Bush caught in an outright lie!

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080616/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_who_knows

It looks like the AP has caught Bush in a terrible lie. When will the articles of impeachment be drafted?

Seriously, though, it must be a slow news day. Why even write this article? The author finishes with:

"Maybe he was suggesting that he might return to Europe as a private citizen, which is an entirely different point.

Or maybe he was just speculating."

So, if you realize that, then why not just scrap your whole stupid “news” article? Or is the temptation to try to throw a gotcha at Bush too great to pass up?

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Personally, I’m voting for “drunk”.

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Who? Reporter of Bush?

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That last was intended as irony, since the “speculation” was based on his own characterization of the trip as “my last visit as U.S. president to Europe.”

Nobody was speculating – they were reporting. To dismiss such reports as “speculation” afterwards is a special sort of idiocy.

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Eh, on the list of Bush lies and misleading and or idiotic statements this one doesn’t even place.

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Yeah, it doesn’t really measure up to Reagan’s “Nobody tells me where I’m going anymore,” which is probably the gold standard of Presidential travel agenda comment faux pas.

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Oh the man’s a frothing coke-head. It’s a wonder he can remember what day it is.

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I’d like to hear more about this theory that Associated Press has it in for George Bush. Is there a newsletter, by any chance?

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I’m more concerned about his white Methodist comment, even with the “rejection” of same…
I hope he saw the NO BUSH thing. I doubt he “got it.” I can see him calling Laura over to the window of Airforce 1 and him saying, “look, they didn’t plant any bushes on that hill! I wonder if they cut that shrub like I did out in Crawford…heheheheh”
I’m sorry, but the man is a parody of himself at this point. (ok, I’m not really sorry).

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I love Laura Bush’s comment (in one of the other snippets further down the page) on visiting Charles Dickens’ house: “This is very fabulous.” Say what?

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I bet the Europeans were speculating that this is the last trip to Europe in his lifetime. Bush wasn’t much the world traveller before becoming president. although he did visit China years ago when Papa Bear was the Ambassador.

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You sure about that, China Guy? I thought his only foreign trip before being president was to Canada.

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Tis fabulous, verily. It’s extremely extreme in it’s fabulosity. Um–
She is proof that not all librarians are smart people.

Irrelevant aside: can’t you just see these two people in an old folks home, exchanging inane comments and faulty memories? I don’t mean in 20 years–I mean January 2009.

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This isn’t about lying, it’s about Bush snarking at the press simply for reporting his own words It. It’s not a “gotcha,” it’s a “WTF?”