Blair Delays Vacation To Seek Resolution Of Mideast Crisis, Bush Heads To Crawford
Blair Delays Vacation To Seek Resolution Of Mideast Crisis, Bush Heads To Crawford
Tony Blair’s top priority: Ending a war.
Tony Blair today decided to delay his summer holiday for a few days to help secure a United Nations resolution that would call for an immediate cessation of hostilities in the Israel-Lebanon conflict. …
No 10 said the prime minister, who had been expected to leave today, believed the next few days were “crucial” in the efforts to agree a United Nations security council resolution on a ceasefire.
George W. Bush’s priority: Clearing brush.
President Bush arrived here Thursday evening to begin a 10-day stretch at his Prairie Chapel ranch, his longest planned period away from Washington during this summer vacation season. […]
[Bush] plans to spend most of the coming month out of town. He has planned long weekends at Camp David and the Bush family compound in Kennebunkport, Maine, for August, before returning to Texas before the Labor Day weekend.
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DO US ALL A FAVOR, DUBYA, and REMAIN on VACATION for the rest of your Presidency.
August 4th, 2006 at 12:35 pmWhy does Bush clear brush for fun on his ranch in Texas? He has no cattle, nor horses, so he does it to mimic Reagan, or Bush is a dummy, or both!
August 4th, 2006 at 12:37 pmBush complaining about the presidency and hard working conditions is like a robot complaining about repetitive-motion syndrome.
August 4th, 2006 at 12:37 pmActually having him out of it, is the best thing for everyone involved. I wouldn’t mind him being on permanent vacation.
August 4th, 2006 at 12:38 pmWhy does Bush clear brush for fun on his ranch in Texas? He has no cattle, nor horses, so he does it to mimic Reagan, or Bush is a dummy, or both!
Comment by Jay Randal
I’m guessing Cheney realized that he really doesn’t need his smirky sock-puppet to help run the show afterall.
August 4th, 2006 at 12:39 pmI will be praying all week to the lord almighty that this pretender to the throne is bitten in the dick by a rattlesnake.
August 4th, 2006 at 12:40 pmOn second thought, please resign along with Dick Cheney, so someone better mentally equipped can “faithfully execute” what you were elected to do.
August 4th, 2006 at 12:40 pmRumsfeld: “I Have Never Painted A Rosy Picture” About Iraq.
Hezbollah did not start this war.
(a) a is a lie
August 4th, 2006 at 12:41 pm(b) b is a lie
(c) both are a lie
quick someone throw him a fiddle so he can mimic Nero
August 4th, 2006 at 12:41 pmare there tsetse flies in texas? my god, i hope not! we need a healthy president to lead us into the rapture…
August 4th, 2006 at 12:42 pmYes as it was with 9/11 Bush is on vacation as he has nothing to do right now. As for the job of President well someone else has been doing that job for 5 years as he is the front man. A leader works until the job is done I guess it’s ok for the troops to stay and fight for their lives with no vacation nor can they leave the military but Bush has to take his vacation. I wonder where Connie Rice is or is she on vacation now too.
August 4th, 2006 at 12:43 pmWe need a leader to run the country all we have is a weak drunk. Bush insulted Sam Donaldson while making himself look like a fool I guess it was the alcohol that was talking. I notice the out cry about Mel Gibson’s drinking and comments but nothing is said about the drinking and comments by Bush. Well I guess if your President you can be a drunk, lie, have a mistress, torture, secret prisons, have non qualified employees learning on the job and bring chaos and debt with the public’s blessings.
Could that be because - I dunno, just taking a shot here - he’s the friggin president???!!!
August 4th, 2006 at 12:44 pmPost 6 LOL I needed a laugh > Jeff Gannon will suck out the poison > I just had to say that, so Judd please do not delete this > we need jokes or Dubya will drive us insane!
August 4th, 2006 at 12:44 pmWith Bush on vacation and Congress in recess, could something bad be brewing from the neo-con nutjobs?
August 4th, 2006 at 12:45 pm#6
August 4th, 2006 at 12:46 pmThat rattler better have good aim.
Bush, Blair. Compare, contrast. Both know his country seeks strong leadership, but neither provides it. Blair can at least ACT like he cares. Lame ducks, both of them.
August 4th, 2006 at 12:47 pmNo. 14 - Isn’t the answer to that question always “yes”?
August 4th, 2006 at 12:47 pmThis doofus has displayed a lack of agility, attention span and dexterity in such magical memorable misadventures as falling off a bike, falling off a segway, stumbling off a plane, etc. How can we believe he’s trusted to operate a chainsaw or hacksaw (…or hell, the executive branch, wheich he’s hacked to bits just as miserably).
August 4th, 2006 at 12:47 pmwhen you look at the contempt this jerk & congress have for the public one feels more like a subject in a monarchy than a citizen in a democracy
August 4th, 2006 at 12:50 pmPost 14 dlet > yes when Bush goes to his ranch for more than a week, then something could be up?! Today is the 4th, so next 10 days brings his vacation to August 14th, so my bet is an attack on Iran, or a small terror attack on US used as a pretext for an attack on Iran!
August 4th, 2006 at 12:50 pmThat brush has got to be cleared! Why do we continue to question Bush’s judgment? Imagine what might happen if the brush is not cleared. It’s unthinkable!
August 4th, 2006 at 12:50 pmMaybe this time it will be on labor day….
August 4th, 2006 at 12:50 pmNice photo-op. Where’s the “actual” migrant workers that work on the “ranch” when he’s gone?
August 4th, 2006 at 12:51 pmThere isn’t anything he can do anyway. He gave up long ago.
August 4th, 2006 at 12:52 pmWhat ‘normal things’???
First of all, the ‘Crawford Ranch’ is a FAKE…a prop for Dubya to maintain his ‘regular Joe’ facade,
- and -
Second, who can afford to go on vacation anymore? I’ve never taken a vacation in my life…my honeymoon was a long weekend, for Chrissakes.
Seriously, people are fed up with this bullshit, and it’s quickly getting to the point where more and more of us have nothing left to lose.
August 4th, 2006 at 12:54 pmThis is the real bush. Only problem is he gives minimum wage workers, who must do this type of work to survive a bad name. Interesting that he doesn’t complain about “hard work” when it’s physical labor, only when thinking is involved.
August 4th, 2006 at 12:55 pmPost 23 > when Bush is away the Secret Service guys get naked and have orgies in Bush’s olympic size pool > bad joke > lol.
August 4th, 2006 at 12:55 pmThe more time he spends in Crawford, the better. Cindy Sheehan is there to stir things up for the moron. If he bails on Crawford for Kennebunkport, he’ll be seen as avoiding Sheehan and loses some of the good ol’ boy image in favor of ivy-league elite image.
