"What the country needs is a leader who speaks clearly" -- GW Bush

[booksenkatz]

It blows my mind that he says this stuff with a straight face and his followers lap it up. He also said, "When the president speaks, he better mean what he says." Does that include the incessant lying? These people would rather crawl through crushed glass to tell a lie than sit in a comfy chair and tell the truth.

This was from a speech given during his whistle-ass tour through Michigan:

http://www.freep.com/news/politics/bush4_20040504.htm

I love that picture of Pickles pointing to Gee Duh-bya's tie. "He almost tied it himself this time!"

The most frightening sentence is this: Bush told reporters on the bus Monday afternoon that he is ready to engage the campaign aggressively because "it's going to be as close as 2000." Yep, he's ginning up the idea that he could really win this thing, so that when Jeb and Diebold kick in, it won't seem like such a bizarre idea. You can't tell me that anyone with a lick of sense wants FOUR MORE YEARS of this chaos, insanity, ineptitude, death, unnecessary war, treasury raping (somebody stop me, I can't stop myself today), lying, Constitution shredding, destruction of the manufacturing sector, war on senior citizens, social programs destruction..... (ouch, my brain exploded, somebody else take it from here.)

[skooooo]

1. this country has seen nothing but..

...turmoil ever since that man was appointed by the SC.

[izzie]

2. Well he does tell people what they wish to hear at any giving time

He is nothing like the man who ran. I swear he finds 10 people who may vote for him and if the Christian nuts say it is OK he does for those 10.My whole thing on this Christian thing is he is with an off shoot of real Christians. His Christians do not even go with the NCC. I do recall one of his things was no nation building, smaller govt. It seems to be OK if he is all over the place but Kerry grows up and changes his mind and he is a flip flopper. Crazy.

[No Mandate Here.]

3. Yet more "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail"

Hunter Thompson was 30 years ahead of the REAL Fear and Loathing.

How can people not see through this?

[teryang]

4. Only a carefully vetted crowd

...could listen to such bullshit without heckling.

[DaveSZ]

5. .

Bush has a personality that connects with ordinary people even though he screws them over while in office.


Kerry lacks that, and it's probably going to hurt him some in the general.

[July]

7. Connects with ordinary people

who don't actually know him.

Connects with ordinary people who see him on TV.

Connects with ordinary people who don't know much about him except that his father was president.

Connects with ordinary people who are thrilled to be used in photo-ops with someone in such a high position.

But does he really know or associate with "ordinary people"?

Kerry's not Bush (fortunately), and he speaks in an understandable manner that ordinary people can understand. He'll make inroads because even we ordinary people are fed up with Bush.

[meow2u3]

10. That's not without precedent

Bush has a personality that connects with ordinary people even though he screws them over while in office.

So did Theodore Bundy, Adolf Hitler, and Benito Mussolini. In other words, Bush is a sociopath who could deceive God Himself if he could.

[LuLu550]

6. I'd like to see MoveOn do a commercial with that line

played over and over, cutting between him saying it, and him mumbling and bumbling, and lying about something.

As for the crowds, one of the news outlets reported they are by "invitation only."

[booksenkatz]

8. And they could also do something with

that "I'm sad" crap. What is "I'm sad"? That is something that my 4-year-old might have said when he was 3. "I'm sad." Frankly, I don't think there is a single Bush who is saddened by anything except perhaps if they ever had to say "my bank account is low," but since that has never happened, they've never had to say "I'm sad."

I'm sad. I'm sad that our nation died on December 12, 2000. I'm sad that we've sent, and will continue to send, soldiers to die for nothing. I'm sad that we've killed, and will continue to kill, thousands of human beings for nothing. I'm sad that we can't get a grip on our gluttony for oil, gluttony for material goods, in this country. I'm sad that our jobs have been outsourced. I'm sad that where there once was a surplus in our nation's treasury, there is now an IOU note for trillions of dollars. I'm sad that my son's future is bleak. I'm sad that our environment has been destroyed. I'm sad that senior citizens have to choose between groceries and their health. I'm sad that teachers are being laid-off here in Detroit, and elsewhere. I'm sad that I don't see a way out of this for our country. I'm sad that the next election might be stolen again.

I'm sad, too, Gee Duh-bya. You miserable, lying, grinning, kill-happy sack of shit that oozed from the loins of the She-Wolf. The Bushes take from this world, but do not give back. Name ONE THING that a Bush has done to help others, and I don't mean the billionaires. No, I don't mean the millionaires, either. George Bush is a waste of food. A waste of space. A waste of air.

Sorry for the rant, but I've had it with this family and the destruction they've brought to a country that had soooooo much potential. It takes my breath away at what has been cast aside.

[LuLu550]

11. Gee, pat

tell us how you REALLY feel!
Seriously, I think that is how we all feel. That way and also with complete and utter disbelief that ANYBODY can support that "moran."

[teryang]

9. They've always been by invitation only

They are Potemkin villages of popularity.

[AntiCoup2K4]

12. Bush is a lying idiot, but by God he's a plain speaking lying idiot!

And as said as that is, there's a segment of the population that will choose a plain speaking lying idiot over a nuancing waffler any day.

Frankly, I'd prefer someone who simply tells it like it is. Too bad there wasn't someone like that in the primaries this year.....

...Oh yeah, that's right. There was. And he's still telling like it is.

[sangh0]

13. "And he's still telling like it is"

Yep, Dean says Kerry is the best candidate in the race