Bush: ‘I’m just a simple president.’
Bush: ‘I’m just a simple president.’
In an interview with PBS that aired last night, host Susie Gharib asked the President about rising oil prices. Bush, however, replied that he was “just a simple president” and was unable to explain how his oil policy would actually work:
GHARIB: Well, you’ve pressed OPEC to increase oil production –
BUSH: I did.
GHARIB: And they didn’t do it. Let’s say that OPEC did pump more oil. How much do you think that that would bring down oil prices, by $20, $30?
BUSH: You know, I don’t know. You’re going to have to ask the experts that. I’m just a simple president. But I really don’t know what it would do. I do know that the main problem is supply and demand and excess supply obviously would help.
Watch it:
Just last week, when Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) was asked what he would do about rising gasoline prices, he was similarly clueless: “I would love to tell you that I have an immediate answer for that. And I don’t.”
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Oh, he is simple alright…
March 13th, 2008 at 5:23 pmBush: ‘I’m just a simpleton president.’
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There, TP — I fixed it for you.
March 13th, 2008 at 5:23 pmoops — I see others are like-minded. Well, it was so obvious…
March 13th, 2008 at 5:24 pmHow about “I’m just a stunningly incompetent horse’s ass, and I still have ten more months of damage to do the country.”
March 13th, 2008 at 5:25 pmGeorge how do you check your oil level? You use you.
March 13th, 2008 at 5:25 pmBush: ‘I’m just a simple president.’
– - And by simple, I mean in a “self-deprecating, Lincolnesque, meek shall inherit the earth,” kinda way.
March 13th, 2008 at 5:25 pmComment by Daryll — March 13, 2008 @ 5:24 pm
Speaking of simpletons.
March 13th, 2008 at 5:26 pmSimple he is, president he is not.
March 13th, 2008 at 5:26 pmThe chymp pulls out the good ol’ boy bullshit when he’s faced with the utter failure that is his legacy.
March 13th, 2008 at 5:27 pmDaryll, where’s my $30,000 that you should be paying as a dufus deficit supporter?
Do the trollmasters know that Daryll is posting in a thread that is not about Chistofascism or gay sex?
Is he cleared for this duty?
March 13th, 2008 at 5:27 pmThe fool who has relished every moment of being the most important figure in the world bald-faced lies when he sais he is just a simple president. He has NEVER thought that – he has an ego the size of Texas. Too bad his brain is the size of a pea.
March 13th, 2008 at 5:29 pmLet me guess the liberal response to this post:
Yeah, simple-minded, or a simpleton.
There you go, next post please.
Comment by Daryll — March 13, 2008 @ 5:24 pm
Actually, this would be the response of ANYONE who wasn’t deaf, dumb and blind. Remember….this is the guy who’s been telling us that we aren’t headed toward a recession; that our economic fundamentals are strong; who didn’t know that gasoline is projected to increase to $4.00 per gallon by this summer.
March 13th, 2008 at 5:29 pmYeah, simple-minded, or a simpleton.
(oh my god did someone already say that?!)
March 13th, 2008 at 5:29 pmIsn’t the answer always tax cuts?
March 13th, 2008 at 5:29 pmOh, how much will it bring down gas prices?
Umm, “Tax-cut-teen dollars a tax-cut?”
But the ‘real’ answers are always too simple to be reported by the reality obsessed media, like PBS…
Let me guess the Bushlicker response to this post:
Oh, mighty president! Smite thy detractors! Blast them into oblivion for daring to ask you a question you have no answer for!
March 13th, 2008 at 5:29 pmCast them into the eternal elevator music booth for their audacity in asking you a question you haven’t got a clue about!
Why doesn’t he just admit he doesn’t care? All of his petrobuddies are raking the money in hand over fist, so cutting oil prices is scarcely anything he’s going to worry about.
March 13th, 2008 at 5:30 pmIs there a reason we’re still paying his salary?
March 13th, 2008 at 5:30 pmBush’s statements and actions continue to be the single greatest embarrassment in American history.
Next the prez should be asked how is “strong dollar” policy is working out… Can our MBA president explain that one to me?
March 13th, 2008 at 5:30 pmDo the trollmasters know that Daryll is posting in a thread that is not about Chistofascism or gay sex?
Is he cleared for this duty?
Comment by ralph the wonder llama — March 13, 2008 @ 5:27 pm
This is obviously his brother, Daryll.
