Quote Originally Posted by butters
In his recently released book, "What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception," Mr. McClellan recounts overhearing Mr. Bush on the telephone telling a supporter that "I honestly don't remember whether I tried it or not." Mr. McClellan called that kind of response to sensitive questions by Mr. Bush and other politicians "essentially evasion."

"That [approach] later transferred over to issues of policy," Mr. McClellan said. "It tells something about his character."
Why did you highlight this? He didn't try what? the dessert at dinner? The joke about McClellan and his book is that he is telling anyone who will listen about what he doesn't know.

Bush has settled with himself being the president who made the hard decisions. That's all he's got. In a FOX interview he told Chris Wallace, time will tell whether he was right or wrong. So every subsequent president must deal with what Bush began, if they are successful Bush can say, "See I was right." That's a bit maddening.