4 posts tagged “quoteoftheday”
``I defended the intelligence community but I made it clear that they are an independent agency. They come to conclusions separate from what I may or may not want.''
-- Glorious Leader George W. Bush, today in Saudi Arabia, discussing his take on the most recent National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran.
This statement comes on the heels of a report that Bush has "all but disowned" the NIE in private discussions with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
Coincidentally, the most recent political opinion survey shows that only 32 percent of Americans approve Bush is handling his job, while 66 percent disapprove. That is the lowest showing Bush has had in this particular poll. Fifty-one percent strongly disapprove of his work overall, while just 16 percent strongly approve -- strongly negative by better than a 3-1 ratio.
Which begs the question: Who are these 16 percent that strongly approve, and what reality are they living in? I think a higher percentage of the American people believe that 9/11 was an inside job-- that's how fringe these people are.
While we're talking about what Mister Bush "wants", here's what America wants: a President who is nothing like George Bush:
Seventy-nine percent of Americans want the next president should set the nation on a new course rather than following the direction in which Bush has been leading.
The poll showed that two-thirds of Americans feel that way strongly.
I'm no statistician, but i have a strong suspicion that there is a lot of overlap between the 16 percent of Americans that "strongly approve" of the job Bush is doing, and the 21 percent of Americans that want the next President to continue his policies.
Contrast the previous quote with this one:
-- Willard Mitt Romney, September 5, 2007
"If it means sacrificing our lives, if it means sacrificing our
liberties to save Pakistan, then we are prepared to risk our lives and
we are prepared to risk our liberties, but we are not prepared to
surrender our great nation to the militants,"
-- Benazir Bhutto.
"Bin Laden, al-Zawahri, and others fled at the beginning of the American bombing [in Afghanistan], to the point of abandoning their wives and families to be killed along with other innocent people. I think that a sharia court should be established, composed of reliable scholars, to hold these people accountable for their crimes — even if in absentia — so that those who are ignorant in their religion do not repeat this futility,"
-- Sayyed Imam al-Sharif, senior al Qaeda theologian and Jihadist pioneer.
(h/t: Andrew Sullivan)
