bush says",i have never said we will stay the course," during interview with George stephanopoulos?

Question

transcript: Stephanopoulos-James Baker says that he's looking for something between cut and run and stay the course.

Bush- well, hey, listen,"we've never been stay the course, George. We have been complete the mission, we will do our job, and help acheive the goal, but were constantly adjusting our tactics. constantly."



8/30/06 bush says we will stay te course to utah air national guard.
8/4/05 we will stay the course and complete the mission at his ranch in tx.
4/13/04 and my message today to those in iraq WE WILL STAY THE COURSE. at a press conf. in east room
4/16/04 that's why were going to stay the course in iraq, and that's why WHEN WE SAY SOMETHING IN IRAQ WERE GOING TO DO IT. said in rose garden with tony blair at press availability.

My question is this. Is Bush a flip flopper

if it is a good thing to flip flop, then why did bush use the phrase to attack kerry?

Answer 1

flip-flopping? virtually all the words he uttered are meaningless, utterly meaningless - ready and empty for every citizen to fill up with their own psyche and libido, to create the meaning that works to pacify the citizen and render him or her a subject.

The Bush Administration has been laughing right in our faces since before day 1 - remember the godly President describing a reporters as a major league a&*( and, oh yeah, that disenfranchisement of tens of thousands of florida black voters and the goon squad of congressional staffers sent to disrupt vote recounts in South Florida - the squad who held with Cheney a cell phone conversation that was overheard and even given play in the media.)

During the war, Bush did a skit showing himself looking around his office, under furniture, for WMD. While boys are dying and while he knows there are no WMDs- or his handlers know - god knows what this dangerous manchild who used to put firecrackers in frogs when he was a boy and who stayed drunk until 40 knows.

In other words, Bush is not a flip flopper. Bush is the public front of a gangster enterprise in our white house which has looted billions - billions, that's real money, they say - and used the blood of our young men and women to get it for him and CHeney's friends at Halliburton. A criminal enterprise which has weaked our civil liberties possibly to the point of no return.

What is our government going to do with the millions of terrorism scores now assigned to us citizens after the gangsters leave office?

Although virtually everyone acknowledges that Bush's premises are wrong and dangerous and expensive, we sit and wait.

see how much money we have as a union? we spend billions of dollars a week in iraq. billions for destruction.

think of the health care system we'd have with that money. the envy of the world it would be - as the repubs try to delude you ours is now.

let's not play the stupid political game. this is no flipflopping. this is murder and theft. theft of our money and our future and our possibilities.

now we know that when Nero fiddled through the fire, it was by design and for profit.

the question is - now that we know, why do we stand by? or do we demand the new democratic congress (let it not just be the house.....) actually act as the separate and equal branch of govt they are?

Answer 2

What does it matter?

Is Bush the president of the US? Yes.

Can we impeach him for being a "flip-flopper?" No.

I don't like Bush. I don't like the way he's handled the war. I don't like how he talks even! Does it matter if I don't like him? No. Do you really think he cares? No. Is the presidency about popularity? No.

Get over it--he's our president. I'm sure he's trying the best he can right now.

If you really want to make a difference start thinking about the 2008 campaign. Look at the people who are starting to think about being president. Learn about them now so you can make an educated decision when the time comes!

Answer 3

I watched the video that the DNC has on the "flip flop," but I am concerned that it is taken out of context. The quote almost starts in mid-word, it is certainly in mid-sentence, and he is cut off before he completes the sentence.
I would like to see more of that interview. Do you have the date on the one where he says, "we never meant to stay the course?"
Thanks

Answer 4

Of course he's a flip flopper. All politicians do it. It's actually a good thing. It means that perhaps they've seen new evidence that's convinced them that they should change their stance on an issue.

Answer 5

you have in simple terms indexed a fragment of the situations he has suggested "stay the direction". of direction he's a turn flopper, in simple terms verify out the form of diverse reasons given to assault Iraq....

Answer 6

You are only just now figuring this out!

Here is the gold star.

Answer 7

It is politics. What else do you expect?