http://www.cbsnews.com/stories…..8952.shtml

CBS Exclusive Bush Interview
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27, 2006
Snips from a transcript of Bob Schieffer’s pre-State of the Union interview with President Bush.

SCHIEFFER: …can you give the American people, Mr. President, some sort of a time frame, for example, where do you think we’re going to be three months from now there, and what will troop levels be, say, come the fall?

PRESIDENT BUSH: You see, I–I can understand you wanting to ask that question and the American people, some wanting to–want me to give the answer to that. I can’t give the answer to that because I’m not the–the decider. What I can assure the American people of is that we’ve got a strategy to victory. We got a plan to see that the Iraqis take the fight. More and more Iraqis are taking the fight, and I’m going to listen to our commanders.

SCHIEFFER: Um-hmm.

PRESIDENT BUSH: One of the interesting lessons from the Vietnam era was it seemed like to me that politicians all were making the decisions and not the commanders on the ground a lot of times, and I–I have vowed that the American people, and I will follow through on that–that if General Casey and the generals there in Iraq that will be making the decisions as to the troop levels.

PRESIDENT BUSH: I–I can’t–I–I really don’t want to make that prediction. It would–it–it–it–I–I am going to make my decisions for the next three years based upon what our commanders recommend.

(snip)

SCHIEFFER: Has the presidency changed you, Mr. President?

PRESIDENT BUSH: I hope not. Well, I guess that’s not the right thing to say. I know it hadn’t changed my values and hadn’t changed my priorities. Of course it’s changed me because it’s–it’s–you know, I made a lot of decisions, Bob, and when you think hard and plan and make decisions, it has got to change you. 9/11 changed me. Yeah, it’s changed me to–you know, I hope I’m a better person for it. I will tell you, if given a chance to do it again, I would have said “you bet.” I highly recommend this job. It’s been a fantastic experience. I like making decisions. I like listening to smart people. I’m surrounded by a lot of them. I like the give and take in the political front, and I truly believe we are making a difference in the world, in our country.

So I checked it. It was closed. I tried various other things and couldn’t get the entire thing unlinked.

So I cut what I had written and pasted it at the bottom, which wasn’t my first choice because I didn’t want anyone to think I was trying to pass off this inspired work as my own.

The pasted stuff didn’t show up in preview (Shez has since explained you have to type in another character to get it to show), so fed up, I decided to post it anyway and do an explanation in another post.

When it posted it removed the URI and kept only the anchor text. Why, I still don’t know.

Unless it was Rove dicking with me.

HTH

And watch those Diebold machines in the fall elections now that Karl’s on the job full time. Fitz, where are you?

I did actually do a proper link. As I said, at the top of of the post it made the entire post a link to Roddy’s diary and at the bottom it lost the URI. Who knows why. Thanks for the info about making cut and paste show up. Will keep it in mind. Glad to know I should be able to create a proper link over here without learning any new code.

I thought Roddy’s Seussian ode to The Great Leader was sublime and wanted to share.

Oh well, no good deed goes unpunished.

Mark is correct, (he’s a code wiz), the tag used is incomplete. I’ll use regular brackets instead of the needed angle brackets for the code:

[a href=”URL”]TEXT or TITLE[/a]

Turns into:
Roddy McCorley

Also, if you forget that second quotation mark around the URL after the ‘a href=’ the link won’t show up properly. Hope this helps anyone trying to learn how to make text an active link.

Along with one saying “They Are Ripping You OFF!“

And “Tired? Elect a Democrat.“

Impeach the Decider!
Impeach the Decider!

<a>Roddy McCorley</a> wrote this over at Daily Kos. Sorry for putting the link at the bottom but it appeared to do something hinky at the top.