Not surprisingly, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd had strong words about President Bush’s behavior at the Group of Eight summit: "No matter what the trappings or the ceremonies require of the leader of the free world, he brings the same DKE bearing and cadences, the same insouciance and smart-alecky attitude, the same simplistic approach — swearing, swaggering, talking to Tony Blair with his mouth full of buttered roll, and giving a startled Angela Merkel an impromptu shoulder rub. He can make even a global summit meeting seem like a kegger."
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Some of us grew up after our childish fraternity days. Apparently some did not.
Maureen definitely has his number.
That’s a 0, isn’t it?
Gary Trudeau, the cartoonist who does “Doonesbury”, went to college at Yale with George W. Bush. Trudeau recalls that Bush’s greatest talent as a frat brother was his ability to estimate the amount of beer that needed to be purchased for keg parties. From that high distintion to leader of the free world. Is America great, or what?
What do you know…
Could this be the editorial board simply bringing news here for us bloggers to discuss or yet another blatant show of the complete bias against this President by none other than Rhonda Holman?
Perhaps you could answer that one for me Phillip?
(Yes I know you don’t respond, I don’t expect you too, just think about it.)
Well Nathan,
I’d say the opinion of most Americans that bush is an embarrassing, bumbling, fool is a worthy topic for the forum. Now I KNOW it is getting almost impossible for you to defend bush……in that last you didn’t even try.But the board picks topics they feel people wish to discuss. This qualifies.
Yeah, Nathan, those big mean journalists.
Because after all, Bush didn’t make himself look like a dumbass or anything.
It’s the liberal media, they’re all against him!
I love the look of the other diplomats and aides when the see Bush giving a sneaky and unwanted back rub to the German PM. They look, register amazement, then discretely look away.
They’re EMBARRASSED FOR THE GUY.
Is he getting drunk again, do you think?
I think he’s hitting it again.
Listen to the way he talks. It’s like a drunk guy trying to sound sober . . .
a little nose candt perhaps?
There is no discussion here, no argument…
All I see here is a bunch of baseless name calling and generalizations.
I would have more reason to try to explain to a 2nd grader why I am not a doo doo head than try to engage in a discussion with any of you here on this topic.
Just a little fun nathan … similar to that which the Righties enjoyed against Clinton.
You can’t take Bush anywhere without him making an ass of himself in public. And trying to cop a feel, for Christ sake!Like the bumper sticker says, “A village somewhere in Texas is missing it’s Idiot”.
Now There’s one for the ‘Gripper’, what a cad.
I dont like the guy, but the mouthful of food and swearing really didnt bother me. He wasnt talking in a formal ceremony, or conducting a speech. Big deal hes human (somewhat anyway). And they were cooking pig last week.
Now the backrub, thats a little uncalled for.
If I were to obtain the office, I wouldnt be so up-tight and stiff. You would catch me wearing my classic Adidas canvas with my 3000 dollar suit.
“Listen to the way he talks. It’s like a drunk guy trying to sound sober . . .”
Kind of like your writing.
Nathan?
“a bunch of baseless name calling”?
Well hell I thought that was right where you lived! My experience anyway!
And you STILL didn’t manage a defense of bush!
No points this round.—–
Here’s some still shots of the Gripper in action http://www.taylormarsh.com/archives_view.php?id=24262
GREAT PICTURES!
You all realize Bush can’t be re-elected so all your efforts at bashing him are waste of time. Right?
You realize Bush doesn’t have to be elected?
Good catch Steve!!
In the first picture, bush looks like a crazed stalker!
MORE fun on that link is a respose from a conservative Texan which I cutnpaste below
“Bush is a Texan. Texans hug one another, kiss one another, place their hands on other’s shoulders, and give hand squeezes all the time. You libs are always talking about understanding the culture of others and it’s time for you to start understanding Texas culture. We’re not cold and frigid like you Yankees are.”
Oh and LRB? bush is reduced to a charicature as a leader. You’ll forgive us if we bash by association those who still support him.
Stupid is as stupid does!
Pres. Bush has neither knowledge or an interest in history,politics,or current events.Our children’s future means nothing to him. In his mind, he can justify his hatred for people by convincing himself that his “christian” ideas are worth all the $ and blood and bones strewn all over Iraq!Bush loves$$$.
Well, all -BlogMom thinks Pres. Bush is a lot stupider than youse folks think he is. He is not smart enough to get into a condum (and neither was his father, otherwise, GWB wouldn’t have been born), much less to think up a lot of conspiracies to hurt us TRUE Americans.
