Monday, August 21, 2006
The Big Fool says to push on.
At his press conference today, Our Dear Embattled Leader added nothing new to the national knowledge and did drag out a few of his favorite old chestnuts.
One new wrinkle in the coverage of the event occured. The NY Times actually fact checked one of his statements. Here it is in all its glory.
We're not leaving, so long as I'm the president.And
"Leaving before the job is done would be a disaster."As usual he failed to tell anyone what the job is, was or will be.
One new wrinkle in the coverage of the event occured. The NY Times actually fact checked one of his statements. Here it is in all its glory.
When a questioner noted that Mr. Bush was born in Connecticut, the president said, “I may be the only person, the only presidential candidate who never carried the state in which he was born.”Boy! We sure is lucky to have the NYT on the job!
But a quick check of political reference books turned up others: Senator George S. McGovern, who failed to carry his native South Dakota in 1972 as he was buried in a landslide by President Richard M. Nixon; Adlai E. Stevenson, usually associated with Illinois but born in Los Angeles, who failed to carry California (or Illinois) against Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952 or 1956; Alfred M. Landon, the Pennsylvania-born governor of Kansas who failed to carry Pennsylvania (or Kansas) against President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936; Gov. Alfred E. Smith, who lost his native New York to Herbert Hoover in 1928; James M. Cox, who was born in Ohio but lost to another Ohioan, Warren G. Harding, in 1920, and Abraham Lincoln, who failed to carry Kentucky in 1860 and 1864..
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Yeah, like, if they'd actually fact-checked all that bullshit about "weapons of mass destruction" that the Codpiece-in-chief used to scare the American people into supporting his little Iraq adventure?
Oh yeah, that's right, they were too busy printing Chalibi's WMD bullshit without noting that Chalabi was a convicted con artist.
Alrighty, then!
- Badtux the Snarky Penguin
Oh yeah, that's right, they were too busy printing Chalibi's WMD bullshit without noting that Chalabi was a convicted con artist.
Alrighty, then!
- Badtux the Snarky Penguin
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