George W. Bush. Seriously...WTF????

[Ladyhawk]

I just had one of those surreal moments: a moment when time seemed to stop and I looked at recent events with new eyes. For just that moment, it was as if the last six years hadn't happened. And what was my main thought?

George W. Bush. Seriously...WTF????

I thought, how can anyone look at this man seriously. He's a complete idiot. He's been embroiled in scandal after scandal, yet some people--my family included--still support him as president. I mean, if you still have a Bush bumper sticker on your car, you may as well put an "I'm with stupid" bumper sticker right next to it. Seriously, dude: :wtf:

[kath]

1. I'm with ya. It still totally boggles my mind that the fool was able to garner even FIVE PERCENT of

the vote in 2000 (or that he ever got elected in Texas), much less get within election-stealing distance.

And when I see anyone who STILL has a Boosh bumper sticker, I am filled with gut-wrenching disgust, and think "there goes a TOTAL fokkin' braindead moran".

[driver8]

2. A friend of mine remarked today that we have a child running this country...

It is still unbelievable to me that this "man" (I use the word loosely) is in charge.

[Ghost in the Machine]

3. Meet the pResident - - - - - - - >>>

Yes, this is who the world sees as the Leader of the Free World.






What a clown!



Seriously now, :wtf:

[Amonester]

18. And the rest of the world hates US (after loving us in 2001...)

:wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :wtf:

[Elwood P Dowd]

4. I have two sisters that compare him to Jesus.

They have those W stickers on the back of their cars. One even has his picture hanging on the wall of her living room. They pray at family outings and ask forgiveness to those who do not approve of the wonderful gift named George Bush who was sent to us by God. I kid you not.

[mwb970]

9. Are they Fox Noise viewers?

If I were dumb and shallow enough to believe the lies they tell on Fox, I would probably support the president too. I wonder what percentage of the Bushbots are simply misinformed, and what percentage know what he's done and support him anyway.

[Ladyhawk]

21. Yep.

My family watches Fox Noise. They need it in order to avoid thinking, I guess. :WTF:

[dkofos]

10. And you didn't have them committed??

[fooj]

5. It boggles the mind.

[Catherine Vincent]

6. Just today I saw this big ole SUV with one of those W'04 bumper stickers

I just looked at the idiot driving the gas guzzler and shook my head in disgust.

[DaveJ]

7. Go and Die for my Gasoline

That's what one of those ribbons on SUVs are actually saying.

Regarding the OP, it seems that idiocy is being promoted in U.S. culture because idiots are the easiest for big business to control.

Those who respect intelligence are seen as problematic.

I'm not sure what to think of this country anymore.

[WinkyDink]

12. Exactly, to control. That is the purpose of NCLB: To teach to that "test",

and leave ACTUAL thought-provoking courses in the Liberal Arts in the educational dust.
Cogs don't need art, or beauty, or history, or poetry, etc.

[TahitiNut]

16. "That's just terrible! Do you think you'll get the vandals who did that?"

"Huh?"

"Well, I'd sure be enraged if anyone tried to make me look like such an imbecile."

"What do you mean?"

"That bumper sticker. I didn't think we had such evil people in this area."

"What're you talking about? I put that on there."

"Oh! My! I'm sorry. I hope the VA is doing something for your TBI."

((walk away))

[bbgrunt]

28. perfect!! You are an inspiration

[CrazyOrangeCat]

8. It's unbelievable.

And Orwellian.

I saw a W sticker last evening. On a F150. He was speeding and talking on the phone.

King of the Road.:dunce: :argh:

[cassiepriam]

11. I thought this the moment he was first running for prez.

Even George Will at the time wrote a negative column
saying that Bush lacked the credentials to be prez.

[Decruiter]

13. Failure of Intelligence

When you think of the intelligence of the average American
remember that half of America is less intelligent than that.

[leftyladyfrommo]

14. I know. I feel the same way. It seems impossible when you

look back on the last six years. Like how the hell did this happen? And what do we need to do to keep it from happening again.

[unblock]

15. finally, the emperor has no clothes

the powers-that-be are recognizing that the democrats have the power of the pork, and therefore, shrub is no longer particularly useful to them. so the media actually is carrying the democratic messages, and they are no longer covering for shrub.

though, much of the media turn actually began shortly after the 2004 election. shrub became an almost instant lame duck. he really had nothing extra to offer the powers-that-be.

[Amonester]

17. oops! (Clicked on the wrong reply tag, sorry.) n/t

[UTUSN]

19. A fond look back at how the Carlyle Group dumped him back when

David RUBENSTEIN, one of the co-founders, was a former staffer under Jimmy CARTER. Who knows why he has benefitted the fat cats of the Poppy and RAYGUN mal-administrations instead of Dems. But there was a veritable NEST of vipers at CARTER's breast: RUBENSTEIN, Tweety, Pat CADDELL... hmmm...

Anyway, back to the topic: RUBENSTEIN said, that if he had to imagine potential presidents, Shrub wouldn't have been in his 25 million list.

*******QUOTE*******

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3994.htm

.... In a column posted yesterday on Salon.com, Joe Conason writes: "Preferring to avoid public scrutiny for obvious reasons, executives at the Carlyle Group usually say nothing about their firm's connections with the Bush dynasty. But last April 23, Carlyle managing director David Rubenstein spoke quite frankly about the comfy sinecure he provided to George W. Bush more than a decade ago -- and how useless Bush turned out to be. Whether he knew it or not, Rubenstein's remarks to the Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association were recorded."