March 13th, 2008 at 5:31 pmNow that Daryll can predict the future I’m sure he’ll now proceed to write his own version of 21st century revelations, The book of Daryll.
March 13th, 2008 at 5:31 pmI suppose, inside the bubble, you can be a plain and simple President but an absolutely awesome and never-wrong Unitary Executive. Jeesh.
March 13th, 2008 at 5:31 pmhost Susie Gharib
– - Is that Lynndie England’s stage name?
March 13th, 2008 at 5:31 pmbush is simply the worst president ever..Piss poor dictator as well…Blessings
March 13th, 2008 at 5:31 pmComment by Daryll — March 13, 2008 @ 5:24 pm
Simple is as simple does.
March 13th, 2008 at 5:32 pmThe man admitted he’s a simple President. He will be remembered as such. Simple, unenumbered with difficult tasks. But wait, wasn’t being a president “Hard Work” and now he’s simple. What was so hard if he is simple? Which executive order or signing statement was the “hard work” and what one’s were “simple”
Oh Daryll, I didn’t see if you took the test on spotting the false prophet.
March 13th, 2008 at 5:33 pm“Simple” is an old-school pc term that means “retarded”.
March 13th, 2008 at 5:33 pmWe should just replace the use of oil altogether as America’s fuel of choice. This doesn’t mean singing the praises of ethanol, and hoping that it finds its way into our fuel supply on its own. It means taking some serious steps now to put a national bio-fuel infrastructure into place. Already some cars on the road have flexible fuel tanks necessary for them to run on E85, which is a cheaper, cleaner blend of 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline.
“Diane Rodhan Ginâ€
Comment by Rodham Gin — March 13, 2008 @ 5:29 pm
could you please rephrase that so our “simple president” can understand it?
March 13th, 2008 at 5:33 pmWhy doesn’t he just admit he doesn’t care?
Comment by gummitch — March 13, 2008 @ 5:30 pm
That’s what he keeps asking Unca Dick. “Why can’t I just say I don’t care? ‘Cause I don’t. And I’m tired of pretendin’ I do.”
Then Unca Dick says, “But what about your legacy, George? You think Lincoln would tell people he didn’t care?”
That will usually get George to straighten up and fly right for a while. At least long enough to get through another interview.
March 13th, 2008 at 5:34 pmC’mon everyone- let’s give him a break…
March 13th, 2008 at 5:38 pmI mean it’s not like he ever worked in the oil and gas industry, how’s he supposed to know how production effects price in the…
What’s that? He DID work in the oil and gas industry?
Well, it’s not like he has any pull with the Saudis… The royal family have been family friends for years, you say?
Wow, well I can’t think how to explain the unreasonably high gas prices then…
I’ve got a sack of rocks that says otherwise, Mr. oops-i-misspelled-my-handle.
March 13th, 2008 at 5:39 pmDoes that stone pile dude still think anyone is buying his act?
March 13th, 2008 at 5:40 pmHe and his gang of thieves and cronies are tied to the oil business.
March 13th, 2008 at 5:41 pmIt would not be in their interest to see the price go down.
Why would they want that?
The dig at McCain is unwarranted. Neither McCain nor anyone else *knows* what to do about gasoline prices. Sure, he could have said something politicianly such as “We need to work to ensure that Americans can afford to drive when they need to” and bobbed and weaved on specifics, and maybe he should have. But saying, in effect, “I don’t know yet what I’ll do” on a tough issue isn’t clueless.
There’s also a difference of degree. McCain said he hasn’t worked out a plan yet. Bush said he had a plan already and had no idea what it would do. The latter is the more dangerous.
March 13th, 2008 at 5:41 pmComment by tombaker — March 13, 2008 @ 5:39 pm
LMFAO!!!
March 13th, 2008 at 5:42 pmJohn McCain: Not only do I not have an answer, you’re going to have to repeat the question…
March 13th, 2008 at 5:44 pmSimple is right.. Simple minded… A President that has two asses instead of one. Will be glad when this clown is history on January 20, 2009. He certainly polluted the integrity of this country.
March 13th, 2008 at 5:44 pmThe dig at McMaverick is completely warranted. He obviously knows even less than W (imagine that!) about the energy situation. Not only that, but he’s already telegraphed the idea that his DoE will be nothing more than a continuation of W/Dick’s, which is as much as saying it will definitely be a criminal cabal of crooked oilmen.
March 13th, 2008 at 5:46 pmYou don’t think its fun to rip on me? Or is it only fun when you think you actually hurt someone feelings?
