Bush Dodges Question About His Biggest ‘Error,’ Focuses On His ‘Disappointment’ With Congress
Bush Dodges Question About His Biggest ‘Error,’ Focuses On His ‘Disappointment’ With Congress
Today, President Bush sat down for an approximately 30-minute interview with Fox Business Channel. Toward the end of the interview, host David Asman asked Bush, “What do you think, looking back, your greatest hit was? Where you really hit one out of the park. And what do you think your greatest error was?”
Bush replied, “Success, there’s been a lot.” But he refused to reveal his greatest error, instead saying that he was disappointed Congress blocked his Social Security plan:
BUSH: Well, I would rather go disappointments, rather than errors. The disappointment is not getting a Social Security package, Social Security reform, because that truly is the big deficit issue. I’m sorry it didn’t happen. I laid out a plan to make it happen — to enable it to happen. I was the first president to have addressed it as specifically as I did. I wish Congress wasn’t so risk-averse on the issue.
Watch it:
Self-reflection and admitting mistakes aren’t strengths of Bush administration officials. In April 2004, Bush famously froze when asked to name the biggest mistake of his presidency. “I wish you would have given me this written question ahead of time, so I could plan for it,” he told the reporter. “Maybe I’m not as quick on my feet as I should be in coming up with one.”
Others in his administration haven’t fared any better in answering the same question. In Nov 2006, Alberto Gonzales said that he couldn’t think of a single mistake he’d made while serving Bush during the last six years. “I think that you and I would — I’d have to spend some time thinking about that,” he said. In March, when asked about the administration’s biggest mistake in Iraq, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice replied, “I don’t know. When we look back over time we will know the answer to that question.”
Bush may be unsure about where he will stand in history, but historians are already debating his legacy. As Rolling Stone recently noted, “Many historians are now wondering whether Bush, in fact, will be remembered as the very worst president in all of American history.”
Transcript:
ASMAN: What do you think, looking back, your greatest hit was? Where you really hit one out of the park. And what do you think your greatest error was?
BUSH: Well, I would rather go disappointments, rather than errors. The disappointment is not getting a Social Security package, Social Security reform, because that truly is the big deficit issue. I’m sorry it didn’t happen. I laid out a plan to make it happen — to enable it to happen. I was the first president to have addressed it as specifically as I did. I wish Congress wasn’t so risk-averse on the issue.
Success, there’s been a lot. Tax cutting, No Child Left Behind, Medicare reform. You know, I would say the advance of liberty. The working hard to secure the homeland from attack. Putting in place tools necessary to protect us, and at the same time be strong in the advancement of liberty is the great alternative to an ideology of hate. And it’s going to be hard, by the way — it’s going to take awhile for history to analyze my administration. So I’m not all that worried about the short-term scorecard. I read three books by Washington last year, and my attitude is if they’re still writing about number one, the 43rd guy doesn’t need to worry about it.
ASMAN: That’s right.
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What a baffoon!
November 13th, 2007 at 7:39 pmMake. Him. Stop. I beg you. Please, just make him stop talking.
November 13th, 2007 at 7:40 pmBush: “Bwaahhhhh, Uncle Dick, Daddy. Congress isn’t just a mindless rubber-stamp no more.”
November 13th, 2007 at 7:41 pmPredictable. Takes credit for “many successes” but refuses to admit a mistake. Instead moves the goalposts, and the major “disappointment”, of course, is someone else’s fault.
Nice job, Babs. You really raised a prince, there.
November 13th, 2007 at 7:42 pmRE: #1 I’m sorry, but my response was too trite. May I say, what a catastrophic baffoon!. In 1999, I asked my 78 year old mother about Bush. She said, we will all be in a war before his first term ends, and “the only thing he knows about governing is what he learns from the oil companies.” Today, Mom is as scared as shit. She thinks she may be arrested for being a witch.
November 13th, 2007 at 7:44 pmNo debate necessary. Certainly the worst president in American history, and one of the most ineffective leaders in modern history world-wide. Unless leading America over a cliff garners points. Sort of like his uniter status: uniting most of the civilized world against him.
