Bush: I might not give a farewell address because I don’t want it to be too ‘emotional.’
By on Dec 19th, 2008 at 10:00 am
Bush: I might not give a farewell address because I don’t want it to be too ‘emotional.’
In a new interview with C-Span’s Steve Scully, President Bush said that he might not give a traditional “farewell address” when he leaves office because he doesn’t want the American public to go through a “real emotional goodbye” with him:
SCULLY: Will you deliver a farewell address in this office?
BUSH: Thinking about it. Thinking about it. A lot of Presidents have, and I’m giving it serious thought. I don’t want it to be — you know, kind of a real emotional goodbye. If I give it, it’s going to be trying to leave behind some lessons learned.
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Keep it short.
Apologize, then reach for the Smith and Wesson.
Fade to black.
December 19th, 2008 at 10:02 am“Bush: I might not give a farewell address because I don’t want it to be too ‘emotional.’”
when he has that “aha moment” on camera and realises a) most americans hate him and are happy he’s leaving and b)he’s been an abject failure his entire life?
December 19th, 2008 at 10:05 amHe leaves, delusional as always.
The one constant in the last eight years.
December 19th, 2008 at 10:07 am“Lessons learned”??? What lessons? You mean like not keeping a tighter lid on all the illegal things you did? Like not talking in front of cameras and microphones that are turned on?
I seriously doubt you will ever learn the lesson of not taking the country to war based on lies. You certainly haven’t learned what a moment’s self-reflection can do. I guess you also never learned the lesson of going back and re-examining your original strategy, to see if subsequent facts still support your pre-war conclusions.
December 19th, 2008 at 10:08 amHe doesn’t want America to go through a “real emotional goodbye”?
Yes, I suppose that when one throws shoes or other objects, there’s usually some emotion behind the act.
December 19th, 2008 at 10:11 amYup!
He’s afraid he’ll get pelted with a hailstorm of SHOEZ. And if I were in the Secret Service, I sure wouldn’t put too much effort into saving Shrubby’s ass from an angry mob of unemployed, nearly broke American taxpayers.
December 19th, 2008 at 10:11 amI’m not going to give a farewell address because I don’t want to be pelted with shoes.
December 19th, 2008 at 10:11 amGeorge: “If I give it, it’s going to be trying to leave behind some lessons learned.”
Knowing he only speaks from prepared text, may I suggest he read Dwight D. Eisenhower’s departing speech.
December 19th, 2008 at 10:11 amIt might not demonstrate lessons learned, yet it would certainly relate a prophesy fulfilled.
Please Mr. Bush. Just go away quietly. No one wants to listen to any more of your lies, excuses and obfuscations. We have had enough!
December 19th, 2008 at 10:12 amPlease don’t speak. Actually, please just crawl back under the rock from which you came.
December 19th, 2008 at 10:12 amIt would be emotional all right, emotional enough for the crowd to rip him to shreds.
December 19th, 2008 at 10:12 amEveryone knows that the president’s job, even when he isn’t busy trying to break the law at every turn, is “difficult”, “challenging”, and, at times, “frustrating” and even “soul-wrenching”. But Bush is the only president I’ve ever heard complain that the job was “hard”.
December 19th, 2008 at 10:12 amDoes he really think anyone gives a rats ass? Does he really think anyone will listen? If I were that delusional, someone would lock me up.
Please go away. Far, far away. And very soon. Maybe that will be his New Year’s resolution?
December 19th, 2008 at 10:12 amWe understand George. Your departure will be emotional for us as well. The primary emotion the vast majority of the world will feel will be joy leavened with a touch of relief.
December 19th, 2008 at 10:13 amIf I give it, it’s going to be trying to leave behind some lessons learned.
Yeah, the lesson we American’s learned is never elect another Bush.
December 19th, 2008 at 10:13 amlove to see it with the audience singing
na na na na hey hey hey goodbye
then the remote camera kicks in to thousands in front of the white house
na na na na hey hey hey goodbye
then the camera kicks in to Paris, London, Hamburg, Rome, the North Pole, the South Pole
and finally a remote village on a remote island in the Indian Ocean
na na na na hey hey hey goodbye
December 19th, 2008 at 10:17 amHe doesn’t want it to turn into the largest world-wide party and drinking game.
December 19th, 2008 at 10:18 amthis is a twofer: not only will be spared watching this retard say goodbye, we’ll also be spared watching the other retard on “the view” BEGGING on national t.v for an invitation to the event.
December 19th, 2008 at 10:19 amThe public might have an emotional good by for him?
