you know you are bad if george w bush bashes you in a book..
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too funny....oh the irony...
George Bush Thinks Sarah Palin Is 'Unqualified,' Lost Election For McCain, Says GOP Source
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/0 ... 79742.html
George W. Bush is not a fan of Sarah Palin and thinks that she spoiled the GOP's best laid plans in 2008 and could potentially do it again, a friend of the former president recently said.
The New York Daily News reported Friday:
"Naming Palin makes Bush think less of McCain as a man," a Republican official familiar with Bush's thinking told the Daily News.
"He thinks McCain ran a lousy campaign with an unqualified running mate and destroyed any chance of winning by picking Palin."
Bush has addressed Palin as a relative non-factor before, characterizing her as a grossly unpolished candidate not ready for the political spotlight.
From a book released last year, former Bush staffer Matt Latimer wrote:
"'I'm trying to remember if I've met her before. I'm sure I must have.' [Bush's] eyes twinkled, then he asked, 'What is she, the governor of Guam?'"
"This woman is being put into a position she is not even remotely prepared for. She hasn't spent one day on the national level. Neither has her family. Let's wait and see how she looks five days out."
While the "Republican official" reports that Bush supposedly has certain strong feelings about Palin and her presidential qualifications, the former head of state told Oprah Winfrey Thursday that he wasn't going to do any 2012 forecasting.
"A lot is gonna happen between now and the nominating process, I have no clue," Bush said in response to a question about Palin being "the one" for Republicans
George Bush Thinks Sarah Palin Is 'Unqualified,' Lost Election For McCain, Says GOP Source
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/0 ... 79742.html
George W. Bush is not a fan of Sarah Palin and thinks that she spoiled the GOP's best laid plans in 2008 and could potentially do it again, a friend of the former president recently said.
The New York Daily News reported Friday:
"Naming Palin makes Bush think less of McCain as a man," a Republican official familiar with Bush's thinking told the Daily News.
"He thinks McCain ran a lousy campaign with an unqualified running mate and destroyed any chance of winning by picking Palin."
Bush has addressed Palin as a relative non-factor before, characterizing her as a grossly unpolished candidate not ready for the political spotlight.
From a book released last year, former Bush staffer Matt Latimer wrote:
"'I'm trying to remember if I've met her before. I'm sure I must have.' [Bush's] eyes twinkled, then he asked, 'What is she, the governor of Guam?'"
"This woman is being put into a position she is not even remotely prepared for. She hasn't spent one day on the national level. Neither has her family. Let's wait and see how she looks five days out."
While the "Republican official" reports that Bush supposedly has certain strong feelings about Palin and her presidential qualifications, the former head of state told Oprah Winfrey Thursday that he wasn't going to do any 2012 forecasting.
"A lot is gonna happen between now and the nominating process, I have no clue," Bush said in response to a question about Palin being "the one" for Republicans
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"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
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now be fair. georgies family were way more heavily involved in politricks than sarah palins. not to mention he was elected twice so clearly he wasnt a liability no matter what you all think of him.
p.s. im not a fan.
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
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Sorry Cate
but the guy was a stupid fool, nothing more. It wasnt his ability that got him there.
if not for sept 11 he would not have gotten a second term.
He was and still remains a liability TO THE HUMAN RACE
...and this review of his memoirs concurs
How did this wastrel ever find his way to the White House?
It takes a certain minimal intelligence for the truly dim to have a notion of their own dimness, but this is denied George Bush. He has the self-awareness of a bison
Matthew Norman, Wednesday, 10 November 2010 http://www.independent.co.uk
May the Lord the former president so ostentatiously worships have mercy on my soul, and those in Iraq without water, electricity and medicine forgive me, but I just cannot suppress a twinge of sympathy for George W Bush.
The source of this pity pang isn't the usual one with those struggling bemusedly with the loss of power (Mrs Thatcher literally unable, for example, to dial a phone number). So far as the practicalities, Mr Bush has adapted well. Apparently he concludes his memoir Decision Points with the familiar anecdote of how, within days of leaving Washington, he was picking up his dog's mess with a plastic bag in a Texas park. Evidently he regards this as a cute vignette of the transience of power, as well as his own endearing lack of pomp. Yet what causes the stab of pity is the stupidity at which it hints.
How could anyone in possession of a three-figure IQ (still a moot point with Bush) fail to see what a golden gift that image is to satirists? There he is, in the cartoon in my head, scooping up a couple of Cumberland sausages while following him, shovelling up the Augean Stable-sized steaming pile he left behind in the Oval Office, is Barack Obama at the wheel of an industrial digger.
This blindness to visual imagery is quite a motif, judging by Times extracts and an interview with its editor. Apart from being attacked for indifference to black people by Kanye West, the rapper Obama dismissed as a jackass, all his greatest regrets are pictorial public relations disasters.
His sadness over Hurricane Katrina is not for the victims in New Orleans, as Mr West understood, but for the damage done to his reputation by that snap of him staring blankly and aloofly down on the catastrophe from the window of Air Force One. His paramount distress over Iraq is not over the loss of life, civilian and military, but how that banner proclaiming "Mission Accomplished" on the aircraft carrier came to make him look naive and vainglorious. He reveals his shallowness and vapidity with these reflections in the most crystalline of clarity, and hasn't a notion he is doing so.
It takes a certain minimal intelligence for the truly dim to have a notion of their own dimness, but this is denied him. Unlike Mr Tony Blair, who emerges from his well-calibrated if often chilling memoir as a man of colossal cleverness (though not intellect), W has the self-awareness of a bison. There seems even less to him than met the eye, and there was precious little of that. Astounding as it appears, we misoverestimated him.
And so the Wagner Question poses itself yet again. Every Saturday when the Brazilian sea monster murders his X-Factor song, 14 million people ask themselves how and why he is there. Reading these ghost-written titbits, you ask yourself the same. How in the name of all the saints did George W Bush, wastrel drunkard son of an East Coast patrician family, find his way to Pennsylvania Avenue by playing the genial good ol' boy from the South, and why in heaven's name did he want it anyway? And answers come there none.
The reduction of Bush's two terms to a satirical sequel to one of those US prep school movies in which the smirking, idiot boy breaks the honour code but is rescued by his Brahmin dad had come to seem shamefully hackneyed. But the one cliché worth trotting out here is that clichés are clichés because they are true. Somehow this half-witted frat boy journeyed, via some jovially preposterous sequence of events involving failed oil deals and baseball team franchises, from japes with Alpha Sigma Phi to possession of the nuclear codes.
Nothing, not even W himself, is ever quite that simple, and palpably there was an edge of madness in the family. In his teens, when his mother Barbara had a miscarriage, he relates, he drove her to the hospital. "I never expected to see the remains of the foetus," he recalls, "which she had saved in a jar to bring to the hospital. I remember thinking there was a human life, a little brother or sister." Enough in that alone, to drive any adolescent to drink, you'd have guessed, yet the tale is told as a homily to his mother's wisdom, and in some impenetrable way to justify his pro-life, anti-stem cell research hard line.
Almost every sentence in the Times extraction (and it does feel like having a tooth pulled) invokes a fatigued he-just-doesn't-get-it. Churchill is inevitably adduced, while W bangs on about his passion for reading history. Inevitably, he fails to make the connection.
"Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft," urged Winston, and while Bush did little as president other than read history books, the stagecraft entirely eluded him. Some of those tomes must have dealt with the British and Soviet experiences of invading Afghanistan, and not a word sunk in. I know how that feels from a tussle with A Brief History of Time. The difference is that I didn't extrapolate my failure to grasp a syllable into a bold attempt to rewrite the laws of quantum physics. He assumed he could rewrite the laws of geopolitics.
