How can anyone still defend this guy?
Posted on December 23rd, 2006 by JTkPosted in bush, politico |
Question: You said October 24th, “Absolutely, we’re winning.” And I wanted to…
Bush: Yes, that was an indication of my belief we’re going to win
Question: Mr. President, less than two months ago at the end of one of the bloodiest months in the war, you said, “Absolutely we’re winning.” Yesterday you said, “We’re not winning, we’re not losing.” Why did you drop your confident assertion about winning?
Bush: My comments — the first comment was done in this spirit: I believe that we’re going to win; I believe that — and by the way, if I didn’t think that, I wouldn’t have our troops there. That’s what you got to know. We’re going to succeed. My comments yesterday reflected the fact that we’re not succeeding nearly as fast as I wanted when I said it at the time…”
With regard to the first Q & A just because you believe that something is going to happen in the future does not make it an absolute in the present. Anyone that cannot see the difference should not be the leader of the country.
With regard to the second answer, if it was written by Hunter S Thompson one would say - HST finally crossed the line into complete pyscobabble - but this was spoken by the leader of the free world…