LIVE THREAD: PRESIDENT BUSH'S PRESS CONFERENCE - 5 P.M.

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[Wait4Truth]

DON'T WATCH CNN UNLESS YOU ARE A TRUE BUSH-HATER. THEY ARE RIPPING THE PRESIDENT APART AND HAVE BEEN FOR THE LAST HOUR - WITHOUT STOPPING.

[mwl1]

Let them make fools of themselves. There is obviously nothing there.

[Registered]

Explain role on board of Harkin Oil. Sale created a patent profit to hide losses. Hurt your credibility. Blah, blah, blah, SEC looked into it.

[Howlin]

It sure is.

[Right_in_Virginia]

He's losing his temper now...over the Harkin questions.

I love how he talks to the reporters like they're idiots.

[mystery-ak]

The press are a$$es, they will not let this die.....the DNC at work!

[daniel boob]

He's not hammering the press on Harken. He should take the gloves off and shut these bastards up.

On the other hand, he's got them in the palm of the hand. I wish he would crush them, tho.

[alancarp]

Wanna know about stock sales??? Two words: Terry McAuliffe

[RobFromGa]

Buncha' Woodward wannabeees in that crowd... They make me want to puke...Any moment now he'll be announcing that we have started dropping bombs on Iraq (fingers crossed)...

[VRWC_minion]

Form 144
	Also known as Rule 144, this is a form which must be filed with the SEC when an executive officer, director or affiliate of a company places an order to sell that company's stock.
	There are five basic requirements to sell under 144: -The form must be filed properly. -Adequate current public information must be available. For example, required reports such as the 10K and 10Q forms must have been filed with the SEC. -Volume limitations have to be met. One limitation is the sale must not be greater than 1% of outstanding shares. -The transaction must be made by a stockbroker in accordance with certain procedures and rules. -If the securities are restricted they cannot be sold until one year after the date the affiliate paid the entire purchase price.

[PhiKapMom]

The press are morons! Took a foreigner to ask a legitimate question!

Who is this guy John, aka moron reporter?

[TLBSHOW]

another rat

[Howlin]

Yup. Yup.

[Amelia]

Shouldn't they have been asking these Harkin questions BEFORE the election?

Shouldn't they be doing their own research instead of asking the same question again & again?

[aristeides]

Oops, ad just came on, reminding me I've been listening to Sean Hannity on WMAL, not to C-SPAN Radio. C-SPAN Radio seems to have a hearing on.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Actually, if they want to help the poor, Bank officials should focus less on "inclusion" and more on freedom—because that’s the real antidote to poverty. This is confirmed by the "Index of Economic Freedom," published annually by The Wall Street Journal and The Heritage Foundation. This guidebook ranks nations by how economically free they are. It consistently shows that people who live in countries with the fewest economic restraints are wealthier than those in economically repressed countries.

Take Haiti and the Dominican Republic, two developing countries with a common border. The 2001 Index shows that of the 155 countries graded, Haiti ranks 137th, while the Dominican Republic is 59th. So what? Well, the answer to that question is this: Thanks to a more market-oriented economy that features low tax rates, Dominicans earn nearly five times as much as Haitians: an average of $1,799, compared to Haiti’s $370.

Examples like these abound. So why the Bank’s misdiagnosis? Partly because of what it sees in the former Soviet Union. We’ve poured billions into many of these countries, and they’re worse off today than under Soviet rule, Bank officials say. So capitalism obviously doesn’t work.

But as the United States and other democracies have shown, capitalism isn't just the absence of socialist-style economics.

The reason should be clear: All the loans in the world are no substitute for economic reform—for freedom. Countries that want to be rich don’t need charity; they need to unshackle their people’s economic potential. Perhaps then the Bank can adopt a new slogan: "Our Dream is a World That’s Really Rich."
A World Free of Wealth

Brian and the non-economists on the left should stick to reading teleprompters and kissing babies.

[YaYa123]

rabid dogs....yeah, that's the ticket.

But this is really smart of President Bush...letting the dogs chew on it, insisting they let him finish his answers. "All I can tell you, is that in the corporate world, accounting isn't always black and white, and that's why the SEC looks at these matters, and they looked, and the earnings needed to be restated, and they were, and that's that."

[kcvl]

SEC rules...proper or not...that's how the system is suppose to work...all I can tell you is that the appropriate SEC job is to look to see whether or not the decision by auditors...SEC investigation AGAIN!!!

STUPID REPORTERS!

[Mo1]

You remember that SNL skit with the reporters asking Rumsfeld such stupid question

I wish Bush would slam these stupid reporters

[Howlin]

OMG...........two more questions about the damn stock sale.

People, the WORLD is falling apart, and they want to talk about THIS?????????

[Lorena]

I would very much like to slap some stupid media faces silly. What a bunch of clymers to keep bringing it up over and over. Not one or them has an original thought in his/her pea brain.