Comment by Thecairngman — March 13, 2008 @ 5:42 pm
this is for you,
FEELINGS
Feelings, nothing more than feelings,
trying to forget my feelings of love.
Teardrops rolling down on my face,
trying to forget my feelings of love.
Feelings, for all my life I’ll feel it.
I wish I’ve never met you, girl; you’ll never come again.
Feelings, wo-o-o feelings,
wo-o-o, feel you again in my arms.
Feelings, feelings like I’ve never lost you
and feelings like I’ve never have you again in my heart.
Feelings, for all my life I’ll feel it.
I wish I’ve never met you, girl; you’ll never come again.
Feelings, feelings like I’ve never lost you
and feelings like I’ve never have you again in my life.
Feelings, wo-o-o feelings,
wo-o-o, feelings again in my arms.
Feelings…(repeat & fade)
feel better?
March 13th, 2008 at 5:46 pmAnd Sam Ervin was just a “simple country lawyer”!
March 13th, 2008 at 5:46 pm42 – I’d really rather not have it as part of my day, but you just won’t go away.
March 13th, 2008 at 5:47 pmYou don’t think its fun to rip on me? Or is it only fun when you think you actually hurt someone feelings?
Comment by Thecairngman — March 13, 2008 @ 5:42 pm
what feelings? you wingnuts don’t have feelings, being made of pure shit, and all.
March 13th, 2008 at 5:47 pmMore accurate
Bush: ‘I’m just a simpleton.’
March 13th, 2008 at 5:47 pmGWB, the self-described “simple president,” who has an MBA from Harvard.
Got one out of a gumball machine on campus
March 13th, 2008 at 5:48 pmOur supply of “simple President” seems to be much greater than our demand for same.
March 13th, 2008 at 5:48 pmsaying, in effect, “I don’t know yet what I’ll do†on a tough issue isn’t clueless.
Comment by Editer — March 13, 2008 @ 5:41 pm
Sounds like a very good definition of clueless, if you ask me.
March 13th, 2008 at 5:48 pmHow much do you think that that would bring down oil prices, by $20, $30?
“Hell I don’t know! Isn’t if obvious that I never should have had this job in the first place? Let the next president answer that.”
- President Dinkledorf
March 13th, 2008 at 5:48 pm“I’m just a simple, unfrozen caveman lawyer. Your “telephones” and “cars” frighten me. But I do know one thing, and that is my client is not guilty”
r.i.p. Phil Hartman. How much you are missed.
March 13th, 2008 at 5:48 pmLet’s see, George goes to Saudi Arabia for our lazy, corrupt media to show how concerned about the price of oil and to try to get them to increase production. In reality, George goes and plays kissy kissy with his oil buddies (and thank the bin Laden’s in person), take a day off and go play in the desert while pretending he’s Lawrence of Arabia and finally a little more kissy kissy hand holding while they give him his suitcase of kickbacks for him and Daddy to bathe in. They may love oil, but they worship money. And what do we get? Nothing but a dog and pony show president and a lazy, corrupt media that’s complicit.
March 13th, 2008 at 5:49 pmComment by joe cantwell — March 13, 2008 @ 5:46 pm
joe, I’m ashamed to admit it, but that made me cry a little bit.
(sniff)
March 13th, 2008 at 5:49 pmJoe get’s a bravo from the witch for makeing her laugh with the song thingie….Ah, there are good thing’s to read and remember….Blessings Joe.
March 13th, 2008 at 5:50 pmPart of his interview:
GHARIB: Right, right. You mentioned that one of the reasons that’s driving up the price of oil is the dollar. You have said that you are for a strong dollar. Do we have a strong dollar now?
BUSH: We have a dollar that’s adjusting and I am for a strong dollar. One reason I am for a strong dollar is because I want, you know, people to — I think it helps deal with inflation. And you’re right, the weakening dollar has affected our capacity to be able to purchase energy. We’re dependent on energy from overseas. Our dollar doesn’t buy as many barrels of oil as it used to and so therefore it’s more expensive for the American people. And that’s why I’m for a strong dollar; one reason.
Hurts the brain doesn’t it.
March 13th, 2008 at 5:50 pmOkay, completely serious for a moment:
This is a GREAT example of the stupidity of “Supply Side Economics”, and the foolish belief that all we need to do to “permanently” drive oil prices down is to glut the market.
