Leaker-In-Chief
April 8th, 2006A great headline awaits those who click.
“‘It was a shameful act for someone to disclose this very important program in a time of war,’ he [President Bush] told a news conference last Dec. 19, speaking of the leaking of the National Security Agency’s warrantless surveillance program.”
The President is a hypocrite. o
April 8th, 2006 at 8:24 am
Heh. I wonder if he knows what the word hypocrite means? He will soon enough, and in a most painful way. You know, I’m almost embarassed at how much I am enjoying the administration’s discomfort and bumbling.
April 8th, 2006 at 8:32 am
He went to Yale and Harvard. It’s all an act to appeal to his base.
April 8th, 2006 at 9:47 am
If it’s an act, it’s a good one. The man is so consistantly vapid and idiotic I can no longer stand to hear his voice in any context. Isn’t it possible he went to Yale and Harvard because of his daddy’s money?
April 8th, 2006 at 10:06 am
How can we teach our children to be honest, and trustworthy?
How can we tell our children hurting others for personal benefit is wrong?
How can we tell our children that difference is not a bad thing, and just because someone has a different culture and worships another god, it does not make them ìevil doersî?
How can we tell our children to go to school and learn when educated people use words like ìevil doersî?
How can we convince our children to any of this when the leader and role model of this country is George W. Bush?
Politics aside people, this man is a horrible example of what a “good” person should be. Telling classified information to shut someone up? Just because that someone was questioning “W’s” motivations behind invading Iraq. Oh wait a minute….maybe this is his example of good Christian values he is so adamant about advocating for.
April 8th, 2006 at 10:33 am
“Democrats called President Bush a hypocrite Friday for authorizing the leak of sensitive intelligence before arguing that other leaks endangered United States, but the White House said there was a sharp distinction between the episodes.
Bush paved the way for former top vice-presidential aide Lewis “Scooter” Libby to release previously classified information to a New York Times reporter in 2003 because it would clarify the public’s misunderstanding about the Iraq war, presidential spokesman Scott McClellan said.
The president’s condemnation of unknown individuals’ subsequent leaks to the same newspaper, about his authorization of a secret eavesdropping program without search warrants, could have tipped off terrorists to American spy operations, the spokesman said.”
The White House is tap dancing manically at this point. Scott McClellan must have major ulcers.
Bush is an ass _and_ a hypocrite.
April 8th, 2006 at 10:40 am
Oh, I don’t think the man is the possessor of a low IQ, but I do think he is willfully ignorant of the law, the public record, the concept that actions speak louder than words, and the reality that he is not, in fact, above the law.
April 8th, 2006 at 10:55 am
http://tinyurl.com/38hlt
Link goes to rotten.com’s profile of George W. Bush.
April 8th, 2006 at 12:23 pm
but have you guys seen the Bush 10 year difference video clip?
(please ignore the name of my blog-it is not a dooce parody and there is no dooceness in it at all. unfortunately)
April 8th, 2006 at 12:52 pm
I feel like I’m watching the Republican party implode.
What an asshat.
April 8th, 2006 at 1:00 pm
Sadly, I’ve come to take Bush’s hypocrasy in stride.
The part of this whole event that has been a real eye-opener for me is that I was unaware that a President can declassify information for political cover and not be held accountable for it legally. That really sucks…
April 8th, 2006 at 1:22 pm
http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/09/30/wilson.cia/
April 8th, 2006 at 5:48 pm
Leak or no leak, it’s only politics and eveyone politician on Capitol Hill is just as guilty in some way, shape, or form. The President of the United States is empowered to declassify information. What’s the big deal? If Bush is an “asshat” he’s one bad “asshat.” Cynthia McKinney, on the other hand, is an asshat. The GOP is imploding?
April 8th, 2006 at 6:28 pm
McDonie, I think it’s awful and awfully cavalier (and typical for a Bush supporter) for you to dismiss Bush’s doings as “just politics”. Especially given what he’s done in the past, and the horrible decisions he’s made. He’s saying that not only is he above the law, he’s saying he IS the law. That is not the way it works. Executive powers have to be balanced by the legislative and judicial.
April 8th, 2006 at 10:02 pm
That’s rich. The new Republican tactic. Point fingers at everyone (regardless of guilt or innocence) that way what the president did doesn’t seem so bad. It’s a pathetic desperate smokescreen. The Administration can no longer cover the Bush blunders. Pathetic because not only are they trying to drag down the Democrats with them but they’re turning on each other. Desperate because there’s no covering it up this time.
