Bush Grasps For Relevancy By Bashing ‘MoveOn.org Bloggers’ And ‘Code Pink Protesters’
Bush Grasps For Relevancy By Bashing ‘MoveOn.org Bloggers’ And ‘Code Pink Protesters’
In a politically-charged speech this afternoon at the Heritage Foundation, President Bush brazenly attacked congressional leaders for not immediately granting him all the funding he has requested for the Iraq war.
Lawmakers should stop listening to “Moveon.org bloggers and Code Pink protesters” and start listening to the “warnings of terrorists like Osama bin Laden,” Bush said to a rousing ovation:
When it comes to funding our troops, some in Washington should spend more time responding to the warnings of terrorists like Osama bin Laden and the requests of our commanders on the ground, and less time responding to the demands of MoveOn.org bloggers and Code Pink protesters.
Watch it:
Bush hardly has a leg to stand on when urging others to heed the warnings of bin Laden. More than six years after 9/11, bin Laden roams free and is “stronger than ever.” His administration allowed bin Laden to escape at Tora Bora, shifted resources away from the search for bin Laden in 2002, dismantled the CIA unit charged with locating him, and on top of all that, claimed it didn’t really matter if Osama was captured:
Bush: “So I don’t know where he is. You know, I just don’t spend that much time on him. … And, again, I don’t know where he is. I — I’ll repeat what I said. I truly am not that concerned about him.” [3/13/02]
Additionally, Bush is creating a false urgency around the need for Iraq spending. “The money doesn’t run out until the end of the year,” said Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-CA). Congress is planning to pass $50 billion to $75 billion in interim spending which should carry delay consideration of the full spending request until next year.
With his anemic presidency on the rocks, Bush has resorted to battling with bloggers and war protesters for relevance.
UPDATE: Pelosi fires back at Bush: “What does he have to show for his presidency?”
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It’s difficult to heed the warnings of a corpse, Chimpy…
November 1st, 2007 at 2:22 pmSo, if congress gives him all the funding he is requesting for OIF, will he find Osama?
November 1st, 2007 at 2:23 pmMust have been all those White House bloggers and Code Red Rangers back in 2001 that obscured that August 6th memo from his view, right???
November 1st, 2007 at 2:26 pmBush is about as relevant as a hemorrhoid, and just about as useful.
November 1st, 2007 at 2:27 pmOh dear, Mr. Bush, too bad that Mr. Osama bin Laden has been dead in his grave for over five and a half years now… Funny, how the Bush gang loves to dig this guy up again and again… See http://www.whatreallyhappened. com to read about the faked videos…
Mr. Bush is the biggest terrorist in the world in the 21st century. He dwarfs any and all other terrorists. Bush has murdered over one million Iraqis, over fifty thousand Afghanis and thousands of Americans in his undending and insane blood lust…
November 1st, 2007 at 2:28 pmWhen it comes to funding our troops, some in Washington should spend more time responding to the warnings of terrorists like Osama bin Laden and the requests of our commanders on the ground, and less time responding to the demands of MoveOn.org bloggers and Code Pink protesters.
Summary: Ignore Americans, listen to the terrorists instead.
November 1st, 2007 at 2:30 pmRepublicans are like flies, both eat shit and bother people.
November 1st, 2007 at 2:30 pmWhere is Osama bin Laden? Why haven’t we caught him? If bush is so concerned about him, why doesn’t he spend more time thinking about him?
November 1st, 2007 at 2:30 pmThe day Bush speaks in front of a non-screened crowd, I’ll listen to what he says. There has never been a politician more afraid of Code Pink than he.
I wish people were responding to the demands of Code Pink. The world would be a better place.
November 1st, 2007 at 2:31 pmOval12345678 aka James K. Sayre sez:
Don’t forget all of the future generations of Iraqis that will be guaranteed their share of horror and despair, thanks to our indiscriminate use of depleted uranium in their country.
November 1st, 2007 at 2:32 pmThe OBL card is no longer in GW’s hand. He gave that away a long time ago. Glad to see Moveon and Code Pink get such attention.
It means it’s working. Keep up the pressure.
November 1st, 2007 at 2:32 pmBush is such a turd. Bin Laden is as irrelevant as Bush is. At least according to Bush.
I didn’t see any Bin Laden costumes last night. He’s not even scary to kids.
November 1st, 2007 at 2:33 pm“… some in Washington should spend more time responding to the warnings of terrorists like Osama bin Laden … and less time responding to the demands of warmongering America-hating neocons.
November 1st, 2007 at 2:33 pmLawmakers should stop listening to “Moveon.org bloggers and Code Pink protesters†and start listening to the “warnings of terrorists like Osama bin Laden,†Bush said to a rousing ovation
What a d!ck. That’s all I can say.