“Supply-siders” actually believe that if you produce a LOT of something, there will automatically be a market for it. While there is already a market for oil, prices aren’t high because “there isn’t enough of it”. It’s high because of instability in the region due to war and because the price of oil is valued against the U.S. dollar… which is sinking like a stone.
Stop all the war-mongering, stop printing more worthless bills to purchase more debt, and raise taxes on the top 2% to start paying it off, and you’ll increase the value of the dollar, regain some stability in the Middle East, and bring the cost of a barrel of oil back down to more reasonable levels.
The fact that these idiots can’t figure this out is frightening.
March 13th, 2008 at 5:52 pmBUSH (aside): They still make dollars, right?
March 13th, 2008 at 5:52 pmWell the high price of fuel has reduced consumption so jawboning OPEC about production is moot.
March 13th, 2008 at 5:53 pmIs there a reason we’re still paying his salary?
Comment by leftcoast — March 13, 2008 @ 5:30 p
I don’t know, but Americans are starting to look like some of the biggest jackasses on the planet.
The Bush gang has wreaked havoc on the Federal Government, the American dollar and economy. They are constantly lying and robbing the American people and have maxed out the national credit card.
The dollar is tanking and it ain’t going to stop going down in the near future. That causes investors (people who don’t work for a living) to need a place to park their money as a hedge against inflation.
March 13th, 2008 at 5:53 pmThe stock market ain’t gonna work no more, real estate in Florida ain’t gonna work no more, so oceans of money are being parked in commodities.
Comment by Thecairngman — March 13, 2008 @ 5:42 pm
Since when do you give a damn about people’s feelings? If you want to blindly follow another man (a dumbass one at that) into the abyss go right ahead. But don’t criticize and make fun of people who choose to open their eyes and see clearly the chasm before them.
March 13th, 2008 at 5:53 pm(Quote from Bush)
Hurts the brain doesn’t it.
Comment by hellinabucket — March 13, 2008 @ 5:50 pm
I’m betting it hurt his brain. He probably got up from the interview and headed straight for the wet bar.
March 13th, 2008 at 5:53 pmHey Editer: That you and/or McCain don’t understand exactly how badly screwed we are re: oil and the economy, clearly demonstrates why McCain shouldn’t be President and you shouldn’t vote.
In case you haven’t been paying attention, the economy is on the skids – BIG TIME. You should probably start stashing a few dollars away, along with some foreign currency and a little gold.
McCain should take a nap.
March 13th, 2008 at 5:56 pmThe worst, most criminal, simpleton president in history.
Bush/Cheney
March 13th, 2008 at 5:59 pmHague Trials ‘09
here Bush, I’ll fix it for you.
‘I’m just a simple idiot.’
March 13th, 2008 at 5:59 pm“Simple†is an old-school pc term that means “retardedâ€.
Comment by tombaker — March 13, 2008 @ 5:33 pm
As are ‘delayed’ and ‘challenged’
All are apropos.
March 13th, 2008 at 6:02 pmhere Bush, I’ll fix it for you.
‘I’m just a simple idiot.’
Comment by Uncle Ho — March 13, 2008 @ 5:59 pm
Oh, Uncle Ho, how stoked were you that no one came up with that before you?
Nicely done.
March 13th, 2008 at 6:03 pmP.S. John Gibson has been canceled from Faux T.V.
Comment by Dr. Matt
Ouch.
March 13th, 2008 at 6:03 pmYou don’t think its fun to rip on me? Or is it only fun when you think you actually hurt someone feelings?
Comment by Thecairngman — March 13, 2008 @ 5:42 pm
Sniff, boo hoo, waaaahhhhh!
March 13th, 2008 at 6:04 pmWiddow feewings hurt, oh no! You’re going to tell your Mommy?
From Robt. Samuelsomn in the current Newsweek:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/119895
Go back to late 2006. Crude prices were slipping from about $70 a barrel in August toward $50 a barrel (a level that, a few years earlier, seemed astronomiÂcal). A true cartel would cut production to prop up prices. That’s what OPEC did. In two steps, it reduced oil output by about 800,000 barrels a day, notes economist Larry Goldstein of EPRINC. “By July, 125 million barrels of oil inventory had been wiped out,” he says. At the end of 2007, inventories (measured by days of supply) were at their lowest point in three years. Prices rose. Without OPEC’s supply cuts, they wouldn’t now be at $100 a barrel.
OPEC means Saudi Arabia, since all other members are producing at maximum levels. So much for Bush’s influence,
March 13th, 2008 at 6:05 pmI think hes practicing his mastery of low expectations again which allows him to get away with alot of stuff.
