In recent memory there was no sadder sight known to Man than an utterly unrepentant George W. Bush playing the “Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda” game with Charles Gibson.

Gibson’s failed attempt at eliciting even the slightest trace of humility and/or (God forbid) contrition from Bush for the horrific mess he’s made of things was, in my opinion, a waste of precious breath and valuable time.

Talk about your “Teflon Presidents,” George W. Bush should apply for a patent on the term ASAP since he owns it lock, stock and barrel.

We ALL KNOW NOTHING WILL BE DONE TO HIM!!!!He will just go-WITH SECRET SERVICE which WE WILL PAY FOR-FOREVER….STILL BEING A DRAIN ON AMERICA!!!!!And WE-THE SHEEPLE-will ALLOW IT…..

The ovens in Ohio: that is where all the folks went missing from: & it is the US citizens who are to be “numbered”; NOT the “illegals”; remember the “for the greater good” and “showing we are turning over a new leaf” comments made by Palin? REFUGEES with Benefits: giving illegals job preferences (all military personel have mental problems (Gov) followed by Corps saying we don’t want to hire military people: US Gov started disparaging US citizens years ago; won’t do the work; incompetent, etc; THEY are the reason for all the ills in the world; & didn’t Hitler also use “jesus” in his day? THIS is the reason the world is talking about Hitler, how it was done in his day, & the USA & how it is being done today; stating: by the time the American’s wake up it will be to late! THIS is the American people’s TIME to wake up NOW! All that is going on with the supposed “recession” etc; with the supposed “$ gone!”; it is ALL smoke & mirrors folks: to claim THEY are the righteous; & all the ills they have done is due to the American citizens demanding it of them. China: the children dying from formula: THEY are being told it is the US citizens doing it; and YES: it IS IN THE USA; AP forced FDA thru freedom of information act to reveal it; they did & it is in USA however they REFUSED to state which brands it is: probably cuz can be traced right back to the White House & Congress. THIS is the USA.

Dear KDelphi, in the end, only symptoms matter.  There are about 60 symptoms in DSM IV that in different combinations are made into over 600 labels.  Labels are just a convenience, more than scientifically useful.  The symptoms are useful and part of the solutions.

Ah KDelphi…this is SOOOO true:

“BTW—He is NOT “stupid”—at least not in the traditional sense of the word. He got everything he and the haves and have mores wanted—and they dont even have to pay a price…”

He’s not stupid in the traditional sense of the word, (and ‘traditional’ is probably debatable, but not worth the energy, since we know what you mean).

As for paying a price, they probably have, but definitely NOT the traditional prices that the rest of us pay, often with our very lives.

The Village Elder has explained it perfectly, as was your summary. They and all of their class have managed this all with impunity. The Bush Legacy is important to them, but not that important….especially when they will of course continue to revise history to protect it, if only in their own minds.

The rest of the class who have benefited just as much, don’t give a rat’s ass about the Bush Legacy any damn way!!

Bush the inflatable: Plenty of holes to please you.
WITH—-
Bonus Lobe Hole
Instant Hot Air Included.
Now only 3.5 trillion dollars.
Sign up for automatic payments today.

mikemikef—I think he has petit mal temporal lobe syndrome, from coke use, untreated alcoholism,  and car wrecks..check out the “god delusion”. (Also, some type of personality disorder)http://www.umm.edu/ency/article/001399sym.htm

Hearing voices when no one has spoken
Seeing patterns, lights, beings, or objects that aren’t there

Certain medications
Toxic action on nerves, such as that from lead, alcohol, or tobacco

Sensation of deja vu, recalled emotions or memories
Sudden, intense emotion not related to anything occurring at the time
During the seizure:

Consciousness maintained during the seizure (partial)
Consciousness reduced or lost during the seizure (partial complex)Sensation of deja vu, recalled emotions or memories (remember his “falling on teh couch and choking on a pretzell”? I dont buy it—-the onoy tinje I did ath—I was drunk !

