if all you say is written by others, you can't be held 'LIEble'

[mopaul]

bush will use every excuse, including the dog ate my homework, to weasel out of responsiblity for his speech under oath. but the lamest and most offensive is, 'somebody other than i myself wrote those words, i was only reading them, and therefore bear no blame in any conflict that might arise'. or, 'somebody gave me erroneous intelligence and it was a mistake', or some other 4th grade excuse.

the simple awful truth is that a president of the goddamned united states IS responsible for every word in his speeches, wheather they are all his words, ala abe lincoln, or someone elses.

and whoever it is that is putting together these speeches that the president is reading off teleprompters is the real evil. monkeyman is only a marionette.

[Jacobin]

1. That's okay by me.

Then he will finally admit that he is just an incompetent puppet who does what others tell him to do.

We know that.

The Murkin people don't seem to generally know that...at least half anyway.

Let' let him put it on the record.

:-)

[The_Gopher]

2. as a university instructor, i'd have to agree

if i had a student give a presentation in class, then it turned out that some of the information provided was bogus, and the student said, "well, i had my friends look it over, and they said it was all okay," would that get the student off the hook? hell no.

and it shouldn't get the pRes off the hook either.

and if i had a student say, "well, this info is *factually* correct," i'd be offended and think the student was insulting my intelligence. and thus it is with these criminals.

[skip2mylou]

3. That is true

but be careful, some might say that Clinton lied, and they will throw that back at you.

[qb]

4. It's not my fault, I copied Tony's homework.

Seriously, though, it's incredible that their defense is that they found some murky second-hand intelligence (from the Brits) more credible than what the CIA was telling them directly. This isn't going to fly.

I also read last week that Britain's mysterious "intelligence" is nothing more than an Italian summary of the forged papers (sorry - can't find the link).

Regarding Clinton's: He has already taken responsibility for his "lie", and the public thinks lying about sex is no big deal anyway. Comparisons to Clinton can only hurt Bush.

[El Mariachi]

5. pfft

What does Clinton have to do with anything? If they throw Clinton back at you ask them why it was ok for Bush to lie and not Clinton.