By knute, November 16 at 11:32 am #
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“Vicky…..Don’t worry. I hear Bush may be relocating to Paraguay in the near future to keep that country safe no-doubt. You might have to move yourself to the new safest place under the protective, and massively impressive arms of GW Bush. I think Cheney’s hollowed out, bunker busting proof, mountain get away in Wyoming is probably about done too.”

Your description of Cheney’s and Bush’s retirement homes reminds me of a congressman during the Vietnam war.  He was a hawk who’d taken up the cause of Air Force General Curtis “Bombs Away” LeMay.  LeMay wanted to bomb Vietnam back to “stone age.”  The counter argument was that that would bring Russia and China into the war and we’d be faced with the possibility of a nuclear attack.  This congressman actually got up in the House of Representatives and said that the U.S could withstand a nuclear attack.  All you had to do to was dig a hole about six feet deep and cover the hole with a standard door, the kind you might find in any house.  That is in the Congressional Record.  It should be printed in large type to show just how crazy these war hawks and war mongers can be.

Listening to Barack Obama on 60 Minutes was a real joy.  How long has it been since we’ve had a President or President-Elect who could speak easily and extemporaneously with intelligence on a variety of issues without constant waffling?  If he didn’t want to discuss something (like Cab apts) he simply said “I’m not going to comment on that” and stands by it.
While Bill Clinton and H.W. before him were intelligent, both waffled like crazy.  In fact, the last President who talked straight like this was Jimmy Carter—so I hope BHO has better success in dealing with Congress and implementing his policy initiatives than Carter did.

Even when he’s just talkin’, I get the feeling that this guy gets it.

Bush really is a knucklehead, surrounded by paranoid, myopic jingoists.

I AM OUTRAGED!!!!NOW this lying,murdering,theiving bullshit prick….THROWS HIS OWN “GOING AWAY PARTY”-concealed as a SUMMIT on world money problems….and SERVES $400.00 to $600.00 DOLLAR A BOTTLE WINE?????My fu*king GRANDAUGHTER CAN NOT PUT MILK ON THE TABLE FOR MY GRANDKIDS….AND SHE HAS 2 JOBS as does HER HUSBAND…They have ALREADY LOST THEIR HOME DUE TO “the bullshit bunch” giving LOANS TO ANYBODY and EVERYBODY….ARE WE REALLY GOING TO LET bullshit GET AWAY WITH HIS CRIMES????

Marie, Bush did not succeed in ousting the Taliban from Afghanistan. They are resurgent throughout the country. The vacuum created by the inept Karzai government combined with America’s failure to economically reconstitute the country and protect the indefensible populace from the trepidations of the Taliban has resulted in failure: it’s neither pure nor simple to annotate.

Bush’s legacy will be, primarily, his intention to effect and promote unilateral, belligerent and self-aggrandizing realpolitics exclusionary of the world body. He, together with his ruling troika, inherently corrupt, devised incoherent, haste-driven directives; a corrosive value system that will define his era. Together with his triumvirate of wolves -Cheney-Rumsfeld-Rove- he espoused a Napoleonic purview that had the misfortunate to become American policy. That he abjured the constitution and bankrupted the nation is in fact criminal.

Bush is a bag of mixed nuts. So, too, his cabinet. Self-reflection, as you mentioned, has never been his wont though it is wholly and egregiously lacking. Bush’s administration will reside in the cesspool chapter of American and world history.

Vicki, November 14 at 6:22 am #
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Thank you President Bush, for keeping my family & I safe from another 9/ll attack….and, for not regretting what you have done to keep us safe!!
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Yeah, thanks for ruining the economy, impoverishing ordinary Americans to benefit the wealthiest, starting a war with a country that couldn’t harm us, and not properly finishing one with the country that supported the attacks on us.

It was 8 years from 1993 to 2001, between Al Qaeda attacks on America, so thanks for protecting us for the last 7 years (during which time AQ,according to their plan, wouldn’t have attacked us anyway).

Thanks for spending 5x as much per person to protect Wyomingians from terrorist attacks as you spent on New Yorkers, who WERE attacked—TWICE!

Thanks for using the United States Constitution as a scrap of toilet paper while you accumulated near-imperial power, ordered illegal arrests and confinement, torture, and exporting SUSPECTS to Syria for extra-fine torture.

I have one question, Mr. President: How are we going to be protected from YOU????

“Momma, why do they call it a doughnut?”

“Because there’s a hole in the middle my dear.”

“Can we fill the hole in, can we make it more?”

“No dear. We can not fill in the hole. If we could it wouldn’t be a doughnut anymore.”

