Gates: ‘I wished I hadn’t said’ that Obama was more analytical than Bush

[bigtree]

— but I'll just say it again . . .


from Think Progress: http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/18/gates-obama-bush-comparison/

IN March, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said that President Obama is “somewhat more analytical” than President Bush. In an interview with Katie Couric for “60 Minutes,” Gates said, “That’s something I wish I hadn’t said.” But when asked to describe the two presidents, he seemed to reaffirm the dichotomy, again suggesting that Obama is more analytical than Bush:

COURIC: What three words would you use to describe President Bush?

GATES: Committed, questioning, eager to make a decision and move on.

COURIC: What about President Obama?

GATES: Deliberative, decisive and calm.

[TwilightZone]

1. It's odd that he would attempt to retract his statement. It was obviously accurate.

Anyone with a pulse can see that Obama is more analytical than Bush was.

[able1]

3. More analytical than Bush, yes. Let's hope he applies...

his analytical skills and concludes that the easiest way to get re-elected is to prod Congress to pass the kind
of progressive legislation that the American voter wants: peace, single-payer medical care, end of the war on drugs,
out of Iraq/Afghanistan, no war in Pakistan or Iran, increase in COLA for SS recipients etc.

[blueclown]

2. He must have offended the Repuke high-ranking bureacrats at the Pentagon.

[Kolesar]

4. bush is committed

Or he should be...to a locked ward.

[HopeHoops]

5. Wouldn't make a difference.

He seems to have climbed inside a bottle since he left the WH. I just wish Cheney would go back to his bunker.

[NJmaverick]

6. I am sure Gates got a ton of heat from the right wingnuts

as well as the former crime syndicate aka the Bush administration

[w4rma]

7. Obama should have hired a Democrat. Instead he has someone who doesn't believe in him. (nt)

[qb]

8. I am sometimes embarrassed when I state the obvious, too. nt

[CoffeeCat]

9. You need to be sober to be analytical...

...and we all know what an outrageous booze-hound W was...and is.