What is really funny is that we can recite Bushisms especially wrt the Iraq War which display clear but flawed thinking like (paraphrasing) "I want to ensure the American people that we pursued all avenues to disarming Iraq and we are left with no choice but to invade." Clearly bold face lying on multiple layers. I think a very effective MoveOn TV add would be to splice together some of these Bush lies, including some of the real winners from Cheney and Rumsfeld.
Seriously, why do you like Bush, in threads like this you always write something to the effect of "yeah but he's gonna win" but you never say what you like about the guys so much.
Bush's messianic militarism was on full display on March 11, when he addressed, via satellite, the National Association of Evangelicals Convention in Colorado Springs. First, acting as pastor in chief, he said, "You're doing God's work with conviction and kindness, and, on behalf of our country, I thank you." Separation of church and state, anyone? Bush charged right through that wall, citing religion as his basis for opposing stem-cell research, abortion, and same-sex marriage. He also ignored the wall when he returned to his favorite, post 9/11 theme: that God is calling America to free the world, and Bush himself is heeding that call. "America is a nation with a mission," Bush said, not afraid, in this crowd, to connote the crusade he is on. "We're called to fight terrorism around the world," he said, intentionally using the religious term "called," a term he has repeatedly invoked over the last two and a half years. "As freedom's home and freedom's defender, we are called to expand the realm of human liberty," he said. Viewing himself as the Great Liberator, he said, "By our actions in Afghanistan and Iraq, more than 50 million people have been liberated from tyranny." And then he laid the religion on thick: "Yet I know that liberty is not America's gift to the world-liberty and freedom are God's gift to every man and woman who lives in this world." Follow the logic here: If God's gift is liberty, and if Bush has liberated millions, then he is God's delivery boy. http://www.progressive.org/webex04/wx031604.html
Honestly? I'm not a blind follower of Bush. I do have issues with him. Spending, illegal immigration, post-war policy in Iraq just to name a few. But at the same time, I just don't think he's the root of all evil like many posters here seem to think. While I don't disagree with 100% the anti-Bush posts, many of them seem pretty extreme and over the top so I get frustrated. Then I remember that in the end, this is just a basketball bbs.
This is a short poem made up entirely of actual quotations from George W. Bush. These have been arranged, only for aesthetic purposes, by Washington Post writer, Richard Thompson. MAKE THE PIE HIGHER I think we all agree, the past is over. This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty And potential mental losses. Rarely is the question asked Is our children learning? Will the highways of the Internet Become more few? How many hands have I shaked? They misunderestimate me. I am a pitbull on the pantleg of opportunity. I know that the human being And the fish can coexist. Families is where our nation finds hope, Where our wings take dream. Put food on your family! Knock down the tollbooth! Vulcanize society! Make the pie higher! Make the pie higher!
I know what you are saying, ima. I try not to read them because it is the same old dog and pony show repeated ad nausem here. I honestly think that glynch is the most bored individual in the world because every time I browse this forum, I see he has started another negative thread about something (mainly about Bush). I have come to the conclusion that he is someone that not many would want to be around because of his damn negativity. I almost wish that Bush would lose so we won't have to endure another 4 years of this crap.
What's the point of this? And who says you have to endure it? No one's forcing you to come to this part of the BBS. People from the site have met glynch. I haven't heard him described like that from them.
Easier said than done. There are other topics in this forum besides Bush like religion for example that I would like to read and discuss, but they are buried in these threads that come across as nothing but a bunch of whining and complaining. He must have pulled a Trader_Jorge then.
I figured that name would come up. Honestly, I don't recall glynch being nearly as bad with personal insults as that poster. Of course, glynch never started a thread to personally insult and embarass anyone either.
Yet there are negative things in the world and if there were not someone to point them out, it'd be a much worse world. This statement by Manny reminds me of the oblivious Aunt at the funeral who says "Now, now... just put a smile on your face and everything will be better." But putting a smile on your face doesn't change the fact that you're mourning the loss of a loved one and it isn't going to help you deal with the ramifications. Similarly, just smiling while the radical Repubs in this administration tear down the country I (and Glynch and others) grew up in and love does nothing. It's not a love it or leave it issue, it's a love it so much we've got to change it issue.
