The Blog | Justin Frank: Born Again - Again | The Huffington Post: "On Sunday, October 22, 2006 George W. Bush was born again - again. His re-birth was pre-recorded, but the television audience saw it happen before their very eyes between 9 and 10 AM Eastern Standard Time on ABC. He told the interviewer, also called George, that 'we've never been 'stay-the-course'' in Iraq.
Had the interviewer been a psychiatrist (or a real reporter), he would have had Bush's record at hand, and would have found that Bush has regularly said we would 'stay the course' in Iraq.
What does this disclaimer mean? It means at least two things: Bush's words are meaningless to him, and that he utters them in interviews and press conferences solely because it is required of presidents and campaigners; second, it again reveals Bush's pattern of dismissing his past when events prove too uncomfortable for him. Normally he indignantly denies the past -'Kenny who?' or 'I never met with that lobbyist, Mr. Abramoff.' At other times he's sullenly indifferent, as when he said 'What's the difference?' when Diane Sawyer's probed him about not the finding the WMDs he had insisted were in Iraq..."
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