*Bush missed his one chance to beat the rap - and wimped out instead.

It may be genetic, but Bush's quivering lips as he blamed the CIA for the SOTU lie just stamped wimp in big black letters on his forehead.
This was the Wimp-in-chief's one oppertunity to stand tall (like a top-gun fighter), adjust his crotch sock and say "I take full respsibility for everything I say!" "I am the mouth piece of God almighty - blah, blah, blah, etc. etc."

But he didn't do it. He wimped out - just like his daddy did before him. The Bush men aren't exactly what you would call Audey Murphy types!

This should be part of every campaign ad and stump speach! George Bush wimped-out! He wouldn't take responsibility for his watch! He cried and made Condie Rice snitch on the CIA. The CIA, for cryin' out loud!

He has no guts, no backbone, no character. It should be so easy to flush this little weasle right done the toilet.

The buck stops at who ever Bush can lay it off on. This guy is a wimp!

edit: sorry came out as a kinda screed and spelling took a beating.

to stick, and they should because they are true, Bush is done for.

Watergate, he made the fateful decision to go into coverup mode. That is what AWOL-boy just did. He probably has just stepped over the line of no return and gone into coverup mode. So let's feast on his carcass and put him in the unemployment line in November 2004.

on edit: changed 'NEXT November toNovember 2004'. (I got too optimistic

...as I've said a dozen times since Friday. (I'm agreeing with you.) The mistake wasn't because it outraged the CIA, though that certainly can't help. But really, Tenet isn't CIA--he's just the pol in charge. The career guys don't regard the appointees as members of the same club at all.

No the real mistake was simply in trying to lay it off on someone else when it is so patently obviously an inside problem. I was DELIGHTED at that move. It meant they were going to stonewall it. And the harder and longer you stonewall one of these, the worse the consequences when the wall inevitably breaks down. It was one of the stupidest things I've ever seen them do. If anyone out there is convinced that Rove Makes No Mistakes and Controls Everything, this will be a lesson to them. Not to mention to Rove too. It is a classic neophyte error. Because of it, I have absolutely no qualms when people say "It's peaked," "It's over," "They've changed the story and we've lost." No it hasn't, no it isn't, and no we haven't. Tenet's non-mea-culpa-mea-culpa absolutely committed them to the one strategy that can NOT work. It's like handing their critics a great big mace to clout them with over and over again.

Just be patient, is what I advise. It's like watching a chess game where black just made a fatal error; he hasn't noticed yet, but he has. And soon he'll see it and try to convince himself he can pull it out. May take him another twenty moves to admit it, but he's fucked.

Black made a bad move. Either they are not sure it was a bad move yet or they are hoping we didn't see it. I can be patient. I want to see a long, slow, and painful death.

in comparison to the lame excuse for a President we have today.

...and made a few heads roll right off the bat. Could have gotten away with it way later than he should have if he'd just been capable of admitting an error.

But of course he isn't--which is one of the classic signs of a bad executive. "Bad" here meaning "underqualified and therefore unsure of himself and therefore unable to admit error because all errors, even the most trivial, threaten exposure of his lack of ability."

Which has spread out to the whole bunch. Like a mutual sustaining delusion that they all must keep up at all costs. My god it's fun watching them being slowly impaled by their own inability to admit they are sitting on a big sharp greased stake. ARRGGgh, cough, uck, sputter, Nothing's, errk, wrong, it's all... huh huh, oh god... all just f-f-fine. OOoohhhh momma!"

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The American public wouldn't have cared as much if Clinton had just admitted his infidelity and taken his lumps initially. The story wouldn't have had as much traction if it was all out in the open from the start. It would be ironic if Bush, for all his striving to be the anti-Clinton, ends up being taken down by the same thing that they tried to take Clinton down for (i.e. lying)

I think we've all, at some point of our lives, have had a chance to admit wrong and accept responsibility. And we have failed at first and I hope we eventually got it right in later events. I'm talking about growing from children to adults.

Bush, to use a biblical reference(exCatholic here), is the equivalent of Peter, denying 3 times the truth. Peter gets over it in the story, Bush will not.

Bush gets yet another 'F' in courage. He's never had any.

No character, that is. Takes no responsibility, even when we know he was going to have this war, no matter who objected.

"F**k Saddam, we're taking him out".
"The UN better go along or they are in danger of becoming irrelevant."

Now that he is exposed, does he take the heat? No, find someone else to blame. Personal responsibility, George.....you haven't got the character. That's why we didn't elect you.