Rubenstein said, "We put (Bush) on the board and (he) spent three years. Came to all the meetings. Told a lot of jokes. Not that many clean ones. And after a while I kind of said to him, after about three years - you know, I'm not sure this is really for you. Maybe you should do something else. Because I don't think you're adding that much value to the board. You don't know that much about the company.

Rubenstein continued: "He said, 'Well, I think I'm getting out of this business anyway. And I don't really like it that much. So I'm probably going to resign from the board.' And I said, thanks - didn't think I'd ever see him again. His name is George W. Bush. He became President of the United States. So you know if you said to me, name 25 million people who would maybe be President of the United States, he wouldn't have been in that category. So you never know. Anyway, I haven't been invited to the White House for any things." ....

********UNQUOTE*******

[HughBeaumont]

20. Ever see "Jesus Camp"?

In one scene, they actually bring out a lifesize cutout of the Commando-in-Cheat and the participants worship this thing. The woman in charge actually commands the children to worship him in tongues.

The joke is, I'm not kidding.

I mean, yes it's hyperbole to think that every chimp supporter speaks in tongues to his effigy. But the question that needs to be asked is: How did so many people vote for a guy that has not done ONE RIGHT THING since stepping in office, making the election close enough to steal? I shudder to think that our country houses 59 million plus people that are THIS. DAMNED. DUMB.

And I also gotta ask: Who the hell is actually still PROUD to have VOTED for this dickhead? "W04". "VETERANS FOR BUSH" (that one ALWAYS makes me laugh). Lots of people in NORTHEAST Ohio still proudly sport these bumper stickers without a hint of scrape. They must not care that they're being laughed at long and loud.

[Ladyhawk]

22. My life was like Jesus Camp.

My social studies teacher was just as whacked out as the Jesus Camp lady. These days I have zero use for religion. It makes people so fucking gullible. When I look around me and see the people who still support Bush, guess what most of them have in common?

[MN ChimpH8R]

24. Religion is poison

Once a person is indoctrinated to believe in something that no extrinsic evidence supports, you can convibce them of anything. When reason and critical thinking are turned off, it's a snap to make the sheeple believe anything, especially when it's clothed in the non-existent garb of "God saud so."

Humanity has one tool that always works. It is called reason. "Faith" never vaccinated a child, cured a disease, built a shelter or invented something to improve the world.

[HughBeaumont]

31. Religious whackadoos AND they're stupid?

[Avalux]

23. I had thee same thought yesterday.

I have one of those GWB quote calendars, and sat reading each one through (out loud) to my daughters. We'd all laugh, but at the same time, it's quite sobering - that this idiot became president. He failed at everything in his life, can't public speak for shit, is intellectually challenged and a pathological liar. I will NEVER quite 'get' how his people were able to pass him off as presidential material and get him where he is today (aside from rigged elections).

[gulliver]

25. Dogs are stupid too. But if they bite who you want them to bite...

... they're your best friend. It's the same way with Bush. He's a bitey little mutt. Cheney's a bitey junk yard dog. One man's menacing mongrel is another's best friend. People don't support Bush and Cheney so much as use them to bludgeon us Dems/liberals, particularly the poor, the black, the working class, etc. Bush and Cheney stir the coals of the American Civil Cold War by riling people up and lying to them -- the better to suck everyone's blood.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

26. I put some of the blame on the TV networks

With the exception of a very few like Olbermann and Maher, the media is still pushing right wing talking points. The mantras being echoed by a complicit media are still coming at us thick and enriched with Republican flavor: the surge is working, the US Attorney scandal is political theater and a fishing expedition, Valerie Plame did not involve matters of national security, Democrats are against the Troops and are the anti-war left, everything is just partisan tit-for-tat, ad nauseum.

Why was Joseph Lieberman the featured spokesman on the current attempt to cut funding on Wolf Blitzer's show this morning on CNN? Putting a neocon who is farther to the right on international issues than most Republican Senators on TV with no opposing view has got to tell you something. The media is entirely complicit in furthering the view that Bush is legitimate and has any shred of a mandate left. It's as though the 65% of America that now disapproves of him doesn't exist.

[Flying Dream Blues]

27. Ok, so I've thought about this so much I've almost had to

swear off of it lest my brain explode or I turn into the incredible Hulk, capable of murder and mayhem. One of the theories that has seriously floated through my mind is that there's something in the water, or some other tinfoil explanation, that has rendered people blind to the obvious. Or brainwashed. (Perhaps "subliminable" messages via American Idol?)

I've tried to imagine any of our presidents behaving or speaking like this and getting NO reaction from the media OR the public constituency and it's just surreal. It is just unfathomable to me, which is why I start thinking what on earth have they done to us?
And yeah, I don't believe it, but I still think about it a lot.

[Marie26]

29. Jung helps explain it

I didn't get it till I read some Jungian psychology. Bush's appeal is all about projection, archetypes & the shadow. Really, it is.

[indie_voter]

30. I just don't understand it. Never have,never will. n/t

[butterfly77]

32. You aren't the only one...

I was looking at some other websites and scanned through all of the things he has done, plus the fact that he has done some of the stupidest things that I believe any other real president would not have gotten away with. I continue to get angry and began to wonder how the REPUBLICONS can stand their as though they are worshipping this idiot.Sometimes, just looking at him and hearing his voice is too much to bear. I am surprised that it has gone on this long. I don't think that the country can take it too much longer, something has got to give. If it keeps on going on like this I am afraid we won't have to worry about Iraq because there may be a civil war over here.

Some of the supposedly intelligent and smartest minds in this country continually back this nut as they watch the demise of this country. IF they can let this fruitcake get away with as much as he has done and haven't called for impeachment yet,I wonder what is in store for the country...