Bush being "funny" last night ------------------------------------ Bush Pokes Some Fun During Media Dinner Bush put on a slide show, calling it the "White House Election-Year Album" at the Radio and Television Correspondents' Association 60th annual dinner, showing himself and his staff in some decidedly unflattering poses. <b>There was Bush looking under furniture in a fruitless, frustrating search. "Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be somewhere," he said. </b> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm.../ap/20040325/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_broadcasters Yeah, that’s real funny
Yep real funny...500+lives, billions of dollars, and lost credibility later. I will laugh heartily when he loses in November.
The Prez's Iraq humor bombs By DEREK ROSE and KENNETH R. BAZINET DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU Friday, March 26th, 2004 WASHINGTON - President Bush got some laughs at a Washington dinner when he spoofed the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, but some family members of dead G.I.s said yesterday there was nothing funny about it. "Those weapons of mass destruction have to be here somewhere," Bush joshed as he narrated a slide show of him looking behind furniture, as if hunting for them. "Nope, no weapons over there. Maybe under here," Bush joked Wednesday at the annual dinner of Washington radio and TV correspondents, an event where Presidents typically poke fun at the press and themselves. George Medina, 43, of Orange County, who lost a son in Iraq, heard about Bush's remarks when his outraged daughter, an Army sergeant, called him yesterday. "She was very upset," Medina said. "This is disgraceful," Medina continued. "He doesn't think of all the families that are suffering. It's unbelievable, how this guy tries to run the country." His 22-year-old son, Spec. Irving Medina, died Nov. 14 in Baghdad when an explosive device struck his convoy. Charles Celestin, 28, of Coral Springs, Fla., and Irving Medina's brother-in-law, blasted the commander-in-chief's remarks. "To be poking fun; it's just a travesty to the soldiers who lost their lives. I think it's disrespectful," he said. But the stepdad of a slain Army captain took a different view. "Maybe that's his way of releasing some of the tension," said Mike Babula, 48, of upstate Marcy, whose stepson, Capt. George A. Wood, 33, died Nov. 20 when his tank ran over a mine. "When you listen to him speak every time a soldier gets killed - it comes from his heart, it really does." The camp of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry last night fired off a statement from Iraq war veteran Brad Owens. "No weapons of mass destruction have been found and that is no joke - this is for real. This cheapens the sacrifice that American soldiers and their families are dealing with every single day," said Owens, who served in the Army Reserve. The dinner performance put the President on the defensive for the second time this week. The Bush campaign was already dealing with fallout from testimony by former presidential aide Richard Clarke, who has claimed in a new book that Bush and his cabinet were looking for reasons to attack Iraq within hours of the 9/11 terror attack despite being told Saddam Hussein was not linked to it. The President's dinner act also bombed with Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-Manhattan). "It's disgusting that during his little performance on stage, the President seemed to forget that people are dying in Iraq because of weapons of mass destruction he lied about," Nadler said. White House spokeswoman Claire Buchan noted that Bush ended his remarks at the dinner with a serious tribute to U.S. forces in Iraq, but "was poking fun at himself" with the comments about weapons of mass destruction. http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/177483p-154428c.html assclown
Gotta love em' "I'm honored to shake the hand of a brave Iraqi citizen who had his hand cut off by Saddam Hussein." -- President Bush, meeting Iraqi amputees at the White House on May 25. "Karyn is with us. A West Texas girl, just like me." So spoke the president, pointing out Sen. Bill Frist's wife in Nashville on Thursday.
Missed the glynch stuff first time around and had to respond on seeing it again. glynch didn't "pull a Jorge." I've met both of them. Jorge and I shook hands, said hello, chatted about five minutes maybe and he was totally nice. Hung out with glynch at my going away drinks at the Harp for a few hours (along with JBII, RocketMan Tex, MoBalls, heypartner, rimbaud and a few others). First off, he was super nice. Second he was totally relaxed, grounded, down to earth. A really good guy. I've met a ton of people from the board and I've liked them all. glynch was among the friendliest. You'd like him if you met him, Manny.
