Why BUSH Is Smiling?
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That idiotic "what me worry?" look just never leaves the man's visage. Once again there was our president, presiding over disasters in part of his making and totally on his watch, grinning with an aplomb that suggested a serious disconnect between his worldview and existing reality. Be it in his announcement that Iraq was being secured on a day when bombs ripped through that sad land or posed between his treasury secretary and the Federal Reserve chairman to applaud the government's bailout of a failed bank, George Bush was the only one inexplicably smiling.
Failure suits him. It is a stance he learned well while presiding over one failed Texas business deal after another, and it served him splendidly as he claimed the title of president of the United States after losing the popular, and maybe even the electoral, vote. It carried him through the most ignominious chapter of U.S. foreign policy, from the lies about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction to an unprecedented presidential defense of torture.
The totally unwarranted assurance was there this week as the once proud dollar fell into the toilet and the debacle of Iraq and Bush's other failed Mideast policies pushed oil prices to record highs. The Europeans, who didn't support the U.S. imperial intervention, are doing much better, not having to pay for guarding besieged oil pipelines while U.S. taxpayers are saddled with trillions in future debt, not to mention 4,000 U.S. military deaths and 30,000 U.S. injuries in a war the administration had promised would be paid for with Iraqi oil revenues. Even in Baghdad last week there wasn't enough oil to keep the lights on for more than a few hours.
But the president is happy because his legacy issue, the war on terror, is intact. No matter that this week the Pentagon was forced to release a report conducted over the last five years that concluded, after surveying 600,000 official Iraqi documents captured by U.S. forces, that there is "no smoking gun" establishing any connection between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida. The report was so embarrassing that we taxpayers who paid for it were not going to be told of its existence, even though the explosive conclusions were totally declassified, until ABC News forced its posting online.
The network reported that the Pentagon had canceled plans to issue a press release or make it available by e-mail or otherwise online because, as one Pentagon official put it, the study is "too politically sensitive." Damn right it is -- Bush squandered U.S. treasure and lives in an effort that had nothing to do with the infamous attack on America. As for the real war on terror against the real al-Qaida, those folks are very much on the rebound, just where they were before the 9/11 attack, building their bases in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Meanwhile, back on the home front, Wall Street is crumbling, not because of planes crashing into buildings but because the outrageous knaves of finance, freed from the most minimal requirements of public accountability, have been permitted to destroy America's reputation in the world for financial probity.
In the name of ending what were claimed to be onerous regulations imposed after the Great Depression, this administration accelerated a bipartisan pattern of allowing Wall Street to betray investors with impunity while abandoning the federal government's obligation, once accepted equally by conservatives and liberals, to ensure our national solvency. This tendency, under way for decades to give the bankers what they wanted -- codified in the Financial Services Modernization Act, which was signed into law by Bill Clinton and which permitted banks, stock brokers and insurance companies to merge -- was exacerbated by Bush's appointment of rapacious corporate foxes to watch the corporate henhouse.
They will take care of their own, which is why Bush was smiling, happily posed in that photo op between Henry Paulson Jr. and Ben Bernanke announcing the Bear Stearns bailout, made possible only by the federal government using your tax dollars to pick up the bad debt of the banks. Tape that picture to your wall to remind you, when you open a credit card bill with a 30 percent interest rate -- not the 2 percent the Fed will charge banks -- or see the increase in your adjustable rate mortgage, of just what your government will do for the really big guys that it will never do for regular folks.
In the years to come, as millions lose their retirement income and homes, we will have occasion to remember Georgie Porgie, who kissed the taxpayers and made them cry before he ran away.
......And he'll run away with his oil buddies whom he took care of while in office with this War/Occupation, will certainly take care of him. The good ol boyz will take care of each other. Money talks but his bullshit I believe WILL catch up with him someday.
On that day I'll be the one SMILING.
What an (_o_)
Peace
Failure suits him. It is a stance he learned well while presiding over one failed Texas business deal after another, and it served him splendidly as he claimed the title of president of the United States after losing the popular, and maybe even the electoral, vote. It carried him through the most ignominious chapter of U.S. foreign policy, from the lies about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction to an unprecedented presidential defense of torture.