I hope finally udnerstand that Bush simply does not care about the US. He is simply a puppet for the neocon agenda and the super-rich.
August 4th, 2006 at 12:56 pmBush’s autiobiography should be titled, “Brush With Greatness.”
August 4th, 2006 at 12:56 pmyou people are meanies!!!
president bush has been touched by the hand of jesus christ to lead us to the end of time! he is precious, he is god on earth!
he is a common man, of the earth–that is why he returns to the ranch, to get closer to god, to get closer to himself!
god bless america and god bless ………..oh i can’t keep saying this bullshit! i hope for the rattler, the tsetse, the killer bees, a chainsaw accident, a stroke…ANYTHING…this fckeuer is NUTSSSSS.
August 4th, 2006 at 12:58 pmWell, I guess brush on hisa ranch is more important that the deaths of hundreds of Lebanese civilians. Very nice…
http://www.sunstateactivist.org
August 4th, 2006 at 1:01 pmBush likes being President, except for the responsibilities and the work.
August 4th, 2006 at 1:01 pmBush’s brush clearing fetish is pretty creepy.
August 4th, 2006 at 1:03 pmGOD_LESS AMERICA.
August 4th, 2006 at 1:03 pmThe world is on the so-called brink of World War III and Dubya goes on vacation? I hope Cindy Sheehan stops by the ranch to pay him neighborly visit.
August 4th, 2006 at 1:03 pmWhat a wussy, wanna-be cowboy! Next, he’ll be playing “cowboys and indians” with Condi.
Grow up, Shrubbie! You can certainly afford to pay someone to clear your brush. Don’t you have SOMETHING more important you could be doing? You’ve got the rest of your life to pretend to be a rancher on your burned out, weed infested scrub-land.
August 4th, 2006 at 1:08 pmWell, you may not like Bush, but you do have to admit-he can’t do ANYTHING without being criticized.
August 4th, 2006 at 1:09 pmPost 35 > Bush away at his ranch is cover for WWIII > he can claim he knew nothing about it!
August 4th, 2006 at 1:10 pm#31
dead lebanese? why should my george worry about such things when there are trees to trim and dogs to pet and stuff like that??
and who believes human rights watch anyway? they seem like real *losers*…i am guessing they aren’t texans!
go longhorns!
August 4th, 2006 at 1:14 pmFolks, you HAVE to let it go! You have to FINALLY get over the fact that George W. Bush is the President of the United States. Whether you believe the election was “stolen” or whether you believe he was elected democratically, he is the President. I read your posts with comments like “pretender to the throne” fully six and a half years after he took office, and I wonder how pathetic your life is if you’re still fixated on that.
As for comments such as “A leader works until the job is done I guess it’s ok for the troops to stay and fight for their lives with no vacation nor can they leave the military but Bush has to take his vacation.” Our troops are given periods of leave during their tour in Iraq or Afghanistan. Realistically, the President of the United States, Democrat or Republican, is NEVER fully on vacation. The President must be ready to react to any type of issue be it domestic or international.
The comment “Well I guess if your President you can be a drunk, lie, have a mistress, torture, secret prisons, have non qualified employees learning on the job and bring chaos and debt with the public’s blessings.” is intriguing. (First, it’s “you’re” not “your”.) When you state “have a mistress” I assume you’re (not your) referring to Mr. Clinton? If you’re (not your) referring to Mr. Bush, care to enlighten us about with whom he’s supposedly have an affair with?
Finally, rail. Your “doofus” was elected President - twice. I’d say when someone stumbles, falls off a bike, etc., it shows they’re (not there or their) human. Not superhuman, human. I believe the Left’s most famous Viet Nam veteran, Sen. Kerry, took his own bike spill (May 2, 2004), which shows he’s human too (although I’m not sure he believes that).
August 4th, 2006 at 1:16 pmI heard that Bush loves to cut down live Texas ceder trees with his chainsaw, so he loves to kill things! That dead brush pic was staged > afterwards he cut down that nice green tree behind him in the pic > lol.
August 4th, 2006 at 1:16 pmReagan and Bush, birds of a feather. Vacation after vacation after vacation.
August 4th, 2006 at 1:19 pmrickd > nope Bush is the un-elected dictator of America, but we know you support him no matter what that fool does, so whatever floats your boat guy > lol.
August 4th, 2006 at 1:20 pmCaption contest:
“Brokeback Crawford”
August 4th, 2006 at 1:20 pmThe President must be ready to react to any type of issue be it domestic or international
and we SAW how that worked out on 9/11/2001 - you asshat.
August 4th, 2006 at 1:22 pmYou tell ‘em, rickd! We’ll have all these America-haters hanging from piano wire, or in concentration camps pretty soon, and they’ll be sorry.
August 4th, 2006 at 1:22 pmDang! Is his pig farm located in Texas or in the Amazonia? How much bush can grow? That soil is really fertile. I bet that only the bush production of his farm can produce enough biofuel/ethanol to move Air Force One for every one of his trips and for the whole two terms of his presidency.
August 4th, 2006 at 1:26 pmbravo rickd.
you speak the truth about our fearless leader. if only his critics had the grasp of the english language that our george and, indeed yourself, exemplify so well! his critics do not have the grasp of the english language that our george has! he is touched by god, you know.
george is my president and our president from now until the end of time. why can’t these liberals just shut up and see it as so! you and i can easily just accept the death, the destruction, the blood-stained baby cribs, and those filthy katrina people vacationing at the superdome.
i am with you 1000% and hope that the losers on this site gain enlightenment from your very well-stated diatribe on acceptance.
we must sit quietly and wait for the end of time, together, as one happy republican family…
August 4th, 2006 at 1:26 pmThe President clearing brush. Come on! Does anybody think he will be doing this as soon as the photographer leaves. The only dead wood he will be lifting will be his own.
August 4th, 2006 at 1:31 pmBetter he be scraping the body organs of children off the streets of Beirut. Now that would be a photo op.
Caption Contest:
“Nope, no WMD under here”
August 4th, 2006 at 1:34 pmReply to rickd:
Folks, you HAVE to let it go! You have to FINALLY get over the fact that George W. Bush is the President of the United States.
No, we don’t.
Whether you believe the election was “stolen†or whether you believe he was elected democratically, he is the President.
If the election was stolen, he isn’t the President, no matter how much you try to marginalize the issue by putting the work “stolen” in “quotes”.
I read your posts with comments like “pretender to the throne†fully six and a half years after he took office, and I wonder how pathetic your life is if you’re still fixated on that
I’m wondering how pathetic your life is if you’re OK with it.
Our troops are given periods of leave during their tour in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Do yourself a favor and google ’stop loss’.
Realistically, the President of the United States, Democrat or Republican, is NEVER fully on vacation.
So this is supposed to count for something? Cry me a river…I’m on call 24/7 too.