November 1st, 2007 at 2:34 pmThe simplest argument is usually the correct one. So, I have to agree with comment #7, Uncle Ho.
November 1st, 2007 at 2:36 pmI wouldn’t put much stock into what the Heritage Foundation finds stimulating. After all, they receive corporate support from Mobil and other corporate shills that rip the American people off.
November 1st, 2007 at 2:37 pmI can’t imagine that President Bush spends a lot of time reading blogs on the “internets.”
November 1st, 2007 at 2:37 pmDon’t forget all of the future generations of Iraqis that will be guaranteed their share of horror and despair, thanks to our indiscriminate use of depleted uranium in their country.
Comment by TripMaster Monkey — November 1, 2007 @ 2:32 pm
Not to mention all of the American troops exposed to DU that are coming back insane and unable to have children.
November 1st, 2007 at 2:38 pmwhat a dick.
buck fush.
November 1st, 2007 at 2:38 pmLike the PDB of August 6, 2001, Shrub? Those kinds of warnings?
November 1st, 2007 at 2:38 pmIs that why we’er going to war with Iran? Cause Bush has been taking orders from Usama bin Laden? It makes sense – we know Bush has a soft spot for Saudi billionaires.
November 1st, 2007 at 2:39 pmMay I please say that I hate that moronic SOB more than I’ve ever hated anyone in my life…?
In my mind, he and Osama bin Laden are blood brothers.
November 1st, 2007 at 2:42 pmL O O S E R!!!!
November 1st, 2007 at 2:43 pmIt’s really sad, W steals the most powerful job in the world and groups like Moveon and Code Pink have more credibility than he does. What a loser.
November 1st, 2007 at 2:43 pmYou think these nuts are causing problems for the President, they camp out in Pelosi’s office and home.
She can’t get her illegal immigrants to pull weeds from the flower beds due to fecal matter.
It’s been a tough summer for Nancy.
Comment by jdc — November 1, 2007 @ 2:42 pm
If Pelosi would put impeachment back on the table and stand up to Bush and the Republican members of congress and work on ending the war these folks would stop bothering her. You’re not going to get much sympathy for Nancy around here. That’s what you were looking for, right?
November 1st, 2007 at 2:46 pmWell, Mr. Bush, spend less time on vacation with your head up your as and more time heeding the warnings, and we wouldn’t have to worry about BinLaden.
November 1st, 2007 at 2:46 pmBucky: GMTA
November 1st, 2007 at 2:55 pmOur poor king just wants to be relevant. How sad…
November 1st, 2007 at 2:55 pmFear & Smear is America’s Cure!
This message brought to you by a dry drunk, draft dodging, sociopathic, sniveling, whining, foot stomping, inarticulate, word-mangling little bully who got into office by lying, cheating and licking corporate America’s big wet ass.
November 1st, 2007 at 2:55 pmSort of likeyou did by responding to the August 2001 PDB?
November 1st, 2007 at 2:55 pmjdc, there’s more than one front in the war to regain our country.
November 1st, 2007 at 2:57 pmOops!
Red Pill beat me too it!
:)
November 1st, 2007 at 2:57 pmThis thread should have went without any comments, but since it didn’t:
Sir you should spend more time trying to find terrorist than speaking and listening to groups such as the Heritage (who’s heritage) Foundation, Focus on the Family (who’s family), and Faux News (what news). It’s funny because for years you wouldn’t even mention Bin-Laden’s name, now all of a sudden we should listen to his tapes!!? I’ll pass because like your mom I can’t waste my beautiful mind on things like that, I’m too busy trying to get myself back together from my past three deployments.
RIP
November 1st, 2007 at 3:02 pmSGT Stephen R. Sherman
C CO 1-5 IN (STRYKER)
KIA 3 Feb 2005
Mosul, Iraq
How ironic for Bush to raise the Bin Laden issue, one of his most visible failures. He’s more desperate than Larry Craig in a men’s room.
November 1st, 2007 at 3:03 pmHow ironic for Bush to raise the Bin Laden issue, one of his most visible failures. He’s more desperate than Larry Craig in a men’s room.
Comment by Lefty Patriot — November 1, 2007 @ 3:03 pm
But his “stance” on OBL is just as wide!
November 1st, 2007 at 3:06 pmAnd isn’t it interesting that the more he wants to be “relevant”, the more irrelevant he becomes.
The only one still listening to this scumbag is Barney … and that is only when he brings him Kibbles and Bits. (You all can figure out who brings them to whom.)
