<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/83ea25ef-d929-4223-8fa2-8be6807558ed/F00D15F1-F064-4984-B00C-161E849253E8/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/11/bush-if-i-ran-for-president-id-be-an-agent-of-change/" href="http://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/11/bush-if-i-ran-for-president-id-be-an-agent-of-change/" style="font-size: 11px;">thinkprogress.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/11/bush-if-i-ran-for-president-id-be-an-agent-of-change/"><H2 class="title">Bush: If I ran for President, I’d be an ‘agent of change.’</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/11/bush-if-i-ran-for-president-id-be-an-agent-of-change/"><P>In an interview with NBC aired today, President Bush dismissed the notion that presidential candidates’ messages of “<A href="http://www.americanprogressaction.org/progressreport/2008/01/pr20080103">change</A>” are a rebuke of his presidency. Bush said he would do the same right now if he were one of them: </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/11/bush-if-i-ran-for-president-id-be-an-agent-of-change/"><P>Q: Do you see this message of change as anything other than a rejection of your presidency?</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/11/bush-if-i-ran-for-president-id-be-an-agent-of-change/"><P>BUSH: No, listen. If you’re running for office, you can’t run for office and not say ‘I am an agent of change.’ It’s just American politics. <STRONG>If I were running for office at this point, I’d be saying, ‘Vote for me. I’m gonna be an agent of change</STRONG>.’</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/11/bush-if-i-ran-for-president-id-be-an-agent-of-change/"><P><STRONG>UPDATE</STRONG>: Tim Grieve notes that Bush 41 thought differently than his son. At the Republican National Convention in 1988, George H.W. Bush <A href="http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2008/01/11/bush/index.html">said</A>: </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/11/bush-if-i-ran-for-president-id-be-an-agent-of-change/"><P>Now, after two great terms, a switch will be made. But <STRONG>when you have to change horses in midstream, doesn’t it make sense to switch to one who’s going the same way?</STRONG></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F00D15F1-F064-4984-B00C-161E849253E8/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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