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MILLARD FILLMORE

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HONOUR THE MEDIOCRITY MOTHERFUCKERS!!

He was until recently the longest serving prime minister in the British Empire too. And he kept the wierdest house ever and asked his dead mother for policy advice. And he was arguably the best PM we had too.

Then you have bullshit like hanging chads and the never ending Recall

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It's coming from the sorrow in the street,
the holy places where the races meet;
from the homicidal bitchin'
that goes down in every kitchen
to determine who will serve and who will eat.
From the wells of disappointment
where the women kneel to pray
for the grace of God in the desert here
and the desert far away:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.

Sail on, sail on
O mighty Ship of State!
To the Shores of Need
Past the Reefs of Greed
Through the Squalls of Hate
Sail on, sail on, sail on, sail on.

It's coming to America first,
the cradle of the best and of the worst.
It's here they got the range
and the machinery for change
and it's here they got the spiritual thirst.
It's here the family's broken
and it's here the lonely say
that the heart has got to open
in a fundamental way:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.

It's coming from the women and the men.
O baby, we'll be making love again.
We'll be going down so deep
the river's going to weep,
and the mountain's going to shout Amen!
It's coming like the tidal flood
beneath the lunar sway,
imperial, mysterious,
in amorous array:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.

Sail on, sail on ...

I'm sentimental, if you know what I mean
I love the country but I can't stand the scene.
And I'm neither left or right
I'm just staying home tonight,
getting lost in that hopeless little screen.
But I'm stubborn as those garbage bags
that Time cannot decay,
I'm junk but I'm still holding up
this little wild bouquet:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.

It went bang - I said rap up.
Well I'm aware that the guy must do his work
But the piledriver man drove me berserk.
He said captain
I said wot

He said captain
I said wot

He said captain
I said wot

He said captain
I said wot d'ya want

Once a lifetime
twice a day
If you don't work you get no pay.

I been to the east
I been to the west

But the girls I like best are the ones undressed.

Well
hello Adam
where you been?
I said a'stand aside 'cause I'm feelin' mean

I've had a gutful of you and I'm feelin' bad
'Cause you're an ugly old pirate and ain't I glad.
He said captain
I said wot
. . .
He said captain
I said wot

(etc)

Ride, captain, ride, upon your mystery ship.

Main picture in the library:

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gonna miss the dude saying retarded shit on tv

I just found out that video of him flipping the bird is real! Youtube is full of these. I thought the David Letterman Top Ten had some of the best:

That left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing thing kills me every time.

Bush toured African nations in February, inspecting health clinics and meeting families who have found new hope. He was greeted joyously.

"I wish the American people could see what we have seen ... People literally lining the roads in Tanzania, all waving and anxious to express their love and appreciation to the American president, who represents the American people," he said Monday.

Noting the reception he sometimes gets at home, Bush said: "It was good to see them all waving with all five fingers, I might add."

Ben & Jerry's created the "Yes Pecan!" ice cream flavor to honor
President Barack Obama. Then...

They asked people to fill in the blank to the following statement:
For George W. we created "_________."

Here are some of their
favorite responses:

1. Grape Depression
2. Abu Grape
3. Cluster Fudge
4. Nut'n Accomplished
5. Iraqi Road
6. Chock 'n Awe
7. WireTapioca
8. Impeach Cobbler
9. Guantanamallow
10. imPeachmint
11. Good Riddance You Lousy Motherfucker Swirl
12. Heck of a job, Brownie
13. Neocon Politan
14. RockyRoad to Fascism
15. The Reese's-cession
16. Cookie D'oh
17. The Housing Crunch
18. Nougalar Proliferation
19. Death by Chocolate
20. Death by Torture
21. Credit Crunch
22. Country Pumpkin
23. Chunky Monkey in Chief
24. George Bush Doesn't Care about Dark Chocolate
25. WMDelicious
26. Chocolate Chimp
27. Bloody Sundae
28. Caramel Preemptive Stripe
29. I broke the law and am responsible for the deaths of thousands. with nuts

would buy 2, 24, 29

29, but it really should be hundreds of thousands, with nuts

so basically everybody is arguing about banning people instead of posting here, is that it?

11. Good Riddance You Lousy Motherfucker Swirl

Oh gawd PLEASE produce this. Will buy.

that "waving with all five fingers" quote was pretty funny, gotta admit

4. Nut'n Accomplished

^^ clearly the best

is this worth reading

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President's_Emergency_Plan_for_AIDS_Relief

The massive funding increases have made anti-retrovirals widely available, saving millions of lives.[4][5] Critics contend that spending a portion of funding on abstinence-until-marriage programs is unjust[1] while others feel that foreign aid is generally inefficient.[2] According to a 2009 study published in Annals of Internal Medicine,[6] the program had averted about 1.1 million deaths in Africa and reduced the death rate due to AIDS in the countries involved by 10%.

george w. bush is my wkiw of shame

dude saved 1.1 million lives

There's a certain irony to Bush's most lasting, positive legacy being one of his least well known/publicized. Was also reminded in a recent New Yorker book review that he signed the expansion to the ADA that his father signed back in 1990. AIDS, ADA, immigration ... compared to today's crop, maybe he really was a compassionate conservative. Except when it came to all the people he killed in Texas, but other than that ...

Regardless, he was a terrible president, and he broke the world.

prescription drugs and maritime reserve too

Yeah, I think I noted upthread or somewhere else that this is his greatest legacy.

this = AIDS relief

Mariana Trench is a huge deal.

the further we get from his term the more i feel like bush was too mediocre to be the worst of the worst. greil marcus was OTM when he said recently that reagan had been worse.

reagan was bad, but... nah, i'm still gonna go with W for the wars and destruction of the economy

another positive is that i will give W credit for a more racially diverse cabinet, though i'm still ashamed the Asian AG was the one who wrote that torture memo

the further we get from his term the more i feel like bush was too mediocre to be the worst of the worst

Poppy Bush, yes, not the son responsible for the death of thousands of men and women

greil marcus was OTM when he said recently that reagan had been worse.

scorecarding these assholes isn't worth the pain, but Clinton was worse than Reagan judged by many now-irrevocable-seeming actions.

xp

what you call bush's mediocrity manifested as a dangerous incompetance. he began two wars, which was bad enough, but then he mismanaged both of them, which was even worse. he rammed through tax cuts that turned projected revenue surpluses into deep deficits, which was bad enough, but he also mismanaged the SEC and FEMA contributing to the worst economic crisis in many generations and the near death of an entire city of a million people.

reagan was competantly awful, meaning he did untold damage to the system, but he did so consciously, with a plan, and a certain finesse.

the difference as I see it was that Reagan joked about nuclear war and was bastard enough to push the button under some circumstances, but he did not intend to start one, while bush was fully capable of stumbling into one by a series of stupid, arrogant mistakes and missteps.

the question is how much of reagan's 'badness' comes from him providing a model/inspiration/excuse for so much that came later, including and most importantly dubya

Reagan is Adam in this narrative: the root of original sin. Dubya and Clinton far worse.

Reagan's pluses (meeting with Gorby despite resistance from his own base and recognizing Gorby was not Andropov) impossible to separate from his minuses (El Salvador, Grenada, Lebanon), i.e. his messianism was the little engine driving him forward.

I see reagan and clinton as more representative of bigger political trends ie whoever could have replaced them in history probably would have played fairly similar roles. whereas dubya's fucking-shit-up VARP is amazingly high.

that's to say the conservative revolution was happening before reagan and would have happened regardless and the nu-democrat era woulda have likely unfolded w/ or w/o clinton. the war in iraq was not at all inevitable.

reagan was competantly awful, meaning he did untold damage to the system, but he did so consciously, with a plan, and a certain finesse.

this is WHY reagan was worse! he wrought deep and irreversible changes in the way the majority of americans think about government and politics. there's a wider ideological gap between him and his predecessors than any other president in the last century. reagan's air of invincibility and charm made him infinitely more dangerous (and destructive) than a hapless schmuck like bush.

i'm no clinton fan (honest!) but what exactly did he do that was worse than iran-contra?

Reanimating a Democratic corpse and turning it into a dessicated GOP clone. Worse, his Treasury department lobbied for and got GOP policies enacted.

I think it's really easy to overrate the extent that clinton 'shaped the democratic party'

the democrats were headed that way anyway -- the DLC and worship of 'the center' predate clinton, he was just an opportunist who got lucky.

yup. the more interesting question is to what extent that statement could also refer to reagan.

I think it's easy to underrate how much worse an "end-product" like Obama is than he coulda been.

One of Bush II's many fatal flaws was also appointing a rogue's gallery of nincompoops and incompetents. Ashcroft, Gonzo, Rumsfeld, Brownie, Harriet Miers, all those other Christian college law grads ... Reagan hired his own share of goons, but they were at least goons with experience, iirc.

Reagan messed a lot of stuff up, but want to say Clinton triangulation and policy set the stage for many of Bush's failures, which were more destructive than Reagan's.

the democrats were headed that way anyway -- the DLC and worship of 'the center' predate clinton, he was just an opportunist who got lucky.

see: Hart, Gary

a lot of the 'worship of the center' came from not having the white house for 12 years fwiw

Hart's rhetoric seemed marginally to the left of Mondale's in '84, who the hell knows what kinda prez he woulda been.

but some of it def existed on the zeitgeist level see: new labour xp

I predict Hart would have received some blowjobs

what a comedian:

But Cheney also came to embrace the reputation. Once his friend David Hume Kennerly greeted him teasingly by saying: “Hi, Dick. Have you blown away any small countries this morning?” Without missing a beat, Cheney replied, “You know, that’s the one thing about this job I really love.” At another point, he tried on a Darth Vader mask his aides had bought and posed for a picture. When he later tried to put the picture in his memoir, his wife, Lynne, talked him out of it.

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Wiish Oliver stone had cast Leslie Neilsen instead of Dreyfuss

ok "dick cheney in a darth vader mask" = creepy halloween costume of the year for me

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just a warning shot from Adrian here in case GWB was thinking about it

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- good at ducking from projectiles

- head nod to faux-threatening tiptoeing al gore was all time debate comedy