“I get this feeling, a gut feeling, right here.”

Pass some gun laws to save the youth in Philadelphia.
They killed 5 more young men last night.
Iknow they’re killing themselves but if this wre white kids someone would do something

What matters for his supporters is that he says SOMETHING … kinda like the adults in a “Peanuts” special … so they can nod their heads and feel comforted.

Pointing out the fact that he is lying about the benchmarks is of course helpful, but it won’t persuade his core … such as the trolls I see here (above). We can hope the rational middle will notice.

However, judging from what Bush claims as “satisfactory” one is led to believe Laura must be one of the most “unsatisfied” women on the planet!

Comment by Flaco — July 12, 2007 @ 5:33 pm

hey flacco i told you the other day – al qaeda are going after iran – so bush and ahmadinyjinnydmameladd or whatever his name is will be side by side in combat against this evil menace!! – and israel will do nothing as usual except maybe blow up some lebanese people and then the iraqis will get really pissed that bush and amenjin….the iranian guy are buddied up and they’ll call him a bad name and then chimpy will go at the i-rackies with some shock and awe and basically the 51st state will be born in the middle east…..right??

Maybe that’s Bush’s problem. He should wear a Reagan cardboard cutout.

I guess we’re lucky. So far, he’s not wearing a winter coat or pushing a shopping cart when it’s 95 degrees outside. What will we do when that day arrives?

Hardly anyone acknowledged that Raygun had Altzheimers during his second term. Even though he did. The cardboard cutout continued to function as if all was just hunky dorry.

Were I a praying man I would be on my knees 24/7 beseeching god to intervene before Bush’s megalomania sets the whole world on fire.

In Glenn Greenwald’s new book, “A Tragic Legacy,” he states:

“A failed lame-duck president, with nothing to lose, can either accept his impotence and passively muddle through the remainder of his term or do the opposite-move furiously forward on an extremist course, free of the constraints of facing the electorate again and convinced that he is on the side of Good and Right. Such a conviction can lead to the belief that his unpopularity is not an impediment, but a challenge, even a calling, to demonstrate his resolve and commitment by persisting even more tenaciously in the face of almost universal opposition.

… when one is rejected and condemned by contemporary opinion, a temptation arises to reject that contemporary opinion as misguided and worthless. One instead seeks refuge in other less hostile metrics of success-universal moral standards, or the judgment of a Supreme Being, or the future vindication of history.

It has long been evident that the president’s worldview compels such refuge. The rightness of his actions are determined not by public opinion polls or editorials or even empirical evidence but instead by adherence to what he perceives to be objectively moral notions of Right and Wrong, Good and Evil… his calling is to wage war against Evil on behalf of Good-as he conceives those concepts-and he will not be deterred in that mission, not even slightly by pragmatic impediments, whether they be political pressures, resource constraints, ongoing failures, or the objections of American citizens.”

This is a pretty good assessment of Bush, what he does and the psychology that drives him. If we accept Greenwald’s view as accurate, then all of Bush’s lies, distortions and actions not only fall nicely into place, but are good predictors of his future actions, lies and distortions. This thread article falls right into “the future vindication of history,” refuge. The fantasy that 8 of 18 shows success. That Good is winning and we are making progress against the forces of Evil.

It is both very sad and profoundly frightening that we are represented by a megalomaniacal dry drunk, who is living out his unresolved emotional problems, with his hands on the nuclear button.
I curse the day that Bush “found God” through Billy Graham, on the beach in the mid 80s. His distorted vision of Good vs Evil has cost hundreds of thousands of dead and wounded, with more yet to come. What a black era in our history.

18 months… Its going to be a long 18 months…

Bush’s mental illness is quite obvious now. With each passing month, he has this distant far away look. I don’t know if other people see but I see it. I’m not a mental health professional but I just sense something is wrong. Sometimes mental illness is not obvious and sometimes it is.

I guess we’re lucky. So far, he’s not wearing a winter coat or pushing a shopping cart when it’s 95 degrees outside. What will we do when that day arrives? That’s when we all start drinking and become alcoholics.

18 U.S.C. Sec. 1515(b): As used in section 1505, the term “corruptly” means acting with an improper purpose, personally or by influencing another, including … withholding, [or] concealing … information.

By advising Harriet Miers not to show up, fearless leader violated these two statutes. Felonies. Remember Watergate! Impeach now!

“And a year from now, I’ll be very surprised if there is not some grand square in Baghdad that is named after President Bush. There is no doubt that, with the exception of a very small number of people close to a vicious regime, the people of Iraq have been liberated and they understand that they’ve been liberated. And it is getting easier every day for Iraqis to express that sense of liberation.”

The new report states that none of the beloved “benchmarks” have been met by al Maliki and Co., yet Bush sees nothing but splending news.