William Saletan, from Slate makes an excellent analysis of Bush press conference - a rare act from this administration, no doubt because they know how uncomfortable Bush is with them.
Its sub-titled Bush's Incredible Definition of Credibility
A paragraph from the article states:
To Bush, credibility means that you keep saying today what you said yesterday, and that you do today what you promised yesterday. 'A free Iraq will confirm to a watching world that America's word, once given, can be relied upon,' he argued Tuesday night. When the situation is clear and requires pure courage, this steadfastness is Bush's most useful trait. But when the situation is unclear, Bush's notion of credibility turns out to be dangerously unhinged. The only words and deeds that have to match are his. No correspondence to reality is required. Bush can say today what he said yesterday, and do today what he promised yesterday, even if nothing he believes about the rest of the world is true.
Read the whole article - it avoids the usual easy to do nit-picking of Bush's choice of words and gets to the heart of the matter:
He doesn't measure his version of the world against anybody else's. He measures his version against itself. He says the same thing today that he said yesterday. That's why, when he was asked Tuesday whether he felt any responsibility for failing to stop the 9/11 plot, he kept shrugging that 'the country' - not the president - wasn't on the lookout.
Its sub-titled Bush's Incredible Definition of Credibility
A paragraph from the article states:
To Bush, credibility means that you keep saying today what you said yesterday, and that you do today what you promised yesterday. 'A free Iraq will confirm to a watching world that America's word, once given, can be relied upon,' he argued Tuesday night. When the situation is clear and requires pure courage, this steadfastness is Bush's most useful trait. But when the situation is unclear, Bush's notion of credibility turns out to be dangerously unhinged. The only words and deeds that have to match are his. No correspondence to reality is required. Bush can say today what he said yesterday, and do today what he promised yesterday, even if nothing he believes about the rest of the world is true.
Read the whole article - it avoids the usual easy to do nit-picking of Bush's choice of words and gets to the heart of the matter:
He doesn't measure his version of the world against anybody else's. He measures his version against itself. He says the same thing today that he said yesterday. That's why, when he was asked Tuesday whether he felt any responsibility for failing to stop the 9/11 plot, he kept shrugging that 'the country' - not the president - wasn't on the lookout.
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