TIME: Not easy picking George Bush's worst moment last week

[Bluebear]

"Dipping his toe into disaster"

It isn't easy picking George Bush's worst moment last week.

Was it his first go at addressing the crisis Wednesday, when he came across as cool to the point of uncaring?

Was it when he said that he didn't "think anybody expected" the New Orleans levees to give way, though that very possibility had been forecast for years?

Was it when he arrived in Mobile, Alabama, a full four days after the storm made landfall, and praised his hapless Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) director, Michael D. Brown, whose disaster credentials seemed to consist of once being the commissioner of the International Arabian Horse Association?

"Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job," said the President......

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/09/05/bush.missteps.tm/

[Kerrytravelers]

1. Not easy picking George Bush's worst moment... HIS ENTIRE LIFE

His entire, shelfish, needy, arrogant life.

[Bluebear]

2. True that! nt

[Arkansas Democrat]

3. The guy is a LOSER

Why do some of his fellow repubs even stick with him?? I'm amazed how they make him smell like a rose no matter what he does.

[MadeinOhio]

5. Because they didn't want to smell too...Now I think they're changing tune.

Keep the full heat on those guys until they really get pissed off and we're hearing the I word......
http://www.conservativeusa.org/mega-cong.htm

[AbbyR]

11. Do you think they are?

I've been wondering, considering the way the media is taking this issue on, if perhaps even the repugs are falling away. Heaven forbid they be painted with the same brush that is slapping the boy idiot right now.

[stopwastingmymoney]

32. Why do they stick with him?

I'm thinking that Rove has blackmail files on all of them

[calimary]

34. Either that, or they know they stand to get an anthrax letter like Tom

Daschle and Patrick Leahy did. And the National Enquirer, too. Ever wonder why they never touch bush-anything, not even stories about Drunk and Disorderly (the twins)? One of those anthrax letters, way back when, was sent to the photographer who took one of the shameful photos of "spirited" young Jenna and Barbara falling down drunk in public at some rowdy club. He later died. Who wants to stick his or her neck out for that? If nothing else, it at least buys their silence.

But if bushie-boy is considered really damaged goods, and they risk more by standing by him than by divorcing themselves from him, they'll pull away. There is no real loyalty. It's "what have you done for me lately?" If they think he's gonna be poison, they'll avoid him like the dirty water in New Orleans.

[Melodybe]

7. Gee, I would have to go with his Nero impression or his Marie Antoinette

moment.

Funny that time doesn't mention either.

[Bluebear]

23. pretty damning article though

Escpecially from TIME who has been kissing his butt until now.

[Eurobabe]

4. why is this idiot still on this planet??

didn't his mission to mars sail last week? he shoulda been on it.

[mattclearing]

6. Brownie? n/t

[Bluebear]

9. Brown, head of FEMA. Disasters bring out the jovial "W"

...who calls people by diminuitive nicknames to make himself feel more important.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

21. The attempted joviality is a nervous reaction to stress.

If you listen, there are lots of stress points in Bush's speaking.

[Hamlette]

15. yeah, Brownie, that was horrid. Apparently that is Bush's nick name for

Mike Brown, head of FEMA. I don't want to be reminded that Bush gives people juvenile nick names. Like the frat boy he is.

ARG

But it was a great article. Nice to see everyone on his back. Yeah, I know, long past time.

I don't believe it will happen but there would be some irony if Katrina brought him and his horrid selfish pious party down. Global warming brings down Bush, the thing he doesn't even believe in. You can't make this stuff up.

[TahitiNut]

19. It's called a "DIMINUTIVE" ... a name that DIMINISHES another.

"Kenny Boy" ... "Turdblossom" ... you name it. Even though we might agree because we detest those upon whom he's bestowed these diminutives, it doesn't undermine the fact that he obsessively strives to demean and diminish others while inflating himself. It's the behavior of a pathological narcissist.

[Bluebear]

26. Indeed TN. n/t

[calimary]

35. It's also a power trip. He can call 'em some cutesy nickname and they

still have to call him "Mr. President." Kinda like the way the master converses with "the help." Nobody allowed to quip - "hey, georgie-boy," or "you're right, asshole," or "okay, JUNIOR," or "right away, chowder-head" or "yes, sir, Pendejo Pequeno" (sorry if I misspelled that one...). Maybe "Pendejo Primero"?

[Infomaniac]

8. I had no trouble

I think the Drunk's worst moment was his reminiscing about his party days in New Orleans. The remarks were totally inappropriate considering the occasion.

[Mizmoon]

28. Bingo

that and Condie's shop shopping, broadway hopping trip. Why should she go back to Washington just because an American city has been destroyed?

[DoYouEverWonder]

10. That's a good way to frame it

It is hard to pick his worst moment from last week. Was it the guitar playing, the cake eating, the overnighter at the fancy resort, the lack of caring throughout....

