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no_hypocrisy

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Mon Sep-05-05 07:03 AM
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THE BUCK STOPS HERE!

Edited on Mon Sep-05-05 07:09 AM by no_hypocrisy

Remember the placque on the desk of (democratic) President Harry S Truman?

He said it, he meant it.

He was ready to take responsibility for national problems because he was the President of the United States. He was not going to claim that "It's not my problem" or "Someone else should have been doing their job".

On the other hand, look at some poignant chapters in Bush on a Couch: Inside the Mind of the President by Justin A. Frank. * has never been held accountable for anything in his youth or adulthood. There's always been someone else to blame or wipe his ass. I offer this small quotation from Page 80:

As a high school student George W. Bush reportedly sold fake ID cards to his fellow Andover students, making a personal profit while helping others violate the drinking-age laws. But it wasn't until he went ot Yale that he began running into direct troble with the law -- even as he drew close to thelaw-making establishment. In late 1966, weeks after his father ws elected to the House of Representatives, he was arrested for disorderly conduct in New Haven. The following fall -- a time when he was deeply inolved with his secret society Skull and Bones . . ., he was detained and questioned by Princeton police for similiarly disorderly behavior. That fall also brought controversy to the DKE fraternity, of which he wsa the president, for its practice of burning pledges with a hot branding iron. The imbroglio made the pages of The New York Times, where Bush was quoted as dismissing the wound as "only a cigarette burn."

In later years, Bush would downplay these incidents as harmless college pranks. And his denials might be less troubling if they didn't fit so neatly into his lifelong pattern of implying that he has never done anything wrong.

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Cooley Hurd

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Mon Sep-05-05 07:15 AM
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1. Mistakes...

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/article.php?sid=15789&mode=nested&order=0

Helen Thomas: 'Bush says he can't think of any mistakes'
Posted on Friday, April 16 @ 09:59:41 EDT

President Bush told his news conference that he couldn't think of any mistakes he has made since he was inaugurated.

The president appeared totally flummoxed when asked to name one. He hemmed and hawed and aw-shucked, suggested that such a question was better left to historians. He complained about being asked such a question "in the midst of this press conference with all the pressure of trying to come up with an answer."

He then veered toward humility. "I don't want to sound like I've made no mistakes. I'm confident I have." But he said he just wasn't "as quick on my feet as I should be in coming up with one."

It's a pattern with him.:grr:

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MadeinOhio

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Mon Sep-05-05 07:19 AM
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2. Bush nominated John Racist to be Chief Justice.

Can we really expect anything less out of him?
:grr:

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