The process of historical revisionism has, like everything else, speeded alarmingly in the internet age. The emergence of Sarah Palin as an imaginable presidential candidate, allied to the unending travails of Obama, have induced in the amnesiac, the obtuse and the plain bananas a fondness for the memory of George W Bush.
It will not spread. If this great reader of history is concerned for his place in it – and that, needless to say, is why he hired a bright young groupie from Yale to write this memoir in something approximating English – he needn't fret. In those few lists ranking all the presidents compiled since he left office, W is invariably in the bottom five.
For the two imbecile wars he began, for condoning torture by denying waterboarding was torture at all on the grounds that his lawyers said it was legal; for turning the surplus he inherited from Bill Clinton into the crippling deficit that is bringing the age of American hegemony to a startlingly abrupt end; and for being the pitiably Wagnerian fool who stumbled on to the grandest stage without any apparent clue why or for what earthly purpose, there he will forever remain.
96: Cork, Dublin
00: Dublin
06: London, Dublin
07: London, Copenhagen, Nijmegen
09: Manchester, London
10: Dublin, Belfast, London & Berlin
11: San José
12: Isle of Wight, Copenhagen, Ed in Manchester & London x2
and how stupid does that make the american people who voted him in for a second term?
i dont see bush as a liability to the GOP and i highly doubt they saw him as one. that is my contention. not that he was a liability to the human race. :roll: he knew how the game was played cause hed been palying it for many years and had been surrounded by it for longer, sarah palin hadnt and clearly did not know when to shut up.. or think before she spoke for that matter. and team john mccain was foolish not to pull her into line.
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
Get ready for another set of media blitzes and another #1 bestseller. One thing is for sure she knows how to bring in the $$$$ good for her. Could the Presidency be next?
Peace
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
If she wants it she may have to go through Bobby Jindal, who just dropped his own book, called "Leadership and Crisis."
A good chunk of it is just insults hurled at Obama (he calls Obama's approach to the war too "therapeutic" and says Obama spends too much time empathizing with the enemies' grievances) and calls to take the country back. He also criticized Obama's handling of the oil spill, misspelled the name of the parish president that was on CNN every other night, and then said Obama's biggest problem is that he focuses on getting his name in the headlines more than he focuses on getting the job done.
This coming from a guy who is running the state into the ground and bleeding higher education and healthcare dry while he flies around the country raising his profile and raising money for fellow Republicans, and is planning a nationwide book tour to promote his book. Pot, meet kettle.
If any of the Republicans on this board vote for this clown if he ever runs for president, I will personally find you and punch you in the nose for being so dumb. :evil:
an utterance of truth
but, imo
bush had more to do with obama being elected than anyone
"what a long, strange trip it's been"
I think Obama also played a role. If I remember correctly, Kerry's entire platform seemed to be "I'm not Bush" and that didn't work out so well for him
Are you aware of what you're saying here? She's....smart???!
they really know how to take advantage of sheep to rake in the coin, all by selling books that talk about ideas on regressing the human race in order to "get closer to god".
+1
in reality they're not THAT smart the problem is the mental capacity of the people who blindly follow them...
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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i hope she can't see 2012 from her house.
that would be just awful.
I can't believe Mr. Matthew Norman would insult bison like that!
To each their own, but I couldn't even take 30 seconds of it.
I'm eating noodles right now... Had to fight the urge to gouge my chopsticks in my eyes.
Don't be so quick to judge, it could turn out awesome! it could be the feminine version of Jackass, bringing us hours of her being punished! imagine her getting a tattoo on her back while riding an off road truck! or being use like a pepper spray tester! all can happen when your brain is disconnected from your mouth!
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Report: Bush lifted quotes for his memoir
Huffington Post says 'Decision Points' passages mimic others' accounts
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40159188/ns ... _politics/
Former President George W. Bush lifted passages from other writings and passed them off as his own thoughts in his new memoir, "Decision Points," an article published Friday on the Huffington Post website alleges.
