Perino: Even Bush ‘doesn’t wish for a third term’ of Bush.
Perino: Even Bush ‘doesn’t wish for a third term’ of Bush.
When asked today about the attempts of Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) to distance himself from President Bush, White House Press Secretary Dana Perino inadvertently admitted that even the President sees the value in moving away from the policies of the past seven years.
He’s been involved in this for a long time and you can’t wish for something that’s not going to happen — he doesn’t wish for a third term. He thinks it’s good that we have a two-term limit in the United States. It’s good for the country to have that smooth, peaceful transition of power every four or eight years; one where you get new energy and new ideas across the board — from the President on down, throughout the administration.
President Bush has acknowledged, however, that he and McCain have the same foreign policy goals. “He’s not going to change when it comes to taking on the enemy,” Bush said of McCain in March.
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She’s looking to Grampy McSame for “new energy”?
Is she high?
May 27th, 2008 at 5:03 pmHe’s been involved in this for a long time and you can’t wish for something that’s not going to happen…
Like a stable Iraq where Democratic elections are held to choose their leaders, and everybody lives in peace and harmony.
“He’s not going to change when it comes to taking on the enemy,” Bush said of McCain in March.
The problem, Ms Perino, is that Bush himself is deciding who our enemies are, and not everyone agrees with his criteria.
May 27th, 2008 at 5:04 pmPlenty of people have talked about Bush doing something like “declaring martial law and postponing the elections”, something I’ve never believed (remember them saying similar things about Bill Clinton in 2000?)
Glad to hear he’s as anxious to leave as we are to see him go. :)
May 27th, 2008 at 5:05 pmralph the wonder llama Says:
She’s looking to Grampy McSame for “new energy”?
Is she high?
May 27th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
You’d think they’d catch that on the random drug tests, unless this administration feels that random drug testing is an invasion of a right of privacy the rest of us don’t have.
May 27th, 2008 at 5:06 pmMugsy, you may be making the mistake of thinking that Bush has anything to say about it. If Bushie’s handlers want him to stay, he’ll declare martial law or whatever, just because they tell him to.
It’s not up to him.
May 27th, 2008 at 5:07 pmExactly, who is the enemy? To Bush and Gramps, the enemy is the knowledgeable and informed US citizen. Their friends are the low information viewers at Fox News.
May 27th, 2008 at 5:07 pmMugsy Says:
Plenty of people have talked about Bush doing something like “declaring martial law and postponing the elections”, something I’ve never believed (remember them saying similar things about Bill Clinton in 2000?)
Glad to hear he’s as anxious to leave as we are to see him go. :)
May 27th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
What worries me about this statement is that just about everything else this administration has told us about what they are doing has been lies.
May 27th, 2008 at 5:08 pmOh, that’s rich.
*eyeroll*
May 27th, 2008 at 5:08 pmI’ve read this a few times and I don’t get the impression that Bush sees value in moving away from his policies. I just get the impression that he literally doesn’t want to serve a third term.
I don’t think he’s getting that this a figurative complaint against McCain, not a literal one lol. I’m sure he’s all for McCain doing the same shit.
May 27th, 2008 at 5:09 pmI’m more worried about Cheney declaring martial law and postponing the elections than I am of Bush doing that.
May 27th, 2008 at 5:10 pm“He’s not going to change when it comes to taking on the enemy,” Bush said of McCain in March.
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Meaning he will continue Bush’s policy of being deliberately vague when it comes to identifying who this “enemy” is?
Yeah, probably.
