On Plane to Texas, Critiques of the Speech

[grytpype]

Source: New York Times

On the plane, no longer Air Force One but now Special Air Mission 28000, they talked about the speech. George W. Bush, the former president, was heading home to Texas with his inner circle, having just left the west front of the Capitol, where his successor first thanked him for his service and then proceeded to trash it.

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Mr. Obama never directly mentioned Mr. Bush’s name after the ritual thank you at the beginning of his Inaugural Address but the context of some of his remarks was lost on no one. He criticized “our collective failure to make hard choices and prepare the nation for a new age.” He promised to “restore science to its rightful place.” He rejected “as false the choice between our safety and our ideals.” He assured the rest of the world “that we are ready to lead once more.”

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Mr. Bush knew that was coming as he winged his way back to Midland, Tex., on Tuesday. Aboard the big blue-and-white jet that afternoon were some of his most loyal confidants — Karl Rove, Karen Hughes, Dan Bartlett, Andrew H. Card Jr., Donald Evans, Joshua B. Bolten, Ed Gillespie, Margaret Spellings, Clay Johnson, Alberto Gonzales, Harriet Miers and others.

Mr. McKinnon described Mr. Bush’s spirits as high. “While I expected the president’s mood to be defiant, bitter, defensive or vengeful toward his critics, he was anything but,” Mr. McKinnon wrote. The passengers were shown a 22-minute film produced by Scott Sforza and edited by Laura Crawford celebrating the Bush presidency.

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Mr. Rove, who was on the plane to Texas, wrote in The Wall Street Journal that as his former boss departed Washington, “in a last angry frenzy his critics again distorted his record, maligned his character and repeated untruths about his years in the Oval Office,” adding that “nothing they wrote or said changes the essential facts.”


Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/23/us/politics/22web-baker.html?_r=1&hp

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LEAVE GEORGE ALONE!!!!!



YOU'RE LUCKY HE WAS YOUR PRESIDENT!



STOP PICKING ON HIM!!!!

[dflprincess]

1. I liked John Stewart's comment that Bush probably thought

Obama was "really sticking it to Clinton". (then he did that Bush like heh-heh laugh)

[kirby]

11. That joke was hilarious!!!

I busted out laughing at that one...

[bushwhacker23]

19. Very clever. Unlike the ex-pres. Check this out

Since I know everyone is going to miss this guy, here's some of his greatest moments. Enjoy em while you can!

http://tv1.com/playlists/123

[Cronopio]

2. “nothing they wrote or said changes the essential facts.”

That's right, Rove. What they wrote acknowledges the essential facts.

[snooper2]

3. You should remove that Britney Freak from your sig...

please :)

Chimpy gone now

[AlbertCat]

4. a 22-minute film

The passengers were shown a 22-minute film produced by Scott Sforza and edited by Laura Crawford celebrating the Bush presidency.

***********

22 minutes of static and snow?

Let's see, that's 2.75 minutes of celebration per Bush year. That seems way too long.

[kirby]

12. One for each percentage of the country who thinks he did a good job... n/t

[Stephanie]

22. Who paid for it?

Let me guess...

[ozymandius]

28. Twenty two minutes of glory out of eight years in the White House.

That doesn't say very much in anyone's credit.

[riderinthestorm]

36. Eek! Echoes of Leni Reifenstal. NT.

[SOS]

5. "The passengers were shown a film celebrating the Bush presidency."

Bush watches a movie, made by sycophants, telling him how great he is.
Next stop on Air Mission 28000....Fantasy Island.

[Solly Mack]

6. Must have been smoking the good shit on the plane ride home

[TEXASYANKEE]

7. How can he even say this with a straight face?

“He didn’t get everything right — no president does — but he got the most important things right,” Mr. Rove wrote. “And that is enough.”

He got the most important things right? He left Obama with 2 wars and the worst economy since the Great Depression. What, exactly, did he get right???

[Tempest]

10. You have to realize what the most important things were

1. Enrich buddies in the oil industry

2. Make happy his supporters in the religious right

3. Enrich his buddies in the defense industry

4. Make his successor's job almost impossible

[kimmerspixelated]

31. Exactly!

In that way, he did an excellent job!

[Tempest]

33. Or as the Bushies say

Mission Accomplished!

[4lbs]

18. Well, "important things right" to the GOP is different than what we would consider.

"Important things" to the GOP:

1.) Make rich people richer.

2.) Screw the middle class and poor.

3.) Better security through fear and ignoring basic rights.

[WhiteTara]

34. he made butt loads of money

he had his priorties straight.

