At Bush-Cheney Alumni Reunion, Bush Says Jimmy Carter’s Criticisms Made His Life ‘Miserable’

[kpete]

Source: Think Progress

At Bush-Cheney Alumni Reunion, Bush Says Jimmy Carter’s Criticisms Made His Life ‘Miserable’

The first official reunion of the Bush-Cheney Alumni Association kicked off in Washington, DC today. The “closed-door” event was supposed to be Bush and Cheney’s first joint appearance together since leaving office, but the former vice president had to skip the festivities because of recent health problems.

At the breakfast today (view a picture of the gathering here), Bush talked about his upcoming memoir, joking, “This is going to come as quite a shock to people up here that I can write a book, much less read one.” He also said that Cheney was “feeling well” and “has a fierce constitution,” and according to attendee Gary Karr, Bush “gave an eloquent defense of the freedom agenda.” Bush also explained why he — unlike Cheney — has been relatively quiet about the job President Obama is doing:

I have no desire to see myself on television. I don’t want to be a panel of formers instructing the currents on what to do. … I’m trying to regain a sense of anonymity. I didn’t like it when a certain former president — and it wasn’t 41 or 42 — made my life miserable.

Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/2010/02/26/bush-cheney-alumni/

[kestrel91316]

1. Aw, boo fucking hoo you goddamned coke-sniffing drunkard.

[newtothegame]

19. Ah, class. Calling out former or current addictions always wins us points. n/t

[kestrel91316]

28. I'm not the one who lacks "class". Bush is. AND YOU KNOW IT.

WHY ARE YOU DEFENDING THAT ASSWIPE???????

[newtothegame]

29. Doesn't matter who Bush is or isn't.

As a recovered drug and alcohol addict myself, it's disgusting to see DU'ers use potential relapses as political tools. And by potential, I mean the cover of the National Enquirer. It's alarming how quickly DU'ers run with stories from trash publications like that.

You're really going to make fun of a person who went through recovery? Really? And even if he has relapsed, how is is that at ALL something to make fun of someone for?

[Occulus]

31. "Take the high road" again? No fucking thanks!

He was a coke-sniffing inherited-wealth fratboy drunk whose rehab most certainly didn't work, but who was nonetheless put in the most powerful driver's seat in the world. While there, he destroyed one economy, bombed one nation to splinters, was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people and the displacement of at least a million, and very likely permanently tarnished our national reputation on the world stage.

Moreover, he was a fucking bully whose "my way or the highway" attitude and genetically ingrained xenophobia filtered down to the rank-and-file of his entire political party, for which we will be paying the social price for at least a generation. In addition, he put into place policies putting limits on our freedoms that will probably never be rescinded short of a new American Revolution.

Defend his drink-addled ass if you like, but I for one am sick and fucking tired of "being better than them", "taking the high road", and "not stooping to their level". Ignoring bullies like Bush and his ilk will only make them come back over and over again, getting worse and worse each time, until finally someone or something snaps, at which point there will be hell to pay on both sides.

So, no, I will not refrain from using each and every last, least, littlest fault of Bush or any other Republican against them in the political arena, even if it means I have to make shit up, because that sort of treatment is the only thing bullies like them ever understand. As I said in another post, I want the entire Republican Party to be metaphorically clocked in the mouth so hard they come up spitting blood and teeth, and if they happen to fall over on their side, I most certainly want to be the first one in line to kick them while they're down.

They don't deserve any apology from us except "I'm sorry you're offended, but...", and anyone who doesn't think it's appropriate can sit down, shut up, and get the fuck out of the way. THAT'S how you deal with these creeps. You don't be nice. You don't take the high road. You don't try to be high-handed. You cut. You cut them, utterly. Cut them down with your words, your tactics, and yes, even your lies. Just cut them to pieces, using any and all means necessary. If you have regrets later, that's later, and nobody goes through life without a few of those.

If you think I'm wrong, I'm sorry for you, because they'll only be back again and again until we deal with them the way bullies deserve to be treated. And Mr. "Former" Coke Addict Drunkard Warmonger Walking Economic Disaster Authoritarian Constitution Ass-wiper Bush fucking deserves it.