November 1st, 2007 at 3:08 pmThis is a canard, the money for the troops has always been in the pipeline and debating funding has not impinged the troops ability. Besides that alot of that money does not go towards fighting Al Qaeda but quelling a low level civil/sectarian war begun by the toppling of Saddam.
I find it hard to believe Presidente Bush has resorted to this type of finger pointing for congressional bills not landing on his desk at mach speed.
November 1st, 2007 at 3:10 pmBush should stop listening to the extreme radicals at Free Republic and Powerline and start listening to the CIA, then maybe bin Laden would finally get captured of killed.
——————
…an unnamed CIA briefer who flew to Bush’s Texas ranch during the scary summer of 2001, amid a flurry of reports of a pending al-Qaeda attack, to call the president’s attention personally to the now-famous Aug. 6, 2001, memo titled “Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in US.” Bush reportedly heard the briefer out and replied: “All right. You’ve covered your ass, now.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/19/AR2006061901211.html
November 1st, 2007 at 3:11 pmPretty pathetic when the POTU resorts to name calling. And aginst bloggers and Code Pink protestors?
You would hope that a President wouldn’t stoop to such infantile behavior, but then again the Chimp just flings his scat whenever he is challenged.
Pathetic little man. Someone lied and told him he was relevant, but after being a failure at every. single. thing. it is sinking in.
Do us all a favor little guy and just go f yourself.
November 1st, 2007 at 3:15 pmhe makes it so painfully obvious when he doesn’t know what he’s talking about. [see 'the google']
November 1st, 2007 at 3:16 pm“Pathetic little man. Someone lied and told him he was relevant, but after being a failure at every. single. thing. it is sinking in.
Do us all a favor little guy and just go f yourself.”
Comment by nanlichi — November 1, 2007 @ 3:15 pm
He’d probably mess that up too and p himself trying
November 1st, 2007 at 3:19 pmDoes Bush know that MoveOn.org isn’t really a blog? Does he know what a blogger is?
November 1st, 2007 at 3:20 pmI just love the fact the Bush is fearful of the Code Pink Ladies while he sucks up all Osama Bin Laden can throw at him. Playing along with Mr Bin Laden to inflate world oil prices, while running from the girls. Actually, the girls present more of a threat to Bush because they believe in women’s rights and in human rights, while Bush and Bin Laden believe in oppression of all and women especially.
November 1st, 2007 at 3:24 pmAnd he is Commander??????????? What a phoney chickenshit the pres is.
The Republicans took longer to bring the funding to President Bush without moveone or codepink telling them what to do.
The current administration could request funding once a year but it doesn’t do that. If this was truly a problem with congress getting the funding to the troops, does the curennt admin come back every few months with yet another supplemental?
November 1st, 2007 at 3:26 pmAnyone heard from Bush sr. lately? He must be hiding out until the next election.
And who could blame him? His son has made the worst mistake in American history, and the name Bush is now synonomous with incompetent failure of epic proportions. All his good press during Desert Storm has been eclipsed by his son’s willfully-ignorant failure in Iraq.
And if Jeb knows what’s good for his family, he’ll give-up thoughts of higher office, as he’ll be tarred daily by his idiot brother’s past performance.
November 1st, 2007 at 3:28 pmIf I were Poppy Bush, I would not go out in public without a bag on my head. I’d be totally and completely ashamed about bringing a monster into the world.
November 1st, 2007 at 3:30 pmIt is mighty pathetic that Bush feels the need to name MoveOn in his tantrum. It goes to show that progressive organizations are really hurting Bush and his lockstep supporters. Bush might as well pin a sign on his forehead saying irrelevant.
The Heritage Foundation is a deadender organization for sure. Their time has passed even if they haven’t realized it yet.
November 1st, 2007 at 3:33 pmDoes the Heritage Foundation play the Springfield or SouthPark mob on TV? They’re so ignorant that they’ll cheer anything, even what’s actually a completely idiotic idea?
Bush placing blame isn’t a surprise: that’s all repubublicans do. It is amazing that people actually believe the bs he shovels at them.
November 1st, 2007 at 3:35 pmAmerica Could Have Killed Usama bin Laden — But Didn’t
By Col. David Hunt, Oct. 25
…We know, with a 70 percent level of certainty — which is huge in the world of intelligence — that in August of 2007, bin Laden was in a convoy headed south from Tora Bora. We had his butt, on camera, on satellite. We were listening to his conversations. We had the world’s best hunters/killers — Seal Team 6 — nearby. We had the world class Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) coordinating with the CIA and other agencies. We had unmanned drones overhead with missiles on their wings; we had the best Air Force on the planet, begging to drop one on the terrorist. We had him in our sights; we had done it. Nice job again guys — now, pull the damn trigger.
Unbelievably, and in my opinion, criminally, we did not kill Usama bin Laden.
You cannot make this crap up; truth is always stranger and more telling than fiction. Our government, the current administration and yes, our military leaders included, failed to kill bin Laden for no other reason than incompetence.
The current “boneheads†in charge will tell you all day long that we are fighting and dying in Iraq and Afghanistan to stop terrorists there so they do not come here. Nice talk, how about – just for a moment – acting like you mean what you say? You know walk the walk. These incidents, where we displayed a total lack of guts, like the one in August, are just too prevalent. The United States of America’s political and military leadership has, on at least three separate occasions, chosen not capture or kill bin Laden or Ayman al-Zawahri. We have allowed Pakistan to become a safe haven for Al Qaeda. We have allowed Al Qaeda to reconstitute, partially because of money they (Al Qaeda in Iraq) have been sending to Al Qaeda in Pakistan
This story from the FOX NEWS website has been ignored by ALL the Corporate Media!
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,304306,00.html
November 1st, 2007 at 3:36 pmNow that those on Capitol Hill are forbidding some Code Pink Women from going there, GWB finds the balls to chastise them. I know it is difficult for the commander to come face to face with the Ladies who represent something so unnatural to him. I love to see the pres cower behind the walls of the Heritage Foundation while running from the likes of a Cindy Sheehan.
November 1st, 2007 at 3:43 pmThe Pink should certainly make the TV tonite, at least on Link TV’s Democracy Now.
The United States of America’s political and military leadership has, on at least three separate occasions, chosen not capture or kill bin Laden or Ayman al-Zawahri. We have allowed Pakistan to become a safe haven for Al Qaeda. We have allowed Al Qaeda to reconstitute, partially because of money they (Al Qaeda in Iraq) have been sending to Al Qaeda in Pakistan
This story from the FOX NEWS website has been ignored by ALL the Corporate Media!
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,304306,00.html
Comment by 2MillionLightYearsToAndromeda — November 1, 2007 @ 3:36 pm
If your entire grab of or and retaining of power is based on a bogeyman, the absolutely LAST thing you would want to do is kill him. The more enemies you can keep and increase, the more you can scare people.
November 1st, 2007 at 4:05 pmThe Hater is not real is he? I think we are responding to a caricature of a rightwing neocon. No one can be that stupid and one dimensional.
I read you like a book “Liberals Are Filled With Hate”, you are here to make fun of the truly idiotic postings of the right wng and I tell you it’s not funny.
By painting this picture of a sick and sad neocon who is clinging to Bush’s pantleg and pissing all over himself, you are doing a disservice to the conservatives who do have something to say.
Knock it off please.
November 1st, 2007 at 4:22 pmaWol should have listened to OBL back in August of 2001 when he ignored tha PDB.
November 1st, 2007 at 4:27 pmGo Bush! As long as the left coddles our enemies and blurs the lines between good and evil, we cannot win the war on terror.
It takes a real leader with courage to stand up for what’s right – not the poll driven cowards in the Democrat Party! Four MORE YEARS!
Comment by Liberals Are Filled With Hate — November 1, 2007 @ 4:12 pm
The war on terror is against people like you and W, bringing fascism to this country day by day. This is America, if you don’t like, North Korea would be happy to have you.
November 1st, 2007 at 4:30 pmNice of you to give him the benefit of the doubt nanlichi, but I’m afraid he’s only too real. Nobody could stay in character that long.
November 1st, 2007 at 4:32 pmSo Bush thinks would rather listen to a terrorist than to Americans?!?!!
(Not really surprizing since the terrorist tells him what he wants to hear.)
Why should we allow bin Laden to hijack our political process and at the same time exclude the voices of thousands of concerned Americans? Now THAT sounds like the very definition of “letting the terrorsist win.”
November 1st, 2007 at 4:36 pmShayne,
I know that and you know that and 95% of the people here do. It was a sarcastic shot at a truly stupid person.
It is sad that these one dimensional black/white, good/bad, wrong/right quasi-intelligent freaks vote though.
I know some of these types personally through a construction venture.
They are useful for sanding floors and picking up nails but you can’t let them loose around any power equipment.
November 1st, 2007 at 4:43 pmBush cultist: “Four more years!”
Now, that IS funny…. in a tragicomic kind of way of course.
