2-page memo to Bush staff offers guidelines for discussing "honor and the dignity" of his tenure

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Reporting from Washington -- In case any Bush administration officials have trouble summing up the boss' record, the White House is providing a few helpful suggestions.

A two-page memo that has been sent to Cabinet members and other high-ranking officials offers a guide for discussing Bush's eight-year tenure during their public speeches.

Titled "Speech Topper on the Bush Record," the talking points state that Bush "kept the American people safe" after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, lifted the economy after 2001 through tax cuts, curbed AIDS in Africa and maintained "the honor and the dignity of his office."

The document presents the Bush record as an unalloyed success.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/washingtondc/la-na-bush9-2008dec09,0,4145069.story

[ananda]

1. But where will they find it?

Honor and dignity in the Bush record
and history simply doesn't exist.

[supernova]

2. Behaving with honor and integrity means

you don't have to remind underlings to speak well of you when you're gone. They naturally will.

Sorry, that's not going to happen to * .

[zbdent]

3. and, in lemon juice (so that the average joe reading it doesn't notice it) is the statement,

"Remember, my Daddy was the head of the CIA, so beloved that they named the headquarters building after him ... so, if you don't follow orders, guess what might happen to you ..."