GWB missed a once-in-a-planet's-lifetime

[roenyc]

chance to win over the hearts of a billion Muslims. Why didn't he jump into action right away? All he had to do was say some words. But he kept on picking up sticks at his ranch, instead of doing his real job. There's never been a more lazy-ass president.


rest of article http://www.villagevoice.com/blogs/bushbeat/

This is my first post. hope i put it in the right forum. its a good article. the bush beat is both sarcastic and sharp. hope you enjoy the read.

[The Backlash Cometh]

1. When it comes to blowing dividends, no one can do it better than Bush.

Remember what he did after 9/11? Used all that capital for Iraq, instead of al Qaeda. And the idiots who voted for him think he's a genius.

[calimary]

31. Man, is THAT ever true. Just call him the Happy Squanderer.

The WORLD-WIDE good will that was POURING in for America after 9/11 - gone with the wind, thanks to this world-class jackass. Squandered. A chance to BE a human tower, he had. He had a chance to lead us all into a new era of environmental responsibility, a new almost Kennedy-esque national challenge to rival the quest for the moon - to revolutionize our technology and become energy-independent, to make giant leaps for mankind into a whole new way of living. Instead it was smash-n-grab and "everybody go shopping."

Squandering.

That's his middle name. Squandered all that good will. Squandered that once-in-a-century opportunity. Squandered our treasury. Squandered at least 1300 American lives and who knows HOW MANY thousands of innocent Iraqis - and others in the "coalition of the wilting." Squandered our standing in the world. Squandered our reputation, and our integrity as a nation. Squandered our honor and the belief in our word. Squandered our self-respect. I could go on...

Damn him. Damn those who worship him and/or think he's the second coming. All that waste and blood and sin is on THEIR hands, too.

[magellan]

2. Dontcha just love karma?

At least the tsunami halted the murder, rape, and torture in Aceh. Latest reports say at least 500 Indonesian military officers on Aceh are reported missing. Guess it's their turn.

What goes around comes around, and it's an ill wind indeed that's in pursuit of BushCo. Thanks for sharing that, roenyc.

[GoBlue]

3. Thanks for the read

Wasn't aware of "Bush Beat". Some other good reads there too; I've bookmarked it.

[roenyc]

9. Join their mailing list and

once a week they will send you an email with the headlines.

i love the voice but dont get into the city to pick it up. so i get the email update and it reminds me to get to the website.

[roenyc]

10. oops double post

[Vitruvius]

4. But Bu$h was on VACATION! Like he was on vacation the month before 9-11

Can't expect a hard-working Rethugnican drunkard & doper to interrupt his vacation!

By-the-way, Bu$h has been on vacation over 40% of the time since taking office. Which is like taking Monday and Friday off every week. (Try doing that at your job and see what happens...)

Bu$h is a world-class goof-off -- like the drunkard & doper he is... I can't believe that America re-hired him (and the voting machine scandals suggest that, like other drunks before him, Bu$h cheated & lied his way into his job, and cheated & lied to keep it...)

[radfringe]

5. it's a re-run

of what his father did in the aftermath of hurricane..

just sloughed it off -- and then came out with too little too late

If his "compassion" were authentic -- he would have been up and out in the front of the cameras the day the quake/tsunami occured -- instead he went for a bike ride...

[itzamirakul]

6. Bush is NOT a lazy-ass president...

it takes great energy to bend over and pick up a stick here and there and to stroll about and think, when you have no brain.

He just doesn't give a good God Damn!

[Johnny Noshoes]

7. How

How can he look at himself in the mirror? What creates a sad twisted freak like this guy?

"When you trade your values for the hope of winning, you end up losing and having no values....so you keep losing." Howard Dean 2004

[roenyc]

11. I dont think he thinks that way

he they are not like us. See they think this is their entitlement. He was born into it and deserves it. So he will do what he wants when he wants and how he wants. because um, he can! he is the king. mommy told him so. dear god i wish she would have loved him more.

cause of her neglet the entire world is paying for the Oedipal loop de-loop between him and his father as Maureen Dowd puts it.

[Johnny Noshoes]

25. Oh I know he doesn't

think that way. Its just amazing to me that there are alleged human beings like this roaming the planet and we're stuck with one for a "leader". :puke:


"When you trade your values for the hope of winning, you end up losing and having no values....so you keep losing." Howard Dean 2004

[driver8]

29. Pickin' up sticks is hard work!! So is speakin' in a fake accent.

You are right -- George doesn't give a shit about anyone or anything that doesn't affect him...especially if it involves "those people."

But, he is a good Christian.

[Skittles]

8. Bush is not just a phony "president"

he is a poor excuse for a human being

[opihimoimoi]

12. Yup, a very poor excuse.

BTW, notice that Bush lacks skills to build? President Carter uses hammer and saw to cut and nail wood. This requires the measuring tape and square...and a brain.

Not that all presidents should be carpenters, but at least a brain.
that works OK.

[Disturbed]

14. Shrub is a Silverspoon Sociopath.

He is a disgrace to Amerika and the world.

[Zenlitened]

19. "Silver-spoon sociopath"

Wow, does that sum it all up perfectly!

:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[Johnny Noshoes]

24. I like your sig line

It kind of reminds me of something Mike Malloy said one night on his show. Something like don't you just wish sometime that you could just go home. You know the way this whole criminal administration makes you feel so crappy and you just want to go home back to where its safe and normal and everything is going to be alright. I know home is or wasn't that way for some I guess I mean something more like the perfect home inside your head.


