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Bush 41 Gets His News From Fox News; Warns More Bushes May Run For Public Office

Fox News Sunday launched a new series this week called “American Leaders” that seeks to engage “prominent business, cultural and social figures in candid discussion.” The first “leader” featured by Fox was former President George H.W. Bush, who gave the network an exclusive interview at his Presidential Library.

In his interview this morning, the former president returned the praise, saying that when he watches TV news, he watches Fox News:

I used to pick up that paper, and turn on the Fox and listen to the news, and say “listen to this, look at this so-and-so, why’s he saying that?” I don’t do that anymore.

Bush also said that he would like to see another generation of Bushes in public office. “I’ve got a grandson that would make a wonderfully able public servant if he ran, George P.,” said Bush. “And Pierce, Neil’s son. They have an interest in politics.” Watch it:

Bush’s love of Fox News echoes that of Vice President Dick Cheney, who requires that all televisions in his hotel room be tuned to Fox News whenever he travels. In 2004, Cheney also told “a conference call” of “tens of thousands of Republicans” that he ends up “spending a lot of time watching Fox News.”

If the next generation of Bushes were to enter public office, it would likely be more of the same politics put forth by the current president:

- George P. Bush, the son of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, has been actively involved in his family’s political fortunes since 1988, when he spoke at the Republican National Convention as a 12 year old. He was also heavily involved in his uncle’s 2000 and 2004 campaigns, working on outreach to the Latino community.

- Pierce Bush, the son of high-priced consultant Neil Bush, worked on his Uncle’s 2004 campaign, telling Larry King that “George W.’s done a great job.” He also shares some of his uncle’s frat boy “folksiness.”

For someone to consider another generation of Bushes in public office a good idea, they’d probably have to be watching nothing but Fox News.



76 Responses to “Bush 41 Gets His News From Fox News; Warns More Bushes May Run For Public Office”

  1. barfly says:

    Someone check his med levels; the guy’s not rational. Even the repubs realize the name “Bush” is synonomous in voters’ minds with monumental incompetence. Let’s see one of them run for office on name recognition. It’ll be a hoot!


  2. Picklee says:

    At least W. Bush couldn’t produce a successor himself.


  3. joe cantwell says:

    doesn’t he watch watch the fox business news channel with neil and the hooter girls? they could use a plug and he doesn’t mention it? big help.


  4. tom says:

    I don’t ever want to see another Bush run for office. They should all pack up and move to Paraguay with GDumbya, LaLa, Darth Cheney and Battle-ax Lynnie in January ‘09 . . . or sooner if Congress grows some balls.


  5. ProDem says:

    Oh my… Everyone should remember Jesse Jackson’s warning at the Democratic National Convention in 2000. For those who may have missed it does “Stay Out of the Bushes” ring a bell?

    The Fascist Bush Family will be back…you can count on that!…The question is will the American electorate fall for it again? Is there any doubt in your mind?…OF COURSE THEY WILL!!


  6. Jay Randal says:

    The Bush family must be blocked from holding any elected office, or appointed position, in the United States. They are opportunists who rob the taxpayers for their own benefit, thus they are unfit for governance.


  7. oldtree says:

    the two of these son’s of nazis’ have likely soured the brand except among the insane. Keep a close eye out for anyone that says bush again. you will know they are not only cretinously kwalified, but dangerouscider.


  8. LibertyLover says:

    Bob, Help us all!


  9. DenverOasis says:

    egads dear god no more Bushes. their personal economic empire should pay the damages the current Bush has incurred on the world.



  10. barfly says:

    Noelle Bush should run. She’s the closest to her uncle in terms of carrying forward the family tradition of priviledged substance abusers.

    She’d have Rush’s vote for sure.


  11. foolme1ns says:

    Reading this article just brought to mind what happened to Tzar Nicholi and his family in Russia.

    I just don’t think that America should have a dynastic monarchy. Either with the Bush’s or the Clintons. It’s time America moved on from these “families”.


