August 5, 2004
IMAGINE:
Bush Misspeaks, Says His Administration Seeking 'new Ways to Harm Our Country' (The Associated Press, 8/05/04)
Bush misspoke as he delivered a speech at the signing ceremony for a $417 billion defense spending bill."Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we," Bush said. "They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." [...]
The president was working his way toward a larger point. "We must never stop thinking about how best to defend our country. We must always be forward-thinking," he said.
Wasn't the whole point of the 9-11 commission that we'd had a failure of imagination by not thinking about how al Qaeda might harm us? Posted by Orrin Judd at August 5, 2004 2:54 PM
You've got to be kidding me. They put an article on the wire out about that? There's no way today's that slow of a news day.
Posted by: Timothy at August 5, 2004 2:59 PMAnd so the pendulum swings once again from "Diabolical Mastermind" to "Bumbling Dunderhead."
Posted by: John Resnick at August 5, 2004 5:32 PMThis is gonna turn into a reprise of Ronald Reagan's "facts are stubborn things." We'll never hear the end of it.
Posted by: Matt Murphy at August 5, 2004 8:27 PMWhoops, I meant to quote Reagan's misquotation of the quote from John Adams, "facts are stubborn things." Reagan flubbed it as "facts are stupid things" (he immediately corrected himself, but of course the damage was done).
Hmmm, is there a word in the dictionary to describe a flubbed quotation of a flubbed quotation?
Posted by: Matt Murphy at August 5, 2004 8:29 PMdoubleflubberation
Posted by: oj at August 5, 2004 8:46 PMBe charitable. Let 'em laugh while they still can.
Posted by: Barry Meislin at August 6, 2004 7:59 AM