Hume: Bush has put America on an ‘amazing’ foreign policy path.
Hume: Bush has put America on an ‘amazing’ foreign policy path.
Reflecting on his final days as Fox News’ Washington managing editor, Brit Hume tells the Miami Herald’s Glenn Garvin that when people look back at the Bush era, they “will be a lot kinder to this president than the current scribes are being.” “It’s really turned out to be a very consequential presidency,” said Hume, adding that Bush has put America on an “amazing” foreign policy path:
Even the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, which is widely regarded as terrible White House bungling, is a much more complex story than that which eventually will be told. And while people are understandably focused on the length and the casualty count of the war, at some point they’ll consider the policy path on which this president has placed us. It’s a very different one, and an amazing one. We’re pushing for democracy everywhere, not just playing ball with friendly dictators as we did in the Cold War.
One thing that Hume is right about is the fact that historians currently view Bush’s presidency as “a combination of many negative factors.” According to CNN, historians currently say that “incompetent” will most likely be the word used to describe Bush.
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I guess "amazing" is one word for it.
Another good word would be "baffling." Or "terrifying." Maybe "bizarre."
November 10th, 2008 at 10:43 amDeclaring war on the wrong country could be described as amazing - amazingly inept.
November 10th, 2008 at 10:44 amAnd while people are understandably focused on the length and the casualty count of the war, at some point they’ll consider the policy path on which this president has placed us. It’s a very different one, and an amazing one.
Only if you define 'amazing' as 'incompetently dangerous and genocidal'.
November 10th, 2008 at 10:44 amTruer words were never spoken.
For decades - nay, centuries - historians will look upon these eight years with complete and utter amazement, wondering just what the fuck we were thinking.
November 10th, 2008 at 10:45 amWasn't the word "hume" used as a derogatory slur in a John Hughes, coming-of-age movie from the 80's?
November 10th, 2008 at 10:45 amWe’re pushing for democracy everywhere, not just playing ball with friendly dictators as we did in the Cold War.
Oh, we're still playing ball with friendly dictators, no worries about that. But in addition to that time-honored strategy, we're also pushing for democracy in areas that aren't ready for it, or in areas where the people we hate are sure to win (a legitimatized Hamas, anyone?)
November 10th, 2008 at 10:47 amAmazingly confounding.
Revengeful killing of a foreign leader to the tune of support disguised as Patriotism is confoundingly sociopathic.
November 10th, 2008 at 10:48 amWe’re pushing for democracy everywhere, not just playing ball with friendly dictators as we did in the Cold War.
I've been reading "Lies My Teacher Told Me", which is a book about the lies in American History textbooks. The authors point in writing textbook is to tell us the truth so that we can understand and learn from historical events, whihc we are currently NOT doing.
Until Hume understands that Reagan, during the Cold War, was funding Osama bin Laden to fight the Russians by proxy, he will never understand why 9/11 occurred, and what it will take to keep America safe from it happening again.
I hope Obama is serious about Education reform. We desperately need it.
November 10th, 2008 at 10:48 amYeah Brit, into the toilet.
November 10th, 2008 at 10:48 amI'm surprised Hume could get the words out at all, what with Bush's schwanz all the way down Britt's throat.
What a relief it will be for the era of Faux News and its norm of journalistic Lewinskyism to be over.
November 10th, 2008 at 10:49 amI guess Boy George thinks that world wide democracy is a zero sum game. In order to make the Middle East more democratic, he has to make the USA less democratic.
"You want more freedom and liberties? Let's see, I guess we can spare a few liberties here. They won't mind."
Bush is the worst thing that has ever happened to our country on so many levels. I just hope the pathetic shit doesn't do more damage in the little time he has left.
November 10th, 2008 at 10:51 amHeh. "Amazing" is right.
I'm "amazed" that Bush hasn't started a global thermonuclear war.
Amazing!
November 10th, 2008 at 10:51 amI wonder what country Hume lives in?
November 10th, 2008 at 10:51 am"Amazing" - Isn't that bafflegab for Holy Shit?
November 10th, 2008 at 10:52 amLeftside Annie Says:
Heh. “Amazing” is right.
I’m “amazed” that Bush hasn’t started a global thermonuclear war.
Amazing!
November 10th, 2008 at 10:51 am
Until January 20, 2009, that's "nook-yoo-lur," Annie. ;)
November 10th, 2008 at 10:52 amOr on what planet?
