Bush Overlooks Own Flip-Flop in Debate

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

By CALVIN WOODWARD, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - President Bush (news - web sites) overlooked a flip-flop of his own when he boasted Wednesday about launching the Homeland Security Department: He was against it before he was for it. John Kerry told Americans he has a health care plan that covers all of them when he doesn't.


Figures and rhetorical claims flew in the last presidential debate, and not all them were on target.


Kerry accurately quoted Bush as saying he does not think much about Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) and is not all that concerned about him. The president protested: "I just don't think I ever said I'm not worried about Osama bin Laden. It's kind of one of those exaggerations."


But in March 2002, Bush indeed said, "I truly am not that concerned about him. I know he is on the run." He described the terrorist leader as "marginalized," and said, "I just don't spend that much time on him."

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[chemteacher]

1. How about "drugs from Canada" are unsafe?

...but we need to get flu vaccines from Canada?!???

[gumby]

2. When Bush said

"It's kind of one of those exaggerations," "exaggerations" seemed to come out of his mouth as an afterthought replacing what he was going to say -- "flip-flop," but f-f didn't work so "exaggerations" came out. Just my thought at the time.