Bush’s Fluctuating Degree of Ability
By on Sep 12th, 2005 at 5:09 pm
Bush’s Fluctuating Degree of Ability
Bush at 3:39 pm EST:
Question: Have you accepted the resignation of Michael Brown or have you heard about it?
Bush: No, I have not talked to Michael Brown or Mike Chertoff – that’s who I talk to. As you know, I’ve been working.
Bush at 3:42 pm EST:
I can do more than one thing at one time. By the time I’m finished president, I hope you will realize that the government can do more than one thing at one time, and individuals in the government can.
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Is it bubble gum or patting the head first….hmmm no its patting the head THEN the bubble gum NO NO NO itss bubble gum….noo itts ah helll where is Rove?????
September 12th, 2005 at 5:13 pmOH, by the way, be sure and read “Bush on the Couch” It explains EVERYTHING!
September 12th, 2005 at 5:15 pmAs usual, the brilliant transcriptionists are contortionists – that is the only way their point can be made. Bush was talking about the ability of the military and Nat’l Guard to engage in Iraqi theatre as well as deal with the catastrophe in NOLA and the rest of the Gulf States. Are you paid or just doing the “intern thing” for this ‘non-partisan’, tax dodging site?
September 12th, 2005 at 5:18 pmWhoa! The Little Cowboy can multitask? Amazing!
Can he piss and shit at the same time too?
September 12th, 2005 at 5:24 pmOh come on comrades, is this the best you can come up with? Faiz, do they actually pay you?
Hey lookit, I can come up with better Bush bashing stories than this in my sleep. For example, just last night I dreamed that Mexicans are streaming into the country unchecked, the Supreme Court determined that what’s mine isn’t mine if some greedy city council and crooked lawyers want it, and Bush has not only not done anything about it he hasn’t even said anything about it. See boys, that’s how you do that. That’ll be $200.
September 12th, 2005 at 5:39 pmmighty aphrodite, forget transcriptionist contortions, the second quote alone demonstrates that Bush’s abilities do not include the ability to express himself clearly. We shouldn’t have to ‘realize’ that he or the government can do more than one thing at a time. Still, I remain unconvinced that Bush possesses this ability.
September 12th, 2005 at 5:39 pmNot-so-mighty-Aphrodite,
September 12th, 2005 at 5:44 pmWe all know where the quotations originate from. The point is made BY COMPARISON that Bush is unreliable when making claims about any KIND of logistical juggling that real leaders excel at, whether such juggling occurs by way of coordinating multiple military theaters, or just plain multitasking here at home during an authentic (as opposed to invented) emergency. That point being: he is incompetent. Are you paid to surf the web and offer up lame little apologies for Bush and his ‘tax dodging’ cronies? ‘Cause if you’re looking for a job, I hear FEMA is in need of another fearless leader. Or, can’t you donate enough to get that appointment?
Apparently Georgie cannot think and form a rational sentence at the same time.
September 12th, 2005 at 5:44 pmHe’s now nominated Paulison to be his replacement. Keep in mind this is the same guy who suggested we protect ourselves from chemical warfare with duct tape and plastic sheeting. Please remind all opposition folks who this person is before we have another bad choice for head of FEMA. Glad Mike Brown is gone – but pay attention to the replacement too, please.
September 12th, 2005 at 5:46 pmThe poor man cannot string words together in a coherent sentence, leaving one to assume that he cannot perform more complicated multi-tasking, particularly since he has never demonstrated any ability to do so.
September 12th, 2005 at 5:49 pmThe fact that he even mentions doing two things simultaneously indicates that he has been challenged on that charge in the past.
I just love it when he speaks extemporaneously – it’s always a surprise gift.
September 12th, 2005 at 5:50 pm“By the time I’m finished president, I hope you will realize that the government can do more than one thing at one time, and individuals in the government can.”
Wow, was that the actual quote? That’s not even coherent. Kids, see what drugs will do to you?
Seriously, by the time he’s “finished president” a lot of damage will be done to the environment, the economy, the supreme court, and thousands of innocent people – damage that will take decades to undo if at all.