Sudden, intense emotion not related to anything occurring at the time

Movement disturbances include:
Abnormal mouth behaviors
Lip smacking
Chewing or swallowing without cause

Abnormal head movements
Forced turning of the head
Forced turning of the eyes

Repetitive movements, such as picking at clothing

Abnormal sensations include:

Sensory hallucinations (visual, hearing, touch, etc.)
Autonomic symptoms include:
Abdominal pain or discomfort
Nausea
Sweating
Flushed face
Dilated pupils (eyes)
Rapid heart rate/pulse
Other symptoms include:
Changes in vision, speech, thought, awareness, personality
Loss of memory (amnesia) regarding events around the seizure (partial complex seizure)

I dont know—what do you think?

Also, remember his “falling off the couch” when he “choked on a pretzel”?Do you buy that?

BTW—He is NOT “stupid”—at least not in the traditional sense of the word. He got everything he and the haves and have mores wanted—and they dont even have to pay a price…

The “idelogical thugs” appear to be between the ears of Bush, neocons, right wing fundamentalist.  Google “narcistic personality disorder symptoms” to help understand what the last eight years have been about.

Bubba: You forgot the FEMA camps built during the Bush years, over 600+.

mistersister:check out the camps in Zanesville, Ohio. You can see the ovens in the aerial shots. They have also observed bringing in “gas” that is not used for heat or cooking. The type of gas they had delivered was the type used to cook people(lethal). I have done attended Native Peoples events in this area before the camps were built. And I have read that these camps were built to round up the illegals if they try to flee this country(might be if Martial Law is declared)so they cannot return home, not if they are coming here.

Bush told over 935 lies just about the Iraq war. He remembers, don’t believe his lies. He just refuses to acknowledge just how evil, corrupt and morally vile he really is.

WHEN G.W. SAYS HE CANNOT THINK OF ANY MISTAKES HE HAS MADE, WELL, I CAN.

HIS FIRST MISTAKE WAS WHEN HE TOOK HIS FIRST BREATH!

Yes, that is what we have had “running” (ruining) this country.  Regan through Bush II, they have served their masters and class well.  There is no need to apologize, for members of their class have done well and profited during these administrations.  The corporate and government aristocracy have no complaints.  Money has been made and the populace has been mollified through fear mongering with promises to protect against that ever present but elusive enemy.

The will of a supreme being has frequently been alluded too, as have values and and other divisive catch phrases designed to divert attention from reality.  The collapse of this economy was predicted, with charts and graphs, during the eighties.  A corrupted view of Adam Smith’s “invisible hand” and Ayn Rand’s “doctrine of individual will and greed” served as the guideposts for civil, social and economic policy. A bankrupt notion that should have died abirthing.

Oil is today trading at $40.00 or below (USD).  Our financial, industrial and military sectors have been bled dry.  We continue the transfer of public funds to corporate profits.  The citizenry are given all the regard of Irish nationals during the great famine.

A bankrupt depressed country is of little concern to the aristocracy of the multinationals.

Bush the defalcator! Hey, have you noticed the Bush IQ advert? I tried it and I got 125 too! And I’ve had a lobotomy!

it is not to question the intelligence from the CIA or FBI, but rather to question the intelligence in the White House.

“Observe the astounding selectivity of the president’s memory.”

