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<shrug> Call “bullshit” all you want. Sometimes meetings and private dinners at people’s homes really are closely held enough that big media people don’t find out about them, but personal friends do.
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Where did these meetings and private dinners take place, Washington, DC? Crawford, TX?
I doubt very much Bush Administration, Cabinet-level strategerizing takes place in Redondo Beach, CA.
If one were to make a calendar with a Bush lie for every day you may have to use this one, because it’s kinda funny. But it doesn’t even give out a ping on the outrage meter. Try again.
[QUOTE=Count Blucher]
All politicians play politics. Not all politicians are Liars.
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Well put; thank you.
I tend to agree with mstay that on the scale of political deceptions, especially when calibrated for this administration, this one ranks pretty low, and doesn’t seem to have helped BushCo a terrible lot.
[QUOTE=Shayna]
<shrug> Call “bullshit” all you want. Sometimes meetings and private dinners at people’s homes really are closely held enough that big media people don’t find out about them, but personal friends do. Funny thing is, I composed a post about it back when I learned it, but decided against posting it precisely because I figured no one would believe me anyway. So be it. That doesn’t make it any less true.
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Yep, like I said, Jamie McIntyre has nothing on you. In fact, he pales by comparison. As do the highest ranking military officers of the nation.
Quite an act you’ve got going there: Oh, I’m sooooo important that I’m privy to incredibly covert information way ahead of the richest and most powerful media conglomerates in the world…that I almost shared as a National Exclusive on a lowly SDMB post but decided against it in the last minute. After all, not like I need more riches or fame.
When you write your Memoirs, may I ask you to autograph a copy just for me? Something to the tune of: "From a VIP Government insider, to a clueless plebe, with much affection.
Lady Shayna, Queen of Washington insiders, shakers and movers."
Thanx.
:rolleyes:
plebe = pissant
:smack:
[QUOTE=Carol Stream]
Where did these meetings and private dinners take place, Washington, DC? Crawford, TX?
I doubt very much Bush Administration, Cabinet-level strategerizing takes place in Redondo Beach, CA.
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I have lived in Queens, NY for over the past dozen years. I have worked in downtown NYC (multiple sites), midtown NYC (multiple sites), Jersey City, Philadelphia, Boston, Washington DC, Vienna (VA), Chicago, Scottsdale (AZ), Los Angeles, Bermuda*, and London. I’m looking forward to a couple of weeks in San Diego in January.
Consultants are a very mobile lot.
*In hurricane season, of course. Heaven forbid I get to go to Bermuda in the dead of winter - I get constant rain (no hurricane, though).
What’s interesting is not that Bush lied, but that he so brazenly not only seemed to admit to lying but even explained WHY he lied… and then got all testy when people asked confused questions about the discrepancy!
[QUOTE=Loopydude]
Whose brilliant idea was it to wait on the resignation, if it was planned? It seems in retrospect many would-be fence-sitters or even Republican voters cast their ballots for Dem. candidates to punish Bush for, among other things, retaining Rumsfeld despite him having about the lowest approval rating of anyone in the administration. If it was really so easy to just drop him, the timing couldn’t have been worse for the Republican party.
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That was my first impression, too, but it ignores the basic strategy employed in all cases by the Shrub: Act “strong.” Never change your mind. He wasn’t trying to stem the tide of Anti-Bush sentiment during this election cycle. He was trying to mobilize the pro-Bush “we admire stubbornness” sentiment.