November 10th, 2008 at 10:52 amI'm guessing anyday now Brit will be calling for Bush on Mt. Rushmore.
November 10th, 2008 at 10:53 amHume: Sir is this road built with brimstone?
November 10th, 2008 at 10:54 amchimp: Have a brewski Britt.
Hume: Did that sign we just passed say "Highway to Hell"?
chimp: Britt, the secret to my success is to try not to read...anything. Here snort these lines and take a couple a swigs of the mescal....
I understand that Brit Hume will be hanging it up soon. I agree that the time has come.
November 10th, 2008 at 10:54 amWow!!! No other president has ever pushed for democracy. What vision!
/snark off
November 10th, 2008 at 10:54 amI’m surprised Hume could get the words out at all, what with Bush’s schwanz all the way down Britt’s throat.
Not a problem at all. GDumbya's schwanz isn't long enough to get much past Little Britty's teeth. Don't believe me? Just ask LaLa . . . or Jeff Gannon.
November 10th, 2008 at 10:56 amnot just playing ball with friendly dictators
Not just playing ball indeed, actually cupping the balls of those well-known democrats, the House of Saud.
November 10th, 2008 at 10:59 amSomething tells me that in Jeff Gannon's situation had nothing to do with the fear of teeth!
November 10th, 2008 at 11:00 amLeftside Annie Says:
I’m “amazed” that Bush hasn’t started a global thermonuclear war.
November 10th, 2008 at 10:51 am
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Yet.
There's still 2 1/2 months to go.
November 10th, 2008 at 11:00 amBrit Hume really, truly is an idiot.
November 10th, 2008 at 11:02 amYep. It's amazing how many times and in how many places George W. Bush has been burned in effigy.
November 10th, 2008 at 11:02 amIn that picture, is Dubya trying to 'sell' Britty Boy on the length of his johnson?
HMMMMM!
November 10th, 2008 at 11:05 amIt was interesting to watch Brit on election evening when reality forced him to report that Obama was winning and by a large margin. He seemed to be puzzled and confounded as to why anyone would vote for a Democrat. He is simply another mouth piece for the repubs and will never be able to provide an honest assessment of what anyone with the "R" behind their name has done.
November 10th, 2008 at 11:07 am24 - *gulp* I know. :o/
November 10th, 2008 at 11:08 amThe really scary part is Brit truly believes it. Wow!
November 10th, 2008 at 11:08 amWhen historians look back on the Bush era they should point out how Hume and Fox News encouraged and enabled this corruption of our country by selling the propaganda of these criminals.
November 10th, 2008 at 11:09 amI believe Hume's speech impediment got in the way.
Bush has put America on an ablazing foreign policy path
November 10th, 2008 at 11:09 am'Amazing' is a fairly neutral word...it's all about the context of the 'amazement' being described.
I'm sure the world was 'amazed' that our country could be come so mindblowingly and AMAZINGLY stupid these last 8 years.
I know I was.
November 10th, 2008 at 11:12 amBrit needs to get back on his medication.
November 10th, 2008 at 11:19 ami kinder apology cannot be made. no thinking, rational, sentient being could not now or in the future avoid taking umbrage with the atrocities of the current administration.
November 10th, 2008 at 11:21 amArt Says:
Yep. It’s amazing how many times and in how many places George W. Bush has been burned in effigy.
November 10th, 2008 at 11:02 am
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Good point - it's easy to forget just how much Bush has done to unite people all over the world in solidarity. Solidarity against us, but still...
November 10th, 2008 at 11:22 amHume is delusional. I still believe that Bush is the worst president in my lifetime, and maybe he is the worst one ever.
November 10th, 2008 at 11:33 amWhat planet is Hume living on? The amazing thing is that the right wing keeps thinking that somehow, future generations are going to look at the same facts we have now and come to some different conclusion. The only way that's going to happen is if Hume and the other Foxtards are able to rewrite history so that the rest of the world forgets what really went on here.
And I also always find it intriguing that the right wing claims to keep pushing for "democracy everywhere" when they continually try to prevent democracy here.
November 10th, 2008 at 11:37 amCORRECTION: *a kinder apology cannot be made.
November 10th, 2008 at 11:48 ammy apologies.
"at some point they’ll consider the policy path on which this president has placed us."
