Recently a Bush supporter asked me “So which is it? Is the President an idiot or a genius.” The idea being to paint the Presidents critic’s into a corner either he’s a genius and we were all wrong before or he’s an idiot and we are all wrong now.
But the short answer is the President is neither he’s a psychopath.

A psychopath is mentally ill but believes he is smarter than everyone else, they live in their own alternate reality. Like Geppetto they live alone in the woods and dream of having a friend but instead of going out and making friends they go into the workshop and build one. Then they hope and hope with all their might that it might be so and then presto changeo the boy’s alive!

But no, he’s not, he’s still just a piece of wood carved and painted to look like a boy. To Geppetto’s mind however he is quite alive and Geppetto thinks, “I must be the greatest wood carver in the whole world I can carve wood into a real little boy.” The clues are obvious if you look for them, why would a lonely man living alone in the woods want to carve a little boy? Why is it that when that little boy, that carved block of wood tells a lie it is the boy’s appendages that grow? You see Geppetto was neither fool nor genius Geppetto was a sick puppy.

Our own Geppetto is knee deep in wood chips happily carving away all the livelong day. He sends his puppets to testify on Capital hill, “General Pinnocio you say the situation in Iraq is improving and that the surge is working?” But as the puppet lays limp on the table a voice that sounds strangely just like George W. Bush in falsetto answers. “That’s right Senator it’s going sooo good that the surge that was supposed to be only temporary is going to be extended till at least next year.”

“General your testimony hasn’t been influenced by the White House has it?”

“Oh no! Senator,” the falsetto voice replies, “these strings are the latest style.”

Serious people, sane people mainly ask themselves, “They can’t be serious.”
Yet they are and in case you don’t believe one puppet they send two. To corroborate the testimony of a pentagon puppet they send a White House puppet but they all speak with the same falsetto Texas twang. Geppeto watches from his wood shop and slaps his knee’s saying that’s working great!

To this great deliberative body Geppetto sends hand carved puppets to give their honest assessment and they pass Senate muster. However in reality they are two wooden puppets laying limp on the desk and didn’t make a sound that didn’t come from Gepetto’s lips.

The wood carver had promised us explanations and sends instead two chunks of carved wood and the Senators thanked them for their candor. Were it not so serious I’d think they were just humoring the old wood carver but this august body includes Larry Craig of who it can be said, “of all the Charlie Brown’s on Capital hill you’re the Charlie Browniest.” As if his decision-making abilities hadn’t already been called into question Craig has now decided to fight his guilty conviction.

Craig mistakes sympathy for support, Charlie Brown gives up 10 runs and drops a fly ball but when Linus says, “That’s alright Charlie Brown” Craig thinks maybe I am a good ball player after all? Craig can’t tell the difference between a wooden puppet and a sap. Maybe because the puppet show has been going on for so long now we accept the foolish as sensible and knotty pine as oak and woodenheaded puppets as leaders.

But Geppetto has help he can’t pull all the strings by himself, not one media outlet had the courage to say, “Those are nothing more than wooden puppets and that’s George Bush’s voice!” Maybe the media just doesn’t recognize one of their own? Most all major media outlets as well are run by the same wooden headed puppets and as their ratings slide and their readership declines they ponder how can we fix this? Real investigative reporting? Tell more of the truth? No, more cleavage and change her hair.

I know, we’ll let six million people submit their own questions then we will select the questions we were going to ask anyway and we’ll call it the You Boob Debates and then we’ll let someone fair and non partisan moderate it like Wolf Blitzer!

But they know, they know the difference between brainpower and balsa as illustrated by Michael Moore’s solid drubbing of Wolfie and Sanjay Gupta.
Moore exposed the strings and Sanjay’s been staying at Robert Novak’s house ever since. Because once the strings are exposed or flaws in the puppet appear the puppet it is trashed and Geppetto starts again. Six months ago when Donald Rumsfeld resigned all America wanted to know why and now we know, he was a bad puppet. Rumsfeld had given a list to Geppetto of everything that could go wrong in Iraq.

Did the President respond to the list? “No” Do you miss working with the President? “No” When was the last time you spoke with the President? “I don’t remember.” A psychopath will invent the most fantastic story about train wrecks and space aliens to keep from admitting even a minor mistake. Geppetto may love his puppets but not more than he loves Geppetto. After all wood is inexpensive and it’s easier for Geppetto to just make a new one than listen to them.

That’s the scary part of this, a psychopath sees real flesh and blood humans as just things. Things to do his bidding and when he’s finished with them or they don’t perform as ordered he throws them away like scrap wood. Tens hundreds and thousands if need be Geppetto is indeed a sick puppy and needs to be removed to the old wood carver’s home. This is far from a fairy tale this is a nightmare where instead of a harmless old man dreaming of making wooden boys become real a real monster makes real boys dead and doesn’t care any more about it than a block of wood.

Brilliant non-argument. If theres nothing to hide, why not take an oath to give the testimony more weight?

