President Obama's prime-time news conference

[anatoly]

I thought it was mostly typical political talk, however one thing did caught my ear when the president was asked if the Justice department was interested in investigating the Bush administration. He sort of brushed it off and went on to say that he was more interested in the future then in the past.

so the question is - do you think the Bush administration should be investigated?

[H2FC]

yes

[jasdon11]

Yes.

[Tia Wood]

See this document.

[Acro]

How deep a man is President George W. Bush? “He’s not an intellectual. He is not what I guess would be called a deep thinker,” says Woodward. “He chastised me at one point because I said people were concerned about the failure to find weapons of mass destruction. And he said, ‘Well you travel in elite circles.’ I think he feels there is an intellectual world and he's indicated he's not a part of it … the fancy pants intellectual world. What he calls the elite.”

How does the president think history will judge him for going to war in Iraq?

“After the second interview with him on Dec. 11, we got up and walked over to one of the doors. There are all of these doors in the Oval Office that lead outside. And he had his hands in his pocket, and I just asked, ‘Well, how is history likely to judge your Iraq war,’” says Woodward.

“And he said, ‘History,’ and then he took his hands out of his pocket and kind of shrugged and extended his hands as if this is a way off. And then he said, ‘History, we don’t know. We’ll all be dead.’”

[jasdon11]

How deep a man is President George W. Bush? “He’s not an intellectual. He is not what I guess would be called a deep thinker,” says Woodward. “He chastised me at one point because I said people were concerned about the failure to find weapons of mass destruction. And he said, ‘Well you travel in elite circles.’ I think he feels there is an intellectual world and he's indicated he's not a part of it … the fancy pants intellectual world. What he calls the elite.”

How does the president think history will judge him for going to war in Iraq?

“After the second interview with him on Dec. 11, we got up and walked over to one of the doors. There are all of these doors in the Oval Office that lead outside. And he had his hands in his pocket, and I just asked, ‘Well, how is history likely to judge your Iraq war,’” says Woodward.

“And he said, ‘History,’ and then he took his hands out of his pocket and kind of shrugged and extended his hands as if this is a way off. And then he said, ‘History, we don’t know. We’ll all be dead.’”

That's deep...

[Gerry]

so the question is - do you think the Bush administration should be investigated?

No.

We can spend billions of dollars of taxpayer money.

Ken Starr did (except those days we still had the word millions in our vocabulary) in attempts to hang Clinton.

Even though it was plain to see there were not enough votes to impeach.

He and the country knew this but it was full speed ahead with the fat payday.


Today, yes, it would cost billions.

But we already know what the outcome is.

In the fall of 2005, President George W. Bush pardoned himself and his entire administration of any previous and future actions.

As far as I know, a Presidential Pardon is irreversible.

“And he said, ‘History,’ and then he took his hands out of his pocket and kind of shrugged and extended his hands as if this is a way off. And then he said, ‘History, we don’t know. We’ll all be dead.’”

Incompetent to stand trial.

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Hell, I didn't even watch the speech, have not heard one sound byte from it, have not read one article dealing with it.

Why?

When I went to bed last night I knew I would wake up and this country would still be in the lowest, deepest pit and depression it ever has been in.

Yes, depression.

Besides, I watched the Westminster Dog Show.

I don't know how that is going to turn out.

That is the difference between the mess we are in and a dog competition.

One is predictable. The other is not.

Unless it is a sell out and someone has been paid off like we have had to deal with for the past 8 years.

[PeterMan]

It's funny how all this money can be spent on investigations or corporate bailouts but folks in Alaska are not even able to scrape together enough nuts and berries to feed their families...

[FormerDnForumer]

He killed, conservatively, half a million Iraqis based on outright lies. He should be tried for war crimes, amongst many other things.

[jasdon11]

Today, yes, it would cost billions.

But there's no real reason why it should - it's just people asking questions. We have all been conditioned to accept these ridiculous figures; now that trillions have become etched on the mass psyche, billions don't seem so bad.

[Gerry]

Dubya and his policies / administration broke this country.

Literally, not figuratively.

And some folks want to talk as if everything going on right now is 'Bama's fault.

Honestly, people need to read the fine print of Paulson's economic plan and the "stipulations" and "clauses" contained.

The money is still being funneled out to those that are in charge and were in charge.

His plan calls for an increase of the federal deficit up to $11.8 trillion (or something like that).

And this was approved!

How deep a man is President George W. Bush?

What is this source?

I have Woodward's State of Denial but I have not read it yet.

I just wondered if it was this book referenced.

Seems I have heard or read this comment somewhere before.

See this document.

Good Grief, Girl!

That's not a document.

That's an ebook!

Whew, I have to include this in my slanted liberal library.

Which way should the books be slanted?

To the left?

Or to the right?

I prefer them to be in the middle standing up straight.