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Thursday, November 09, 2006
Is it just me?
I saw this:
And thought of this:
And just to hammer the point home: It's uncanny. Tell me it's not just me.
"Stephen Hess, a presidential scholar at the Brookings Institution whose knowledge of the White House dates back to his days as a young Eisenhower speechwriter, called it 'the honesty of the honest lie. Bush was telling the truth when he said he lied.'"
And thought of this:
And just to hammer the point home:
It's uncanny. Tell me it's not just me.
"Stephen Hess, a presidential scholar at the Brookings Institution whose knowledge of the White House dates back to his days as a young Eisenhower speechwriter, called it 'the honesty of the honest lie. Bush was telling the truth when he said he lied.'"
ReplyDeletehttp://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/11/09/rumsfeld_bush/