March 13th, 2008 at 6:05 pmI would much rather a Bul $hit Answer! I bet Obama’s got a good one!
Comment by Thecairngman
As usual, a Reichwinger butchering the English language.
I’m amazed that this one can type and breath at the same time.
March 13th, 2008 at 6:06 pmP.S. John Gibson has been canceled from Faux T.V.
Comment by Dr. Matt — March 13, 2008 @ 6:02 pm
I sent that to TP World Headquarters an hour or two ago and they ignored it.
March 13th, 2008 at 6:06 pmNO! You are a simpleton!
Comment by Dr. Matt — March 13, 2008 @ 5:23 pm
That’s an insult to simpletons!
March 13th, 2008 at 6:08 pmBilly, ahh, I dont do ‘grope’ hugs =P
March 13th, 2008 at 6:09 pm[yes i know its a typo, funny though]
Group hugs, yes.
I sent that to TP World Headquarters an hour or two ago and they ignored it.
Comment by gummitch — March 13, 2008 @ 6:06 pm
Did you say something mean about Hillary…? :-D
March 13th, 2008 at 6:10 pmJohn Gibson has been canceled from Faux T.V.
– - If you’re a fake journalist on a fake news network and you get fired, is anyone there to see it?
March 13th, 2008 at 6:11 pmI would like to take this opportunity to apologize to everyone for everything I have ever done, etc…
Comment by Billy Hill
Thank you, Silly Willy, but you don’t need to apologize for everything.
I personally want to thank you for your efforts at snarky humor, which make the rest of us look positively brilliant in comparison.
March 13th, 2008 at 6:11 pmDid you say something mean about Hillary…? :-D
Comment by Zooey — March 13, 2008 @ 6:10 pm
Me? Heaven forfend.
March 13th, 2008 at 6:12 pmI personally want to thank you for your efforts at snarky humor, which make the rest of us look positively brilliant in comparison.
Comment by Nevar — March 13, 2008 @ 6:11 pm
With some exceptions.
March 13th, 2008 at 6:13 pmComment by Billy Hill — March 13, 2008 @ 6:06 pm
Billy, Billy, Billy… you’re the reason they’re talking about about putting Robitussin behind the pharmacist’s counter…
Lay off the stuff, okay? And go put on some clean pants.
We only say this because we care.
March 13th, 2008 at 6:13 pmWe only say this because we care.
Comment by ralph the wonder llama — March 13, 2008 @ 6:13 pm
about your feelings.
March 13th, 2008 at 6:16 pmJoeC, you crack me up!! BRAVO!
RUC, they honestly think any of us give two craps about them? Other than screwing with their idiotic views, they’re dustballs!
As for ethanol, brilliant idea to take what could be food and make it into something even less efficient than oil. Droughts are taking alot of farmland and if we keep on keeping on, we’re going to hit dust bowl proportions. Of course, a moron lawyer, doctor, baker, thief (whatever the heck she is today) would think it a brilliant idea. This dumb b!tch is an embarrassment to women everywhere.
March 13th, 2008 at 6:16 pmBilly (Ernest T. Bass) Hill – - showin’ us all how “funny gets done” down at the Cracker Barrel off of I-10. Good times.
March 13th, 2008 at 6:16 pmBilly (Ernest T. Bass) Hill – - showin’ us all how “funny gets done†down at the Cracker Barrel off of I-10. Good times.
Comment by tombaker
Good one, that needs a repost.
March 13th, 2008 at 6:20 pmIf you wanna see his head explode, give him a Rubic’s Cube.
March 13th, 2008 at 6:21 pmYeah, he’s just a simple President…….WHO JUST HAPPENS TO BE CONNECTED TO THE OIL INDUSTRY.
Who’s the simpleton, Bush or the people that him and his gang are ripping off?
March 13th, 2008 at 6:22 pmIf you wanna see his head explode, give him a Rubic’s Cube.
Comment by ForTruth — March 13, 2008 @ 6:21 pm
I’m buying!
March 13th, 2008 at 6:23 pmI would like to take this opportunity to apologize to everyone for everything I have ever done, etc…
Comment by Billy Hill
Why don’t you take this opportunity to spend more time with your family……..or for whatever wide-stance hobbies you might have.
March 13th, 2008 at 6:24 pmGood one, Ernst T.. You keep’em comin’, buddy.
dang! that feller is kuh-wick, aintee?
