So the constitution is "just a piece of paper" to GWB. I thought the president was sworn to uphold it?

Answer 1

He'll uphold the Constitution only when it is convenient to do so. Otherwise it is as he called it a "goddamn piece of paper".

Answer 2

OK, just so people understand where I'm coming from: I intensely dislike what GW Bush has done to this country.

OK, now, as much as I'd like to prove that he said something as dastardly as that I have yet to find a credible source anywhere that confirms it.

Allegedly there were several GOP members of Congress in the Oval Office when he was alleged to have made the statement but there does not seem to be any first-person account from any of those allegedly present to corroborate the story. In fact, there is no list of names anywhere that I can find of who the alleged witnesses might have been.

Given that there is no credible source and no corroboration of the allegations I must therefore conclude that it is unsubstantiated at the very least. IMHO, it's probably false.

Don't be suckered in by unsubstantiated allegations. Check your facts and sources first. You marginalize yourself when you fail to do so.

Answer 3

We've been ignoring the Constitution for decades - GWB isn't the first. FDR created government bureaucracies that were and still are Unconstitutional, although for some reason, most have not been challenged in court. Where does the Constitution or Bill of Rights give the government to create a national retirement program - Social Security? What about the Department of Education? Do you advocate the government creating a Nationalized health care bureaucracy? If so, where is the Constitutional mandate? We've been setting dangerous precedents for years, so we should not be surprised.

Answer 4

That was proven to be a lie. Google Bush's alleged quote and you wont see it on ANY real news source. The only place you'll find it is on blogs. It's nothing more than a hoax. I wanted to find out the truth so I googled "Bush goddamned piece of paper" and got 488,000 hits. I started to look at some of the sites like homelandstupidity.us, theleftcoaster.com and democrats.com. I wonder how unbiased and credible those sources are. I took a closer look at the web addresses for the first 1000 hits and not even one of them were a credible news site. Most, if not all, were opinion and blog sites. Wouldn't you think if President Bush actually made those statements every mainstream news site would have picked up the story? I couldn't find one news site that had the story (including MSNBC).

Answer 5

Even if the attribution of that quote were true, I don't exactly think that Democrats and other kindred liberals are in any place to claim that they uphold the Constitution. The left treat the Constitution as if it is a Rohrshach test. When they look at the Constitution, they see in it whatever they want to see. (A "right to privacy," and an endless number of kinds of discrimination, etc.)

Answer 6

Bush got confused. he thought he was to swear about teh Constitution, he didn't get that he was sworn to behold.

{GOP leaders told Bush that his hardcore push to renew the more onerous provisions of the act could further alienate conservatives still mad at the President from his botched attempt to nominate White House Counsel Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court.

“I don’t give a goddamn,” Bush retorted. “I’m the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way.”

“Mr. President,” one aide in the meeting said. “There is a valid case that the provisions in this law undermine the Constitution.”

“Stop throwing the Constitution in my face,” Bush screamed back. “It’s just a goddamned piece of paper!”

I’ve talked to three people present for the meeting that day and they all confirm that the President of the United States called the Constitution “a goddamned piece of paper.”

And, to the Bush Administration, the Constitution of the United States is little more than toilet paper stained from all the **** that this group of power-mad despots have dumped on the freedoms that “goddamned piece of paper” used to guarantee.

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, while still White House counsel, wrote that the “Constitution is an outdated document.”}

Answer 7

He is supposed to uphold it.

Where's the factual transcript on this?

Answer 8

You believe everything the wacko left wing pours down your throat, don't you?

Answer 9

Once again he shows us his supreme ignorance. The constitution was here before him and will be here long after him.. he is an idiot!

Answer 10

Bush has his own 'Constitution'.
It's called 'Whatever Cheney and Rove tell me to do, and the crazy voices in my head is surely God talking to me'.