Liveblogging the Bush Press Conference

Posted at 7:30 am on Thursday, July 12, 2007, in Uncategorized, and tagged bush, iraq, liveblog.

7:30am
MSNBC feed has David Gregory, who looks lovely. No sign of Bush.

7:32am
The president enters into what looks like a Vegas stage set.

7:33am
Bush: “There have been four stages of the Iraq war.” When do we leave? The tenth stage?

7:34am
Bush presents an agenda for today’s press conference. How scholarly.

7:37am
Bush: “Difficult to achieve lasting national reconciliation in Iraq.” What about here at home?

7:38am
Bush: “Eight out of eighteen benchmarks have seen progress.” Umh, is that considered success? That is less than half.

7:44am
Bush: “Secretary Gates and Secretary Rice.” What, no more Condi?

7:44am
Bush: “The American people do not want to have the U.S. troops patrol Iraqi streets forever.” You can’t even imagine.

7:45am
Questions! Let’s see what you got, press corps.

7:47am
Bush: “We are at the beginning stages of a great idealogical conflict.” The beginning stages?

7:50am
Bush: “The American people are tired of the war. It is an ugly war.” You can’t even imagine.

7:56am
Bush: “Congress has all the right in the world to fund [the troops].” Just not de-fund the war.

7:57am
David Gregory of NBC News: “Weren’t you in denial, or stubborn?” Ouch.

8:00am
Bush: “Sunni-Sheikhs.” Sooney-shakes.

8:00am
Gregory: “Do you believe you have been realistic?” Bush hates follow-up questions. He already had the name of the next reporter to call on.

8:03am
Bush: “The perpetrators of September Eleventh — obviously the guys on the airplane are dead.”

8:05am
Bush: “It is hard to get a law passed here.” Thank you, veto.

8:06am
Bush: “The Scooter Libby decision was a fair and balanced decision.” This message is brought to you by Fox News. However, let’s see what the pundits on Fox News say about this one. Better yet, let’s not.

8:08am
Bush basically puts the blame of early and subsequent failures in Iraq on General Tommy Franks. The buck stops over there.

8:10am
The word of the day is “reconciliation.”

8:17am
Bush: “The blessings of freedom.” Get this man a pulpit.

8:19am
Bush: “Condi Rice and Bob Gates.” There we go. Welcome back, Condi.

8:22am
Question from Ed: “How difficult is it to run a war as an unpopular president?” Ouch.

8:27am
Bush: “Everyone wants to be loved.”

8:27am
Bush was pulled back in after saying good-bye. “This is not the new me.” Wow, what a dick. What a bastard of a president.

8:30am
Bush leaves.

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