The comment “Well I guess if your President you can be a drunk, lie, have a mistress, torture, secret prisons, have non qualified employees learning on the job and bring chaos and debt with the public’s blessings.†is intriguing. (First, it’s “you’re†not “yourâ€.) When you state “have a mistress†I assume you’re (not your) referring to Mr. Clinton? If you’re (not your) referring to Mr. Bush, care to enlighten us about with whom he’s supposedly have an affair with?
This is an amazing paragraph…You mentioned a lot of things, but only addresed ‘having a mistress’ (after pedantically calling attention to Jackie’s misuse of the possessive vs. the contraction…not one, but TWICE). How about the rest of Jackie’s points? Care to address the President’s sanctioning of torture, or secret prisons? How about the massive national debt? No?
We eagerly await your reply.
August 4th, 2006 at 1:34 pmcmon guys, he’s clearing the brush there so we dont have to clear it here.
August 4th, 2006 at 1:35 pmIt is quite simple. The president is too played out for servin’, too wack for chillaxing, and much too bunk to twurk.
August 4th, 2006 at 1:43 pm#40 - the Mexicans know how to get the votes counted, unlike the Americans who are happy to let their democracy go down the pan for another episode of American Idol
August 4th, 2006 at 1:44 pm#50
August 4th, 2006 at 1:45 pmI’d still like to kick him right in nuts for being such an insensitve PRICK when he said that.
The curtain was pulled back on Oz a LONG TIME ago.
American’s are just too damn self-centered to care about anything more than what kind of car they drive or which neighborhood they live in…
Looks like the left and the right hands know what they’re doing in that picture. Too bad the random synpatic firings in his brain can’t help him formulate a logical and objective response to the events of the world around him.
August 4th, 2006 at 1:47 pmFinally, rail. Your “doofus†was elected President - twice. I’d say when someone stumbles, falls off a bike, etc., it shows they’re (not there or their) human. Not superhuman, human. I believe the Left’s most famous Viet Nam veteran, Sen. Kerry, took his own bike spill (May 2, 2004), which shows he’s human too (although I’m not sure he believes that).
Comment by rickd — August 4, 2006 @ 1:16 pm
What does my comment have to do with whether w was elected or not? Assuming he was elected, does that make him impervious to criticism? Like hell. I just pointed that in light of his well demonstrated profoundly spastic nature (as opposed to, what, one Kerry spill), bush seems more likely to sever a finger than a dead branch. Geez, dude, don’t wrap me up in you “my prez right or wrong” crap…
August 4th, 2006 at 1:50 pm[…] As Nico noted, the president’s British counterpart is taking a different approach. Tony Blair today decided to delay his summer holiday for a few days to help secure a United Nations resolution that would call for an immediate cessation of hostilities in the Israel-Lebanon conflict. […] […]
August 4th, 2006 at 1:55 pmI hope that photo is from last year or some other August. If I see one more picture of this asshole clearing brush I’m gonna go insane.
August 4th, 2006 at 1:58 pm48. I detect a bit of cynicism in your reply. How did we get on to the President’s grasp of the English language? The President IS touched by God, as are a lot of people. I have been, maybe you have been too, who knows. You are not correct. George W. Bush is President only until January 20, 2009.
Again, how did Hurricane Katrina work its way into the thread? However, since you brought it up, I assume you are of the belief that President Bush PERSONALLY caused all those people to have to stay in New Orleans instead of evacuating. I know you don’t likely believe the people of New Orleans should have been able to fend for themselves. Surely a person who knows a very powerful storm is heading directly at them, when tries to find out how to get as far away from the problem as possible, when not receiving direction from the local officials (or state for that matter), would NEVER consider leaving on his or her own! No, I believe you are likely a person who believe the government at ALL levels must provide for you.
Jay Randal - As I’m sitting in my floating boat, I wonder if you repeat 2 + 2 = 5 enough times, do you think eventually it will be 5? Same logic with regards to the election of President Bush in 2000.
TripMaster Monkey - What do you define as torture? Underwear on the head? Having dogs barking at you? Piling fellow prisoners into a pyramid? Where does that rank with, say, beheadings? The US and its allies have not conducted any torture. Secret Prisons. Are there secret prisons? Where are they? Assuming for the moment they exist, so what? The people captured trying to do harm to this country and others need to be put somewhere.
August 4th, 2006 at 2:00 pmYou do know that Babs Bush, in an interview, told of a little story about little georgie, and she thought it was cute…
He put a firecracker in a frog and watched it explode. Now what the hell does that tell you about this man. Any psychiatrist will tell you - he’s A SOCIOPATH.
August 4th, 2006 at 2:01 pmrickd - you are nothing but a complete idiot. Keep bloviating. It only proves my point.
August 4th, 2006 at 2:03 pmI detect a bit of cynicism in your reply. - RickD
Gee, you THINK SO?
I guess most sarcasm is lost on you…
August 4th, 2006 at 2:06 pmIt is my bet that the powers that be will drag out the cese fire as long as possible….Note, many christians and farmers were killed by Israel last night and this morning. All routs are being distroyed and the lieing Israels are still using our bombs and money to finance their genocide against Lebanon….
While the world is at war thanks to the war dictator bush he is constantly on vacation, my guess waiting for words from cheney and rove what dreadful things to do next…..No matter where bush is, every day he is in the white house and backed by evil in charge, some one in the world is dieing because of something he has or has not done….Untill this drunk and the horses he rode in on are removed from power the killing will go on…….Blessings to the world…..Peace, demand it now…..
August 4th, 2006 at 2:08 pmThe Idiots Guide to Clearing Brush - anyone read it?
August 4th, 2006 at 2:10 pmBush’s specialties: DEATH AND DESTRUCTION.
Let’s not forget the fact that he is PROUD of his unprecedented record of executions in Texas.
He could give a rat’s ass about the almost 2600 (or is it more now?) dead soldiers in Iraq, and moreover, he will ignore the ones who come home with nothing left of their dignity, who will in turn FIGHT for the rightful BENEFITS!
About the number - that is only counted if they actually DIE in Iraq. If they are midvac’d out, and then die, are they counted as well?
August 4th, 2006 at 2:11 pmReply to rickd:
What do you define as torture? Underwear on the head? Having dogs barking at you? Piling fellow prisoners into a pyramid?
Oh joy…another Gitmo apologist. Are you norwegian, by any chance?
Do us all a favor and educate yourself.
Where does that rank with, say, beheadings?
You mean like this?
Secret Prisons. Are there secret prisons? Where are they?
Again, do us all a favor and educate yourself.
(You know, rickd, you can find these things yourself…I’m sure you have access to Google too.)
Assuming for the moment they exist, so what?
