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He really is playing only to the captive loyal base isn’t he. For only the captive loyal base would be able to overlook or gloss over the gross doublespeak and newspeak of Bush’s Orwellian propaganda machine. “I am a War president.” I am a Peace president.” “I need 4 more years to fix all the devastating mistakes I made in the first 4”. Rigghhhtttt, Mr. President….

I frankly don’t think this man has shed his learning wheels yet, as evidenced by his inability to admit a mistake. We all know, one cannot learn from one’s mistakes unless one first admits they were made. Let him finish learning how to lead with his daughters lives, and leave the rest of us alone, thank you.

The things that man says constantly defy logic. But then, speaking in nonsense has become a radical right neo-con tactic. It makes the dimwitted think they somehow didn’t get it, while simultaneously making the wise unable to form a comeback that doesn’t risk make them look dimwitted. This tactic has been working like a charm for quite a while now…

The only thing that isn’t funny about Bush saying something like this is the fact that today was also the day that we reached 900 in the number of American soldiers killed in the war.

That’s an interesting comment, Adrienne. I picked up David Corn’s book, “The Lies of George W. Bush” a while back (it’s a good reference of Bush’s lies all cross-referenced by issue and time period :)), and he gives examples of Bush saying some really outrageous things. Reporters just assumed Bush unintentionally mangled them - because, you know, he’s not so briight - so they made assumptions about what Bush really meant to say. Several times it turned out the message wasn’t garbled, it really was outrageous.

I really miss Ari Fleischer. I remember him dutifully coming out after every Bush speech and saying, “What the President really meant to say was…”

American Pundit wrote:
I picked up David Corn’s book, “The Lies of George W. Bush” a while back (it’s a good reference of Bush’s lies all cross-referenced by issue and time period :)), and he gives examples of Bush saying some really outrageous things.

I’ve read it too - and thought it was brilliant of him to cross reference everything. David Corn also sometimes writes articles for Alternet which I read daily.

American Pundit:
Reporters just assumed Bush unintentionally mangled them - because, you know, he’s not so briight - so they made assumptions about what Bush really meant to say. Several times it turned out the message wasn’t garbled, it really was outrageous.

Its amazing isn’t it? Its a neocon tactic to meant to confuse any issue they either don’t want to talk about or when they’re hiding something (which in this administration is plenty). And its not just the president, Rummy, Rove and others in the administration are really good at this nonsense-talk too.

American Pundit:
I really miss Ari Fleischer. I remember him dutifully coming out after every Bush speech and saying, “What the President really meant to say was…”

I know what you mean. I kind of miss him too, even though his arrogance really irked me at the time. Now all we get is complete stonewalling or an exact nonsensical reiteration of what Dubya said.

I’ve also read the book

Whoops! Cut off the end of my post there. What I was going to add was that I’ve also read the book “Worse than Watergate” by John Dean. He talks a bit about how this administration has raised obsessive secrecy and stonewalling to whole new level.