“I’ll be dead when they get it right.”
By on Dec 11th, 2006 at 3:11 pm
“I’ll be dead when they get it right.”
– President Bush, on how his legacy will be viewed, according to a “recent visitor” to the White House who says Bush is “still resolutely defiant, convinced history will ultimately vindicate him.”
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Delusions of grandeur….
December 11th, 2006 at 3:13 pmHopefully they’ll get it right sooner than later….
December 11th, 2006 at 3:14 pmBush must not realize that history is based on reality
December 11th, 2006 at 3:14 pm3,
If only it was. We have already seen today Thatcher trying to say that Pinochet was a lovely guy, if only we’d understood him better…
Alas, history seems to be written largely by the incompetent and the ignorant, and it is the ‘written’ that is the most important.
December 11th, 2006 at 3:20 pm#4 Margaret Thatcher has Alzheimers. She’s delusional.
December 11th, 2006 at 3:24 pmIs it just me, or is he sounding more and more like Nixon towards the end of his presidency (if you could call it that)?
December 11th, 2006 at 3:26 pm“Worst President Ever”… sounds like they’ve got it right to me!
I guess the only thing left is for the president to take his turn?
December 11th, 2006 at 3:27 pmHow does someone “get right” what is so irreversibly wrong?
December 11th, 2006 at 3:29 pm5,
She has always supported Pinochet.
And where does this Alzeimer’s thing come from? It’s the first I’ve heard of it.
December 11th, 2006 at 3:31 pmIf justice were truly served, that would occur sometime in November, 2007.
December 11th, 2006 at 3:33 pmHISstory may be RIGHT-wing and vindicate Bush. Unfortunately for Mr. Bush, history is an accumulation of opinion and distillation of facts and, there, his legacy will probably put his presidency in the bottom 10% of administrations overall.
December 11th, 2006 at 3:36 pmHe’s certifiable.
December 11th, 2006 at 3:36 pm…and the verdict then will be “dead wrong.”
December 11th, 2006 at 3:43 pmI have very little doubt that Dubya will go down as one of the most incompetent and inept presidents in United States history. The debacle in Iraq will be his only “legacy”. History will not be kind to him. If Bush thinks that he will be vindicated in the future, he’s delusional.
I am sure that the GOP will try to make a deity of Dubya like they have with Reagan (who was by his own admission of involvement in the Iran/Contra affair a criminal and a traitor who should have died in prison along with Bush 41 and Oliver North) but I don’t think that even the glassy-eyed GOP base will swallow that one.
Dubya may dream of his place in history, but the rest of us are just wishing that the nightmare of his presidency would end and we can be spared the sound of his voice.
December 11th, 2006 at 3:44 pmconvinced history will ultimately vindicate him
Not so much.
December 11th, 2006 at 3:44 pmPLC, you are too generous when you say his will be in the bottom 10%, that’s like saying it will be in the bottom 50%. Both true, but misleading.
Bush will be in the bottom 1%, scraping the sludge from the bottom.
December 11th, 2006 at 3:45 pmAnd what of the hundreds of thousand of people who are dead because you GOT IT WRONG!???
December 11th, 2006 at 3:46 pmThen again, der chimperor should be encouraged that he’s in the top 2.325 % of presidents! Until of course he’s out of office, then it drops to the top 2.272%.
December 11th, 2006 at 3:49 pmI’ll be dead when they get it right
The verdict is in, and most historians agree George Bush’s presidency is simply one of the worst in US history.
Obviously he thinks everyone’s wrong but him, facts be damned.
December 11th, 2006 at 3:52 pmI guess “they” will have to invent a new category of vanity, ignorance, viciousness and stubborness to properly describe Bush’s failures.
“They”, the American people, will “get it right” and Bush will be dead. Now, tie those together and what do you have?
December 11th, 2006 at 3:53 pmW could be quoting one of our soldiers, commenting on the Administration’s Iraq policy.
December 11th, 2006 at 3:59 pm[...] Of his legacy, the Worst President Ever(R) says: “I’ll be dead when they get it right.†[...]
December 11th, 2006 at 4:02 pmIf a CEO of a major corporation had insisted that its company stay the course, even if that course was causing the corporation to lose vast amounts of money, then that CEO would not be in charge of that corporation for very wrong. One of the reasons Germany lost WWII was because Hitler refused to listen to his generals when he was making crucial decisions. In both cases, hubris was to blame. The Democrats can bring this unnecessary occupation to a halt by listening to Dennis Kucinich and to begin cutting off the funding for this unnecessary war in Iraq. This would be contingent upon the Democrats having the political will and courage in getting this done. The Democrats should realize that the best way to halt the war machine and to show their support for the troops is to make sure that the money pipeline leading to Iraq is dried up. Bring them home- safely- now.