  12. Jay Randal says:

    I guess Bush Senior has forgotten that Jeb’s son was arrested for being naked in a car having sex with his girlfriend at that time. When confronted by the police he told them his dad was Governor of Florida and the cops would be fired for arresting him. He did not give a hoot about being naked in front of the police, nor did he show any shame either.


  13. Uncle Ho says:

    BUSH = HITLER

    It has been said that people get the government they deserve, and if any more Bushies are elected, then we truly deserve the neo-Nazi police state that we get.

    MICHIGAN 28 MICHIGAN STATE 24


  14. Xisithrus says:

    FOX is not news its a tabloidal.


  15. Leftside Annie says:

  16. Uncle Ho says:

    Don’t forget- it was Neil Bush who was involved in the S & L ripoff scandals that cost taxpayers billions of $$$$ in the late 80s.


  17. EvilPoet says:

    The restoration of the father and the annointment of the son — that’s a very powerful duo,” says Stephen Hess, a political analyst at the Washington-based Brookings Institution and the author of America’s Political Dynasties. “You don’t call Brookings to find out about what that means.You have to call a Bible institute.” -USA TODAY, 08/02/00


  18. Zooey says:

    Er, thanks for the warning, Poppy.


  19. Zooey says:

    TP, DST ended last night — re-set your clock! :D


  20. Keltoi at Night says:

    I just don’t think that America should have a dynastic monarchy. Either with the Bush’s or the Clintons. It’s time America moved on from these “families”.

    Comment by foolme1ns — November 4, 2007 @ 11:37 am

    Amen. In a country of 300 million, how can only two families be worthy of the highest office? Enough, already.


  21. plunger says:

    LEARN ALL ABOUT THE ACTUAL HEAD OF THE CIA AND ACTUAL PRESIDENT / CRIME SYNDICATE LEADER, GHW BUSH:

    http://www.yourchristianpresident.com/DaddyBush.htm

    He’s still using CIA jets to run drugs – every day.

    The CIA is his private enterprise.


  22. plunger says:

    View EVERYTHING in the context of a decades-long COVERUP of the activities of GHW Bush, W’s Father.

    See This:

    In November 2001, George W. Bush signed an executive order that upended the 1978 Presidential Records Act and permits the Bush Iran-Contra papers to be kept secret in perpetuity. The executive order also affects 60,000 pages of papers from the Reagan Presidential Library that include details of then-Vice President George H. W. Bush’s role in Iran-Contra. Robert Gates has always been a trusted consigliore for the Bush family.

    At the Pentagon, he will undoubtedly use his two years to clean up for Dubya and suppress incriminating information on the Iraq debacle — all in a continuing effort to protect the Bush family legacy.”

    waynemadsenreport.com

    THIS IS CALLED “EVIDENCE.”

    THIS IS CALLED “OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE.”

    GHW Bush is the biggest CRIMINAL in America.

    All that has transpired since the Kennedy Assassination – he has been a part of.

    His entire adult life has been about what he could get away with, and covering his tracks.

    No matter what the most significant events have been in the past four-plus decades, 41’s fingers have been in it in some way.

    Investigate this for yourself:

    “GROUP 40″ – What was 41’s role?

    Bay Of Pigs – What was 41’s role?

    Kennedy Assassination – What was 41’s role?

    http://www.planetquo.com/The-George-H-W-Bush-JFK-Murder-Connection

    James Files, the confessed grassy knoll assassin – What was 41’s role?

    http://www.planetquo.com/The-George-H-W-Bush-JFK-Murder-Connection

    Iran Contra – What was 41’s role?

    Mena Drug Running – What was 41’s role?

    Iraq’s Invasion Of Kuwait – What was 41’s role?

    New World Order – What was 41’s role?

    Lewinski Sexpionage – What was 41’s role?

    Osama Bin Laden – What was 41’s role?

    Afghanistan Opium Production -What was 41’s role?

    CIA / DEA Drug Running – What was 41’s role?