Coming from a person who has previously professed that he doesn’t care if the office of the President of the United Stated may have been stolen, this attitude comes as no surprise…but it is still just as reprehensible.
If I have to actually explain to you why the ‘land of the free’ running secret prisons, holding people without due process, and torturing said inmates is a problem, I seriously doubt you could comprehend the reasons. Normal, decent people know this without having to be told.
August 4th, 2006 at 2:17 pmReply to madashell:
He could give a rat’s ass about the almost 2600 (or is it more now?) dead soldiers in Iraq
Total at the time of this post stands at 2583.
August 4th, 2006 at 2:20 pm# 40
“rickd”
What kind of a f#cking argument was that ?
“Let it go, he’s the leader … ? ”
( June 1768 - in RICKD’s WORLD )
John Hancock: ” Hey, guys - I’m really pissed about the British. They seized my ship for no reason. ”
Paul Revere: ” Get over it, John, They are in charge. We are Their territory. That’s just the way it is … ”
Sam Adams: ” Yeah, John. Just let it go, man. ”
Patrick Henry: ” I don’t like it either, John - but they are in charge. I complained about other stuff - but they told me to get f#cked - so I guess that’s it … ”
Lucky for us it did not go down the RICKD way ….
A quote from “RICKD” Roosevelt - 1918.
“I hearby announce that there should be no criticism of the president. We stand by the president - right or wrong.
We stay silent for 4 years in solemn reverence of his “election.” If he manages to get “elected” again - we stay silent for 4 more years. Even though he will not be able to run again after 2 terms and is hence “a lame duck” midway into his second term - there will be no post-mortem criticism of his term(s) as to guide the conscious of future elections.
To be servile is patriotic and criticism is morally treasonable.”
RICKD Roosevelt - 1918.
I like the actual 1918 quote by Theodore Roosevelt ( no relation - apparently ) much better:
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
So - no - we will not ” let it go. ”
You, however, are invited to embrace Teddy Roosevelt’s 1918 quote and are also invited to “let go ” of being a robot for your political party.
August 4th, 2006 at 2:24 pmThe President IS touched by God,
Comment by rickd — August 4, 2006 @ 2:00 pm
I bet if you the leader of Iran, the leader of hezbollah, and many other fruitcake religious groups believe they are touched by god. Frankly I wish god would lift his finger, because every time a world leader is touched, it seems to lead to genocide and war.
August 4th, 2006 at 2:24 pm#51
Tripster, let’s put whatever minor differences we may have on a certain issue behind us.
See all of the work we have in front of us? ( #40 )
Good post, btw.
August 4th, 2006 at 2:27 pmRickD thinks Google hates America.
August 4th, 2006 at 2:33 pmTripMaster Monkey - Okay, I dun edukated my celf. Your link gave me the following “the term “torture” means any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes…” (I added bolding). So let me re-phrase my question. What would the definition of “severe” be? Making an inmate wear underwear on the head?
I wonder why Zarqawi took credit for that and other beheadings if he didn’t truly do it. I bet you think George W. Bush personally wired the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center and that is how they came down!
Secret Prisons - story published in Washinton Post. They’re (WP) aren’t biased one way or the other are they? I restate from my earlier post “Assuming for the moment they exist, so what? ” Looking back to WWII, what would your opinion be to the POW camps the Allies maintained, holding both Japanese and German and Italian combatants?
As for you explaining to me “why the ‘land of the free’ running secret prisons, holding people without due process, and torturing said inmates is a problem”, maybe I can comprehend. Why not try to explain it to me. How else can you hope to convince me you’re right if you don’t put forth your argument?
August 4th, 2006 at 2:44 pmFinally! A task to which Dumbya is an intellectual equal!
August 4th, 2006 at 2:51 pm“why the ‘land of the free’ running secret prisons, holding people without due process, and torturing said inmates is a problemâ€, maybe I can comprehend. Why not try to explain it to me. How else can you hope to convince me you’re right if you don’t put forth your argument?
Comment by rickd
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men,”
That about covers it.
August 4th, 2006 at 2:57 pmrickd
here is the u.n. report on conditions at guantanamo. the relevant parts regarding torture on pp. 14 ff.
have a nice day!
August 4th, 2006 at 3:03 pmrickd:
I restate from my earlier post “Assuming for the moment they exist, so what?
so what?
if you are george bush, the answer is ’so what?’ since he is by his very nature lawless. however, for those of us who believe the president is not above the law, the existence of ‘rendition sites’ represents a violation of us statutory law, the convention against torture:
“the policy of the United States not to expel, extradite, or otherwise effect the involuntary return of any person to a country in which there are substantial grounds for believing the person would be in danger of being subjected to torture, regardless of whether the person is physically present in the United States.â€
next question?
August 4th, 2006 at 3:16 pm#2
He has to find something for his illegals to do. Just looking at the picture I would say two of the three are illegal aliens and the third an illegal dumbshit.
August 4th, 2006 at 3:17 pmClearing brush, now that’s something Bush can do, and that’s about all he has an aptitude for. Why couldn’t the Bush family have just acknowledged their number one son was developmentally disabled and allowed him to live his simple life — diggin’ holes and clearin’ brush. Instead, they had to foist him onto companies, that he ran into the ground, the governorship of Texas, a state he ran into the ground, then the presidency of the United States, and he’s run this country into the ground. Why couldn’t Bush’s parents have just loved him for what he is — a simpleton – and spared the rest of us the quagmire this simpleton has created for the entire world. Why?
August 4th, 2006 at 3:21 pmrick,
here is some reading material for you on the subject, since you obviously haven’t heard that your christ-like president is a torturing war-criminal…
enjoy! just jump in and read all about your leader!
August 4th, 2006 at 3:22 pmhere is the link
August 4th, 2006 at 3:24 pmTime for a new James Fenimore Cooper novel (complete with Mark Twain snark in review) called—’The Brushclearer’.
Any authors out there?
August 4th, 2006 at 3:47 pm#79 Gay Bear,
The Bush family did it to continue their “dynasty”, it was pure selfishness.
August 4th, 2006 at 3:59 pmCaption Contest: No Brush Left Behind
August 4th, 2006 at 4:01 pmWhat does it take for a president to be considered incompetent? Cause if Bush hasn’t acquired that status as of now by all Americans there is something seriously wrong with this country.
August 4th, 2006 at 4:43 pmBig surprise from Shrub.
August 4th, 2006 at 5:06 pmHere is the deal:
No president has ever had to deal with quite as much going wrong as President George Bush.
No president has ever had quite as much time off as President Bush.
August 4th, 2006 at 5:09 pmMr. and Mrs. Condi Rice will be accompainied by Laura Bush as they vacation in Crawford.. It ’s true. Condi will be there to comfort George–Laura is just the trimmings.