March 13th, 2008 at 6:25 pmApparently, Daryll wasn’t authorized to post on non-Christofascist or gay sex threads.
My guess is he’s getting disciplined down at TRoll Central right now.
March 13th, 2008 at 6:25 pmWith some exceptions.
Comment by gummitch
I was just trying to be nice.
March 13th, 2008 at 6:30 pmWanted, one president with one face and one thought of his own.
March 13th, 2008 at 6:35 pmComment by Billy Hill — March 13, 2008 @ 6:22 pm
billy, larry craig called. he says you’re a liar. he says he’s the one who taught you that!
March 13th, 2008 at 6:41 pmI’ll call your post and raise ya Fred, One president that follow’s his oath of office to protect the constitution….Blessings
March 13th, 2008 at 6:44 pmone president with one face and one thought of his own.
Comment by Fred
Who can also think another thought of his own, all by himself, if he by chance should have to…
George’s thoughts now seem to be entering the poor me phase, he’s going to play dumb, (sorry, I know…..) blame everyone else because they were wrong, and he’s just the victim of his circumstances.
March 13th, 2008 at 6:54 pm“Now won’t everything and everyone just go away and let me cut brush and catch perch……sniff… sniff…….. l
RUC, they honestly think any of us give two craps about them? Other than screwing with their idiotic views, they’re dustballs!
Ms_Joanne, which post re:??
March 13th, 2008 at 7:00 pmimpeach the freak
March 13th, 2008 at 7:09 pmComment by Daryll — March 13, 2008 @ 5:24 pm
Speaking of simpletons.
Comment by Gregor Samsa — March 13, 2008 @ 5:26 pm
Well, birds of a feather, y’know…
March 13th, 2008 at 7:09 pmlast comment……… nobody gets to respond to the poor remaining troll…
March 13th, 2008 at 7:29 pmCould it be the evil doer president hides behind what he calls simple? Hasn’t he gained almost everything he wanted, including much wealth for those invested in the MIC, while playing stupid?
March 13th, 2008 at 7:30 pmDiana Moon Glampers?
OleHusseiniChick
March 13th, 2008 at 7:32 pmwhile playing stupid?
Comment by had enough
YES
March 13th, 2008 at 7:33 pm‘ahh ahh ahh . . . ahh don’t know . . .’
We’ll hear that alot while he’s on trial for war crimes.
March 13th, 2008 at 7:37 pmI do know that the main problem is supply and demand and excess supply obviously would help.
See? Economics is all we should care about. Let alone the atmosphere will get more polluted and the Climate Change effects enhanced.
There was a past thread about how much Iraq is costing the US population in terms of spending…
I know there are extremely good folks in here, but I will ask: Would you rather switch that debt for one million Americans killed, 4.5 million displaced and occupied illegaly by a foreign force?
No, I only care about me, my 5 TVs, my air cooling machine, my orange moka frapuccino and my 3 SUVs.
March 13th, 2008 at 7:53 pmNo, I only care about me, my 5 TVs, my air cooling machine, my orange moka frapuccino and my 3 SUVs.
Comment by Juan C.
They have become so utterly programmed by the commercial media, they know little else of how to live.
March 13th, 2008 at 8:03 pmAnd they are taught to fear that which they can’t see, and doesn’t even exist.
The bomdardment of advertising and over-exaggerated psychodrama has saturated their whole awareness.
….simpleton
I’ll just settle for the title that suits the Chimp the most:
March 13th, 2008 at 8:16 pmWORST PRESIDENT EVER.
Bush is certainly the first totally fake president.
Ronald Reagan was close to being a totally owned, fake president, but he at least had an image of himself, albeit one with a lot of make-up on, and he could act.
Bush is a total puppet, one that the handlers don’t even try to hide the strings of anymore.
March 13th, 2008 at 8:33 pmBush is totally incompetent, unfit, and quite possibly seriously imbalanced.
Bush: ‘I’m just a simple president.’
No argument there!
As usual, Bush could have said it better as in, ‘I’m just a simpleton president.’
March 13th, 2008 at 9:03 pmBush is totally incompetent, unfit, and quite possibly seriously imbalanced.
Comment by Nevar — March 13, 2008 @ 8:33 pm
most definately seriously imbalanced!!! – just look at what he’s been doing over the last few years – completely out of touch with reality and undisputedly showing symptoms of a man struggling with dementia – and yet his “base” continue to laud him,egg him on and throw him in front of the world where he continues to make a complete tit of himself (tap dancing while mccain keeps him waiting???? in front of cameras???? as one of many examples).
March 13th, 2008 at 9:07 pmand daryll,for a man who is supposed to be the leader of the free world to describe himself as simple and he has no idea about the one resource that made his father put him where he is today,does that not worry you? – i would want an exceptional man as a president,not a simple one.
In the pantheon of his presidential failures, the utter inability of former Texas oilman George W. Bush to influence OPEC and the price of oil stands out as the most predictable – and ironic. Just one day after OPEC members rejected President Bush’s call to boost crude production, oil jumped to the stratospheric level of $105 a barrel. This latest indignity caps seven years without results for the man who once boasted he would “jawbone” his friends in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia into opening the spigots.
For the details, see:
March 13th, 2008 at 10:49 pm“Jawbone of an Ass: Bush’s Utter Failure with OPEC.”
OMG, this is the funniest thing ever.
March 13th, 2008 at 10:52 pmIs there a way to get the embed code from you and put the video on my blog?
Btw, ThinkProgress, I read your blog before I watch any news on tv, and basically I watch less and less. I find your site so much more informative. Keep up the good job.
I am looking forward to your new redesign tomorrow.
Regards
So Sens. Clinton and Obama have an answer to her question? I’d like to hear it!
March 13th, 2008 at 10:54 pmComment by Daryll — March 13, 2008 @ 5:24 pm
Facts do have a liberal bias.
Comment by Dr. Matt — March 13, 2008 @ 5:24 pm
March 13th, 2008 at 11:18 pmDr. Matt, you made my day!!!! So true and yet, delivered with perfect timing and wit! I’m with you… the ridgt-wingers hate when their idol’s facade falls apart.
Bush and Chenney should be handcuffed imediatly! INDICT, IMPEACH, IMPRISON. BUSH AND CHENNEY HAGUE 2009!
March 13th, 2008 at 11:20 pmNo, Mr. Bush, “simple” doesn’t quite cover it for you, it goes well beyond “simple” – you sir are a moron.
March 14th, 2008 at 9:13 amBush may be a simpleton, but the PNACian plan to use this him as a tool to advance their Fascist Agenda took place long before 9/11.
The one thing (and one thing only) that this Nazi Regime have mastered over the past 8 years is the use of fear politics (whether it was the color-coded terror alerts — of course, timed to divert from Bad Bush News or the fantasy-tinged mushroom cloud images)–
The Rovian smokescreen image of “a simple everyday kind of guy, a guy that likes to cut brush in his back yard — the kind of guy you’d want to sit down a have a beer with”
This all worked. Meanwhile the All Hat Cowboy Blueblood from Connecticut and his Coterie stole 2 elections, trampled on the Constiution and Bill and Rights and have Plundered from this great nation.
We, as a nation, have a lot of healing and work to do.
March 14th, 2008 at 9:51 amBUSH: You know, I don’t know. You’re going to have to ask the experts that. I’m just a simple president
No…….You’re just a shitty one ………And the worst in US history
March 14th, 2008 at 10:03 amIf by “simple” he means “retarded,” then yeah, he’s about 40 points below mean intelligence. (My apologies to anyone with an IQ of 70 or below.)
March 14th, 2008 at 11:10 amBush: ‘I’m just a simple president.’
Lee’s Law of Electrical Repair: The simpler it looks the more problems it hides. (Source: Murphy’s Law: The 26th Anniversary Edition)
March 14th, 2008 at 11:11 amSimple is an interesting word.
March 14th, 2008 at 11:23 amA simple minded CHIMP!!!!!!!!!!
March 14th, 2008 at 11:54 amA SIMPLE President. He’s got that right!
March 14th, 2008 at 12:20 pmWe’re on the same page about Mr. Bush’s intelligence, but what about the oil cost question?
There is no push for conservation, which would decrease cost by lowering demand. Is it beyond reason, that Americans would accept lower speed limits, as we had during the oil embargo during President Carter’s term? Would Americans refuse to consider advice to consolidate errands and share rides, and develop and utilize public transport or perhaps do a bit more walking?
We’re paying for a war with borrowed money, and only feel the burden indirectly. So we ignore the cost. I think that we need to wake up a do what we can do immediately, and for the future, to reverse the trend for ever greater energy consumption, as we simultaneously develop clean, renewable homegrown supplies.
