Stay the Course on staying the course

[Admiral]

I hate to post this, because it feels like beating a dead horse, but:

This morning , while on This Week, George Bush said "we've never been stay the course."

Is there anybody out there who takes him seriously any more?

[Verto]

Unfortunately.

[Elok]

Yes, but the percentage who do support him is pretty low now, isn't it? The average GOP pol is treating him like a leper for the '06 campaign.

[Dinner]

Re: Stay the Course on staying the course

Originally posted by Admiral
I hate to post this, because it feels like beating a dead horse, but:

This morning , while on This Week, George Bush said "we've never been stay the course."

Is there anybody out there who takes him seriously any more?

The usual suspects still kiss his ass and think the sun shines out of it.

[Zkribbler]

I caught the first of the three episodes of O'Reilly's interviews with Bush, and I was really impressed by Bush's intelligence and nuanced reasoning.

--But Holy Mother of God, when Bush looses these prepared texts, he sounds like a friggin' moron.

Won't somebody please recruit his speech writer to be the next professor of Dark Arts at Hogwarts??

[DRoseDARs]

Bush: ‘We’ve Never Been Stay The Course’

During an interview on ABC’s This Week, President Bush today tried to distance himself from what has been his core strategy in Iraq for the last three years. George Stephanopoulos asked about James Baker’s plan to develop a strategy for Iraq that is “between ’stay the course’ and ‘cut and run.’”

Bush responded, ‘We’ve never been about stay the course, George!’

Link, video, and transcript plus examples:

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/10/22/bush-stay-the-course

Bush is wrong:

BUSH: We will stay the course. <8/30/06>

BUSH: We will stay the course, we will complete the job in Iraq. <8/4/05>

BUSH: We will stay the course until the job is done, Steve. And the temptation is to try to get the President or somebody to put a timetable on the definition of getting the job done. We’re just going to stay the course. <12/15/03>

BUSH: And my message today to those in Iraq is: We’ll stay the course. <4/13/04>

BUSH: And that’s why we’re going to stay the course in Iraq. And that’s why when we say something in Iraq, we’re going to do it. <4/16/04>

BUSH: And so we’ve got tough action in Iraq. But we will stay the course. <4/5/04>

[Addled Platypus]

but no one has attacked the US on its own soil since...so someone out there is taking him seriously

[DRoseDARs]

*cough* Anthrax *cough* several deaths *cough* still unsolved 5 years later *cough*

[DRoseDARs]

And now there's video of him jamming that old foot in his mouth in a bald-faced lie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZE20lzZZF0

[Admiral]

Dan Bartlett, one of Bush's senior advisors, is making the same argument. He tries to refine it by saying that there is "staying the course" and staying in Iraq, and there is "staying the course" and never changing tactics in Iraq. His point is that the Whitehouse advocates the first but not the second, but he still looks pretty stupid.

"STORM: So, Mr. Bartlett, staying the course is no longer the operative strategy?

BARTLETT: Well, Hannah, it’s never been a stay-the-course strategy. Strategically, we think it’s very important that we stay in Iraq and we win in Iraq. And if we were to cut and run and go and leave that country too early it would be a disaster for American policy.

But what we aren’t doing is sitting there with our heads in the sand. We’ve completely changing and making tactical changes on a week-by-week basis as we respond to the enemy’s reactions to our strategies."

[realpolitic]

They look pretty stupid, but then all of PNAC does.


1) You don't anounce that you're going to acquire more power by manipulating people and then announce that over the internet to millions of people.

2) Don't believe anything will work on a document signed by Dan Quayle.

3) Don't even think of occupying any of the middle East, let alone much of it and 1.2 billion Arabs, or think they'll sell you oil after you've occupied several countries, and are threatening to take more.

4) Don't order a stand-down of NORAD and think no one will get suspicious that you haven't done anything in 1 1/2 hours.

These people are idiots, why should they change now?

[Barnabas]

The Bush Iraq strategy is all about adaptation and improvisation when challenged by the unexpected

Why cant democrats appreciate it?

[Admiral]

Fixed.

Originally posted by Brachy-Pride
The Bush Iraq justification strategy is all about adaptation and improvisation when challenged by the unexpected

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by DRoseDARs
*cough* Anthrax *cough* several deaths *cough* still unsolved 5 years later *cough*

The anthrax thing was probably domestic.

[Kuciwalker]

WaPo accused Bush of cutting and running on staying the course