George W. Bush IS Stupid, and it's time to kill the meme that he is brilliant and we are all too

[Mike03]

stupid, ignorant and pathetic to perceive this obvious truth about our president.

G.W. Bush simply permitted himself to be exploited by smarter individuals who represent a philosophy. We call them Neocons. They found a proper puppet. Bush's job is to fulfill the role of being a blank slate--a defective child in a man's body--which he has done perfectly well.

It is an insult to the intelligence of every single rational, clear-thinking and perceptive individual here at DU to argue, or even suggest, that George W. Bush is some intellectual giant beyond our humble, deficient ability to perceive it. He is now well on his way to going down in history as the absolute worst, most incompetent, president in the entire history of this nation. He is despised worldwide. All his legislation will be unfurled and consigned to the garbage can by our next president.

Any smart individual knows that the dumbest thing of all is to make enemies unnecessarily. Bush flunks even at that level of "strategic" thinking.

He has not done one thing that I can argue is the sign of an intelligent, brilliant, secretly devious leader. He's a first-class fuck-up, and it's better just to lay it on the line and say that, then to embarrass one's self by trying to argue that he is a devious genius.

GEORGE W. BUSH fantasized about accumulating power, and he got it through no fault of his own, and he has no CLUE WHAT TO DO WITH IT.

OTHERS TELL HIM WHAT TO DO WITH IT.

He will go to his grave not even knowing what opportunities he had and squandered.

[NanceGreggs]

1. Hear, hear!

My thoughts exactly.

[Lint Head]

2. George W. Bush IS Stupid and he is a criminal that will never be

prosecuted because COWARDS are running the country. :dem:

[opihimoimoi]

3. Molly didn't refer to him as the Shrub for nothing....

Listen to Hillary , Obama , and you will hear intelligence...listen to Shrub and hear "uhhh uhhh uhhhhh an ya can't get fooled agin"

Bush has the persona of a dry drunk....the charactoristics of the Cheers Atmosphere...rubbing bald heads an shit is not my kind of president....

[Gidney N Cloyd]

4. He's stupid but can be crafty.

[canoeist52]

5. I'd like to think so but I'm not convinced that

"All his legislation will be unfurled and consigned to the garbage can by our next president."
The corporations will still be in charge. (represented by some Democrats)

[Stargleamer]

6. You are really misunderestimating him. . . n/t

[orleans]

7. there IS no meme saying how brilliant the fuckhead is. no one is

that stupid to say such a thing, and no one is that gullible to believe it

[Gidney N Cloyd]

8. The meme I'm hearing lately doesn't specifically call him brilliant but

boils down to "call him stupid if you want but he's gotten pretty much everything he set out to get."

[AzDar]

9. I think it more likely that CHENEY got all he set out to get.

George W. Bush is a vapid, empty suit.

[Rex]

10. I don't know a soul that thinks George is smart or anywhere close.

I'm talking south Texas folks who probably voted for him in 2000. If anyone believes that, I don't know them or ever see them in Home Depot.

[Karenina]

12. IMPEACH THE FUCKER AND HIS VP.

JUST. DO. IT.

[SammyWinstonJack]

11. Stupid, mean and vindictive.

[trusty elf]

13. He's a veritable suppository of knowledge.

[DeeDeeNY]

14. I guess it's hard to believe he really could be as stupid as he appears

[Rex]

15. Not hard to believe, he has maybe one braincell left from the years

of coke abuse. I doubt he even knows what planet he lives on from day to day. I bet he stays high all the time. You know his wife does.

[ClassWarrior]

16. I'm beginning to wonder WHO's stupid around here.

This thread is a copycat of this thread: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=2916499&mesg_id=2916499

And in that thread, no one claims "that he is brilliant." Either you're refusing to listen, or...

NGU.

[baby_mouse]

17. ....

...one might suspect that a poster opposing the "Bush is stupid" hypothesis, given his amazingly low popularity and spectacular failures, THEN going on to claim that "No-none is saying he's brilliant", will have some other quality attributable to him accounting for the phenomenal extremities of his tenure.

What is it then? Sheer bloody-mindedness? In my book that equals STUPID.

Pure Evil? Guess what, in my book that also equals STUPID. (The world, quite observably, does not generally favour the wishes of evil people. (I know it looks to the angst-ridden very much as if it does, but it really doesn't.))

The idea that Bush is stupid isn't a "meme". (:eyes: :grr: fucking useless term anyway...) It's an appallingly obvious FACT.

Calling ideas "memes" just makes them *seem* questionable. I doesn't actually change their content, but it DOES muddy the water nicely around FACTS.

[Elidor]

18. Tell it, brother!

Tell it on the mountain, I say! He is bone stupid, a "deeply stupid little oil-spiv," a shrunken-headed, no-brained, mush-minded moron idiot who was born on third base and thinks he hit a triple. A simpering, sullen figurehead for an empty movement of violence and secrecy, where political ends are the only policies. He can't speak, he can't act, he can't understand anything that requires deep thought or subtlety. But by god, he can get up in front of a camera and read some words aloud and almost pretend he understands all the bullshit he's saying.

But fool me-can't get fooled again.