December 11th, 2006 at 4:02 pmVietnam today is mostly peaceful, and is on a slow path to rejoining the world. Only 35 years or so since we left.
If in 25-50 years Iraq is settled, one way or another, it will not prove that Bush was right.
December 11th, 2006 at 4:08 pm#27:
The Democrats can bring this unnecessary occupation to a halt by listening to Dennis Kucinich and to begin cutting off the funding for this unnecessary war in Iraq. This would be contingent upon the Democrats having the political will and courage in getting this done.
Amen. Screw the Iraq Study Group. All the Dems have to do is stop funding this madness.
from Dennis Kucinich:
“This is the time for Democrats to be uniting to exit from Iraq. And the exit door is already well lit with a sign that says $70 billion. If we support the troops, why in the world would we not use the money to bring them home, instead of spending more money to keep them in? Why would we, when we have money to bring them home right now, appropriate another $160 billion which would keep them there, possibly through the end of George Bush’s term?”
The Dems will have their chance in the Spring. We will find out if we truly have an opposition party.
December 11th, 2006 at 4:10 pmI think we all know how history views a president who doesn’t serve out his full term.
He’s not gonna make it, folks.
December 11th, 2006 at 4:11 pm2 more years? Maybe, but I’ll pray for…
Nancy Pelosi for President in ‘07!
December 11th, 2006 at 4:14 pmScrew the Iraq Study Group. All the Dems have to do is stop funding this madness.
Agreed. What if they held a war, but everyone refused to pick up the tab?
December 11th, 2006 at 4:14 pmMost of the time, he doesn’t believe a word that comes out of his own pie-hole.
December 11th, 2006 at 4:16 pmHe just fronts being delusional so that he can continue to . . . . be delusional.
PLC, you are too generous when you say his will be in the bottom 10%, that’s like saying it will be in the bottom 50%. Both true, but misleading. Bush will be in the bottom 1%, scraping the sludge from the bottom. Comment by chingebush
Well, I do have a generous nature, but, with there having been 43 Presidents, 10% would mean the lowest 4 Presidents. IMO, picking the one and only worst would be difficult, although I acknowledge that starting an unnecessary war sure puts Bush in the running. Either way, Bush has been disasterous.
December 11th, 2006 at 4:16 pmBuck Fush. 70% of the population know he’s full of it; the other 30% are misinformed, automotons, delusional, or all the above.
December 11th, 2006 at 4:18 pmbush is a neurotic psychopath…so was hitler.
now, if we look at how hitler viewed history, we may learn how bush sees it as well.
in 1939, hitler spoke about genghis khan:
genghis khan, adolf hitler and george bush are all psychopathic madmen. hitler believed in 1939 that khan was perceived as a ‘great state builder’.
perhaps this was hitler’s way of justifing his actions… ‘i am going to be seen as a great state builder too’
the leap to bush is now simple. he, too, because of his sickness, justifies his massacres as merely ’sprinkling democracy through the world’.
December 11th, 2006 at 4:20 pmKucinich for President, Russ Feingold for VP (he didn’t say he wouldn’t run for VP) and Barack Obama for Sec. of State. Feingold and Obama would then be next in line after Kucinich served his two terms.
December 11th, 2006 at 4:23 pmHe may well be dead before they get it right. He certainly can not get it right whiel he is alive.
December 11th, 2006 at 4:25 pm#36 Interleukin-10
Hey hey hey, be nice to genghis … he was totally different than either hitler or bush … he went after china because of how the chinese had been playing the mongol tribes off for centuries … and he actually had a reason to invade the middle east … the Kwarzm (sp?) empire kept killing his envoys and halting trade…. oh, plus you had the pax mongolica, very beneficial to trade and inovation in europe … also, genghis was willing to adapt, while bush and hitler were not.
December 11th, 2006 at 4:29 pmAnd as for all the people genghis had killed … all the other empires were doing it at that time … his genocides are just more well known because he was actually successful.
Unfortunately, a great many other people will also be dead because of Bush, and he still will not have gotten it right.
December 11th, 2006 at 4:32 pmashen,
i admit ignorance regarding mr khan…. all i really know about him, but for the conventional wisdom, is that bob dylan mentioned him–and his brother don–in a song!