    California Energy Crisis – What was 41’s role?

    Carlyle Group – What was 41’s role?

    9/11 – What was 41’s role?

    Dictating US Policy Today – What IS 41’s role?

    GHW BUSH IS STILL PRESIDENT.


  23. Jay Randal says:

    Bush Senior has become completely senile now and has no idea his son George has destroyed their political family. He will pass away soon and never know that Dubya will be the last Bush in political office.


  24. plunger says:

    GW:

    We’ve got you all figured out. We know that your boss is GHW Bush, and that his boss is David Rockefeller and that ultimately – their cause is the transfer of all resources, power and territory into the hands of the Global Elite, with Israel and the Crown as the primary drivers.

    We know that “Poppy” is running drugs to fund the “Shadow Government.” We know that the white G5 jets with no tail numbers that fly in and out of Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport are GHW Bush / CIA jets running cash and drugs between Florida and Colombia.

    We know the G5’s fly just 30′ above the wavetops on the return from just prior to Cuba all the way back to Miami center before popping up and exposing themselves on radar.

    We know that Barry Seal was killed on Poppy’s orders – and we know that you are frightened as the entire house of cards comes tumbling down. We know how dangerous Israel’s blackmail of the Bush Crime Family is. We know that it’s Wild Cornered Animal Stage. We know about the False Flag attack on 9/11 – we know it was Israel, and we know that another one is imminent to justify Martial Law and the nuking of Iran.

    We KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING.

    The harder you work to silence us, the more clear it becomes that we are speaking the truth.

    George HW Bush OWNS the CIA and runs it like a private enterprise. The DEA is in fact a protection racket designed specifically to ensure that only the small fish get caught, that no major competition for Poppy’s Crop is allowed to take too much market share, and to bamboozle the American Public into believing that you actually care about their health and well being.

    The greatest danger to the plans of the global elite (Rockefeller and 300 other families) is the legalization of drugs in the US.

    We know that dov Zakheim stole $7 trillion in the days prior to 9/11 to fund the coup.

    The mainstream media and many Fortune 500 Companies are infiltrated with agents, and the MSM is run my Zionists for the benefit of AIPAC and the Globalist/Zionist agenda.

    The American People are dead last on your list of concerns. We are merely sheeple to be controlled and disinformed.

    We know EVERYTHING. It’s time for YOU to choose sides, because the truth is coming – and we are PISSED!


  25. crick says:

    Don’t forget this about George P. Bush, from wiki:

    According to a 1994 Miami-Dade police incident report, Bush was allegedly discovered at 4 A.M. breaking into the home of a former girlfriend, arguing with the girl’s father, and later driving his Ford Explorer across the lawn. The young woman’s father called police but did not press charges.

    His behavior should make him feel right at home with the current crop of Republican miscreants.


  26. Bluestocking says:

    Considering that a majority of the US population found Bush pere to be something of a disappointment (witnessed by the fact that he only served one term) and that Bush fils has at last count proven himself to be an equal if not greater disappointment for all but a 24% core of staunch loyalists (a number which potentially may shrink still further as time goes on) despite being elected to a second term…does anyone seriously believe that a member of the Bush family has a serious chance of being made President? Perhaps I’m just being a cockeyed optimist — but I have a hard time believing the idea that the American people have sunk so far and so irretrievably into the depths of utter wanton stupidity that this would be possible.

    In any case, from my perspective, the prospect of yet a third member of the Bush family reminds me of a very old saying..

    FOOL ME ONCE, SHAME ON YOU…FOOL ME TWICE, SHAME ON ME

    But since that’s already happened, perhaps an addendum should be added…

    FOOL ME THREE TIMES…I NEED PSYCHIATRIC HELP.


  27. Vincennes says:

    Vice President Dick Cheney … requires that all televisions in his hotel room be tuned to Fox News whenever he travels.

    I wonder what else Little Lord Dickhead requires when he travels?


