Bush altered weekly radio address after Democrats' complaint

CNN: July 28, 2007
Bush alters radio address for Democrats

WASHINGTON (CNN) — One sentence in President Bush’s weekly radio address was deleted overnight after some Democrats privately complained that it was overly partisan on the explosive subject of reforming the administration’s warrantless wiretap program, White House officials confirmed Saturday.

In the initial radio address, which was taped Friday, Bush charged that the country is less safe because of Democratic delays in passing legislation that would reform the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

“Every day that Congress puts off these reforms increases the danger to our nation,” the president originally said.

White House officials say that line of audio was deleted after Democrats saw a transcript of the remarks distributed Friday afternoon....

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A senior White House official suggested Saturday that the administration wanted to turn the temperature down on all the controversy and get reform legislation passed....

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2007/07/28/bush-alters-radio-address-for-democrats/

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I would not be surprised. When has he ever changed anything he says or does in the past? I smell something fishy. We shall see what the Dem's come up with on FISA reforms.

I suspect everyone in the White House knows his is a failed, flawed, and deadly presidency.

Something along the lines of "if the new legislation is so important, why didn't you contact us about it?"

oh and I won't call republicans the Slimey fuckers that they are either

their trail of CRIMES? Of course they want to turn the temperature down!:rofl: