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...constitution--I think the public is skeptical since they don't see a reduction in the insurgency. People have the feeling we're caught in a morass. What can he do? Get out of the Iraq war. It wouldn't hurt to talk to the public in a more candid way, but there has to be substance behind it. Telling the country we'll fight this to the end is boosterism and probably won't help his standing...
...chutzpah, tried to blame the Miers withdrawal today on the Senate. "It is clear that senators would not be satisfied until they gained access to internal documents concerning advice provided during her tenure at the White House-disclosures that would undermine a president's ability to receive candid counsel," Bush said. But no one was buying it. The problem wasn't the process but a perception that this was an instance of naked cronyism at work. No one believed this was about executive privilege any more than people thought that FEMA Director Michael Brown had been brought back to Washington...
Johnny Cash wrote two very entertaining books about his life--Man in Black and Cash: The Autobiography--that don't suffer much for not being entirely candid. But when director James Mangold (Girl, Interrupted; Cop Land) and his wife and producing partner Cathy Konrad (Scream, Identity) started to mine Cash's tales for a screenplay about his early struggles with drug addiction and his relationship with wife June Carter Cash, they hit dead ends. "There are enormous holes in those books," says Mangold. "We wanted to dramatize a period of several years...
...Candid to a Fault I was absolutely baffled by the remarks of former First Lady Barbara Bush after she toured the Astrodome complex in Houston, where evacuees from Hurricane Katrina were sheltered [Sept. 19]. She said, "What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas ... And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them." Is she scared because poor and black people might want to stay in Texas? I encourage her to live in the Astrodome...
According to the band’s website (hanson.net), the film offers a candid look at the insightful young men’s views on the current state of the worldwide music industry, and explains why they formed their own label, 3CG Records, before creating their new album...