May 27th, 2008 at 5:11 pmi’m sorry for the OT, but DID YOU SEE THIS???!!!
i wonder who THIS b!tch voted for…
Kindergartener Voted Out By Students
CBS News – 45 minutes ago
Alex Barton, 5, a special needs student, was voted out of his Florida kindergarten class. (CBS) (CBS) A Port St. Lucie, Fla., mother is outraged and considering legal action after her son’s kindergarten teacher led his classmates to vote him out of …
Port St. Lucie teacher sidelined after letting kindergarten class … Chicago Sun-Times
Teacher lets students vote on whether to let little boy stay in class USA Today
or if she even DID vote…
May 27th, 2008 at 5:12 pmand surely you’re paying attention to this:
May 27th, 2008 at 5:15 pmWestern powers pressure Iran over nuclear programme
Reuters – 1 hour ago
By Kerstin Gehmlich BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany said on Tuesday the international community must push for a faster response from Iran over its nuclear programme, while Washington said a new UN report suggested Tehran wanted to acquire nuclear weapons.
Harsh report on Iraqi nuclear program raises alarm International Herald Tribune
UN nuclear watchdog faults Iran’s lack of cooperation Christian Science Monitor
AFP – Xinhua – Bloomberg – Jerusalem Post
Bush has wanted out since he got in. In the end, the world will find out he lost a bet with Karl Rove that Rove couldn’t get a dullard like Bush to elected President. Rove won the bet–we all lost everything else.
May 27th, 2008 at 5:16 pmHow can someone leave a job they never had? Dubya wasn’t duly elected to an elected position, he never made any decisions and he wasn’t morally or intelligently competent to have said job anyway.
May 27th, 2008 at 5:27 pm“He’s not going to change when it comes to taking on the enemy,” Bush said of McCain in March.
May 27th, 2008 at 5:32 pmThat enemy would be the working man?
Katy, that just turned my stomach.
Coming out of Florida, a regressive state, I’m not surprised at the location, but just when you thought they couldn’t get any lower..a teacher out of all professions. The teacher is the epitome of those who are supposed to be flexible, accomodating and open-minded. To see this teacher push a classroom of impressionable kids toward ignorance.
Wendy Portillo is going to rot in hell.
May 27th, 2008 at 5:35 pmBush didn’t want to serve, ever, unless it was to serve himself.
He didn’t even serve his full time in the ANG.
He played oil-baron without finding any oil and walked away from two failed businesses with a personal profit of $865,000.
He bought himself a PR position in a sports franchise and walked away with millions on team successess he played no part in.
The Lt.Governor of Texas does all the work; Governor Bush was just the front-man but was given (and took) the credit.
Bush ‘found Jesus’ in a two week crash-course but he couldn’t even quote one word Jesus ever said accurately.
He’s spent more time on vacation than any president in history, despite the worst attack on US soil in history, intitiating and continuing two wars, and the worst natural disaster in 50 years, a major fuel crisis, record national debt, etc. and so on.
Like he said, “it’s hard work” and he’s had enough. So have we all, of Bush’s “hard-work”.
May 27th, 2008 at 5:35 pmMugsy Says:
“Glad to hear he’s as anxious to leave as we are to see him go. :)”
This is the parts that scares me Mugsy. If he said it, it can’t be true.
May 27th, 2008 at 5:36 pmI keep wondering which K Street brothel Dana “Puppy Chow” Purina will end up on her knees for come January ‘09?
May 27th, 2008 at 5:41 pmI assume from the video that the teacher is African-American.
Memo to Wendy Portillo (if that is your name): This nation didn’t fight for your right to be in the workplace to contribute your skills, only for you to take away the right of a little boy to be educated in a welcoming environment.
(Thank you Katy, as always, for your reporting.)
May 27th, 2008 at 5:49 pm“one where you get new energy and new ideas across the board”
LOL! Grampa McMetamucil? McCain gets his energy from his daily doses of Geritol and one a day vitamin. Oh, Malibu Barbie Dana. McCain is equivilent to an outdated DOS computer.
May 27th, 2008 at 5:49 pmIt just occured to me…if Bush actually could run for a third term and did so, how d’you think he’d do? (ROFLMAO)
May 27th, 2008 at 5:50 pmThe whole world does not want a third Bush Mafia Crime Lord term.
