealt with the economic impact of 9/11, launched and managed two foreign and highly televised/politicized wars, and the economy grew for about 26 straight quarters.
Clearly, a man like this MUST be dim-witted. Unless you can prove yourself a more capable man, you can leave off slagging the President of the United States like some common San Francisco, pachoulli-stinking, Haight-Ashbury social worker.
Anyone who majored in history, as Bush did at Yale, would realize that the Balkans have been the graveyard of older empires than our own. That he thinks they'll love us any more than any other foreign power for what we've done with our recognition of Kosovo is prima facie evidence of some very flaccid thinking.
He’s got quite a resume, and managed to pull off winning the WH, twice.
He almost lost in 2000 to Al Gore, and his reelection campaign in 2004 was tanking to John Kerry until the swift boaters came along. Additionally, someone as "bright" as Mr. Bush wouldn't have pointlessly squandered what little political credibility he had remaining among his erstwhile supporters by pushing for an amnesty for illegal aliens twice against their opposition. That single escapade was simultaneously the zenith of his hubris and the nadir of his political "brilliance".
BTW, please resubmit your comments when you've passed remedial English.
“...lazy ignorant individual who uses things she never worked for to get money out of sick, weak men.”
I hate to tell you, but healthy, normal men love to look at beautiful, sexy women. And if the woman was involved in bringing down one of the nation’s major hypocrites, it makes her even more of an attraction.
Anyone majoring in history would have realized that Afghanistan is a similar graveyard, yet what choice did we really have?
You’d must have been one of the ‘cold war forever’ crowd.
W, like most men, hasn’t been perfect, but he restored dignity to the office, has prosecuted the war well, done well by the economy, and has the guts to stick to his positions. I’m not thrilled with shamnesty, CFR, the Energy Bill, and a number of other issues, but he’s head and shoulders above the pretenders to the throne right now.
You dodged the question, however: Have you got the chops to call the President of the United States of America - regardless of party affiliation - stupid?
In language that even you will be able to understand, "Yes". It's still our right to be able to criticize - (without threatening) - anyone with impunity.
I'm not a Republican. I'm still a conservative, and with this president, I've often had more to lose by not criticizing his policies than I've had by going along blithely with the program.
When he and the rest of his country club cadres, return to the conservative fold, then the rest of us in the peanut gallery will happily shut our noisy yaps and sing praises to his brilliance.
Stupid isn’t a criticism. It’s an insult. As a conservative, I think you’d agree that such pejoratives have only served to lower the respect people have for the office.
If I don’t happen to agree with your mother, or anybody elses’ mother for that matter, should I just call her a bitch?
It’s simply not very constructive, is it?
Call anyone you want anything you want. Just don't harm them. But, in the case of a public figure vs. a private, open and frank criticism is not only justified, it's necessary and healthy. In the case of the word "stupid", just think "Stupid is as stupid does."
(BTW, you were once a liberal, right??? That's why you're so worried over what people are saying.)
Insults are what remain when you can’t construct a logical argument for or against something.
Stupid is as stupid does is a line from a movie about a man with a great deal of character, who happened to make the very most of his talents.
W graduated from Yale. He had better grades than Gore, in fact.
Look, he’s not stupid, regardless what your umbrages are.
Stupid is the position of a four year old. It’s where the Dixie Chicks are found. “He’s stupid, so there.”
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.