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Former white house press secretaries
But the one thing that ought to be done, though, Anderson, it is -- it is the right move. It is the compassionate move, with unemployment at 9.8 percent, to extend unemployment benefits for additional time.
No, my option is win the war, Paul. That's what I want to do.
No, my option is win the war. That's what I want to do. I want to win this war and protect our crucial and let the CIA do its job within the law.
Of course it is. I think it's a recognition of how President Bush made a lot of unpopular decisions.
Bill Clinton's head of the CIA said it was wrong to release those memos, because you're teaching al Qaeda operatives exactly what our techniques are.
And then, if they decide it was, then they have got a very careful decision to make about how far and extensive do you prosecute people.
Well, number one, we didn't release any Clinton memos. Clinton didn't release any previous President Bush top-secret memos. The problem that I have with all of this is, now that the White House is doing this to its predecessor, what will…
President Obama is entirely within his rights not to pursue the Bush policies. But what was gained by releasing the Bush documents?
Well, that shouldn't change over time. Either this war was or was not necessary. Just because it didn't go well, it didn't go as well as hoped for or planned, that shouldn't change someone's position on whether it was or was not necessary.
Scott is wrong. He's wrong on substance. And he wasn't in a position to know, because his jurisdiction wasn't over those issues.
I'm addressing the most important allegations in the book, which is that the president, in the run-up to the war, used propaganda and manipulated information. My point is Scott is wrong. He's wrong on substance.
I think John McCain's biggest problem is, he always looks angry.
If Barack Obama wins Iowa or is even very close in Iowa, I think a lot of independents are going to go Democrat.
There's such an anger against Republicans and George Bush among the Democrat base... that's why they want Hillary.
Iraq has still largely defined the overall environment, which means it's still a tough year for Republicans heading into 2008.
The American people are going to give the president a second look here, in his sixth year, because he's engineering these changes. He needs the country to give him a second look.
It would have been better if the vice president and/or his staff had come out last Saturday night or first thing Sunday morning and announced it.
I've always worked in the government basically since college and now I'm enjoying a quieter life and a life in the private sector.
Well, that's an age-old issue for the reporters. And I happen to think the White House reporters are plenty capable, plenty tough, and they do their jobs.
Well, I think there still is a purpose to it, absolutely.
Every time his approval in Iraq went down, it was the headline. Now it's gone up. It was a part of the story, but why wasn't that the headline?
The biggest problem isn't political bias, which you do think is a problem. It's a bias for conflict.
