NEW YORK (CNN) -- An author who secretly recorded his conversations with then-Gov. George W. Bush told CNN Monday that the tapes were a historical record that he never wanted made public.
In a segment of the tapes made available to CNN by ABC News, the president appears to admit to trying marijuana.
Bush says he "wouldn't answer the marijuana question ... 'cause I don't want some little kid doing what I tried."
"But you gotta understand, I want to be president, I want to lead. I want to set -- Do you want your little kid to say, 'Hey daddy, President Bush tried marijuana, I think I will?' " he said.
Bush also corrected Wead when he said that an evangelical leader had said Bush promised not to hire gay men and lesbians.
"No, what I said was I wouldn't fire gays," he said on the tapes. "I'm not going to discriminate against people."
i'm surprised this hasn't been posted already. i'm just curious what people's opinions are about it.
My goal is to live forever. So far so good.
The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. - Benjamin Franklin
Who cares about him getting high but the "what I said was I wouldn't fire gays" is laughable. Sure he won't fire them, but he never said he would hire them. However, I'm most likely reading a bit too much into it.
Edit: then again, I wouldnt be surprised. That fucker probably had that huge dopey smile on his face when he said that too.
while there are still tapes unreleased... it's pretty respectable that these tapes weren't a shocking expose of things people wouldn't want to hear... it's surprisingly george, and he hasn't changed at all...
Oh no! Politicians are insincere, corrupt, and lyingly pander to the stupid for support!
Next we'll learn that the government is geared towards nepotism, and the entrenchment of white-collar criminals, all of whom are locked in a tenuous alliance of neccesity to ensure their own political survival.
Truly, the free press is doing an amazing job exposing these well-kept secrets.
Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable, let's prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all. - Douglas Adams
Niffoni wrote:Oh no! Politicians are insincere, corrupt, and lyingly pander to the stupid for support!
Next we'll learn that the government is geared towards nepotism, and the entrenchment of white-collar criminals, all of whom are locked in a tenuous alliance of neccesity to ensure their own political survival.
Truly, the free press is doing an amazing job exposing these well-kept secrets.
There's nothing negative in those tapes. He was speaking off the record to a "friend". His logic was sound but it's something you can't say in public during an election.
People are fooling themselves if they assume Kerry or anyone else hasn't said worse to friends while planning election campaigns.
Personally I don't think any of Kerry's supports would think that, however I would bet that a good number of Bush's "Value Voters" might not have voted for him if they thought he was any less human than their ministers...
Midnyte_Ragebringer wrote:There is no story in those tapes. That is prolly why no one brought it up. hmmmmm wait that hasn't stopped any one before.
Nope sure didn't stop y'all when Clinton got a blow job!
Ahhh how soon we forget. Some assholes bothered him about that, which I personally didn't support. When a President lies under oath is where I had the problem. Another example of how the media shouldn't have the right to print "everything".
Where I disagree is that... I think they should have the right to print everything... but that they shouldn't want to, that considerations be made to snub some negative output, in the interests of the country as a whole.
I try and look at it from a newscaster perspective: sitting in new york and spending most of the day talking about a middle east country and thinking, "what's goin on in the usa?...".. what is news to us anymore?.. I can finally see why the 24 hour news networks have an increasingly negative impact on the country. it's what they focus on, and it is a choice.