Tax cutting, a big win for him. No Child Left Behind, a big win for him. Medicare reform. These are his wins? What a disgrace, what a gigantic loser, what a national embarrassment. Clinton’s blowjob is a bigger accomplishment than anything this cheesy chimp ever actually did, the lazy shit. Thanks for 9/11, Georgie, that’s your legacy, forever!
November 13th, 2007 at 7:45 pmBush’s nightmare is just beginning. Now that Pelosi and Reid have forced the GOP to break with the White House on health care, all hell could break loose over Iraq. Remember, it wasn’t the Dems who forced Nixon to resign: it was GOP members of Congress, desperate to save their asses from getting blistered in the next election cycle. That asshat in the White House will rue the day he stole the Presidency.
November 13th, 2007 at 7:45 pmClinton’s blowjob is a bigger accomplishment than anything this cheesy chimp ever actually did.
Comment by Lefty Patriot — November 13, 2007 @ 7:45 pm
Best. Comment. Ever.
November 13th, 2007 at 7:48 pmUgh, listening to the privileged frat-boy is like chewing fog.
November 13th, 2007 at 7:48 pmChimpy and his cabal of sociopathic criminals have done more damage to this great nation than all of its enemies combined could ever have dreamt of doing. America will never fully recover…odds are it will never recover at all.
“Worst president ever” doesn’t even begin to cover it.
November 13th, 2007 at 7:50 pmShallow, petty and tyrannical.
That about sums up this dissipated legacy hack.
He’s worse than Flounder in Animal House.
-GSD
November 13th, 2007 at 7:51 pmEven his non-answer shows how everything is all about politics. It was mostly Democrats that killed his ill-conceived Social Security plan.
If the issue is disappointments it surely must be immigration reform. It is far more immediate than Social Security. But in this case it was the Republicans that killed the plan. Can’t blame the Republicans, after all.
The next time they need to have a list of items and asked him to define each as a success or a failure and why.
Tax cuts
November 13th, 2007 at 7:54 pmSocial Security
Immigration reform
Iraq invasion
Palestine
etc.
“risk-averse”
interesting choice of term… considering his plan would’ve been, basically,
November 13th, 2007 at 7:55 pma gamble with the stock market…
rather than keeping it the guarenteed insurance protection that it is
designed to be…
…
In April, 1994, Bush also said he would let us know about his biggest failure when something popped in his head. I guess nothing has popped into it yet.
“You know, I just — I’m sure something will pop into my head here in the midst of this press conference”
November 13th, 2007 at 7:56 pmI just noticed that the Fox news reporter is named “Assman”? “ASSMAN”?????
November 13th, 2007 at 7:57 pmNow that I think about it, it’s perfectly understandable how the preznit stumbled over a question about his errors.
The interview was on Faux Bidnid Channel. No one could have predicted that such a question would be asked.
It doesn’t change the fact that he’s a moronic chimporer with poor language skills and little critical thinking ability… hey! Does anyone know if Bush is a troll here on TP?
November 13th, 2007 at 7:59 pmComment by koko the talking gorilla — November 13, 2007 @ 7:34 pm
November 13th, 2007 at 7:59 pm………………………………………………………………………………………………………
I apologize if you found my posts on the previous thread annoying.
How many presidents before him have not felt remorse for decisions they made that they wish had turned out differently. How psychotic is this guy?
November 13th, 2007 at 8:00 pmBush’s greatest accomplishment? Getting the Treasury to put his mom’s face on the $1 bill.
November 13th, 2007 at 8:02 pmWhen in doubt, point the finger at someone else. Seems to be Rule No. 1 in the Republiscum playbook, and also for children who can’t take responsibility for their actions. Shameful. And these Republiscums claim to love America. What a sham. Nothing more than a bunch of crooks who stole our country blind under the watchful eye of the religious whackjobs who put them in office. How proud y’all Christian-trash must be — you’ve all got the blood of our troops on your hands.
November 13th, 2007 at 8:04 pm(troll buster, humbly accepted, with cross-apologies for my fiery language)
November 13th, 2007 at 8:07 pmHow many presidents before him have not felt remorse for decisions they made that they wish had turned out differently. How psychotic is this guy?
Comment by Shayne — November 13, 2007 @ 8:00 pm
Very, Shayne. Very.
