Andy Card on Bush*s Bulge

[kskiska]

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The latest clarification, explanation or evasion -- depending on your perspective on all this --- comes from White House Chief of Staff Andy Card. We caught up with him in spin alley here, and we asked him whether Bush was wearing a wire at the last debate.

"If he was, I didn't know about it," Card said. "I have no reason to believe he was wearing a listening device at all." So what was that tell-tale lump under Bush's suit coat? "I don't even know what you're talking about. Maybe people didn't have very good eyesight." Was the president wearing a bullet-proof vest? "No, he was not, not to my knowledge." Some are speculating that he was wearing some kind of medical device, like a portable IV machine. How about that? "Not to my knowledge."

Card, the pro that he is, quickly spun the conversation to Bush-Cheney talking points. The president is "a regular guy," he said. "Maybe his suit had a little lump in it or something. I'll tell you, he was dressed for the opportunity to talk to the American people, and I am not aware of anything that was extra-ordinary in what he was wearing."

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[billybob537]

1. Whatever it was

it certainly didn't help!
HHHHAAAAAA hhhhhaaaaa

[aquart]

2. "I have no reason to believe he was wearing a listening device at all."

What an odd way of phrasing it. One must ask, what would constitute a reason to believe.

[question everything]

3. W.H. refused to provide an on-the-record comment

From http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/5023828.html

"There was nothing under his suit jacket," said Nicolle Devenish, the Bush campaign's communications director -- not a wire, not a transmitter, not a garage door opener.

They said the bulge was definitely not a receiver. "It was most likely a rumpling of that portion of his suit jacket, or a wrinkle in the fabric," Devenish said.

And Bush was not wearing a protective vest, sources said. Devenish could not explain why the "rumpling" was in a rectangular shape.

The White House refused to provide an on-the-record comment, saying that it wouldn't dignify a baseless issue.

Democratic National Committee Chairman Terence McAuliffe said, "If he had an earpiece and those were his answers, they ought to fire every person in the back room."

[DuaneBidoux]

4. I saw the photo and it looked like suspenders to me

I wear suits quite frequently and always where "straps" (suspenders). They can make a suit look funny from the back at certain angles. In any case, if he had a listening device the first time, and not the second time, give it back to him for the third time.

[jacksonian]

5. he wore it last night, too

it was just better hidden but you could still see the wire.

I find their very tepid denial of this interesting.

[crossroads]

6. I tried to tell and couldn't!

I would believe it more last night on 2nd debate. They worked like dogs to whip him into shape, but anything was an improvement cause 1st one he sucked bad!
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