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What A Surprise

by John Cole|  April 13, 200411:47 pm| 7 Comments

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Gail Collins and her lackeys didn’t like Bush’s press conference. I am shocked.

I wonder if they wrote it before the conference even happened like the folks at the WaPo.

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  1. 1.

    Kimmitt

    April 14, 2004 at 3:18 am

    You know you yourself could try actually viewing the conference before forming an opinion.

  2. 2.

    Slartibartfast

    April 14, 2004 at 7:36 am

    I didn’t view it, exactly, but I listened to it on NPR. And, poor speaking abilities aside, I think he did a very good job.

  3. 3.

    CadillaqJaq

    April 14, 2004 at 8:27 am

    I saw a few minutes: before NBC’s David Gregory made an ass of himself in an attempt to embarrass GWB… switching over to the local sports channel, I then watched the Red Wings embarrass themselves in Tennessee. Jeeze.

    I wasn’t impressed that much with the GWB news conference: I voted for him the first go-round, I’ll vote for him again considering the option. IMO, too much weight is given to being a great public orator, one at ease with words. If that were always the case, why wasn’t Senator Everett Dirksen ever elected to the presidency?

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    John Cole

    April 14, 2004 at 9:53 am

    I read it, Kimmitt.

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    Kimmitt

    April 14, 2004 at 5:47 pm

    I don’t see how any human being could read that transcript and not come out deeply ashamed of what that man is doing to our office. He simply did not answer any of the serious questions put in front of him.

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    SDN

    April 14, 2004 at 10:46 pm

    And those would be? I didn’t hear one.

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  1. Cold Fury says:
    April 14, 2004 at 10:25 am

    Wasted words

    Oh, and while we’re at it, could we all please just dispense with this maudlin, completely inappropriate obsession with some sort of weepy “apology” from Bush for 9/11, since we all know that what you guys really want is an apology from Dubya …

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