Chicago Tribune: "Leak probe could damage Bush's straight-shooter image"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3381



WASHINGTON - In pursuit of the White House, George W. Bush first campaigned throughout Iowa with the same pledge he voiced at the 2000 Republican National Convention, where he was nominated for the presidency: "I will swear to uphold the honor and dignity of the office to which I have been elected."

Now, with his personal credibility already slipping in opinion polls and controversy swirling around his chief political adviser, Karl Rove, Bush finds himself uttering the promise that he delivered Monday in the East Room of the White House: "If someone committed a crime, they will no longer work in my administration."

This appears to be a far looser ethical standard, Democratic critics were quick to point out on Monday, than the White House's original assertion that anyone "involved" in leaking the name of a covert CIA agent to the media two years ago would have no place in the Bush administration. Since then, it has been revealed that not only Rove, but also Lewis Libby, chief of staff for Vice President Dick Cheney, assisted Time magazine's Matt Cooper in his reporting about the CIA agent, according to Cooper's account of his testimony to a grand jury last week.

For an administration that takes pride in high standards of personal conduct, and for a president who came to office amid public frustration over the personal conduct of his predecessor, the newest twists of a federal investigation into who leaked the agent's identity could be taking a political toll.

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1. About that "straight shooter" image...

Someone at the Trib hasn't been paying attention

[Larkspur]

2. It already has. Hee hee hee hee

[ComerPerro]

3. Pathetic. Just pathetic

For an administration that takes pride in high standards of personal conduct, and for a president who came to office amid public frustration over the personal conduct of his predecessor, the newest twists of a federal investigation into who leaked the agent's identity could be taking a political toll.

Bullshit. Just bullshit. Is the Trib suggesting that Bush is a victim here?

And, besides, his "straight shooter" image isn't under any kind of heat, and is not in danger.

Anyone who believes Bush is a straight shooter won't be swayed by something as trivial as reality.

[underpants]

8. Exactly-anyone who already bought into this image of W

probably believe that he is "from Texas" as well as the rest of the complete BS.

[ComerPerro]

13. and he's a rancher, a hard worker, and someone you could have a beer with

[underpants]

15. A wealthy successful bidness man

and on and on and on.

The only thing he ever shot straight about was shooting his ass straight out of any chance of going to Vietnam.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

9. It certainly seems like a "victim" piece to me...

...the administration that's had Rove front-and-center as its dirty trickster is now somehow "tarnished"...oh woe is me.

[ComerPerro]

12. and all those "attacks" on poor Bush and poor Rove

[sinkingfeeling]

4. Has anyone, other than the Chicago Trib, seen any 'honor and

dignity' in the WH?

[Inland]

5. But republican Trib won't add "As it rightly should"

eom

[displacedtexan]

6. Could?

I am sick to death of this "Modal Auxiliary" administration and its media minions!

[movonne]

7. What straight shooter image...what a crock...his image has been

damaged from the day he and his cohorts stole the election(s)

[AverageJoe]

10. The author of this piece

is clearly an idiot. Bush has never been anything close to a "straight shooter" and many, many of us have always known it. Hell, anybody who has paid even the tiniest bit of attention to the "man" has always known it. Sheesh. My head's about to explode.

[aden_nak]

11. George Bush will always be a STRAIGHT SHOOTER to me.

[Oversea Visitor]

14. Haha

Swear to uphold Honor :rofl: dignity :rofl:
Look at what he done to both of these values
The world stare in Shock and Awe of his ability
:rofl: What a joke :nopity: