Bush: I would run as 'agent of change'

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22608913/

JERUSALEM - President Bush said Friday he doesn’t take it personally when Democratic and Republican presidential candidates embrace change as a major campaign theme.

“Oh, listen, if you're running for office, you can't run for office and not say, ‘I'm an agent of change,’" Bush told NBC News’ David Gregory. “That's just American politics. If I were running for office at this point I'd be saying, ‘Vote for me, I'm -- I'm gonna be an agent of change.’"

The president declined to comment on any of the current presidential candidates, but he left little doubt he would support the eventual Republican nominee.

“The Republicans understand that, one, tax cuts are important and, two, fighting this war on terror is important,” he said. “I think these two issues are going to be the defining issues in who can best lead this country in a complicated world.”

Read more: MSNBC

[Greeby]

1. Agent of destruction, more like

:eyes:

[Jeroen]

16. Agent Orange n/t

[Justyce]

2. Bush would run on being an agent of change from his own politics? Now that's funny...

:rofl:

[Wildewolfe]

3. More like an agent of CHUMP

....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancelot_Link

[Virginia Dare]

4. In other words, if he were running, he'd just lie to get into office..

like all the other repubs.

Cut taxes and terra, sounds like stay the course to me.

[bdamomma]

5. why even bother interviewing this idiot, he took down the country.

[bemildred]

6. Good point, he certainly has been an "agent of change", he's made everything worse.

It's not enough to be an "agent of change", you have to be an "agent of good change".

[gratuitous]

7. One thing I won't miss . . .

One thing I won't miss about Chimpy is how he "unnerstans" things, and he knows how everyone else "unnerstans" things that just happen to comport completely with his view. I truly think Chimpy's head would burst if he was forbidden from saying that he or anyone "unnerstans" something or anything.

[boricua79]

8. Bill Clinton ran on "continuity" after his first term

and he succeeded because he did, by and large, a great job.

You CAN run on continuity...if your continuity is not continuing a massive FAILURE.

People are running on change because YOU sucked, Bush.

[truthisfreedom]

9. Uhh, mr. bush? "Change" doesn't necessarily mean "destruction."

Which is PRETTY much a summary of what you've accomplished here in America and abroad. The constitution and a hell of a lot else is now shredded in your wake.

[Lint Head]

10. He should know a lie when he sees one. He an expert at lying.

:dem:

[Paula Sims]

11. A rat jumping from his own ship??

Bush running away from himself. Things are worse than we thought!

[NJCher]

12. I'm a loser?

What else could he say? "Yeah, people want change because I'm such a loser president with loser policies and I've turned this country into a loser nation?" I'd love to see that but given his narcissism, I don't think we will.



Cher

[paparush]

13. In a move that nearly tore the fabric of the space-time continuum -

Bush tried to distance himself from himself.

[Lisa]

21. perfect! (n/t)

[Infinite Hope]

14. To be fair, a lot has changed under Bush. n/t

[Political Heretic]

15. He's basically right.

[AndyTiedye]

17. Can We Have an "Agent for Change" Who Changes Things FOR THE BETTER this Time

Bush has been an agent of change, but not in a good way:

Peace into war
Openness into paranoia
Surplus into deficit
Democracy into fascism
…

[Maccagirl]

18. The only change Bush understands

Is plenty of "ching-ching" going into the pockets of his cronies/supporters.

[Blaze Diem]

19. Secret Agent Double Knot Spy..Man

Yep that's our boy.

[Jimbo S]

20. Didn't his father run on continuity in '88?

SNL pointed that out in its debate sketch.

[radfringe]

22. so he admits he was wrong about everything

and would do things differently... :evilgrin:

[merwin]

23. The difference is that the D's want to change for the better, the R's want to change for the worse.

[underpants]

24. Bush: I would run as 'agent of change'

Source: MSNBC

NBC, MSNBC and news services
updated 10:51 a.m. ET, Fri., Jan. 11, 2008
JERUSALEM - President Bush said Friday he doesn’t take it personally when Democratic and Republican presidential candidates embrace change as a major campaign theme.

“Oh, listen, if you're running for office, you can't run for office and not say, ‘I'm an agent of change,’" Bush told NBC News’ David Gregory. “That's just American politics. If I were running for office at this point I'd be saying, ‘Vote for me, I'm -- I'm gonna be an agent of change.’"



Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22608913/

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I almost choked on my gum when I saw that headline

[hobbit709]

25. He's an agent of change all right-all of it bad

[MidwestTransplant]

26. He has on more makeup than Liberache

[hobbit709]

28. And it looks like it was applied by a blind person with palsy.

[goodgd_yall]

27. Well that put the knife in that campaign slogan.

Or should. It's laughable that EVERYone is talking "change" now.

[underpants]

31. I'm reminded of "Pappy O'Daniel" in "Oh Brother Where Art Thou"

The politician played by Charles Durning

His moronic assistant (son? nephew?) says "Why don't you run as the reform candidate?"

Pappy begins beating him with his hat "I CAN'T RUN AS A REFORMER! I'M THE INCUMBENT YOU MORON!"

[Blaze Diem]

29. Looks like his make-up person got their training in mortuary science.

Its the same exact thing they do to dead people to display them for viewing!
uncanny, huh.

[Javaman]

30. more proof of his self loathing. nt

[Blaze Diem]

32. He looks troubled.

beleegered.
whipped and beaten.
but what a pretty shade of lipstick.

[underpants]

33. He's just sad thinking about all the bombing he could have done

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2658780

[Hugin]

34. Dang, UP... That's twice in ONE day!

:tinfoilhat:

[TankLV]

35. In other words - JUST SAY ANYTHING - EVEN IF IT'S A LIE - JUST LIKE I DID!!!

Fucking unbelievable...

Fucking Amerikkkan Sheeple...