Do you think Bush's Operation Candor is going to work?

[WI_DEM]

Not that it really is candor, but I heard one reporter call it "operation candor"--what Bush has been trying to do lately to get his credibility numbers up. First he admits that 30,000 Iraqi's have been killed (of course far more than that number have been killed). Then he finally admits that the intelligence which led to the war was faulty.

So now the question is--Will this help Bush? He obviously is doing these things on the advice of his political team (Rove) to gain ground in the polls and restore his badly damaged credibility.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Only with the delusional

who still think he's the Second Coming. Everyone else looks at what he says with skepticism.

[stevedeshazer]

2. It's four years too late

He no longer has any credibility outside of his base of wealthy donors and working-class freepers and ditto-heads.

It won't help.

[mmonk]

3. With a sycophant press, anything is possible,

especially when your opposition is split.

[rfranklin]

4. No, because he's refusing to accept responsibility for anything...

"Yeah, I lied you into war, but it was the right thing to do. I may have been imcompetent. I may have been deceitful. but the ends justify the means. Terra-ists. 9-11. fight 'em there...

[MemphisTiger]

5. He might pick up a point or two, but I think most will see it

as to little to late. I think most have written him off.

[Inland]

6. Isn't it obvious Bush is only "candid" on facts US has known for a year

or more?

How candid is it to for a man to admit robbing a bank when he's covered with the contents of a dye packet and caught with marked bills?

"Okay", says the dyed red crook. "Somebody has made a mistake. And I'm going to find out who, not that it makes any difference as to the original plan. I'm just being honest and forthright."

It's a modified limited hangout, as Haldeman said.

[peekaloo]

7. I think it makes him look like an even bigger liar.

He staunchly defended the pre-war "intelligence" so adamantly that an admission now that it was "faulty" makes him seem even more "doofilicious".

[dkofos]

8. Candor, from *, what a fucking joke.

Lie one 30,000 Iraqi's dead. More like 50,000 - 100,000.
Lie two Intel was faulty. Intel was made up.

This may help with the terminally stupid (his base)
but not with the majority.

[mmonk]

9. I think some here forget

they are ahead of the curve as far as knowing what's going on. Millions in this country have no clue. Keep that in mind when assessing things.

[Johonny]

10. Well most people

reach the same conclusion as the president did... 3 years ago, a year ago, 6 months ago. So I'm betting being way behind the eight ball isn't helping.

[Karmadillo]

11. He has the advantage of a lackey media and a complicit Opposition

Party. The American people know he's full of crap, but whose going to turn their understanding into a political challenge? Stay the course. See the war crimes to fruition until Democracy flowers forth all over the world etc.

[beltanefauve]

12. Lie to us! Lie to us!

Please, please! The old lies don't work anymore! Tell us new ones!

Old, white, Conservative male America badly needs Operation Candor. The powers that be manipulate us with fear and ignorance, and these guys need something, ANYTHING, to help them believe they're not going to lose their place in line.

And the Neocons are laughing all the way to the bank.

[Arkansas Granny]

13. The only people who will believe Bush are the ones who have

always believed him. I doubt that he has convinced anyone else that he knows how to tell the truth.

[Cleita]

14. Crying wolf too many times comes to my mind.

After listening to lies, obfuscation and downright incoherent dribble for the last five years, nothing he says from now on will seem credible even if he is finally telling the truth, which he's not.

Even in this mea culpa he had to lie about the number of Iraqis killed. Wouldn't it have been better if he said no one really knows, however, there have been estimates of a hundred thousand or more?

[alfredo]

15. Only in the short term. We still have the Plame case, Frist, Delay,

Abramoff, Cunningham, torture, and a host of other issues that can derail him.

Every uptick of approval is followed by a long slow drop.