rssGeorge W. Bush Will Not Be President in 100 Hours
Friday, January 16, 2009 at 9:05 am
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I didn’t watch President George W. Bush’s valedictory speech. As it happens, I was at my gym, using one of the elliptical machines with the personal TV screens. I flipped to MSNBC, not mindful of the time, and then all of a sudden Bush was on the screen, mashed up, thanks to my iPod, with a Screeching Weasel song. The women using the machines next to mine shot me brief but clearly disdainful expressions. I changed the channel.
So I didn’t see the speech. Read it if you feel so inclined. It’s hard to remember, but in 2000, Bush’s campaign plane was called Accountability One. Nearly nine years later, his speech is about why he shouldn’t be judged by his disastrous results, but instead by what was in his heart.
If there’s any real parting gift that George W. Bush has given conservatives, it’s that they can no longer use Jimmy Carter’s presidency as a laugh line. Carter never seriously argued that his presidency succeeded because only 3000 people died from terrorism on American soil while he was president. Indeed, the speech’s most inspiring stories are about people who persevered despite his policies:
We see America’s character in Dr. Tony Recasner, a principal who opened a new charter school from the ruins of Hurricane Katrina … We’ve seen it in Staff Sergeant Aubrey McDade, who charged into an ambush in Iraq and rescued three of his fellow Marines.
Maybe Dave will have more to say about the speech. Even without seeing it, I kind of like the verdict delivered by this TPM reader:
Watching this speech reminds me of when I listened to my high school principal speak for the first time after I graduated. He still sounded crazy but no longer scared me.
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Comment posted January 16, 2009 @ 8:19 am
Your comments are disgusting to say the very least. Especially coming from some moron who didn't even watch the speech yet feels some graet urge to write about it. Maybe you were too busy swooning over Chris Mathews another disgusting slime ball. You news media type are so out of touch with true Americans. I've talked to Democrats and Republicans alike, all thought it was a good speech. But, who are we. We're not the elitist press who think they have a grasp on what the world thinks or feels. It's obvious you are a Bush hater. Just be honest enough and intellectual enough to admit that up front instead of acting as if you know the pulse of the nation.
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Comment posted January 16, 2009 @ 11:12 am
September 11 , 2001 happened while Bush was President. Considering how incredibly INEPT his administration was, I have no doubt they ignored all 9/11 warnings. Condolezza Rice ignored the memo about terrorists using airplanes as weapons of terror.
Also, Bush also kicked out the UN weapons inspectors, who were on the ground and DOING THEIR JOBS in his RUSH TO WAR in Iraq.
Proof?
Google:
“U.S advises weapons inspectors to leave Iraq”
Comment posted January 16, 2009 @ 1:14 pm
True Americans — at least 68 to 74% of them — thank that Bush is a disaster.
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Comment posted January 17, 2009 @ 11:46 am
Got news for you buddy. You are out of touch with true Americans. Where have you been during the last 8 years? Bush's Presidency has been nothing short of a disaster. Unless you are from Hicktown, USA, it should be obvious to you that the majority of Americans are happy to see him go.
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Comment posted March 3, 2009 @ 2:22 pm
Speaking of George W. Bush:
George W. Bush committed hate crimes of epic proportions and with the stench of terrorism (indicated in my blog).
George W. Bush did in fact commit innumerable hate crimes.
And I do solemnly swear by Almighty God that George W. Bush committed other hate crimes of epic proportions and with the stench of terrorism which I am not at liberty to mention.
Many people know what Bush did.
And many people will know what Bush did—even to the end of the world.
Bush was absolute evil.
Bush is now like a fugitive from justice.
Bush is a psychological prisoner.
Bush has a lot to worry about.
Bush can technically be prosecuted for hate crimes at any time.
In any case, Bush will go down in history in infamy.
Submitted by Andrew Yu-Jen Wang
B.S., Summa Cum Laude, 1996
Messiah College, Grantham, PA
Lower Merion High School, Ardmore, PA, 1993
“GEORGE W. BUSH IS THE WORST PRESIDENT IN U.S. HISTORY” BLOG OF ANDREW YU-JEN WANG
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I am not sure where I had read it before, but anyway, it is a linguistically excellent statement, and it goes kind of like this: “If only it were possible to ban invention that bottled up memory so it never got stale and faded.” Oh wait—off the top of my head—I think the quotation came from my Lower Merion High School yearbook.
Comment posted March 3, 2009 @ 10:22 pm
Speaking of George W. Bush:
George W. Bush committed hate crimes of epic proportions and with the stench of terrorism (indicated in my blog).
George W. Bush did in fact commit innumerable hate crimes.
And I do solemnly swear by Almighty God that George W. Bush committed other hate crimes of epic proportions and with the stench of terrorism which I am not at liberty to mention.
Many people know what Bush did.
And many people will know what Bush did—even to the end of the world.
Bush was absolute evil.
Bush is now like a fugitive from justice.
Bush is a psychological prisoner.
Bush has a lot to worry about.
Bush can technically be prosecuted for hate crimes at any time.
In any case, Bush will go down in history in infamy.
Submitted by Andrew Yu-Jen Wang
B.S., Summa Cum Laude, 1996
Messiah College, Grantham, PA
Lower Merion High School, Ardmore, PA, 1993
“GEORGE W. BUSH IS THE WORST PRESIDENT IN U.S. HISTORY” BLOG OF ANDREW YU-JEN WANG
______________________
I am not sure where I had read it before, but anyway, it is a linguistically excellent statement, and it goes kind of like this: “If only it were possible to ban invention that bottled up memory so it never got stale and faded.” Oh wait—off the top of my head—I think the quotation came from my Lower Merion High School yearbook.
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