'Compassionate' Bush widely misunderstood: Schieffer

[anakie]

"The US ambassador to Australia, Tom Schieffer, says it is disappointing that President George W Bush is so often misunderstood around the world........

""His critics like to portray him more in caricature than character.

"The George Bush that I have known through the years is often misunderstood by the public, especially in foreign lands. I really don't know why that is, but it is.

"The George Bush that I know is a man of enormous compassion and concern for his fellow man."

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200412/s1265800.htm


I think it is more disappointing most of America doesn't understand what a fool that man is. And of course bush has compassion and concern for his fellow man; as long as he is not Iraqi, gay, poor, a soldier, European etc.

[bemildred]

1. They judge him by his deeds. nt

[Bono71]

32. exactly.

[whosinpower]

2. Compassionate bombs away

That sort of compassion has killed over 100 000 people in the past 2 years.

Yeah - I can see how that is misunderstood.

[UdoKier]

3. How shocking

That a Bush appointee would fawn over his benefactor with absolute lies.

[Deja Q]

4. when will these neocons define what they're saying and doing?

Instead of classifying everything as secret, doing the opposite of what they say, saying the opposite of what they say (9/13/01 to 3/13/02, no less...), and so on?

Sheiffer can stick his finger where the sun don't shine and then spin on it.

[UpInArms]

5. not everyone is as big a boob as you, Tom Schieffer

:puke:

[The Zanti Regent]

47. Oh, his brother Bob Schieffer is right up there being a dumb boob

and Bob loves to blow the GOP!

Now you know why!

[GCP]

6. No doubt he got his ambassadorship through huge campaign donations

It was obviously not brain-power that got him the job.

[anakie]

8. he used to be a partner in that baseball team

shrub owned for a while.

[ixion]

7. * knows no such thing as compassion

I base that simply on his actions.

[alfredo]

10. Cocaine does that to people. They lose the ability to feel

real emotions. Cocaine becomes the only thing they really respond to.

[Hand]

9. I thought this was Bob Schieffer

You may remember him as doing a halfway decent job moderating one of the debates. Nope--it's his brother. Sheesh! And then people wonder what we mean by media bias...

:wtf:

[GCP]

14. Wow, I never knew Bob Schieffer's brother was so close to Georgie-Porgie

That explains a few things.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

11. Blow it out your suck-up ass, Schieffer n/t

[Bouncy Ball]

12. ...

"The George Bush that I know is a man of enormous compassion and concern for his fellow man."


Um, I judge whether someone is compassionate based on their ACTIONS, not their WORDS.

bush's actions say he is not only lacking compassion, but actually feels complete animosity for the world and for other Americans. I am embarrassed he was even BORN in this country and can call himself an American. That's how completely compassionless he is (again, going off his actions, a far more accurate measure than words).

[hatrack]

13. Well whaddyaknow?

A hack political appointee gushing eloquently about the "compassion" and "concern" of his boss. Fuck you, Mr. Ambassador, and fuck you, Mr. "President".

[saigon68]

15. WHAT'S NOT TO UNDERSTAND ABOUT A WAR CRIMINAL AND THUG

Lynndie England and her Merry Band of Thugs










The digital photographs were published today by The Washington Post. They show prisoners
handcuffed or shackled, most of them naked. Among the images is a picture of a female soldier
holding a leash, tied around a man's neck.

[neweurope]

16. He is a war criminal. And the whole world knows it.

BUSH TO THE HAGUE!

[Just Me]

17. Misunderstood? BAH!!! This man must be suffering some delusional,...

,...mental illness.

This sheltered, "ivory, white tower", kind of man can never be characterized as having enormous compassion for his fellow man (other than, of course, the rich and powerful men who have surrounded him his entire life)? He is too ignorant to even have a clue about common folks' lives and struggles.

[CBHagman]

18. Just to recap....

...Bush got rich on the backs of the taxpayers (see the Texas Rangers stadium funding history and how Bush reaped a huge bounty from a modest investment).

...won the Republican nomination in 2000 due to money, connections, name recognition, and the vicious trashing of a respected veteran.

...won a second term through the vicious trashing of a respected veteran.

...campaigned at rallies of carefully screened supporters and stirred up hatred towards select groups of Americans (I heard the Bush stump speech and the reactions a lot, and only Mark Leibovich of The Washington Post correctly captured the tone of animosity at such rallies).

...has sought to strengthen the advantage held by the top 2 percent of taxpayers (i.e., by seeking to end the estate tax, tax on investments, etc.).

...has sought to remove benefits for the non-wealthy (by seeking a consumption tax, ending the tax-exempt status of medical insurance benefits, etc.).

In short, Bush HAS no character, he's not misunderstood, and the rest of the world knows exactly what he is.

[Magleetis]

19. What a crock

The whole Bush family is just plain evil and self centered. Schieffer is wrong and he knows it.

[ckramer]

20. Bush = War = Deaths

That's exactly what Bush is.

[VegasWolf]

21. "The George Bush that has paid me handsomely" n/t

[spanone]

22. Boy, talk about your head up your ass.

[masaka___]

23. Did he say that with a straight face?

;)

[Bridget Burke]

24. Botox.

And it smoothed out his wrinkles, too.