August 4th, 2006 at 5:33 pmI wonder if he knows that he can’t pick up the same stick that he’s standing on?
August 4th, 2006 at 5:49 pmThing is this mess is out of their hands. Good luck tony!
August 4th, 2006 at 6:04 pmRickd: I have two words for you regarding “your” re-elected President…..
ELECTRONIC VOTING
August 4th, 2006 at 6:06 pmNow go back to watching FOX NEWS!
I just saw a video of Bush greeting Connie and he looked like it was Christmas. Yes Bush isn’t hiding his affection for Connie Rice. As Laura is still on vacation thinks look good for the love birds as they will have privacy. Now the history books will show that Charles and Camilla weren’t the only ones shagging. Connie Rice is the mistress to the President and might as well be the first Black First Lady for the United States. This is a cover up that Karl Rove is failing at. Talk about affairs forget Bill Clinton Bush is making it known Connie Rice is his woman and Laura is out.
August 4th, 2006 at 6:17 pm#93 — Jackie — You hit the nail on the head. Bush and Connie are without a doubt going at it. Every time you see them peck each other’s cheeks in public and photo-ops, Connie closes her eyes and looks deeply in love. Laura is the wife for show. Connie is the whore in the bedroom; and she’s been handsomely rewarded for her duty.
August 4th, 2006 at 6:39 pm#6 RD: LOL!!! I can only hope.
August 4th, 2006 at 7:03 pmI bet when he comes back he’s gonna be real cranky too. Probably poke some foreign dignitary in the snoot for looking at him funny. We force this man to pull back on his vacations at our own peril.
August 4th, 2006 at 7:07 pm#94 It’s no secret I know Karl Rove tried to cover it up but the Globe printed it. I noticed the Globed wasn’t sued so that’s a clear sign the story is true. But the body language and those kisses and the way he touches her tells it all. Notice he looks like it’s an afford to touch Laura and she looks stiff and cold when she’s around George. Well let’s see how this plays out someone will brake or a picture will come out. I know when they go overseas those people get an eye full of the love birds. If Bush comes back to work with a silly smile on his face enough said.
August 4th, 2006 at 7:09 pmI think Bush’s clearing brush is like his riding a horse - the one with a windshield.
August 4th, 2006 at 7:11 pmHe likes tearing things up, so clearing brush is as good excuse as any.
He likes to play cowboy; he walks like one, he stands like one, he even talks like one, but like everything else about him, it’s all facade. It’s make believe. It’s dress up time down on the ranch.
He is the make believe president, the let’s-pretend-we-know-what-we’re-doing- president. The rich Eastern kid who didn’t like school, who had everything handed to him, who can spend his time now acting like the big guys, but he is in over his head and he knows it, but he doesn’t take it seriously. He can’t realize that his actions have permanently harmed so many people; he sleeps well at night because he is unable to put himself in someone else’s place.
He is the personification of the corrupt Gatsby goes out west.
Jackie and GayBear - I agree with you.
August 4th, 2006 at 7:15 pmLong ago, when she “mistakenly” referred to Bush as her “husband” and quickly took back the word, it was a psycological error.
A person who has never been married would never make a mistake and refer to someone else as a spouse unless there was a subliminal reason for doing so.
I have seen the eye contact he and Rice make - I have observed the “old married look” of him and Laura.
Where are the papparazzi when you need them??
#6
Are we talking about a veiled reference to … Condi? …
August 4th, 2006 at 7:21 pmI wish GWB would stay on the “ranch” for the rest of his “presidency,” but things have a way of going so disastrously wrong during those times, and people die. More and more and more, dead people…
August 4th, 2006 at 9:03 pmOkay, so I based on several of the posts on this thread, I take it one does not have to stop expressing one’s opinion, or for speaking up against the President concerning his actions, even though things said or done (or perceived to have been done) happened long ago. I can buy that. So having agreed to the ground rules, lets open this can of worms:
Let’s revisit the actions of one William Jefferson Clinton - ah ah, no, you cannot say tell me to get off that, remember, we are allowed to debate the actions ad nauseum….
Since this thread has, at various points hypothisized and inferred that George W. Bush and Condaleeza Rice are having some kind of affair, with nothing more than your intrepretation of how they greet one another, or by the fact that they spend time together, lets work on the topic of elected official’s affairs.
Shall we start or end with Monica Lewinsky. Shall we discuss how one William Jefferson Clinton dragged the office of the President of the United States through the mud by receiving a “Lewinsky” right in the Oval Office? Or shall we discuss the Paula Jones affair? No? How about Gennifer Flowers? No? How about Juanita Broderick, Kathleen Willey? I wonder how many there were?
Okay, let’s leave the affairs. Some of you feel President Bush is a liar. I don’t know if there’s any kind of proof he lied, but I can’t convince any of you that he didn’t so lets talk about a proven lie. How about the words “I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.” Ooops. I think that was a lie!
Geez I could go on and on about the things Bubba did while in office (both as Governor and as President), but that would sound like a broken record!
August 4th, 2006 at 9:21 pmWhy do these detractors of all politicians, with the exception of W, ignore history. LBJ was not on vacation all of the time when absent from the Oval Office. He had a heart attack and gallbladder surgery, Apparently, Babs had one of those partial abortions where they sucked the brains out of the embryo - unfortunately, the fetus went to term.
August 4th, 2006 at 9:41 pmStreisand had a baby?
August 4th, 2006 at 10:33 pm#102
That’s all you got?
Lewinsky?
You care about this “so much” …
I can understand if she was YOUR girl …
Getting “crowded out” by a president …
But she wasn’t your girl …
And still, you care about this thing “so much” …
Wanna know what I care about?
About 2,500 dead soldiers.
20,000 injured soldiers.
Hundreds of billions of dollars wasted.
Billions that could have gone to real homeland security.
De-stabilizing instead of containing the Middle East.
And that’s just Iraq.
You talk about “dragging down the office of the presidency”
Grow up.
Even the iconic Dwight D. Eisenhower was rumored to have an affair ( most believe that if anything actually happened, he did not go “all the way”). Kennedy did have affairs.
Somehow … the nation survived …
Remarkable, huh?
LBJ said more troops in Nam - more troops went to Nam.
Nixon said “that’s enough” - and the troops came back.
Carter asked Begin and Sadat to come to Camp David - and they came.
Reagan said increase military spending to choke off the USSR and we spent more money.
Hmmm, seems like the U.S. President still had significant pull.
As you can see, the office of the president was not “diminshed” by Kennedy’s affairs or rumors of Eisenhower’s.
So throw that sh#t away, once and for all. Please.
Wanna know what else I care about?
A U.S. President that does not heed good sound advice.
THAT diminishes the office of the president and the reputation of the nation.
I just posted most of this on the thread re: Tom Friedman’s “conversion.”