[Iowa]

33. +1

Damn! You nailed it. :applause:

[shanti]

34. +2

[Ignis]

46. +3

That had to leave a mark. :thumbsup:

[Martin Eden]

49. +4 ... and also ... my POEM to BUSH

When he left office I was inspired to write what I'd like to say to him face to face:



I’d tell you to go fuck yourself
But that is much too kind
Because if you could perform that feat
You’d take pleasure in your behind

I’d like to say eat shit and die
But you deserve much more
You should suffer all the grief and pain
Of your misbegotten war

Though I can never make you feel
Or think, or understand
I’ll take solace when you hear your name
Cursed throughout the land

From inside a lonely prison cell
Dark and bare and cold
Where every day you pay for your crimes
Till you’re sick, heartbroken, and old

And when you finally leave the earth
You fucked over oh so well
If there is a God and afterlife
You’re going straight to hell.

[wickerwoman]

51. Bravo!

:toast:

[Frank Cannon]

71. sniff sniff

That's... that's beautiful. :cry:

[upi402]

54. You forgot AWOL

... just like to be helpful! Contributing as I can...:evilgrin:

[newtothegame]

55. Richard Nixon, can it really be you? nt

[callous taoboy]

59. Heh. Touche. Though I list toward your verbal sparring partner.

[saigon68]

61. K & R

[mithnanthy]

66. Beautifully Stated!

Thanks for that Occulus!

[Frank Cannon]

70. This may be one of the best posts I've ever read in this forum

Fuck the high road. These bullies need to be smashed in the nose as hard as possible to the cheers of every kid on the playground. That's the only way these thugs understand. That's the way it's always been.

[calimary]

73. +5

Sorry to say this is probably what at least some of us warriors will HAVE TO do.

Look, this is an "army" of ours, in one respect. There are many divisions within it. There are certainly some who want to try the charm offensive or the "rise-above-it" approach to dealing with the enemy. And make no mistake, they ARE our enemy. And bush was at the head.

But there are other divisions in that same "army" that have to do the hard work, the open combat, the brass-knuckle approach. The only approach bullies understand. The approach that DOESN'T believe in taking a feather-duster into a gunfight. The sad truth is that there is indeed only one way to deal with bullies and that is to bully them back - harder. It's the only thing they understand.

And yes. bush deserves it. Let him reap what he's sown. Maybe SOMEBODY on that side will take a lesson from it. At the very least, they'll come to understand that our side isn't a bunch of pushovers and if they try to smack us around, they're gonna get smacked back - HARDER.

[Arugula Latte]

74. +6

:thumbsup:

[truth2power]

81. Whoo hoo!! Good job!

:fistbump:

[Gidney N Cloyd]

36. Who says he went through recovery? nt

[No Elephants]

40. When you do as much damage to America, the planet and our military as Bush did/wanted to, get back

to us.

[Hekate]

69. I'm glad for your recovery, but Bush the Lesser is a loathsome cockroach...

I never imagined I could hate another president as much as I hated Richard M. Nixon. Then along came George W. Bush, and to my gut-wrenching astonishment he was so evil that he made Nixon look like a statesman.

Please do not mistake anything bad that is said about Bush as being a reflection on you. Put your ego and personal issues aside.

There was ample evidence if one cared to look for it that while in office Bush either fell off the wagon on a consistent basis or was showing the effects of long term substance abuse on his personality and brain, just as there was evidence that Reagan had Alzheimer's disease while in office.

It's not about you. It's about the unbelievable damage Bush and his henchmen wrought upon our Nation, our Constitution, and our Bill of Rights.

Hekate

[Generator]

62. Exactly

Don't let Bush give coke snorting and drinking it up a bad name.

[Supersedeas]

2. silencing criticism and revising history -- the ole 1 - 2 "Con" job

[Bitwit1234]

3. I am so glad someone finally got to the piece of crap that ruined our country.

Wish more of our citizens could.

[frylock]

4. just another reason out of many to like james earl carter!

