http://www.latimes.com/...
A two-page memo that has been sent to Cabinet members and other high-ranking officials offers a guide for discussing Bush's eight-year tenure during their public speeches.
Titled "Speech Topper on the Bush Record," the talking points state that Bush "kept the American people safe" after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, lifted the economy after 2001 through tax cuts, curbed AIDS in Africa and maintained "the honor and the dignity of his office."
The document presents the Bush record as an unalloyed success.
It mentions none of the episodes that detractors say have marred his presidency: the collapse of the housing market and major financial services companies, the flawed intelligence in the run-up to the Iraq war, the federal response to Hurricane Katrina or the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib.
In a section on the economy, speakers are invited to say that Bush cut taxes after 2001, setting the stage for years of job growth.
As for the current economic crisis, the memo says that Bush "responded with bold measures to prevent an economic meltdown."
The document is otherwise silent on the recession, which claimed 533,000 jobs in November, the highest number in 34 years.
A copy of the memo was obtained by The Times' Washington bureau. A spokesman for Bush said Monday that the White House routinely sends out suggestions to officials and allies on ways to talk about the administration's record.
Bush is incapable of learning that you earn respect. He is swayed by the Rovian concept that "perception is everything".... completely.
There is nothing honorable about lying to the American public to get us into an illegal war.... there is nothing honorable about causing the uprooting and deaths of millions of innocent Iraqis, the mutilation of hundreds of thousands our troops and Iraqi's, the deaths of over 4300 American GI's....there is noting honorable about using the 9-11 tragedy for political gain....there is nothing honorable about leaving hundreds of people to die in Katrina and using it for political gain.... there is no honor in "torture" or wiretapping your own citizens....and there is no honor in facilitating the complete destruction of the U.S. banking system, the decimation of the housing industry and ignoring hundreds of thousands of people who have lost their houses because you wanted to deregulate an industry to help your corporate friends.
The anagram for Bush is..... "uh, BS"
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