  28. plunger says:

    Make no mistake…

    BUSH 41 IS ACTUALLY THE PRESIDENT – AND HAS BEEN SINCE 2000.

    I’m totally serious.

    Bush 41, Lay and Cheney conspired in 1999 to CREATE the FAKE California Energy Crisis that paved the way to INSTALLING the Oil Boys in the White House.

    Part of their plan included implementation of the PNAC – including the NEW PEARL HARBOR as the PRETEXT for the invasion of the Middle East – outsourcing the implementation to Mossad under the direction of Cheney (as witnessed by Minetta) using PTECH software to blind NORAD on 9/11.

    Bush 41 is the kingpin of 9/11.

    Look at GW’s entire cabinet. They are all 41s co-conspirators. 41 has been an agent of Israel since the early sixties in this days as an agent of the CIA (he was in Dallas the day Kennedy was assassinated).

    41 literally OWNS the CIA – and its fleet of Gulfstream jets flying cash and cocaine between Colombia and Florida to this day.

    41 is the biggest criminal in the United States. His sons are just part of the protection racket.

    Jim Baker and Robert Gates to the rescue?

    Gimme A Break!

    Investigate GHW Bush.

    WHERE IS Israeli Agent KOBI ALEXANDER?

    His “Comverse” was used to wiretap and blackmail every politician.

    His “Odigo” was used to warn Israeli Nationals to steer clear of the WTC on 9/11.

    His PTECH (a PROMIS knock-off) was used to blind NORAD.

    He’s wanted by the Federal Government…do you know where he is?

    He’s in the WITNESS PROTECTION PROGRAM!

    Where is Dov Zakheim?

    He stole $7 TRILLION from the DOD and sent it to Israel.

    DEMAND JUSTICE.


  29. plunger says:

    ”That’s not the way the world really works anymore,” he continued. ”We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”

    Karl Rove

    “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, THE TRUTH IS THE GREATEST ENEMY OF THE STATE.”
    – Joseph Goebbels, German Minister of Propaganda, 1933-1945

    By: okiemon on September 27, 2006 at 10:24am

    “As people do better, they start voting like Republicans – unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.”

    Karl Rove.

    “See in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.”

    GEORGE w. BUSH

    Here’s a great comparison of Goebbels to Bush:

    http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/may2005/260505newbushism.htm


  30. Bonnie says:

    I am glad that I am old enough not to live long enough to see such an atrocity occur in this country. Fox News is nothing but an American Tokyo Rose. It’s propaganda–nothing more, nothing less.


  31. plunger says:

    http://www.arcticbeacon.com/18-Aug-2006.html

    A TOP GLOBAL CONSPIRATOR CONFIRMS THE GLOBAL CONSPIRACY

    For the benefit of knee-jerk ’smart fellows’ whose minds are befogged by ’slides’ and who will be inclined to accuse the Editor of International Currency Review of being a ‘conspiracy theorist’, the following statement by one of the leading globalist strategists, Mr David Rockefeller, published in 2002*, will no doubt come as a shock:

    ‘For more than a century ideological extremists [sic] at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicised incidents such as my encounter with Castro, to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and over economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as “internationalists” and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure ? one world, if you will. If that’s the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it’.

    As will be seen, David Rockefeller acknowledges that he is part of a secret cabal (synarchy) which works against the best interests of the United States. Why has he not yet been indicted, then, for conspiring against the United States under Section 371 of the United States Code, Title 18, ‘Crimes and Criminal Procedure’, which states that ‘if two or more persons conspire either to commit any offense against the United States, or to defraud the United States, or any agency thereof in any manner or for any purpose, and one or more of such persons do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy, each shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both’?


  32. plunger says:

    Rummy, Rice and Cheney and Rove were all recruited by GHW.

    Kissinger is as evil as they come.

    GHW works for Rockefeller.

    Cheney laughs about his role in the conspiracy:

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=pGiRkJqZU9s


  33. Guido OBGYN Lover says:

    FOX is State Sponsored TV.
    Pull the plug.