The totally unwarranted assurance was there this week as the once proud dollar fell into the toilet and the debacle of Iraq and Bush's other failed Mideast policies pushed oil prices to record highs. The Europeans, who didn't support the U.S. imperial intervention, are doing much better, not having to pay for guarding besieged oil pipelines while U.S. taxpayers are saddled with trillions in future debt, not to mention 4,000 U.S. military deaths and 30,000 U.S. injuries in a war the administration had promised would be paid for with Iraqi oil revenues. Even in Baghdad last week there wasn't enough oil to keep the lights on for more than a few hours.
But the president is happy because his legacy issue, the war on terror, is intact. No matter that this week the Pentagon was forced to release a report conducted over the last five years that concluded, after surveying 600,000 official Iraqi documents captured by U.S. forces, that there is "no smoking gun" establishing any connection between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida. The report was so embarrassing that we taxpayers who paid for it were not going to be told of its existence, even though the explosive conclusions were totally declassified, until ABC News forced its posting online.
The network reported that the Pentagon had canceled plans to issue a press release or make it available by e-mail or otherwise online because, as one Pentagon official put it, the study is "too politically sensitive." Damn right it is -- Bush squandered U.S. treasure and lives in an effort that had nothing to do with the infamous attack on America. As for the real war on terror against the real al-Qaida, those folks are very much on the rebound, just where they were before the 9/11 attack, building their bases in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Meanwhile, back on the home front, Wall Street is crumbling, not because of planes crashing into buildings but because the outrageous knaves of finance, freed from the most minimal requirements of public accountability, have been permitted to destroy America's reputation in the world for financial probity.
In the name of ending what were claimed to be onerous regulations imposed after the Great Depression, this administration accelerated a bipartisan pattern of allowing Wall Street to betray investors with impunity while abandoning the federal government's obligation, once accepted equally by conservatives and liberals, to ensure our national solvency. This tendency, under way for decades to give the bankers what they wanted -- codified in the Financial Services Modernization Act, which was signed into law by Bill Clinton and which permitted banks, stock brokers and insurance companies to merge -- was exacerbated by Bush's appointment of rapacious corporate foxes to watch the corporate henhouse.
They will take care of their own, which is why Bush was smiling, happily posed in that photo op between Henry Paulson Jr. and Ben Bernanke announcing the Bear Stearns bailout, made possible only by the federal government using your tax dollars to pick up the bad debt of the banks. Tape that picture to your wall to remind you, when you open a credit card bill with a 30 percent interest rate -- not the 2 percent the Fed will charge banks -- or see the increase in your adjustable rate mortgage, of just what your government will do for the really big guys that it will never do for regular folks.
In the years to come, as millions lose their retirement income and homes, we will have occasion to remember Georgie Porgie, who kissed the taxpayers and made them cry before he ran away.
......And he'll run away with his oil buddies whom he took care of while in office with this War/Occupation, will certainly take care of him. The good ol boyz will take care of each other. Money talks but his bullshit I believe WILL catch up with him someday.
On that day I'll be the one SMILING.
What an (_o_)Peace
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*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)
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But one time he break cage and he "get this" and then we all laugh. High five!
"We have a President that looks like hes staring at the sun at all times"
Thats why? I've had a few beers
Seriously ... he's not allowed to smile anymore? Ever? What about at his daughter's wedding? Is it OK, then?
Jeez ... some of you people have gone off the deep end.
for the least they could possibly do
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHnGvIpiDE0&eurl=http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/march2008/240308Impression.htm
Would you still feel this way if you've lost a family member or friend? I've seen him smirking while discussing the death of soldiers and THAT's nothing at all to smile about.
NOTHING!
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)
ha I was thinking that same thing.
OMG LOOK THE PRESIDENT IS SMILING!!!! IMPEACH!
He'll be smiling till the day he dies cause he just doesn't give a shit what we lay people think?
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)
GW is probably the worst public speaking president ever. his grins and smirks are nothing more then nervous reactions to being in public. haven't you ever taken a psychology course before?
Many times I'm a nurse, you said it he's in the public eye and they're times to be g under p. That is graceful under pressure, there is a time and place for everything.
