you know you are bad if george w bush bashes you in a book..

gimmesometruth27

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

ONCE DEVIDED

Hey kettle the pots callilng

catefrances

ONCE DEVIDED wrote:

Hey kettle the pots callilng

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.

ONCE DEVIDED

catefrances wrote:

ONCE DEVIDED wrote:

Hey kettle the pots callilng

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.

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

wolfamongwolves

ONCE DEVIDED wrote:

catefrances wrote:

ONCE DEVIDED wrote:

Hey kettle the pots callilng

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.

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.

catefrances

ONCE DEVIDED wrote:

catefrances wrote:

ONCE DEVIDED wrote:

Hey kettle the pots callilng

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.

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 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.

g under p

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

cajunkiwi

g under p wrote:

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

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:

Jason P

g under p wrote:

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

I still think she is too smart to run for president. She is rolling in the money right now with no responsibility. I do think she will hint at it to keep her public persona in the current events, but only an insane person would want to run this country when she has it as good as she does.

mysticweed

wow
an utterance of truth
but, imo
bush had more to do with obama being elected than anyone

cajunkiwi

lettinggo wrote:

wow
an utterance of truth
but, imo
bush had more to do with obama being elected than anyone

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

Jeanwah

Jason P wrote:

g under p wrote:

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

I still think she is too smart to run for president.

Are you aware of what you're saying here? She's....smart???!

haffajappa

sarah palin and glenn beck are brilliant in a sense...
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".

arq

haffajappa wrote:

sarah palin and glenn beck are brilliant in a sense...
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...

Jeanwah

haffajappa wrote:

sarah palin and glenn beck are brilliant in a sense...
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".

Ok they're smart at manipulation. Not much else, though. Being smart at manipulation is nothing to be proud about.

haffajappa

Jeanwah wrote:

haffajappa wrote:

sarah palin and glenn beck are brilliant in a sense...
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".

Ok they're smart at manipulation. Not much else, though. Being smart at manipulation is nothing to be proud about.

They're sure proud about it...

TriumphantAngel

Jason P wrote:

g under p wrote:

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

I still think she is too smart to run for president. She is rolling in the money right now with no responsibility. I do think she will hint at it to keep her public persona in the current events, but only an insane person would want to run this country when she has it as good as she does.

i hope she can't see 2012 from her house.

that would be just awful.

rollings

wolfamongwolves wrote:

...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

I can't believe Mr. Matthew Norman would insult bison like that!

OnTheEdge

Tomorow night Sarah Palins Alaska show starts. It's like a new reality show. Not sure what channel, pretty sure most of you don't care, but i'll be checking it out. Saw the commercial to it. Looked like a pretty cool show.

haffajappa

OnTheEdge wrote:

Tomorow night Sarah Palins Alaska show starts. It's like a new reality show. Not sure what channel, pretty sure most of you don't care, but i'll be checking it out. Saw the commercial to it. Looked like a pretty cool show.

I JUST saw the commercial for it i think it's on TLC.

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.

arq

haffajappa wrote:

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!