We already know Betrayus lied, look at the glowing report card he gave the Iraq situation 6 weeks before the 2004 election…sounds exactly like what hes saying now.. what a shock.. the dude is a total stooge, kudos to DantheCaveman for posting that list of generals fired for not towing the administration line, I’d love to see a troll adress that..they never will..

dude.. the dems could have really made him look like a fool by starting to swear him in, then watch him stammer and stutter on live tv by saying..
“b-b-u-t you said I didnt have to take an oath”?

also, they could have nailed him by asking him to name ONE thing that he disagreed with the bush administration about, regarding the current iraq situation…

another lost chance for the dems to make a bush crony look like a fool.. go figure..

“Iraq’s parliament has reconvened after a month-long summer break under pressure from Washington to take up key benchmark legislation.

The session opened on Tuesday with 158 members of 275 present – enough to form quorum, but the agenda was not immediately announced.”

I keep hearing Crocker and Petraeus (and our own Congress) refer to the Iraqi government as if it were a solid, functioning body. Last I looked, the government has essentially crumbled and disbanded. Who is there to take any action toward “political reconciliation?”

You wanted stuff that indicates that President Bush may be making an unprecedented power grab to become the dictator of the United states of America.

The first link is a link which describes the National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive which was issued quietly by the president on May 9, 2007.

The second link describes how a July 17th, 2007 Executive Order can be used against peace activists or anyone who dissents from the President’s policy.

I never would have thought that this country could become a dictatorship a couple years ago; however, current events, the President’s insistence to do what he wants regardless of the consequences, and these two scary orders issued by our President has me a little worried.

I hope this helps.

i was talking to a middle-road brother (with a dem wife) about how close this country is to becoming a dictatorship and i could tell he was mostly being polite and humoring me…

i would like to send a link to the proof of what i’m talking about…
i have seen some youtubes and other copy, all great, but i want something that can capture and hold a busy executive mind…

something succinct and gripping…

any ideas? please, and thank you!
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And the Bush gang really really do cook the books in an effort to further manipulate us into sacrificing more of our young men and women.

In out system of justice, the jury (we) decides guilt or innocence, or assigns blame… not the defendant.

The Bush administration is the defendant (and Patraeus is his witness)

“their testimony before House members was hearsay and lies.”

Comment by Jay Randal — September 11, 2007 @ 11:06 am

no-oath means you “can” lie with impunity!

Comment by Democrat Soldier — September 11, 2007 @ 11:32 am

But it doesn’t mean that they would.

Clearly more Democrat than Soldier if you’re going to support Jay Randals slurs against a US General.

Not many know that Petraeus WAS NOT sworn in yesterday … and when a CIA agent
yelled out “Swear Him In!” – he was expelled from yesterday’s hearing..
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/091007a.html

and what the media did not report….

The United States has not had a Legitimate Justice Department since 2000.
The United States has not had a Legitimate Government since 2000.

Gen. Westmoreland, anyone?

“The lack of a sworn oath does not change a truthful statement into a lie.” Comment by r — September 11, 2007 @ 11:22 am

The lack of a swrn oath does mean that lies cannot be refuted with charges of perjury. Ask right-whiner Mighty Aphrodite about perjury! SHe’ll be able to tell you that no-oath means you can lie with impunity!

Comment by Democrat Soldier — September 11, 2007 @ 11:05 am

ethnic cleansing is only important if oil is involved (or if you need an excuse to distract people from the fact you totally fu(ked up another country and have no way to fix it)

Comment by Jay Randal — September 11, 2007 @ 11:06 am

I wouldn’t expect you to understand the honor and integrity that a military general brings to the table. The lack of a sworn oath does not change a truthful statement into a lie.

Sheesh.

Oh, no! They’re doing it troll-style!
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The only argument for continuing this occupation has been apocalyptic and catastrophic hypothetical scenarios. They are not based on any good facts, hard evidence or historical perspective. I say that the cost is too great for both the US and the Iraqis to stay. My proof is that most of the violence in Iraq is against the United States of America – move us out of the equation, and the Iraqis can start working out their differences.

Really what it comes down to is that everything above – whether the “surge” is working or not is irrelevant. The fact is the Iraqis want us out of their country. We have no right or authority to stay in a country when the whole country (including the government we set up!) wants us out.

In addition to lying us into this occupation, mishandling EVERY step along the way, making tons of money on the blood of the American Military and Iraqi civilians, this administration has refused, from DAY ONE, to commit the necessary resources and ask the American public to sacrifice – No draft to give our troops a break and sustain necessary troop levels. No taxes to pay for this occupation. No conservation or civilian contributions to the “war” effort. Even worse, they neglect our troops when they get home.

There is a reason they don’t ask the American people to sacrifice – because many of the cowards that are cheer leading on the sidelines will change their tune when they have the lives of those they care about at stake. It will no longer be worth it. If it is not worth the American people to sacrifice (whether they have to or not) then it is not worth the military to fight.

IMPEACH, IMPRISON, and stop this NeoCON Nightmare.

Again you show your ignorance. You a one sick f*ck.