Bush: I Don't Want You Readin' My Personal Stuff

[Nitrogenica]

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Clip from April 14, 2005

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/15/bush_private_email/

"US prez George Bush has admitted he does not send personal emails to daughters Jenna and Barbara for fear that his "personal stuff" might end up in the public domain.

Bush made the admission on Thursday to the American Society of Newspaper Editors during a discussion centring on whether the US government is sufficiently forthcoming to requests made under the Freedom of Information Act, Reuters reports. Bush said the administration gets around 3.5 million FOIA requests a year and noted: "I would hope that those who expose documents are wise about the difference between that which truly would jeopardize national security and that which should be read."

We leave it to readers to imagine quite what exactly any email between George and Jenna and Barbara might contain which - were it released into the wild - could threaten national security*. Bush says it's a personal privacy issue: "I don't want you reading my personal stuff," he admitted, adding: "There has got to be a certain sense of privacy. You know, you're entitled to how I make decisions. And you're entitled to ask questions, which I answer. I don't think you're entitled to be able to read my mail between my daughters and me."

[jimshoes]

1. But the rest of us are fair game

for wiretaps and invasions of privacy unheard of before * came to office.

[flordehinojos]

17. yes ... like every time you walk into a doctors' office, a hospital, and other places like mail-in-

prescription drug plans, insurance companies, pharmacies, etc., etc., etc., and they first want you to sign a PRIVACY STATEMENT which authorizes them to release without further request or further approval from you any da*m information they want to release about you to whoever and whomever may be asking for it, and then, after that, they want to know your DOB, your SS#, your phone #, your street addres, and ...

and i better shut up, i can easily get off on a rant here.

[DFW]

2. And I don't want him reading mine.

But he does.

So, if turnabout is fair play..............

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

3. "There has got to be a certain sense of privacy." G. W. Bush, 4/14/2005

:kick: MKJ

[NoGodsNoMasters]

4. What a lovely little spin..

As if the documents requested by FOIA would have anything to do with his relationship with his daughters. What a loser.

[liberalmuse]

5. Nobody wants to read emails to your daughters, you fucking piece of shit.

I hope Americans can squeeze just enough out of FOIA to enable us to get on with the war crimes tribunals. Then Bush can email his daughters from The Hague.

[lumpy]

11. You took the words right out of my head.

Thank you

[The Wizard]

15. "Nobody wants to read emails to your daughters"

Unless of course he has an unnatural relationship with them. You have to admit, there's something really strange about the guy.

[bahrbearian]

24. Come on now ,they are Girls

Thats what Jeff Gannon was at the WH for.

[CoffeeCat]

6. The irony just pours and pours...

...out of this man. He's like the human Niagara falls.

He doesn't want US reading HIS personal stuff?????????

Yet. He can illegally wiretap us, read our email, root through our bank
accounts and declare us enemy combatants if we protest his policies--and then
haul us off to a dark prison, torture us, and deny us a fair trial.

But HE doesn't want us reading his personal stuff????????????

What's next...will Charles Manson declare that society is too violent
for him, because we deny him early release from prison????

[jhrobbins]

8. I was wondering if he would get the irony of this statement-I'm not gonna hold my breath

[trusty elf]

13. Irony is way beyond his shrub-human brain.

Absolutely unbelievable!

What an idiot.

[Lisa]

14. and the awful thing is, he doesn't even realize it's irony

He sees absolutely nothing wrong with a double standard.

Yes, TwoSparkles -- I agree that he's like Niagara Falls, only what pours out of him is even less scenic (and certainly not drinkable).

[MADem]

16. Gee, I thought he was more like the sewage tank on an RV, myself!

What pours out of THAT....ugh!

[ixion]

18. Did you ever see the move "Pacific Heights"? Bush is just like Keaton's character

he loves gettin' into other people's stuff, but absolutely hates it when someone gets into his.

Typical paranoid psychotic.

[Lisa]

32. and another possible parallel with that movie, ixion

I seem to remember Keaton's character destroying the place. I admit that I myself am not a neatnik, but I've never done stuff like this to anywhere I happened to be living ...

Located in the heart of Cloverdale - an exclusive, old-money neighborhood in Montgomery, Alabama - the house, his son Neil remembers now, "was a total wreck." A chandelier was badly damaged, there were holes in the wall and the place was full of empty liquor bottles. "The cleaning bill alone was $900," Neil Smith says, "which was no small thing in 1972." One detail about the mess stood out. "The bedding had to be hauled out into the street," says Jackson Stell, a friend of Pryor Smith. "Pryor said there must have been no sheets on the bed, the mattress was so horribly soiled."

"The trash and damage clearly came from drunken partying," says Mary Smith, who was married to Pryor at the time. "Pryor was very specific that this was related to booze."


http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/6487413/alabama_getaway

[iaviate1]

35. Not only him...

But Corporations are getting good at sifting through email accounts, online storage, etc. without permission or recourse. Just try suing an insurance company for benefits if you don't believe me. Some may insist "THAT'S ILLEGAL - YOU COULD SUE," but producing evidence is tough unless you have money for a great attorney.

