Krauthammer: Bush ‘took a shoe for the country.’
By on Jan 12th, 2009 at 3:31 pm
Krauthammer: Bush ‘took a shoe for the country.’
During President Bush’s press conference earlier today, CBS News’ Jim Axelrod asked Bush if he had “any message” for his critics who, in the words of conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer, have “Bush derangement syndrome.” Bush replied that he didn’t “know why they get angry.” Asked to comment on Bush’s response, Krauthammer praised Bush on Fox News today, saying that “he took a shoe for the country, a bullet for the country” by absorbing all of “the opprobrium and the abuse” over the war in Iraq. Watch it:
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..by absorbing all of “the opprobrium and the abuse” over the war in Iraq.
And well earned opprobrium and abuse, I must say.
January 12th, 2009 at 3:34 pmThere`s that Reich Wing-nut KOOL-AID kicking in again.
January 12th, 2009 at 3:35 pmpppfffftttt… dummya took a shoe, everyday Americans have been taking it up the arse for years because of this loser.
January 12th, 2009 at 3:35 pmAs much as I hate to admit it, there’s no talking sense to these people. Conservatives like Bush and Krauthammer — no talking sense to ‘em.
They think they’re being rational, but the emotional drivers for their thinking and behaviors are so thinly veiled that it must take a real act of will to not see them.
January 12th, 2009 at 3:36 pmBush did a great job of ducking the shoes. Just like he ducks all responsibility for all his many fiascoes.
January 12th, 2009 at 3:37 pmActually, he avoided the shoe and any responsibility which it stood for.
COWARD.
January 12th, 2009 at 3:38 pmLIAR.
THIEF.
In light of Bush admitting complicity and acknowledging the error of flying the “Mission Accomplished” banner on the air craft carrier, and considering Dana Perino repeatedly told the Press Corps (paraphrasing here) ‘that banner was for those soldiers on that carrier for their specific mission – the White House had nothing to do with it’; does she not owe the press corps an apology?
January 12th, 2009 at 3:40 pmwill they also give this assclown credit for taking down the modern repukeliscum party? personally, i think it’s dummya’s greatest accomplishment.
January 12th, 2009 at 3:41 pmI’d like to serve Krauthammer the entire footwear in my closet if he thinks Bush “took one” for anyone!
January 12th, 2009 at 3:41 pmHe “absorbed” opprobrium and abuse for his own decisions. Except he hasn’t really “absorbed” it. And don’t worry, Kraut, there’s plenty left over for the rest of you.
January 12th, 2009 at 3:46 pmA lot of people took a bullet for this country based on Bush’s lies. Bush definitely did not take a bullet for this country.
January 12th, 2009 at 3:54 pmIn rehearsals, FOX chided Krauthammer at least twice; “Try again, doesn’t sound cretinous enough…”
January 12th, 2009 at 3:56 pmBush “ took a shoe for the country, a bullet for the country”
– - I understand in Gaza the Israelis may be using clustershoes.
January 12th, 2009 at 4:00 pmNo I took a bullet for this country (along with shrapnel, as did thousands of others), when I/WE didnt have to because he (Bush) wanted to play Call of Duty with REAL PEOPLES LIVES.
I love the Soldiers of the Chickenhawk Regiment, always throwing out war references and euphemism’s, but when its time to “take one” for the country they’ll pass it on to “others” to do for them.
Effin Cowards-all of them.
RIP
SGT Stephen R. Sherman
C CO 1-5 IN (STRYKER)
KIA 3 Feb 2005
Mosul Iraq
He along with others took more than a bullet for these clown-ass people.
January 12th, 2009 at 4:03 pmI’m surprised they don’t go whole hog and praise Bush for promoting literacy for reading My Pet Goat while thousands of innocent Americans burned and suffocated and fell to crushing deaths. There isn’t a circle of Hell foul enough for their ilk.
January 12th, 2009 at 4:03 pmA horseshoe might be more appropriate for Krauthammer. A Clydesdale one.
January 12th, 2009 at 4:04 pmIn the real world, W dodged a bullet as well as two shoes. That duck ain’t lame.
January 12th, 2009 at 4:05 pmThe buck stops at the oval office. It always has.
January 12th, 2009 at 4:05 pmOh please! He’s lucky his a$$ didn’t catch a bullet! Cheney should fill his a$$ up with some buckshot and then do the same to himself!
January 12th, 2009 at 4:10 pmWhy so angry?
POS doesn’t get it and never will. I have always said if I had Bush, Osama and Sadam in a room and just one bullet, Bush would get it between the eyes. That bastard has done more damage to my country than the others combined.
“Why so angry? All I did was destroy many innocent lives, our country’s fortunes and honor and integrity for my tiny fcking ego.”
Why so angry? Fck you in the ass Bush.