He’s coming out with a Reader’s Digest version any day now… Cherrypicking his memory for the good stuff…

Picking cherries from a nut tree.

the only incompetence has been the ability to discern this administrations’ real agenda. i believe that the most accurate parallel can be found in the nationalist-socialist party’s takeover of the german democracy in the 20s and 30s. from the family ties to the rise of the nazis to georges’ acting lessons,( didnt need to work on illiteracy but had to do something about accent ). look at what the land of “free” has become. without hab corp, there is NO PROTECTION UNDER LAW. i’m using google earth to look for the new concentration camps we built ( for a sudden influx of illegal immigrants ). to see if they have large smokestacks.
where is “globalization” and “new world order” found in constitution? i’m afraid the constitution was used as toilet paper by truman with the passage of the national security act of 47. this opened the door for a world empire that is unconstitutional. we seem to enjoy the right of free speech but i’m secure in the knowledge that every word written and spoken is subject to gov’t scrutiny and if i’m deemed dangerous i’ll be taken away.
will obama do anything besides bringing the bill clinton era jar of vaseline? does anyone think that he may have studied mlk’s speeches to better imitate the tone and inflection? how can there be a discussion about whether murderers, kidnappers, torturers, mass murderers, and war profiteers not be prosecuted? democracy my ass.

By cyrena, D
So JFKLiberal, (whatever that means) how do you know this? Got any evidence for how Obama and ‘most of his supporters’ SECRETLY support bin Laden?

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Well, I am of the opinion—that Farrakhan (a Obama cult supporter) and the million man march movement,  were not protesting to seek individual freedom, but rather a groupthink mentality,  (a form of mental slavery) which is advocated by the black power movement, which is openly anti-semitic.

All this energy;  in the short term gives the group a feeling of warmth; by the multitude of numbers;but it is not a movement for social change— or for civil rights— but simply a mob of hate.

Myself bring a half Jew; I see the hate in the black power movement; that also openly support Palestinian rights—and support it, not so much for their rights to human dignity—under a international rule of law; but the right to be terrorists; which only can create more fear, destruction and wars.

Well, anytime you hear a politician (Clinton, Hillary, Bush, Obama) say support the troops; what they are saying is support militarism—which created Bin Laden.

It is a unpublished fact that the CIA created Bin laden, and each and every time; they allow a war to continue without protesting in the streets the injustice of the military-industrial-complex (the military)—they are in fact supporting Bin Laden.

Fear,  is what they are really attempting to fight with these bogus wars; but a war cannot conquer the fear; that created Bin Laden.

Mr. Mendez

Apparently you do not understand the meaning of the expression “in essence”. Go back to elementary school!

Bush has “in essence” resigned. Even Mr. Robinson has admitted as much on TV!

Furthermore, you blithely assume that I do not know that President Bush is doing all sorts of little shit. Assumptions are not truth.

Nevertheless, I stay with my conclusion that Mr. Robinson is a nearly worthless commentator.

“...Obama, or at least most of his supporters; secretly support Bin laden; that is the extent of the despair; that poverty and war, has inflicted upon our great nation…”

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So JFKLiberal, (whatever that means)  how do you know this? Got any evidence for how Obama and ‘most of his supporters’ SECRETLY support bin Laden?

Are you a crackpot, or just old? I don’t know why else someone would post such a stupid comment as Obama and most of his supporters secretly supporting bin Laden. I mean if you don’t like the guy, (based on the standard racism of many people who might consider themselves to be JFKLiberals) you could find something more credibly negative to say than that.

I swear to god, there are more and more crackpots coming out of the woodwork now, than there were during the campaign. But then, I guess that’s probably to be expected. I would be naive to expect otherwise.

By cyrena,

So yeah, what could be a greater example of the hunter being captured by his game? Al-Qaeda is loving this..they might even mourn GW’s passage from office.

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That is the saddest part of the whole story. The reason I would not vote for McCain or Obama this election—is because what the people were really electing into office;  were people that were incapable of ending war, and bring peace and prosperity back to America and the world.

Obama, or at least most of his supporters; secretly support Bin laden; that is the extent of the despair; that poverty and war, has inflicted upon our great nation.

It is only by a revolutionary change (that comes from the person) that will enable the world to change. Not by blind obedience to a Obama political cult, or McCain or to any ideas or groups (groupthink) they believe in.