[CoffeeCat]

36. Are you saying...

...that health-insurance or auto-insurance companies are "sifting through email accounts, online storage"--and then deny
benefits to people, based on information that is gleaned when they spy in your email and online storage?

That sounds incredibly Orwellian. I hope I've read that wrong.

I've never heard of anyone being denied benefits--due to the insurance company unearthing information from an email account.

Interesting.

[baldguy]

7. He's supposed to be a public servant. NONE of "his stuff" is personal.

[LaStrega]

9. "...you're entitled to how I make decisions."

He. Is. Such. A. Twat.

Assuming you meant we're entitled to *know* how you make decisions ... then tell us again, Mr. Bush, why you signed an executive order preventing us from ever knowing the whole truth about your administration, indeed that of previous administrations. Hmmm? So you don't email? Apparently other folks in the White House do ... where are those *millions* of emails now?

I seriously feel physically ill when I have to look at the man, let alone here the bullshit he spews.

*gag*

[cartach]

10. He's just blowing smoke,

he does'nt to know how to send an e-mail.

[provis99]

12. sure he knows email

Ted Stevens explained how it goes through the tubes!

[Bjorn Against]

27. Thats not e-mail thats the internets...

Ted Stevens told him how to send an internet down a tube. He steered him away from putting that internet in a big truck though.

Don't you just love the Republicans' understanding of science and technology.

[PATRICK]

19. More than that

The Bushes don't talk to their daughters much and hang out more with the Cheneys and their inner circle gang. It is a generational frat clique mot a normal family. It also puts distance between the embarrassing behaviors of the separate generations. How the PR coordinates the family is moire important than the rarer personal get togethers where anyone actually discusses important things.

So much to cover up when you are a crappy multi-generational dynasty like this one. From WWI war privateers(both sides) to attempted coup Nazi supporters to actual coup corporatists with miserably hypocritical mean private lives and opinions, you bet they have a habit of not letting anything out in any form whatsoever. E-mails must scare their kind silly because they know all about the digital possibilities from their involvement in election fraud. Half the records would be utterly ruinous and the other half hanging offenses.

[The Backlash Cometh]

20. Waaaaaahhh!

[glowing]

21. yes, so stay the fuck out of ours ass hat... he doesn't even realize

what his handlers are having him read on the big screen and how he really feels... or maybe he's special and thinks he's entitled to more...

[whistle]

22. But apparently Bush feels he is entitled to read our personal stuff

...what a liar

[focusfan]

23. so he can read our emails but we can't read his

what a son of a bitch.I wonder what his emails would say.hey
dad i thought i seen you saturday with the fbi drunk and out
of your head and you was talking slugish to mom.:sarcasm: 

[simmonsj811]

25. HEY JACKOFF

IF YOU LET ME SEE YOURS I'LL LET YOU SEE MINE :think: :nopity: :shrug:

[Sam Ervin jret]

26. I'm tellin' you. He needs to be drug tested. It's the only explanation for his complete inability to

GET IT !!!!!

I've said it before. I stick to it. Test the Man. If it's not drugs, try Early Stage Dementia.

If those tests come up short, I'd call for an exorcism.

[rabies1]

28. I'm sick of this stammering idiot. Anyone else hear he's buying a plot of land in South America?

A place to escape when he's no longer president. Like a captain leaving a sinking ship.
It's bad enough that he didn't read the memos of warning about the coming 9-11 disaster but this guy wont even read the speeches written for him. And when he's off script - you better duck.

[crikkett]

30. That happened months ago.

He bought land in Paraguay that sits over a huge underground water reservoir. There's a large US military base nearby.

[crikkett]

29. There's no double standard here! Bush is telling us that email, internet is PUBLIC DOMAIN

and that HE, becuase he is concerned for personal privacy, won't put anything in email or on the Internet that he thinks shouldn't be broadcast to the ENTIRE WORLD.

The problem that everyone on this thread has is that they think that email and Internet communications are private and secure, or that they should be.

They're just NOT, and NEVER HAVE BEEN!

And won't be any time soon.

So think about it!!

[Diclotican]

31. He wanted to be President ??

He wanted to be President.. Nothing is PRIVATE when you are PRESIDENT of a nation. Everything you do CAN ble scrutinized and get under the lupe... If he dosent want to get his private Email to his dauther read, hey he may step down and take mr "Dart Vader" with him...

Diclotican

Sorry my bad engelish, not my native

[happy5]

33. "Between my daughters and me...???"

"Between my daughters and I" you numbnut!!

This guy is a total embarrassment. He is not even a regular, run-of-the-mill corrupt politician who can communicate skillfully and pass a good bill or so every once in a while, we have a corrupt, spoiled, inarticulate, power-hungry idiot who has better friends than he deserves.

[defendandprotect]

34. Bush is obsessed with himself and his "Messianic" plan to attack Iran ---

As Sy Hersh referred to it ---

Bush & Cheney live in Bush 'n Cheney World ---

[ProfessorPlum]

37. While I agree that the Chimpster is grammatically challenged

I think "between my daughters and me" is miraculously correct. Between is a preposition, "me" is an object of the preposition, and is the proper form for an object.