[Mnemosyne]

38. Anytime people claimed * was lying about how good things were, I knew he was telling the truth.

The audience simply was not us.

:hi:

[Robb]

43. LOL

Great line. I'm gonna steal it. :D

[Mnemosyne]

46. Only the truth and

nothing BUT the truth. Spread it around! :fistbump:

[road2000]

8. One-third of that film must have been blank.

That would represent the amount of time Bush officially spent on vacation.

[Terran]

9. How can I put this delicately...?

It's a pity that aircraft didn't blow up in mid-air.

[grytpype]

14. Really!

[aquart]

29. Nuh uh. OUR PLANE.

Let them take a small plane to Crawford.

[Terran]

32. It would be worth it.

Crew could parachute out. And maybe Laura.

[Titonwan]

13. The Fuhrer is STILL the GREATEST!

"No matter what the "critics" and "pundits" and the "historians" and the "people" and the "world" says, mine fuhr... I mean President Bush will ALWAYS BE FAMOUS & LOVED BY THE FATHE... I mean HOMEL... I mean COUNTRY!!! Now three times with me! SIE.. Hail to the FU..CHIEF!"

Sit down Karl, before I knock you down. Your fuhrer is going to prison. (you do know little Karl's favorite coloring book was Mein Kampf)

[foxer]

15. Should have diverted that plane to Gitmo

[xxqqqzme]

24. That assembled group would have made a good start.

Only missing rummy, darth & kindasleazy.

[TrogL]

16. Logical Fallacy

...that terrorists never struck American soil again after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, calling that Mr. Bush’s singular legacy

Priest 1: If it hails, the crops will be ruined.
Priest 2: We must pray to the Great White Hippopotomus

...next day...

Priest 1: It did not hail and the crops were harvested.
Priest 2: All hail the Great White Hippopotomus

A typical invocation of the Fallacy of the Undivided Middle. In our case:

A: Terrorist attacks on US must not happen.
B: Dubya does his thing (eg. restrict civil liberties, attack the wrong country)

Therefore Dubya stopped the terrorist attacks.

[truthisfreedom]

21. Fact is, terrorists never flew planes into the Twin Towers until bush and cheney arrived at the WH.

They brought this terror down on us.

[NYC Liberal]

37. I never got this. They always say "Never attacked SINCE 9/11"

Why since? Was Bush not president for 8 months before those attacks?

"Yeah Bush kept us safe. Except for 9/11."

[TrogL]

17. dupe

[happygoluckytoyou]

20. W will retire to a quiet room, in a quiet house, in a republican neighborhood--- never to understand

[EnviroBat]

23. It's only been two days and already any mention of that maggot

is reminding me of a fart that just won't leave the room. IT STINKS!

[LuckyLib]

25. my favorite slam was that we will “restore science to its rightful place.”

Yes!!!!! Finally. Some common sense at the helm as opposed to those faith-based idjuts we've had to live with for the past 8 years!

[JeffreyWilliamson]

26. Uh, Karl...

Nothing you wrote or said changes the essential facts.

[kenny blankenship]

27. Mr. McKinnon described Mr. Bush’s spirits as high.

While I expected the president’s mood to be defiant, bitter, defensive or vengeful toward his critics, he was anything but,” Mr. McKinnon wrote.

But you understand, Mr. McKinnon, that you're writing about a man whose powers of denial can make Everests vanish into thin air. He sees no evil. He simply doesn't hear stuff he doesn't want to hear. That's how we got here.

By the time your flight was airborne, he had probably forgotten everything before it back to the moment when he walked out of the Capitol.

[aquart]

30. He's never going to have to worry about finding, keeping, or losing a job.

Nothing that is happening to us has any meaning to him.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

35. What a bunch of crybabies and childish petulant idiots the * lackeys are

All of them played key roles in ensuring the country and the world are facing the situation that they are in now. They should all be ashamed of what pathetic failures they were

[tblue37]

39. I am so tired of those M-F*ing SNAKES on a M-F*ing PLANE! nt

[blonndee]

40. Should read:

Mr. Bush knew that was coming as he cringed his way back to Midland, Tex.,

[sammym3]

41. What? No Condi?

Now that is news.

[glitch]

42. Bush was the only one capable of trashing his service, with help from Rove and Cheney of course.

And he did a heck of a job.

[SpiralHawk]

44. Whiney Republicon Homelanders cannot handle the truth

Pharisees & Fail Freaks...

[yellowcanine]

45. That fat worm Rove can be glad neither he nor George have been indicted.

And he should just shut up already. We ain't buying his shit - nor accepting it if he is giving it away.