Let us all just send him back quietly to Tejas. Okay?
Steve,
Great pix! Thanks for sharing.
Look at his face, especially his eyes, in each of those photos. Zoned out. My guess is not booze. Drugs. Maybe they medicated him before they sent him into the room?
JR,Having spent several years living among the Kansas rednecks, I probably have some understanding if the Texas variety. It’s not a difference of substance, just degree of redneckness.Most of what we perceive as touchy-feely is really a form of communication used in place of verbal discourse- which most rednecks find just too difficult, although they attempt it frequently and clumsily. In those pictures, Bush is not involved in redneck mating rituals; he is simply trying to express an emotional connection which he deludes himself into believing already exists. He is saying “Deep down, we both fully agree with me.”
RD,While the redneck drug of choice is usually meth, They often get that look of utter bewilderment without having to resort to chemistry. It just comes naturally.
I thought the same thing, that he was LOOPED when he was chawing and swearing with his boy tony. I thought drunk that night.
But the dazed, wild haired (cynthia mckinney anyone?) wild eyed look on his face when he mashed merkel looks more drug induced.
Seriously, I think he was drunk/high the whole trip. He looks, sounds, and acts like a drunken frat boy, and all the spin in the world cant change that.
Who you gonna believe? Nathan or the pictures? hehehehehe Bush? Or those lying eyes of yours?
Seems like the Chicks had it right when they said they were deeply ashamed that the preznit hailed from Texas. Even TEXANS wont claim him with that kind of behavior.
And neither will the rest of the nation. Or the rest of the world.
Worst.president.ever.
Cocain abuse has lasting after effects, even if the drug abuser cuts down or quits. Relapse is also very common.
Bush is a real “Texan”. Born in Connecticut. Spent his early years in Midland, Texas, among Yankee oil developers. Prepped at Andover. College at Yale. Grad school at Harvard. Had a Yankee accent until losing a 1980 congressional race in Texas, after which he studied Texas dialect and acquired an artificial “Texas” accent.
Score one for the New York Times Maureen Dowd, zero for the Commander in Chief.Dowd has a firm command of the English language. Bush may have a Texas drawl but he sure doesn’t speak “Texan”, nor have a command of the English language. His grammatical goof ups, lack of manners, and his impromptu screw ups are an embarrassment to all the upstanding, educated, thinking people of the US.
“You all realize Bush can’t be re-elected so all your efforts at bashing him are waste of time. Right?”
LRB, Shhhhhhhh!!!
Let them continue in their little world while they continue to help the right side.
Bush is the party leader.
Anything that hurts Bush also hurts the party he represents.
That’s why the right-wing-nuts went impeached Clinton even though he couldn’t run again.
You know it. We know it.
Quit lying.
The Wichita Eagle might as well quote the opinions of Al-Jazeera.The New York Times is a treasonous rag and can be ignored.Good grief, Clinton was accused of gross misconduct by several women. I have not heard a complaint by the German politician, have you?The Times is at war with Bush, and will never put Bush in a good light. Even if it means helping our enemies in a real war, the Times will do it to bring down Bush.
bush does a real good job bringing down HIMSELF. Also the economy, regulations against polluters, Americans trust in thier government, global opinion of America…….
Good on the Times for keeping us informed!
ROFLMAO!!!!
Paul, you are too funny!!!
Are you sure you are not Jon Stewart playing like Steven Colbert?
meme alert!!!
“The Wichita Eagle might as well quote the opinions of Al-Jazeera.The New York Times is a treasonous rag and can be ignored.”
Wow, that sounds so much like nathan it is scary….
Paul likes to wrap himself in the flag and hollar “treason” and “America-hater” – it beats trying to think.
meme alert
“you are either with us or against us”
Why do you hate america?
Why do you love the terrorists?
IT is the MEDIA’s fault? No, wait, it is CLINTON’s fault?
No, the media!
Damn, it is hard when there is so much blame to go around and only so many scape goats to carry it.
So which is it Paul? I mean, we KNOW it isnt the preznit’s fault! Is it
a. clinton did itb. the liberal NYT did itc. the liberal media did itd. pick an alternate scapegoat here
hee hee hee. Where DO you get your talking points Paul?
KFG -I thought I read somewhere that sunflares caused abnormal behavior in otherwise rational beings – so the sunflares did it!!!
WASHINGTON, May 11 – President Bush appears to be losing support among a key group of voters who had hitherto stood firmly with the president even as his poll numbers among other groups fell dramatically.
A new Gallup poll shows that, for the first time, Bush’s approval rating has fallen below 50% among total f***ing morons, and now stands at 44%. This represents a dramatic drop compared to a poll taken just last December, when 62% of total f***ing morons expressed support for the president and his policies.
The current poll, conducted by phone with 1,409 total f***ing morons between May 4 and May 8, reveals that only 44% of those polled believe the president is doing a good job, while 27% believe he is doing a poor job and 29% don’t understand the question.
The December poll, conducted by phone with 1,530 total f***ing morons, showed 62% approved of the president, 7% disapproved and 31% didn’t understand the question.
Faltering approval ratings for the president among a group once thought to be a reliable source of loyal support gives Republicans one more reason to be nervous about the upcoming mid-term elections.
“If we can’t depend on the support of total f***ing morons,” says Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA), “then we’ve got a big problem. They’re a key factor in our electoral strategy, and an important part of today’s Republican coalition.”
“We’ve taken the total f***ing moron vote for granted,” says Rep. Tom Feeney (R-FL), “and now we’re paying for it. We’ve let the Democrats control the debate lately, and they’ve dragged discourse back into the realm of complex, nuanced issues. So your average total f***ing moron turns on his TV and sees his Republican Congressman arguing about Constitutional law or the complexities of state formation in the Middle East, and he tunes out. He wants to hear comforting, pandering, flattering bromides and he doesn’t want to hear a logical argument more complex than what you’d find on a bumper sticker.”
For Feeney, the poll is a dire warning that Republicans can ignore only at their peril. “This should send a signal that we have to regain control of the debate if we want the support of our key constituencies in the coming election and beyond. We need to bring public discourse back into the realm of stupidity and vacuity. We should be talking about homosexual illegal immigrants burning flags. We should be talkingabout the power of pride. We should be talking about freedom fries.These are the issues that resonate with total f***ing morons.”
But some total f***ing morons say it’s too late. Bill Snarpel of Enid, Oklahoma is a total f***ing moron who voted for Bush in both 2000 and 2004. But he says he won’t be voting for Bush in 2008.
“I don’t like it that he was going to sell our ports to the Arabs. Ifthe Arabs own the ports then that means they’ll let all the Arabs in and then we’ll all be riding camels and wearing towels on our heads. Idon’t want my children singing the Star Spangled Banner in Muslim.”
Total f***ing moron Kurt Meyer of Turlock, California also says his once solid support for Bush has collapsed. “He invaded Iraq and all those soldiers died, and for what? We destroyed all their WMDs, but now their new president is making fun of us and saying he’s going to build nuclear bombs and that we can’t stop him. Well, nuclear bombs are even worse than WMDs, so what did we accomplish?”
Laura McDonald, a total f***ing moron from Chandler, Arizona, says she is disappointed that the president hasn’t been a more forceful advocate of Christian values. “This country was founded on Christian values,” she says, “but you’d never know it looking around and seeing all the Mexicans running around.
I thought Bush was going to bring Jesus back into the government.Instead, Christians are being persecuted worse than ever before in history, because all these Mexicans come here and tell Christians that we have to respect their religious beliefs. So now it’s illegal for children to pray in school. Soon it will be illegal for them to speakEnglish.”
Not all total f***ing morons have turned their backs on the president. Jeb Larkin of Topeka, Kansas says he still fully supports Bush. “He is doing a great job. He is a great president. He is a great decider. I have a puppy. His tail sticks straight up and you can see his b***hole.”
And not all Republican lawmakers are concerned about the poll. Sen.Lamar Alexander (R-TN), for one, does not find it a cause for anxiety. While he agrees that his party should not take total f***ing morons for granted, they “really don’t have anywhere else to go. They’re never going to be able to understand someone like Al Gore or John Kerry or anybody intelligent and articulate who wants to talk about substantive issues. Just try having a conversation with one of them about global warming. They’ll say, ‘Oh, but Rush says volcanoes consume more ozone than humans do.’I mean, they’re morons! Total f***ing morons!”
“They’ve got nowhere else to go,” Alexander reaffirms with a smile, “and they always vote.”
TOO FUNNY!!!
Too true?
That is the biggest laugh I have had in awhile!
Damn, do the righties hate Main Stream Media, it’s so, well, main stream! It doesn’t veer to the right and defy all logic by running up hill.