November 13th, 2007 at 8:08 pm#5 leftcoast. Your Mom is not a witch, she is a genius. I just shake my head every day and cringe at this moron. Republicans and cons can’t really believe that he is a great President…can they? It is such a scary thought that people actually think this guy is great! It just seems so sureal to me…and very sad…
November 13th, 2007 at 8:13 pmRepublicans and cons can’t really believe that he is a great President…can they?
Considering that the 30 percenters believe in supernatural myths and rapture etc. I’m NOT surprised they think he is a great president.
November 13th, 2007 at 8:17 pmRepublicans and cons can’t really believe that he is a great President…can they?
The Republicans I know here in California — good, solid Reagan and Goldwater Republicans, mostly — are absolutely furious with that idiot in the White House. For his irresponsibility, his willful ignorance, his reflexive belligerence, and mostb of all for his ruining the GOP “brand.” The language they use in denouncing Bush would burn your ears; it rivals anything I’ve read here at TP.
November 13th, 2007 at 8:18 pmBush will be the most hated president in US history, and his legacy will be his failure to defend the USA against foreign attack, and his failure to follow up to capture and punish the planners and perpetrators of that attack (who, for all we know, have offices right down the hall from his).
November 13th, 2007 at 8:26 pmMost of the comments here are about his failure to admit error, but just as telling and just as ludicrous is his claim that there has been “a lot” of success. He’s been in office for almost seven years and he’s got nothin’. Nothin’. Every single one of his major programs has either been a disaster or impossible to sell, every single one of his foreign interventions has flopped, and we’ll always have Katrina.
The man is delusional.
November 13th, 2007 at 8:27 pmkoko the talking gorrilla sez:
Here in Mighigan, some of the most strident anti-Chimpy agitators are Republicans. In addition to all the gripes Dems and Indies have, Repubs (that’s actual small-government, fiscally conservative Repubs) are incensed at the neocons for hijacking their party.
November 13th, 2007 at 8:29 pmWhat he calls “success” are nothing to be proud of. Errors , mistakes or bllunders, uncalcuable. Total failure of a person.
November 13th, 2007 at 8:37 pmIt’s clearly apparent that Bush is really looking forward to his exile at his compound in Paraguay.
Will Condi Rice be joining him ?
November 13th, 2007 at 8:38 pmJoin him on her chevron tanker.
November 13th, 2007 at 8:46 pmUnbelievable. A President with an approval rating in the 20s and yet still the rocks to object to the idea that he has made a mistake. Casting it as a regret, sir, is not the same.
November 13th, 2007 at 8:47 pmRepubs (that’s actual small-government, fiscally conservative Repubs) are incensed at the neocons for hijacking their party.
California Repubs are genuinely concerned that the GOP’s brand is irretrievably ruined. “Remember how people said in 1956 they couldn’t vote for Ike bacause they couldn’t bring themselves to vote for the party of Herbert Hoover? It’s going to be like that for the next 20 or 30 years. Forget about the legacy of Reagan: for the forseeable future, the GOP is the party of military blunders and fiscal collapse. All because of that snot-brained, soulless a__hole in the White House.” That’s an accurate quote, from a longtime California GOP member.
November 13th, 2007 at 8:47 pmThe Bush-Condi Rumors: An Update
http://wonkette.com/ politics/ white-house/ the-bushcondi-rumors-an-update-182711.php
November 13th, 2007 at 8:50 pmHis success’s ……………none to date(including his previous life at everything he tried)…His regrets or ERRORS……..to many to count.almost a year to go……..then we get to rebuild…..geeeezzzz….I loath that dim wit.nit wit or half wit…..no wait…half wit gives him too much credit.
November 13th, 2007 at 9:06 pmkoko - your comment that mentioned reagan reminded me of something i heard on rachel maddow today… from her site:
Dueling columnists over at the New York Times would not normally pique our interests. We try with all our might to resist media naval gazing. However, this is a case whereby we feel compelled to rise ever so slightly above the din and report on the controversy that has engulfed Paul Krugman, David Brooks and now Bob Herbert. So here goes: in 1980 Ronald Reagan made his first campaign stop in Philadelphia, Mississippi to talk about “state rights.” Philadelphia, the county seat of Neshoba Country, was “coincidentally” where 3 civil rights workers, Michael Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman, were murdered in 1964. So, was Reagan’s speech further evidence of GOP racism? Or is that charge a “slur” as David Brooks said? What do you think?
she went on to list reagan’s many very bad offences while in office…
brought back many bad memories…
she says that this controversy is a wonderful opportunity to bring up and hammer home all those misdeeds, because the righties are looking for a hero and they think ronnie is it… the world need to know why he’s not…
November 13th, 2007 at 9:12 pm…
the john birch society’s first united states president.