  34. Brain From Planet Arous says:

    Dried Out Beef Jerky GHW Bush is another Nazi just like his father Prescott, who traded with the Nazis, and Samuel, who supplied The German Panzers during WW1. Let’s also not forget 3000 innocents killed by his orders in Panama in 1989. In that “exercise”, the US military was trying out all of it’s new weapons for the planned, upcoming Gulf War. I also remember GHW Bush saying he doesn’t have to confer with Congress in declaring war, and all you “carping liberals”who were in the audience to “sit down and shut up”. A vile, despicable sub-human. Him and that Beast Barbara made a good pair.


  35. Guido OBGYN Lover says:

    FOX is State Sponsored TV.


  36. Corporate Jesus says:

    The Czar is picking the next figurehead from his own family, because not even obscene amounts of money can be counted on to ensure complete loyalty. Blood is thicker than money. On another note, the Bolsheviks knew how to deal with a Czar.


  37. Winski says:

    They all should be remanded to the farm…FOR GOOD!


  38. Bush is a TRAITOR says:

    I am heading to the store right now to load up on my 50cal ammo. There’s lots of traitors in them thar Bushes.


  39. Buckie Boy says:

    I sure hope the American People are not stupid enough to EVER elect one of these scum sucking Fascist Pigs in any office, including Dog Catcher.

    Buck Fush


  40. Marie says:

    I think the old man is day-dreaming. There is no way another Bush will get into the White House. Fox would promote the idea, however, and perhaps their brain-dead viewers eould entertain the idea, but after this disastrous 8 years, the Bush dynasty is over.
    Good riddance. Hope to see you all relocated in Paraguay.


  41. barfly says:

    “He stole $7 TRILLION from the DOD and sent it to Israel.”

    Comment by plunger

    Proof?

    Or did you typo “billions?”


  42. ignatov says:

    “I’ve got a grandson that would make a wonderfully able public servant if he ran, George P.,” said Bush.

    Poor kid. He’s interested in politics but his name is George Bush. Given the current climate he might as well be called Saddam bin Hitler, Jr. Forgive me for not investing in an “Elect George P. Bush” T-shirt factory.


  43. grover nerdkissed says:

    what true american would WANT a royal family?!?!?!?!?!


  44. Brain From Planet Arous says:

    BUSH 41 IS ACTUALLY THE PRESIDENT – AND HAS BEEN SINCE 2000.

    Comment by plunger — November 4, 2007 @ 11:52 am

    Since 1980 and ran stealth during Bubba’s time.

    More powerful than Cheney.

    How convenient if John W. Hinckley Jr had succeeded with Reagan.


  45. Starve-A-Bush_Feed-A-Beaver says:

    Sounds like something Don Vito Corleone would say. However, in the case of the Godfather, he had a fairly intelligent and effective heir who carried on the family business in Michael Corleone, someone who didn’t ruin the family name forever and was not an illiterate, barely-coherent chimpanzee.


  46. VerbalKint says:

    Let them keep watching Fox News. They are shielding themselves from the harsh truth that most Americans despise them now. The blow will fall all the harder when the Republicans are destroyed in the next election. Then the party will turn on itself, and the Bush dynasty will ultimately be held responsible. There will be payback against the Bushes, and it won’t be coming from Democrats.


  47. Aanya says:

    If Bush 41 honestly believes his family has anything at all to offer democracy, he’s even more retarded than his oldest son. I look at that man’s face and I see the roots of the evil that’s taken over life as we used to know it! The man responsible for the goof-ball who has destroyed this country. 41 needs to go find a quiet place and just think about what he’s done to the rest of us!


  48. The Republic of Stupidity says:

    Bush I: “I have this grandson. His name is Caligula, and he’s interested in running for office…”


  49. Bartolo says:

    Who will rid us of this hideous family?


