Bush Warns of Vulnerability in a Transition

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Source: The New York Times

WASHINGTON — President Bush, warning that terrorists “would like nothing more than to exploit this period of change,” said Thursday that he intended to talk to President-elect Barack Obama on Monday about issues that will face his administration, including the turmoil in the financial markets and the war in Iraq.

The White House is especially concerned that the nation will be vulnerable during the transition between the Bush and Obama administrations. In one sign of that, Mike McConnell, the director of national intelligence, flew to Chicago to present Mr. Obama with his first top-secret intelligence briefing on Thursday.

“For the next 75 days, all of us must ensure that the next president and his team can hit the ground running,” Mr. Bush said in an emotional speech to hundreds of employees of the executive branch on the South Lawn of the White House. He urged them to “conduct yourselves with the decency and professionalism that you have shown throughout my time in office.”

Mr. Bush has said he is determined to conduct an orderly transition. The White House wants to avoid a repeat of the kind of news reports that plagued President Bill Clinton when he left office amid questions about whether members of his staff, irked at having to turn their offices over to Republicans, removed the letter W from some computer keyboards.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/07/us/politics/07transit...

[CreekDog]

1. every day Bush is in office we are vulnerable

the transition simply means that vulnerability has a prayer of ending.

[Demeter]

22. And Now Bush Is the Most Vulnerable of All

I'm thinking more and more that they were the biggest bunch of clueless idiots ever assembled, except for Cheney and his staff, who are certifiably evil....

[Webster Green]

2. Sounds like a threat..

They should lock that mutherfucker up, just to be on the safe side.

Fuck you, chimp!

[Mist]

5. I agree--sounds threatening. nt

[Ecumenist]

10. It does seem like a threat, BIGTIME!! I would not put anyting past these creeps trying.

[elleng]

3. Thanks, b******!

'Be scared, be very scared.'

[bemildred]

4. So, he's planning to drop his guard now, or what? nt

[Ecumenist]

6. I wouldn't put it past these nuts to pull something in order to prevent the

transition of the Obama administration. I won't breathe easily until the bush crime family is gone completely.

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[GoddessOfGuinness]

9. If they tried anything, they'd quickly regret it

The National Guard is short-staffed here in the States; and they'd be needed to deal with riots.

[Shipwack]

28. I think it would take a lot for peopel to riot...

If people were getting antsy, they'd just schedule a "Survival"/"American Idol" marathon... :/

[defendandprotect]

11. Agree... AND Bush kept us safe on 9/11---!!!!!

[kestrel91316]

7. TERRA TERRA TERRA TERRA TERRA TERRA TERRA TERRA

STFU, you miscreant. Before we MAKE you shut up.

[AllyCat]

35. That's all these people know is fear.

Glad a lot of folks didn't fall for it this time

[superconnected]

12. I so don't trust this crook. He has caused many many people to die.

How can we trust a crook who's willing to comit mass murder for money. We can't.

[smiley]

13. Bullshit!

They are already setting Obama up for a fall. Just the mention of the missing "W's" from keyboards raises my eyebrows. Let's hope that Obama's team has prepared for the slandering of the party.

[AllyCat]

36. Missing Ws? What's that about?

[marasinghe]

41. you got that right. they want Gates staying behind, in the shadows.

mass-murdering little repuke scum trying to maneuver Obama into keeping sec-def Robert Gates on, with his pale paws on the warstick. really hope the Obama admin has the strength of mind, to throw the Gates pig in the trash, along with the rest of any of the frickin carrion-eaters trying to lurk out of sight inside the beltway.

[BobTheSubgenius]

14. What could that imbecile tell Barack O that he doesn't already know?

The secret knock to get into the Situation Room?

[bahrbearian]

15. In beginning of Bush's term, they didn't want to be swatting at flies.

What was his remark to a CIA lackey that warned of 9-11 "OK, you covered your ass now go back to Washington"

[99th_Monkey]

16. Uh-oh .. “conduct yourselves with the decency and professionalism ...

... that you have shown throughout my time in office.” ???????

