Debates' Last Question: Did Bush mean what he said?

[maxsolomon]

On the last question, here's the transcript from the end of bush's response, from http://www.debates.org/pages/trans2004c.html:

>Saddam Hussein was a risk to our country, ma'am. And he was a risk that -- and this is where we just have a difference of opinion.

The truth of that matter is, if you listen carefully, Saddam would still be in power if he were the president of the United States, "And the world would be a lot better off."<

OK. Am i crazy, or did president presenile dementia say, out loud on national television, that the world would be better off WITH Hussein still in power? When i heard it Thursday i nearly fell out of my chair. Did he "misspeak" or did he make a Freudian Slip & tell the truth? What's with the Quotation Marks around that phrase? Who put those there? Is that supposed to be Bush quoting Kerry saying the world would be better off?

Because it would.

Jesus, let this nightmare end!

[endnote]

1. He did say that. I remember it and wrote it down.

[yardwork]

2. Chimpy said this - I noticed it at the time.

I think he corrected himself in the next sentence? Anyway, it goes up there with his calling Kerry Kennedy and other interesting slips that the chimp made throughout the debate.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

3. We're still trying to figure out what he meant by that last sentence,

about our precious bodily fluids.

Just kidding, I heard him say that. I think it was just a simple verbal slip and he meant that the world would be worse off.

[knowbody0]

4. oh yeah

[coreystone]

5. How Did We Miss That One?????.....

"The truth of that matter is, if you listen carefully, Saddam would still be in power if he were the president of the United States, "And the world would be a lot better off."

:crazy:

[Paradise]

14. lol! it certainly would! lol! nt

[skygazer]

6. He did say that

And it's interesting that in the transcript, it's in quotes which would seem to indicate he is quoting Kerry. However, there was no indication in the way he spoke, that he was quoting anyone. That bothered me. Made me wonder who prepares the transcripts and how they concluded that the statement belonged in quotes.

He did NOT correct it. That was the last sentence of his answer.

[whistle]

7. Correct he did say that, but I think he miss one sentence or phrase....

....but Bush will have to explain what that was since it was being fed to him through a secret receiver.

[strauss_sucks]

8. My guess is

W was attempting to suggest that Kerry believes the world would better off if SH remained in power, but due to lack of active gray matter in his pre-frontal cortex it came out incorrectly, like so many of his other verbal snafus.

[4_Legs_Good]

9. He said it, absolutely. I was laughing like hell, almost as much as when

he spent his entire time to answer a question explaining all the unpopular things he's done.

What a f*cking idiot!

david

[maxsolomon]

12. OK, i heard it correctly then

what a fuck up.

Kerry's campaign should have had a commercial out the next day highlighting that. "what does the president REALLY believe?" Its not too late, Mary Beth Cahill.

[dogtag]

10. Now, now...we mustn't notice the strange statements of

the poor little retarded boy. That just isn't nice and that's why we, just like the talking heads, can't go there.

If John Kerry had made any of the tongue slips, never mind the near implosion Shrub damn near had, it would be banner headlines on every front page and screaming commentators would endlessly repeat them round the clock on TV.

It's the most blatant double standard EVER.

[aquart]

11. Wow. He accidentally said something truthful.

Lots more Iraqis would be alive, terrorists would be holing up in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia because it was worth their lives to annoy the secular Saddam......yeah, folks, the world would be a better, safer place if nasty Saddam and his vicious, murderous sons were still in power. The athletes wouldn't be having a fun time, but their families would be alive.

[many a good man]

13. I think he's comparing himself to Saddam

If Saddam were president of the United States, Kerry would have left him in power and the world would be better off. Therefore we should leave bush* in power in the United States.

:crazy: