He didn't know about the ports deal..or the impending WTC attack

[SoCalDem]

or how people were suffering in New Orleans, Mississippi and Alabama.. he didn't know when his vice president SHOT A DONOR IN THE FACE (for a long time at least)..He didn't know about a "shoot-down order" that Cheney apparently ordered on 9-11...He "didn't know" we were "addicted to oil"...He just doesn't KNOW much of anything, and has NO desire TO know because as long as the country keeps accepting his lame excuse, he'll just keep himself uninformed.

Does he not know because he wants it that way?? or is it because, as we have always feared, HE'S NOT IN CHARGE?

Playing dumb may work sometimes, but after 5 years, enough is enough. If he's not up to the job, then damnit, we need someone who IS..

Just how does one cede over control of 6 US ports to a foreign owned entity, claim that it's a "good deal", and at the same time, claim to know nothing about it?

It's all politica as usual, folks..

Look at the mileage they have gotten from this..and in the end, the deal WILL go through, money will be made by the interested parties.. Republicans who spoke out loudly at first, are being coaxed into supporting it, so they get credit both ways..

1. Standing up to the president
2. Calmly accepting a money-saving deal after being told of the "safety"

The timing is crucial here..

Why didn;t they wait another week or two until AFTER it was a done deal? Because then they could truly have done no posturing..they would have had to launch an all-out attack on their president.

The timing was perfection..

It knocked everything else off the front pages and off the talk shows.. Lots of republicans got lots of air time, proclaiming their patriotism, and how they planned to FIGHT this.. (no time to actually fight it, but it's a good sound byte)

They hastily threw in some "hearings", but a 45 day investigation into a deal that closes TOMORROW, will yield nothing, because when 45 days is up, attention will be diverted elsewhere, and these same brave republicans will be crawling back to the white house, hat in hand, expecting money from the national party so they can campaign..

They dropped this bomb when they did BECAUSE it was Dubai.. The xenophobes would be out in force and of course anyone who dared to question the "deal" would be easily labeled a bigot, so the whole issue became two-fold.. True xenophobes will still support republicans because they hate democrats MORE..any democrat who pipes up is instantly labeled a bigot, and stands to lose votes from ethnic communities..

It's a win-win for Georgie & the boyz...

[obxhead]

1. kick

[babylonsister]

2. Can someone be impeached for total ignorance? nt

[htuttle]

3. Bush don't know Jack...

...except for Jack Abramoff.

[The_Casual_Observer]

4. How long would a general manager of some sweat shop get away

with not knowing about what was happening around the place? Not very long. Somehow, screwing up the works on a national level isn't considered as serious.

[SoCalDem]

5. or anyone in ANY job..

There are just things we are expected to know about our jobs..

[KoKo]

6. Bush the Mafia Don says: "I dunno nuttin 'bout nuttin and nobody else

knows 'nuttin, either...So Stop asking me about this stuff.
O
I'm off to INDIA! Laura and "Me" are looking forward to a great time...I have a "personal tailor" doing my latest silk suit with the "tuck in the back" for my "wire" so for "Laura and Me....Life is GOOD!"

:puke:

[Lisa]

7. a friend of mine might be fired because she had to look something up ...

... in the manual, when someone asked her a question about how to fill out an obscure form. That, plus she had to say "I don't know, could I call you back about that?", because the boss had forgotten to send her a crucial memo. No kidding -- those were the complaints about her which were filed at a workplace hearing last week.

It's too bad that she couldn't get just say, "Hee-yuk, I deserve this job because I don't know stuff!", and get away with it -- which is basically what Bush has been telling everyone.

But of course, Bush doesn't care that regular people would lose their jobs for displaying far less ignorance and incompetence than he does!

[Cleita]

8. My normally apolitical stepdaughter, who doesn't vote, asked me today how

much longer Bush was going to be in office. I told her until the beginning of 2009. She said we can't wait that long. He's ruining the country. (That's when the pigs flew overhead.)

Then she mentioned that people's kids were dying in Iraq for no good reason. She gets it that Iraq and Osama are not connected. She also brought up the UAE port deal. Now considering that the little news she and her husband bother with are from broadcast news, those were amazing statements.

I said that he had committed so many impeachable offences that he should be investigated and impeached but the Republican Congress won't do it. She replied that something better be done.

So if my son-in-law and stepdaughter, who couldn't care less about politics normally, are showing concern, I think the tide is gonna turn for BushCo. It gives me some hope.

[SoCalDem]

9. One at a time...one at a time

I guess when enough young people get the message, we can only hope they don;t get turned off and can persuade their peers to get out and vote these creeps OUT

[mdmc]

10. kick

for the mihop crowd. :kick:

[Serenades]

11. Well . . .

I find it unbelievable that I still have people telling me how great of shape the USA is in since we have a "strong" leader instead of Europeanwannabes like Clinton and Kerry. Bush is soooooo strrrrrroooooonnnnnnggggg and ggrrrreeeeeeeaaaaaatttt.