December 11th, 2006 at 4:36 pmBased on what we did to Iraq I would say we greatly reduced the likelihood that another madman antagonizes us to the point we do the same to their country. Perhaps that cowboy mentality is exactly what has prevented any attacks since 9/11 on our own soil. I know what about North Korea and Iran? Remember North Korea fired a missile over Japan and Iran is probably more peaceful to our country now than ever before. Besides, for the martyrs that will stop at nothing to destroy the U.S. let’s give them a military target nearby rather than have them come to the U.S. and do the same to civilian targets.
December 11th, 2006 at 4:36 pmTHEY?
During the presidency of George W. Bush, hundreds of thousands of people have suffered horribly and died extremely horrible deaths.
E.g., some have had their heads sawed off publically; some have been raped and sodomized; some have had their throats slit; some had to leap from buildings to avoid greater pain, etc.
Who the fuct is going to ever going to be able to find a good thing to say about this piece of sh!t Bush?
December 11th, 2006 at 4:37 pm“I’ll be dead IF they get it right.â€
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December 11th, 2006 at 4:37 pmShe has always supported Pinochet.
And where does this Alzeimer’s thing come from? It’s the first I’ve heard of it.
Comment by Prince Myshkin — December 11, 2006 @ 3:31 pm
M. Thatcher had a series of small strokes in 2000 and after making a speech about her objection to the U.K. joining the greater E.U., and saying perhaps the U.K should withdraw altogether and join NAFTA…it was “recommended by her physicians (for health reasons) that she do no more public speaking.
Apparently, she had had memory problems and so forth for awhile. After her husband died in June, she is apparently waking up in the middle of the night claiming that she has important meetings to go to as well as asking where her dead husband is.
It’s not Alzheimer’s, but apparently the result of damage from the strokes she’s had.
December 11th, 2006 at 4:37 pmI’d like to know more details of his fantasy, in the unlikely even there are any. What will transpire between now and then, what conceivable good will so impress the historians they reverse opinion? All I can imagine is that the death of millions to follow in the Islamic 30 year war of the 21st century helps aleviate our over population problem, and the loss of oil production forces us to find alternatives quicker as we hunker down to survive our next Great Depression.
That’s way too harsh for me to call it hope. I’ll wager his latest delusion doesn’t go beyond, “They’ll see I really was a great war president!”, as he reviews the thrill of his carrier photo-op, but with him piloting this time.
By the way, I’m telling Coulter and Malkin on all you nasty people.
December 11th, 2006 at 4:38 pmI have long argued that Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Rove are all sociopaths (people without a conscience who create their own reality) and megalomaniacs (people with delusional fantasies of wealth, power, or omnipotence).
Treatment of sociopaths is almost always UN-succesful. Many believe that its an incurable disease. That’s why Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld/Rove never admit mistakes and never change course.
December 11th, 2006 at 4:39 pm#3Bush must not realize that history is based on reality
Comment by AshenShard — December 11, 2006 @ 3:14 pm

And since when has THAT ever been the case?
As long as there is someone who will benefit if history is written a certain way, it will have a tendency to be written that way, regardless of the facts. It’s going to take a LONG time before anything approaching reality is written about the Bush Presidency. There will be too many different agenda’s banking on posterity seeing him in a certain light (Good and bad) Look at how long it took for the Civil War or the injustice done to the Native Americans to begin to come to light, and people are still arguing over the politics. All of the first presidents are explained differently depending on who’s doing the explaining. It will be the same with Bush. Luckily many people have grown to hate him and the general consensus is that he is a bad president. The only argument now is how bad.
But you wait.. When the Republicans are back on top, (and they will be again) posterity will begin to change its opinion of Dubya.
December 11th, 2006 at 4:42 pm“I’ll be dead when they get it right.â€
I hope we don’t have to wait too long for that. Maybe he’s inspired by Pinochet.
December 11th, 2006 at 4:42 pm45,
Yes, but as you say, this isn’t Alzeimer’s. Alzeimer’s is something different. How is her support for Pinochet- which predates 2000- affected by the Alzeimer’s/not Alzeimer’s question?
Besides, if she was senile, she would surely by disqualified from voting in the House of Lords?
By the way, could you give me a source?
December 11th, 2006 at 4:46 pm#48
History is quite different now. In the past those in power and the winners wrote it… now its a huge field… and historians are almost unanimous at this moment, bush is one of if not the worst president in US history
December 11th, 2006 at 4:47 pmThe only way GW is going to have history written the way he wants it is to get rid of all the historians.
