Is Bush even trying to fix this mess?

[Black Landlord]

Now I'm curious to know whether Bcam thought it was for real :-)

[Grateful11]

[quote maco]Can't believe the amount of debt that he will leave us. That's going to take a long time to pay off.
Hey wait a minute I thought the Dems were the big spenders? LOL

[Grateful11]

[quote BCam]Sadly no, but it should be. Snopes sez:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/kinsley.asp
How does Snopes fix it to where you can't copy and paste their text, it doesn't show up as an image?

[Grateful11]

[quote BCam]Sadly no, but it should be. Snopes sez:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/kinsley.asp
Here's what Truth or Fiction had to say:

http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/k/kinsley.htm

Unflattering Comment About George W. Bush in the Diaries of Ronald Reagan-Fiction!
Summary of the eRumor:
An alleged quote from the published diaries of U.S. President Ronald Reagan calling George W. Bush a "n'er-do-well" who "hangs around here all the time looking shiftless" and at the age of 40 "has never had a real job." The diary entry says "Maybe I'll call Kinsley over at the New Republic and see if they'll hire him as a contributing editor or something."
The Truth:
This quote is not from Ronald Reagan and was not published in his diaries.

The background of this story is that George W. Bush's father was Mr. Reagan's Vice President and the quote was designed to appear as though it was written during Regan's years in the White House.

The truth is that the "Kinsley" referred to in the quote is columnist Michael Kinsley who got a phone call from a friend in 2007 to tell him that his name had ended up in "The Reagan Diaries" that had been recently published.

Kinsley looked onto it and found that he was indeed mentioned as one of a handful of reporters who supposedly had an "off the record" lunch with President Reagan in March, 1986. Kinsley puzzled at that because he doesn't remember such a luncheon.

In July, 2007, Kinsley wrote an article for The New Republic titled "My Lunch with Reagan" in which he smilingly recounted what could have run through his mind after he first heard that he appeared in the diaries.

Such as:

"January 22, 1983. Mommie says that Kinsley's column this week in The New Republic undermines the entire philosophical basis of my administration. O dear O dear, I had better not read it." The reference to "Mommie" was about Nancy Reagan.

And then he added,

"May 17, 1986. A moment I've been dreading. George brought his ne'er-do-well son around this morning and asked me to find the kid a job. Not the political one who lives in Florida. The one who hangs around here all the time looking shiftless. This so-called kid is already almost 40 and has never had a real job. Maybe I'll call Kinsley over at The New Republic and see if they'll hire him as a contributing editor or something. That looks like easy work."

So the quote did not really appear in the Reagan diaries. It was in Kinsley's humorous article.

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That would have been the laugh of the day for me if it were true!

[davester]

[quote Grateful11][So the quote did not really appear in the Reagan diaries. It was in Kinsley's humorous article./quote]

What's most telling is that this satirical piece is so close to the truth that it continues to fool people. The piece is so absolutely dead on in describing GWB that it should go in GWB's presidential library (right next to "Pat the Bunny".

[Lux Interior]

[quote Grateful11]
Hey wait a minute I thought the Dems were the big spenders? LOL
They're both big spenders (of other people's money). It's just that the Dems seem to think that the current generation should pay (i.e. taxes). The Pubs are smart and realize that the current generation votes, so they just run up the dept so the next (i.e. non-voting) generation has to pay for it. Or in the case of this administration, the next 10 or 20 generations.


[quote davester]right next to "Pat the Bunny".
...and "My Pet Goat".