(formerly the republican party aka “the grand old party“)
November 13th, 2007 at 9:16 pmcan no longer stomach looking at him much less than clicking on the screen to hear him.
My heart and hope is here:http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/ 2007/ 11/ 13/ edwards-takes-on-congress-in-new-ad/
What a great statement!
November 13th, 2007 at 9:17 pmAmerica……we need to end him.
November 13th, 2007 at 9:26 pmI worry. Nothing else to say.
November 13th, 2007 at 9:31 pmBush, disappointed in Congress?
The only reason Congress’ approval rating is less than His is because “impeachment is off the table.”
November 13th, 2007 at 9:36 pmI got a 300 buck check out of the deal, thanks Chimp.
November 13th, 2007 at 9:37 pmBush’s only regret is that he couldn’t finish screwing the working class by putting Social Secuity’s billions into the hands of the investor class.
November 13th, 2007 at 9:40 pmSomeone just sh00t the motherfu(ker now, PUUHHHLLEEEZZZ!!!!!!!!! RIght between the eyes, and make his head all mushy like.
November 13th, 2007 at 9:41 pmThis coup has been well underway since 2000.
Wake up. Put down your TV remotes.
Nothing is stopping them.
What’s it gonna take, America?
B R I N G T H E M D O W N - or America will perish
November 13th, 2007 at 9:42 pmfor your entertainment:
November 13th, 2007 at 9:47 pmthe protesters won this one in Olympia, WA…http://www.olyblog.net/
Its like watching a trainwreck.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2jUYNimDnE
November 13th, 2007 at 9:55 pmErrors?? Uhhh, how about not heeding the August 6, 2001 Presidential Daily Briefing entitled “Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US”? You know, continuing your 28-day vacation in Crawford after getting the warning? How about not doing anything about bin Laden or al Qaeda the first 234 days of your presidency? That’s just off the top of my head for starters.
Then there is: not heeding the warning about what Hurricane Katrina could do to New Orleans.
Then, how about taking us from record surpluses to record deficits? Now going past $9 Trillion, when it was less than $1 Trillion the first 200 years of the US (end of Carter).
Maybe he wanted 9/11 to happen. Maybe he doesn’t care if New Orleans gets destroyed. Maybe he wants the government to go broke.
No wonder even conservative historians are saying he’s the worst ever!
November 13th, 2007 at 9:56 pmAnd W, if you weren’t raiding the Social Security trust fund, your deficits would be even more horribly blatant!
November 13th, 2007 at 9:58 pm“…the advance of liberty..” - does that even make sense? and “….working hard to secure the homeland from attack…” - WTF!!??!! - america should have realised during the 7 minutes when this dipship sat frozen with fear while the nation WAS under attack that this guy could never be any sort of leader…….and he got in for a 2nd term!!!!…..what were you guys thinking?
November 13th, 2007 at 10:01 pm” Nov 13 (Reuters) - The Iraq and Afghanistan wars could cost the United States $3.5 trillion through 2017 if “hidden costs” like higher oil prices, care for wounded soldiers and interest on borrowed money are counted, congressional Democrats said on Tuesday….”
http://today.reuters.com/ news/ articleinvesting.aspx?type=bondsNews&storyID=2007-11-13T214409Z_01_N13609350_RTRIDST_0_USA-WAR-COSTS-UPDATE-2-PIX.XML
November 13th, 2007 at 10:07 pmComment by shaun — November 13, 2007 @ 10:01 pm
Bush learned about the first plane hitting the WTC in the limo driving to the school. They still decided to go ahead with the photo-op. When Bush said he saw on tv, inside the school, video of the first plane hitting the WTC—he was lying. This was quite impossible.
