Now I get it--he was always in it for the "long haul":

Citing History, Bush Suggests His Policies Will One Day Be Vindicated
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/08/AR200806...

By Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, June 9, 2008; A03

...(President Bush envisions) a distant future in which Iraq is a tranquil democracy, Palestinians live peaceably alongside Israelis and terrorism is a tactic of the past.

...White House aides say Bush, who majored in history at Yale, likes to emphasize historical comparisons because they are easy for the public to understand and illustrate in dramatic fashion how differently future generations may come to view him.

Uh-oh:

Report accuses Bush of misrepresenting Iraq intel
By PAMELA HESS, Associated Press Writer
58 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - A new Senate report gives a fresh shot of adrenaline to the election-year debate over the Iraq war. President Bush and his top officials deliberately misrepresented secret intelligence to make the case to invade Iraq, according to the Senate Intelligence Committee

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Well of course, I went right down to the chain bookstore and snapped up a copy just as soon as I could. That’s my guarantee to this administration: every time one of the Bush worms turns, I’m running straight out to buy his or her book.

I’m already a hundred pages into it; it’s poorly written but it’s certainly worth reading and studying. What’s amazed me in the past few days is how successful the media and GOP have been in selling an idea: the idea that the story here is “the character of Scott McClellan.” That’s not the story. The story here is the content and assertions in the McClellan book—not McClellan’s character or motives, which ceased to interest anyone the moment he left his position as White House press secretary.

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Dr. James Dobson of Focus on the Family was on the radio Monday night instructing millions of conservative evangelical listeners to FREAK OUT to the HOMOSEXUAL PANIC!

Dobson interrupted an ongoing series of talks on the subject of “forgiveness” to alert his national audience to the crisis: the California Supreme Court decision recognizing that “gay marriage is legal in that state.”

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No kidding, he's thinking about it! He was already baptized when he was a baby, but that was Episcopalian so it "doesn't count" with the religious right.

So he's thinking about doing it again, because, goddammit, he needs the religious right. Look:

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Where would you put Barack Obama, on the political spectrum?

I have my own opinion, but I’d like to get yours, whoever you are—because I keep reading these “mixed signals” statements about him, here and elsewhere.

For example, the Daily Kos ran this on Monday, April 28:

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We used to have good campaign songs; before I was born the Dem’s theme song was “Happy Days Are Here Again.” They’d sing it at the convention:

Happy days
Are here again
The skies above
Are clear again
Let us sing a song
Of cheer again!
Happy days are here again!

Great song, got the crowd going.

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Where was this woman educated?

Perino's 'Missile Crisis' Confession  ...Appearing on National Public Radio's light-hearted quiz show "Wait, Wait . . . Don't Tell Me," which aired over the weekend, (White House Press Secretary Dana) Perino got into the spirit of things and told a story about herself that she had previously shared only in private: During a White House briefing, a reporter referred to the Cuban Missile Crisis -- and she didn't know what it was.

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The candidates for the presidency were asked what the worst job they ever had was.

Mike Huckabee had a job wiping people's fingerprints off the glass doors and windows at Penney's. Hillary Clinton had one of those horrible "gutting fish" jobs in Alaska and got yelled at when she didn't do it fast enough. Mitt Romney was rich, but he cut sewer pipe while summering at a family ranch. (Do you know what that can do to your hair?)

John McCain couldn't remember. Fred Thompson; well, he's an actor, he'll do anything for buck. He was a bouncer at drag strip (what the hell do you have to do to get thrown out of a drag strip?) Bill Richardson got minimum wage to pitch in a no-name baseball league.

Edwards mopped out the grease at a textile mill. Obama hated his job at Baskin Robbins because he ate too much ice cream (can you imagine Obama being eloquent at Baskin Robbins in one of those paper hats?)

But nobody asked "the man" himself, George W. Bush, what his worst job ever was. If he was asked, I think his answer would go...something like this...

O-right, as we say in Jersey: here’s me cutting myself into the Sunday news talk shows again. This time it's Fox News Sunday, and I'm talking with Karl Rove.

A weekly roundup of the buzz from the Sunday talk shows
Monday, December 3, 2007; Page A02

Karl Rove defended his recent assertion that Democrats in Congress pushed the country to war with Iraq faster than the White House wanted.

Fox News Sunday: Mr. Rove, you lovable rascal, would you care to defend your recent assertion that Democrats in Congress pushed the country to war with Iraq faster than the White House wanted?

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Look at this picture. This is how you see yourself, relative to the Democratic Party.

No, that's not the end of this article, dummy, keep reading:

Tough to capture the family values vote when you've been caught red-handed working as a pro-choice lobbyist--and, oh my GOD, one of your top men has been busted for DEALING!
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Waxman's Oversight
http://tinyurl.com/2e8l2q
Wednesday, October 24, 2007; 5:16 PM

Since the Democrats took control of Congress, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.) has been involved in virtually every major issue, from the war in Iraq to global warming, from rising prescription drug prices to allegations of White House abuse of power.

Feb. 7: Waxman summons former Iraq occupation administrator L. Paul Bremer to explain how billions of dollars in cash simply disappeared in Baghdad.

"Who in their right mind would send 363 tons of cash into a war zone?" he asks.

(“It’s easy for you to sit there and play Monday morning quarterback, Congressman. Do you know how hard it is to even *weigh* that amount of cash before dropping it into the middle of a civil war? And may I remind you once again that sanity is in the eye of the beholder--”)

Answer: None of them are real conservatives, so why debate it?

It's sort of like hearing a bunch of worms debate about who is the most "snake-like." But that didn't stop them from debating the question.

GOP rivals argue who's most conservative

By H. JOSEF HEBERT, Associated Press Writer Sun Oct 21, 1:27 PM ET

WASHINGTON - Republican presidential candidates vied Sunday over who is the real conservative, ahead of an evening debate in Florida where they hoped to put their conservative credentials on display.

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This is a biiiiiig weekend. This is the weekend where Rudy is making his pitch to the evangelical political movement (EPM) to see if he can counteract the vow their leaders took to stop his GOP nomination. If he can persuade them to “get on board”—he stands a chance of winning the nomination and then the presidency.

If he can’t: he may still win the nomination, but he won’t win the presidency.