Ah HA! (again)

•  “…Vice President Cheney even kept insisting on some link with 9/11 that only he could perceive; after a while, nobody paid him any attention…”

This is true. Nobody (meaning the American citizenry)  paid much attention to Cheney, -EVER- which is exactly the way he’s wanted to keep things. But that’s been a dreadful and fatal position for the American public, because Richard B Cheney epitomizes the most powerful VP EVER, in the history of the US Constitution. Dick Cheney and his henchmen, (Libby, Addington, and others) have been running things from the shadow government for the entire stint…since even before the Coup, and that’s the thing that so many of us (journalists included) don’t get. Otherwise, (and no offense to Mr. Robinson, because I always appreciate his work) we wouldn’t still be marveling at these incredible responses from GW. I stopped marveling at the things this retard says long ago, when he kept getting away with it. Nobody called for any competency hearings, or anything else to correct the obvious…the USA had fallen into the hands of flippin’ psychopathic fascists, (remember Hitler?)and nobody seemed to notice.

And, here we are 8 years later, after the destruction, and he’s still a psychopath, and so is Cheney. So, what would have changed in any of his psychotic responses to these questions?
Now on THIS..

•  “..But those ideological thugs are ensconced somewhere, probably in the lawless frontier territories of Pakistan, rebuilding their murderous networks and plotting new attacks. I’m betting that they don’t regret Bush’s decision to invade Iraq, either. ..”

Eugene is right on the money. I’m POSITIVE they don’t regret the moronic decision (more Cheney’s and Rummy’s than Georgie’s) to invade Iraq, seeing as how it actually put al-Qaeda and others on the map in Iraq, where they’d never been able to get even close as long as Saddam was in power. Saddam wasn’t having it. Bin Laden had tried before.

So yeah, what could be a greater example of the hunter being captured by his game? Al-Qaeda is loving this..they might even mourn GW’s passage from office.

They would be the ONLY ones…

“Remember that long-ago news conference when” after losing two elections in a row, first for president and then for governor of California, another deservedly maligned Republican pol held a farewell press conference in which he angrily hissed to reporters, “you won’t have Richard Nixon to kick around anymore!” Robinson can’t let go. After eight years of habitual Bush bashing, there’s only a few paydays left to sound the familiar incriminating themes. “Just seven more weeks.” And then he won’t have George W. to kick around any more. He’ll have to find another meal ticket. Maybe he could just go on sabbatical for four years or perhaps he’ll be reduced to spinning more fawning puffery about George W.‘s incoming successor and political soul brother Barack H. “Fellow sufferers from Obama Deification Syndrome, mind your blood pressure. Just seven more weeks”... and it will get even worse! Just “observe the astounding selectivity”... of the Obama publicists as they trumpet the same old corporate imperialist policies as long as they’re carried on by an “inclusive” band of Democratic cutthroats. Oh sure, you can always divert attention by trying to make them look the lesser-of-two-evils to Bush. Of course, it’s always easy to “imagine all the other do-overs he could have asked for.” He might regret appointing the “mushroom cloud…so chillingly evoked” propagandist, Condoleezza Rice as National Security Adviser. He might reget appointing a liar like Colin Powell, Sec. of State so he could present “shaky or ambiguous reports—such as the bogus document about Iraq’s attempt to buy yellowcake uranium in Niger” to the UN. He might also regret that Dick Cheney was ever born. There are obviously many other things that can be imagined for Bush to regret, including the distressing fact that Obama Copacabana will be largely following in his footsteps. “Bush spoke of having liberated Iraqis from the savage rule of a tyrant—which is true, but that wasn’t the reason we were originally”...supporting Saddam for so many tyrannical years beforehand - with no objection from the Democrats or The Washington Post. And now Obama and his theo-barack flock are aghast that Iran “dares to dream of ancient Persian glory.” How dare they! Don’t they know that the Middle East belongs to us. So if there’s an attack on Iran, there can be nothing to regret if Ayatollah Obama does it. “Bush pats himself on the back for keeping his eye on the ball—the ‘war against ideological thugs.’ But those ideological thugs are ensconced somewhere, probably in the lawless frontier territories of Pakistan, rebuilding their murderous networks and plotting new attacks.” Hint! Hint! If St.Barack, not only attacks Iran but invades Pakistan as he’s already adverted, then come what may, it can then all be blamed - “backdated” - on Bush. I’m betting that Obama apologists don’t regret Bush’s decision to invade Iraq, either.

