Vicente Fox: Bush is the ‘cockiest guy I have ever met.’
By on Sep 17th, 2007 at 12:21 pm
Vicente Fox: Bush is the ‘cockiest guy I have ever met.’
In his new book out Oct. 4, former Mexican President Vicente Fox calls President Bush “the cockiest guy I have ever met in my life.” He also rates Bush’s Spanish skills as “grade-school” level and writes, “I can’t honestly say that I had ever seen George W. Bush getting to the White House.”
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Bush’s English is grade-school level too, so that’s consistent.
September 17th, 2007 at 12:23 pm“I can’t honestly say that I had ever seen George W. Bush getting to the White House.â€
The Gentleman is very astute, unfortunately, he is also wring.
September 17th, 2007 at 12:24 pmSo was I: try wrong.
September 17th, 2007 at 12:25 pmVincente - read some HL Menckhen - all will become clear to you….
September 17th, 2007 at 12:26 pmCaption: OK! it was me that peed on your taco.
September 17th, 2007 at 12:27 pmCaption Contest!
George: Your speech lasted too long and I drank too much. Mind if I use your podium for a minute?
Vincente: Must you hit my shoe top too?
September 17th, 2007 at 12:28 pmwhat is amazing is the fact that Bush was elected at all, much less twice!! ( ok, selected by the SCOTUS the first time ).
That he was re-elected speaks volumes about the average American
September 17th, 2007 at 12:29 pmdumbassvoter.Actually, I think the translation got screwed up.
President Fox was actually just calling Bush a dick.
September 17th, 2007 at 12:30 pmOkay Vinnie now tell us something we don’t know.
September 17th, 2007 at 12:31 pmA little to late Fox…. We knew this a long time ago.
September 17th, 2007 at 12:32 pmHe should be cocky — he’s never had to do or earn an F’ing thing for himself his whole life. Even the most powerful position in the world was handed to him. Oblivious privileged kids like shrub don’t know anything but cocky.
September 17th, 2007 at 12:32 pmEven Bush’s buddies are sick of him.
September 17th, 2007 at 12:34 pmNot that I’m a big fan of Bush, cuz Bush is an idiot, but really, who cares what Vicante Fox has to say about Bush?
How about you take care of YOUR country first?
September 17th, 2007 at 12:35 pmSo was I: try wrong.
Comment by Clyde the Ripper — September 17, 2007 @ 12:25 pm
it was funny as it was. sort of fitting.
September 17th, 2007 at 12:35 pmAnd that my friends is the overwhelming view of most thinking people who live outside the US. The US citizens are blind to most of the obvious because Bush has divided the country like never before. “You are either with us or against us”. People who don’t have to live in fear for their beliefs can think clearly about the damage across the planet. It will take America a long time to face the reality of this administration. Some, I’m afraid, will never see that reality.
September 17th, 2007 at 12:36 pmWhat do you expect for a drunk coked out boy-loving frat-boy?
September 17th, 2007 at 12:37 pmCaption Contest: My eyes adore you.
The man’s command of the English languauge isn’t even grade level so his Spanish should be exemplary?
September 17th, 2007 at 12:37 pmA cocky SOB, and an idiot at that. Great to hear Fox say it.
September 17th, 2007 at 12:39 pmThe Mexicans strike back!
Funny as hell.
Maybe we can outsource Chimpy to Guadalajara and hire Vicente Fox at 1/3rd the cost of Bushy.
-GSD
September 17th, 2007 at 12:42 pmyou know when someone as macho as Fox calls you cocky you’ve got an attitude problem
September 17th, 2007 at 12:42 pmDavid Rubenstein, co-founder and managing director of the Carlyle Group put George Bush on the board of directors as a favor to his dad. He fired Bush because he did nothing for 3 years but show up at board meetings and tell dirty jokes. Rubenstein said that if someone had named a list of 25 million people who might become President, he wouldn’t have thought that Bush would have appeared on that list:
“…Rubenstein said, “We put [Bush] on the board and [he] spent three years. Came to all the meetings. Told a lot of jokes. Not that many clean ones. And after a while I kind of said to him, after about three years - you know, I’m not sure this is really for you. Maybe you should do something else. Because I don’t think you’re adding that much value to the board. You don’t know that much about the company.
Rubenstein continued: “He said, well I think I’m getting out of this business anyway. And I don’t really like it that much. So I’m probably going to resign from the board. And I said, thanks - didn’t think I’d ever see him again. His name is George W. Bush. He became President of the United States. So you know if you said to me, name 25 million people who would maybe be President of the United States, he wouldn’t have been in that category. So you never know. Anyway, I haven’t been invited to the White House for any things.”
September 17th, 2007 at 12:43 pmFinally! A Fox that’s fair and balanced.
