Comments on: Presidential Press Conference Live Blog

By: marie

marie — Sun, 01 May 2005 23:23:37 +0000

All in all I was disapointed with Bush's press conference. It was pretty much the same old same old but now he's telling middle class Americans to expect less in SS benefits. YAHOOOO! NOT.

Man you have to be the fastest blogger in town!

best wishes marie

By: Doug Martin

Doug Martin — Sat, 30 Apr 2005 20:52:31 +0000

President Bush and the Republicans should revise their proposal, to simply allow younger americans to increase the amount of money they can put into IRAs and 401k plans. Social Security money should not be used to fund private accounts - that will just hurt retirees even more. By diverting social security money into private accounts, Republicans are hurting the middle class.

By: Punditish

Punditish — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 15:26:01 +0000

Thoughts on the Press Conference Though specific numbers are not known, it's believed that hundreds of thousands of American and British troops were either "killed, wounded or went missing" during the Battle of Normandy. Despite the tremendous loss of life, however, it remains one ...

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Fri, 29 Apr 2005 14:24:29 +0000

Bloggers Cover Bush Press Conference With Good Typing and Inuendo
James Joyner of Outside the Beltway live-blogged the president's entire press conference yesterday. Amazing feat of typing! There were some rumors in noted in Wonkette and National Review Online before the event suggesting that Bush was going to annou...

By: BitsBlog

BitsBlog — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 14:11:37 +0000

Pres Press Conference?
Bush, once he got in there, marshalled his butterflies very well indeed; he always does. I think he'd do himself a service by doing them more often than he does.

By: JackLewis.net

JackLewis.net — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 13:48:37 +0000

Evil Bush pre-empts Survivor (Grrrrr)
Yes I know Survivor aired an hour late. I don't watch Survivor anyway, finding it too stupid to tolerate. But...

By: E Pluribus Unum

E Pluribus Unum — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 12:34:34 +0000

Bush: “Thank you for your answers.”
I skipped Thursday evening's news conference (only catching his closing comment, above). Did he, um, make any news? P.S. James Joyner has a summary....

By: Rod Stanton

Rod Stanton — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 11:18:47 +0000

As I said a month ago he is going to raise the tax. It will be at least 100k or a 11% hike. Another liberal President Bush. I have been fooled by liberal Bushes twice! When will I learn!

By: The Moderate Voice

The Moderate Voice — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 04:10:50 +0000

Bush Shifts On Social Security And Away From James Dobson
It was not a political tsunami, but some significant shifts occurred at President George Bush's press conference tonight: a shift on Social Security and some notable steps away from an al...

By: Robert Tagorda

Robert Tagorda — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 03:05:19 +0000

I must say that I was very upset with this press conference: it preempted "The OC." Hardly a way to appeal to the younger set, methinks.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 02:51:23 +0000

I am HD challenged, but the tie had an orangish tint to my eyes. Perhaps this is a nod to the successful democratic movement in Ukraine. Regardless, it is quite popular in NYC these days.

Overall, Bush gets a B+.

Press corps gets a solid A for asking interesting questions for a change.

Solid A for James' synopsis as well.

By: herostratus

herostratus — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 02:30:35 +0000

Thank you for the transcription. It was a good summart, while at the same time being cute. You're cute.

By: Accidental Verbosity

Accidental Verbosity — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 01:46:40 +0000

Press Conference
James has a good summary of the Presidential press conference this evening, which I managed to catch a large part of. Unfortunately, the network folks cut in over the end of the thing, entirely wiping out the last question about means testing (on...

By: La Shawn Barber's Corner

La Shawn Barber's Corner — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 00:57:18 +0000

Live-Commenting Bush's Speech? Why live-commenting instead of live-blogging? Too much work! As usual, I won't watch the president's speech. I may listen to it on the radio. If you're watching it and/or would like to provide running commentary, I will open this thread around 8:...

By: Arguing with signposts...

Arguing with signposts... — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 00:56:16 +0000

Press Conference Questions
I think I'm going to scream if I hear another White House reporter ask a question that contains the answer.

I just heard one reporter ask about the economy (I'll try to dig it out of the transcript tomorrow), and he asked the president what he th...