'My Values Didn't Change' In Bush, Loyalists See a Good Man Who Has Gotten a Bad Rap

[Faygo Kid]

Note this now so your Sunday morning coffee and paper aren't ruined. And you bet I posted a comment about this article.

By Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, November 2, 2008; Page A01

On a cold, gray morning a week before Election Day, President Bush briefly emerged from the White House for an unannounced visit to the headquarters of the Republican National Committee in Southeast Washington.

Outside the RNC building, Bush continued to face record-low approval ratings and a presidential campaign focused on his failings. But inside an overflowing conference room, he was greeted with roaring applause as he urged his fellow Republicans to keep pushing for the finish line.

"His general message was to thank the staff for everything we've been doing and encourage us to keep working hard all the way through Election Day," said one person who attended the closed event. "It was upbeat and very exciting."

Even for a declared optimist, Bush has appeared remarkably sanguine in this season of discontent. The economy is melting down, his own party has shunned him and Tuesday's election is shaping up as a searing rebuke to his eight years in office.

Yet according to allies inside and outside the White House, Bush's mood remains buoyant and his attention is focused on the global financial collapse. In private meetings with business leaders, Bush has made a point of saying that he is happy the crisis happened on his watch so the next president and a new economic team do not have to grapple with it. . .

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/01/AR2008110100850.html

:puke:

[Solly Mack]

1. How tragic. The war criminal isn't bad ... he just got a bad rap

Yeah. I'll go weep now.

[Merlot]

2. of course he's happy the "crisis' happened on his watch

so he can make sure the plunder goes into the appropriate pockets.

As for "buoyant" that's an interesting choice of a word. I would have picked "fermented."

[Old Codger]

3. Completely devoid of

Reality , he and a good part of his remaining constituency are sadly deluded. The reason the meltdown happened on his "watch" was because he and his cronies are responsible for it.


:dem:

[tanyev]

4. I hope he didn't see his shadow.

Then he might refuse to leave the White House for six more weeks after Jan. 20th.

[Glorfindel]

5. The most despised man on the planet - and rightly so

May he live to be 100, and be reminded every day of his loathsome existence that the whole world detests him.

[acmavm]

6. This guy is either on drugs or the best liar on the planet:

<snip>

Ari Fleischer, one of Bush's former press secretaries, said that although Bush is "not prone to talk about legacy," he and his closest advisers are confident that history "will remember him well."

<snip>

I hate Ari F. He has absolutely no conscience.

http://dictionary.reference.com/dic?q=conscience&search=

the inner sense of what is right or wrong in one's conduct or motives, impelling one toward right action
OR
the complex of ethical and moral principles that controls or inhibits the actions or thoughts of an individual.

[Hugin]

7. Oh, thanks... The ad where the developmentally challenged young man rattles the locked door of a job

flashed through my mind.

A metaphor I didn't need this morning.

:eyes:



:)

[enuegii]

8. Yeah, and it's a good thing...

that I was driving when I totaled your car..

[MasonJar]

9. He's bouyant! Oh, that he would just float away into outer space.