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Published Letters: 145 Editor's Choice: 18
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Pre-failed
[Read the article: Worst president ever?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Bush was the worst president ever:
- when he made fun, as governor, of a condemned woman
- when he wore an audio feed to his first Kerry debate, and blinked uncontrollably into space while listening to his script, and later gripped the podium and hissed like Gollum over his Precious
- when he had his aides say the bulge in his jacket was a tailor's mistake
- when he flew over New Orleans instead of to it
- when he started whispering campaigns against fellow law students to ingratiate himself, rather than bomb, in class
- when he read The Stranger and didn't have a clue that he too killed for no particular reason
- when he yelled "Air Attack" on one of his Texas bike rides
- when no one stopped him yelling "Air Attack" on a bike ride
- when he refused to meet with Cindy Sheehan and rise to the occasion
- when, as governor, he gave the finger on camera
- when he looked under the desk for WMD
- when he poked fun at a blind reporter wearing shades
- when he clamed he was a compassionate conservative, a uniter not divider, and a decider, then exhibited not one iota of those characteristics
- when he claimed he had a mandate from a razor thin election
- when he nominated Bolton for anything
- when he went AWOL in a gift deferment
- when he wore a flight suit
- when he stood behind a podium, at the RNConvention 2004, prominently adorned with a barely disguised cross
- when he yelled, "Yo Blair!"
- and groped Merkel
- when he obstensibly led a country to attack another country for no provication, resulting in hundreds of thousands of lives lost, and called it a comma
- when he consistently gutted the country's environmental protections, educational programs, professional agency leadership, political civility and rights of free speech and due process
- when he took all the money for himself and his club
- each time he wakes up and is not clouded by doubt or concern or regret or pangs of responsibility or even a glimmer of compassion about his actual effect on the world
He doesn't have a clue; he doesn't have two clues.
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and, Leslie T.,
[Read the article: Worst president ever?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]- when he took his squirrelly dealings with the Saudis in his failed businesses and elevated that to national policy.
- when he couldn't find a humane way to speak to Jim Webb about a son in Iraq.
Worst? He's over the moon.
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excellent
[Read the article: Mugged by reality]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]article. Thanks to Mr. Blumenthal for shining a well-placed light, getting right to the bottom of it again.
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"Fruitcakes."
[Read the article: Tony Snow, body counts and "impressionistic answers"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Let them eat fruitcakes. We're having some at the White House tonight, and I woudn't doubt that the President, I mean I can't speak for him exactly, but just as I'm saying now, he might have some too. Some fruitcakes, I mean. We have them a lot, but tonight especially, he's going to need a break from the awful responsibility, I mean the terrible privelege of being, you know, the one who has to sift through all the layers of privelege and responsibility in making a concerted effort to gauge the thing, the responsibility of that is just awesome, and terrible, in a mindful kind of way. And of listening. I wish I could describe to you the time it, you know, the hours and hours of listening, and the response. It's going to take some time, I wish I could say how much, but all I can say is it's going to take some time. And that's with, you know, fruitcakes. To put together, to clear the way for some insight that doesn't just overlook the layers and layers, policy mostly, but also implications and tactics, and the things that don't seem to be on everyone's lips, but he's got to make it, sort of keep it all in play, on the lips, with the listening. And the terrible opportunity, and the awesome effort. And the gauging. Nuts. Popped nuts. And the fruitcakes."
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Given
[Read the article: A bill of rights for the beleaguered GOP?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]the freakshow the Republicans "legislators" have put on for the past decade - I'd say they've earned the Right to Remain Silent.
(And to know that anything they say can and will be used against them in a court of law.)
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Good call
[Read the article: Daddy issues]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thanks Mr. Keillor for putting it right out on the curb, new-year's-broom-style.
If elder Bush was any kind of a man he wouldn't let his boy lead a lynch mob in his (ostensible) name. If junior had any balls he would attend his first wartime funeral, or a sea of them. And if the mother had any compassion she would install her beautiful mind for a day and say something with grace and meaning. She owes us.
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"If it sucks, give it bucks."
[Read the article: Stopping the surge]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I agree with RitaMeterMaid: Cheney and his boys are like wacked-out bulls who go for anything that looks incendiary. When someone says "inflammatory" or "catastrophe" a bell goes off - "oh, yeah! Let's do that!."
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Slight correction:
[Read the article: Dems to GOP: "I feel your pain"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"But for the first 100 hours, RESULTS are what she has offered, and (hopefully) RESULTS are what she will get."
There has been enough faux press drama about Congress to last us for decades. The issues Pelosi and co. are bringing to the fore have real impact, for real people - a real majority - indeed. We bloody well hired them; let them do it.......and to the media: ixnay on the i-angulation-tray.
Note to Republicans: make a reasoned argument and be treated reasonably.
Note to Hastert: sitting on your ass is not exactly news.