Can you name one thing Bush has told the truth about?

[kentuck]

This question is open to Repub lurkers also. I do not wish to hear about subjective terms such as honor and integrity because those are lies also. But, scratching my head, I think of all the lies told about Iraq, about the economy, about jobs, about Medicare, etc., and I cannot think of one time that we were told the truth about even one subject? Perhaps someone can help with this easy challenge??

[420montana]

1. his name...

and thats about it.

[Bluzmann57]

2. Well...

um..hmmm...oh wait! I know! He said that he would be a uniter, not a divider. He certainly has united the Democrats like never before. Does that count?

[historian]

3. he came out of his mothers festering womb

thats all i can think of

[Jackpine Radical]

4. "This country would be easier to run

if it were a dictatorship, long as I'm the dictator."

[aquart]

7. That was wishful thinking, not truth. I go with his name.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

5. He said we were going to war

we did. That's it

[kentuck]

11. But he lied about working with the UN....

It was only an excuse to put the troops in place.

[Mandate My Ass]

6. He told the truth about hitting the trifecta

and he was honest to gleefully chuckle about how terror and death allowed him to loot the treasury.

[MajorFlaw]

8. I believe he was telling the truth when

he admitted being a drunken bum until the age of 40. He has since given up on the drunken part.

[kentuck]

10. I think he has drank since then...

?? Just a hunch.

[indepat]

9. That he had hit his "trifecta?"

[Bucky]

12. Actually, that's an urban legend. The person inventing the "trifecta" meme

was actually Al Gore. Bush never said it; he only benefits from it. Go figure.

[papau]

17. "trifecta" meme - I saw the Bush tape - why is this an urban legend?

:-)

How did Gore "invent" the application of "trifecta" to 9/11?

Indeed there is an urban legend that Bush said the various parts of the "trifecta" excuse in earlier speeches.

But the speech he made claiming a "trifecta" is real.

[Mandate My Ass]

19. In the 2000 presidential debates

Gore specified the three conditions which could be used to justify opening the social security lockbox: war, recession and national emergency. Bush most certainly did say on more than one occasion that he "hit the trifecta" referring to the three conditions Gore had originally described.

Bush promised during the presidential campaign to avoid tapping Social Security except in cases of war, recession or a national emergency.
"Lucky me. I hit the trifecta,'' Bush told Daniels shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks, according to the budget director.
--Miami Herald, Nov. 29, 2001

[papau]

34. Thanks - I had forgotten that :-)

:-)

[Mandate My Ass]

35. I was actually responding to #12

but Bush told the trifecta "joke" at several fund raisers after it was printed in the MH...he got laughs with it too. Hardly an urban legend.

[Gasolinedream]

13. That he has

sh*t for brains. Oh wait--maybe he didn't say that.

[Atman]

14. He'd run America like a business

Hey, businesses borrow billions and fail to pay it back before tanking, too, all the time. Especially ones Bush is involved in.

[progressiverealist]

15. "Fuck Saddam... we're taking him out!" -George W. Bush

I guess that was pretty honest.

[kentuck]

18. In a moment of anger, he probably told the truth...

That and the comment about easier being a "dictator"....sound as if they are probably true.

[Kazak]

16. He said...

Christians and Muslums worship the same God. True...

[Bucky]

20. interesting challenge. Sure, he gets trivialities right all the time. But

the reason this is a hard thing to think of is that this administration is constantly in "spin" mode. He does get the occasional thing right. When he forcefully and quickly denounced violence against Muslims in the aftermath of 9-11 he saved lives. There was nothing going on like the outburst of hatred like we saw in 1991 with the hatred against Muslims following the invasion of Kuwait, despite there being far less justification for hatred back then.

The president can send signals like that to the general public and it affects the mood of the populace and it can set the boundaries that people react within. Poppy didn't do that in 1992 and the result was numerous incidents of violence against people percieved to be Iraqi. Contrast Bush's (early) response to 9/11 with Aznar's cynical manipulation of the Madrid bombing. Following similar tragedies, Americans grieved while Spaniards reacted with rage. The tone of our separate mournings is pretty starkly different.

The sad part is that that is the only instance I can think of in which the president in a moment of crisis did the right thing. Sadly, when things are planned out in advance, rather than reacted to in crisis, this president always gets it wrong.

[kiahzero]

21. The issue isn't that Bush *always* lies

It's that he lies about the big stuff. Most of the WH spin has small elements of truth at their core, so as to make the claims defensible. If they had no factual basis, the lies would not be as powerful.

Lying is just like writing fiction - you have to maintain the suspension of disbelief.

[BradCKY]

22. One thing I can think of

Off the top of my head, that ad where he said "I know EXACTLY where I want to lead this country"

Yes Bush and that is the scary part.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

23. He'd do for America what he did for Texas

run it into the ground and destroy it environmentally and economically.

[Kazak]

24. "I'm the master of low expectations."

That was true.

[RichM]

25. Sure. He said, "We're going to have tax relief." (Inaugural address)

He didn't specifically say how the "relief" would be apportioned. But he did promise tax cuts, and this particular line was the big applause-getter in his Inaugural Address. (Such as it was.)

[Kazak]

26. "I'm a war president."

That was true.

[chelsea0011]

27. "I'm taking a vacation"?

[NoSunWithoutShadow]

28. "I'm a uniter not a divider"

He's united the whole world against us.

[samsingh]

29. i think he said he wanted to be a dictator

he is trying, you must admit.

[Andy_Stephenson]

30. a link to the video

is here

http://www.ourownmedia.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=245

[stevedeshazer]

31. I believed them

When they said one of his dogs died.

[9215]

32. He said that 2001 was

a great year for he and Laura. I believe it was: he secured his dictatorship when he hit the trifecta. What more could you ask for.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

33. His would be the "personal responsibility" administration

The thief has managed to make Bill Clinton and/or his penis personally responsible for everything that's happened since he stole office.