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Old 11-05-2008, 07:30 PM   #1
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Hi Everybody,

Did you read George Bushs' congratulory speech? There were one or two things there that I think needs our attention.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081105...bushtransition

I won't try to take anything out of context as I'm copying as I see in the article.

"Bush made no mention of consulting Obama but promised to keep him "fully informed on important decisions" while stressing: "There's important work to do in the months ahead, and I will continue to conduct the people's business as long as this office remains in my trust."

"The United States government will stay vigilant in meeting its most important responsibility -- protecting the American people. And the world can be certain this commitment will remain steadfast under our next commander-in-chief," Bush said in his three-minute statement."

What are your thoughts on these two paragraphs?

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Old 11-05-2008, 07:32 PM   #2
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I listened to the speech and my alertsystem went up at these passages.

Oke..We did hear the same " weirdness"?
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Old 11-05-2008, 07:34 PM   #3
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Anyone know where I can find a video of this?
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Old 11-05-2008, 07:37 PM   #4
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Found it

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/pol....statement.cnn
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Old 11-05-2008, 07:39 PM   #5
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His very revealing reference to the historic occasion of a black president leads me to the conclusion that Obama was 'the man' all along and therefore I suppose that the bits you refere to are 'worrying'.

Remember that when Bush came to power he was not interested in anything to do with THE WORLD, he was just going to get America on the right track. Yea right. We all know what happened next!
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Old 11-05-2008, 09:07 PM   #6
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This is the report on ninermsn from OZ:

US President George W Bush on Wednesday publicly congratulated Barack Obama on his historic victory and vowed "complete cooperation" as the first black US president moves into the White House.

"Last night, I had a warm conversation with president-elect Barack Obama. I congratulated him and Senator (Joe) Biden on their impressive victory," Bush said as he broke his much-noted public silence on the election.

With 76 days left in his term, Bush said he had telephoned Obama after voters decided the longest and costliest US presidential race to invite him and wife Michelle Obama to the White House "as soon as possible."

"I told the president-elect he can count on complete cooperation from my administration as he makes the transition to the White House," the outgoing president said in a three-minute statement in the Rose Garden.

Bush also said he and First Lady Laura Bush had invited Obama and wife Michelle Obama to come to the presidential mansion, "and Laura and I are looking forward to welcoming them as soon as possible."

The US president, whose vast unpopularity weighed down fellow Republican and chosen successor John McCain's campaign, also left little doubt who would be calling the shots until midday on January 20.

Bush made no mention of consulting Obama but promised to keep him "fully informed on important decisions" while stressing: "There's important work to do in the months ahead, and I will continue to conduct the people's business as long as this office remains in my trust."

Behinds the scenes, the White House pursued efforts to make sure that Obama's team can "hit the ground running" at a time of global economic crisis and as tens of thousands of US troops fight wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, aides said.

Bush requested $US8.5 million ($A12.15 million) in funding from his 2009 budget for the transition, which will see the president elect's team given office space in Washington.

He also created a special transition commission in early October. The panel groups senior national security and economic aides, who will be giving their designated successors briefings or running them through exercises to simulate responses to natural disasters or terrorist attacks.

Some of those have been planned but will wait until Obama has picked his secretaries of state and defence, say US government officials.

"A long campaign has now ended, and we move forward as one nation. We're embarking on a period of change in Washington, yet there are some things that will not change," Bush said Wednesday.

"The United States government will stay vigilant in meeting its most important responsibility - protecting the American people. And the world can be certain this commitment will remain steadfast under our next commander-in-chief," Bush said in his three-minute statement.

Obama and his top advisers have already received national security briefings, and his campaign has already submitted the names of potential senior aides to the Federal Bureau of Investigation to get security clearances required to see and discuss sensitive information.

"Every transition is complicated. This is not a parliamentary system. We have no shadow government in place," said Stephen Hess, a US presidential transition expert at the non-partisan Brookings Institution in Washington.

Noting the two ongoing wars and the global economic crisis, Hess told AFP: "It's like we're on an escalator, we don't stop the world for a new president to get on."


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Old 11-05-2008, 10:36 PM   #7
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not only did i pick up on the verbal ambiguities, i noticed an odd jaw twitch a few times that i had never noticed in previous speeches. hardly a condemning fact, but i often get gut feelings from simple visual clues.
off the subject a little, but i sensed real relief in mccain's concession speech.
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