"When you trade your values for the hope of winning, you end up losing and having no values....so you keep losing." Howard Dean 2004

[ClintonTyree]

13. Jeebus............

he's trying to kill them all anyway, why try to save any of them? He's got his "crusade" in full swing now, why try to soften the blows by saying something he doesn't really mean?
He has a tough time saying things that he doesn't believe, like trying to get him to say he's made "mistakes". He just can't do it, his subconscious won't allow it. Same thing with the Tsunami victims. He doesn't really care about them. If he had his way they'd all be dead anyway. His subconscious won't allow it.

[roenyc]

15. dont think he cares

about anyone. just his "people" and when his "people" become a problem like Powell or Lott he disposes of them. like yesterdays paper. oh wait he doesn't read the paper.

Its all a front. its all hypocrisy. just like the freepers who preach God but think its OK to kill innocent people just because they may be Muslim. they never take the truth into account. they never think, um, hey maybe these guys didn't do a damn thing to us.

no they just follow blindly. We would never put up with that. and this tsunami is being talked about like a it was a god send. a signal that the war on "terror" is a go!

maybe they should look at this and compare it to the stories in their bibles. cause i must say its mighty close. maybe someone a long time ago saw something like this happen and wrote it down and said God was really mad so he did this. just a thought i had since this happened.

i always wonder what people will be thinking 2000 years from now.

[calimary]

32. Truly. What does he care? None of them voted for him. Why should he?

Besides, they're not his base - the have's and the have more's. They're just in his way. After all, they're in a predominantly Muslim part of the world - the targets of PNAC takeover dreams. They're simply next. Perhaps this will reinforce his belief that he's the second coming. God really must have anointed him. Look how many of those annoying Muslim riff-raff have been moved out of his way so his war machine and latter-day crusade can mow down another country in South Asia? There's oil in Indonesia, too. That's probably why jebbie's over there. Prospecting for his fellow signatories in the PNAC - after all, Iraq is only the beginning of their world-wide invasion/domination scheme.

[Tony_Illinois]

16. We need to stop being surprised by this guy

because he REALLY does not 1) give a crap about this tragedy or 2) have anybody working for him with the stones to tell his sorry ass to get out there and do the right thing. This, unfortunately, is the situation we are stuck with now.

It would be so simple and a no-brainer for a person who sincerely cared, in a power position like his, to take to the bully pulpit and inspire the nation and the world to jump into action to assist the people and nations that have been so deeply hurt by this disaster.
Start by giving some serious money to help, contact each country's leader immediately to ask what they needed most, express some God-damned humanity and let the world know that we will work with any and everybody to assist in this tragedy.

But because he is who he is, gee, I guess I'll just keep picking up these branches and twigs, and see what's on TV tonite and what's for fucking dinner.

[Democrat 4 Ever]

17. One of the best lines from the article -

Giving Dim Son's propensity to give "cute, manly" names to every dang action his administration does ("Operation Iraqi Freedom,""Operation Shock and Awe" - he evidently thinks the world is run by a PlayStation 2 game module)the Voice has tagged his vacation for what it is, "Bush, taking a break from Operation Pick Up Sticks and Ride My Little Bicycle, on the phone from Crawford to Sri Lanka yesterday,.... He appears to be digging into his pocket for some spare change. (White House photo)

Classic - we need to start using a page from their playbook - they have the ability to give inane euphemisms for the absolutely worst policies in the history of this country. We just need to start naming every thing he does with a "Operation....." How about "Operation Party till you puke while hundreds of thousands non-'Mericans die" for the January 20th obscenity?

[Supersedeas]

28. truly classic, yet classically sad at the same time

[MaineDem]

18. Great post!

And so true.

Thank you.

[OneBlueSky]

20. if we do indeed live in a global village . . .

then Bush is indeed our village idiot . . .

[peekaloo]

21. Bu$h only walks on water in 'Murka.

[bunkerbuster1]

22. "There's never been a more lazy-ass president." Bravo.

I've never quite bought into the idea of Chimpy McFuckstain being the "Worst. President. Ever." There've been others just as exquisitely awful in their own way.

That said, I heartily agree that Bush is the

Laziest.
President.
Ever.

No contest there.

[MAlibdem]

23. Because creating a deficit killing Muslims is fine

But creating a SLIGHTLY deeper one to help them is CERTAINLY NOT ok.

[Piperay]

26. Chimp wants to

keep us at war with Muslims cause he loves killing people. x(

[chaumont58]

27. The White House's ham-handed response defies logic

Perhaps it was deliberate. Every White House has staff whose job it is to write pearls of wisdom for every occasion. Bush must have had something in his hand, to fit the situation, early on. Why they acted as they did can reasonably attributed to stupidity and arrogance.
One of the left bloggers had a thread this morning about US Navy vessels that can make good water. As of this morning, the ships were still tied up in harbor. Again, one could reasonably think that good planning would have put those ships to sea the day this tragedy happened. They would be onsite making good water for people who need it. The Defense Department planners on this job must have done the planning for Grenada, loo those many years ago.

[AgadorSparticus]

30. it behooves him to have an enemy. how else could

he keep his sheeples happy without someone to focus their fear, hatred, and vitriolic machinations?

[Fed Up]

33. a leppard don't change his stripes

He didn't do that because he simply didn't wanna. Case closed.