[UTUSN]

10. You said it for me. n/t

[Downwinder]

5. Cheers for Carter. n/t

[D23MIURG23]

6. Not nearly miserable enough. (But good for Carter in any case) n/t

[Robb]

7. Not miserable enough.

[Botany]

8. “gave an eloquent defense of the freedom agenda.”

[Name removed]

9. Deleted message

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[Vincardog]

11. Hey Dim Son how does it feel knowing your are the WORST (p)Resident EVER?

[No Elephants]

42. I doubt he's bright enough to know that.

I believe he still thinks history will vindicate him 100 years from now, which is the kind of delusion no one can argue with. Well, not for another 100 years anyway.

[NYC Liberal]

12. He hasn't said anything because he really doesn't give a shit.

He's retired with a multi-million dollar home in Dallas and can get drunk as much and as often as he wants.

"I'll give some speeches, just to replenish the ol' coffers" .. "We'll have a nice place in Dallas... I can just envision getting in the car, getting bored, going down to the ranch"

Yep. Actual quotes from the asshat.

[Submariner]

18. I feel sort of sorry for his Secret Service detail

Honorable men and women who probably strived for their unique positions within the SS, only to get detailed to protect the most ignorant heinous piece of shit in Texas. What a waste of their lives. Hopefully they're natural born Tea-baggers and can weather the stain of being on the Shrub detail.

Good thing his SS detail is covering for him, because if it was me, I'd let Dumbya take the bullet. No way in hell I could take one for that jerk off.

[DebbieCDC]

35. I'm with you Submariner

[wickerwoman]

50. Bingo. He's just relieved he doesn't have to pretend to watch the news anymore.

Fifty bucks says he can't name the current vice president.

[Donnachaidh]

13. chimpenfuehrer's feelings got hurted???

[driver8]

14. How about all of the lives that you made miserable??

Man, I hate that piece of shit.

[dalaigh lllama]

15. Maybe he meant former president #43 -- Al Gore

:shrug:

[aquart]

16. One more plus for Carter.

Not many have managed to make a Bush suffer.

[Kahuna]

17. He's lying as usual. It's his way of excusing the way cheney treats Obama.

C'mon. Jimmy Carter?

[No Elephants]

44. Ding, ding, ding. We have a winnah!

[LiberalFighter]

20. The reason he doesn't want to be on television is because it reminds people why they hate him.

[Kali]

21. like the idiot is even REMOTELY qualified to comment

he wasn't qualified for the job in the first place he sure as hell isn't qualified to comment on how somebody else is doing.

[Jefferson23]

22. Carter made his life miserable? LOL, How I wish that were true.

[hootinholler]

23. How pissy of Reagan to rain on his parade like that.

Oh well, he was fairly demented in those days.

-Hoot

[mac56]

24. To quote Jim Bunning:

"Tough shit."

[fascisthunter]

25. criticism made his life 'Miserable'

talk about being delicate.

[City Lights]

26. You want anonymity, George? Crawl back under your rock.

You made your own life miserable because you allowed someone to convince you that you were up to the job of being the POTUS, even though you admitted yourself that you are nothing but a media creation. You would be living on the streets or behind bars if you didn't have your daddy's connections and last name. George, everything about you screams, "FAIL!"

[xxqqqzme]

27. '...made my life miserable....'

boo-fucking-hoo. Miserable is too good for him. I want him tormented, checking under the bed, looking over his shoulder. He earned absolutely no peace, no tranquility.

[Arctic Dave]

30. Trying to get their stories straight?

Did you burn all your evidence?
Yeah, did you burn yours?
Excellent, fuck the law!

[Toucano]

32. Carter's criticism was unprecedented

But so were Bush's crimes.

[Socal31]

37. What history book did you read?

[No Elephants]

43. Not unprecedented at all.

http://www.slate.com/id/2233450/

And, btw, President Ford criticized Dummya for the exact same thing Carter did--illegal invasion of Iraq.

[tomhayes]

38. Lincoln's ghost ??

Seems like *that* should have been in the headline

[provis99]

39. what a frickin psychopath

Nothing is ever his fault; everyone else is to blame. Bush is the textbook definition of a psychopath, and Dick Cheney was his enabler.