December 19th, 2008 at 10:20 amhahahahaha!
I’ll say! We would be dancing in the streets, waving banners, and celebrating that the worst president in our lifetimes is exiting the stage — we would also be emotionally calling for his prosecution.
Bush is not capable of retrospection nor introspection.
December 19th, 2008 at 10:22 amHe thinks with his gut – the place where food is digested – and his behavior and his words reflect that.
He is a willfully ignorant person, full of crap.
He won’t give a farwell address because the shrub will be in Paraguay by the time Obama’s is sworn in.
December 19th, 2008 at 10:24 amThe little baby is afraid he may tear up & show real emotion.
Even that would be a lie. He doesn’t give half a shit about the American people. He’s emotional because he knows damn well he phucked the whole thing up, & history will forever gauge him on his actions, not his words.
Good riddance to bad rubbish…
December 19th, 2008 at 10:25 amShrubwit and Blagojevich are twin sons of different mothers. Both are completely in love with themselves and both are completely clueless and both are delusional.
No one gives a shit George. Just go.
December 19th, 2008 at 10:25 amMaybe we’ll all be lucky and he’ll take a cue from Adolph Hitler. Chimpy and Condie can quietly off themselves in Dick Cheney’s bunker. Then he won’t have to bear witness to the entire world celebrating the end of his tortured tenure. He’s too chicken for suicide though but maybe someone can pass out pitchforks and torches to the throngs of humanity that will be there to celebrate both Barrack Obama’s inauguration and the boy-king’s exit. A few million Chimpy haters filling the Washington Mall could make Herr Chimpenheimer a little nervous. Maybe the crowd can hold and waterboard Georgie until he discloses Cheney’s secret location and we can dish out some of that old “cowboy justice” on these two pricks before they flee the Country.
December 19th, 2008 at 10:28 amCaption: ‘God bless me; I’m going to need it’…
December 19th, 2008 at 10:31 amTook me a few minutes to recover from my guffaw, falling to the floor from my chair!
December 19th, 2008 at 10:33 amBush: I might not give a farewell address because it will probably have really big words that are tough to pronounce!
December 19th, 2008 at 10:36 amIf honest, Bush will have only one thing to say:
My fellow Americans..You 8 year long nightmare is finally over.
December 19th, 2008 at 10:40 amHe may not give a farewell speech because none of his speech writers are willing to touch this one.
December 19th, 2008 at 10:42 amHe could always read My Pet Goat for us, and hold the pictures up to the camera so we can see too.
December 19th, 2008 at 10:44 amI’m giving it serious thought. – Dinkledonk
Bwaaaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!!!
Never in his whole miserable failure of a life has he given anything “serious thought.” He’s not capable of it.
December 19th, 2008 at 10:44 amBring your shoes, folks.
Actually it’ll be fine if he skips it; it’s my understanding that Will Farrell is going to do his farewell address for him.
December 19th, 2008 at 10:45 amWe’ll be dancing in the streets, chimpy, and you know it.
December 19th, 2008 at 10:46 amAll of his speech writers have probably already left the WH so now the chimp is at a complete loss of words…not surprising. Maybe Cheney could put the wooden chimp on his knee & do a ventriloquist routine to deliver his final address. He’s been doing it for 8 years already.
December 19th, 2008 at 10:47 amHate is an emotion, right? And anger? How about disgust? Revulsion?
You are right little george, it would be an emotional event.
December 19th, 2008 at 10:49 amAfter Bush is gone the lunatic fringe will have a huge void for all of there vile hatred to spew. They might start imploding on one another. Without that common enemy to glue there straw house of ideology together, its going to get very rocky. I will have great joy observing the bickering and the disappointment in what they thought they elected. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
December 19th, 2008 at 10:50 amplease for three-quarts of Americans, the only emotions that we will express are joy, relief, and gratitude.
December 19th, 2008 at 10:53 amSo, ‘Frozen Balls’ Troll will get his Holiday cheer watching disappointed people.
What do you do after for laughs, trollster; join Cheney for some fresh puppy blood?
December 19th, 2008 at 10:54 amI see your point ICE. The same thing happened when Hitler spoiled the pelt, the world had to find somewhere else to vent.
No dumbfck, it’s not a zero sum game. Bush is hated and despised for very good reasons, he has worked hard to earn our hatred.
December 19th, 2008 at 10:55 amiceman, you need to get to a hospital pronto. Your hypothermia is causing increasing confusion, spelling errors, grammatical errors, and loose associations in your thought patterns.