GWB creates his own reality.
I’m pretty sure there are unicorns in there somewhere, and rainbows….maybe some pixie dust. *wink*
December 11th, 2006 at 4:48 pmrudy,
the topic of delusional disorder with comorbid alcoholism is an interesting area to study…
reading list for you:
Delusions: Investigations into the Psychology of Delusional Reasoning, Garety and Hemsley
Delusional Beliefs, Oltmanns and Maher
with his addictions and his other attachment issues, psycho-historians will be studying this maniac for decades!
December 11th, 2006 at 4:49 pmLarry from C
The Raw Story reports that Kucinich will be running for president in 2008, which means that the Democrats will finally be offering, unlike political opportunists such as Clinton, Obama, Biden, et al, a true antwar candidate running for president. It may even be possible that the Republicans will have one running also, in the person of Chuck Hagel. Bring the troops- safely- now.
December 11th, 2006 at 5:05 pmI don’t care how he’s remembered…just as long as he’s a memory.
December 11th, 2006 at 5:10 pmbush is one of if not the worst president in US history
Now, perhaps I’m a bit too close to this, but I’m having a truly difficult time imagining how President Chimpy could possibly escape being the Worst President Ever (or at very least the Worst President So Far).
Seriously…can anyone here make a cogent argument indicting any other president as worse than Bush? Bush has done more harm to this country, the rest of the world, and humanity in general than all the other ‘bad’ presidents combined.
December 11th, 2006 at 5:10 pmAny president that lowers taxes can’t be considered the worst of all time? Bush is near the top of my list.
December 11th, 2006 at 5:16 pm54 Erroll, if the Dems continue to fund the Iraq occupation then I will vote 3rd party. I will no longer support a fake opposition party, unless Kucinich or Feingold is our Presidential candidate. Unfortunately that is not likely. He cannot compete with Hillary’s money or Obama’s coolness. I do like Obama. He is my senator. Obama needs to start saying things that he currently is not saying to win my vote for President. But I will not be used again by the Democrats unless they start to deliver.
December 11th, 2006 at 5:17 pm>“I’ll be dead when they get it right.â€
Sounds like somebody needs to be put on suicide watch. Better take his shoes and belt away. Or, is he threatening to drink himself to death in the next few weeks? It sounds like “they” have Mr. Bush’s number, all right, today.
December 11th, 2006 at 5:18 pmSorry I am so late to this thread, but when did W die?
December 11th, 2006 at 5:19 pm#48
History is quite different now. In the past those in power and the winners wrote it… now its a huge field… and historians are almost unanimous at this moment, bush is one of if not the worst president in US history
The only way GW is going to have history written the way he wants it is to get rid of all the historians.
Comment by AshenShard — December 11, 2006 @ 4:47 pm
You just keep that in mind when the Republicans are saying that Bush was just misunderstood and unlucky, or they start blaming the administration or the Senate for confusing him or giving him bad advice. I give them eight or ten years before they start. Most of the documents needed to prove anything will still be classified and the Republicans will be running on the platform of “It was the right idea, but we couldn’t make it work.” The Democrats will have a scandal brewing somewhere and people who jumped off the Republican band wagon will be thinking “The Repubs aren’t so bad really.” By the time anyone gets around to an impartial look at the Bush Presidency, everyone will have made up their minds, and by the time we’re all dead and it’s no longer personal, evidence will be lost, misinterpreted and shoved in a drawer somewhere that no one thought to label. 9/11 will have the same air of ‘mystery’ that the JFK assasination and Pearl Harbour and the Lusitania have, and by association the Bush Presidency will be kind of a football game where no one doubts the final score but everyone argues about why and how.
Yeah.. I see truth coming out of that. Sure thing.
December 11th, 2006 at 5:22 pm1 Delusions of grandeur….
It’s more like delusions of adequacy!
December 11th, 2006 at 5:22 pm“I’ll be dead when they get it right.”
**sniff** Waaaaaah!!!
Poor Georgie, time to go eat a worm…
December 11th, 2006 at 5:23 pmDelusions of grandeur….
It’s more like delusions of adequacy!
December 11th, 2006 at 5:25 pmbush is one of if not the worst president in US history
Now, perhaps I’m a bit too close to this, but I’m having a truly difficult time imagining how President Chimpy could possibly escape being the Worst President Ever (or at very least the Worst President So Far).
Seriously…can anyone here make a cogent argument indicting any other president as worse than Bush? Bush has done more harm to this country, the rest of the world, and humanity in general than all the other ‘bad’ presidents combined.
