In the morning, the president, in a speech to the Israeli Knesset, suggested that Democrats want to appease terrorists, the way some wanted to appease Hitler. In the afternoon, the White House thought it best to play dumb.
Q:There’s some question about his comment here about “some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong” — you know the passage. And he talks about the “false comfort of appeasement.” This is being seen in some quarters as a slam on Senator Obama. Is this in any way directed at Senator Obama?
PERINO: It is not. And I would think that all of you who cover these issues and have for a long time have known that there are many who have suggested these types of negotiations with people that President Bush thinks we should not talk to. I understand when you’re running for office you sometimes think the world revolves around you — that is not always true and it is not true in this case.
Q: But, so, not aimed at him — do they include him?
PERINO: He’ll have to speak for himself as to what his policy is and you guys can know it well.
Yes, of course, the Bush gang is completely innocent. Who, them? Travel to foreign soil to slander a U.S. political leader in the midst of a domestic presidential campaign? How could we have ever gotten such an idea in the first place?
Oh, right, I remember now — from White House officials who conceded this morning that this was precisely the point of Bush’s cheap and pathetic smear attempt. CNN’s Ed Henry reported, “White House aides are acknowledging that this was a reference to the fact that Sen. Obama and other Democrats have publicly said that it would be ok for the U.S. President to meet with leaders like the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad.” And NBC’s John Yang also spoke with a White House official who said Obama was one of Bush’s intended targets.
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if dana were a man, she would deserve to be kicked between the legs.
what a b*tch.
I understand when you’re running for office you sometimes think the world revolves around you
Yeah, I mean, Bush only condemned the opposition party’s foreign policy, and this Obama guy thinks the president was talking about him. Why? Because he’s likely to be the nominee to lead that opposition party, and succeed the president in the White House? What an ego Obama must have!
Why doesn’t the entire press quit covering Ms. Perino. Why doesn’t the entire press refuse to go to the WH gaggle? Helen Thomas, are you out there? Why don’t you lead the shunning of Perino and WH news. It isn’t news, nor is it reliable anyway.
this needs video; please post it
There should be a contest as to who was the biggest liar in Chimpy ‘n Chinny’e Admonistration. Oh’Really ‘n Hand nitty can be the judges they believe themselves to be.
Wow, the snake slithers and hisses!! Who knew?
Karen @ 2:
And hidden agenda too
http://homepage.mac.com/rlmore.....eobama.gif
Karen @ 2:
L.A. Confidential @ 7:
Just put that up In case you wondered how the Pub Bots view him.
So sad… She’s so hot, but such a whore… Damn…
These guys are experts at acting dumb. The trick is, they aren’t acting.
The Republicans appear to have acted according to their usual, predictable misunderstandings. In an effort to shatter stereotypes about “dumb blondes,” the White House decided to appoint an actual dumb blonde as press secretary, and show the world what she could really do.
Jimsy @ 8:
Obama’s ego is nothing compared to the Eggo on face of yer preznit ‘n his cornpadres. You rePUBLICS ‘r idiots.
godless SOB @ 10:
Like that makes a difference? Go on dude, jump her pale white right winged ass. [deleted, don’t go there. Site Monitor]
Jimsy @ 13:
I get the feeling that you are the person for whom laugh tracks were invented. How else would you know when a joke had been told?
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Barbie Perino said: “I understand when you’re running for office you sometimes think the world revolves around you —”
But when you get to be George W. Bush, it does…
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I really hate to say this. But to go all the way to Israel to pander to Israel (and the System Of The World) is pitiful.
Not exactly Roosevelt in Trinidad, eh?
The Pinocchio Administration strikes again.
Obama pretty much put that smear to rest today in his excellent speeches. He’s so good at combating cheap GOP attacks I think he’ll have no problem winning the election come November.
If Helen would lead a parade out of the next press corps gaggle, that would initiate a resounding, “Hear! Hear!” around the country…but what REALLY blows my mind is that my dreamboat intellectual, Rachel Maddow, just had the best interview with Chris Matthews that I have ever seen.
Tweety soared on wings of wisdom today!
Widespread @ 17:
When you go all the way there, it’s no longer pandering. It’s evidence that your are lint in their back pocket.