I also find it amusing that three hours ago he didn’t know of Brown’s resignation yet he’s already nominated a replacement? Wow, he CAN do more than one thing at a time.
September 12th, 2005 at 6:12 pm“I can do more than one thing at one time. By the time I’m finished president, I hope you will realize that the government can do more than one thing at one time, and individuals in the government can.”
Bush at 3:42 pm EST:
‘By the time I’m finished president’???
‘the government can do more than one thing at one time, and individuals in the government can.’???
Dude can’t even multi-task his mouth and pea brain!
September 12th, 2005 at 6:17 pmPlease someone, ask him another question, I can’t stop laughing…tears are coming out and I just spit ipa all over my keyboard!!
Keith,
One must be able to first ’single task’ before one can ‘multi-task’. I’m afraid bush can’t ANY task based on the ineptitude he has continually shown in every endeavor he’s been involved in…
September 12th, 2005 at 6:23 pmI know, you’d think they would have installed a person that could at least talk.
September 12th, 2005 at 6:30 pmI’d say he’s “finished president” right now.
Stick a fork in him, he’s done!
September 12th, 2005 at 6:51 pmIt is difficult to defend an American president who speaks in pidgin-English.
As far as multitasking goes, you have to wonder if he can handle number concepts beyond “one, “two” and “many.”
September 12th, 2005 at 6:52 pmHe scares me. That moron is too close the nukyular trigger.
September 12th, 2005 at 7:11 pmAs usual, the brilliant transcriptionists are contortionists – that is the only way their point can be made. Bush was talking about the ability of the military and Nat’l Guard to engage in Iraqi theatre as well as deal with the catastrophe in NOLA and the rest of the Gulf States. Are you paid or just doing the “intern thing†for this ‘non-partisan’, tax dodging site?
Are you sleeping with him? Where do you take your cigar?
September 12th, 2005 at 7:12 pmyes, he can ‘eat cake AND play the guitar’ at the same time.. we are in trouble folks.
September 12th, 2005 at 7:14 pmKind of makes you long for Johnny Weismuller or Chief Wild Eagle — someone who knew how to mangle simple syntax with a modicum of dignity.
September 12th, 2005 at 7:18 pmThe man replacing the last nut case is who.? Damn, where did I put the roll’s of plastic a duct tape…It gets more crazy by the hour.We definately need a team of intervention experts to help the drunk.
September 12th, 2005 at 7:27 pmPaulison, whom Bush named as FEMA Director within hours of learning Brownie resigned, is the Homeland Security idea-man who came up with duct tape as a homeowner’s safety precaution. Feel better, folks?
September 12th, 2005 at 7:59 pmOOPS – Sorry Sharon, I didn’t see you posted a similar observation.
September 12th, 2005 at 7:59 pmYou can always tell when Thinkprogress is hitting the mark, as the trolls come streaming out from under the bridge! I guess Rove got his fax machine fixed.
September 12th, 2005 at 8:06 pmIt is obvious that DUHbya went to school before his “No Child Left Behind” program. They couldn’t get any behinder than he is. But, be that as it may, you old meanies just don’t understand Tex Ass Talk. What he was really saying was: “If you bullies don’t quit picking on me I am going to run home and tell my Mommy and she will breathe on your Daddy. So there!”
September 12th, 2005 at 8:08 pmNEWS FLASH!!!
Rover Boy just announced that DUHbya has been playing the git box for a reason. He is practicing for his next news conference where he will play “Take this Job and Shove It.”
Stay Tuned–it is just starting!
Bye Bye DUHbya
September 12th, 2005 at 8:13 pmThank God – I finally get it – you highly intelligent (but for some mysterious reason, often under-paid and under-appreciated) partisans have focused the “light of brilliance” on that bumbling President Bush!! The only thing that saves him is his oppositions’ level of incompetence. What’s that old adage , “those who can do – those who can’t join the NEA??” Oh well, it’s something like that.
September 12th, 2005 at 8:43 pm#19 – I’m not a slut like Monica or a pimp like Bill – sorry!