And that my dear friends explains Bush in a nutshell.

A nutshell that would just about fill that hole in the middle, if we could fill it, which we can’t.

I think it would be justice if this poster child for the pleasure principle came to regret the day he was born.

Bush’s theme song is Edith Piaf’s—Non, je ne regrette rien.

If we accept the fact that Bush functions to avoid anxiety at all costs - has for his entire adult life - his ‘regrets’ were most likely written by someone else for him to recite.

What is so galling is that there are and have been people around him who do not suffer from his deformity.  Their crime is the greater.

Bush regrets nothing. He is still trying to force over 60 more orders/policies through before November 22 this year. Orders which harm wildlife, the environment and people. Thankfully, while Clinton was still President, he created policy for the incoming President to be able to undo the last 6 months of the out going President’s polices and eliminate them. Too bad this policy could not go back for the last 8 years and repeal all the ill and secretly underhanded orders G.W. pushed through.

Bush will do his damnedest to destroy what is left of America and everything else he has touched with his total arrogance and disregard for anything else in the world, be it animal, people, the environment. After all G.W. claimed he sleeps very well at night after being questioned by a reporter several years ago about the death and destruction he has brought about all over the world. He has no conscience or soul. He is evil at its fullest.

There should be laws against the “old President” making any policy after the November 4th elections, their days of ruling should end then and there. Basically they are FIRED and nothing they try to do should be allowed to pass or happen. Left up to the Repugs, who are always very poor losers(one only need to look back to their behavior after Clinton won over daddy Bush)he could start another war or two, declare Martial Law, sell America off to the highest bidder or turn us over to the country he has borrowed the most money from for his was debts(It’s Japan who owns the most U.S. debt right now) finish off our economy or any number of things the warped Bush/Cheney corp. of criminals have dreamed up.

Cheney has his hide out in Dubai and G.W.(greedy wuss) has his compound in Paraquay where he no doubt will slink off to, probably don’t have extradition laws there. G.W. and his gang of criminals will head for safer places to live out their days without fear of punishment for all the crimes they have committed. The rest of the world is screwed.

Ms. Cocco, I regret that I must disagree with your last statement that, “the president has not changed.”
Thankfully, on Nov. 4. 2008 the president did change and change he did because of the American people.
It will no longer be a “tooth-pulling” event to hear an American president speak, we now have an American president who can string two sentences together without a teleprompter and without the need for the ever-inescapable Bushism that followed any of his speaking engagements.
The American people changed because there was finally a candidate who, did not preach the doctrine of FEAR, that was so prevalent during the shrub’s administration, and of course the American people grew out of the place where FEAR, ruled their lives and reality set in.
Reality has a way of biting one square in the ass, and the reality is the shrub’s administration is the worst ever in the history of the U.S. We the American people are faced with ever growing deficits,  a loss of real wages that has continued its downward slide since Ronald Reagan’s administration all the way down to the shrub’s including Bill Clinton’s.
We are now facing the most enormous and egregious bill, the so-called derivatives, of which their is approximately $485 Trillion US. Someone will have to come up with the money to pay off these most exotic of financial scams.
All this has happened, because of the lack of oversight given to the financial markets, that started under the “Great Communicator,” and ended with, “the Great Decider.” Along the way, at least one Democratic President, could have and should have looked out for the people’s interests. Yet for lack of a better term, we were bamboozled and befuddled by the lack of accountability. Surely, Bill Clinton, a man of the people, would have looked out for our interests, yet even he, only looked out for the interests of Wall Street and the wealthiest 1% of our nation. For the last almost 30 years our country has been ground down by presidents who, could not associate or affiliate themselves with the people of our country, hopefully now we have such a person.
Given the lack of ideals that were shown by the last
4 administrations, maybe just maybe, we will again have someone in the White House who cares enough to send the very best and look out for the interests of the people.

Bush is a classic sociopath, he couldn’t even be taught the difference between right and wrong, good and evil.

“The Bad Sleep Well”, eh, Dr. Knowitall?

Somehow I just don’t see W pining away with remorse as he speeds by the rocky Maine coast in his umpteen million dollar power boat on a beautiful New England summer’s day, after he’s checked his bank account to make sure the pension got deposited that month.

I even bet he sleeps pretty well every night.

I wish the media would stop tormenting us with the likes of has-beens (and that’s generous) like W and S.P.  Let’s move on!

YEP….He REALLY Believes that he DID GREAT THINGS FOR AMERICA!!!![I think he is setting WE-THE PEOPLE-up for an INSANITY DEFENSE when/if he is held accountable for his CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY].......