He has just joined “The Club of Realistic Military Leadership”
The point being that people with senior military experience and were also Republicans - told this President not to pursue this war. This crap that “the left” doesn’t ever like to fight is pure nonsense.
There was a lot of good advice from the “left” from the “center” and the “right” that was needlessly ignored.
We’ll start with Retired General Norman Schwartzkopf
‘ … He expresses even more concern about the task the U.S. military might face after a victory. “What is postwar Iraq going to look like, with the Kurds and the Sunnis and the Shiites? That’s a huge question, to my mind. It really should be part of the overall campaign plan.†… ‘
‘ … The administration may be discussing the issue behind closed doors, Schwarzkopf says, but he thinks it hasn’t sufficiently explained its thinking to the world, especially its assessment of the time, people and money needed. “I would hope that we have in place the adequate resources to become an army of occupation,†he warns, “because you’re going to walk into chaos.†…
Retired General Norman Schwartzkopf from “Desert Caution’ - January 28, 2003
In addition - Ret. General Tony McPeak, who commanded the U.S. Air Force during Desert Storm, switched parties ( From Republican to Democrat ) because of the Bush Administration’s insistence on going to war …
John Shalikashvili - The Chariman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff after Colin Powell - also switched from Republican to Democrat as a result of the Bush Administration’s insistence on this war.
While Colin Powell’s record is “mixed†as Secretary of State ( with the U. N. Speech and all ) - he did lay down his Club of Realisitc Military Leadership card when he said to Bush re: invading Iraq - “You break it, You own it …â€
Brent Scowcroft - who served under “big time liberals†Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush - was also against this debacle. Scowcroft had also achieved the rank of general before moving to politics.
The U.S Army War College said that it wasn’t a good idea to do this in 2003.
So that’s it for now.
With all that is going on with the Bush Administration … it is hard to believe that you have to actually engage in some sort of “calculus” to determine if the needless actions of the Bush administration ( actions which flew in the face of good sound and politically “friendly” counsel as well as counsel from the opposition, actions which have gotten people killed for no reason ) are worse than the “hanky panky” that occured ten years ago.
And RICKD - we have only covered Iraq !
I believe in your right to speak up - but I also believe you should be a bit more wise with what you say.
Lewinsky ?
August 4th, 2006 at 10:41 pmAugust 4th, 2006 at 11:17 pm
With Bush right there amid all that flammable brush, all we need now is a steak.
August 5th, 2006 at 12:23 am105.
Norman Schwartzkopf - Interesting that you cite his quotes from 2003 - PRIOR to the start of the war. How about we find something from him in 2006? He expressed concerns about a possible invasion of Iraq, but I can’t find anything attributed to him since then.
Tony McPeak - Reminds me of the kid who say’s “If we’re not going to play my way, I’m taking my ball and going home.” I’m sure Gen. McPeak was a decent officer in his time, but frankly, I see someone who came from a different generation fighting a different enemy. The people we’re fighting now are not anything like he was used to. Did he really switch parties or did he change from being a registered Republican to a registered independent?
John Shalikashvili - I see the retired General was a Bubba appointee…’nuf said. The Republican’s are better off without him! Your retired general agrees with Sen. Kerry in that you only go to war when you’ve exhausted all diplmomatic options. While he and his type are talking to the Islamic Fascists, they (I.F.) are laughing at their ignorance, knowing while you’re “talking” they’re planning your death. Talk all you want with them, they only want you dead. I chuckled at the general’s speach at the Dem. National Convention, when he ended his speech with “I believe in John Kerry. As a young man he heeded his country’s call to service when it needed him. He commanded in combat and did so with bravery and distinction. He knows from experience a commander’s responsibility to his troops.” 2Lt. Kerry spent 4 months in Viet Nam…wow. With that type of time, I can see how someone with that experience would understand how to command troops in times of war (save the stuff about GWB not ever being in Viet Nam, I know, he has 4 months less experience than Kerry, blah, blah….). Back the good general. I’d question anyone who puts as much faith in someone like Kerry given that one’s track record in the military.
U.S Army War College - Can you provide reference to this? Again, however, that was in 2003. What is their position now I wonder?
August 5th, 2006 at 12:41 amBUSH SOWS DEATH AND REAPS BRUSH.
Say that shit five times.
August 5th, 2006 at 3:36 amrickd
Wow, another lying republican chickenhawk troll. Nuff said is right you delusional prick.
August 5th, 2006 at 3:52 amUh… how much brush can one ranch have? If you ask me, he hires people to put brush on his property just so he can clear it.
August 5th, 2006 at 5:55 amIf Bill Clinton dragged the Presidency through the mud, why did he end up being tied with FDR as most popular President of the 20th century? I guess Republicans would say most Americans are contemptible and dumb. How very creepy of them!
August 5th, 2006 at 7:02 amrikd (40) Thank you for enlightening me on the greatness of our beloved president. And thank you, also, for your (not you’re) didactical lesson in English grammar. I was always taught not to end a statement with a preposition. But since you do it in your (not you’re) third paragraph, I guess it is now acceptable.
August 5th, 2006 at 9:55 amrickd:
August 5th, 2006 at 9:58 amWow. You say earlier that we need to get over it and accept Bush as our president. Speaking of getting over it, how long are you going to hang on to that ridiculous Lewinsky story? Let me ask the famous presidential campaign question: Are you better off than you were six years ago? Or let’s extend it: Is the world better off than it was six years ago. If Clinton dragged the office of president through the mud, Bush has dragged it, stomped on it, spit on it, and SH-T on it. How dare you defend him. You seem to have some intellectual ability; try using it to actually see things the way they really are, not the way you wish they were.
On the subject
Nico, if you are telling yourself that you would have posted the same sort of a comment to the elected official of your choice , then
YOU ARE NOT BEING HONEST WITH YOURSELF.
Hence, you are biased.
Your word?
August 5th, 2006 at 11:36 amFor Truth
Look, you are not telling us who you are, what is your heritage?
Yet, you come here to the place where real people talking about real problems.
So, what you suggest is that you are an abstract person and you have something to do with some sort of an abstract “truthâ€.
Well then, your place is not here. Your place is in a test-tube.
August 5th, 2006 at 11:38 am#102 The dead Soldiers know he lied even if you don’t. Remember most smailed or talk to family as they were in Iraq we were only listening to the reports told to us by the Bush Administration. Even Rummy who said everything was going well now says he didn’t say that. I know no one wants to believe a President lied to Ameicans that was what we said about Nixon that he would never lie. Oh but when he resigned and got on that plane we knew. So believe Bush if you must but when he resigns and leaves office call it a medical reason. As for Clinton and his years well notice the Bush Administration is saying it was Clinton fault for the budget debt, chaos around the world, invasion of Iraq and lost of thousands of soldiers lives, Global Warming, people starving in Africa anything that goes wrong it was Clinton’s fault. Now Bush has been in office 5 years and I guess we are to believe that everything is ok and Americans are lliving the best ever. A real man accepts and admits his mistakes a weak man blames others. Which man is Bush weak or real. I felt bad for our troops as the media covers more time about Mel Gibson’s personal problems then they do about our soldiers. But I guess the media is giving Americans what they want and what is more important.
