{"id":5344,"date":"2007-11-23T07:46:21","date_gmt":"2007-11-23T15:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=5344"},"modified":"2024-06-04T19:09:40","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T02:09:40","slug":"even-underwhelming-gop-sen-corker-finds-bush-underwhelming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/?p=5344","title":{"rendered":"Even Lightweight GOP Sen. Corker Is ‘Underwhelmed’ By Bush’s Grasp of Iraq Details"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guest blogged by Jon Ponder, Pensito Review<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n

Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) is considered an intellectual lightweight back home in Chattanooga, where he once served as mayor. So you know it’s getting bad when Corker slips up and tells a hometown audience the unfortunate truth that in meetings with George Bush, he has been “underwhelmed” by Bush’s knowledge and understanding of the U.S. occupation of Iraq.<\/p>\n

In remarks to a group of about 500 Republicans on Tuesday, Corker “raised some eyebrows,” according to a local media outlet<\/a>, when he recounted details of his recent visits to the White House:<\/p>\n

“I was in the White House a number of times to talk about the issue [of Iraq], and I may rankle some in the room saying this, but I was very underwhelmed with what discussions took place at the White House,” Corker said.<\/p>\n

A few minutes later during a question and answer session a man in the audience asked him to clarify his statement.<\/p>\n

“I was concerned about your statement that you were underwhelmed with what was going on in the White House. Did you mean with him or with his staff?”<\/p>\n

In response, Corker said, “Let me say this. George Bush is a very compassionate person. He’s a very good person. And a lot of people don’t see that in him, and there’s many people in this room who might disagree with that…. I just felt a little bit underwhelmed by our discussions, the complexity of them, the depth of them.”<\/p><\/div>\n

Corker quickly added that he supports Bush’s occupation of Iraq — even though he just admitted that Bush himself doesn’t understand it — and that all that is needed to turn things around is an increase in both the size of the U.S. government and the amount of happy-talk propaganda it spews at the public: <\/p>\n

…I do believe that the most recent course of action we’ve pursued is a good one. I feel like what we’ve lack in our country is a coherent effort that really links together the Treasury Department, all the various departments of our government in a way that really focuses not just on the hard military side of things, but also the soft effort that it takes to build good will among people. <\/div>\n

The senator then hastily added that he regretted having just expressed his true assessment about Bush’s feeble intellect:<\/p>\n

I really think much of that has righted itself, I’m just telling you that at that moment in time I felt very underwhelmed, and I’m just being honest. I’ve said that to them, and to him, and to others. I kind of in a way wish I hadn’t said it today.” <\/p>\n

The last comment was greeted with laughter in the crowd.<\/p><\/div>\n

Rest assured that Sen. Corker will never make the mistake of expressing an honest opinion in public again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Guest blogged by Jon Ponder, Pensito Review. Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) is considered an intellectual lightweight back home in Chattanooga, where he once served as mayor. So you know it’s getting bad when Corker slips up and tells a hometown audience the unfortunate truth that in meetings with George Bush, he has been “underwhelmed” by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bob-corker"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}