"Secret Recordings Foreshawdowed Bush Plans"

[GreenPartyVoter]

"Private conversations with George Bush secretly taped by an old friend before he was elected president foreshadow some of his political strategies and appear to reveal that he acknowledged using marijuana, The New York Times reported Saturday.

The conversations were recorded by Doug Wead, a former aide to George W. Bush's father, beginning in 1998, when Bush was weighing a presidential bid, until just before the Republican National Convention in 2000, the Times said in a story posted on its Web site.

The tapes show Bush crafting a strategy for navigating the tricky political waters between Christian conservative and secular voters, repeatedly worrying that evangelicals would be angered by a refusal to bash gays and that secular Americans would be turned off by meetings with evangelical leaders.

On one tape, Bush explains that he told one prominent evangelical that he would not "kick gays, because I'm a sinner. How can I differentiate sin?"

http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20050220/D88CAJ880.html

[Fridays Child]

1. This story smells funny.

[benburch]

2. Interesting.

But released now to take the focus away from Gannon/PuditPayola/Propaganda scandals.

[spanone]

4. It's about selling boooks. I'm sure Rove vetted the chimps words.

[robbedvoter]

3. As authentic as "Beardgate"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=1610408#1610587

[HysteryDiagnosis]

5. >>I'm a sinner. How can I differentiate sin?"

He most obviously cannot.... at least not when he is starting uncalled for wars on sovereign nations, condoning torture, not planning for the aftermath in Iraq, hobknobbing with Chalabi, trying to divide an entire country for political gain, failing to pay attention to pre 911 warnings, and the like.

[nookiemonster]

6. Total bullshit

n/t

[Botany]

7. So who is Rove's plant @ the NYTs

Anybody want to bet that Fox runs this 24/7 ......


Distract and attack .... Classic Rove.

:grr: