At yesterday’s White House press briefing, a reporter raised an interesting question about how the president interacts with those who are briefing him on the war.
Q: On these briefings, is the President asking many questions?
MR. SNOW: Yes. It’s typically his nature. There were some presentations, especially — well, there were presentations both from State Department employees and also by folks on the provincial reconstruction teams. But on the other hand, he asks a lot of questions. And, you know, certainly not above stopping somebody as they make their presentation, asking a few pointed questions, and sometimes the conversation will move off in a different direction as a consequence.
Of course, Bush is quite the inquisitive one, isn’t he? It’s in his “nature” to ask a lot of questions; so many, in fact, that policy experts can barely get through a presentation without Mr. Thirst For Knowledge interrupting to inquire about additional details.
Please. When the presidential daily briefing said bin Laden was determined to strike inside the U.S., Bush didn’t ask any questions. When the NOAA said Katrina was about to smack the Gulf Coast, Bush didn’t ask any questions. Recalling the Iraq Study Group’s meeting with the president, former Bush 41 Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger said, “I don’t recall, seriously, that he asked any questions.”
And now we’re supposed to believe it’s “typically his nature” to be highly inquisitive? Since when?
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