And we need energetic leadership to inspire citizens who thoughtlessly consume, and then complain. Perhaps W is not the only one who is simple.
March 14th, 2008 at 12:50 pm1. easy to understand, deal with, use, etc.: a simple matter; simple tools.
2. not elaborate or artificial; plain: a simple style.
3. not ornate or luxurious; unadorned: a simple gown.
4. unaffected; unassuming; modest: a simple manner.
5. not complicated: a simple design.
6. not complex or compound; single.
7. occurring or considered alone; mere; bare: the simple truth; a simple fact.
8. free of deceit or guile; sincere; unconditional: a frank, simple answer.
9. common or ordinary: a simple soldier.
10. not grand or sophisticated; unpretentious: a simple way of life.
11. humble or lowly: simple folk.
12. inconsequential or rudimentary.
13. unlearned; ignorant.
14. lacking mental acuteness or sense: a simple way of thinking.
15. unsophisticated; naive; credulous.
16. simpleminded.
17. Chemistry.
a. composed of only one substance or element: a simple substance.
b. not mixed.
18. Botany. not divided into parts: a simple leaf; a simple stem.
19. Zoology. not compound: a simple ascidian.
20. Music. uncompounded or without overtones; single: simple tone.
21. Grammar. having only the head without modifying elements included: The simple subject of “The dappled pony gazed over the fence” is “pony.” Compare complete (def. 5).
22. (of a verb tense) consisting of a main verb with no auxiliaries, as takes (simple present) or stood (simple past) (opposed to compound).
23. Mathematics. linear (def. 7).
24. Optics. (of a lens) having two optical surfaces only.
–noun
25. an ignorant, foolish, or gullible person.
26. something simple, unmixed, or uncompounded.
27. simples, Textiles. cords for controlling the warp threads in forming the shed on draw-looms.
28. a person of humble origins; commoner.
29. an herb or other plant used for medicinal purposes: country simples.
“an ignorant, foolish, or gullible person.”
Yup he’s simple!!!!!
March 14th, 2008 at 12:56 pmNow we know why Bush’s oil drilling company went Arbusto.
March 14th, 2008 at 1:07 pmSo idiotic and stupid a moslem black guy with middle name ‘HUSSEIN’ might end up in the White House! Keep it up idiot you’re doing just fine!
March 14th, 2008 at 1:42 pmS = Stupid
I = Impeachable
M = Manipulative
P = Punitive
L = Lazy
E = Egotistical
Yup, simple.
March 14th, 2008 at 3:58 pmDaTruth. You apparently have little regard for your handle since you state a “moslem [sic] black guy with a middle name’Hussein’ might end up in the white house. You know damned well Barack Obama is not a muslim. You can’t even spell the name right. And you call bush idiotic and stupid? Look in the mirror.
March 14th, 2008 at 4:24 pmWhat amazes me is US still puts up with this person….
Debasing the Presidency and making US look ridiculous…
Come on Americans – what are you waiting for…. time for damage control… don’t let 30% of the country hold up all of America!
March 16th, 2008 at 8:49 amrichard test test.
March 16th, 2008 at 2:48 pmtest again, richrd.
March 16th, 2008 at 2:49 pmActual conversation:
GHARIB: And they didn’t do it. Let’s say that OPEC did pump more oil. How much do you think that that would bring down oil prices, by $20, $30?
Bush: “Can’t saiz eef I know’d. Look, i ain’t know learn’d feller, I’m just a simpa moron who’d got lucky. Look, it’s not fer me to help Merican people – that’s God’s job, I’m sposed to help my dad’s buddies and thas sit – that issit! Oop’s
March 17th, 2008 at 1:23 pmceltic cynic Said:
“Simple he is, president he is not.”
He is president, unfortunately … but simple?
Would that he were! He is a lot more savvy than he lets on. He may be evasive, but he is not ignorant … sometimes he chooses to appear to be.
March 17th, 2008 at 4:32 pmIt’s Simple we know… the hard fact is, stupid Americans will vote McSame in 2008
March 18th, 2008 at 4:18 amdwstr…
Well stated I must agree. But that still doesn’t get stupid, I mean simple, off the hook for riding the “big oil” coat tails. Knuckle head is simply doing what he was put in office to do. Duh?
It’s NOW, that bush and the pecker can claim “Mission Accomplished”.
We’re only maybe, perhaps days if not weeks until a total economic collapse- Or how about an Iran war? It’s going to be either one or the other… many thanks to simple.
March 18th, 2008 at 4:35 am