More Bush lies.

More mistakes, lies, flip-flops, whatever you want to call 'em.

Including a great quote from 2000:

"Al Gore has described these presidential debates as a job interview with the American people," Cheney said. "I've learned over the years that when somebody embellishes their resume in a job interview, you don't hire them."

That's Dick Cheney, talking about not embellishing your resume in an interview, aka a debate.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/administration/whbriefing/

Other things:

Bush on WMDs:

"Bob, it's a good question. I don't know — I haven't reached a final conclusion yet because the inspectors — inspection teams aren't back yet... But we'll wait until Charlie gets back with the final report, and then I'll be glad to report."

Charlie is Charles A. Duelfer, whom the Bush administration chose to complete the U.S. investigation of Iraq's weapons programs, concluded that Iraq hadn't had weapons of mass destruction for years — and that Saddam Hussein had neither the means nor the intent to threaten the United States. (I've linked to this report before.) Bush had nothing to say about the report after it was released. But before leaving on a campaign trip, Bush told reporters that the findings included "new information about Saddam Hussein's defiance" and showed that the Iraqi leader was "systematically gaming the system" with the intent of restarting his weapons program. "I believe we were right to take action and America is safer today with Saddam Hussein in prison," he said.

Bush took no questions from reporters.

Bush changed a speech the other day, after [someone in his administration started] telling reporters that it would be a policy announcement on terrorism. Maybe that's not Bush's responsibility, but his staff sure goofed, and it just happens to positively benefit the campaign. Hmmm.

Fred Kaplan writes in Slate:

"Did CNN and MSNBC get hoodwinked this morning? Yesterday, the White House announced that President Bush would be delivering a 'major policy address' on terrorism today. The cable news networks broadcast it live and in full. Yet the 'address' turned out to be a standard campaign stump speech before a Pennsylvania crowd that seemed pumped on peyote, cheering, screaming, or whooping at every sentence.

"The president announced no new policy, uttered not one new word about terrorism, foreign policy, or anything else. He did all the things he wanted to do in last Thursday's debate — accuse his opponent of weakness, bad judgment, vacillation, and other forms of flip-floppery — though this time without a moderator to hush the audience, much less an opponent to bite back."

Bush lies about the debate, about what Kerry said, afterwards.

"One other point I want to make about the debate last night. Senator Kerry last night said that America has to pass some sort of global test before we can use American troops to defend ourselves. He wants our national security decisions subject to the approval of a foreign government."

http://www.georgewbush.com/News/Read.aspx?ID=3711

What Kerry said, the full quote:

"The president always has the right, and always has had the right, for preemptive strike. That was a great doctrine throughout the Cold War. And it was always one of the things we argued about with respect to arms control.

"No president, though all of American history, has ever ceded, and nor would I, the right to preempt in any way necessary to protect the United States of America.

"But if and when you do it, Jim, you have to do it in a way that passes the test, that passes the global test where your countrymen, your people understand fully why you're doing what you're doing and you can prove to the world that you did it for legitimate reasons."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/debatereferee/debate_0930.html

Bush represented Kerry's remarks as "we have to pass some sort of global test before". That's not even close.

That's a misrepresentation. It's not something his advisors told him. It's not analysis he received from a subordinate. Bush heard Kerry with his own ears. Bush made the statement with his own lips.

He lied.

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