Comment by TripMaster Monkey — December 11, 2006 @ 5:10 pm
I’m satisfied that he is the worst president of the millenium. That is a fact that can’t be argued, not by the most rabid Republican :)
December 11th, 2006 at 5:25 pmHe actually compared himself to Harry “the buck stops here” Truman. The president whose commission craked down on war profiteers. The intensity of the irony bent the fabric of space-time for a short period.
December 11th, 2006 at 5:28 pm57, The unnecessary Iraq War/Occupation has cost 500 Billion. That’s a tax increase. And estimates are that it will reach 2 Trillion. That’s a tax increase.
The drug companies wrote the medicare prescription bill and as a result get to sell their drugs at full price. The program will cost 1.2 trillion. If they were forced to negotiate the cost of their drugs the program would’ve cost HALF. That’s a 600 Billion $$ tax increase.
Since capturing the Iraq oil fields the price a a barrel of crude has skyrocketed. When Clinton was Pres. crude was as low as $18 a barrel. Iraqi oil production is now lower than under Saddam Hussein. By slowing the flow of oil the price has been manipulated upward. This has cost America and the world untold billions of $$$. This is a tax increase.
December 11th, 2006 at 5:29 pmI could go on and on.
65,
Fair point, but the very fact that he is the worst president means that for a certain type of republican he is the best president.
Although that said he hasn’t exactly got many of the extreme right objectives acheived.
I think he’ll go down as an obsessive lover of big business controlled by neo cons in terms of foreign policy.
December 11th, 2006 at 5:36 pmSo, if Bush commits hari-kari, perhaps they’ll get it right immediately!
Mr. President, I think it’s worth the risk!
December 11th, 2006 at 5:39 pmFor once, just once, I’d like to be able to hack into that wire on his back.
See how long it took for him to realize I made him promise, before the press, to withdraw all the troops from Iraq immediately.
December 11th, 2006 at 5:41 pmBush’s comment is highly typical of his behaviour his entire life. He believes himself to be right, completely regardless of the facts. And as usual, he refuses to take any responsibility ever.
Its easy for him to continue like this, regardless of reality, because he believes long after he is dead, people will look back and think of him as a historical hero. He couldn’t care less what happens now, when he is alive and his policies are having a serious negative affect, because he believes the real truth will come out…love after he has to worry about it.
Why should he worry if history thinks he is the worst president ever? He’ll be long dead by then. It’s not his problem. Somebody else can clean up his mess and he can continue resting perpetually in his own ignorance. Our only hope to get through Bush’s dense “bubble” is if there actually IS a hell.
December 11th, 2006 at 5:46 pm#42 Fever
You should think that through a little bit more.
Based on what we did to Iraq I would say we greatly reduced the likelihood that another madman antagonizes us to the point we do the same to their country.
Saddam didn’t make us do that to his country. Bush used Saddam as an excuse for an invasion that he had been planning all along. There was no threat. What we did to Iraq taught others a valuable lesson: “Don’t bluff. In order to prevent a pre-emptive strike from Bush, show him a very real counter threat (nukes).”
Besides, for the martyrs that will stop at nothing to destroy the U.S. let’s give them a military target nearby rather than have them come to the U.S. and do the same to civilian targets.
Where’s the deterrent? You say “give them a military target rather than have them come to the U.S.” How is that directing their behavior? What is it about having our troops in Iraq that would keep terrorists from attempting to strike in or at the U.S.? That’s like saying that if I put a ten dollar bill on my neighbor’s doorstep, it will keep my house from getting robbed. There’s no connection. Besides, you said it yourself — “martyrs that will stop at nothing to destroy the U.S.”
December 11th, 2006 at 5:48 pmIs it just me, or is he sounding more and more like Nixon towards the end of his presidency (if you could call it that)?
Comment by wags
I hated Nixon, but I must admit that he got a few things right, such as leading the way to diplomatic relations with China. Also, he enacted some environmental regulations, which were a bit ahead for his times( and all of which Dumbya has been trying to do away with). By contrast, it’s hard to think of anything this president got right.
December 11th, 2006 at 5:50 pmThis would be an admirable show of confidence if he wasn’t so utterly, completely wrong about everything.
December 11th, 2006 at 5:51 pmSo let me get this strait…
Bush doesn’t care about “now” except in the context of “now” later becoming “then”. He is convinced that only viewing “now” as “now” is not as sufficient as viewing “now” as “then” will be at proving that he cared about “now” by not caring about “now”, except in the context of “now” becoming “then”.
