Bush Administration: Quit Taking Us at Our Word

[AGENDA21]

"I didn't mean it literally" is apparently the new Bush administration code phrase for "I was making shit up for PR purposes, now get off my back."

BLACKBURN, England (CNN) -- One day after Condoleezza Rice said the United States made possibly "thousands" of tactical mistakes in the war against Iraq, the secretary of state says she was speaking "figuratively, not literally."

WASHINGTON - One day after President Bush vowed to reduce America's dependence on Middle East oil by cutting imports from there 75 percent by 2025, his energy secretary and national economic adviser said Wednesday that the president didn't mean it literally.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/4/1/112612/6145

[MrTriumph]

1. Another gem you might remember...

When Bush submitted his first budget, it showed a surplus. The only problem, as most of you know, is that it was a deficit. Seems the "-" was omitted.

[saltpoint]

2. What Condi meant was, she wasn't speaking LITERALLY about

errors per se -- you know, literal errors where actual people make mistakes.

No, no. She was speaking about figurative people making figurative mistakes, since everybody knows figurative people can't make REAL mistakes. That would be silly, wouldn't it? I mean, what she learned as an officiant at Stanford University, even though it is a REAL university, was that actual words are really figurative. She even talked to someone in the English Department about this and she's pretty sure that's what they told her. They met in a cafe in Prague, I think. It was a real cafe, but the meeting was figurative.

So naturally the liberal media misinterpreted her remarks as REAL remarks when in fact they were only FIGURATIVE remarks. That's what happens, darn it, when you use figurative remarks about real events. It only confuses people. I don't think anyone had ANY idea that the liberal media would fly figurative remarks into real skycrapers. No, wait -- that's another subject. It's easy to get confused when you're a real Russian scholar and the Cold War is now a figurative thing -- you know, kind of an antiquated thing, but still real in the sense that it isn't figurative. You know?

Dr. Rice would like to expound on her comments but is late for her appointment to go shoe shopping.

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edited from my earlier post in related thread.... I agree with OP 100% on the Bush administration's gobbledygook public relations strategy.

[Paulo_s News]

3. The Register: Bush preps historic Third Term

"The US Department of Justice (DoJ) and the office of the White House Counsel are preparing a draft document laying out the President's wartime authority to remain in office past 2008, The Register has learned.
"The scheme is described as an emergency "continuity presidency," made necessary by the extraordinary circumstances and unique challenges of protecting the United States from the threat of international terrorism.

Link to the rest of the article at my website.

[patdem]

4. So did she mean they 'figuratively' learned 'figurative' lessons from

those 'figurative' mistakes? This was a direct answer to a question about lessons learned! And she assured the questioner that America and its allies were 'strategically' correct but made thousands of 'tactical errors'..NOW SHE IS SAYING IT WAS FIGURATIVE? SO WERE WE 'FIGURATIVELY' STRATEGICALLY CORRECT? THESE PEOPLE ARE VERY CONFUSING!

[kenny blankenship]

5. Which brings us to tonight's "Word" : METAPHORICALLY

http://media.putfile.com/Colbert-Report-The-Word-Metaphorically