Gee I can't pick just one.

[oxbow]

12. Just like Lays Potato chips! (only disgusting)

[tanyev]

13. What strikes me as so bizarre is that I believe that you could

just change the details and write this same article about their response on 9/11. Yet back then, he was hailed as a hero, and now for some reason the pixie dust ain't working anymore. Not looking a gift horse in the mouth, but I continue to be flabbergasted.

[Imagevision]

14. BUSH'S NIGHTMARE HAS JUST BEGUN...!

http://downingstreetmemo.com/

[Bernardo de La Paz]

25. Vacation's Over

[phiddle]

16. But it is easy picking America's worst moment of this millenium:

Bush's selection by the Supremes 12-12-2000. Oh, what misery has followed!

[calimary]

36. I've wondered about that myself. These "people" TOOK power under

such a cloud of bad karma that - well, maybe that's the backwash we're all getting. They came in under a dark cloud. Bad omen. Very bad start. I remember when it had been "settled" by the Supreme Court, and he was about to make his big entrance in the Texas statehouse or something, introduced by the token Democrat - the then-speaker of the Texas legislature (a PR attempt to show how well and how inclusively he worked with us ALL and how he represented EVERYBODY), and as everyone was waiting for him to arrive for his Kodak moment, I felt such a powerful sense of foreboding. Just a serious, powerful sense of foreboding. Don't know how else to describe it. I knew something wicked this way would come. It just felt really really bad. Couldn't put my finger on it, and at the time I just brushed it off as merely being bummed because my guy lost. But I'll never forget it. It was this deep-seated sense of dread, foreboding - like "uh-oh, here comes trouble. This is NOT gonna be good."

[senseandsensibility]

17. That did me good!

Please nominate.

[gollygee]

18. That is a damning article

very strong.

[Bluebear]

22. "Too often, W. looked annoyed."

"Too often, W. looked annoyed. Or he smiled when he should have been serious. Or he swaggered when simple action would have been the right move."

[unblock]

20. "dipping his TOE"??? the boy king dove HEAD FIRST into disaster!

his widdle toe is the only thing NOT under water at this point!

[ellenfl]

24. quite simply, the reason that * didn't adequately respond to the

disaster in no is because his brain was on vacation, literally.

ellen fl

[calimary]

37. Well, that's how it evidently is, all the time. Out to lunch. What is also

VERY bad management here is the idea that all the big, key people are on vacation AT THE SAME TIME. I mean, hell, the president and vice president aren't even supposed to be in the same airplane at the same time time. During the State of the Union address, one key person (like a cabinet member) always stays back home minding the store while all the other bigshots go to Capitol Hill for the evening. So, to have all these people out of commission and nobody significant on duty - VERY bad. bush and cheney should NEVER take vacation at the same time. No president and veep should do that. I don't care what kind of big-cheese executives they are that they think they're both owed the month of August. They're doing the People's Business, on the People's Nickel. Someone needs to be minding the store.

It's also illuminating to see how worthless he is unless all his handlers are close by. Hello? TIME Magazine? Um - anybody home? This doesn't bother you at all? You're only now noticing he's a sock puppet without all his handlers? What everyone's seen is bush as pasteurized-process-cheese-food-product. They've never seen him doing the "let bush be bush." It's always handled, managed, cleaned up, dressed up, homogenized, coached, tutored, and packaged by some PR janitor. THIS is what george is. This pathetic, puny shell of a guy. You think that "performance" after 9/11 was the genuine guy? I submit what you've been seeing lately from bush, his off-his-game, deer-in-the-headlights, clueless, insensitive, shallow, arrogant, jokester schtick - THAT'S the real bush.

[ellenfl]

39. give the other guys a break! dubya is on vacation so

often that the others would never get a vacation if they had to wait 'til he was back in town! :shrug:

ellen fl

[leftchick]

27. I think saying" We are Going to build Trent a FANTASTIC house"

was pretty fucking revolting. A fucking repuke MILLIONARE will get his MANSION on our dime :puke:

But it is hard to choose just one. fuck bush.

[cmd]

31. That one sticks out in my mind, too. n/t

[Flying Dream Blues]

29. The wheels are coming off...finally. nt

[jmatthan]

30. Bob Herbert had an op-ed in today's NY Times

on this point,

"A Failure of Leadership",

but I sent him an email:

"Great article - but wrong on one point"

http://jmpolitics.blogspot.com/2005/09/bob-herbert-great-article-but-wrong-on.html

[geniph]

33. To me, that's easy

that's when he was pretending to play git-tar while people were dying. Yukking it up instead of doing his fucking JOB.

[LeahD]

38. May we NEVER forget! n/t