Is that about it? ugh.
December 11th, 2006 at 6:15 pmAny president that lowers taxes can’t be considered the worst of all time? Bush is near the top of my list.
Comment by Fever — December 11, 2006 @ 5:16 pm
Any president that borrows money to fight an illegal war then leaves it to the next generation to pay for is near the top of my shit list.
I’m glad to hear he’s near the top of your list of worst of all time too.
December 11th, 2006 at 6:20 pmI hate that bastard.
Comment by Uncle_Ho
Tell us how you really feel, Uncle Ho!
December 11th, 2006 at 6:24 pmDon’t hold back on us now!
Earth to BUsh: We have a pretty damn good idea what your legacy is.
December 11th, 2006 at 6:29 pmTwo Pint Caligula thinks he’s Truman?
Chimpy we’ve already got your legacy right, please proceed to keep your side of the agreement – as soon as possible.
December 11th, 2006 at 6:29 pmI to am reminded of Richard Nixon stating emphatically:
December 11th, 2006 at 6:31 pm“I’m not a crook!”
Not that G.Dubious deserves any, but, mercifully, he will be gone by the time matters right themselves…
I can just picture his waning years, furiously biking along the dung strewn cowpaths of Crawford, much the same as tricky Dicky took his sad lonely walks down the beach at San Clemente…….
It was Fidel Castro who spoke at his trial in 1953,
December 11th, 2006 at 6:32 pm
Hiya zooey! :)
December 11th, 2006 at 6:41 pmW is the gift that keeps on giving and he’ll do so from six feet under cuz he’s burying the Rthugs with him.
December 11th, 2006 at 6:43 pmHistory won’t absolve Fidel, either.
December 11th, 2006 at 6:45 pmRaven (81),
December 11th, 2006 at 6:45 pmSorry, I doubt you’ll see Bush grow old in Crawford. He bougth the ranch in 1999 on Rove’s advice as an election prop. The frat-boy in chief ain’t going to hangout in the boonies cause the isn’t going to be a line of folks willing to make there way to Crawford to kiss his ass once he’s done and gone.
On Monday, Democrats began to pay the price for the ongoing feud between Californians Nancy Pelosi and Jane Harman. In one of the first tests of her leadership, Speaker Pelosi bypassed Harman in favor of Texan Silvestre Reyes to head the House Intelligence Committee. Sadly Reyes, like candidate George W. Bush before him, failed his first test on foreign affairs.
For the comparison, see:
December 11th, 2006 at 6:55 pm“Reyes Joins Bush in Failing Foreign Affairs 101.”
Speaking of W’s passing, I wonder if any military personnel will attend the funeral.
December 11th, 2006 at 7:08 pmI don’t believe this is the real Zooey. Someone else posting under that name. This Zooey is not making sense.
December 11th, 2006 at 7:17 pmHi, Uncle Ho,
How’s it going?
–The Real Zooey
BTW: #83, 88 & 89 were not written by me. There’s a flaccid troll playing games again.
December 11th, 2006 at 7:19 pmmeaning Bush will be long gone when the full truth is finally known.
December 11th, 2006 at 7:20 pmmeaning bush will be long gone when high crimes and misdemeanors are brought to the fullest glare of scrutiny.
anything else that happens between now and then…..so what.
December 11th, 2006 at 7:23 pmHistory is written by the winners, baby. So let’s not count our chickens just yet. Ronald Regan is a hero don’t forget.
December 11th, 2006 at 7:31 pmHe should get on his horse and ride out of town. Cowboys don’t play games. Bush is a fool and more, lot more.
December 11th, 2006 at 7:36 pmBush has gone to Never Never Land. And it doesn’t look like Bush is returning.
December 11th, 2006 at 7:36 pmDead dead or brain dead? If the latter it’s come sooner than he ‘thinks’
December 11th, 2006 at 7:43 pmPastor Doodah
own it
December 11th, 2006 at 7:44 pmComment by Uncle_Ho — December 11, 2006 @ 7:35 pm
Not Uncle Ho.
December 11th, 2006 at 7:44 pm#
45,
Yes, but as you say, this isn’t Alzeimer’s. Alzeimer’s is something different. How is her support for Pinochet- which predates 2000- affected by the Alzeimer’s/not Alzeimer’s question?
Besides, if she was senile, she would surely by disqualified from voting in the House of Lords?
By the way, could you give me a source?