September 12th, 2005 at 8:46 pmSee you Thursday – Heeeeeeee-heeee
September 12th, 2005 at 8:49 pm#28
I think what you are looking for is: “Those that can do; those that cannot, teach; those that can’t do either (or, as the case may be, don’t know the difference) join the Republican party.”
September 12th, 2005 at 9:04 pm#5,
That’s scary…your kinda right. Scarier yet is what may be the big picture. An easily manipulated clueless president (obvious) with strong family ties (Wimp my a$$, Daddy probably had more folks killed than we collectively know…the CIA thing), Halliburton’s very own Cheney on board, evil genius Karl makin’ it right = may be the conspiracy theory folks aren’t so wrong.
The illegal Mexicans are useful to Bush Co. They’ve been used to weaken unions to the sad shape they are now in. This is especially true in the building sector (Carpenters, Iron workers, Pipe fitters, etc.) Suspending Davis Bacon for rebuilding the Katrina debacle is strong evidence of Bush Co’s determination to further break the Building Trades unions. Katrina’s devastation will be re-built primarily with Mexican labor and/or others desperate enough to work for near poverty wages. Don’t think that the contractors are going to charge the government any less because they don’t pay their tradesmen a living wage …they NEVER do. They simply keep the extra profits. 1 right 1 (usually wrong) MIGHT think this is a good thing…breaking the unions and all. Time will show Bush Co’s mistake here.
As for the land grab. I think if you follow the trail of campaign contributions you’ll find your culprit. Who does the grab benefit? Generally wealthy developers with enough in the kitty to make political friends. Cities don’t care because they make more in taxes.
As for Bushes babbles…who’s surprised? He’s only on camera without a tele-prompter for damage control. Volumes of “bushisms” have been collected…they rarely let him out of a controlled environment because this is what happens- embarrassment.
Hope he finishes president sooner than later. My grandchildren’s children can’t afford much more of Bush Co.
Bush Co’s god is money…(Orwell speak- GOD = MONEY MONEY = GOD)
September 12th, 2005 at 9:18 pmI watched “TV’s most outrageous moments” tonight. They showed several Bushie clips, the funniest one was when Bushie couldn’t remember that he was giving his State of the Union Address. He gave up trying to figure out what he was doing there at the podium and just said “I’m giving my speech to the nation”.
Second funniest is when he tries to do the “fool me once” bit.
I’m sure the TV show could do a 3 hour special just on Bushie.
September 12th, 2005 at 10:24 pmKatrina’s going to be a disaster upon disaster, upon disaster. The carpetbaggers are already drooling from all the $$$$$$. Katrina’s a payoff, the “Friends of BushCo” never dreamed of. Iraq, they probably knew about, maybe, but a natural disaster, just made ot order! “Holy $$$$, Batman, we’re going to the bank!! Yessiree, while all them poor NOLA are living in Superdomes, or tents or motel rooms, we’re down there doing shoddy work, with used material & parts, using unskilled labor, paying peanuts, charging outrageousely, and banking by the bag fulls!”
September 12th, 2005 at 11:16 pmAll the money allotted to help the people who lost everythng and these people see it as just another payoff for services rendered.
Politicans have made me sick in the past by their actions but this time, my soul is sickened. There seems no end to what these people can and will do, even blatantly, for the world to see. If I was very religious, I don’t think I’d want to look Saint Peter in the eye, if I was one of them, & I managed to go that direction.
Nancy L., You have a chance at the gates, you have tears in your eyes instead of greed in your heart (I infer that from the drift of your message.).
September 12th, 2005 at 11:30 pmI’m off to see the lizard… I thought as least one person would see the mesage in my last night’s post – Dorothy woke up and found it was only a dream – I only wish it were so!
September 12th, 2005 at 11:43 pmCorrection:
September 12th, 2005 at 11:45 pmI’m off to see the lizard… I thought as least one person would see the message in my last night’s post – Dorothy woke up and found it was only a dream – I only wish it was so!
Thanks WaltTheMan, I read what’s going on, and I get so ripping mad, I want to spit, since I can’t put my hands around some someone’s neck. Spent most of my adult life working in social services (I listened to Kennedy)to help others, seniors, women & children and hate to see what’s been accomplished go down the drain, by insufferable, cold hearted, spoiled, rich idiots.
