As much as I hate to admit it, George Bush was very successful

[Horse with no Name]

I mean truly...

How can anyone expect anymore that being President requires intelligence, forethought, rationalism, or fiscal responsibility?

I mean, he has successfully PROVEN BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT that anyone that is long on cash and short on smarts can be President.

Underachievers Unite! Bush is YOUR man.

[timtom]

1. Let's be fair, now...

What we need to determine is which crossroads Bush stood at when he made a pact with the devil.

None of this has anything to do with Bush's talents (none) or intelligence (subhuman).

[tom_paine]

9. A belated welcome to DU, nathan hale!

Love that monniker.

You know, when I was younger and our system of checks and balances was relatively strong, before the Bushie Takeover and especially before the Phony Clinton Impeachment, I had always read a lot about all of our Founding Fathers.

Not just read about them but read what they wrote themselves, so I could decide for myself without someone else filtering it for me. But it seemed dry and dusty work. The language was almost as obtuse as the King James Bible, being written in English only a century or so removed.

One of the interesting things was, like a lightbulb in my head, when the election was stolen in 2000 (I first felt rumblings of this during the lunacy of the Phony Clinton Impeachment, but did not really know exactly what I felt) the writing and the lives of the Patriots leapt to life, as if off the page and into me.

The Founding Fathers wrote so much. So many books, pamphlets and letters, no one could read it all. But they faced what we did and worse, they faced it at a time when that was all the world knew since the Fall of the Roman Republic in 27 BCE...1800 years before.

Because of all that, and because of all the gave America for 224 1/2 years until the Bushie Takeover, I still maintain that the Founding Fathers, for all their faults and flaws, were some of the greatest human beings that ever lived.

Now, we face perhaps worse than they faced. We face, no bullshit, the grandchildren of those who would have made alliance with Adolf Hitler.

You would be correct not to believe me, but it's true. The truth is one mouse-click away.

http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/07/hbc-90000651

Welcome to DU. :toast: America needs all the nonviolent Nathan Hales we can get these days!

[timtom]

11. No! No! Trust me...

I DO believe you. I'm up there with you at the head of the column that smelled the rat early in the game.

The emperor's clothes fell silently to the floor in 2000, along with the cheap mask.

Thanks for the belated welcome, though I have actually been a member since early in 2002 (under a different name). My avatar was then, as it is now.

Where is that statue? There used to be on in my home town of New London,CT when I was a wee lad.

By the way, I feel quite certain that this cabal is related to the one that existed when our founding fathers warned against central banks and those who would steal our power.

As we used to say in Berkeley in 1966-1972: "Power to the people."

[tom_paine]

13. I think that statue is near NYC City Hall in Lower Manhattan

I think I have looked at it myself. I could be wrong, though, as I just was just quick-fishing for a photo to match your monniker.

[rucky]

10. When he chose his VP. n/t

[timtom]

12. I agree.

And the demonic force at the crossroads at dealtime said, "Just one more thing. I will be your running mate as vice president. And your soul belongs to me!"

[Perry Logan]

2. Except that he's not really President. America has no President.

[timtom]

3. Perry Logan?

Are you THE Perry Logan?

[tom_paine]

8. On some things we agree fully and completely. Actually, a lot of things.

I'll try to remember that, and I hope you will, as well.

At bottom we both want the same thing in November 2008, for the Democratic Party to win large majorities and the Presidency.

:toast:

[pinniped]

4. The POS* has also been very successful at stealing money from Merkans....

and sending it directly into the pockets of his various masters, oil, merc scumbags, defense, etc...

[rfranklin]

5. He has been very successful as you say...

The PNAC drean of permanent bases in the oil rich areas of the Middle East and Asia are now a reality. The military-industrial complex has been enriched beyond imagination. Taxation on the ultra-rich has been reduced to minimal levels. The Constitution has been reduced to "just a goddamned piece of paper." The Justice Department and the Courts have been larded with political hatchet men and corrupt yes men. Voting has been transformed into a laughable exercise in propaganda. Standards of morality and the capacity for outrage amongst the populace have been eradicated. How can anyone not see what a success this has been for Bush and his junta.

[fasttense]

6. He has been successful at raiding the Treasury and lining the pockets

of the uber rich, while having the Democratic congress cover for him. He will leave behind a massive debt that we will suffer under for years to come.

[flashl]

7. * success is removing America’s plausible deniability about its commitment to democracy

and the fact that * is still in office strongly suggests that this country no longer pretends it operate under the constitution or the rule of law.

[Cha]

14. bushit has Proven that

the corporatemediawhores and the American branch of the "axis of Evil" has been pervasive as it wants to be.

The work has been cut out for us.

[Fleshdancer]

15. The Paris Hilton Presidency

pretty embarrassing, isn't it?