  50. SP Biloxi says:

    Yup, Poppy Bush wants to continue fill his pockets and swiss bank account with profits from another Bush family member in the White House. Yup, the Robin Hood Bush family wants to continue the theft: Steal from the middle class and poor and keep the money for themselves.


  51. DallasNE says:

    This is how the mafia has operated for decades. Use a little old-fashioned extortion to get wealthy then trickle a little back into the community to show what a good guy you are.

    Take Neil, he was up to his eyebrows in the Silverado Savings and Loan collapse in Denver and now is a high-priced consultant. In other words, he uses his family connections to extort large sums of money in exchange for a little inside help.

    Who knows, maybe the Bush family decided to take down Jack Abramoff to protect Neil’s turf. Abramoff got greedy and down went Abramoff. This kind of hardball dates back at least to Prescott Bush and his connection with Hitler’s Germany.


  52. dixie blood says:

    As long as I have a breath in my body not one more useless Botch will ever be PreziDunce again!!!! If your name is Bush don’t try to move into my neighbohood, that’s not happening!!!! This Nazi supporting (Prescott Bush) family is useless to this country!!!! 41 is corrupt, useless son Neil is a robber of S&L’s, the grandchildren are phu(kups!!! Who needs this corrupt family???

    The Botch’s are a phu(king criminal empire!!!! Drug running, gun running (Iran-Contra) bastards!!! NOTICE IRAN-Contra!!! Iran, Iran, Iran!!!

    Phu(k your asperations 41 and your useless to the core corrupt, bullsh|t, criminal familie’s asperations too!! We don’t need or want you around here anymore or ever again!!!

    Enough already!!!!!

    NO MORE BOTCH’S!
    NO MORE BOTCH’S!
    NO MORE BOTCH’S!
    NO MORE BOTCH’S!


  53. dixie blood says:

    How can GHW Botch (41) claim to be an American or promote his a$$hole family members for this country when his company, The Carlyle Group, is a FACIST ENEMY OF THIS COUNTRY!!!!!!


  54. Coffins Draped with a Flag says:

    Pappy Bush must be referring to 6 generations from now because anyone that is alive today would not put another bush into the White House. One f**kup is bad enough.


  55. Duck Soup says:

    YOU’VE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME! A MEDIOCRE PRESIDENT WHO IS THE FATHER OF ARGUABLY THE WORST PRESIDENT IN THE ENTIRE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES SAYS HE WANTS MORE OF HIS OFFSPRING AS PRESIDENT? THIS GUY OBVIOUSLY PLACES HIS FAMILY ABOVE THE INTERESTS OF THE UNITED STATES. SICK. JUST SICK.


  56. katy says:

    from the transcript:

    WALLACE: Finally, we see what happens when a president makes a decision, walking into the kind of tent where U.S. soldiers camped in the Saudi desert during Operation Desert Storm.
    It’s got to be the hardest thing for any president, to send troops into combat.

    G.H.W. BUSH: Oh, that’s the toughest decision a president make, no question. Nothing compares to it when you send somebody else’s kid, somebody else’s son, somebody else’s daughter, whatever it is, into harm’s way. There’s nothing like it. You can’t blame someone else. You’ve got to say this is — I’m making this call.

    WALLACE: And on a personal level, how do you live with it?

    G.H.W. BUSH: Well, you — with all respect, you pray and you rely heavily on a team of experts, but in the final analysis you live with the decision. And sometimes things work out great, and sometimes I was very worried they wouldn’t.

    When you suit up to be president, that goes with the territory. And it’s not easy. Those things are not easy. But I never, you know, felt sorry for myself because I knew — my mother would say, “You’re doing your best,” and I knew I had a wonderful group of advisers.

    But we couldn’t see how it would all play out, I will confess that.

    WALLACE: The library has a powerful film that puts you right in the action. January 16th, 1991, the night the air war is launched.

    G.H.W. BUSH: I’ll never forget that night.
    [...]
    WALLACE: The president remembered the courage and humanity of American soldiers and he grew emotional.