September 12th, 2005 at 11:59 pmNancy L.
I have spent most of my adult life working for the “Military/Industrial Complex through all of our “wars” since 1952 and I “hate to see what’s been accomplished go down the drain, by insufferable, cold hearted, spoiled, rich idiots.” I’m too old to marry again but not too old to appreciate a good woman. Well said!
September 13th, 2005 at 12:49 amI left out a closed quote sign after “complex” but the trolls aren’t smart enough to catch it and DUHbya can’t read anyway so I guess I am wasting everybody’s time.
September 13th, 2005 at 12:52 amI read a story that the repugnicans are now PAYING trolls, as they are aware that people aren’t believing what we see in print or on TV anymore.
mightie dykie and wrongIwrongI are probably on the payroll. Repugnicans don’t understand that we pay them no mind.
September 13th, 2005 at 1:04 amOn thread, have you noticed that dumbya stammers if he is not totally scripted. I suspect he was speaking off the cuff.
Not to be totally nitpicky but he is not a cowboy. He is a fraud. Real Texans find him an idiot. He is ALL HAT, NO CATTLE.
September 13th, 2005 at 1:09 amKJ,
The pentagon also has a program where they ‘pay’ to disrupt news around the iraq war and criticism of the pentagon. Considering how NED in particular always posts on threads related to this, it would lead me to believe he’s just a stupid redneck shmuck trying to do a job – and being just as incompetent as most everyone in this administration…
September 13th, 2005 at 1:31 amBush (and his cohorts) have repeatedly said that they cannot rescue people in the Katrina-devastated areas and work toward rebuilding while simultaneously looking what what worked and what failed, who did their job and who didn’t, etc. They always present it as “this is the time to help people, not to assign blame [i.e., hold people accountable],” as if they cannot do both.
September 13th, 2005 at 8:23 amIn addition to stocking up on duct tape and plastic sheeting, look for the release of this beaut of a government film (circa 1951):
Duck and Cover starring Bert the Turtle
http://www.archive.org/stream/DuckandC1951/DuckandC1951_256kb.mp4
September 13th, 2005 at 9:12 amI wonder if Bush has ever had a Mini Mental Status Exam?
September 13th, 2005 at 10:05 amYou mention responsibility at a time when a lack thereof is our biggest problem.
George W. Bush is not a responsible person. Just look what he did with his early life. Responsibility comes from love of others. Bush loves no one. The bum went to New Orleans and immediately brought up his drunken past.
quoting a friend….
September 13th, 2005 at 10:11 amKJ,
“all hat, no cattle.” That’s great. In Nebraska, we just call the boys with soft hands and shiny buckles dime-store cowboys. They’ve never done a hard day’s work in their entire lives.
September 13th, 2005 at 10:13 amThe press should have made more of the fact that FEMA’s chief of staff and deputy chief of staff were both passed over for the top job after Brown resigned – because they are both as unqualified as Brown.
September 13th, 2005 at 10:37 am#44, If you will notice, dumbya has NEVER said the word wrong. All his speeches, he uses the term what went right and what didn’t go right.
I suspect it was his handler’s training manual that avoided words like wrong, incompetent, stupid, ill-educated, illeterate.
September 13th, 2005 at 10:48 amtyping fast is never good, my spelling is like dumbya’s speeches… it didn’t go right
September 13th, 2005 at 10:51 amCome on you guys. I think Bush has proven that he can do more than one thing at a time…as long as they all involve f**king things up. Because he ahs clearly proven he can f**k up as many as a dozen things all at one time.
September 13th, 2005 at 11:21 amNo wonder he needs handlers. It’s really sad that the head, ( I use that word lightly) of this great country is simply borderline retarded. Oops, did I say that?
September 13th, 2005 at 11:31 amOh, by the way, I tried the Google thing, typing in Failure, and clicking on “I feel lucky”. It works.
September 13th, 2005 at 11:37 amThat google thing is funny. I tried it a few nights ago and sat laughing at my screen for a good 2 minutes.