December 19th, 2008 at 11:00 amAfter Bush is gone the lunatic fringe will have a huge void for all of there vile hatred to spew.
Just like the Wingnuts clammed-up when Clinton left office?
Hardly.
We’ve only just begun.
December 19th, 2008 at 11:00 amDear George,
December 19th, 2008 at 11:01 amThank you for sharing with us that you realize what a loser you are. If you want sympathy, then cry on Mommie’s shoulder. Otherwise, just shut up and go away.
Oh, go ahead and cry, that and your love for Barney are about the only two human traits you have. Sure, you tortured. Sure, you are responsible for the deaths of thousands of civilians. Sure, you failed us on 9/11, on Katrina, on the financial crisis. But, damn it, you feel good about your Presidency. Let the world know. We will all laugh at you, but you’ll feel better. Isn’t that what’s important? Oh, and watch out for shoes!
December 19th, 2008 at 11:03 amFkkn spare me. What a fool.
Have his mommy (any one of the three) hold his hand while he gives a tearful goodbye. The part of the country with any critical thinking skills has already moved on.
December 19th, 2008 at 11:06 amIf Bush became emotional it would only because he recognized that his ego- and wallet-padding days are over.
December 19th, 2008 at 11:07 amShoo or shoe – you’re pick, Bush.
December 19th, 2008 at 11:07 amyour, not you’re! I hate when I do that!
December 19th, 2008 at 11:08 amhe sent our finest to die for him and he didn’t get emotional.
he tanked our economy and he didn’t get emotional.
he our educational system worse and he didn’t get emotional.
he kept gas price artificial high and he didn’t get emotional.
he needs to get on his boney knees and cry about all the shit he’d started.
who cares about this rat?
I will get emotional when he leaves and have a party when his lying ass is put under the jail.
December 19th, 2008 at 11:08 amnanlichi Says:
Hate is an emotion, right? And anger? How about disgust? Revulsion?
You are right little george, it would be an emotional event.
And the damned fool doesn’t know terror is an emotion.
December 19th, 2008 at 11:12 amIt will be fun to be able to blame GWB for everything that happens to go wrong in the Obama administration.
Just the same way that Clinton was blamed for every fault in the Bush years.
Note to all rightwinggers who wouldn’t recognize it; the above is satirical.
December 19th, 2008 at 11:12 amA “real emotional goodbye”…?
The only emotions I can associate with Chimpy leaving office are JOY and RELIEF.
Drop dead, you arrogant little prck.
December 19th, 2008 at 11:15 amI need to add felonious traitor.
December 19th, 2008 at 11:17 amIf I give it, it’s going to be trying to leave behind some lessons learned. – Dinklejib
Biggest lesson learned: Don’t ever elect (not really ever elected) an incurious, uneducated, intellectually ill suited, egomaniacal, rich, spoiled momma’s boy, corrupt, ideologue under the sway of a psychotic, sociopathic, EVIL VP again.
December 19th, 2008 at 11:17 amI may have to post this on youtube…
December 19th, 2008 at 11:19 amor if im really lazy, just mash it up with the last scene in Jedi… with the wookies dancing…
December 19th, 2008 at 11:21 amICEMAN Says:
After Bush is gone the lunatic fringe will have a huge void for all of there vile hatred to spew.
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Riiiiight… riiiiight…
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/19/pew-poll-incompetent-word_n_152319.html
a new Pew Poll finds that only 11% of respondents say “Bush will be remembered as an outstanding or above average president” — “by far the lowest positive end-of-term rating for any of the past four presidents.” Moreover, when asked to describe Bush in a word, a majority of those polled chose “incompetent.”
Project much?
December 19th, 2008 at 11:25 amI realize that it would mean an even more emotional speech than he is prepared (capable?) of giving, but maybe Bush should stand there and give the same speech Jimmy Swaggert gave when his career ended. “I have sinned against you (boo-hoo-hoo-wahhhhh!)” It would be at least as entertaining for us as it would be cathartic for him.
December 19th, 2008 at 11:31 amThis man continues to display his cowardly dendency.
December 19th, 2008 at 11:31 am58. tendency. Sorry.
December 19th, 2008 at 11:32 amSmirking all the way back the ranch, won’t you, George?!
Bastard.
December 19th, 2008 at 11:36 amSmirking all the way back to the ranch, won’t you George?!
George Herbert Hoover Bush. Nation destroyer (Iraq and the United States).
December 19th, 2008 at 11:36 amBush? Lessons learned? Sorry, I don’t think so. Bush has gone through life under his own delusional precepts and his daddy and his daddy’s friends have been covering up and picking up the pieces for years.