September 17th, 2007 at 12:45 pmHahahahahahahah…
“I can’t honestly say that I had ever seen George W. Bush getting to the White House.”
To be honest, we didn’t see Fox getting to the Mexican Presidency either but hey, that’s life for you.
(And yes, I voted for Fox)
September 17th, 2007 at 12:48 pmFox is just pissed because he’s running a third-world country and his “constituents” would rather come here and be governed under better U.S. law rather than Mexico’s laws.
September 17th, 2007 at 12:51 pmA case in point for why we have it better here, Bush or no.
Grade-school-level Spanish? They’re teaching foreign languages in elementary school now? I didn’t have it until junior high.
September 17th, 2007 at 12:51 pmNot that I’m a big fan of Bush, cuz Bush is an idiot, but really, who cares what Vicante Fox has to say about Bush?
How about you take care of YOUR country first?
Comment by Politicians Suq — September 17, 2007 @ 12:35 pm
Dude…
September 17th, 2007 at 12:51 pm1- It’s Vicente, not Vicante.
2- Fox is no longer president so he hasn’t much say in what happens in Mexico anymore.
3- Actually we don’t care what he says about Bush, either :P
I can’t honestly say that I had ever seen George W. Bush getting to the White House.â€
****He can thank the supreme court for that & the greatest elctioneering theft in his last term.
September 17th, 2007 at 12:51 pmI think the proper translation is “the biggest dick I have ever met in my life.”
And caption…
“Listen Jorge, I know you called your useless drilling company Arbusto. That doesn’t mean I started Fox News. Comprehende?”
September 17th, 2007 at 12:51 pm24 years soon of Bushes and Clintons running America
time for a change
September 17th, 2007 at 12:53 pmWhat about the comment that the Chinese Premier Jiang Zemin, made about Bush, in early 2001, “Logically unsound, confused, unprincipaled, and unwise to the extreme!”
September 17th, 2007 at 12:54 pmFox is just pissed because he’s running a third-world country and his “constituents†would rather come here and be governed under better U.S. law rather than Mexico’s laws.
A case in point for why we have it better here, Bush or no.
Comment by JT — September 17, 2007 @ 12:51 pm
Keep up with the times, man. Fox hasn’t been President of Mexico for a year now.
Geez, at least do a little Googling before you type.
September 17th, 2007 at 12:55 pmCaption: “Yeah, I farted … again.”
September 17th, 2007 at 12:57 pmthat look on dubby’s face is priceless…
September 17th, 2007 at 12:58 pmprobably the way he would get out of
all kinds of trouble as a kid… still a kid…
.
Fox engages in a cathartic release of his own failed policies by lashing out at other more successful leaders.
September 17th, 2007 at 1:05 pm#11- You are right on the money! This little rich boy has never had to answer for or deal with the consequences of any bad decision he’s ever made.
September 17th, 2007 at 1:06 pmHow about you take care of YOUR country first?
Comment by Politicians Suq — September 17, 2007 @ 12:35 pm
An important part of taking care of our own country is making sure we’re not the laughingstock of the other 6 billion people inhabiting this planet, on whom we rely for trade, security, tourism, and economic stability.
September 17th, 2007 at 1:08 pmthat look on dubby’s face is priceless…
Comment by katy
Nah, priceless would be a pile of sh¡t falling out of the sky right onto that arrogant mug.
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September 17th, 2007 at 1:09 pmBUSH: Oops. Sorry, bad gas from the flautas.
FOX: No problem, Jorge. It’s the most logical sense you’ve made all day.
September 17th, 2007 at 1:10 pmJT engages in a cathartic release of his own failed education by lashing out at other more educated readers.
September 17th, 2007 at 1:11 pmApplause
(posters hoist Luis M onto their shoulders)
September 17th, 2007 at 1:14 pmCockiest . . . and with so little justification
September 17th, 2007 at 1:16 pm“Cockiest guy” doesn’t even begin to describe the hubris of Bush. I have lived through 10 presidential administrations (34 through 43), and out of the 10, Bush is by far the most deluded into thinking that everything he does is the right thing. Nixon had delusions of grandeur and power (and for awhile even thought of himself as untouchable), but at least he had some kind of grip on reality.
September 17th, 2007 at 1:18 pmother more successful leaders.
Comment by JT — September 17, 2007 @ 1:05 pm
More successful? At what?
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA… whew, YER funny!
September 17th, 2007 at 1:20 pmYou can be cocky and smart OR humble and dumb.
Bush is cocky and a complete MORON! Bad combination.
Why should his Spanish be any better than his English? He shames our entire country.
September 17th, 2007 at 1:22 pmW. sez “Bush is my name and cocky is my game.”
September 17th, 2007 at 1:28 pmIt’s not the cockiness that comes with intelligence, either. It’s the kind that comes from being a sociopath.
