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Buck April 27th, 2008 - 4:05 pm

I wasn’t invited:

Bush tweaks candidates at correspondents’ dinner

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush poked fun at his potential successors Saturday night, expressing surprise that none of them were in the audience at the White House Correspondents’ Association annual dinner.

“Senator McCain’s not here,” Bush said of GOP nominee-in-waiting John McCain. “He probably wanted to distance himself from me a little bit. You know, he’s not alone. Jenna’s moving out too.”

Bush then referred to scandals that have dogged the campaigns of the two remaining Democratic candidates, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama, in explaining their absence: “Hillary Clinton couldn’t get in because of sniper fire and Senator Obama’s at church.”

Bush telling jokes was cute. I would have much preferred if someone had stood up and read off the following list instead:

One Thousand Reasons

War: The Tarnished Brass (1)
As it prepared to invade Iraq five years ago, the Bush administration called up retired military officers to help sell the war. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and his propaganda team courted as many as 75 retired military officers who could best market the Pentagon line, particularly on television. As detailed in The Times on Sunday, many of these officers used their access to Pentagon bigwigs to promote their private businesses.
New York Times April 26, 2008

Environment: Our Favorite Planet (2)
Imagine if President Bush announced a plan for Iranian and North Korean nuclear programs that declared: They will cease accumulating nuclear weapons by 2025. We will accomplish this through incentives and voluntary action, without mandates.

Mr. Bush would be ridiculed, but in essence, that’s the plan he announced for climate change on Wednesday. He set a target for halting the growth in carbon di
New York Times April 20, 2008

Liberty: U.S. Plans to Collect DNA on Any Federal Arrest (3)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The government plans to begin collecting DNA samples from anyone arrested by a federal law enforcement agency, a move intended to prevent violent crime but which is also raising concerns about the privacy of innocent people.
New York Times April 17, 2008

The rest of the list HERE.

Tags: Bush, White House Correspondents’ Association annual dinner, McCain, Clinton, Obama
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