Sorta the way I remember when America was a democracy.

There's just no other word to describe the man.

mind numbing

He's just a goddamned moron. There is no other description that fits.

I usually don't listen to these news conferences, because they're so demoralizing. I caught part of this one, this morning, and it was every bit as demoralizing as usual.

The man sounds like a wind-up toy, when he doesn't sound like an ignorant fool. I don't know what to think about him anymore. I expect he's actually a very confused and frightened human being, hiding carefully inside his manichean view of the world.

He never should have been appointed President. That was among the very worst things a corrupt Supreme Court has ever done.

This is either a new direction in diplomacy for the Bush administration, or else John Bolton was sick the day they covered this in neocon school.

The real mystery in all of this is who are the 29 percent in this country that still approve of this man's performance.

Bush should know from which he speaks, he uses that tactic with his famous smirk on a daily basis.

Bush's doctors released the results of his latest physical exam yesterday. He's in the top 10 percentile of fitness for a 61 year-old man. His resting heart rate is 52. Yoga fitness freaks and marathon runners rarely get down to just ten beats a minute slower than that. Bush has 26 percent body fat. That's no marathon runner, but for a 61 year-old executive, that's a remarkable stat.

Bush is always working out. He's on the treadmill, he's on his bike, he's jogging, he's lifting weights. More than that, they say he sleeps a lot. He goes to bed at 8 p.m. most of the time. He takes a nap at 2 o'clock in the afternoon.

Bush doesn't bother with troublesome things. Bush doesn't really engage with the responsibilities of his office.

He works out instead.

I am not familiar with this “old boxing expression,” apparently from ye olde days of yore.

And Bush hasn’t challenged Iraq’s sovereignty. He just thinks Iraq’s duly elected leader Maliki 1) was misunderstood, 2) is lying or 3) is deluding himself. Totally different.

Remember, Bush has a degree in Hearts & Souls. After all, he looked Russia’s Putin in the eye and “was able to get a sense of his soul.” Certainly he’s qualified to diagnose what’s in Maliki’s “heart of heart.”

And it's "heart of hearts," you doink.

Still, no one is addressing our arming (and paying) the Sunni tribesment to fight "al-Qaeda" over Maliki's objections and -- as far as I can tell -- without anyone else's blessing.

Funny how this is Petraeus' baby ... and that old Dave is the person unon whose watch all those thousands of weapons were disbursed never to be seen again ....

but, yeah, let's blame the iraqis.

when Iraq was ruled by a dictator? Of course you don't.

Especially the Iraqis, who are now calling them "the good old days". (You know, back when there was electricity, water, jobs, and you only had to worry about state-sponsored violence.)

this new going-after-the-employers "illegal immigrant" program.

The "Ethanol" created corn shortage and the "high gas prices" have already dented grocery budgets considerably ... When /if supermarkets, restaurant and assorted other business have to deal with a genuine labor shortage, having to pay higher wages AND deal with this greater "enforcement" ... it's may be a camel-back-breaking since most everyone uses those facilities (supermarkets and fastfood).

Well managed and "honorable" businesses will take less of a hit ... but I fear the impact will be seismic on the "look-the-other-way" employers who will get the triple-whammy of losing trained workers and trying to hire only the verifiably genuinely documented and then finally, for some, dealing with prosecution.

The lawyers will do very well.

He commands the broom to do his chore of filling the water trough, then goes to sleep and dreams about being a great wizard with mighty powers, only to wake up to a flood that he can't stop because he doesn't know the command to make the broom stop filling the trough. George Bush reminds me of that, frantically racing around trying to reverse the mess that he's made by eliminating Sunni rule in Iraq and in the process handing Iran a huge gift: a Shi'ite led theocracy that will ally itself with them instead of opposing them the way Saddam did. Bush never thought through that consequence of deposing Saddam, even though he was warned about it by anyone with basic knowledge of the region. So now he's frantically running in circles like Mickey Mouse, trying to bail out the floodwater and stop the broom from marching stolidly along on its task. Too bad there's no master wizard to come home and clean up the mess for him, although that's what the next president will have to try to do.

Moondoggy wrote:

Everyone remembers, tiberius

Especially the Iraqis, who are now calling them "the good old days". (You know, back when there was electricity, water, jobs, and you only had to worry about state-sponsored violence.)

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So, what about it, Tiberius? Do you recall Iraq under Saddam? Not a lovely place, but you could walk the streets in relative safety, read a book at night by something other than candlelight, drink clean water, carry on something like a normal life. Have a job, get paid, eat, sleep, live, in some kind of security. Your relatives weren't being shot on sight, blown up in car-bombs, or otherwise targeted by any one of a 100 or more rogue militias.

Tell us, Tiberius, when would you like to be a Sunni in Sadr City? During Saddam's rule, or now? Tell us. We'd really like to hear.

A majority of Iraqis would take Saddam back right now, over what we've done to their country. What about that?

And, by the way, naming yourself after a great Roman general, who, one assumes, had some basic intelligence, is, at best, deceptive marketing. At worst, pathetic.

One is a retard with super strength

One is a crook

One is a cab driving nutcase

If all three countries switched leaders no one would see the difference.