Bush glad Cheney not running for president

[sabra]

http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/politics/14310329.htm

Bush glad Cheney not running for president
Associated Press

WASHINGTON - President Bush said Monday he sure is glad Vice President Dick Cheney is not going to be campaigning to replace him.

It was no knock against Cheney's leadership skills, Bush said, but a practical consideration about making his last years in office run smoothly. Having the No. 2 angling to be No. 1 "certainly changes the dynamics inside the White House," the president said.

"I'm not through yet, you know," Bush said to a questioner who asked whom he would support in the 2008 race. Bush said he still wanted to reduce dependence on oil from the Middle East, get a bipartisan solution to the problem of funding Social Security and Medicare and create a legal status for immigrants who want to work in the United States.

"I am going to spend two-and-a-half years charging as hard as I possibly can," Bush said. "I want to sprint out of office. And I will be an interested observer, and I'm sure I'll be roped into moments after our party nominates a candidate, but I'm just going to let the politics run its course."

[mdmc]

1. i wouldn't mind if he ran

:shrug:

[ozymandius]

Doesn't make sense.

Otherwise, who will pardon Bush for his crimes?

[lyonn]

15. Oh the numbers are many that are now making mega buck

From Bush's favors. Guliani for one. The repubs will cover their own or they won't get the nomination.

[wordpix2]

49. Bushspeak: "I'm sure I'll be roped into moments after our party nominates

a candidate." HUH? Poor chimp cannot put a sentence together.

[YDogg]

2. Poor bush still thinks he's in charge!

:wtf:

[JuniperLea]

3. I want to sprint out of office

As per usual... all momentum, no direction.

[MADem]

7. I wish the bastard would start his sprint NOW....n/t

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

13. No you don't.

Trust me, he's sprinting out because he's leaving a bomb behind.

[VegasWolf]

19. LOL. Sprinting in circles chasing his tail. nt

[Thor_MN]

45. Just like TANG, Arbusto, Spectrum 7, Harkin, his father's failed Senate

campaigns, his failed US House campaign, he wants to sprint away from his failed pResidency....

[TomInTib]

4. Yeah? Well, WE want you to "sprint out of office", too.

Like, right the hell now!

[yellowcanine]

18. How about we just kick your ass out of office George?

[silvermachine]

23. Beat me to it!

n/t

[Tanuki]

5. When

was he ever an "interested observer" of anything more significant than a baseball game?

[AValdoux]

6. He wants to sprint out of office?

Can we help him with that? Perhaps with pitchforks & torches? If he keeps up the pace of his continually declining poll numbers, who knows? Will we go after the mad scientist who created him also, Dr. Rovenstein?


AValdoux

[neuvocat]

8. Like it would make any difference.

"Changing the dynamics" my ass.

[FSogol]

9. Why does that Liar think anyone believes a word he says?

Lame Duck!

[lyonn]

10. Well, ain't that special!

"Having the #2 angling to be #1" changes the dynamics of the White House. Can't have anyone close to him saying anything derogatory about him while he is hard charging out of office.

"I'm not through yet." "I want to sprint out of office." He wants to be hard charging out of office. Said he'd be roped into moments (??) after a nomination. He does have a way with words, our great leader. Could some Democrat try to rope him?

[Betty]

11. the fool doesn't realize cheney IS prez

and little georgie shit head is a puppet.

[yasmina27]

12. Yeah, he's charging alright....

"I am going to spend two-and-a-half years charging as hard as I possibly can," Bush said.

Charging the deficit up to and beyond unprecedented levels. Hey there Georgie Boy, are you gonna help pay it down?!

[bdamomma]

51. charging???

that statement bush made is weird, "charging as hard as I possibly can" and "sprinting" why sprinting, where is going to sprint to? an underground bunker, when he drops the bomb? bush is a sick sick man, and dangerous. charging like a bull in a china shop? does not care who he is affecting.

[rocktivity]

14. Of course Cheney's not running for President--he's ALREADY got the job!

:rofl:
rocknation

[subterranean]

16. Yes, I'm sure the next candidate will be thrilled to get the support

of a president whose approval ratings are in the 20s, which is where they'll be by the time he leaves office.