November 13th, 2007 at 10:11 pmIt is actually very hard to name his biggest error. First, one must assume that the possibilities like letting 9/11 happen in spite prior warning, invading Iraq pre-emptively with nothing to preempt, etc. were “errors” rather than wilful misconduct. Second one must select among so many fiascos.
November 13th, 2007 at 10:12 pmMust be getting pretty grim when even Faux News asks him such a question.
Clinton’s blowjob is a bigger accomplishment than anything this cheesy chimp ever actually did.
Comment by Lefty Patriot — November 13, 2007 @ 7:45 pm
Best. Comment. Ever.
Comment by ralph the wonder llama — November 13, 2007 @ 7:48 pm
I agree. Brilliant Mr. Patriot.
Delusional, psychotic and stupid. What a trifecta. I’m almost
November 13th, 2007 at 10:21 pmafraid to get up every morning.
The 43rd guy is an idiot today, will be an idiot tomorrow and 200 years from now people will be saying “what the fu(k were they thinking, that guy was a total moron”.
November 13th, 2007 at 10:36 pmDavid Asman and Fox are wonderful ‘fluffers’ for the Bush administration. Afterward they walked away holding hands as David said to George ‘Was it good for you?’. Fantasy TV at it best.
Fox is a joke, Bush is a [bad] joke, and the Fox Business Channel is just a sorry example.
November 13th, 2007 at 10:39 pmIt is impossible to put into words how much I hate this POS.
That is an interesting condition to hate someone that much when you have never even met them.
November 13th, 2007 at 10:40 pm51 - Keith,
Every time Americans put gas in their cars (and when they go to the polls) they should be reminded that before Bush&Cheney put their plan into effect oil was less than half of what it is now and [here] a gallon of gas was *around* a dollar.
November 13th, 2007 at 10:44 pmIf he admits to even one error, he’ll have to start drinking and cokin again. Oh, what? He has already? Must have slipped up and admitted that getting a veto overridden was a mistake!
November 13th, 2007 at 10:46 pmComment by TRDaggett — November 13, 2007 @ 10:44 pm
From 1993-2000, the price of a gallon of gas didn’t move at all. Course we didn’t have an administration full of oil people then.
The reserves of the top five western oil corps is now worth $2.2 TRILLION thanks to the $95 barrel. Strange the way every move that Bush makes increases their wealth.
November 13th, 2007 at 10:49 pmRepubs (that’s actual small-government, fiscally conservative Repubs) are incensed at the neocons for hijacking their party.
Comment by TripMaster Monkey
I know five former Republicans. Four are now Democrats and one is an Independent. To a number they think the best thing that can happen to the Republican party right now is a complete and total defeat. I certainly hope that happens. It looks like the Democrats might finally be growing some spine. If it turns out to be true, the Republicans will become obsolete in the next election.
November 13th, 2007 at 10:59 pmMaybe he wanted 9/11 to happen. Maybe he doesn’t care if New Orleans gets destroyed. Maybe he wants the government to go broke.
Of course he wants the government to go broke. That’s what he’s been doing for 6 years. Then once it is completely broke, the private sector can move in and save us all. What, you don’t have enough money to pay for a fireman to put out the fire in your house, too bad so sad. You don’t have enough money to pay a privatized school to educate your children, too bad so sad. Bush has been trying to drown the government in the bathtub since the day he took office.
November 13th, 2007 at 11:04 pmbush’s greatest legacy will be the complete and utter destruction of the republican party. Cheers☺☺☺
November 13th, 2007 at 11:08 pmBUSH’S BIGGEST ERROR…BEING BORN.
November 13th, 2007 at 11:11 pmIf this was 1793 I’d vote for both Bush and Cheney being introduced to the French ‘National Razor’ for their crimes, unsharpened of course.
Is that harsh? Probably, but not undeserved. If they want to act like bloody monarchs they get what they deserve. Although I’d settle for a nice hot tarring and feathering, followed by prison.
November 13th, 2007 at 11:14 pmThe reserves of the top five western oil corps is now worth $2.2 TRILLION thanks to the $95 barrel. Strange the way every move that Bush makes increases their wealth.
Comment by Keith — November 13, 2007 @ 10:49 pm
Which is precisely why he can honestly claim many successes and no mistakes. His purpose was to enrich his buddies in the oil industry and secure a stranglehold on the Supreme Court while centralizing power in the Office of the President.
