Bush Is Stumped on Question of Mistakes

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040414/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_no_mistakes_4

WASHINGTON - President Bush acknowledged a good deal of introspection after all the questions lately about his government's actions before the Sept. 11 attacks and in Iraq, but not a whiff of contrition. Bush was asked in his prime-time news conference if he had made any mistakes.

"I'm sure something will pop into my head here," he said Tuesday. It didn't.

Bush is rarely one to second-guess himself and wasn't about to now, despite failures highlighted in the government's pre-Sept. 11, 2001, intelligence operations, the futile search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and all the recent violence there.

"I don't want to sound like I have made no mistakes," he said Tuesday night. "I'm confident I have."

But "maybe I'm not as quick on my feet as I should be in coming up with one."

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:puke:

He tries to come off all humble but doesn't have anything to back it up with. Simply playing to his religious base and supporters who don't like to think to much.

he has so much to be humble about.

period!

"My mistakes are for me to know, and for you to find out."

their mistakes have killed thousands of people: American, Afghani and Iraqi. We already know what their mistakes are. It would be nice to hear them own up to their mistakes.

His peanut-sized brain is so overwhelmed, the unelected moron can't pick just one.

Hey Bush! You're stupid!

I was wrong." LOL, he needs to have that on his desk in the oval office.

I don't think I have ever met anyone as cocky, arrogant and egotistical as Bush. Also, I can't believe that the press corps spent so much time trying to get him to admit he made a mistake. Maybe they were trying to "bring him down a notch" from his arrogance.

Here's the correct answer to cover his butt. "No one's perfect, but on the whole, I think we've done a fabulous job." He's so arrogant even the obvious answer eluded him.

What is the problem George? Too many to pick from?

Well lets start with the world being on fire and go from there perhaps?

He's got a couple of other sentence starters, too, as equally banal.

Bush is probably stumped on which shoe goes on which foot. The one thing he is never stumped on, is how to lie.

the Chimp was adamant that he will remain on the job as president! So I guess it's official then... the elections will be stolen again. Just a hypothetical though...what if Kerry wins the election and the Repubes start claiming that the elections were rigged/stolen like in 2000?? Do you think the Repubes would stoop that low?

yes

they can, and will, go lower

and swing their legs. I've always liked that pharase and boy of boy does it work now. I'm gonna turn into a social drinker. Wait...I'm already there!!! You know...all those Bush Speech drinking games and last night I just couldn't stop!

No trick too mean, no depth too low, no Skull too duggeried. These soul-less bastards will murder, rape, maim, steal, rob, burn, lie, and weep when they pray to their make believe god. They have no consciences, no scruples, no ethics and no hearts. Dick Cheney is the poster boy for these gutless puddles of puke and he would kill his own mother for a new pair of shoes. "Too low"? The words in connection to these Republicans don't even make sense.

Their ethic is a pure and chaste thing.

MONEY!!!

Here's a perfect example of a question that Clinton could reflect on and talk about with ease. Bush on the other hand is at a loss for words. Unless he has a script he can't even engage in a conversation about the weather. What a total disgrace and embarrassment it is that he is the leader of our country.

how many of us do NOT remember our own mistakes. It is mistakes we remember above all else - it is the way we learn. It is obvious this man has never even considered or thought about his own actions. He is bereft of normal emotion and thought.

So why should he remember what he cannot learn from?

babs must have dropped him on his head in infancy. :puke:

He says "I'm confident I have made mistakes, but I can't think of any." Even that is an attempt to claim he's flawless, since admitting to never make a mistake would seem delusional.

Then there was his attempt at the "Fool me once" cliche. As Conason pointed out, the line he was completely unable o say was "Shame on me."

He's completely unable to admit he has made a mistake, or even form the words. That's not a sign of arrogance that's a sign of total insecurity. This man is completely unstable. His mother was mean, his father was abusive. Look at JEB, look at Neal, they are all mean. W is mean, but he's more insecure than the others. It would almost be sad-- a typical abused child-- if he weren't in his fifties, and slaughtering significant numbers of people.

Unstable leaders wind up committing horrible atrocities.

to note that had Dubya issued an apology, it would have opened him to Democratic broadsides. What a lie! Kerry's nightmare must be that Dubya WOULD apologize -- that would: (1) make Dubya look as human as possible, for him; (2) take the wind out of some of the criticism; and (3) make any broadside about said apology counterproductive. The smart thing would be for Dubya to apologize. The thing is that he just can't do it.

And note that he said that he would have invaded Iraq even had he known there were no WMDs. Aside from the likelihood that he in fact did do so, what about the original claim that that was THE reason for the invasion? And he repeated last night that Saddam was a danger to the US -- an outright lie.

as the old saying goes. What an idiot. :grr:

Bush has despicable policies and is evil. He's very dangerous because he can phrase things in a nonthreatening manner and charm the public. The way he phrased this also shows that he is not stupid.

Bush has despicable policies and is evil. He's very dangerous because he can phrase things in a nonthreatening manner and charm the public. The way he phrased this also shows that he is not stupid.

...is telling because it is misunderapplied by the bonehead in chief.

he was sure that all those executed by the state were guilty.
this was at a time when many states were reporting of innocents
being falsely convicted and suspending capital punishment.

Are a bunch of us American brain dead that we cannot see this guy is clearly over his head and he is faking his way through?

We are surely toast unless there is a potion to wake our neurons and activate them. This dude is not only damaged goods, he is LOLO.

Apologies to the Lolos out there.

..."president bush news conference" on google news yet?

I'm not sure if someone posted it already, but you should really give it a go. :)

I mean, I know it's polite to you guys to just be one of the fellas, but seriously...

ASS that fool is, he's sickening and a disgrace. :puke:

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He would have been stumped if they asked him his middle name.

As I read on a Yahoo board last night, Kerry doesn't have to campaign anymore. Just show re-runs of this press conference.

It was quite an understatment when they said the Chimp brings his message down to what the average american can understand.

no balls at all. Sure he doesn't mind electrocuting people and sending soldiers to their death, but if he had to go he'd go hide.

without a scripted answer.

was thinking that being The President was an easy job. Clinton must have made it look too easy. People can say what they want about Clinton, but he worked VERY hard.

What I hate about Dubya is that he's lazy, that's why he didn't do anything about the security alerts before 9-11. It is really a deadly combination: stupid and lazy.

was believing the foolish sycophant who once told him that if he got off the booze and drugs he might be fit for public office.

toast.