[VegasWolf]

25. New super strength Botox. n/t

[VegasWolf]

26. What is that term for trying to polish a turd. n/t

[devinsgram]

27. I take it then that the rest of the

World is smarter then Tom Schieffer.

[bluedeminredstate]

28. I think it's "disappointing" that a US Ambassador

has an IQ under 25 and got his job through connections, not through merit.

[BornUnderPunches]

29. "`Please,' Bush whimpers, his lips pursed in mock desperation,....

From: "Devil May Care" by Tucker Carlson, Talk Magazine, September 1999, p. 106

"Bush's brand of forthright tough-guy populism can be appealing, and it has played well in Texas. Yet occasionally there are flashes of meanness visible beneath it.

While driving back from the speech later that day, Bush mentions Karla Faye Tucker, a double murderer who was executed in Texas last year. In the weeks before the execution, Bush says, Bianca Jagger and a number of other protesters came to Austin to demand clemency for Tucker. 'Did you meet with any of them?' I ask.

Bush whips around and stares at me. 'No, I didn't meet with any of them,' he snaps, as though I've just asked the dumbest, most offensive question ever posed. 'I didn't meet with Larry King either when he came down for it. I watched his interview with , though. He asked her real difficult questions, like 'What would you say to Governor Bush?' 'What was her answer?' I wonder.

'Please,' Bush whimpers, his lips pursed in mock desperation, 'don't kill me.'


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[Just Me]

38. Interesting. Very interesting.

Welcome!!!

:hi:

The "spoiled" are quite callous,...aren't they? (or on lots of profiteering, pharmaceutically approved narcotics *LOL*)

[VegasWolf]

30. Gee, I wonder why he could possibly be misunderstood. n/t

[Vogon_Glory]

31. Tom Schieffer Meets Ambrose Bierce

I believe that the great American humorist Ambrose Bierce once defined a diplomat as someone sent abroad to lie for his country.

:evilgrin:

[muriel_volestrangler]

36. It goes back much farther than that

"An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country" - Sir Henry Wotton, 1568-1639, English ambassador to Venice, quoted in Izaak Walton's Life, 1651.

[Vogon_Glory]

44. Thank You.

Thanks for that nugget of wisdom. I shouldn't be surprised that even the Jacobeans should have been that sophisticated even in the early 17th century.

Whaddya bet that the average dittohead has never heard of either Izaak Walton or Ambrose Bierce or understands the meaning of the quips?

[Megahurtz]

33. you have got to be fucking kidding me

:argh:

[walldude]

35. "The US ambassador to Australia, Tom Schieffer

says it is disappointing that President George W Bush is so often misunderstood around the world........

""His critics like to portray him more in caricature than character.

"The George Bush that I have known through the years is often misunderstood by the public, especially in foreign lands. I really don't know why that is, but it is.

"The George Bush that I know is a man of enormous compassion and concern for his fellow man."

My Name is George Bush and I approved this message.

[Megahurtz]

39. Maybe Schieffer needs to live in the U.S. for awhile

as a poor or homeless person of course.

Then we'll see if he changes his mind.

[kskiska]

34. 50,000,000 Frenchmen can't be wrong.

If he's such a poor communicator that the entire world misunderstands him, maybe he's in the wrong business.

[dave29]

37. yes, he is so compassionate

he needs to be sure everyone else will take the blame for his errors.

[Solly Mack]

40. Dude, stay away from the eucalyptus trees

or whatever it is you've been ingesting.

[Supersedeas]

41. compassion for fellow millionaires.

[depakid]

42. "I really don't know why that is"

And this guys is supposed to be a diplomat?

It's pretty obvious to anyone with eyes and ears why that is- the man is petty, dishonest, fails to treat people with respect, arrogantly refuses to compromise or even consider reality based policies, and can't even speak his own language competantly.

He's shown no evidence whatsoever of any compassion for "his fellow man" and people abroad understand that quite clearly even if ignorant, propagandized mercan's don't.

[rooboy]

43. * isn't compassionate, he's just a "Good ol' Boy" n/t

[SKKY]

45. No, I think the world has it pretty much dead on...

...it's the other half of this country that are absolutely clueless.

[ninkasi]

46. It's very true that he's misunderstood...

but that is by the religious, who think he is a "godly" man, or by macho types, who thinks he's actually tough, instead of a sniveling, cowardly little spoiled rich boy, who went AWOL, and let others fight and die in a war he approved of but wouldn't fight himself.

He is indeed misunderstood by a lot of Americans, who don't realize how evil, heartless, and sociopathic he really is.

[VegasWolf]

48. Actually, what is there to misunderstand? It's all intentional. n/t

[steely]

49. "He's the best Kommander in Chief I ever worked for."

Please pass the Kool aid?

[NVMojo]

50. oh, yeah, poor little old values boy

[yorkiemommie1]

51. just like condi, powell, et al

he is a lying,soulless toady. no conscience. how is it that every damn day these folks manage to come up with at least one outrage against common human decency?

there are none so blind as those who will not see. i hate them all.

[Dem2theMax]

52. Only have one thing I can possibly say to that:

:puke: