That's the best description yet of this (un)dynamic duo and their uniquely scary Iraq policy.

Didn't Bush get asked the same question about "regrets" during the Presidential Debates? Had he not regretted his words yet at that point, or was he staying silent to avoid being called a "flip-flopper"?

Sorry, fake humility doesn't excuse real arrogance. Also, if I'm reading this correctly, he's saying now that he didn't expect his words to go over the way they did? Excuse me? "Tough talk" is either real "fightin' words" or false bragadacio and bluster. So his defense is now that he didn't really want people to "Bring it on!" and his words were actually just so much bullshit?

Sorry, I'll call bullshit on the bullshit. Bush will go down in history as the worst president ever and needs to have his "regretable" words stenciled onto whatever monument the GOP manages to put up to him anyway.

"Bush said the "biggest mistake" from "our country's involvement in Iraq" was Abu Ghraib. "We've been paying for that for a long time," Bush said."

Bush is not only out of touch, he's just plain fuckin' out of his mind! Randi Rhodes said it best on the Lou Dobbs program a few weeks ago. "He's insane."

While I quickly tire of Rhodes' overblown hysteria, I can't argue with her on this one: Bush is fucking insane.

Bush may think Abu Ghraib was the corker, but he ain't seen nothin' yet. My Lai, here we go again.

And now this sudden phony contrition trying to explain that in certain parts of the world, his stupid-ass cowboy talk was "misinterpreted."

No it wasn't. It wasn't misinterpreted. It was what it was: The braggadocio of a lame little coward who never even got in a schoolyard fight, let alone carried a weapon into combat.

His "Bring it on," and his Gunsmoke "Wanted dead or alive," bullshit galvanized our enemies and convinced our allies that the leader of the free world is a complete dumb ass.

And now he says, "So I learned from that."

I guess that's good. I'm glad he learned something. It probably brings a lot of comfort to the families of dead and greivously wounded military who were ground up like hamburger that our stupid little fuck-wit president was getting some on-the-job training at their expense.

Bah!

My Lord, even your in-depth coverage of this momentous event bored the crap out of me. Next time, don't bother. Seriously. I think at this point the choir already knows that Bush is a useless moron, while the remaining 29 percent of us are so entrenched that if he's caught on film with a latex doll, they'll continue to insist that he's like omg the Greatest Decider in Chief Ever (tm).

Myself, I was hoping for more juicy news about Lay and Skilling for example. So when a few days hence they are forced to pick up the soap by a large inmate or something like that, I expect a full report! Spare no detail!

Just the fact that everyone from Gore to Guiliani is pestered by talk-show hosts about their plans for 2008 tells us just how tired of this Bush dude the country has become. Maybe it's time even for bloggers to stop paying attention to him.

Their new single, I'm With Stupid, about the Blair/Bush project just about says it all.

The BBC World News this morning (EST) was still reporting on Bush's apology for using unsophisticated language relative. What the BBC is missing in their coverage--mainly because the BBC consists of journalists raised in the UK (or a Commonwealth nation) where education is valued--is that the U.S.'s most enduring national characteristic is anti-intellectualism, steeped in part in particular Pauline injunctions that evangelical Christianity is so fond of, and also in the "rugged individualism" mythos and its attendant romanticizing of the "plain-spoken" American frontiersmen. When I hear Bush admitting that he used unsophisticated language, I hear him essentially celebrating that fact with his political base--voters who are self-assured not only in the knowledge that Bush is God's chosen president, but that the universe was created in 6 days, gay people are a curable conspiracy, global warming is a lie, and the liberal arts are a dangerous enterprise and effectively a form of treason.

Boy, it certainly is reassuring that, after five and a half years in office, the President of the United States has finally concluded that it's important for him to express himself in a "more sophisticated manner"! I'd be even more reassured, if I actually thought it to be possible.

The BBC World News this morning (EST) was still reporting on Bush's apology for using unsophisticated language. What the BBC is missing in their coverage--mainly because the BBC consists of journalists raised in the UK (or a Commonwealth nation) where education is valued--is that the U.S.'s most enduring national characteristic is anti-intellectualism, steeped in part in particular Pauline injunctions that evangelical Christianity is so fond of, and also in the "rugged individualism" mythos and its attendant romanticizing of the "plain-spoken" American frontiersmen. When I hear Bush admitting that he used unsophisticated language, I hear him essentially celebrating that fact with his political base--voters who are self-assured not only in the knowledge that Bush is God's chosen president, but that the universe was created in 6 days, gay people are a curable conspiracy, global warming is a lie, and the liberal arts are a dangerous enterprise and effectively a form of treason.

So jokes about prison rape are what get red stars now? Nice progressive site you got here.