So this is how little w maintains a position of infallibility for himslelf and his criminal administration:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28073094/

It is just lasting longer than he anticipated and cost more than… well that doesn’t matter, the taxpayers will keep paying for that.

bubba: Did you want to say something?
You know what convinced me that something was seriously wrong? The 911 Commission Report. When I first saw the News coverage I was too shocked to notice the absurdity of what I was looking at, but when I read the report I’m thinking, well how the hell can my internal combustion engine not melt? This does not make sense. So I started looking at the independent research, and the “conspiracy nuts” and I said, THIS, makes sense.

mendez: sorry about the typo, but yours was really funny. I’m reading—dishonest in tact—well I got a good laugh. Thanks for the laugh, It wasn’t ridicule.

Remember when Bush said that God was speaking to him?! I was convinced then and more so now that the one who was talking to him and inspiring his evil was no other than the Great Satan, posing as God.

This reminds me of one ironies of history that happened in 1220 as pagan Genghis Khan was spreading havoc and destruction over the cultural centers of weakened political Islam, such as Samarqand, Balkh and Bukhara, he was reported to have said: “I am the scourge of God sent to men as punishment for their sins.” The irony of this statement is that it was uttered by a pagan who really didn’t have a clear concept of God or monotheism. It seems to me that Genghis Khan then was confusing the Great Satan with God, as Bush did so many centuries after.

So as Bush these days is active in reflecting on his legacy for posterity, he should be borrowing Genghis Khan’s statement with some modification so as to read: “I am the scourge of Great Satan sent to men as a punishment for their belief in me and their following my misguidance!”

Can we spell….M-E-G-A-L-O-M-A-N-I-A-C?......How about….S-O-C-I-O-P-A-T-H?........“ole bullshit” is to stupid to have a conscience or have regrets for any of his “blunders”.....

By Ham-Archy, December 5 at 9:52 am #

“menendez: You call that tact? LOL! Just kiddin’..”

It’s funny you’re poking fun at my typo on a blog but you can’t even spell my name correctly.  Who the hell is menendez?

By dihey, December 5 at 11:55 am #

“How typical for Eugene Robinson! If he has nothing to write about he heaps more shit on a president who has in essence resigned. What a self-centered nothing he is! “

Bush has hardly resigned, and if you paid attention you’d know he is in the process of gutting all sorts of environmental concerns and pilfering our coffers.  Furthermore, Gene doesn’t deserve whatever you’re accusing him of.  I don’t know where you’re coming from but I’m willing to listen.

How typical for Eugene Robinson! If he has nothing to write about he heaps more shit on a president who has in essence resigned. What a self-centered nothing he is!

“the “war against ideological thugs.”  What?  Are you kidding me?!!?  He and his neocon cronies are the ideological thugs, yet once again he fails to recognize this fact! 

Of course that would require two things (1)thinking, and (2)self reflection/introspection - these are things that sociopaths are incapable of doing!!!

menendez: You call that tact? LOL! Just kiddin’..

One of the first credentials for the president of the United States should be a normal IQ. Only a dull witted moron could come up with a more totally unintelligible review of his job as president of the US. I was aghast, once again,  at the rampant stupidity and detachment of our President.  NO BRAINS, NO FEELING. MAY GOD HAVE MERCY ON HIS SOUL.  Wait God, nevermind.

Bush isn’t the one who “shown” that personal responsibility doesn’t exist, the American people have shown that they aren’t honest enough to demand it.  Bush will soon be history but the people will remain in tact.  There is no point in educating him, or rejuvenating him either.  Those who still feel his responses were correct are the truly dangerous.