Mission Accomplished.
November 13th, 2007 at 11:15 pmcan we impeach him yet?
a vote for the national initiative is a vote to impeach
http://www.ni4d.us
November 13th, 2007 at 11:27 pmBush will always think his only error was having Congressional and Judicial branches of government. He did his best to render them powerless.
November 13th, 2007 at 11:44 pm62 bilbobaggins
November 14th, 2007 at 12:03 amThis will be the way The New Deal is killed… social security and all. If we need a job, we can always go fight in one of the planned wars.
But then when I watched this http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/ 2007/ 11/ 13/ edwards-takes-on-congress-in-new-ad/
a little ray of hope beamed… could this guy, speaking to the American people in this style actually be giving the SOTU address Jan. ‘09?
Words from Edward’s video:
Oh, Lefty Patriot,
If you follow back Shrub’s lineage on his mother’s side, you will find another president who is known as one of the most dismal failures. Could it be genetic ?
Of course, here it is I’m supposed to go to confessional weekly and Shrub can’t figure out a single mistake or failure in 7 years. The guy is a Saint I tell you. A Saint !
November 14th, 2007 at 12:16 am.
I’m still trying to figure out how journalists let Bush get away with his “war is peace” speech to the children’s choir bit. The indoctrination of Orwellian ideals as American Principles starts at such a early age, NO?
This does not surprise me anymore.
Propagandists have supplanted journalists, making the investigative journalist nearly extinct.
.
November 14th, 2007 at 2:07 amHistorians need to be less “risk-averse.” You can stop wondering: he is, without a doubt, the worst president in history, and ‘08 is yet to come. Get ready, if that’s possible, and it’s not.
November 14th, 2007 at 5:54 amFetal alcohol syndrome is no laughing matter. Babs you should have never slammed down all that bourbon while this one was in the oven. Look at the idiot you bestowed upon the world.
http://thumbsnap.com/v/6YvXAPG0.jpg
November 14th, 2007 at 6:51 amI hope that George Bush, after his term has ended, will enjoy a level of compassion and respect equal to the compassion and respect he has shown for “the people” here at home as well as those grateful Iraqis he saved from Saddam.
November 14th, 2007 at 7:06 am(sarcasm/on)
He does have a point about Social Security. It cost this country many trillions of dollars a year. By some accounts we are bankrubt already due to Social Secuirty.
Read this:
http://usatoday.printthis.clickability.com/ pt/ cpt?action=cpt&title=USATODAY.com&expire=&urlID=22498576&fb=Y&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.usatoday.com%2Fprintedition%2Fnews%2F20070529%2F1a_lede29.art.htm&partnerID=1660
November 14th, 2007 at 8:58 amSpend a few minutes in an insane asylum
These guys don’t know they’re crazy either
http://bench.nationalreview.com/
November 14th, 2007 at 9:23 amHis ignorance of his errors just solidifies the earlier thread that most Americans believe he has abused his powers. Whether he learns this or not is secondary to the public knowing this and congress doing something about it.
November 14th, 2007 at 9:32 amBush replied, “Success, there’s been a lot.†But he refused to reveal his greatest error, instead saying that he was disappointed Congress blocked his Social Security plan:
Oh , you mean like the “success” Iraq and Afghanistan have both turned out to be ?
The “success” of drowning the people of New Orleans ?
The “success” of crapping on our Constitution ?
The “success” of lying your country into an ill-conceived and unnecessary war ?
The “success” of outing an undercover CIA officer for partisan political purposes/retribution and failure to uphold your word to investigate it ?
The “success” of hiring cronies/unqualified applicants as opposed to competent individuals ?
The “success” of politicizing and polarizing all 3 branches of the US government ?
The “success” of enriching the already fabulously wealthy with tax cuts while more Americans than ever live in poverty and estimates already have over 1,500 Veterans that fought in Iraq and/or Afghanistan that are homeless ?
The “success” of Walter Reed , supposedly “the” military hospital in the US , containing conditions that you don’t find in sleazy hotels/motels and that had to be endured by our returning heros from an illegal occupation you yourself initiated and continue to stand by ?
The “success” of alienating the US from just about every country on the planet ?
