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Sunday, February 20, 2005

Taping of the President

It appears that a former friend of President Bush tape-recorded W talking about politics, presidential aspirations and political points of view.

Man, oh man! What's it say that this is the content of secret recordings of the President? No girlfriends, no illegal ops to wipe out political enemies. Nope, shocking revelations include that the President is deeply religious, but nervous about the zealots, uncomfortable with gay marriage but even more uncomfortable with picking on gays... In short, in the tapes released, the private Bush is said to be disturbingly similar to the public one.

I like this bit:
Early on, though, Mr. Bush appeared most worried that Christian conservatives would object to his determination not to criticize gay people. "I think he wants me to attack homosexuals," Mr. Bush said after meeting James Robison, a prominent evangelical minister in Texas.

But Mr. Bush said he did not intend to change his position. He said he told Mr. Robison: "Look, James, I got to tell you two things right off the bat. One, I'm not going to kick gays, because I'm a sinner. How can I differentiate sin?"

Later, he read aloud an aide's report from a convention of the Christian Coalition, a conservative political group: "This crowd uses gays as the enemy. It's hard to distinguish between fear of the homosexual political agenda and fear of homosexuality, however."

"This is an issue I have been trying to downplay," Mr. Bush said. "I think it is bad for Republicans to be kicking gays."

Told that one conservative supporter was saying Mr. Bush had pledged not to hire gay people, Mr. Bush said sharply: "No, what I said was, I wouldn't fire gays."

Forgive me, but in a world where we're always supposed to be looking for Rove's hand, the release of these tapes is perfectly suited to reassuring mainstream America, post-election, about what a civil and earnest guy this is.

story (link on headline):
In Secretly Taped Talks, Glimpses of Future President
Author, Former Aide to Bush's Father, Disclosed Tapes' Existence
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, The New York Times

posted by gbarto at 10:47 AM  


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