Letters to the Editor
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old pooter...
got to agree with tomhere regarding reagan as a polarizing force. remember his quote "if it takes a bloodbath, we'll give it to them"? these were college kids he was speaking of.
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Predictions are funny!
So President Bush says that history will vindicate him...and many on this board predict the opposite while chastising him for making predictions. Seems to me everyone is wrong.
History will make it's own judgments, no matter what anyone else says.
Case in point: I seem to recall that when Ronald Reagan was in office, it was said he would be known as one of the worst Presidents we've ever had. Well, whether you like it or not or agree with it or not, history has judged Ronald Reagan one of the BEST Presidents we've ever had.
Simply put, no one knows how history will judge a Presidency until AFTER it has been concluded.
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Bush is and will be the new O.J.
'Nuff said.
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I remain mystified by the contrast of Bush's synchophantic circle (Condi, Fredo, Meyers, Rove?, etc) and his casual humiliation "tests"
Petty, mean, vindictive, incurious, stubborn to the point of unreality ...
I guess I believe that all these folks who luv luv luv him and think he's the cat's pajamas are speaking genuinely and not out of some sort of mafia-inspired fear ... but damn, it's amazing such a mental and emotion midget got so far ...
I'll never forget him claiming that (unlike Gore) he really didn't care if he won the office ... he'd just as soon go home to Prairie Chapel ... Idle hands (and brains) are the devils workshop.
I suspect Bush is one of those competitive types who affects not to care if he wins ... but in reality can not bear the idea of anyone else -- but him -- winning ...
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@ Tomhere: FU*KTARD Explanation
Tomhere, I imagine that "FU*KTARD" is a single word consisting of the combining of "fu*king retard". Kind of apropos of Bush, isn't it?
Fuc*tard, indeed!
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Who should play Bush?
I was trying to think what actor should play Bush in the inevitable future biopics. I decided a good choice would be William Hurt, based on the the cocky but essentially lazy and lamebrained lawyer he played so effectively in "Body Heat."
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One more time...
My most fervent hope
... is that, once out of office, Bush starts hitting the bottle again and ends his days as a broken-down drunk, so embarrassingly awful that even Poppy's pals won't stick him on their boards or prop him up in any of their businesses. I hope he's such a drunken loser that Laura divorces him, and the twins disown him and even write tell-all books with countless cringeworthy anecdotes about what a clueless creep he is, and how things really go down during those inevitably tense Thanksgiving dinners. I want there to be dozens of YouTube phone-cam videos of him stumbling drunk and completely losing it and embarrassing himself in the worst possible ways, with millions and millions of hits. I want every city where he wants to put his Presidamental library to refuse to host it, so that he's forced to put it in Guantanamo Bay.
That's my fantasy, and it's what gets me through these dark days. If I believed in the hereafter, maybe I'd wish for him to burn in hell, but I don't. I just want his chickens to come home and ROOST.
--Anonymous
Mannnn....what an accurate estimation...you must be a fortune teller...
drama with the potential of accuracy...
all he needs is a little push...
maybe just Totally ignore him after his Empirancy...and let him drown in his own poisonious phlegm...!
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Figure it out
Bush says:
"You can't possibly figure out the history of the Bush presidency -- until I'm dead."
What a happy day that will be! I mean, figuring out the history of the Bush presidency, of course.
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When is someone going to come out and say it ...
George W. Bush is the O.J. Simpson of presidents.
Once his term ends in the disgrace it richly deserves (and which he disastrously earned), Bush will be ostracized, at best, anytime he sticks his head outside of his ranch and a select few right-wing 'think' tanks (an oxymoron if ever there was one).
Like O.J., however, Bush will no doubt have this self-delusion that he's loved by the masses, mainly because he won't allow himself to actually mingle with the masses. Can you imagine Bush trying to throw out the first ball at a major league baseball game? Can you imagine him doing a ceremonial coin flip at a Super Bowl? If there's such a thing as the inverse of a standing ovation, he's sure to be on the receiving end.
The only sporting event (and sports are the only cultural venues he could possibly think about wading into post-presidency) would maybe be a NASCAR event: Gentlemen, start your engines!
It's sad that a president of the United States, who should be the most respected (if not beloved) person on earth, leader of the quote free world, is so reviled and disrespected. Who doesn't move his mouth without the perception that he's lying. Who is so self-delusional he makes Nixon look like an even keel. Whose magalomania will ultimately place him alongside the very people he abhors the most, for in the history books of the future these three names will forever be linked: Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden, George W. Bush.
And what will the same history books say about the rest of us? That we elected the O.J. Simpson of presidents. Twice.
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Beat you to it, Scottohandy
:-)
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Bush Bashing Is Not Enough
Yes Sidney, but we know all this. Don't you think it's time to take a deeper cut? In terms of character, virtually everything you say here about Bush was known by the election in '04, but that didn't prevent him from being re-elected.
I personally believe that it's going to take a lot more than Bush-bashing to bring the government back to representing the country. Stories are now emerging about the Republican party trying to gain control of the electoral system in California, and the mob is chomping at the bit in hopes that Hillary will be nominated so "Pigpen's" dream of a sexist America wil come true. The confrontation in this next presidential may well be the watershed for the cultural revolution that began in the 60's.
Bush is history at this point, but I still wouldn't be surprised his good-bye shot won't be launching some missiles on Iran--just to give his successor a bigger mess than he's made so far--or he'll get the Israelis to do it. It's perfectly consistent with his character. The more ground that can be cleared within the "liberal" community, the ones who don't vote, and have handed the country over to the right the better--and that work needs to be done now.
They have to be addressed, even if it means taking on some good friends. They simply have to know that hiding behind the "independent" mask isn't going to work in this next election. It doesn't matter what the polls say. The country hasn't been this polarized since Viet Nam, and the right has demonstrated a loyalty that puts liberalism to shame. It's going to take a landslide to get half the legislation the Democrats are not talking about past, let alone restore a semblance of peace to the world.