From Bush’s third primetime press conference. He took 15 questions. This is one of them:
BUSH: Because the 9/11 commission wants to ask us questions, that’s why we’re meeting. And I look forward to meeting with them and answering their questions.
QUESTION: (OFF-MIKE) I was asking why you’re appearing together, rather than separately, which was their request.
BUSH: Because it’s a good chance for both of us to answer questions that the 9/11 commission is looking forward to asking us. And I’m looking forward to answering them.
Well, that clarifies that. Next question!
And this, on how difficult it all is…
Dubya-ism aside — how difficult, much less creepy it would be to actually “console family members who’ve lost their life” — the question is again begged as to why Bush has not attended a single funeral or memorial service for a US Serviceman killed in Iraq. Seems it would be a fine chance to actually hug and weep and console and remind. Clinton, Bush H.W., and Reagan all did so, but not Dubya. As of today he would have had 681 chances.
He did, however, as I pointed out yesterday remind us twice tonight that he visited injured troops finally on Sunday. Perhaps I’m too tough on the man, but that’s “one of my hardest parts of my job”.
And finally, as Bush/Cheney prepares to jointly “visit” with the 9/11 Commission, we leave you with one last quote from this evening…
There ya have it. The right man, at the right time.
Bush did not answer the question last night about the commission.
However, I thought he made his case strongly about the War of Terrorism and reasons for being in Iraq.
Some of the questions were a bit strange, as if they think that Bush knew what was going to happen and let it happen.
As if it was Bush’ fault and he should apologize. If I was Bush, I would have said "Are you calling me a liar. Do you think that I let them kill 3,000 people and bring down two wonderful buildings just to politically help me?"
A co-worker made the comment that the press is still in the Clinton mode of thinking – "Everything Clinton did was for political reasons."
I saw a man of sincerity last night.
By the way, Rush won’t be on for another 40 minutes on WBAP, which is where I listen. It is 11:20 CST and Rush comes on at 12:06 CST.
I also have not seen the drudge report this morning.
Ignoring the old "Clinton did it canard" – which eventually you guys will have to learn to do better than (or, I guess you’d like us to admit that Bush is as good or bad as Clinton?)…What Bush should apologize for is his failure to do more and his insistence ever since that he did all that was humanly possible.
Both notions have been firmly exposed as patently incorrect by hard evidence and it’s only hurting Bush to continue to admit otherwise. So I’m glad to see him doing so.
> What Bush should apologize for is his failure to do more and his insistence ever since that he did all that was humanly possible.
He did say he would have moved mountains to stop it. His apologizing will not bring back 3,000 from the dead. You guys want him to apologize so you can say "Aha!!!! Now leave office you miserable failure!"
> the question is again begged as to why Bush has not attended a single funeral or memorial service for a US Serviceman killed in Iraq.
Ok – another question. How many funerals should he attend? 1, 5, 10, 25, 100, all of them? Should he go to a white funeral? a black funeral? a white and a black funeral? How many would satisfy you? I believe that if he went to all of them, you would still not be satisfied.
No, he already needs to leave office because he’s a miserable failure.
We think he should apologize (well, I do, can’t speak for anybody else) because it’s the right thing to do.
As to funerals, I don’t know how many he should go to. But I do see his not going to ANY as yet another sign that he has no idea of the evil he has wrought. That’s right, I said evil.
We know that *he* wasn’t willing to put himself into such harms way when he had the opportunity. I don’t believe he’d send his daughters into such a place. I don’t believe he should be sending the sons and daughters of others, therefore, to die needlessly in this ill-conceived war.
I do not understand why of all the thousand of American citizen that have baby’s in all parts of the world , they are American citizen
If this is a fact , why are illegal immigrate baby’s American citizens and not the same nationality as there parents.
This confuses me and I’m not pro any nationlity as my father came from Sweden and fought in world two.
Please help me understand my misuderstandingof this law.
Mygrandson married a Russian women and they have a child , but his wife still has to file for citizenship . It seam like some kind of double standard for illegle immigrates.
Please help me
Milton Lantz Jr.
(miltonlantz@yahoo.com)