August 5th, 2006 at 11:59 ammparker. I’ve noticed that when the left runs out of rebuttals, they resort to name calling. You know what they say, “Stick and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me!”
August 5th, 2006 at 12:32 pm112. Most popular and good don’t always go together. Why is/was he most popular? Spin. The man new how play people (still does), and he’s teaching the Hildabeast everything he knows.
August 5th, 2006 at 12:34 pm113. You’re right. Poor grammar on my part.
August 5th, 2006 at 12:35 pm114. You missed the entire point of that post. Since previous posts were going on and on about how President Bush supposedly “stole” the election (2000), I decided to show how idiotic it is to dwell on the past. I know the Lewinsky affair took place many years ago, and to be honest haven’t given it a thought in the last six years, but decided that since others are hell bent on rehashing the 2000 election, then why not rehash even further back.
August 5th, 2006 at 12:38 pm120. Names will never hurt you, but ignorance will.
August 5th, 2006 at 12:38 pm122. So sorry, my comment refers to 118.
August 5th, 2006 at 12:39 pm117. I’ve re-read your first two sentences over and over trying to understand them. Still can’t . However, I will say this. the current President has a backbone. He frankly doesn’t care what you or anyone else thinks of him. His predecessor on the other hand, based his vacations on how the public would perceive them. He did everything based on polls and how his actions would translate in to public opinion. A true leader does whats right for whom he/she leads, regardless of what some might think of him/her. In the case of President Bush, he’s leading the US during a very dangerous time in history. There is a reincarnate of Adolf Hitler running Iran, there are Islamic fascists trying to kill every Christian in the world and since there is only one super power left, and since he is the leader of that super power, he is doing what he and others feel is best for the country.
As for the military serving in Iraq. They by far and away are behind the President on this war. They know why they are there and they want to finish the job they started. They do NOT agree with statements such as put forth by John Murtha (cold blooded killers) and John Kerry (terrorizing women and children in the night). Are there some “bad apples” in the military - of course, just like there’s bad apples in every walk of life, but the vast, vast majority of the military are honorable, hard working people, doing a very tough job, but one which the agree with.
August 5th, 2006 at 12:50 pmW would not allow the military to get behind him - could be fatal.
August 5th, 2006 at 1:24 pmYou’d think the President would have the sense to go to a place with modern communications, instead of CRAWFORD TEXAS….. Ohhhhhh….they have PHONES and COMPUTERS????? Does this mean Nico has very little to write about and scrounged up ANYTHING to damn W???? Nah…..
To the beach….
August 5th, 2006 at 3:08 pm#108
( yawn … )
U.S Army War College - Can you provide reference to this?
http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/PUB182.pdf
Some of the highlights from the “Conclusions” section on Page 7:
The administration of an Iraqi occupation will be complicated by deep religious, ethnic and tribal differences which dominate Iraqi society.
U.S. forces may have to manage and adjudicate conflicts among Iraqis that they can barely comprehend.
An exit strategy will require the establishment of political stability which will be difficult to achieve given Iraq’s fragmented population, weak political institutions and propensity for rule by violence.
What is their position now I wonder?
( yawn … )
Excerpts from the U.S. Army War College report “Bounding the Global War on Terrorism.”
http://www.globalsecurity.org/ military/ library/ 2003/ record_boundary.pdf
“In conflating Saddam Hussein’s Iraq and Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda, the administration unnecessarily expanded the global war on terrorism by launching a preventative war against a state that was not at war with the United States and that posed no direct or imminent threat to the United States at the expense of continued attention and effort to protect the United States from a terrorist organization with which the United States was at war.”
“The war against Iraq was a detour from, not an integral component of, the war on terrorism; in fact, Operation Iraqi Freedom may have expanded the terrorist threat by establishing a large new American target set in an Arab heartland.”
“To the extent that the global war on terrorism is directed at the phenomenon of terrorism, as opposed to flesh-and-blood terrorist organizations, it sets itself up for strategic failure. Terrorism is a recourse of the politically desperate and militarily helpless, and, as such, it is hardly going to disappear.”
“A cardinal rule of strategy is to keep your enemies to a manageable number. A strategy whose ambitions provoke the formation of an array of enemies whose defeat exceeds the resources available to that strategy is doomed to failure. The Germans were defeated in two world wars notwithstanding their superb performance at the operational and tactical levels of combat because their strategic ends outran their available means…”
“Analogies to past experiences are misleading. Though the administration has repeatedly cited U.S. success in post-World Ware II Germany and Japan as evidence the United States can do for Iraq what it did for those two former Axis Powers, the differences between 1945 and 2003 trample the similarities. First of all, the United States entered postwar Japan and its occupation zone in Germany with overwhelming force, which precluded the eruption of local resistance. Second, both occupations were almost universally regarded as legitimate…. It is fair to say that the U.S. occupation of Iraq fails the test of legitimacy in the eyes of an overwhelming number of Arabs.”
RE: Schwarzkopf: He expressed concerns about a possible invasion of Iraq, but I can’t find anything attributed to him since then.
The Value of his advice, RICKD is that it needed to be heeded before the invasion.
If I tell you not to stink your hand down the sink when the garbage disposal machine is running - you are supposed to heed this advice beforesticking your hand down the drain.
I have one concept for you to try out :
“Logical Deduction … ”
If Schwarzkopf was worried about loss of life, injuries, cost and choas then - how do you think he feels now? 2,500 dead soldiers later, 20,000 wounded soldiers later, 300 to 400 billion dollars later - the choas of civil war, insurrection and a de-stabilized Middle East over three years after he said “don’t do this or this is the bullshit you are going to get” ?
I’m sure Gen. McPeak was a “decent officer” in his time ….
General Tony McPeak’s military experience:
**37 years Air Force active duty (1957-94);
**3 tours in Vietnam, 37th and 31st Tactical Fighter Wings (1968-70);
**269 combat missions “In-Country” in Nam as an F-100 Super Sabre tactical fighter pilot and high speed forward air controller.
… but frankly, I see someone who came from a different generation fighting a different enemy….
I repeat:
**3 tours in Vietnam
In case you are not familiar - In Nam the enemy would often blend in with the civilian population - making it lethally difficult to to know who to fight, who to trust ect.. This is happeneing in Iraq as well. It is a very similiar enemy to what he fought earlier in his career.