Comment by Prince Myshkin — December 11, 2006 @ 4:46 pm
I’ll give you several links. And yes, her support of Pinochet proceeded her strokes. I think her more bizaare behavior has only come to light recently (Oct. 2006). One would think senility would rule against voting in the House of Lords. But there have obviously been questions about how intact Reagan was during his last few years in the Presidency. And we’ve certainly all heard the “rumors” about Bush’s erratic behavior. Political considerations create an allowance for rather dangerous people to be in or remain in power sometimes.
n 2002, she published Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World detailing her thoughts on international relations since her resignation in 1990. The chapters on the European Union were particularly controversial; she called for a fundamental renegotiation of Britain’s membership to preserve the UK’s sovereignty and, if that failed, for Britain to leave and join NAFTA. These chapters were serialised in The Times on Monday, 18 March and caused a political furore for the rest of the week until Friday, 22 March when it was announced she had been advised by her doctors to make no more public speeches on health grounds, having suffered several small strokes.[15]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher
Lady Margaret Thatcher, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, is apparently in failing health according to insiders. Thatcher has apprently been waking up at 2 AM, getting dressed and summoning her bodyguards to escort her to her next meeting. Thatcher also asks where her dead husband is.
http://www.seriouslythough.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=708
Earlier this week it was announced that Lady Thatcher had been told by doctors to cancel her forthcoming engagements after she complained of feeling ill on Tuesday morning.
Her office said then that the Conservative peer had been advised to “take things easy” but there was no question of her needing to go to hospital.
The news comes in the week the ex-premier stirred political controversy by urging a British retreat from parts of the European Union.
There were reports this month that Lady Thatcher is planning to withdraw from public life at the end of this year.
The Sunday Express newspaper said she had been experiencing problems with concentration, short-term memory and hearing.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/1888094.stm
December 11th, 2006 at 7:55 pmI am just too curious what history will say about President Bush after he is dead. I hope it will be soon so I will know.
December 11th, 2006 at 7:58 pmNo, that was my fifth ex-husband. Prove you’re JPark.
December 11th, 2006 at 8:00 pmI hate flaccid trolls.
December 11th, 2006 at 8:03 pmElmo is a genious compared to Bush>
December 11th, 2006 at 8:05 pmBy Shrubbies estimation, he should already be dead, cause, my dear fellow Texan, your legacy is already HORRIBLE, and that is THE correct view.
December 11th, 2006 at 8:05 pmNot JPark either.
December 11th, 2006 at 8:10 pm“still resolutely defiant, convinced history will ultimately vindicate him.â€
Yeah, in other words he’s a jerk and he’s crackers.
December 11th, 2006 at 8:12 pmThis thread is trashed by trolls.
Later, morons.
The Real Zooey
December 11th, 2006 at 8:22 pmI’m surprised he is even aware that he’s going to die. Seems to think he’s immortal most days…
December 11th, 2006 at 8:26 pmRonald Regan is a hero don’t forget.
Comment by Pastor Doodah
Reagan was a traitor. He sold weapons to the same terrorists who held Americans hostage. His cowardly actions actually spurred more hostage-taking, as he was telling the American people “we don’t negotiate with terrorists.”
December 11th, 2006 at 8:27 pmOh man! We have a mole here!!! –I saw this on a Knots Landing once…
Comment by NOTunbelievable — December 11, 2006 @ 8:18 pm
Oh great… some ten year old isn’t being supervised by his Mommy and Daddy again…
Knots Landing? The only way I’d ever watch that garbage is if I were DEAD.
December 11th, 2006 at 8:29 pmThis thread is trashed by trolls.
Comment by Zooey — December 11, 2006 @ 8:22 pm
I guess this is all they have left? Third grade tactics?
Good thing we can’t smell in here – I’m sure this one would be passing gas like crazy…
December 11th, 2006 at 8:30 pmThat’s not the real ForTruth, either.
December 11th, 2006 at 8:34 pmBush prounounced ‘vilify’ as ‘vindicated’. How odd.
=my2c
BC
December 11th, 2006 at 8:38 pmComment by Judd — December 11, 2006 @ 8:39 pm
Not Judd.
December 11th, 2006 at 8:43 pmI’ve already written Judd. Maybe you could too?
Comment by Zooey — December 11, 2006 @ 8:33 pm
Will do… Though I gotta imagine pretending to be Judd himself will get this troll thrown under a very big bus… :D
I think the goal is to chase us away. we can’t let it.
December 11th, 2006 at 8:43 pmThe New York Times has had a picture of Bush, Cheney, and Rice up all day on its site. They all look somewhere between awful and desperate.