The article by Ryan Grim, senior congressional correspondent for the Huffington Post, said Crown Publishing promises readers "gripping, never-before-heard detail" but ended up delivering "a mash-up of worn-out anecdotes from previously published memoirs written by his subordinates, from which Bush lifts quotes word for word, passing them off as his own recollections."
The book, which came out Tuesday, had opening day sales of at least 220,000 and an initial printing of 1.5 million copies.
The Huffington Post article and an accompanying slideshow present 16 instances of similarities between Bush passages and previously written books, newspaper or magazine articles.
In response, a Crown official said the similarities speak to the book's inherent accuracy and that Bush had not done anything inappropriate, The Huffington Post reported.
A key passage The Huffington Post cites is the retelling of the inauguration of Afghan President Hamid Karzai. Bush did not attend the event, HuffPo notes. But his book recounts this scene: "As Karzai walked across the tarmac alone, a stunned Tajik warlord asked where all his men were. Karzai, responded, 'Why, General, you are my men. All of you who are Afghans are my men.'"
The article then compares that passage to one by Ahmed Rashid, author of "The Mess in Afghanistan," who wrote in the New York Review of Books: "At the airport to receive [Karzai] was the warlord General Mohammad Fahim, a Tajik from the Panjshir Valley .... As the two men shook hands on the tarmac, Fahim looked confused. 'Where are your men?' he asked. Karzai turned to him in his disarmingly gentle manner of speaking. 'Why General," he replied, "you are my men — all of you are Afghans and are my men.'"
Among other situations cited in The Huffington Post:
•Bush quotes Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain's backing of the Iraq surge as if he were talking to the president, but a Washington Post newspaper story shows McCain was talking to reporters instead.
•Bush and Gen. Tommy Franks in "American Soldier" both use these identical quotes: "If we have multiple, highly skilled Special Operations forces identifying targets for precision-guided munitions, we will need fewer conventional ground forces. That's an important lesson learned from Afghanistan." Both also quoted Bush identically at the same meeting: "But we cannot allow weapons of mass destruction to fall into the hands of terrorists. I will not allow that to happen."
•Bush's memoir sounds a lot like Bob Woodward's "The War Within" and "Bush at War" recounting a National Security Council Meeting: "I said, 'just want to make sure that all of us did agree to this plan, right?' I went around the table and asked every member of the room. They agreed."
On a more positive note, Bush's memoir got a thumbs-up from a another former president, Bill Clinton.
"'Decision Points' is well-written, and interesting from start to finish. I think people of all political stripes should read it," Clinton said in a statement Friday. "George W. Bush also gives readers a good sense of what it's like to be president, to take the responsibilities of the office seriously, do what you think is right, and let history be the judge. The book may not change the minds of those who disagree with decisions President Bush made, but it will help you to understand better the forces that molded him, and the convictions that drove him to make those decisions."
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
The Huffington Post???? Teah, ok.
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
Yes, I need to wait until Beck, Hannit, O Reilly, Rush et al come back and dispute the above facts with their opinions.
I trust their opinions over facts any day.
It's truthiness! lol
http://gawker.com/5690436/fox-news-turn ... n-war-epic
In the book Obama wrote for his daughters, he discusses 13 important figures in history. One of those people is Chief Sitting Bull.
USA Today's headline in the article about the book is "Obama shares dreams for his kids in book on 13 Americans."
Fox ran the same story, but with the headline: "Obama Praises Indian Chief Who Killed U.S. General."
Fox is an embarrassment to the media industry.
Apparently 5 million people tuned in and the show's first night was a smash. I didn't watch nor will I ever watch but can you imagine the viewers if she ever put on a bathing suit?
Peace
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
i just do not think it is very presidential to be a media whore like this.
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
not to harm her obviously, i wouldn't even wish that on an idiot like her.