November 1st, 2007 at 4:47 pmProselytizing is hard work and expensive too! /snark
Note that he says all that he says behind huge walls of security in locations full of Decider-friendly people. Stacking the deck will not make him a better president or bad policies better. In the long run – it only makes the problems worse. To quote Aldous Huxley: “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
November 1st, 2007 at 4:57 pmOur troops have no equipment and no medical care as the money that Congress gives the White House goes to contractors, Iraq, bombs to attack Iran and propaganda. When is anyone going to speak up for the lies that are being told by the White House. The foreign press is reporting the truth all over the world yet the US Media is following the direction of lies by the Bush Administration.
November 1st, 2007 at 5:25 pmLMAO !! Big tough frat boy afraid of Code Pink ladies !!
Hey, George! Psss psss psss psss psss! Psss psss psss psss psss!
November 1st, 2007 at 5:30 pmGo Bush! As long as the left coddles our enemies and blurs the lines between good and evil, we cannot win the war on terror. -LARFWH
The terrorists, such as Osama, have no nation of which they belong. The line that is being blurred is that. The Iranians did not fly planes into the WTC. Building a nuclear plant is not a crime. Egypt is restarting their efforts to do so, are they now a terrorist nation?
The other line being blurred isn the one between the freedom operation and the war on terror. The terrorists were not in Iraq or did they fly planes into the WTC. Surely you have been keeping up Saddam did not have WMD, nor did the people he oppressed.
It is not possible to win the war on terror by attacking sovereign countries. Did we attack Saudi Arabia because thats where most of the terrorists from 9/11 come? No.
Most of the modern conservatives, like you seem to be, are reactionary idealists who dont understand that these are tribal societies and you cant bomb them into accepting jeffersonian democracy, its failing in Africa and its failing in Iraq.
November 1st, 2007 at 6:02 pmSo lets see yesterday Bin Laden was not important, but today he is.
November 1st, 2007 at 6:08 pmWell what about in August 2007 we had him, could hear him, watched his convoy move, even had drones in the air, but the military were not allowed to hit him.
texaslady,
The only good boogeyman is a live boogeyman.
November 1st, 2007 at 6:14 pm#67 Bingo ! If we caught him, who could we pretend to try and catch next ? I saw this article in Newsweek or Time but strangely never heard a word on any channel….hmmm how could they have missed that?
Also, wonder if Bin Laden could prove he didn’t plan 9/11. Very odd that his family didn’t bother to leave quickly before the attack. Of course if we had a real President they wouldn’t have been allowed to leave.
November 1st, 2007 at 7:09 pmPer georgejr – Ignore Americans , do the bidding of Osama bin Laden. Our military is so weak, they need British private contractors to protect them….
November 1st, 2007 at 8:29 pm#68 — Remember when George demanded the Taliban turn over OBL (prior to our going into Afghanistan)? They requested that they be shown the evidence. Bush refused to do so. There’s only one good reason I can think of why Bush refused to do so — because there WAS no evidence.
To this day, if you go to the FBI Most Wanted Terrorist List, you will see that OBL is NOT wanted in connection with 9-11. That is very telling in and of itself.
November 2nd, 2007 at 10:00 amSeriously?
He’s shaking a finger at Congressional Democrats for pandering to organizations like MoveOn.org in a speech AT THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION?
Seriously?
November 2nd, 2007 at 11:59 amBush may be an irrelevant a–w-p-, but unfortunately our children and their children will be paying for his arrogance and stupidity through their retirement years. I wish the Dems weren’t such a bunch of wusses! I think OBL has been hanging out in the Lincoln bedroom running a hooka bar in the out of the blue room.
November 2nd, 2007 at 1:04 pmBut . . . you know . . . 9-11? I am relevant.
Mushroom cloud, mustard greens . . . I am relevant! Believe me. . . I am relevant.
[Dick, you jack ass, put away the gun . . . ]
November 4th, 2007 at 12:07 amLaura . . .OBL’s really doin’ a trick in the Lincoln Bedroom . . . you have a way with words . . . think we might could move him out? What if sommboddy notices? You know, we got that place in Paraguay…
November 4th, 2007 at 12:14 amLaura honey, my honey that I wooed for three months (about the same amount of time that that couch jumpin Tom Cruise took to spank Katie’s ass), my couch jumpin’ worthy Laura, don’t you think that we could just waterboard the asses of OBL & Co., turn them over to the funeral examiner and be done with all this shit? Damn I need a toot.
No love. You need a meeting.”
November 4th, 2007 at 12:19 amOh, and BTW, when asked in 2006, what’s the hardest decision he ever had to make . . .it wasn’t about killing thousands in Iraq . . it was about marrying Laura.
November 4th, 2007 at 12:31 amTalk about a man that’s got a few abortions in his past . . .
November 4th, 2007 at 12:40 am