Archive of May 2008
May 29
As I worked closely with President Bush, I would come to believe that sometimes he convinces himself to believe what suits his needs at the moment. It is not unlike a witness in court who does not want to implicate himself in wrongdoing, but is also concerned about perjuring himself. So he says, 'I do not recall.' The witness knows no one can get into his head and prove it is not true, so this seems like a much safer course than actually lying. Bush, similarly, has a way of falling back on the hazy memory defense to protect himself from potential political embarrassment. Bush rationalizes it as being acceptable because he is not stating unequivocally anything that could be proven false. If something later is uncovered to show what he knew, then he can deny lying in his own mind.
— Scott McClellan. Jeg skal have skrevet en lang Publius-artikel om, hvordan Bush opfattet i Danmark. For den opfattelse er ganske givet forkert.
10:14 AM
May 27
Vegetables, especially broccoli and spinach
— Fra listen over Obamas livretter. OMG! He's SO elitist.
09:43 AM
May 25
This is my warning to Barack Obama: Hillary as vice president would make your life miserable. She would behave like FDR's first vice president, John Nance Garner, who ran against him in the 1932 and 1940 primaries.01:25 AM
May 23
Indeed, it was a fiasco of such enormous proportions that Richard Nixon's role in undoing it actually manages to stack up in a non-trivial way against his otherwise terrible record in office.02:10 AM
May 22
"I know Obama has a perfect record from AIPAC," some Floridians seem to be saying, "but I want to see him execute a Palestinian terrorist on TV before I really know he feels Israel in his kishkes." Others believe Mr Obama is Arab or Muslim, and some are simply anxious about his actual race.09:15 PM