May 27th, 2008 at 5:54 pmThe unintentional comedy here is the failed president debasing himself to the point of entering by the back door to raise money for a guy who hates him — all in the name of trying to salvage a legacy that is so stained by blood, corruption and sheer incompetence that no think tank will be able to save it. I doubt Bush is bright enough to understand the humiliation of having his party’s nominee refusing to appear in public with him. Too bad.
May 27th, 2008 at 5:54 pmHmmm… New energy, new ideas… Sounds like the twit White House press secretary’s comments were a description of Obama and not McCain. Time for Dana to take some time off.
May 27th, 2008 at 5:56 pmThat’s Dana Perino: consistently WRONG!
Yes you can, Dana. You can wish for anything!
Every day, lot’s of people wish for MANY things that aren’t going to happen:
I wish Bush end his foolish and immoral war in Iraq, but it ain’t gonna happen.
I wish Bush would take responsibility for his actions, but it ain’t gonna happen.
I wish Bush would do something that would help the country instead of his greedy pals, but it ain’t gonna happen.
However, just because these things won’t happen, that doesn’t mean we can’t and shouldn’t wish for them.
I believe that most people wish that our next president won’t be as EVIL and INCOMPETENCE as your boss, George W. Bush.
Incidentally, I also wish that Bush’s next White House Press Secretary will be a better liar than Ms. Perino, and THAT could happen — but at this point, I admit, it is unlikely.
May 27th, 2008 at 5:56 pmOne of the definitions of insanity is: “to hold two or more contradictory opinions simultaneously”.
“McCain is different from Bush, but, his policies will be the same”.
What’s really sad is that the condition is treatable once one recognizes the problem. Unfortunately, Rebublicriminals are still in full denial.
May 27th, 2008 at 6:06 pmJohn McCain says he’ll never surrender in Iraq; while having also said Barack Obama has wanted to surrender for some time.
This is the classic fubar, Rovewellian schtupping of the message into the public mindset.
Barack Obama doesn’t want to surrender, he is simply willing to give our troops the victory they won long ago, the victory denied them by GW Bogus & the Lie Factory; the victory McCain will continue to deny them!
How many times have we heard from military leaders, that there is no military solution in Iraq? How many polls have shown the majority of the American people, the majority of the Iraqi people, and the majority of the Iraqi government WANT US OUT?
Our troops finished their job in Iraq long ago. They have been denied victory so that GW Bogus & the Lie Factory can use America’s resources to exploit Iraq’s resources. Period. McCain will only continue the Lie Factory’s policies.
OBAMA, OH EIGHT!!!!!!!!
May 27th, 2008 at 6:11 pmThe truth about Bush’s plans for the final months of his failed presidency:
http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/bush_announces_8_month_plan
May 27th, 2008 at 6:17 pmI can just picture Chimpy yelling at the TV every time some pundit mentions McSame running for a “third Bush term” — “I cain’t run fer a third term you idiots! Sheesh! These people on the teevee get dumber and umber, don’t they?”
May 27th, 2008 at 6:24 pmPerino: “It’s good for the country to have that smooth, peaceful transition of power every four or eight years.”
The model for this was most recently observed in Russia, as Vladmir Putin has a smooth, peaceful transition of power to his bootlicking successor. Everyone in the White House thinks this was a terrific example of how transition gets done.
May 27th, 2008 at 6:27 pmkaty Says:
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i’m sorry for the OT, but DID YOU SEE THIS???!!!
Something similar happened to my son in school in the third grade…the teacher let all of the other kids discipline him and he went from being a very happy, well-adjusted child to having to be literally dragged out of the house (sometimes throwing up) to get him to school. His offenses? He liked cornnuts for snack and the teacher didn’t like the smekk and he liked something in his hands (a small ball or ruler) when he got nervous. Just got his bachelor’s degree but school for a long time “was not pretty fun..” (his words).