[Overseas]

41. But you are just fine with dismissing the August 2001 PDB

and sending the security official who came to your vacation home to warn you with a statement like "OK, you've covered your ass, you can go now" ??

You are fine with your team dissing the Clinton team for being too obsessed with Bin Laden and Al Qaeda?

[No Elephants]

45. So, exactly how many times since 2000 did the gentle Carter criticize this fool? Twice?

For pity sake, ya spoiled brat, President Up!









Or I'll start quoting Ann Richardson and Molly Ivins.


Not that anyone who runs for President should expect criticism, or anything.


Jeesh. Small wonder he dodged the draft and went AWOL from, wait for it--the Texas Air National Guard.

[Uncle Joe]

47. Bush the Least never gave a rat's ass about what Jimmy Carter thought or said, anymore

than he cared about the disenfranchised voters of Florida, the abandoned, drowning Americans of New Orleans, the people of Iraq he killed in a war based on lies or the rest of Earth, foe or friend, adversary or ally.

Bush is coming out with this bullshit as a cover for Torquemada Cheney's; limelight public criticism of President Obama, while also defending the indefensible acts of torture and war crimes.

This is for Cheney, and the only reason Bush is protecting Cheney is as a means to further protect his own gross negligence, corruption, incompetence and misconduct, he's afraid that if Cheney goes down, he will.

As for Jimmy Carter.:patriot:


Thanks for the thread, kpete.

[Rhiannon12866]

48. Good! K&R for President Carter!!!

:patriot:

[Stuart G]

53. Second that motions...Now I got even more respect for Carter than before

[Rhiannon12866]

56. He really has been stepping up to the plate on many issues.

The blatant wrongdoing was impossible to ignore when Bush* was in office, but it never dawned on me that Bush* paid attention to President Carter, or anyone else, in this country or anywhere else in the world... :eyes:

[upi402]

52. Wait 'til Satan gets him.

Still hoping there really IS a hell!

:evilgrin: nom nom, neocon ass is FINE!

[bananas]

57. Hooray for Jimmy Carter!

:applause:

[tabasco]

58. If the lying AWOL chimp isn't lying ....

GOOD WORK JIMMY!

[eringer]

60. Yeah, Just Thinking About Him Must Have Made Your Life Miserable

Jimmy had a distinguished career upon graduation from the Naval Academy in 1946. Why is it no one seems able to find George W. Bush's records of Military service?

Just to rub it in, here is Jimmy's Navy bio:

Jimmy Carter's Naval Service
■05 JUN 1946 - 8 AUG 1946 -- Commissioned Ensign, USN. Routine post-USNA graduation assignments- indoctrinational training with service type aircraft - leave and transit to first duty station.


■8 AUG 1946 - 23 JUL 1947 -- Duty aboard USS Wyoming (E-AG17). Billets Held: Deck Division Officer, Radar Officer, CIC Officer Qualifications: OOD in Port, JOOD underway. Remarks: Detached from Wyoming at ship's decommissioning.


■23 JUL 1947 - 14 JUN 1948 -- Duty aboard USS Mississippi (E-AG128). Billets Held: Training and Education Officer Qualifications: OOD underway and in port, CIC watch Officer Remarks: During this tour of duty, Carter was a candidate for a Rhodes Scholarship.


■14 JUN 1948 - 17 DEC 1948 -- Duty under instruction at the Officer's course, USN Submarine School, Submarine Base, New London


■17? DEC 1948 - 01 FEB 1951 -- Duty aboard USS Pomfret (SS-391) Billets Held: Communications Officer, Electronics Officer, Sonar Officer, Gunnery Officer, First Lieutenant, Electrical Officer, Supply Officer Qualifications: 4 Feb 1950 Qualified in Submarine


■05 JUNE 1949 -- Promoted to Lieutenant (j.g.)


■01 FEB 1951 - 10 NOV 1951 -- Duty with Shipbuilding and Naval Inspector of Ordnance, Groton, CT as prospective Engineering Officer of the USS K-1 during precommissioning fitting out of the submarine.


