A multitude of sins
It's official. "Literally" is the new political back-tracking mechanism. It worked for Alito, why not for Bush? Makes you question his intended meaning of the words "citizens" and "Social Security" and "freedom" and "weapons of mass destruction."
From Knight-Ridder: "One day after President Bush vowed to reduce America's dependence on Middle East oil by cutting imports from there 75 percent by 2025, his energy secretary and national economic adviser said Wednesday that the president didn't mean it literally.
"What the president meant, they said in a conference call with reporters, was that alternative fuels could displace an amount of oil imports equivalent to most of what America is expected to import from the Middle East in 2025."
What Bush said in the address: "Breakthroughs on this and other new technologies will help us reach another great goal: to replace more than 75 percent of our oil imports from the Middle East by 2025."
From Knight-Ridder: "One day after President Bush vowed to reduce America's dependence on Middle East oil by cutting imports from there 75 percent by 2025, his energy secretary and national economic adviser said Wednesday that the president didn't mean it literally.
"What the president meant, they said in a conference call with reporters, was that alternative fuels could displace an amount of oil imports equivalent to most of what America is expected to import from the Middle East in 2025."
What Bush said in the address: "Breakthroughs on this and other new technologies will help us reach another great goal: to replace more than 75 percent of our oil imports from the Middle East by 2025."
posted by aubra at 12:13 PM
2 Comments:
Cheney literally shot a U.S. citizen.
He can't help it he's bloodthirsty. But who's next? Josef K.?
Actually, didn't you hear? He didn't mean it literally.
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