The President had every reason to believe that the text presented to him was sound... These 16 words should never have been included in the text written for the president.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I always believed as a speechwriter that if you could persuade the president to commit himself to certain words, he would feel himself committed to the ideas that underlay those words.
I did though at least expect him to correct the false statements he made when he was trying to protect the Presidency. Instead, he talked about it as though I had laid it all out there for the taking. I was the buffet and he just couldn't resist the dessert.
I presumed the president was being truthful until a series of events undercut that confidence.
There is something about hearing your president affirm your humanity that you don't know what effect it has until you hear it.
Most of the things that need to be said about the President are things he can't say himself.
If the president is going to use so much language of theology and the Bible, then let's use that language for a serious discussion about the war in Iraq. And that was never done.
Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.
No president is well-served by groupthink or by everybody singing from the same sheet of music they think he's on.
The trouble with ghostwriting is that it raises the issue of whether the president is in a state of diminished responsibility for what he says. Does he actually grasp the implications of the words he speaks?
I guess the President says the majority of the people didn't elect him, he doesn't have to listen to 'em anyway.
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