Now that Bush is globaly revered as KING GEORGE II he knows he no longer has to run FOR or FROM anything. LOL!

Inheret: You left out one thing; Katrina was a REPUBLICAN! Those plutocratic hurricanes are plotting to destroy the gulf states to keep the world from exploiting our oil resources. Don’t think the storms are over, off course their NOT!
Hopefully you’re beating a dead Bush.

I’m writing from the perspective of living in Barcelona, Spain: From the beginning of Bush’s mandate, I was appalled by how the the president and his cronies usurped the English language, changing the meaning of words to fit their whim. Patriots can no longer criticize their government; democracy is something to be imposed and honesty has just been thrown out the window.

Apart from lying, manipulating and wreaking havoc with the economy of the US and the lives of people all around the globe, Bush’s behavior now, at the end of his mandate seems more pitiful than ever. What kind of person can spend 8 years in the position of president of the US without having learned. My sadness is not for the man so much as for all the young people in the US who see him passing the buck and who must think, consciously or not, that there is no such thing as personal responsibility; President Bush has shown this to be true.

It’s obvious these days Bush is scared spitless and with good reason.  Seriously, do you not believe that, if he sticks his neck out, someone will chop it off?  I hope the sooner the better and if the lunatics take out the whole family, it will hopefully serve as a warning.  Since Bush believes so deeply in capital punishment, he should accept this fate. No one should get away with what Bush has done to this country and it seems clear the Dems haven’t the stomach for real justice.  If he had an ounce of courage, or brains, he’d follow Seppuku.

So, a dumb GOP megalomaniac is stepping down from the heights of power (so we hope; he could still declare martial law, “postpone” the transfer of power and dissolve the Congress if Cheney tells him to in the next few days or weeks)—now, what if the man who replaces him turns out to be a smart, Democratic megalomaniac?

It’s not impossible. Power corrupts, y’know, and absolute power corrutps absolutely ...

So let him remain in ‘bliss’, It may help him when he mounts those Steps towards the Gallows!

Scary thought, Gene: Everything he did WAS intentional!
After all, they were planning the Iraq invasion before Bush was inaugurated.
Ashcroft had the 300+ page “Patriot Act” ready just weeks after 9-11

The “Ownership society” means you’re on your own, as in New Orleans. Plus, it was a DEMOCRATIC city in a state with a DEMOCRATIC governor.  Mississippi was a badly hit, but the governor is REPUBLICAN so even though things went as badly,not a word of criticism was against Haley Barbour.

Bush has followed his classic agenda: Public money that can be given to rich friends and corporations needs to be given to them. He did it as Governor with the U of Tex endowment fund, he did it with the Clinton budget surplus, he did it further tax cuts on capital gains, he did it with non-compete contracts in Iraq and Louisiana, he did it with Medicare, he TRIED to do it with Social Security, he did it with the current bailouts.

He has strongly restricted the 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th and 14th Amendments, making criticism much more dangerous.

He may actually have been more successful at achieving his REAL agenda than we realized.  Of course, that REAL agenda was moving America from freedom to a modern feudal baronetcy, with socialism for the rich and the rest as slaves to be milked.

I’d say Bush has had one major failure, along with the GOP—their “permanent majority” strategy blew up in their faces with the reality that people don’t want to be slaves, to be poor, to have their children at risk of dying from war, natural disaster, being homeless or hunger. They don’t want their children to grow up with less expectations than their own.

Of course, what that means, is other than the 30% hard-core dupes, who all think THEY are going to be in the top .1%, the rest of us see just what a catastrophic screw-up Bush is and was.

The only thing worse he can do is come up with some pretense to “postpone” Obama’s inauguration and complete the job of making himself dictator.  I won’t believe he won’t until the moment Obama completes the Oath of Office is is officially the 44th President