September 17th, 2007 at 1:37 pmGuido sez:
Agreed, with one amendment. It’s the cockiness that comes from having been completely and thoroughly isolated from the consequences of your actions all through your life.
September 17th, 2007 at 1:39 pmCan’t resist a good caption:
Chimpy: “Hold on Stretch, let me swallow this here worm first”
September 17th, 2007 at 1:41 pmHehe, cocky, cool….I’m cocky, hehe, look at me cockying….I’m glad Fox liked my flight suit, all cocky and stuff. Hablo espanYO senior Taco Burrito Cervasa, there’s so mexican for ya, see I’m smart and cocky, hehe….
Here, pull my finger… No? I’ll do it for ya..(fart) hehe I love being cocky.
September 17th, 2007 at 1:43 pmI guess it takes a crook to know a crook. Vicente Fox is cut from the same cloth as Dubya. Neither man had any business in politics, let alone serving as presidents of their respective nations.
September 17th, 2007 at 1:45 pmAs more World Leaders speak out about how stupid George W. Bush is it also reflects alot about the American people. For the greatest Country in the World the United States of America to be represented by the dumbest person who was elected twice says alot about the American people. History will show it was the American people who allowed an idiot to take Office and bring chaos round the world. Even reading some supportive comments is enough to say something is really wrong with America. At lease this gives the foreign countries something to laugh at the US about. Watch the once great USA being lead by the dumbest idiot.
September 17th, 2007 at 1:53 pmwhat an embarassment!
looking forward to the day when dumbass retires to his ranch to do the one and only thing he’s qaulified to do - clear brush.
do the world a favor and just disappear, idiot!
September 17th, 2007 at 1:53 pm“Watch the once great USA being lead by the dumbest idiot.”
What has been happening is that we are being misled by a corporate media machine that sold us Bush two times while convincing a sizable percentage of us that the Democratic candidate was a creep.
September 17th, 2007 at 2:23 pm(And yes, I voted for Fox)
Comment by Luis M
Poor you.
I think never Mexico had a dumbest president than Vicente Fox…
September 17th, 2007 at 2:27 pmLuis M can only post ad hominen attacks on those who don’t agree with him. Typical reaction of an ignorant person who is unable to meaningfully engage those with superior intellect.
September 17th, 2007 at 2:31 pmTypical reaction of an ignorant person who is unable to meaningfully engage those with superior intellect.
Comment by JT — September 17, 2007 @ 2:31 pm
Fox is just pissed because he’s running a third-world country.
Comment by JT — September 17, 2007 @ 12:51 pm
Ah, I am mostly humbled and overwhelmed by your superior intellect… which fails to see that former President Fox, being a former President, as in “he’s not the President anymore”, is not running Mexico at all.
But hey, if you think that pointing that out makes me an ignorant person… well, more power to ya!
September 17th, 2007 at 2:46 pmJT, you f*cked up. Fox is no longer running the country.
No, Mexicans dont go to the US because of US presidents or US laws. They go there like Africans go to Spain and Turkish go to Germany. Because rich countries have plundered so much poor countries, that what could be expected? Have you ever seen a beggar in the slums of any US city? No, beggars try to get some money in the richest parts of cities. Same here.
September 17th, 2007 at 2:48 pmI think never Mexico had a dumbest president than Vicente Fox…
Comment by Juan C — September 17, 2007 @ 2:27 pm
Yeah, I dunno which one was dumber, Fox or Diaz Ordaz.
September 17th, 2007 at 2:50 pmJT sez:
First of all, it’s “ad hominem”.
Second, pointing out your ignorance of the fact that Vicente Fox hasn’t been the President of Mexico for over a year is hardly an “ad hominem” attack.
“Superior intellect”, indeed…
September 17th, 2007 at 2:51 pm“I can’t honestly say that I had ever seen George W. Bush getting to the White House.â€
Neither did anyone else except those that were in control and knew he would be a quality puppet.
September 17th, 2007 at 2:56 pmFirst of all, it’s “ad hominemâ€.
Second, pointing out your ignorance of the fact that Vicente Fox hasn’t been the President of Mexico for over a year is hardly an “ad hominem†attack.
“Superior intellectâ€, indeed…
Comment by TripMaster Monkey — September 17, 2007 @ 2:51 pm
Perhaps he meant “ad homonym” attack. Something that sounds like an ad hominem attack but is written differently.
September 17th, 2007 at 3:01 pmComment by JT — September 17, 2007 @ 2:31 pm
I’m laughing at the superior intellect
September 17th, 2007 at 3:03 pmYeah, I dunno which one was dumber, Fox or Diaz Ordaz.
Comment by Luis M
Couldnt tell. At least Fox was intelligent enough to stop the planning of the Texcoco airport. But, of course, he retaliate in Atenco with the beatings and the rapings.
