offalittle said:
Could it be that what he wants to be and what he HAS to be are two different things.
Example, I don't want to make someone lose their job but often times I HAVE to fire people. Sometimes people force our actions through their own.
Just a thought.
now here you've raised a very good point.
bush did say "i AM a war president."
and bush did say "i WANT TO BE the peace president."
so they are not mutually exclusive. while posting this i went through every online resource i could to try and find an incident of him saying "I AM [or AM GOING TO BE] THE PEACE PRESIDENT."
i would say this, though: were he to have intended a difference, i would have expected him to reference his previous statement (which was heard everywhere in america) and say ",while i -was- a war president, i never -wanted- to be one," or at least something along those lines.
unfortunately, i thikn he just wants the public to believe his new statement without questioning it, and i think it will fly.
but you do have a good point, which greatly weakens the strength of my original comment.
~ dan ~
mind you, though, that bush is incapable of thought that complex and therefore COULD NOT POSSIBLY have consciously differentiated between the two