The “success” of taking our reputation around the world as the most trusted and of being the shining beacon of freedom and reducing it to the trust that is generally associated with how most people view used car salesmen ?
You are a delusional , stupid , moronic piece of shit , and you and your entire crappy administration , past and present , should all be in friggin’ jail ……………….End of story , you grinning , braying , stupid jackass.
November 14th, 2007 at 9:38 amGeorge Bush’s inability to articulate a cohesive sentence is dwarfed only by his complete and utter contempt for truth.
November 14th, 2007 at 9:52 amBush is way to modest. He was successful in many things. He successfully covered up his AWOL and drug habits. He has made great strides in dividing the country. He achieved his goal of only allowing submissives to his campaign rallies and speeches. I’m sure we can find many more.
November 14th, 2007 at 9:58 amIn his mind… His biggest error is… Congress?!?!!
November 14th, 2007 at 11:17 amMSmetal what you said is so right on the money. Thank you!
November 14th, 2007 at 12:59 pmMy Way, Sinatra lyrics-
And now, the end is near;
And so I face the final curtain.
My friend, Ill say it clear,
Ill state my case, of which Im certain.
Ive lived a life thats full.
Ive traveled each and evry highway;
And more, much more than this,
I did it my way.
Regrets, Ive had a few;
But then again, too few to mention.
I did what I had to do
And saw it through without exemption.
I planned each charted course;
Each careful step along the byway,
But more, much more than this,
I did it my way.
Yes, there were times, Im sure you knew
When I bit off more than I could chew.
But through it all, when there was doubt,
I ate it up and spit it out.
I faced it all and I stood tall;
And did it my way.
Ive loved, Ive laughed and cried.
Ive had my fill; my share of losing.
And now, as tears subside,
I find it all so amusing.
To think I did all that;
And may I say - not in a shy way,
No, oh no not me,
I did it my way.
For what is a man, what has he got?
November 14th, 2007 at 1:00 pmIf not himself, then he has naught.
To say the things he truly feels;
And not the words of one who kneels.
The record shows I took the blows -
And did it my way!
THIS ANIMAL IS A WAR CRIMINAL! THE OTHER VICE-ANIMAL IS ALSO A WAR CRIMINAL! IMPEACH, INDICT AND IMPRISION ALL MEMBERS OF THIS OBSCENE ADMINISTRATION! USA=FACISM!
November 14th, 2007 at 1:42 pmSHAME ON CONGRESS FOR HAVING NOTHING DONE ABOUT THESE WAR CRIMINALS!
November 14th, 2007 at 1:44 pmRoger_Roger —
November 14th, 2007 at 2:19 pmSocial security was fine until Reagan messed with it. The cap to pay in is now 90,000. Eliminate that, make ALL pay their fair share and the system may balance out.
My attitude is, if they’re still writing about (number) one, 43 doesn’t need to worry about it.” –George W. Bush, on his legacy, Tipp City, Ohio, April 19, 2007
THE PRESIDENT: They do. And so therefore my attitude is if they’re analyzing the first President, the 43rd President doesn’t need to worry about it. –RTL & n-tv German TV interview November 7, 2007
“That’s George Washington, the first president, of course. The interesting thing about him is that I read three—three or four books about him last year. Isn’t that interesting?”—Showing German newspaper reporter Kai Diekmann the Oval Office, Washington, D.C., May 5, 2006
“He likes to talk about the fact that he read three George Washington biographies last year, he says, ‘I think they’re still trying to figure out number one, I think it’s going to be a while before they get to number 43.’”– Former White House Press Secretary Tony Snow, on the Late Show with David Letterman, about President Bush.
November 14th, 2007 at 2:21 pmI love the Google.
November 14th, 2007 at 2:22 pmI served in Submarines for 19 years from 54 to 73. The biggest mistake in history is that the Submarine Bowfin rescued his Father when he was shot down over Chi Chi Jima in WW11.
His gonads would have went to the bottom with him and the Chimp as well!!!!
November 14th, 2007 at 9:43 pmhttp://youtube.com/watch?v=w8px_KyIFyo just for shits and giggles.Letterman…top ten GWB moments…..enjoy…..the first 50 seconds is tough…Tony Snow job…then it takes off.
November 14th, 2007 at 9:53 pm