Bush to CBS: "The good news is I'm not running again"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/01/18/bush.ap/index.html

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Kicking off his inaugural week, President Bush is making an elaborate public salute Tuesday to the U.S. military and, behind closed doors, lavish thank-yous to his biggest donors and supporters.

Bush also granted a round of television interviews in which he acknowledged that four more years isn't a lot of time to accomplish his ambitious legislative agenda but said that he hopes Republicans and Democrats can unite now that all of his campaigns are behind him.

"The good news is I'm not running again, so maybe politics won't creep in quite as fast," he told CBS. "We got to get moving and get some things done before -- before people kind of write me off."

He also planned brief remarks of thanks at two private receptions for supporters -- one for Republican National Committee members and the other hosted by Jeanne Johnson Phillips, chairwoman of Bush's inaugural committee.

[cruadin]

1. "The good news is I'm not running again..."---------damn, ...

talk about a cryptic fuckin' comment.

What the hell is THAT supposed to mean?

[unblock]

2. it means he's ANNOUNCING that he's a lame duck!

:bounce:

[cruadin]

7. Sooo...is he trying to galvanize his base?

Or is he threatening his opposition?

Or am I wasting my time trying to make sense out of a shrub quote?

[lebkuchen]

17. It means he's acknowledging his historic low approval rating

W/Chimpy, it's always about his fragile ego.

[Contrary1]

13. It means that for the first two years

of his 2nd term, he will try to get away with as much
crap as we will allow him to...before those running in
2008 announce their intentions.

[zappaman]

3. Yeehaw!

That's the best news I've heard all day!
Wait a second...that doesn't mean he might just decide to stay and not have any elections, does it?

[fryguy]

4. he's also planning a peaceful transition of power....

....from him to himself????

"It's important that we celebrate a peaceful transfer of power .... You can be equally concerned about our troops in Iraq and those who suffered at the tsunamis (and) with celebrating democracy," Bush said in a CBS News interview released on Monday.


http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=655914

[3days]

8. I think he is referring to

transfer from right ass cheek
to left ass cheek

[fryguy]

12. LOL

got me thinking about a scene from the movie Hot Dog, where the protagonist is mocking the Austrian team and tells them:

"Hey Rudy, you can kiss my ass. Not on zis side, not on zat side... but right in zee meedle...."

..appropriate here since I think * will be implying the same sentiment to anyone outside his team over the next four years....

[rfranklin]

9. "Celebrating democracy?"............Hardly, more appropriately...

described as a celebration of four more years of looting the treasury and stealing other peoples' resources.

[StClone]

5. Over 225 years

And it took BushCo only a few years to undo a nation.

[RubyDuby in GA]

6. "Bush to CBS: "The good news is I'm not running again"

Yep, I believe that this is the only thing this man's ever said that I completely agree with.

It is good news.

[robbedvoter]

15. No, it's not. It means "gloves are off"

[RubyDuby in GA]

22. I know what he meant

I'm just saying it's the first time I could ever literally agree with him about anything.

He's in his last term (please gawd please let it be so), he's got Congress and the Supreme Court with him.

Very simply put: we're hosed. :scared:

[Lautremont]

10. BEFORE people kind of write him off?

I've run out of things to write him off as.

[uppityperson]

11. Good news-he's not running again, but we already wrote him off.

He hopes repubs and dems can unite now that the campaigns are behind him? I'm really glad he's not able to run again. He just don't get it.

[noamnety]

14. "maybe politics won't creep in ..."

God help us, we elected a president who doesn't want to be bothered with politics.

[Generator]

16. What a fucking creep!

Translation:

"No more elections, so I don't have to worry about making anybody happy but myself. If I have a stupid dumb idea to rape social security-why not? I don't need no polls to tell me what to do.

I need to totally fuck this country up while I have the chance."

YEE HAW.

[lebkuchen]

18. He's attempting to gloss over with a joke

what he knows we all know, the fact that public approval of his first presidency is dropping like a lead pretzel. It's getting to him. Always has.

good.

[Emboldened Chimp]

19. He is right: that is good news

Then again, there won't be much left to govern once he's done....

[sakabatou]

20. The bad news is I'm still you're president.

Crap!

[WI_DEM]

21. too bad he didn't say that four years ago

[msgadget]

23. "...won't creep in quite as fast..."

Oh, for a minute I thought he was candidly referring tohis politicking the whole of his first term...