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So, let's see.

Bush says on Sunday that we've never been "stay the course". Yet, there are numerous times he's used the phrase.

Then Tony Snow at a press briefing said that Bush has decided to stop using "stay the course" because it "left the wrong impression about what was going on".

There is a difference, to me, between saying that you're going to stop using a phrase versus saying that you never used it in the first place. Now, maybe Bush is being subtle here. Yeah, that's it. See, what he really means when he says "We've never been stay the course" is not that he's never used the phrase. No, no. It's as Tony Snow says, "No, the policy -- because the idea of "stay the course" is you've done one thing, you kick back and wait for it. And this has always been a dynamic policy that is aimed at moving forward at all times on a number of fronts."

So you see, even though Bush had used the phrase in the past, it was because they were some words he strung together. It wasn't the policy.

And THEN, in the press briefing I read this exchange:
Q Is the President responsible for the fact people think it's stay the course since he's, in fact, described it that way himself?

MR. SNOW: No.

*cringe* If the president isn't responsible for what he says, why does he bother opening his mouth?

Posted by jennj at October 24, 2006 04:05 PM