Is this is supposed to be considered "good news" ???

[Buns_of_Fire]

19. Which means, if they follow Der Chimpenfuhrer's advice..... they'll do as much damage as they can.

Forget about a few missing "W"s from computer keyboards* -- we're talking about the entire KEYBOARDS disappearing.

* I know. Debunked.

[Turk 182]

30. Maybe they'll rermove

all the black keys from the White House pianos.

[NYC Liberal]

17. Just because THEY fucked up THEIR transition doesn't mean Obama will!

Clinton gave Bush tons of information to make sure they were prepared when they took office. He warned them about threats from Al Qaeda/terrorists.

Bush didn't do a DAMN thing with any of it, and that's why we had 9.11.

Obama isn't Bush, and he isn't stupid!

[Cobalt-60]

18. Chilling

Another terror warning from the Bushniks.
They're probably trying to pull attention away from the election results.

[lib2DaBone]

20. Our National Threat comes from Bush and the Neocons....

Bush Knew

[santamargarita]

21. Just get the fuck out!

GO!

[Solly Mack]

23. Bush Inc is laying down land mines for Obama

for all his bullshit talk about an "orderly transition."

This is Bush..whatever he says...the opposite is true.


- He urged them to “conduct yourselves with the decency and professionalism that you have shown throughout my time in office.” -

Yeah..we've been witness to all that decency and professionalism...

[madrchsod]

24. if anyone attacks america it will be an american terrorist group...

when is he leaving?

[lovuian]

25. Its a threat indeed and the terrorist is Bush

its going to be a very bumpy ride

[shadowknows69]

26. Solution? Leave now and let Barack get to work.

[ixion]

27. I'm so sick of hearing this small man's paranoid fantasies

I wish he'd just mosey off to Paraguay and STFU.

[wordpix]

29. "conduct yourselves with the decency and professionalism that you have shown throughout my time"

HUH? WTF? This gang of thieves and criminals have shown NO decency OR professionalism as a group. Their creed is greed, cronyism, Treasury theft, stealing natural resources, illegal spying, torture, disastrous wars.... WHAT DECENCY?

[tanyev]

31. Oh, the White House wants to avoid the kind of false news reports that they created?

The White House wants to avoid a repeat of the kind of news reports that plagued President Bill Clinton when he left office amid questions about whether members of his staff, irked at having to turn their offices over to Republicans, removed the letter W from some computer keyboards.

Since the Obama administration is going to have about a million times more class than the Bush administration, the Bushies do not need to worry about false news reports being circulated about them. They may have very good reason to worry about true things that will be revealed about them once they're gone. And what is up with Barbara Walters and the NYT rehashing this lie yet again?

[all.of.me]

32. fear fear fear fear fear.

think positive for a change! see what happens! sheesh........

[AllyCat]

33. George is going to work with Obama to bring him up to speed

just like Clinton did with him? You mean like when he ignored everything the Clinton Admin told him about al Qaeda? I suspect Obama will listen, but will find his info elsewhere since King George is likely to leave out some details.

This sounds like a threat to me that we'll be "attacked" because we pushed out this arm of the Bush Crime family

[whistle]

38. That will take Dubya about five minutes to explain

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

34. What decency and professionalism?

[whistle]

37. Not if Congress holds Bush/Cheney in check and the GOP members

...put America first

[Phred42]

39. This was Bush Announcing that he might just have that second 9-11

he's been 'hoping' for. This was a Threat.

If Obama doesn't promise him that pardon over Lunch next week.....Bush will 'launch'

The Go/no-Go Launch Lunch.

[Kolesar]

40. Lazy bush* took six months to complete his gov't and that's why 9/11 happened

That lazy ass didn't really care about governing competently. His only motivation was political: to put the Republicans into power and to destroy our party.

Appointing the not-so-sharp John Ashcroft as AG did not help. Fighting terrorism was way beyond his capabilities.