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The Raw Story | Bush: 'I'm sure some people voted for Obama because of me'
In an interview to be broadcast on ABC News tonight, President Bush conceded that he just might have been part of the reason Barack Obama won the White House.

"I think it was a repudiation of Republicans," he said. "And I'm sure some people voted for Barack Obama because of me. I think most people voted for Barack Obama because they decided they wanted him to be in their living room for the next four years explaining policy."

He apologized for the economic crisis, saying, "I'm sorry it's happening, of course... Obviously I don't like the idea of people losing jobs, or being worried about their 401(k)s. On the other hand, the American people got to know that we will safeguard the system. I mean, we're in. And if we need to be in more, we will."

He also admitted he was "unprepared" for a war in Iraq that has gone on to claim thousands of American lives and tens of thousands of Iraqis.
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Mon Dec 1st, 2008 at 03:40:39 PM EST
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Fool.
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Mon Dec 1st, 2008 at 03:41:22 PM EST
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From the same article:

"I wish the intelligence had been different, I guess," Bush tells ABC's Charlie Gibson in an interview to be broadcast tonight, and said he didn't know if he'd have gone to war if he didn't think there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

Could he please shut up. I think the thought of watching Bush do an Olmert is more than I can take...
by gk (g k quattro due due sette "at" gmail.com) on Mon Dec 1st, 2008 at 03:46:19 PM EST
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In interviews, Hitler said that if he'd known Jesus was a Jew he might have been nicer to them. "I wish the intelligence had been different, I guess." he said.

A couple of hundred thousand or so dead and that's the fucking best he can do.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Mon Dec 1st, 2008 at 03:54:09 PM EST
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A couple of hundred thousand or so dead and that's the fucking best he can do.

I'm quite surprised we get that much out of him.  I would've expected him to either keep his mouth shut or start stamping his feet and shouting "HE TRAAAAHD TA KEEL MAH DADDEH!"

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Mon Dec 1st, 2008 at 04:05:24 PM EST
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Now THAT must be on a porn site.

In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.
by THE Twank (yatta blah blah @ blah.com) on Mon Dec 1st, 2008 at 04:42:06 PM EST
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It sure as fuck offends my sense of decency.

The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman
by dvx (dvx.clt ät gmail dotcom) on Tue Dec 2nd, 2008 at 05:45:27 AM EST
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Bush can lie all he wants, they cooked the intelligence.

Bush/cheney didn't like the intelligence they were getting from the CIA as it didn't support the invasion, so they created their own tame dept who fed the "right" answers back to them. Don't tell me the "niger yellowcake" wasn't a project sponsored from somewhere in Washington, I refuse to believe the Italians did it just for fun.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Tue Dec 2nd, 2008 at 06:24:43 AM EST
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