Bush Speaks 4/28

(I'm not watching/listening to Bush btw, since he never says anything important/intelligent/relevant. I can just read about it later).

Shakey, I think you're right, and I have faith that this will eventually happen, but I've had some major skepticism beaten into me by these people over the last five years. I do think they are in hubris mode, but I fear the severe damage that could happen when they really start flailing.

And then Kerry lost, the GOP gained seats in Congress and the great Bush backlash never manifested itself.

Don't get your hopes up, dudes.

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I had to turn it off he was so boring. Is it just me or does he sort of resemble Johnny Carson now when he pulls those smirks and glances?

one of the wisest things someone has ever told me: "never underestimate the power of the stupid."

It's incredible how they give him multiple choice questions:
"would you describe the weak economy as a) a bump in the road or b) a continuing trend?"

Let him use his own cliches ffs.

In this case it torpedoed the first one as well.

So [and I don't fully understand this; I refuse to watch or hear the fuckstick talk] if Bush is up there telling Americans to invest in the stock exchange en masse, and it's a doomed plan that will destroy anyone who follows it, and Bush supporters are the only ones paying attention, then the only people rendered bankrupt in six months will be Bush supporters, many of whom will probably die of starvation. So how's this a bad thing again?

the president also pushed for a Social Security reform proposal in which benefits for low income-workers would increase faster than for wealthier Americans.

Hang on. A conservative US president supporting the lower classes? What's the ulterior motive here?

And I think the United Nations is important.

As a matter of fact, I'll give you an example: Today I met with the United Nations representative to Syria, Mr. Larsen.

BUSH: He's an impressive fellow.

Now, he's delivered -- to Lebanon, excuse me. He's delivered a very strong message to the Syrian leader, though, that the world expects President Assad to withdraw not only his military forces, but his intelligence services, completely from Lebanon.

And now he is in charge of following up to make sure it happens.

I think that's a very important and useful role for the United Nations to play.

We have played a role. France has played a role. A lot of nations have played roles. But the United Nations has done a very good job in Syria -- with Syria in Lebanon of making it sure that the world expects the Lebanese elections to be free in May, without Syrian influence.

He's an impressive fellow. I applaud him for his hard work. But there's an example of why I think the United Nations is an important body.

On the other hand, the United Nations has had some problems that we've all seen.

BUSH: And if we expect the United Nations to be effective, it needs to clean up its problems. And I think it makes sense to have somebody representing the United States who will be straightforward about the issues.

Stretch?

Do you mind if I call you Stretch in front of your...

QUESTION: I've been called worse.

BUSH: OK.

You've got Bush, who can only read or think in captions and as long as he's given the chance to smirk, is pretty happy.

You've got Cheney/Rove and the other neocon Project for the New American signatures/pro-war-profiteers who are invested in US domination of Earth and, as Richard Perle put it in his book, "An End to Evil", "50 years of glorious war" against, um, whomever.

Then there are febrile 'free market' delusionals such as Grover Norquist who are pining for the collapse of the US government, because only then will the 'magic of the maketplace', in hand with Lord Jesus, be allowed to manifest and a sort of neo-feudal state to come into being.

In short: think Enron, but with less ethics.

The man has an accent. Get over it. There are much, much more serious things about which to criticize him.