    G.H.W. BUSH: My favorite picture is a picture of American soldiers surrounding a guy in a foxhole, Iraqi soldier, and the American guy says, “We’re not going to harm you. We’re American soldiers.”

    WALLACE: This really brings back the sacrifice, doesn’t it, sir?

    G.H.W. BUSH: Sure does. You see, that side of the war never got — the fact that he treated those people with respect in spite of the fact that they were the enemy was really good.

    WALLACE: Then some final thoughts about the decisions he had to make.

    G.H.W. BUSH: I still think Saddam Hussein thought he would — one, we wouldn’t fight and, two, if we did fight, somehow talked himself into believing he’d win in the ground war.

    WALLACE: And then the decision to end it…

    G.H.W. BUSH: Yeah.

    WALLACE: … when we were slaughtering them — and again, I mean, I…

    G.H.W. BUSH: I think we made the right decision. I’ve subsequently been criticized for that. But we had an objective. We formed a coalition based on not killing Saddam, not conquering, capturing Baghdad, but on ending the war, ending the aggression. And we did it.

    And so we did what we said we were going to do. Had we not done that, that coalition would have fallen apart in a minute.

    WALLACE: Mr. President, thank you so much. This has been such a wonderful…

    chris, in a hurry to end THAT conversation???

    and talk about putting words into his mouth…
    doddering old fool…
    and, who is “he”?
    .


  57. theswan says:

    I was laughfing at the rudy story, then 41…. this is even better.
    All one has to say is “two fools”instead of one..


  58. Neeko says:

    NO MORE BUSHES!!!!!!


  59. dixie blood says:

    As Jesse Jackson said in 1999, “Stay out of the Bushes. Stay out of the Bushes!!”


  60. katy says:

    Bush: “…See, that side of the war never got — the fact that we treated those people with respect in spite of the fact they were the enemy, it’s really good.

    Sadly, Mr. Bush would now be considered a coward and a terrorist sympathizer by his own party for these views. Go ahead and let it out, sir — the nation weeps with you for what your son has done in our name.

    FOXNews Sunday: Poppy Bush Gets Emotional Remembering How We USED To Treat Prisoners
    http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/11/04/foxnews-sunday-poppy-bush-gets-emotional-remembering-how-we-used-to-treat-prisoners/
    .


  61. celtic cynic says:

    It’s true – all the bushies and fox newsies drink out of the same toilet.
    Be very afraid.


  62. bluestatedon says:

    “I’ve got a grandson that would make a wonderfully able public servant if he ran, George P.,”

    There’s no reason little Georgie P. can’t make a wonderfully able county drain commissioner somewhere in the Texas hinterlands. That’s the proper level for any Bush.


  63. chimpeach says:

    Bush also said that he would like to see another generation of Bushes in public office.

    And we’ll slap them down so hard their grandkids will feel it. The Bush Dynasty will be officially extinct in January ‘09, if not sooner.


  64. Merlin says:

    #66 Comment by bluestatedon — November 4, 2007 @ 9:22 pm

    There’s no reason little Georgie P. can’t make a wonderfully able county drain commissioner somewhere in the Texas hinterlands. That’s the proper level for any Bush.

    Well, this sounds like fun and games. But considering the Bush money and 41s immense power on the world stage, ANY office would be a stepping stone to higher office.

    I’m with chimpeach here. Slap them down and keep them out of politics completely. Let the power and money that got W elected on nothing but his frat boy appeal and a lifetime of failures, die with 41.


  65. smgumby says:

    And, after Hillary wins, she can serve for 8 years. Easily enough time to destroy the Democratic brand, or more honestly destroy any prestige the dems have managed to acquire during the reign of Bush II. By then the next crop of Bush spawn will be ready to assume power as the solution to “all the problems the dirty libs have caused”.

    Let’s break this cycle and say the American Presidency IS NO PLACE FOR LEGACIES. Clinton is sure not to relinquish the power Bush has seized. If it is held onto for 8 more years just think how much more the neocons could take when they eventually get back in power?