January 12th, 2009 at 4:15 pmDear PE Obama,
It has come to my attention that many members of the present administration are having a difficult time figuring out why people don’t like them. Since it wouldn’t be nice or fair to leave them in this quandary suffering from low self esteem, I think it would be a nice gesture on your part if you would ask someone in your new administration (Maybe the folks over at Justice would have some time on their hands) to put together a catalog of possible reasons. Please make sure they use small words and lots of pictures.
Once they have it all documented you could even send someone around personally with a nice invitation to a public unveiling. I suppose bracelets instead of a gold watch would be a bit gauche but you can decide on that.
I think it is the least we can do to show our thoughts on their years of service.
January 12th, 2009 at 4:15 pmTIRED OF FIGHTING says:
“I love the Soldiers of the Chickenhawk Regiment, always throwing out war references and euphemism’s, but when its time to “take one” for the country they’ll pass it on to “others” to do for them.”
Surely one of the great sins / stains of this disastrous administration – the cost they extracted from the American people – as well as the cost the inflicted on the rest of the world.
Our national shame – and the Chickenhawks’ fault!
January 12th, 2009 at 4:20 pmPrayers for all those who have paid the toll for their free ride.
If it’s all the same to you, Charlie, I just wish that GDumbya had taken a powder for the country about seven years and 357 days ago. That way, we and the rest of the world could have avoided all the “opprobrium and abuse” he has doled out during his disastrous (p)residency.
January 12th, 2009 at 4:21 pmbush made the horrible and mistaken and wrong CHOICE to start the illegal and disastrous war in iraq and then proceeded to mismanage it from start to its current never ending status. its like if i went drunk driving and killed a bunch of people but if i was a republican and suffered criticism for that action i would be krauthammers stoic hero and anyone that criticized me is just a hater.
January 12th, 2009 at 4:25 pmIncredible, one million innocent people dead so some oil companies can get some lucrative contracts and this misinforming a-hole keeps defending the war crime of invading a sovereign nation. Amazing that this kind of misinformation continues. Faux is un-American and keeping it’s viewers ignorant as to what bush’s war is all about.
January 12th, 2009 at 4:35 pmHe took one for the country? No he and his friends like Krauthammer took billions from the country. Not to mention the lives and well being of tens of thousands of our soldiers not to mention the terror that has reigned down on the Iraqi people.
January 12th, 2009 at 4:37 pmI hate to be petty, sort of, but Krauthammer definitely has the looks for RADIO.
January 12th, 2009 at 4:37 pm1) He didn’t take one – he dodged it.
2) He still doesn’t see why they should be angry – so he didn’t take their anger.
3) Are you comparing taking a bullet to being hit with a shoe. I bet our servicemen had much rather be in a battle of hurling shoes than blowing each other up.
January 12th, 2009 at 4:38 pmThe hell he did! The country didn’t want us to invade a nation that never attacked or threatened us!
Bush lied us into a bloody war and hundreds of thousands have died as a result.
January 12th, 2009 at 5:03 pmIf this is how Republicans want to show their patriotism, I’m all for it.
January 12th, 2009 at 5:04 pm“he took a shoe for the country, a bullet for the country”
And Iraq took an invasion, while Iraqis took a couple hundred THOUSAND bullets for Bushs folly and ego as well as corporate profits. Krauthammer is a wanker
January 12th, 2009 at 5:12 pmthe shoes are only the beginning! from now on it’s downhill for the worm 8 years of his crap has costed us so much …so much other shoes are on the way !!!
January 12th, 2009 at 5:18 pmNow that he’s ‘taken a bullet’ for the country and proved himself such a stud-horse, maybe he’d like to try a larger, better positioned, more powerful bullet.
January 12th, 2009 at 5:59 pmRaptureReady Says:
Even during success, President Bush has taken many shoes from every leftwing nuts.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
And deservedly so. Gumps successes were for the few at the expense of the many and even then far and few between. The man is the worst president in history.
January 12th, 2009 at 6:12 pmIf all Bush did was ‘take a shoe’ for us, why do I feel a breeze in my nether regions?
January 12th, 2009 at 6:18 pmRaptureReady forget about Bush look to God …time to let go and stay raptureready …this hguy way to costly for us …all rides come to an end!
January 12th, 2009 at 6:22 pmHow many people get angry when their questions are repeatedly ignored by accountable federal officials and elected representatives?
Do they fume after one blow off? What do they do after the 10th, the 20th?
January 12th, 2009 at 6:25 pmI hope I live long enough to see the day when criticizing Zionism is not considered a crime in America.
Putting an end to FOX News and Ruppert Murdoch would be a wonderful start.
January 12th, 2009 at 6:38 pmHey Daryll, why aren’t you on gay sex thread. Are you sick?