September 17th, 2007 at 3:03 pmToaster, you have a great blog.
September 17th, 2007 at 3:04 pmAh, no engagement but to attack, attack…
Sort of like the petulant child who doesn’t understand, but stomps her feet and shrieks ad nauseum…
“Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.” - Ronald Reagan.
Looks like Fox took the latter route, after he dumped his failures on us, the tax-paying U.S. citizens.
September 17th, 2007 at 3:11 pmFox’s failed policies made Mexico even more unbearable - hence the mad race for the golden dollar up here. He was astute enough to realize that as millions of his poorest fled to a better life, the Mexican government wouldn’t have to foot the bill any more. On top of that, those that sent the money back to Mexico could be taxed - what a great gravy train for Fox. He can call Bush what ever he wants, but the reality is that he was yet another failed President in Mexico leaving the legacy that for Mexicans the better life is north.
September 17th, 2007 at 4:02 pmBush’s cockiness is only matched by his complete confidence matched by complete incompetence. When someone who has not succeeded at anything in his life becomes president, what can you expect from him? Nothing, which is exactly what he has delivered!
September 17th, 2007 at 4:06 pmToaster, you have a great blog.
Comment by Juan C — September 17, 2007 @ 3:04 pm
Thank you very much - I appreciate it!
I’ve been lazy about updating today but maybe later.
September 17th, 2007 at 4:27 pmcaption
George: “I do.”
September 17th, 2007 at 5:30 pmVicente: “And you will again”
What can you not say here at the Toilet Paper? I have noticed fewer and fewer comments from people with opposing views. If you want this site to be all progressive, all the time, say so! This place is being run like Venezualla! Sooner or later, any opposing views will be reason for the firing line! I guess in the minds of progressives and liberals, any thought or idea opposing yours is wrong and cannot be allowed to be shared or seen by others. That you are right 100% of the time. That all who oppose you are either stupid, ignorant, or crazy. That there is only one way to think, your way. That is your mantra?
September 17th, 2007 at 5:50 pmBill Clinton was caught having sex in the oval office. Bill Clinton lied to America and said ” I did not have sexual relations with that woman. Ms. Lewinsky!!”. Then when he was caught, he drug the nation threw his scandal, he created, no one else! He did what he did by his own decisions, to have sex in the WHITE HOUSE. Cockiness??? When asked why he had sexual relations outside of his marriage in the White House, he responded…”Because I could!!!”. That is cockiness!
September 17th, 2007 at 5:57 pmYou’re just jealous.
September 17th, 2007 at 7:03 pmWith a name like Johnny Swank, no wonder you ain’t gittin’ any.
Vicente Fox has written a book???
Jeez…who hasn’t written a book?
September 17th, 2007 at 7:49 pmPerformance art: Little Johnny Swank has a Maalox moment.
September 17th, 2007 at 7:49 pmCaption contest:
Bush: “May I go to the bathroom?”
Fox: “Ahhh…my little taco. You know better than to ask such a question.”
September 17th, 2007 at 7:51 pmComment by Johnny Swank — September 17, 2007 @ 5:57 pm
1). First, it’s “through,” not “threw.”
2). Next, Clinton didn’t drag the nation through the scandal, the Republics did, going so far as to post the salacious details on the Internet for all (including school-aged children) to see and read. After countless investigations into his presidency, THIS is all that they could prove and this is the only thing they could get on him that they hoped would bring him down.
3). The Clinton/Lewinsky affair was between two consenting ADULTS.
4). I doubt you’d be so forthcoming if you had an affair on your wife or girlfriend or whomever if you were confronted about it.
5). You want to talk about lies? How about Bush telling the world that Iraq had WMDs and a mushroom cloud was just around the corner while at the same time pulling the WMD inspectors out of Iraq and before they had to finish their jobs and claiming that Saddam kicked them out? Remember Rummy saying in 2003 that “we know where the WMDs are” and 3 years later saying that he didn’t say that?????
I’d much rather have a president lie about a sexual affair as compared to an SOB that lied about a threat that did not exist (Iraq/Saddam) (I have quotes from Powell and Rice that confirm this, but I doubt you’d be interested because it would make you look like an idiot) and then commit this country to an endless “war.”
September 17th, 2007 at 8:07 pmCorrection in (5) above…”before they had to time to finish their jobs.”
September 17th, 2007 at 8:09 pm#76
Comment by WC — September 17, 2007 @ 8:07 pm
“Next, Clinton didn’t drag the nation through the scandal…”
No, Clinton did by bald face lying on national TV… Please don’t try to make this pussy into a victim.
“…compared to an SOB that lied about a threat that did not exist.”
Provide proof that Bush lied about the WMD threat. BTW why did Clinton throughout the 1990s call for regime change in Iraq?
September 17th, 2007 at 9:19 pm