November 10th, 2008 at 12:08 pmThat's right Brit and when they do they'll put him on trial for war crimes.
Hume says Bush isn't "playing ball with dictators"?? Tell him to take a look at the dictatorial regimes of China, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, former Soviet republics and ... the list goes on. The reason the world hates America is because of sanctimonious hypocrites like Hume.
November 10th, 2008 at 12:12 pmEight years of Bush/Republican fascist rule. And people wonder why war-cheerleader McCain didn't win? After numberless lies, endless wars followed by hostile imperial occupations, American terrorism and murder and torture of the Middle East peoples, fascism, corporate greed, cronyism, stupidity, arrogance, incompetence, why would anyone want to reward the Republican Party with "four more years?"
November 10th, 2008 at 12:57 pmIt's more "amazing" that Shit Fumes didn't laugh himself limp while uttering that ridiculous line ................
November 10th, 2008 at 1:06 pmI have to give Hume some credit; people will likely view Bush less harshly over time than they do at this moment.
One can always look back on a violent assault with (slightly) less anxiety than one felt during said assault.
Unless, of course, one suffers from PTSD as a result...
November 10th, 2008 at 1:09 pmBrit Hume must be the biggest moron on TV. I'm glad to hear the jerk will finally be leaving. He says Bush was "...not just playing ball with friendly dictators..."
Oh yeah? Since when? Let me give you a few names of dictators that Bush doesn't just play ball with:
The current and former President of Pakistan, The Saudi King, the President of Egypr, the King of Jordan, The King of Yemen, the King of Omar, the King of Bahrain, the King of Dubai, the President of Indonesia, the King of Thailand, the President of Burma, the Head Honcho of China, Omar Khadafi of Lybia, so on and so on...and we haven't even gotten to Latin America or Africa.
Brit, have you ever wondered why most people think you're a total loser? Not to mention liar?
November 10th, 2008 at 1:30 pmAlso, “incompetent” is NOT the word most ilkely to be used to describe Bush.
"Gangster" is the word most likely to be used.
November 10th, 2008 at 1:46 pmYou hafta hand it to George W. Bush and his foreign policy team--successes in every corner of the globe--middle east? never better; China--heck they own half our nation; Russia-look into a man's eyes and in just a few short years another Cold War. Al Qaeda--all over the world. Darfur and the Congo--never more restful. Our alliances--give that German Chancellor a backrub. But we have also been particularly adept at catalyzing a world wide financial crisis that leaves our fond taste on every mouth. Amazing, and in only eight years' time.
November 10th, 2008 at 1:52 pmAmazing could be a description. Incompetent is better.
Amazingly incompetent is best.
November 10th, 2008 at 2:52 pmyou wish it were incompetence.
November 10th, 2008 at 2:56 pmHume's ideas and perceptions generally terrify me.
November 10th, 2008 at 3:10 pmAmazing is not the word for his Foreign policy blunder, more F#!%ed up!!!!!!!!!
November 10th, 2008 at 4:11 pmI don’t think I would choose the word amazing in describing Bush’s foreign policy - unless it were used in the sense of bewildering, eye-popping, dunbfounding, baffling, unaccountable, beyond belief, indescribable, …. I don’t need to go on.
November 10th, 2008 at 4:54 pmHume is going to leave Fox soon and appear only occasionally. Apparently that day is coming none too soon.
Brit Hume is right in the same sense that the dinosuars were
November 10th, 2008 at 6:39 pmright for their time. "Hey, what's that? a tar-pit? Looks like
good swimming to me! Glub, glub, glub.
Well, I guess you could call "straight down into a smoking crater" an amazing path. Other presidents preferred level flight.
November 10th, 2008 at 9:14 pmAmazingly STUPID? Amazingly wrongheaded? Amazingly destructive? Amazingly against our own self interest? Amazingly incompetent? Sure amazing in all those ways. If he meant anything else he is an idiot
November 11th, 2008 at 3:01 amBush put America on the freeway to hell. Amazing! No tolls, no stoplights, the fastest way there!
November 11th, 2008 at 12:53 pmPerhaps in 30 years, what passes for Bush's legacy will be ex-Humed and post-Hume-ously conferred the Nobel Peace prize.
December 8th, 2008 at 12:48 amBut until then, this presidency will be widely regarded
as a bumbling, blundering, disaster.