http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/08/06/bush.legacy/index.html

I don't see how he can advocate this with a straight face. He did manage to joke about his own legacy status, but come on now...do as I say, not as I did?

It's nice to know that however many shortcuts you take and handouts you get on your way to the top, you can always kick the laddder down behind you and regain your credibility (in the GOP).

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/08/06/bush.legacy/index.html

I don't see how he can advocate this with a straight face. He did manage to joke about his own legacy status, but come on now...do as I say, not as I did?

C'mon guys, I call double standard. Remember when the board cons (bill, et. al.) were poking ridicule at Kerry for calling for tax increases when he was taking the maximum allowable deductions? I recal you guys mocking them that Kerry would be stupid to give more money than the law requires.

Same dif here. Legacy admissions are a fact. Dubya would have been even dumber than he is not to take advantage of that. If he wants to oppose legacy admissions, so be it. More power to him.

This is the biggest Flip Flop I have ever seen!!!! Where did his kids go to school? Give the guy a break? I'm sure that it was the merits of his character that got him into the National Guard as well.

I honestly don't reacall the thread re Kerry's troubling tax hypocrisy. Not to resurrect it here, but if I were to mock the cons on this issue (a pretty small if), it would be on their addiction to the obtuse logic that if liberals want healthcare, education etc., they should go broke funding it out of their own pockets rather than spreading the burden over the entire population that benefits from a strong, stable society. Kerry <i>would</i> be stupid to pay more than the law requires when nobody else is pitching in. The <i>smart</i> thing to do is get free-loading conservatives on the hook legally.

So I see a differerent diff here.

This paragraph struck me.

"I support college affirmatively taking action to get more minorities in their school," Bush said as the audience laughed.

So, he says he supports affirmative action? Does he think he can say anything? Saying it does not make it so. But the saddest part is that the President of the United States has reached the point where people are laughing AT him to his face.

Restoring honor and dignity to the office. Saying does not make it so.

i just marvel at the balls on these guys. this is right up there with bush opposing the national intelligence czar being a part of the white house, because he "doesn't want politics to influence the intelligence".

man, the audacity. and yet, there's millions of people out there so dumb that they'll buy it.

conference put on by minority journalists and again monkeyman put on a horrific performance. He stumbled through all of his answers, running sentences together, making no sense whatsoever. At the end of his time on stage he was so disoriented and shaken by his piss poor performance, he tried TWO ways to get of the stage before he figured out how to escape.

You are right when you point out that this guy says anything he wants to. Very little of what he says in public seems to have much bearing on what actually turns into policy.

On the "legacy" question he really struggled and said things he REALLY did not mean. Can you imagine the expression on the faces of his handlers standing in the wings when he spouted that kind of garbage???

English is my THIRD language and even my kids make fun of the monkeyman.

I assume you mean "surely". Unless you want to give it a woman's name, that is.....