The only reason anyone would want such a hateful job, in the bu$h administration, is if they are just as rabid a mongrel as he is.
Just Hussein Of It @ 14:
Some times you have to test the waters. Thanks for drawing the line.
The perfect person for spokesperson of this administration. A stupid bimbo graduate from the U of So. Colo. We know about her grasp of history a la Bay of Pigs. I am ashamed to say my undergraduate degree is from the same school. I’ll stick with OU as my alma mater from now on!
20 years in Rev. Wright’s church and Obama never hears anything untoward. 20 seconds of a Bush speech that doesn’t mention his name and all of a sudden he turns into the Amazing Kreskin.
It was a lame analogy, but I think it hurt him worse than it hurt Obama.
Tokyo Perino - White House propagandist.
dennis @ 25:
What an intellectually stimulating comment. Kind of like a grunt in the toilet.
Karen @ 15:
You STEPFORD femmes wouldn’t know a joke if it hit you in the face. Laugh tracks are another rePUBLIC invention and has been used extensively by the Jokes in the White House.
Bush has spent 4000 American lives and half trillion of our tax dollars and for what? An oil war that has failed miserably. He still has to beg and gravel the Saudis for oil.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200.....sh_mideast
I’m so freaking tired of these people.
Jimsy @ 29:
Haven’t seen ya here, before, Jimsy, so I’ll cut ya some slack here. Please don’t go further with this. I’m a regular here. Well known in the comments sections and to the site owner. Trust me on this one: you’re not coming off as the smart one in this exchange.
I’ll stop with the back and forth, and just explain it to you plainly. I was being sarcastic in my first comment.
repugs are like spoiled little rotten assholes, one doesn’t ask them why they do what they do instead one has to tell them we know what they did; one has to accuse them otherwise they will lie.
Plus chimpy is a punk for not coming out and stating the next president’s name when he gets all cowboy like and starts talking shit. How dare this cold-blooded nut besmirch Sen. Obama!
chimpy is stupid and ignorant (unlike some here who thinks he’s brilliant) he doesn’t care what side his asskissers come from.
repugs keep worrying about Michelle and Rev. Wright, I’ll keep both my eyes on the idiot-in-heat.
Wow, the White House playing dumb? I didn’t know they had to ‘play’ dumb - I thought with this gang of thieves it just came naturally.
Rethugs are smirky assed idiots.
Who’da thunk it!
tHeIKnowAHusseinGaMeOfLiFe @ 33:
Actually, the people who think he’s brilliant are also stupid and ignorant. :)
Is this an example of a Rovian tactic? To smear an opponent and then say well, he just thinks the world revolves around him, that’s why he thinks he’s the one getting smeared?
I hear Carly Simon singing “You’re so Vain” alla sudden. Is it a buzzkill? No!
Dee Dee Myers was a cuter liar.
Karen @ 32:
I read C&L daily, without fail, but not always the comments. I’ve commented before and I did not recognize your sarcism and suspected a troll. I apologize.
Wouldn’t it be just a perfect world if Bush could make a statement and all those who felt it was a slam on Obama and liked it heard it that way and all those who felt the opposite heard it as a slam on someone else?
In your dreams, George!
Ruthless People @ 27:
Official kneepadder.
Perino is so short she don’t need any knee pads!
Karen @ 37:
Thank you! :)
chimpy can’t beat himself out of a paperbag.
Jimsy, i hate to say it but Karen’s sarcasm was extreemly obvious.
kablooie @ 43:
LOLOLOLOL
Jimsy @ 40:
No worries. ;)
Being dissed by Bush seems like a badge of honor to me.
Also Jimsy, welcome to the threads. :)
In the morning, the president, in a speech to the Israeli Knesset, suggested that Democrats want to appease terrorists, the way some wanted to appease Hitler. In the afternoon, the White House thought it best to play dumb.
Must’ve been easy.
Dishonest and shameful but not surprising from the worst president in usa history and the dirty rotten liars who work for him.
So, Bushes grandfather is a traitor to his country in actual fact and no one mentions it. The entire Bush line should be jailed for their treasonous acts and war crimes. Here’s a link to a story about good old grandpa Prescott: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worl.....ndworldwar
And, what the heck, how about a video too. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D6fxyOtVeI
The whole clan is slimy.