This makes them extremely dangerous. The usual ploy is to draw attention away from the scandal. What better way than to invade another country? Iran perhaps? He’s so fucking predictable. After all, he wanted to be known as a “war president.”
Subjective morality and situational ethics are de rigueur in the Bush Administration. The very things they found abhorrent and blamed on the Democratic Party. The selling point of the Bush election was Christian ethics and morality. How is any of this Christian? How is any of this moral or ethical? How can he justify it? He can’t.
Hold on to your hats folks. It’s going to be a bumpy ride.
April 9th, 2006 at 3:48 am
“The President is a hypocrite”
Y’all are just realizing this now?
April 9th, 2006 at 6:34 am
The president a hypocrite???
I’m SOOOOOOOO surprised!
He’s usually such a stand up guy.
Hey, what’s that smell?
Oh, right. It’s sarcasm.
April 9th, 2006 at 6:59 am
While there are many chilling examples of wayward behavior by this administration, one of the more chilling for me is what Blurb mentioned about Bush thinking he IS the law.
The founding fathers were very smart in creating a government that is equal parts legislative, judicial, and executive. Trying to subvert that balance, rather blatantly in Bush’s case, is profoundly disrespectful, very dangerous, and way beyond “politics as usual.”
April 9th, 2006 at 10:03 am
Depressed, I am that this man is still in office. It gets worser and worser (yes, I realize worser isn’t actually a real word)…
Impeach this bastard-son-of-a-bitch ALREADY!
I say we elect Dooce and Blurb, who’s with me
April 9th, 2006 at 10:04 am
“If there’s a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is,” Bush told reporters at an impromptu news conference during a fund-raising stop in Chicago, Illinois. “If the person has violated law, that person will be taken care of.”
By “being taken care of, did he mean “given a medal”?
April 9th, 2006 at 1:08 pm
Hey, I’ve been reading your blog for a while…I love it…now, help me out and give me something non-political to stew on for a while…I’m just not that into ignorant politicians…I like plain ignorant people better and you are great when writing about other stuff…….
April 9th, 2006 at 2:02 pm
Did George W. Bush get into Harvard and Yale because of his daddy’s money? It sure wasn’t because of his grades and SAT scores.
Come to think of it, didn’t he get ALL of his jobs including President of the United States of America because of his daddy’s money?
April 9th, 2006 at 3:39 pm
W’s SAT scores weren’t that bad. They weren’t great, but they weren’t that bad.
April 9th, 2006 at 7:58 pm
Bravo, amanda m! What you posted was right-on! As a parent, it is so hard to teach my daughter to have any respect for the U.S. President, so your comment of, “How can we convince our children to any of this when the leader and role model of this country is George W. Bush?” hit home.
My girl is 12, so for her, Bush is the only president she has ever known much about. Except she was a little bit aware of Clinton’s tryst with Monica, as it was everywhere on the news. The child has been invited to a week-long conference in D.C. next year for middle-schoolers. It is a slam-packed trip, involving visits to every dang monument, governmental institution, etc. You know what her first comment was? “I’m not sure I want to go, Mom. If I finally get to meet a president, why do I have to meet the dumb one?”
Her father and I don’t push her to judge Bush one way or the other, but she can see right through him. Makes me very sad.
I hope for Leta’s sake that there will be a more honorable man or woman in office during her formative years that she can look up to.
April 9th, 2006 at 8:23 pm
I don’t think they were good enough to get him in to Yale without serious help from his daddy (and granddaddy too)!
According to The New Yorker, Bush’s score was 1206 on the SAT: 566 verbal and 640 math.
This is reported by many sources to be 180 points below the median score for his Yale classmates!
Let’s face it, Bush was admitted to Yale in 1964 under an affirmative-action policy for children of alumni. What colleges call a “legacy” system.
And how the heck did he get into Harvard Business School, one of the the nation’s premier training schools for corporate executives?
And how did he become a pilot after scoring only 25% on a pilot-aptitude test, the lowest acceptable grade?
It’s all thanks to daddy!
April 9th, 2006 at 10:18 pm
Charles, while I agree with you about the help, I’m going to quote from the rotten.com link I posted in comment #7:
“Bush had been admitted with an SAT score of 1206 (566 verbal, 640 math) which was low for Yale but perfectly respectable anywhere else. This would correlate to an approximate I.Q. of 129. In fact, a 1300 on the SAT would have been sufficient to join MENSA. So 1206 is a far cry from stupid.”
That’s all I’m saying. He plays dumb.