From Bush: Rove has ‘my compete confidence’ despite leak, Reuters, August 1, 2005:
“Karl’s got my complete confidence. He’s a valuable member of my team,” Bush said in his strongest defense yet of Rove, the architect of his presidential campaigns.
From Palmeiro Suspended for Steroid Violation, the Washington Post, August 1, 2005:
“Rafael Palmeiro is a friend. He testified in public and I believe him,” Bush said in an interview with the Knight Ridder news service. “He’s the kind of person that’s going to stand up in front of the klieg lights and say he didn’t use steroids, and I believe him. Still do.”
3 replies on “Finally, we begin to feel sorry for President Bush”
So I fail to understand why you’re feeling sorry for Bush. I mean, maybe he puts his trust in the wrong people and I suppose that’s to bad. But, really, I don’t have a lot of sympathy for anyone who puts the security of the nation and the legacy of his position as President above his personal loyalties and friendships. In the face of more and more evidence indicting Rove, the president continues to proclaim his crony’s innocence. How much will it take for Bush to believe? Does he have to walk in a Rove performing an actual leak? On second thought, I suppose it’s possible that if such a thing did happen, the two might simply high-five or something. Anyway, I don’t know, and the whole thing is disgusting. It’s more disgusting than anything else that has gone on in this administration to date because, as far as I can tell, there is no possible excuse besides that of moral deprevity.
> anyone who puts the security of the nation and the legacy of his position as President above his personal loyalties and friendships….
don’t you mean this the other way around as in: puts his personal loyalties and friendships above the security of the nation and the legacy of his position as President? Agree with you overall though.
Sorry, that’s what I get for not proof-reading.