John Shalikashvili - I see the retired General was a Bubba appointee …
Now you are just being silly.
If John Abizaid or Peter Pace or Tommy Franks had been in a position to be appointed Chariman of the JOC during Clinton’s two terms - would you turn on them too ? Just because they were not appointed by a republican president?
Well, RICKD … the good news is that you have grown.
Not much, but at least a little.
You didn’t mention Lewinsky - at least not in this post.
That’s good.
August 5th, 2006 at 3:36 pm#126 - MA,
August 5th, 2006 at 3:38 pmW has the intellect and computer savvy of J. Fred Muggs.
Scheet, I just insulted J. Fred Muggs.
August 5th, 2006 at 3:41 pm#124 rickd: Blood and guts Bush?. yeah, right. his guts , other people’s blood. His hands are dripping red. If anyone deserves to be compared to Hitler, it’s your fuhrer Bush. At least Hitler fought in combat, Bush deserted his cush gig in the champaign unit of the ANG.
August 5th, 2006 at 6:06 pm#130 - HCM,
August 5th, 2006 at 6:54 pmYou got it it in one, Hitler actually served, W deserted.
No Walt, Mr. Muggs said you just keep insulting yourself - but why try a new tactic, this one seems to work so well for you…..
August 5th, 2006 at 7:25 pm#132 - MA,
August 5th, 2006 at 7:26 pm?
No Walt, Mr. Muggs said you just keep insulting yourself - but why try a new tactic, this one seems to work so well for you…..
Comment by mighty aphrodite — August 5, 2006 @ 7:25 pm
#132 - MA,
?
Comment by WaltTheMan — August 5, 2006 @ 7:26 pm
walt, MA has completley lost it. The burden of defending GWB the moron is taking its toll on the “true believers” MA is a really good example. IT has a made up life complete with a made up job , friends and even made up Mr. MA.–In reality ( a liberal thing) MA is a bald-fat-sweaty-loser. Hey MA I hope you and MR.MA pack a real nice basket and have a nice day at the park or beach/lake or any other made up place.
August 5th, 2006 at 10:35 pm#134 - Joefriday,
August 5th, 2006 at 11:11 pmSo how is Sgt. Bill Gannon doing now?
why is it that whenever we see Bush clearing bush, his cowboy outfit is NEVER sweated wet? are we to believe that these pictures are taken out in the hot humid Texan sun of a man clearing brush, and he has nary a drop of sweat on him?
August 6th, 2006 at 3:25 amGWB is so happy right now. He gets to destroy things with POWER TOOLS! Any evil-doing underbrush will be brought to justice! And the dirt that he will ‘liberate’ will not cling to him, out of gratitude. Once again, we have GWB putting his vacation time above all other matters. Potential terrorist attack? On vacation. Hurricane coming? On vacation. World on the verge of WWIII? On vacation. And that he is incapable of comprehending that being the “President” might take precedence over his vacation plans, really confirms his unsuitability for the office. And leaves no doubt as to his selfishness and lack of any real concern for anyone but himself, and what HE wants. Gawd he sickens me, once again.
August 6th, 2006 at 5:04 amReferring to the actual original post, it seems pretty clear from over here that (a) Blair dare not go on holiday because if peace breaks out while he is away he won’t be able to try claim credit and (b) he was desparate for an excuse to stay because of the all bad press about his stupid, contemptible and sleazy Deputy Primeminister, who is such as laughing stock that the idea of him being in charge while Blair is away has become a headline issue.
Bush need not worry about not being involved. Blair has a pathetic and deluded belief in his own indispendibility.
August 6th, 2006 at 4:45 pm#138 - A Brit,
August 6th, 2006 at 5:32 pmA lap-dog indispendibile?
#139 - me,
August 6th, 2006 at 5:37 pmOops, misspell:
A lap-dog indispensable?
And I thought the Brits had a command of the Queen’s English. Sorry.
#134- oefridays contribution to the discussion:”MA is a bald-fat-sweaty-loser.”….(you wiiiish!!!!!) - But thank you for once again demonstrating your non-existent debating skills.
August 6th, 2006 at 7:13 pm#137 - “Once again, we have GWB putting his vacation time above all other matters. Potential terrorist attack? On vacation. Hurricane coming? On vacation. World on the verge of WWIII? On vacation.” “Comment” by Crya
*****Late to the table - but nice of you to join us….(See post #126.) I’m surprised a bright girl like yourself is not at all acquainted with modern communications….Could you translate those smoke-signals for me?
August 6th, 2006 at 7:28 pmWell I am a natural born Texan unlike the moron in the White House who uses the cowboy image and the ranch as props and don’t forget the very fake accent. I don’t know what that is as a matter of fact other than embarrassing. Someone give the man a bj so we can send him on PERMANENT vacation.
August 8th, 2006 at 3:46 pmHe clears brush every time he goes to that stupid ranch….HOW MUCH BRUSH COULD THERE POSSIBLY BE TO CLEAR?!?!?!? I suppose the Secret Service flies in bushels of brush just for such occasions.
August 8th, 2006 at 4:33 pmHay, is any one else having trouble getting think progress to work today.? Won’t load and this is the only thing I could get to work….What’s up.??…Blessings
August 8th, 2006 at 8:53 pmWow I am glad to have found this site!
August 9th, 2006 at 1:41 amWow I am so happy to have found this site. I find humor in the Neo cons embracing Bush. I am thoughtful of President Johnson and his growing sadness as he sat and personally signed every letter to every son lost in the Viet Nam war. I am worried at the lack of empathy that this President has not given to the fallen soldiers. Letters are stamped and computer generated. Their is no humanity directed to these lost souls! Ask your self ,you bush believers is torture good.?Would you want to be tortured? Would you want your family to be tortured? America has always been about civil rights and protecting people. This President , this government is taking every thing the Constitution wanted to protect away.!Maybe you are happy with killing and war, children dying. I am not and I feel sorry for you!
August 9th, 2006 at 1:55 amWhat kind of world do we live in, when our own government justifies torture! I ask my self do I want to live in this country any longer? I am thinking of moving to Ireland! This country does not represent my beliefs any longer. Two years ago I never thought about politics and I lived in a bubble. What this government has done to this country and the rest of the world is insane. The destruction and death is crimminal. This country has a history that is so unique and it has been taken to a faschist state by this administration. The Neo cons are war money mongers and they want destruction and death to make money! This is not my country ! Neo cons be happy because Bush must be what you want!
August 9th, 2006 at 2:24 amDear Mary - I think you still live in a bubble but given your newly minted discontent, Ireland might prove a nice new place for you…But then again, your whininess leads me to believe you’d fit in better with the Hezbollah/Iran backers in France. Merci…Have a lovely trip….
August 9th, 2006 at 2:56 am