  66. sacxtra says:

    Remember the old days of qbasic generated computer music? .BAS files?

    Or of how annoying it was, it could literally give you a headache?

    For the creator of the music, it wasn’t annoying, it was music; now Fox news is that music. It’s programmed to sooth themselves, and annoy others.

    And they have come a long way since those little beepers on your old 8 bit uP (eight bit microprocessor.)

    I used to like fox (locally in Sacramento), back in the day when they first built their TV station on Fruitridge road, not two blocks from my home at the time. As kids we used to go watch big time wrestling. Pat Patterson. Those were the days. We’d hit the 7-11 grab some soda (used to be made with SUGAR back then) and ride our bikes up to the station.

    Now the station looks like a secured area, dry docked submarine with warts, Security fences, locking gates, security cameras, and a plethora of new satellite dishes. I wonder how high the dosage of RF the residents must endure now.

    I wish the 4th estate would wake up.

    I wish the definition of “journalist” could be restored. Not this horrible war on bloggers and Police Department Credentialed Press Pass / Paid / For Profit / political spin garbage that *IS* what they have become.

    Maybe then the Constitution could be restored and the people that wrecked it be held accountable by shining a spotlight on our rigged elections. Rigged by corporate media, electronic tabulation, or dirty tricks, “We The People” have been denied our constitutional rights.

    But I ain’t holding my breath. The 5th estate (the web) is under attack now.


  67. Bush is a TRAITOR says:

    What would happen to the TRILLIONS they have stolen from us, if we were to…print new money, and the ONLY way to get NEW money is to bring in your OLD money.
    Oh the guffaws would be heard all around the world.


  68. Bush is a TRAITOR says:

    We never said send the beotch to the Hague. Hell no, THERE IS MORE THAN ENOUGH EVIDENCE OF HIS TREAS0N HERE to be tried here. AND THEN HVNG IN THE PORTICO OF THE WHITEHOUSE.
    Try to keep up. I know carrying his water is tiring, but if you want to play on the internets, you have to keep up bubba.


  69. enough says:

    Bush should take his political genes and stick them back where they came from. Hasn’t he already done enough?

    Interesting sidenote, Are there no women in that family?????


  70. Jack Jett says:

    Just as a side note, Jeffrey Dahmer’s dad really loved him too.

    Chaotic Modulation
    http://www.YabbaDabbaHubbaDo.com


  71. texaslady says:

    #75 So you see no problem with journalist being held 6 years without being charged with a crime? You need to read Glen Greenwald at Salon and see what has happened to hapbeus corpus. Also, there is a Molly Ivins book just out regarding people dissenting with Bush and what happens.

    Liberas/left whatever you call us are trying to keep your rights alive along with ours.


  72. jerseyboyblue says:

    As if the Chimp didn’t do enough damage, now we have his nephews to worry about?


  73. Ret. Col. Jack Ripper says:

    smgumby: “Let’s break this cycle and say the American Presidency IS NO PLACE FOR LEGACIES. Clinton is sure not to relinquish the power Bush has seized. If it is held onto for 8 more years just think how much more the neocons could take when they eventually get back in power?”

    The Clinton family is not a legacy family. Clinton was the first in his family to get a college education. Bush was the 17th legacy from his family to attend Yale, a string of legacies going back to the 1840’s. To compare the Bush and Clinton families on this basis is simply absurd.

    And, let me remind you of something you probably don’t know – Clinton is the ONLY candidate so far that I know of who has said explicitly that she will review all of the rules enacted by Bush and reverse many of the unconsitutional liberties he has taken for the executive branch.


  74. Ret. Col. Jack Ripper says:

    I’m sick of all this “Clinton family legacy” crap. If people were worried about this issue, the time should have been 2000 when the son of a former president was running. But, nobody brought the issue up. How about that.


  75. mudsharks buddy says:

    name one thing any Boosh has done right?….JUST ONE?



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