Tuesday, June 07, 2005

Extemporaneous?

It would be interesting to see what might happen if there were rules restricting when a script could be used by a public official when speaking before the media. Clearly there are times when reading a prepared statement is necessary and appropriate, but the general rule would be extemporaneous speaking by officals with local and national media. Might it not add even a tad bit of honesty into the political process?

Of course it would. Which is precisely why such restrictions would never be enacted.
Comments:
I don't think the questions asked by the press corps are given out to the speakers at press conferences beforehand ,so, at least during the question and answer part of it, they have to be extemporaneous. I appreciate your input on my blog, but really, now, what crime was committed by Bush that is worthy of impeachment? and what did he lie about?
 
I don't want to go off on a rant here, but there is plenty of good evidence that Bush and his administration had set their policy to go to war with Iraq, and then propagated various misleading statements and downright lies in the media to support that policy. I suspect that if both houses of Congress were not controlled by the president's own party, impeachment hearings would have been underway long ago..
 
There is no evidence that Bush lied about anything. It has been indicated that he was given misleading information. Information that, I might add, that even Kerry and Kennedy and Howard Dean believed was accurate. And I, for one, am not entirely convinced that it was'nt true in the first place. We know that Hussein had WMD's in the past because he used them against his own people and against Iran. Is it so hard to believe that he didn't still have them, especially since he wouldn't allow the UN weapons inspectors access to parts of Iraq, thereby fueling suspiscions? But apart from that, Wouldn't you agree that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein threatening the rest of the world either directly or implicitly? I am quite certain the families of his millions of victims do.
 
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