Comments on: Bush Doesn’t Resent Gore for Election 2000

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 01:00:35 +0000

Bush shit

By: sheerahkahn

sheerahkahn — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:14:39 +0000

I think you give her to much credit.
She is, like her predecessors, a conduit, not a policy maker. She takes her cues from the Chief of Staff, her presentations are vetted before she appears before the reporters, her prepared statements are clarified for scope and parameters of potential questions posed by reporters by the White House Staff, and thus her responses are canned and sealed before she sets foot on the stage.
It’s a lot of fun to assume that she is this tough minded, smart, articulate woman with a flair for preserving her masters image, but the reality is that she is a heavily supervised dancing monkey for the White House…just like all her other predecessors were.
The only one who came to that position with grand ideas of “influencing” the White House “conservative” agenda was Tony Snow, and yet even he found he was “guided” before he went before the reporters.
The White House is all about information control, and who control’s the flow of information controls the entire conversation.

By: mudkitty

mudkitty — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:46:02 +0000

I think the elephant on the table here is the fact that Perino, when it comes to Orwellian Double-speak, is a master. She wipes the floor with McClellan, and Fleisher, and everybody else on down the history line. This chick is formidable, and if we don’t recognize that, and deal with that, it will be at our own expense. You can’t deal with what you don’t acknowledge.

By: OleHippieChick

OleHippieChick — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:28:00 +0000

Why not? Cheney’s victim apologized to Cheney.

By: Yogi-one

Yogi-one — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 12:53:50 +0000

The miracle here is actually that Gore doesn’t resent Bush. That says a lot for the character of Gore, who is able to distinguish between disagreeing with policy and political action, and harboring a grudge.

By: Leslie

Leslie — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 07:03:13 +0000

Dana Perino says what the White House wants her to say. She’s the voice of the White House. It’s the White House that’s out-of-touch, and Perino is just a symptom of that.

By: ybnormal

ybnormal — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 05:44:19 +0000

Sounds like another case of what we might call, framing the perspective.

A synthetic “gracious” response is centered around a non-existent assumption (that Gore carries a grudge), without directly stating the assumption, thereby presenting the assumption as taken for granted.

It obscures the obvious fact that whatever Gore’s sentiment is in the matter doesn’t even register in the WH, which is a cue to the press to treat the situation the same way.

It beats Gore to the punch. In the context of an award ceremony, even if someone later bothers to ask Gore his opinion, his only possible response is something like, “nice party, no regrets”. Anything else under the circumstances would resurect the sore loser mantra.

This has the added benefit of preventing too many in the press from asking Gore how he feels about the president’s policies, at least in this venue, since the whole context leads to the expectation that Gore won’t be likely to be too heavy in the face of all the niceness, even if the niceness is just a ploy.

This might seem clever, but a little thought reveals a clue to Bush’s sociopathology.

Since Gore would not likely have acted like a sore loser anyway, it reveals that Bush and/or his staff feels the need to take unnecessary measures to ensure his own un-wrongness. It’s a sign that he’s burying his guilt, so he won’t ever have to face the guilt he can’t really face.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Rove either wrote Dana’s script or inspired it.

By: PrchrLady

PrchrLady — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 04:18:08 +0000

The Emperor is wearing no clothes again. Do you think someone will tell him?

By: 1Watt

1Watt — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 04:05:46 +0000

He’s either drinking again or doped up so bad he has no memory. I honestly believe that the Cheney Cartel keeps him doped up to the point he really doesn’t have a clue.

By: Dee Loralei

Dee Loralei — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 02:38:04 +0000

I’m sure he harbors no resentment from that election. Just like he didn’t resent when “the blacks didn’t come out for me, so I won’t come out for them,” when he was governor.

By: Leslie

Leslie — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 02:34:22 +0000

On what planet is Bush willing to let bygones be bygones? This is the same guy who exposed a CIA agent and entire covert operation over an oped.

By: SusanUnPC

SusanUnPC — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 02:10:09 +0000

Me too. Except that Dana Perino is completely out of touch with how millions of Americans still feel about that “election” and apparently has no memory of who prevailed and who had to accept a humiliating and utterly unfair outcome but has nonetheless persevered and done so much of great service to the entire planet and — this is just an afterthought — not been responsible for the death of a single human being in the past seven years.

By: 1Watt

1Watt — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 01:56:27 +0000

I’d comment but then I’d be banned for life.

By: aquart

aquart — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:13:27 +0000

Jaw on floor.

By: sheerahkahn

sheerahkahn — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:06:22 +0000

“This president does not harbor any resentments,” she said. “He never has.””

So…can someone tell me what it is that seems so freaking wrong…and yet screams at me, “how freaking typical!”