"Reads The Intelligence" my ass

[ThomWV]

A reporter asked Bush how he could be so cocksure of his positions and his response was that he 'read the intelligence'.

"Reads the intelligence" - yeah, my ass reads the intelligence.

Of all the photographs I have seen of the man during his Presidency and before the only one I have ever seen in which he was reading anything - anything at all - was "My Pet Goat".



As I recall it has been reported that when he was Governor of Texas pleas for clemency were synopsized to a single page and even that was read to him by his sidekick, Roberto Gonzalez. He didn't read them and every prisoner went to the executioner.

I recall photos of Kennedy buried in a book, Johnson studying reams of papers. I have memory of Gerald Ford studying leather-bound tomes and of course President Clinton had a voracious appetite for the written word.

And our next President? Will he be a man or woman who reads?

[NightWatcher]

1. he doesnt read the intel.

do the words "bin laden determined to strike in America" mean anything. Presidential Daily Briefing???

[rodeodance]

2. He read the intell from Feiths office

[dkofos]

3. He had that spoon fed to him also.

[Turbineguy]

4. Yes, I thought

that was a rather humorous remark. In the way that many thousands of deaths attributable to this man are humorous.

But then again, "I'm on a roll here".

[Booster]

5. If he did read it, he wouldn't understand it.