May 27th, 2008 at 6:56 pmsmekk=smell sorry but I still can’t use my one hand
May 27th, 2008 at 6:58 pmTweedledee and Tweedledum
Once TweedleBush said TweedleCain
Had an illegitimate black child.
And TweedleBush beat TweedleCain
Leaving TweedleCain quite riled.
But TweedleBush and TweedleCain
Wanted to give infidels a sound what-for.
So TweedleBush and TweedleCain
Agreed to have a war.
Now then there comes a monstrous man,
Whose black and opposed their war;
This threatens both the heroes’ plan,
So TweedleBush and Tweedle Cain are united all the more.
Apologies to “Through The Looking Glass”
May 27th, 2008 at 7:16 pmby Lewis Carroll
Purely straight faced lies, or ignorance.
May 27th, 2008 at 7:29 pmAnd the beat goes on Says:
May 27th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
That’s sick! My son’s first grade teacher was horrible. She decided he was severely emotionally disturbed, and that the best way to deal with that was screaming at him — he’s actually autistic.
What’s wrong with your hand? Still smarting from slapping the shit out of that teacher? :)
May 27th, 2008 at 9:46 pmZooey
LOL!!! I had surgery for 2 herniated cervical discs compressing my nerve and spinal cord. The surgery was supposed to correct the fact my arm and hand are really in pain and my hand is numb –it didn’t. Surgeon says “wait 5 or 6 months, I think something else is going on.” I don’t think so because by then I will probably be addicted to pain meds. I have been in pain etc. since last Oct. when I had a bad fall and finally got surgery this April. Health care reform has a whole new meaning. BTW – when I first went in to see the dr. she had my get a knee xray…..sigh. Won’t see her again!
May 27th, 2008 at 10:23 pmToo bad Dana is even dumber than Scotty. She could write a book about how the administration lied to her, but she still loves them, and is loyal to them.
May 27th, 2008 at 10:24 pmOuch! I hope you get that resolved soon. And find a good doctor.
May 27th, 2008 at 10:27 pmhttp://static.crooksandliars.com/2008/05/mcbush-mccain-bush.jpg
May 27th, 2008 at 11:45 pmGee, Bush is SO full of himself that he doesn’t realize that when we say that a McCain presidency will be a third Bush term, we’re not talking about HIM taking another term.
May 28th, 2008 at 1:12 amI apologize again for not reading most of the posts. I am currently nearing the end of Vincent Bugliosi’s book “The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder” and the case is clear and always has been exept for the complant media and the ongoing ignorance of the American people. Shame! The only thing that Bugiosi does not touch on (perhaps can’t fathom being an older American) is Bush’s involvement in 9/11. Is there a prosecutor out there, somewhere who will have the guts to take this freak to task after 1/20/09? I’m putting the question out there – do we have the guts?
My other concern – understanding the criminals we are dealing with here – why is bussssssssssh always smiling and seems happy as a lark? What plans are these criminals instigating? I’ve heard Chicago, Houston or Portland are their targets this Summer. What is going on?
May 28th, 2008 at 1:26 amoops – compliant and other misses – please forgive
May 28th, 2008 at 1:28 am.
Oh, so Barbie Perino says the president was for himself BEFORE he was against himself…?
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May 28th, 2008 at 2:48 amHe’s been involved in this for a long time and you can’t wish for something that’s not going to happen — he doesn’t wish for a third term. He thinks it’s good that we have a two-term limit in the United States. It’s good for the country to have that smooth, peaceful transition of power every four or eight years; one where you get new energy and new ideas across the board — from the President on down, throughout the administration.
That would have been nice in 2004, but the Reps. where all over the board saying the idiocy, “you don’t change Presidents in a war”. Had been changed the President, a good couple of problems would haven’t existed and, maybe, troops would be at home by now. The concept is even lamer considering the USA has been almost every year of its existance waging war to other countries.
May 28th, 2008 at 6:15 am