From the Times today:
Mr. Bush chuckled at the suggestion that he and Mr. Cheney had chosen to be interviewed together so they could prop each other up or prevent discrepancies in their answers. "If we had something to hide, we wouldn't have met with them in the first place," he said.
I dunno. This list seems to suggest they really, really didn't want to meet with them in the first place.
Posted by Chris at April 29, 2004 04:22 PMHere's the thing (as pointed out by Alicia on my own blog's comments): once in a generation or so, we have some staggering event, that calls for some pretty unprecedented showmanship on the part of our leadership. Two generations ago, that was Pearl Harbor... FDR wasn't happy about it, but a commission got up and going DAMNED FAST. One generation ago, it was Watergate, followed by the pardon of Nixon by Ford; Ford's FIRST ACT as President (or just about) was to go-- HIMSELF, VOLUNTARILY-- to testify before the House Judiciary Committee and out and out say "there was no deal" for the pardon (and to this day, Ford has struck me as such a decent man, if perhaps, not up to what it was he stepped into, that I believe him). This generation, its obviously September 11th.
And so, we see something, again unprecedented: a President and Vice-President cowering in a private, UNSWORN, closed-door, off-the-record and not recorded CHAT, if not outright love-fest, together, so that the PEOPLE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ELECTED DO NOT HAVE TO ANSWER TO THEM FOR THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT MAJOR EVENT OF THIS GENERATION.
The fact that poll numbers show that the worse this gets, the better Bush's poll numbers show that perhaps we DO get the government we deserve.
God help the rest of us.