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Amerigo Vespucci Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-06-07 01:41 PM
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Ooooh, this is getting GOOD. Jim Lehrer calls Petraeus "master decider," Josh Bolten CORRECTS him...
Bush Chief Of Staff: Petraeus Is "Not The Decider"

PBS | September 6, 2007 02:15 PM

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/09/06/bush-chief-of-staff-petr_n_63335.html

Leadership in Iraq

JIM LEHRER: Mr. Bolten, how did we get into a situation where one general named Petraeus has suddenly become the master whatever, the master decider as to what is happening on the ground in Iraq?
JOSHUA BOLTEN: Well, he's not the decider.

JIM LEHRER: OK. Bad choice of words.

JOSHUA BOLTEN: He's the commander on the ground.

JIM LEHRER: I withdraw the word.

JOSHUA BOLTEN: Withdrawal permitted.

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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-06-07 01:43 PM
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1. so, Bush is the decider and he is the one to blame. simple.
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soothsayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-06-07 01:46 PM
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2. who except a mental defect would put 'the decider' into the lexicon?
gawd it's humiliating to be a US citizen anymore.
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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-06-07 01:49 PM
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3. please, please, PLEASE -- let some republick party snoopers see your comment -- brilliant!
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Mnemosyne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-06-07 02:50 PM
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8. What a wonderful country, even the mentally disabled can grow up
Edited on Thu Sep-06-07 02:50 PM by vickiss
to be president!

What a country!

What's beyond humiliating?
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-06-07 01:50 PM
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4. Isn't it pathetic when a kindergarten-level word like "decider" becomes part of the federal
government's lexicon?

I mean, really. What's next? Poopy butt? Bush can pull that out when he's mad at someone, thinks they are full of shit and their ideas stink.

Example: "Ah kin still look inta Pootypoot's ahs an' see his soul, but sometimes that boy is a flat-out Poopy Butt when it comes ta dealin' with things ah wanna git dun!"

And a year later, Jim Leher's interviewing some asshole: "Now, would you characterize Mr. Putin's actions as simple obstreperousness, or do they descend into the Poopy Buttedness category where his very concepts are unsupportable, his goals cannot be achieved, and the President is impatient?"
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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-06-07 02:02 PM
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5. Come here and fish all these bits of pizza out of my keyboard, you!
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TwilightGardener Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-06-07 03:08 PM
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9. ...
:rofl:
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tularetom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-06-07 02:12 PM
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6. The "master decider" answers to the "master baiter"
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Netbeavis Donating Member (291 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-06-07 02:45 PM
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7. easy with the claws there kitten
it was just a question by a real journalist.
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