[susu369]

37. LOL

He doesn't look ready to "sprint" in this pic:

[pinto]

17. ...This guy's barely treading water. n/t

[quiet.american]

20. You know what -- ITMFA. n/t

[pinniped]

21. This POS* just can't stop lying.

* said he still wanted to reduce dependence on oil from the Middle East

Is * planning to rename the region something other than Middle East?

[thereismore]

22. hard to sprint in shackles... nt

[Roland99]

24. "I'm not through yet, you know,"...no kidding. More countries to invade.

[Rex]

25. You mean like Poppy Bush, Dimson?

Poppy couldn't wait to take over for Reagan and start his own oil war with Iraq. Sounds to me like Dimson is projecting his fear of being put on trial. In which case I say...HAHA!

[MissMillie]

26. Cheney has no plans to run because he's going to shoot *

:silly:

[allalone]

27. he'll have to sprint

cuz we'll all be chasing him

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

28. AT LEAST he's not talking about "reforming the tax code" anymore.

August 11, 2004:

"You know, I'm not exactly sure how big the national sales tax is going to have to be, but it's the kind of interesting idea that we ought to explore seriously," Bush said, according to a Reuters report.

[Judi Lynn]

55. Wow, that is the FINEST Bush photo!

If he showed up at your door on Halloween looking like that would you give him candy, or tell him to shove off?

I hope they use that one as the foundation for his official pResidential portrait.

[Az_lefty]

29. he wants to sprint out of office...

thats right George, run away like you always have and leave your mess for some future President to clean up.
:puke:

[flamingyouth]

30. At last Bush and I have something in common.

[aquart]

31. I want him to sprint out of office too.

Running as hard as he can to try and evade the tar and feathers. And the pitchforks. I want there to be pitchforks. And rotten tomatoes. And eggs.

[XemaSab]

54. And a giant army of lawyers, judges, and special counsels

just SALIVATING.

[rodeodance]

32. a tx boot to your butt would do it!

......"I want to sprint out of office.

[TheCowsCameHome]

33. "Charging as hard as I possibly can", as in maxing out the credit cards

so our grandchildren and their kids can pay for his recklessness.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

34. That's a bizarre headline

in that I saw a Cheney in '08 bumper sticker just yesterday......
It must have been on the car of a Halliburton stockholder.

[Olney Blue]

35. I found this sentence horrifying:

"Bush got stumped a couple of times by some brainy graduate students and said he'd have to ask members of his Cabinet for help answering their questions."


I can't imagine Clinton, Gore, or Kerry getting stumped by graduate students. WTF?

[rodeodance]

36. the one i recall had to do with womens rights I think

[Olney Blue]

38. It had to do with human trafficking and prostitution rings....

said he would have to ask Condi about it.

[complain jane]

39. Oh he'll sprint alright

"...charging as hard as I possibly can." What the hell is that supposed to mean?

What a freak.

[meow2u3]

40. So is the rest of the country

America has had enough with the Evil Puppeteer.

[American Tragedy]

41. I'd like to see him dragged out of office

preferably in chains.

But alas, I'm a pessimist, and this is far from a just world.

[lovuian]

42. He will always #2

and don't forget that!!!

[DS1]

43. WE WANT YOU TO SPRINT OUT OF OFFICE, TOO!

:hi:

[goforit]

44. Gonna sprint as fast as he can?... Away from the World Criminal court!

[lutefisk]

46. "Oh, it can't be ever. Ever is too long."

"I guess it's the most wide-open race ever," Bush said, then corrected himself. "Oh, it can't be ever. Ever is too long. But in a long time.... Anyway, kind of rambling here," Bush said when he finally cut himself off.

Amazing.

[wordpix2]

47. LOL, I thought * said his goal to reduce dependence on oil from ME

shouldn't be taken literally---remember how he "clarified" this after he heard from his fuming ME puppet masters?

So now he's LYING again

[Cha]

48. Big news...bush isn't through

shitting on our Country.

[wordpix2]

50. re: student question: he doesn't know THIS?

"Help," Bush said when asked what law governs private military contractors in Iraq. The question came from a first-year student in South Asia studies at Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, where Bush was speaking. The student said she had already asked Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld about it.

"I was going to ask him," Bush said, drawing chuckles from the students.

[BrutalEntropy]

52. erm...

"I'm not through yet, you know"

What a frightening prospect...

[Skittles]

53. bush does not wish for cheney's hand to be removed from bush's ass

yup