Is It Three Strikes And You're Out For George?

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Michael Tennesen

Since Bush was a former Major League Baseball team owner, I am going to put this baseball terms. Three strikes and you're out W. It seems like W doesn't like to read reports that land on his desk. Or maybe he doesn't have time. Maybe he is just to busy planning his next vacation to Crawford to "clear brush" on his ranch, chilling in San Diego, riding his bike, playing dress-up on an aircraft carrier, or simply reading that book he just can't put down, My Pet Goat.

http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/09/02/230615.php

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Shrub Bush traded away the baseball team's best player.

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3. George W. Bush: The Sammy Sosa of Presidents (a DU classic)

... let us turn away from the world of baseball and into the world of spin and warmaking. Like baseball, it is a grand and glorious game, but with much graver consequences than being sent down to the minors. When mistakes are made in this game, people die. Innocent people on both sides. And this time it's George Bush who has been caught with the corked bat.

Just as baseball is a game of rules, we are a nation of laws. Bush lied to Congress and to the U.N., not to mention the American people That was called perjury when Bill Clinton did it over much more trivial matters, matters where no one died. It still is, and it's time that the American people remember the lesson of Shoeless Joe in this grand, glorious, and lethal game of spin and war. When a player cheats, you have to toss him out of the game.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/03/06/11_sosa.html

[B Calm]

2. I thought the third strike was when he sold a top secret spy plane

to China.. Strike 1 Stopped the vote count in Florida, Strike 2 Supreme Court selected him and destroyed democracy, strike 3 sold a top secret spy plane....

[Wafture]

5. Three strikes OF his presidency

He wasn't president 1)when he stopped the recount and 2)when Supreme Court selected him.

[caffeinefwee]

4. go directly to jail

[SammyWinstonJack]

6. DO NOT PASS GO DO NOT COLLECT 200 MILLION DOLLARS!

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7. Play Ball!

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8. Other threads with the same theme

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4677900

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4674631

[kerry-is-my-prez]

9. How about 20 strikes. Bush has screwed up a LOT more than 3 times.

n/t

[Wafture]

10. I guess we're talking about his BIG 3 screw ups

Every president has a series of failures, some small, some big. But few if any have ever had such COLOSSAL mistakes.

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11. Doesn’t Anybody in the Administration Read?

A recurrent motif of the administration's post-Katrina damage control has been “who could have known?” Well, doesn’t anybody in this administration read?

There were reports raising red flags before 9/11, and no one appears to have read them. There were reports raising red flags about WMD and the dangers of occupying Iraq, and no one appears to have read them. And there were reports raising red flags about New Orleans and the dangers of crumbling levees, and no one appears to have read those, either.

That’s three strikes. And, as a baseball fan, the president knows -- even without reading -- that “three strikes and you’re out”.

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