Boy George has never had to learn lessons in the bubble he’s lived in. If anything, he’s learned that “kicking the can down the road works” until you can get out of the picture and leave the problems you’ve caused for someone else to fix.
My big regret is that Boy George won’t go through history with the deserved big red toe tag that screams “IMPEACHED!”
December 19th, 2008 at 11:37 amFarewell speech for Bush, simple, “I am the worst president ever, good-bye.”
December 19th, 2008 at 11:53 amwith 90 percent of Americcans agreeing that the man is INCOMPETENT
who would listen, let alone believe him.
December 19th, 2008 at 11:58 amSure but think of all the words you could mispronounce and all the words you could pronounce that aren’t really words…
December 19th, 2008 at 12:09 pm…I don’t want it to be — you know, kind of a real emotional goodbye.
December 19th, 2008 at 12:12 pmJust stand there while we throw some shoes at you! It doesn’t need to be emotional!
It’s a good excuse to have another drink or two, George…
December 19th, 2008 at 12:12 pmSo Bush is “brave” enough to attack a country where the people have been starved out for a decade but he’s too cowardly to face his own people and their millions of angry shoes? HA!
December 19th, 2008 at 12:16 pmAfter what happened during Bush’s farewell visit to Baghdad,in which he saw a shoe thrown at him by an angry journalist, Bush is now giving all farewell speeches another thought,’emotional’ is the word he is using.
December 19th, 2008 at 12:56 pmIt’ll be emotional, for sure. A volcano of emotion — of joy — at seeing the end to this disgraceful, incompetent, embarrassing presidency.
December 19th, 2008 at 1:07 pmWho told him to say that?
December 19th, 2008 at 1:26 pm“During my summer vacation….oops I mean Presidency I learned how to destroy several countries including my own and countless lives. Next summer I plan to go to Paraguay.”
December 19th, 2008 at 1:36 pmWhere is my shoe at?
He is scared everyone in the audiance will start throwing foot wear at his dumb head.
Wound’t that be the best send off we could give him? Hundreds of shoe in the air all caught on tape.
December 19th, 2008 at 1:41 pmAw, go for it, Bushie! It’ll be great for the shoe business.
December 19th, 2008 at 1:50 pmHere’s a scary thought: He doesn’t plan on giving a farewell speech because he doesn’t plan on leaving office.
December 19th, 2008 at 2:43 pmGood – the best thing you can do is to shoot yourself
December 19th, 2008 at 2:51 pmI’ve been popping a bottle of champers every day since Nov 4 in celebration of seeing the backside of this buffoon. Emotional? Hell, I’m drunk on joy!!
Or, to paraphrase Mac Davis, Happiness is George W Bush in my rear view mirror.
December 19th, 2008 at 3:13 pmJust die.
December 19th, 2008 at 3:53 pmbwaahaaahaaahaaaa
….he just doesn’t want more shoes thrown at him in public.
what a sad little assclown
we suck, because he’s not IN JAIL!! any free people on Earth would already have a dangerous freak like him under lock and key.
December 19th, 2008 at 6:00 pmGive me a break!! If you could summon up any kind of honest emotion it would be sorrow. That you did not have one more term to finish us as a third world country.
Don’t say good bye. Just go, and please DO let the door hit you on the way out. Don’t say anything. We have heard enough. I will have nightmares the rest of my life from these last eight years. No more fake words, no more lies and certainly not another sight of your smirk, your snicker, your strut. Don’t wait.
JUST LEAVE ALREADY!
December 19th, 2008 at 8:04 pmI, for one, am going to be really emotional. I am going to be dancing in the streets on Bush’s last day in office.
December 19th, 2008 at 11:30 pmLeave your dead bodies on your way out. Yours and Laura’s, loser idiot freak!
December 20th, 2008 at 10:51 amGWB’s farewell address, “I am looking forward to my new career as a janitor in a porno arcade.”
December 20th, 2008 at 1:03 pmJust like the cold war when everyone who didn’t agree with the U.S. was either a communist or a communist sympathizer. toki This poor crazy guy spent half a decade being tortured because a bunch of stupid politicians araç sorgulama were sure the NVA was in bed with the Russians (minimal help) and/or the Chinese (ancient enemy of the vietnamese). ssk sorgulama You would think he would have learned from others’ mistakes. Guess not. Republicans need an enemy. key ödemeleri This century it apparently will be all Muslims, health all of whom must be alQaeda operatives.
March 1st, 2009 at 1:37 pm