* now claims DeLay isn't innocent. Can you say flip-flop?

[babylonsister]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051216/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_interview

WASHINGTON -
President Bush said Friday his statement that former House Majority Leader
Tom DeLay was innocent of criminal charges in Texas was meant to signal confidence in the justice system and not to make a pronouncement about the individual case.

"The point I was making was 'innocent until otherwise proven,'" Bush said in an interview to Friday for "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer." "It's a belief in the system, and that's not always the way people are treated here in Washington as you know."

On Wednesday, Bush was asked on Fox News Channel whether he believed DeLay was innocent, and he replied, "Yes, I do."

Spokesman Scott McClellan said Thursday that Bush was exercising his "presidential prerogative" in commenting on the case.

DeLay, R-Texas, was forced to step down as the No. 2 House leader in late November after he was indicted on a state charge of conspiracy to violate election laws. A second grand jury indicted him on charges of conspiracy to launder money and money laundering. The initial charge has been dismissed, but a judge has let stand the later charges.

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[lildreamer316]

7. Welcome to DU!

:hi:

[rodeodance]

2. his personal lawyers drew up this script for him. What a joke.

[LiberalFighter]

6. Can't be plainspoken if you use lawyers to speak for you

[rodeodance]

3. doesn't he realize he IS Washinton!!! --blood thirsty corrupt asses!

"The point I was making was 'innocent until otherwise proven,'" Bush said in an interview to Friday for "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer." "It's a belief in the system, and that's not always the way people are treated here in Washington as you know."

[senseandsensibility]

4. It doesn't matter

The whole point was to get out to the brain dead FAUX viewers that DeLay was innocent, which they will swallow hook, line and sinker. Now that that's done, chimp will correct himself in front of a more informed group of viewers. He's been told to do this. His handlers also know that no one, not even Lehrer, will press him too hard on his flip flop. He really can do whatever they tell him to do. That's been established for years.

[Al-CIAda]

5. "The point I was making..." Ha!

Point?...Point?! I think the 'point' is you were, as usual, talking out of your ass... and now you are trying to backtrack in order to avoid the charge of improperly attempting to influence a jury.

[ticapnews]

8. "Innocent until otherwise proven"

Who the hell talks like that?

[tridim]

9. People that don't want to use the correct phrase

"Innocent until proven guilty" . Can't use the "G" word when talking about Republican corruption.

[Botany]

10. Same shit wit who says this:

And yet, 60 years ago, my dad fought against the Japanese -- many of your relatives did, as well. They were the sworn enemy of the United States. I find it amazing -- I don't know if you find it amazing -- I find it amazing that I sit down with this guy , strategizing about how to make the world a more peaceful place when my dad and others fought him.
-- I'm pretty sure that Dubya's dad and others didn't fight against Prime Minister Koizumi, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Dec. 12, 2005

from dubyaspeak

[chicagiana]

11. I didn't inhale ...

And they said "I didn't inhale" was wobbly.