September 13th, 2005 at 12:07 pmAnne, the comment borderline retarded: You are being way too generous.
September 13th, 2005 at 12:09 pmOMFG
I just got a CNN Breaking News e-mail with this body:
“President Bush says he takes responsibility for the federal government’s failures in responding to Hurricane Katrina.”
September 13th, 2005 at 12:24 pmI’m sorry. I just couldn’t help myself! ROTFLMFAO
September 13th, 2005 at 4:01 pmChurchill was a bit more eloquent then W will ever be; for example, he made this statement:
“We will never surrender. We will never give up. We will fight them on the beach. We will fight them in the country. We will fight them in the city. We will fight them in the alleys. We will fight them to the edge of the empire, but we will never, never, Never, Never, NEVER SURRENDER!”
When you compare it with this statement, made by our brilliant W:
“FOOL ME ONCE, SHAME ON … SHAME ON ME, CAN’T GET FOOLED AGAIN!”
Ford has been described as mentally challenged and too dumb to walk and chew gum at the same time, but W can’t talk and read a teleprompter at the same time. Churchill usually read from an index card.
I would guess that brilliance is a comparative issue where the rater is the lowest common denominator.
September 13th, 2005 at 5:07 pmWaltTheMan
The difference between Churchill and Shrub-a-dub, is genes. Look at Churchill’s lineage and at dubya’s.
September 13th, 2005 at 6:06 pmChurchill was Orator, GW is reduced to “My Pet Goat”, I wonder if they gave him a “Reading for Dummies” book?
#61 – Unfortunately, it would have to be read for him.
September 13th, 2005 at 6:08 pm#62 lol!
September 13th, 2005 at 6:10 pmClyde the Ripper – You devil, are you flirting with me? Hate to tell you how old I was in 1952. Thanks for the compliment, though. Great minds think alike.
September 13th, 2005 at 6:26 pm#64, I know you were less than 62. The oldest person just passed away and she was 115.
September 13th, 2005 at 6:34 pm#65 I’m a boomer, not quite the first big wave of retirees, but not far behind. Oops, did I say retirees? Forgot there’s not going to be anything to retire to.
September 13th, 2005 at 11:18 pmPlease stop it! Please stop with the comparisons of George W. Bush to Sir Winston Churchill. There is no comparison. One was a brilliant war leader. The other wasn’t, and never will be. One was eloquent, and a brilliant orator. And the other will be known for his oratory, (well maybe he will be known for his mangling of the English language). I could go on and on, with the comparisons. But like I said there really is no comparison of the two men.
In 2002, the British public voted Sir Winston Churchill the Greatest Briton of all time following a nationwide poll, which attracted over a million votes. A selection of well-known faces championed the Greatest Britons in a series of documentaries on the BBC. That’s how highly regarded he is by British public. Winston Churchill is one of the greatest ever political leaders of our times.
If America conducted a similar poll. Would George W. Bush, be anywhere near the top of it? Please no more comparisons; it’s an insult to a great man’s memory.
“I couldn’t imagine someone like Osama Bin Laden understanding the joy of Hanukkahâ€.
“Poor people aren’t necessarily killersâ€.
“I’m honoured to shake the hand of a brave Iraqi citizen who had his hand cut off by Saddam Hussein”.
President George W. Bush, God help us all.
September 13th, 2005 at 11:26 pmNick, I was only trying to compare the two opposite ends of a spectrum (and one in the middle). During my life, I have read every tome written by Churchill. From his chronologies of WWII and it’s beginnings to his histories of the English speaking people and America. He was a great man and a great human. If only he could have been immortal.
September 14th, 2005 at 12:06 am#66 – I’m on the dole already. You’ve narrowed the max down to 66 now and 11 in ‘52. Whipper snapper as Gabby would say.
September 14th, 2005 at 12:21 amI have three words for George “Finished President” Bush, which will be typed clearly for him to understand: HOOKED ON PHONICS!!!!
September 14th, 2005 at 11:36 am#69 Gabby?, as in Gabby Hayes? & Roy?
September 15th, 2005 at 12:11 am