You appear to be making excuses just like his inner circle. Face it he's an (_o_)
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)
ignorance is bliss afterall. and i do believe God looks after the fools.
take a good look
this could be the day
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lie beside me
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yea the excuse is, he's a horrible public speaker. you seem to be implying he is out right laughing at people dying. great thread though, I hope you spark up much discussion about this important topic.
He appears to smirk at THE most inappropriate times and appears NOT to be able to control that smirking. There's a time and place to show respect in certain situations and he appears to unaware of such a concept.
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)
you just said, he appears to NOT to able to control it. I agree. so whats your beef? its like calling a person with turrets rude for yelling out swear words at inappropriate times
Your tough on the threadstarter. He raises an important question I think. Bush is smiling because he is not worried, he isn't worried about justice, being held responsible for what he (and his team) did in these 8 years. He'll leave the office and spend a quiet and peaceful retirement. Does that feeling of impunity not bother you? The fact that you can't hold your president accountable for his actions?
I believe bush is smiling/smirking because he cant control it. the thread starter agrees.
it has nothing to do with impunity.
So you just leave it to a description of his smile? You don't care why he is smiling? How does that not bother you?
what don't you understand about "he can not control it" I believe it is a nervous reaction to pressure/nervousness.
like the other guy said in this thread....there are 1000s of other things you can pin on bush but here we are talking about a smirk.
Defending again, does GWB have a disease I don't know about? My beef simply is that he gives the appearance all is well with this country and gives the impression with his smile/smirk that I've done nothing wrong. I'm not the cause of this country's problems.
Peace have a great day, time for me to save a life.
*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)
well i believe its due to arrogance and an idiocy borne(in GW's case) of privilege.
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
THOSE WORDS CAME FROM YOUR MOUTH.
but yet you admit his smirking is out of his own control. do you see how flawed your beef is?
looks like someone is a little too into himself.
finally someone who has taken a psych course.
oh i think you misunderstand me. i think bush cant believe his luck in finding himself in the position he is in. its total fool's luck and he knows hes not accountable for anyting(or at least he thinks he's beyond reproach) thanks to the subterfuge of those around him. there's that and the fact that i belive him to be a smug bastard who has no real concern for those children he sent to their deaths in iraq and afghanistan. he belives what he has done is right and the only judgement he will face is that of God. and to me that makes him a fool and someone ill equipped to be leading any country let alone the most powerful country on the planet.
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
Surely it is down to the fact that he and his buddies, well his two bum chums definitely have profited massivly from the two wars?
The economy has polarized to the point where the wealthiest 10% now own 85% of the nation’s wealth. Never before have the bottom 90% been so highly indebted, so dependent on the wealthy.
it comes down to class. and i dont mean whether or not bush has any, cause clearly he(and his pals) has none. im thinking in marxist terms.
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
"sir...there has been a huge theft at one of our largest central banks"
Bush: "that sounds serious...are you sure?"
"yes sir it happened 5 minute ago...they stole trillions"
Bush: "uhhh.. gee...trillions? well.....that's impossible because all the criminals are sitting right here in the room with me".
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
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How in the fuck could you possibly know this? He might be smiling because someone told him a dirty joke right before he went on stage.
You people are something else sometimes.
for the least they could possibly do
Yeah, because when previous presidents screwed up, they've gone screaming from the Oval Office, "OH FUCK, WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!!"
I have no problem with a present trying to present an air of confidence in times of crisis. In fact, I would consider that to be part of a president's job description. Bush just isn't very good at it.
On another note, if you can produce for me one image of Bush smirking while talking about dead soldiers I will personally give you four million dollars. There's no need to make up bullshit to bolster your theory that Bush is a fuck-up.
He's a fuck-up, but he's not a monster.
for the least they could possibly do
First of all, how is that less likely than Bush having a nervous reaction by speaking in public? After being a public politician for more than 10 years??
Second, I read the thing about his smile as an image about his impunity. Forgive me for trying to read into the original post a little more than 'tuesday the 25th: today W smiled".
its not confidence, its arrogance.
and youre right, he's not a monster, he is a fuck up. a dangerous fuck up. and over 50 million of your fellow americans thought it a good idea for him to run your country and by extension the world.
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say