December 11th, 2006 at 8:45 pmOkay Zoo, I sent Judd a message…
December 11th, 2006 at 8:48 pmThanks, unbelievable.
December 11th, 2006 at 8:53 pmThanks, unbelievable.
Comment by Zooey — December 11, 2006 @ 8:53 pm
Anytime
December 11th, 2006 at 9:04 pmIs there such a thing as a blog dictator?
Comment by NOTJudd — December 11, 2006 @ 8:53 pm
You tell us in about 5 minutes…
December 11th, 2006 at 9:08 pmOh, big man. 5 minutes uh?…
Comment by REALunbelievable — December 11, 2006 @ 9:11 pm
I’m not a man.
Fine, Judd’s not home… But you won’t last. He’s cleared vermin bigger than you.
Later (hopefully NOT)…
December 11th, 2006 at 9:33 pmAngie’s really a hooker on Peachtree St., who fantasizes about the stores she hangs around, looking for Johns. Do you “do them” in the fitting rooms, Angie?
December 11th, 2006 at 9:35 pmBut apparently teaching you how to spell waste is a very necessary part of my being here…
Unbelieveable;
It’s Crackpot Angie. She was using the same lame waist/waste joke on another thread with Zooey.
December 11th, 2006 at 9:46 pmHow much ‘ya charge for a hummer, Angie?
December 11th, 2006 at 9:49 pmIt’s Crackpot Angie. She was using the same lame waist/waste joke on another thread with Zooey.
Comment by barfly
Actually, that was me. I was making fun of the troll’s comment here. :}
December 11th, 2006 at 9:52 pm[...] Evidently I’m not the only one with a tenuous grip on reality. I always wondered what it was like to be politically aware during the horrific, bedraggled end of the Nixon presidency, when Nixon really hit his nadir, talking to Jack Kennedy’s portrait and praying with Kissinger. Now I know. Add to: Bloglines | document.write(”Del.icio.us”) | Digg it | +Google | Y! MyWeb [...]
December 11th, 2006 at 10:19 pmWonderful Morons stealing people’s names. Great.
December 11th, 2006 at 10:33 pmThere are postings here that are not mine along with trolls using others names. Get a life trolls, at least be man enough to use your own names.
December 11th, 2006 at 10:58 pmHE CUT & RUN FROM REALITY A LONG TIME AGO!!!!!
December 11th, 2006 at 10:58 pmWith all the stuff that’s uncovered so far and he’s still breathing…must mean there’s more crimes to be discovered.
December 11th, 2006 at 11:58 pmOk, ok, ok, Im getting it right…right now!!!
P.S. Uncle_ho and Zoo…dont worry. We recognize you easily. :)
December 12th, 2006 at 12:13 am“I’ll be dead when they get it right.â€
should obviously read.. they will get it right and i should be dead.
December 12th, 2006 at 1:58 am“I’ll be dead when they get it right.â€
– President Bush,
I am glad that boy is not from my womb.
December 12th, 2006 at 5:25 amThank you Juan C. & Zooey.
December 12th, 2006 at 7:36 amThank you Juan C. & Zooey.
Comment by Uncle_Ho
Thanks guys.
Thanks Judd & crew!
December 12th, 2006 at 11:06 amTuesday News Roundup…
- According to TV Squad, Rick Santorum may join the talking heads on Faux News. As if I needed another reason not to watch that network! – I know you’re overjoyed that ex-Enron chief Skilling won’t have to go to……
December 12th, 2006 at 12:58 pmWon’t Bush actually have to accomplish something positive DURING is time in office, or at least set the stage for a positive outcome that isn’t 20 years down the road? I guess that delusional dimwit better get crackin’ because from here it looks like he’s going down as one of the 5 worst presidents in history. Ouch.
December 12th, 2006 at 2:05 pmThatcher did not go far enough about Pinochet: he killed 3000 Communists, got the economy back on track, and then relinquished power — a public servant of the highest order.
December 12th, 2006 at 2:56 pmJesus, what a jerkoff Bush is. You’re alive, fool. We got it right. A lot of lives have been lost and ruined because you’re a complete idiot. Even if Iraq is stable and peaceful 20 years from now, like Vietnam, it will be despite what you’ve done, not because.
It is somewhat understandable, his delusions. I’m sure most of us would have trouble living with such knowledge. But then most of us would have done more than pray to the voices in our heads before unleashing death and destruction on a stovepiped hunch.
December 12th, 2006 at 3:57 pm