In other words: A discussion of The Bush Administration
Bush: Occasionally Rice or Rove comes to visit me in my room and tell me how much I'm loved and how I'm doing all the right things. That makes me happy. I want to be loved and do good. I'm President you know. Sometimes on trips I see only people who love me lining the streets. One reporter said that people who didn't love me weren't allowed to come, but Rove tell me that isn't true, and how could it be? This is America, people are free to say they don't like what I'm doing... but they don't because I'm doing so well. Dick tells me he just can't believe how well I'm doing, and that he is so proud. He brought me another video of bombings in Iraq again... those are always just so cool. They love me there too.
Bush: America better off with his leadershipLOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- President Bush said Thursday that America is "absolutely" better off today than it was four years ago -- on both the national security and domestic fronts.The question of a war leader actually having experienced a war and thus knowing the true costs of war and knowing of the responsibility of the leader to make sure the war needs to be fought, that it is fought well, and is a just war is not really relevant. I mean we've all seen Platoon, it can get bad... I mean poor Charlie Sheen, what he must have gone through.
"The world's safer. ... Libya's no longer a threat. Pakistan is an ally in the war on terror," Bush said in an exclusive interview on CNN's "Larry King Live."
"There are 50 million people that once lived in tyranny now living in societies which are heading toward democracies," he said.
Bush also promoted improvements at home.
"The economy is growing."
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Bush said he believes Kerry's tours of duty in Vietnam were "honorable service" -- but he also suggested his military record was not terribly relevant to the core choice voters need to make in November.
"Senator Kerry is justifiably proud of his record in Vietnam and should be. It's noble service," Bush said. "The question is who can best lead the country in a time of war. That's really what the debate ought to be about. And I think it's me, because I understand the stakes."Bush also said he thinks the characterization of the American electorate as angry, uncivil and bitterly polarized is an overstatement, based on what he has seen traveling the country.How could there be anger or polarization...Bush is a uniter, not a divider.
"I think there may be handfuls of people that are very emotional, but I think by far the vast majority of Americans are wanting to know whether they're going to be able to work and whether or not the government's doing its job of protecting the country," he said. "I don't have a sense there's a lot of anger."
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