Comments | mandrew411: Not staying the course.

mandrew411

Not staying the course.

Oct 22, 2006 23:14

So I think what I needed to get my LJ voice back was to put it to use by telling the stories that I think need to be heard. I don't necessarily want this page to become a political blog but let's face facts: I have a BA in political science that I'm itching to use, the American people are as lost and partisan as ever, and we're being lied to on a ( Read more... )

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0oangelface24o0 October 24 2006, 06:53:51 UTC

The hairs on the back of my neck stood up watching that clip. That's honestly frightening.

mandrew411 October 24 2006, 13:31:02 UTC

I know, I want to vomit when I see it.

At least politics is pushing me to update every day. No more pokes from you! You know, unless you really want to. ;-)

floyddoorz October 24 2006, 17:25:37 UTC

I'm not going to defend President Bush, but from a semantic standpoint, there's nothing wrong with what he said.

In the past, he's said we should stay the course and that we will stay the course. Now, he's saying that they've never stayed the course. That's not necessarily a reversal of his previous statements, it's an admission of failure.

mandrew411 October 25 2006, 04:12:11 UTC

If he had said "We've never stayed the course", THEN it would be an admission of failure. Since he said "We've never been [about] stay the course" (I put in the "about" because that is what I assume he meant in his own inarticulate way), that makes him a liar.

If we are talking semantics, that is.