January 12th, 2009 at 6:38 pmIs it me, or does Krauthammer remind anyone of the Child Catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang? Not sure why Conservatives are starting to remind me of weird characters in the movies. Like Senator Mitch McConnell reminds me of Delmar in “Oh Brother Where Art Thou?”.
January 12th, 2009 at 6:51 pm“Bush derangement syndrome:” Continuing to believe, despite vast amounts of evidence to the contrary, that Bush was a good President and is a decent human being.
January 12th, 2009 at 7:43 pmNazi-boy Krauthammer should take a bullet for the country, send him to Iraq.
January 12th, 2009 at 7:58 pmKrauthammer is a bag of sewage. A Zionist traitor. Who cares what he thinks? He’s probably destined for the cross.
January 12th, 2009 at 8:24 pmSo, what can Krauthammer take for the country? I’m thinking anvil.
January 12th, 2009 at 9:12 pmKrauthhammer is a turd.
January 12th, 2009 at 9:44 pmWhat I remember is Bush coming to Omaha to hide out in the bunker at Offutt AFB on 9/11 until the all clear was given. That is hardly taking a bullet for America. It is more like an act of cowardice.
January 12th, 2009 at 10:30 pmMore like, “Bush took a $hit on the country”.
January 12th, 2009 at 10:37 pmWhile I can’t disagree with the Afghanistan/Iraq part of Bush’s presidency, his domestic incompetence has brought us to the brink of ruin. If only he’d fought Freddie/Fannie, Frank/Dodd as hadr as he fought Bin Laden/Hussein, we wouldn’t be in this mess. No, Bush didn’t take a shoe for the country, he put his size 9’s up our rear.
January 13th, 2009 at 9:08 amHoodathunk, while I disagree with every point of your post, I think that it is the best post I have ever seen here. You are very bright and creative. I will be looking for more of your stuff since ElBruce has become a small minded ninny virtually overnight.
January 13th, 2009 at 9:14 amdrew3rd, etiquette says one should respond to a compliment with an ‘oh p’shaw (toe scuff optional) and a thank you. That said, now I’ll throw up in my hat.
And I will continue to enjoy ElBruce’s posts as a fine example to emulate.
January 13th, 2009 at 10:20 amrmwarnick #6: You got it in one.
January 13th, 2009 at 10:27 amcwarddc Says:
A lot of people took a bullet for this country based on Bush’s lies. Bush definitely did not take a bullet for this country.
Shrub has hot “taken” anything FOR this country, but what he and his cohorts have taken away FROM this country makes a list too long for this blog: lives, civil liberties, a stable economy, jobs, $$$$$$$$$, the respect of other nations, any moral high ground that we once possessed, the separation of church and state, aid to the impoverished. . .
January 13th, 2009 at 10:34 am“opprobrium and abuse”–almost as catchy a phrase as “shock and awe.”
January 13th, 2009 at 10:39 amGuido the Loving OBGYN Says:
We all liked Bush at one time, right? So it does not square that we have some kind of “syndrome”. Weird.
Just WHEN was it, exactly, that “we all liked Bush”? I seem to have amnesia on that score.
January 13th, 2009 at 10:43 amElBruce Says:
“Bush derangement syndrome:” Continuing to believe, despite vast amounts of evidence to the contrary, that Bush was a good President and is a decent human being.
Best definition of that syndrome that I’ve encountered! I may quote you later today on other blogs–and I’ll cite my source.
January 13th, 2009 at 10:46 amDallasNE Says:
What I remember is Bush coming to Omaha to hide out in the bunker at Offutt AFB on 9/11 until the all clear was given. That is hardly taking a bullet for America. It is more like an act of cowardice.
Much as I usually HATE to defend Shrub, his “hiding out” is mandated; he had no choice; it was/is POLICY. That’s why we have Air Force and “Kneecap”: to protect US leadership. Even bad leadership.
January 13th, 2009 at 10:52 amSo why did the Chimp have to follow rules that one time?
January 13th, 2009 at 11:00 amdrew3rd Says:
If only he’d fought Freddie/Fannie, Frank/Dodd as hadr as he fought Bin Laden/Hussein…
This is chock full of so many falsehoods, it’s practically a thing of beauty.
Firs of all, Bush didn’t “fight” Bin Laden at all, he pretty much ignored him, both before and after 9/11. Second, Barney Frank and Chris Dodd weren’t the big deregulation champions, Bush was. Deregulation destroyed the financial industry. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac didn’t cause the collapse of the mortgage industry, financial speculators betting vast sums on modest assets was. That includes the overinflated CDS industry, all those “home flippers” using real estate as gambling chips, and others buying twice the house that they could afford then hoping for equity inflation to get them out of being overindebted.
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drew3rd Says:
ElBruce has become a small minded ninny virtually overnight.
Sir, I resemble that remark! You will hear from my solicitor in the morning. *slap slap*
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