russert: two polls out this weekend show you —
president bush: see there, you’re quoting polls.
russert: ãŠãŠyou’re trailing john kerry in both u.s.a. today and newsweek polls by seven and five points.
president bush: yeah.
russert: this is what john kerry had to say last year.㊠he said that his colleagues are appalled at the “”president’s lack of knowledge.㊠they’ve managed him the same way they’ve managed ronald reagan.㊠they send him out to the press for one event a day.㊠they put him in a brown jacket and jeans and get him to move some hay or move a truck, and all of a sudden he’s the marlboro man.㊠i know this guy.㊠he was two years behind me at yale.㊠i knew him, and he’s still the same guy.ã“
did you know him at yale?
president bush: no.
russert: how do you respond to that?
president bush: politics.㊠i mean, this isã‘you know, if you close your eyes and listen carefully to what you just said, it sounds like the year 2000 all over again.
russert: you were both in skull and bones, the secret society.
president bush: it’s so secret we can’t talk about it.
russert: what does that mean for america?㊠the conspiracy theorists are going to go wild.
president bush: i’m sure they are.㊠i donã•t know.㊠i haven’t seen the (unintel) yet. (laughs)
russert: number 322.
president bush: first of all, he’s not the nominee, and㊠i look forwardãŠ
russert: are you prepared to lose?
and my favorite quote from gw’s interview on sunday, and maybe it was just a little slip up, but gw said:
“”you know, we want to harm america.””
-george bush, meet the press, feb. 8, 2004.