■10 NOV 1951 - 16 OCT 1952 -- Duty aboard USS K-1(SSK-1) Billets Held: Executive Officer, Engineering Officer, Operations Officer, Gunnery Officer, Electronics Repair Officer Qualifications: Qualified for Command of Submarine Remarks: Submarine was new construction, first vessel of its class


■01 JUNE 1952 -- Promoted to Lieutenant


■16 OCT 1952 - 08 OCT 1953 -- Duty with US Atomic Energy Commission (Division of Reactor Development, Schenectady Operations Office) From 3 NOV 1952 to 1 MAR 1953 he served on temporary duty with Naval Reactors Branch, US Atomic Energy Commission, Washington, D.C. "assisting in the design and development of nuclear propulsion plants for naval vessels." From 1 MAR 1953 to 8 OCT 1953 he was under instruction to become an engineering officer for a nuclear power plant. He also assisted in setting up on-the-job training for the enlisted men being instructed in nuclear propulsion for the USS Seawolf (SSN575).


■9 OCT 1953 -- Honorably discharged at Headquarters, 3rd Naval District. Discharge was at Carter's request. Total service: 7 years, 4 months, 8 days


■10 OCT 1953 -- Appointed to US Naval Reserve and placed on inactive duty.


■7 DEC 1961 -- Transferred to retired reserve with rank of Lieutenant at his own request, but without pay and allowances in accordance with Title X, U.S.C. section 1376 (a).

[Generator]

63. Damn it, America if Jimmy Carter isn't your favorite president NOW

you still deserve Bush. (Carter has always been my favorite-I remember that foggy creepy night in 1980 when I was a few months too young to vote and the Reagan menace that ruined our country was swept in-never been the same)

[IDemo]

64. “This is going to come as quite a shock to people up here that I can write a book"

True enough. It also comes as quite a shock that he would mention Darth and "constitution" in the same sentence.

[Frank Cannon]

72. It's a shock to me that he's not passed out on the couch in his soiled underwear...

long enough to even make a public statement.

[yellowcanine]

65. tough noogers George. Heat, Kitchen, etc.

[TheWatcher]

67. Um, You Made the ENTIRE PLANET Miserable, You Murderous, Drug Addled Psychopath.

If this country still had a population and a government with a backbone, and ANY kind of adherence to the rule of law, you would be Indicted, given DUE PROCESS, Convicted, Incarcerated, and at a determined date, EXECUTED for Treason, and the numerous high crimes you have committed.

Your life is "miserable." :nopity:

FUCK YOU.

Just be happy you live in such a fucked up world, you piece of shit.

It's the only reason you're still alive.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

68. Poor little asshole.

[discocrisco01]

75. What He Should Have Done

Bush needs to learn to be brutally honest and admit his part for the transgressions that he did. Like every alcoholic, he never did the steps and he missed out on true recovery.

If he had works the steps, we would have never been led to the illegal war in Iraq. True recovery brings peace, hope, freedom, love.

As a recovered alcoholic with over 15 months of soberity, I choose the progressive path because the subject political philosphy agrees with the principle of the program.

He is the example why people need to do the steps and what becomes a person when they do not do the program.

This whole nation would have been better if George Bush went to AA meeting many years ago and stated "My name is George Bush and I am alcoholic". And did the steps and worked a good program, this country would be much greater shape.

[SpiralHawk]

76. "Whine" - xCommander AWOL (R)

[tilsammans]

77. ". . . Bush 'gave an eloquent defense of the freedom agenda.'"

"Freedom agenda"? Oh, gag me. :puke:

[TankLV]

78. You're lucking your fucking WAR CRIMINAL - are not in PRISON or worse for your WAR CRIMES!!!

You are fucking LUCKY you fucking IDIOT!!!

Remember - there is NO TIME LIMIT for WAR CRIMES - and I hope to see you brought to JUSTICE soon!!!

[TankLV]

79. What "freedom agenda" is that - starting an ILLEGAL WAR OF CHOICE BASED ON LIES?!!!

ARRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sendero]

80. You made the whole world..

... (except for the idiots) miserable. Fool.

[buckrogers1965]

82. If he whines about a little critism

Just think how he is going to piss his pants when they put him on trial at the Hague.

[BeFree]

83. Kicking the 'To Hell with bush' thread...good stuff n/t