Bush: 'I am responsible'

Discussion in 'Politics & Current Events' started by Scarecrow, Dec 14, 2005.

  1. Barbara

    Barbara BigSoccer Supporter

    Apr 29, 2000
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States

    So the man actually admits that power (getting their votes through the House) is more important than ethics and the law.

    And still people defend him.

    Disgraceful.
     
  2. LiverpoolFanatic

    Liverpool FC, Philadelphia Union
    Feb 19, 2000
    Lancaster, PA
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    This one. Any country that allows the authorities to come in and search someone's private residence without their knowledge, read their personal correspondences, and hold people without charges is a police state. Thanks to Bush and his neocon cronies, that's the reality of the sitaution.
     
  3. Revolt

    Revolt Member+

    Jun 16, 1999
    Davis, CA
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    If Dubya has indeed changed, our country will be better off for it. I am encouraged - at least a little.

    However, Katrina is looking more like a bunch of hollow promises.
     
  4. Revolt

    Revolt Member+

    Jun 16, 1999
    Davis, CA
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I love Dan Froomkin. Even when he's simply pulling together news clips.

     
  5. argentine soccer fan

    Staff Member

    Jan 18, 2001
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Club:
    CA Boca Juniors
    Nat'l Team:
    Argentina
    It is nice to know that Bush said he's responsible, and it makes for nice press, but I don't see what is the big deal with taking responsibility. When it comes to politicians, all it means is that they determined that it is politically expedient to do so.

    And really, saying you're the one responsible doesn't change things at all. We all know the president makes certain decisions. President Truman may have said 'The Buck Stops Here', and that is great as a slogan, but it really doesn't change one bit what happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, or what happened in the Korean Peninsula.

    Those where very tough decisions that have to be discussed on their merits, not on whether or not the president actually officially assumed responsibility publicly for them. And the same is true of President Bush's decisions in regards to Afghanistan and Iraq.
     
  6. argentine soccer fan

    Staff Member

    Jan 18, 2001
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Club:
    CA Boca Juniors
    Nat'l Team:
    Argentina
    Right, I am shivering with fear that government agents will come and take me away. :D

    Seriously, I have lived under what could be called a 'police state' for a time, and to call the US right now a police state is ridiculous. You need to get a sense of proportion and of reality.
     
  7. Smiley321

    Smiley321 Member

    Apr 21, 2002
    Concord, Ca
    OK Ian, why no followup? I know it's not because you're too humble to brag.
     
  8. GringoTex

    GringoTex Member

    Aug 22, 2001
    1301 miles de Texas
    Club:
    Tottenham Hotspur FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Bolivia
    Now where's my rep?
     
  9. Mel Brennan

    Mel Brennan PLANITARCHIS' BANE

    Paris Saint Germain
    United States
    Apr 8, 2002
    Baltimore
    Club:
    Paris Saint Germain FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    lol, how do you get inspired at all with all this low-hanging fruit about?
     
  10. Smiley321

    Smiley321 Member

    Apr 21, 2002
    Concord, Ca
    It seems like he's denying that it was the first time he said it, not that he didn't say it. You said he'd deny he even said it.

    But just because I'm sick of those weasels I'll give you rep anyway.
     
  11. peledre

    peledre Member

    Mar 25, 2001
    Sioux Falls, SD
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    This just proves what we've always known, that Scot McLellan is a giant Douche.
     

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