During Bush's term, did any official ever admit a mistake and publicly apologize?

[scheming daemons]

Not that I recall.

That right there illustrates a major difference between us and them.

It is a sign of strength, not weakness, to publicly admit a mistake and ask for forgiveness.

It is reason #17254 why we're better than they are.

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1. If they had apologized would you quickly forgive them?

[JuniperLea]

2. Depends on the situation...

And the actions after the words.

[no limit]

I guess I agree. Lets see what happens next time Fox tries this. White house is 1 for 3

They didn't apologize for Van Jones or for ACORN. Lets hope next time they stand up and actually fight, I kind of doubt it though.

[seabeyond]

7. man, and i wish hope pray that they get on tv soon bringing up acorn and this to do.

and then going after fox. loudly, clearly. like obama had the balls to do once before. regardless of backlash.

doubt they will with the van jones story

[JuniperLea]

12. Yep...

It's time to lay it all out. They should dredge it all up, including Van Jones, and lay it all out with the evidence.

Alleged news organizations who lie... this is the problem.

[NJmaverick]

18. Why would the White House apologize over acorn?

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20. I would think that if a group fights that hard for Obama atleast Obama would offer some defense

instead of throwing that group under the bus. Remember the defund ACORN bill? Didn't Obama sign that bill? After all, I'm sure you're more aware of what goes on inside the white house than any of us here do, isn't that right NJmaverick?

[NJmaverick]

24. You are engaging in some serious hyperbole. It's one thing if the President actively went after

them, it's quite another to demand he take extraordinary measures on their behalf and claim he "threw them under the bus" if he doesn't

[no limit]

28. So he didn't sign the defund acorn bill?

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37. How come when you can't refute simple facts you always just leave the discussion

You can never come back and say "yeah, that was wrong of Obama to do". You just pretend like it never happened. Would admitting a fault this president has done interfere with your job?

[NJmaverick]

38. Facts? You mean the fact that there never was a specific bill defunding ACORN

bur rather it was part of a larger bill and so you were wrong to make the claims you made? Those facts?

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39. A spending bill Obama could have easily vetoed to have this removed, he didnt even threaten to

How about as this bill was written? Could Obama have put pressure on congress to leave this section out? No, he was silent on the matter. Why? Because it wouldn't have been politically convinient even if it was the right thing to do.

Your excuses are bullshit.

[NJmaverick]

40. Funny, why didn't you make that clear before? So the President would have had

to take the extraordinary measure of vetoing an important spending bill, which is EXACTLY what I said in the first place. It supports my assertion of your use of hyperbole. Maybe next time you will let sleeping dogs lie.

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41. I see, so the president has absolutely no control over what these bills contain?

and in the interest of not having to take a stand he threw ACORN under the bus. Which is exactly what I said.

[seabeyond]

3. he made a mistake. admitted the mistake. rectified to correct mistake. took responsibility for

mistake.

what is left?

[no limit]

6. Nothing is left as long as they don't make this same mistake again (this was the 3rd time)

ACORN, Van Jones, now this.

[seabeyond]

8. i responded to your post above. agreed. nt

[napi21]

4. Republicans view admitting a mistake as weakness, so NO none

of them admitted any mistakes much less apologize for one! The only apology I recall from the Shrub era was Richard Clarke & he's not a Pub!

[Posteritatis]

5. Hell, didn't Bush openly claim to be infallible a few times? (nt)

[Ian David]

9. There was the dude who was shoplifting from Target. n/t

[lob1]

10. I can't remember bush apologizing for anything.

Remember when bush was asked at a press conference if he had ever made a mistake (as prez)? He stood and hemmed and hawed and couldn't think of a thing he did wrong. It is a republican policy never to admit a mistake. Ever!

[bigwillq]

30. .....

Bush Apologizes to Wiccan Soldier's Widow for Meeting Slip-Up

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/31/AR2007083101954.html

[YOY]

11. Ah...but you EXPECT Republicans to be RW assholes.

n.t.

[Edweird]

13. Did they ever fire someone on the word of a LW blogger?

We obviously define 'strength' differently.

[seabeyond]

15. ah, lying into two wars and all the innocent loss of life not nearly as significant? wtf? nt

[Edweird]

19. Again, did they jump when anybody from the Left said 'boo!'?

Why would a 'strong' administration care what their known liar political enemies put forth?

[seabeyond]

23. again.... op says, did bushco apologize for anything? again, there was a lot to apologize for that

had nothing to do with lw blog.

[Edweird]

26. And my response is a question.

That question is 'Did the Bush administration give a damn about what anybody on the Left said or thought?'
This administration fired a good woman on the word of a known liar RW hack blogger. They did so without any investigation - when the truth was easy to obtain. The fired her in a cowardly and reprehensible manner.
"Strength" would have resulted in none of this happening.

[seabeyond]

27. or one makes a mistake, owns it and changes course to correct the problem, ergo stronger. wtf? nt

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29. This is the 3rd time they made this mistake. The difference here is they finally owned up to this

because they had absolutely no excuse. But don't act like this didn't happen before on more than one occasion. And it's not only about the people they fired before because of Glenn Beck, it's about all those other times the white house freaks out every time right wing liars shout.

[seabeyond]

34. i am not "acting" like anything and we have already had this conversation above. nt

[Jennicut]

14. Rethugs don't believe in admitting their mistakes. Bush was the decider, and we were not

supposed to question him or anyone in his administration, remember?

Vilsack is not my favorite Dem ever but how quickly we forget the bullshit of the Bush administration.

[Enrique]

16. yes, probably many times n/t

[hack89]

17. Rumsfeld apologized for Abu Ghraib, Bush for Walter Reed

Rice apologized for the Blackwater shootings in Iraq and to candidate Obama for the breach of his passport records.

That's all I could find in 5 minutes - do you want me to search some more?

[TwilightGardener]

22. Thanks for the reminder--what a godawful pack of murderous assholes they were.

[librechik]

21. Richard Clarke--but he was one of ours, really....

[JonLP24]

25. I actually recall Rumsfeld apologizing

I still think we're better though.

[tom_paine]

31. K & R

We aren't often in agreement these days, but I am happy to give you that 5th rec on this one.

But the real story here is that the real story, Breitbart's serial fraud, will be censored once again in favior of the usual Corporate M$M misdirecting script.

Of which focusing on the WH apology is the first step in the laundering of Breitbart's role in this.

[frylock]

32. keep lowering that bar..

you're going to need a backhoe sometime soon.

[asdjrocky]

33. Like my parents always said to me-

I don't care what they do, I care what you do.

[applegrove]

35. Yup. The truth is the best narrative there is.

[cynatnite]

36. I recall he had difficulty thinking of any regrets he might have...so, I'd say no.n/t