Bush Inaugural Message Marked byHope of Freedom's Advance Around the World

[papau]

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGB90NN474E.html

Bush Inaugural Message Marked by Hope of Freedom's Advance Around the World DAVID ESPO Associated Press Writers
By Deb Riechmann

WASHINGTON (AP) - George W. Bush stood at the brink of a second term in turbulent times on Thursday with a pledge to seek "freedom in all the world" as the surest path to peace.

"In a world moving toward liberty, we are determined to show the meaning and promise of liberty," the nation's 43rd president said in inaugural address excerpts released in advance of the noontime swearing in at the Capitol. <snip>

There were small protest demonstrations at scattered locations, including one by anti-war protesters. <snip>

"We are led, by events and common sense, to one conclusion. The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands," the prepared remarks said, "The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world." <snip>

[Magleetis]

1. What a total bunch

of bullshit. Just like everything else in Bush's America.

[ananda]

2. but what about right here?

I'm sure it was a nice, hopeful message full of fantasy and feel-good freeom and democracy pabulum for Bush's good, little faith-based groupies.

Of course, then there's the reality. If we don't have freedom and democracy here in the USA, how can we .. ermm.. hope for it elsewhere?

Sue

[Inland]

3. Bush's jabbing fingers made quote marks in air during entire speech.

[Buns_of_Fire]

11. He's learned a new trick!

Quick, toss that boy a Scooby Snack! :eyes:

[progressiveBadger]

20. I wish Chris Farley was still alive

I would have loved to see that impersonation....

Maybe i'm not "Smart". Maybe I don't know how to "Read". Maybe people "don't like me". Maybe I am a "worthless POS"....
I loved that skit.

[ixion]

4. yeah, right, whatever

lying, fascist bastard. :grr: :mad:

Whenever * speaks of 'liberty', somewhere a civil right dies painful, quiet death.

[LibDemAlways]

12. and a human being

dies a slow, agonizing one.

[4dsc]

5. Freedom through military conquest...

what a concept!!

[papau]

6. "Freedom must be chosen" memo to Bush - we tried - but you still stole

the election.

[Skidmore]

16. ....and if you don't chose it, we'll chose it for you.

Right?

[Solly Mack]

7. Yeah...it's a real shit getting deep moment

[4_Legs_Good]

8. Did he claim divine intervention like he did in his first innagural?

with that Thomas Jefferson quote? I think I was the only one who caught it, but he basically stated that he was chosen by God to be President.

It was disgusting.

Good quote, though, "Angel in the whirlwind" and all.

david

[Edgewater_Joe]

9. ... but Undercut By Reality Of Megalomaniacal Idiocy

Has the moment passed yet?

[uppityperson]

10. I am crying too hard and yelling too hard to continue to watch

Back in 1983 I was amused at people being afraid of 1984/Orwellian stuff. Now I'm not. George Orwell was only off by 20 yrs. 9/11 9/11 9/11 War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength. Impeachment

[qanda]

13. When did that get written into the Constitution?

He should be impeached for that reason alone.

[Cocoa]

14. inaccurate headline

should be "...marked by CLAIM of hope etc..."

[quiet.american]

15. Mein Kampf, anyone? n/t

[newscott]

17. Freedom advancing at the point of a gun

Some message.

How "Iranic".

[Megahurtz]

18. What a crock of shit is this?

meaningless words.

[peaches2003]

19. In Other Words

war is on a world-wide march.

[betterwearahat]

21. Secret Service tells parade to NOT STARE at Bush

Today we will see the the Inauguration of the most corrupt President of America since Andrew Jackson.

The Security in Washington, DC includes cordoning off over 100 blocks from the general public. I have a tendency to think that all this security has less to do with Al-Queada threats and more to do with the protecting Bush from seeing his angry citizenry.

Take for example one of the measures dictated by the Secret Service:

They issued to all Inaugural Parade participants a memo which directs everyone that "when passing the President you are not to STARE at him or MAKE ANY SUDDEN MOVEMENTS.

What's up with that? It's like as if he was a Medusa who will turn those who stare upon him into stone, or as if he is like a wild animal and you wouldn't want to do anything to provoke his attack, or it as if he is like Royalty during fuedal times (which we are almost back in) and the peasants are too lowly to let their eyes grace the King!


From my weekly editorial cartoon at http://www.betterwearahat.com

[Wright Patman]

25. Andrew Jackson,

along with Thomas Jefferson, is the most famous and revered early leader of the Democratic Party. He and his brand of populist politics were the polar opposite politically of the Bush Crime Family's politics of today.

One can disagree with his military career against the native Americans, but as President, he single-handedly ended the most corrupt influence on the fledgling American republic of the 1830s, a forerunner of today's Federal Reserve called the Second Bank of the United States. He refused to recharter it.

The thanks he got for that was an assassination attempt which failed. They didn't call him Old Hickory for nothing. In fact, every president who takes on the "money power" as my namesake used to call it is usually either assassinated or destroyed in other ways.

Jefferson once said "If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of currency..............the banks........will deprive the people of all property, until their children will wake up homeless, on the continent, their fathers conquered.........."

The reason we have the "global economy" rampaging across the planet (using U.S. soldiers as its underpaid mercenaries) without a global polity to bring it to heel is that there has been a dearth of Jeffersonian/Jacksonian leaders in the Democratic Party for nearly 100 years.

[Nunne hi]

26. Here's why...

from www.engrish.com, an hilarious website

[newyawker99]

31. Hi betterwearahat!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Charlie Brown]

22. I guess "liberty" is taboo for gays

and atheists, non-Christians, Hispanics, pregnant women, the poor, an hourly wager, educators, academic professors, independent thinkers, etc., or a poor infantrymen getting blown up in Mosul.

But if you're white, rich, male, Christian (well, a "real" Christian), English-speaking, and ignorant...

By all means, liberty all aroud.

By the way, Mr. "Liberty for Everyone" opposes women in combat. Guess "freedom" means "the freedom to do whatever your husband tells you."

[Solly Mack]

23. The world shudders at the thought

[Fridays Child]

24. Headline should read: Bush pisses on our legs, tells us it's raining.

[adigal]

28. LOL!!! Your humor brightened my day considerably!!!

[shantipriya]

27. Bush speech at the inauguration(or is it CORONATION)

Does Bush even understand any of what he has been given to read?And what really amazes and angers me is the awe with which supposedly intelligent people look at him and applaud when he is reading a speech,the substance and meaning of which I don't think he even understands!

[ClayZ]

30. I could not watch

Had to turn on AIR AMERICA http://www.airamericaradio.com/
to calm myself and hear a voice of REASON!

Freedom, like that little girl in the New York times... google Iraqui girl screams" that is the kind of FREEDOM!

On my way to the SEATTLE PROTEST....to scream" GEORGE BUSH - FUCK YOU = AND YOUR WHOLE AGENDA TOO..

[flordehinojos]

29. please excuzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzze me, but did bush discover FREEDOM?

[goodboy]

32. spreading freedom with smart bombs. sick...(nt)

[V Lee]

33. Onward Christian soldiers!!!

Sing it with me!

The Bush Motto: The people of the world will be free if we have to kill every last one of them to make them that way.