Is the man back on the sauce? What parallel universe is Dear Leader in? (CNN):
“The security situation is changing,” Bush told reporters during the visit. “There's more work to be done. But reconciliation is taking place.”Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey of Workers' World wasn't subtle in his commentary:But according to the Sydney Morning Herald of Australia, the president gave a more-to-the-point assessment to Australia Deputy Prime Minister Mark Vaile.
“We're kicking ass,” Bush said to Vaile Tuesday, according the Herald, after the deputy prime minister inquired about his trip to Iraq. On Thursday, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino would not confirm or deny the reported comment.
If “kicking ass” is creating a scenario whereby billions and billions of dollars (and Congress is today being presented with requests for more) of the US citizens' hard-earned wages are poured into a black hole of corruption (the Iraqi govenment, which dares not to venture beyond the refines of the Green Zone in Baghdad), if “kicking ass” is targeting civilian structures with military hardware, then George Bush proves that he indeed reunites the worst qualities of the cowboy clown-statesman the world feared back in 2000.The best part are the comments left at the CNN article. Those are after the jump.
Who's the horse's ass now?
If “kicking ass” means thousands of innocent people are dying because of his greed, then we must be kicking ass.An aside — it looks like Bush's economy is kicking ass as well: US housing woes deepen as delinquencies, foreclosures rise.
Posted By Ace, Orange Count California : September 6, 2007 5:38 pmI'm glad to hear that the President is so down to earth and can tell it like it is.
Posted By Jarred, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma : September 6, 2007 5:38 pmHe's the president of the most powerful nation on Earth and he says, “We're kicking ass,” like he's talking about a Texas high school football team.
Posted By Logan, Huntington, WV : September 6, 2007 5:38 pmAnother crude comment from a fool cowboy who causes other people to die, but who can't even prove he served his time in the military!
Posted By Ross, Manlius, NY : September 6, 2007 5:38 pmReally? How many Troops have died in this senseless war again?
Posted By Becky, Euless, TX : September 6, 2007 5:41 pmWhose ass? The American peoples'?
Posted By bvt, Elko, Nevada : September 6, 2007 5:41 pm“We're kicking ass,”, “Fantastic Freedom Institute” and “replenish ol' coffers”. Can he get any more adolescent?
Posted By Arkay, Detrot, MI : September 6, 2007 5:41 pmand people wonder why the US is not taken seriously in the world, when our 'leader' is making statements that sound like something out of a bad action movie. He's not the brightest guy.
Posted By John, Green Bay Wisconsin : September 6, 2007 5:44 pmVery classy, Mr. President. We need less tough talking cowboy hyperbole and more reason and logic in your approach to this mess you have created.
Posted By Mark, Holmen, Wisconsin : September 6, 2007 5:45 pmNo, Mr. President. We are not “kicking ass” in Iraq. Only a moron would make a comment like this. I rest my point.
Posted By Josh Maloney, Oakland, CA : September 6, 2007 5:51 pmDid we hear that right, George? “Kicking ass?”
Our men and women certainly have had successes, but your deceitful and toxic policies are to blame for the thousands of dead and wounded that were sent their because of your lies. And let's not forgot what you have done to Iraq and its citizens–hundreds of thousands dead and wounded, millions displaced, sectarian violence that is reminiscent of the Middle Ages. Childhoods robbed and lives forever altered because you like to “Kick Ass.”Kicking ass, indeed! What a misguided simpleton we have as president. My fingers won't allow me to even spell president (this one anyway) with a capital p. W, you are disgraceful.
Jim Arnold
Posted By Jim Arnold, Germantown, TN : September 6, 2007 5:51 pmThere's that cowboy we all love so much.
Kicking who's ass, exactly? The American taxpayer's ass?
Posted By Kris, Toronto : September 6, 2007 5:52 pmWould like to say I am surprised … but I am not. This has to be the most foolish president in the history of the United States.
Posted By Hank, Palm Springs, CA : September 6, 2007 5:52 pmwoohoo Go Army, Airforce, Navy & Marines!
Posted By Badonkadonk, Houston, Texas : September 6, 2007 6:00 pmPresident Bush is out of control and continues to be completely oblivious to the facts, i.e., the NIE report, the GAO report, reporters on the ground in Iraq, etc. At some point, he needs to be held accountable for his continued incompetence and refusal to be truthful with himself and the American people. His behavior is unacceptable.
Posted By john p breen, freeport, new york : September 6, 2007 6:09 pmWell it looks like we won't have to wait for Gen. Petraeus' report since Bush has already announced “we're kicking ass”.
Posted By Farrell, Houston, Tx : September 6, 2007 6:09 pmAnother completely insensitive, inappropriate and inaccurate comment from our incompetent and insane leader.
Were we kicking ass when some of our people shot up a bunch of Iraqi women, and children? Are we kicking ass when we torture prisoners? Are we kicking ass when the government we set up is half gone?
Someone should kick Bush's ass. If given the opportunity, I would be first in line.
Posted By Clint, Menlo Park, CA : September 6, 2007 6:10 pm
The Mortgage Bankers Association, which represents banks and other firms in real estate finance, said delinquencies rose in the second quarter to 5.12 percent of loans on one-to-four-unit residential properties, up from 4.84 percent in the prior quarter.The delinquency rate does not count another 1.4 percent of loans in the foreclosure process in the April-June period, also up from the first quarter.
Moreover, an additional 0.65 percent of loans entered the foreclosure process, the highest in the history of the survey.
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Instead of “Iraq,” he meant “Madden ‘08 on the XBox 360.”
I think me meant “We’re kicking Mass.”, as in Massachusetts… They should expect to be invaded any day now for their homo-lovin’ ways.
“Is the man back on the sauce?”
Well duh…
Whether it’s plain old-fashioned alcohol or the self-intoxicating glow of his natural greatness, immense leadership ability (not to mention his immense codpiece), or his magnetic charisma (cough!), it’s pretty obvious he’s “back on the sauce”…
I don’t really think this is the sort of language that is appropriate to political discourse.Mr. bush is officially the Beverly Hillbilly-president.Or maybe Flodder-president.He lacks the faintest trace of decency or dignity.I feel so sorry for you Americans to be associated with this pathetic excuse for a human being.
Bush: “We’re fucking up Iraq!”
Fixed that for you, Dubya. Delusional, immature dipshit. And he’s sixty?!
I guess the nice part might be
that these comments were
posted AT one of the Administration’s
great -sneakier-mouthpieces…CNN
“We’re kicking ass.”
(The verbal equivalent of the flight suit.)
I can’t even get mad anymore. I just get filled with despair.
If this is kicking ass, I’d hate to see what losing looks like.
In a related story, when asked how we were doing in Afghanistan, Bush replied, “Keep on Truckin’”
More related stories:
When someone shouted out Bush’s name, Bush replied, “Yeah, that’s my name, don’t wear it out.”
When a reporter questioned him on a certain policey, Bush replied, “Up your nose with a rubber hose.”
When at a family dinner, Bush accidently farted a silent killer, Bush said “He who smelt it dealt it.”
I could go on, but you get the point.
What a fucking clown.
This is an ass kicking contest. Of course we are kicking ass. The problem is that we are getting kicked, as well. In the end [!], the question will be, Who has the toughest ass?
This man has the greatest ability to deny reality I’ve ever seen in anyone this side of a mental institution.
This reminds me of the scene in Liar, Liar where Jim Carrey says “I’m kicking my ass! Do you mind?”
OT, but if you want a wacky wingnut anti-gay/antifeminism combo that’s been around for a long time and still cranking away, google “Dale O’leary” for head-asplodey goodness…
The man is an ass. Which leads to an obvious next step.
As if that’s not enough, he’s humiliating the US in Australia.
I keep remembering the 2000 campaign where the press wrote about how likable Shrub was and how obnoxious Gore for remembering the names of world leaders, etc. Thanks a lot, sycophants.
See the dems cower, cave & eqivocate lately? FISA cave? War funding w/o conditions? Bush IS kicking ass, winning spectacularly at his REAL WAR - the one against democrats & liberals. Those poor folks in Iran (ours & theirs)? All the stolen billions? Window dressing, nothing more…
When I first read this I had to check I was not reading the Onion.
Are they even trying anymore to make up decent propaganda catch phrases? Was that Rove’s job? Or did they just give up because they knew everyone was going to laugh at them anyway? Or are the only pro-Bush supporters left 13-year old pimple faced boys that have every line of the Terminator movies memorized?
Once again: What was all that noise about “restoring honor and dignity to the White House” back in ‘00 about??
Matt M: Well, the other question would be, does anyone really end up any better off in an ass kicking contest than if they’d never played the game?
This must be what kicking ass looks like from the ground. I sat at my desk and wept when I read this post. So sad, but it is good to hear from Riverbend
I have always maintained that Bush’s biggest liability is galringly obvious - he’s never received a good old-fashioned ass-whuppin’. Oh sure, Bar smacked his behind a few times, that’s not what I mean. I’m talking about a knock-down, drag-out, old-school fistfight - deadlocked headlock, etc. It’s obvious he’s never had to stand up for himself, and I’ve no doubt that handled schoolyard taunts with all the amplomb of Anthony Soprano Jr. The wimpi-ness that is his birthright is only exceeded by his sheer stupidity.
Unfortunately, that’s the point. At no point in his life has he EVER had to take responsibility or act like a grown-up. His family and their name and their wealth have always cushioned him from unemployment and from failing at every business his daddy’s cronies could stick him in.
As someone else pointed out, real ranchers don’t cut brush for *fun*.
He’s bored now. Wants to be baseball commissioner. That’ll be fun. Not like this war, which isn’t as much fun as it was supposed to be.
The loss of human life means NOTHING to this man. No one he knows has died over there, and Iraqi civilians are heathens anyway.
Bring on the rapture, baby!
(El Tiburon, I loved it–Bush as Vinnie Barbarino! It would be funny if it weren’t true.)
[Mr. bush is officially the Beverly Hillbilly-president]
Hey! resident_alien! Whatcha got against Jed Clampett?? Just a poor moutaineer, barely kept his family fed…
Although I think Shrub must have banged his head on the ‘cee-ment pond’ at one point…
This is an ass kicking contest. Of course we are kicking ass. The problem is that we are getting kicked, as well. In the end [!], the question will be, Who has the toughest ass?
No, I think it’s “Who *is* the biggest ass” and, sadly for the States, the answer is obvious.
darms, did you mean Iran? because i think that was a slip-up bush (or cheney) would love for us to keep making. we’ll protest less when it happens if we think we had invaded Iran already.
See the dems cower, cave & eqivocate lately? FISA cave? War funding w/o conditions? Bush IS kicking ass, winning spectacularly at his REAL WAR - the one against democrats & liberals. Those poor folks in Ira[q] (ours & theirs)? All the stolen billions? Window dressing, nothing more…
Unfortunately, I think this is basically it.
People like us tend to usually be puzzled by this constant Republican insinuation that all we need to do in Iraq is believe we’re winning. If you don’t believe with all your might that we’re winning in Iraq, if you question whether progress is being made, then you are causing us to lose. This sounds to us like obvious nonsense– the failure will go away if we just act like it isn’t there? We tend to look at this idea, when it comes up, as some kind of cynical political ploy, and we usually describe it as the “clap harder” strategy.
What I think we occasionally miss is that on this one, Bush at least actually buys into his own BS. He really does think all he needs to do to win is believe he’s winning. It’s his domestic political strategy– believe in yourself hard enough and the world will be cowed into playing along– and it’s apparently his foreign policy strategy as well. And in the domestic politics arena, it really is working. Time and again Bush refuses to compromise and charges forward blindly, and time and again the Democrats just shrug and get out of his way. Meanwhile in Iraq this same sort of strategy is leading to nothing but constantly escalating death and chaos, but hey, Bush feels like he’s winning, and that’s all that matters, right?
More macho bluster, of course. Dubya is still the leader of choice for the overgrown kindergarteners who run this country.
I’ve become convinced that conservative manhood — not only in America, but around the world — is having some sort of a nervous breakdown.
But of course, they’d only blame those evil, terrorist feminazis from outer space…
Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie sang a song in the 1990’s that sums up the Bush foreign policy in the 2000’s; I give you the Kickin’ Ass-Song
:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=K9IvT7RF2QM
I find this song fits perfectly…
Laura Penny, in her terrific book “Your Call is Important to Us: The Truth About Bullshit,” said that bullshitters are more dangerous than liars, b/c liars at least *care* about the truth, even when they’re not telling it, and bullshitters don’t.
Blue Jean:
I was just about to link to his performance in Australia, too. It really does look like he’s either on the bottle, or off his meds.
Additionally, some of us here in Aust. are also not happy with Bush’s unsubtle and overt favouritism towards Howard with our federal election approaching. He’s described him as ‘courageous’ and ‘wise’ and implied that his critics shouldn’t count him out in the upcoming election - perhaps he hasn’t been paying attention to the popularity polls lately.
If Bush is hoping to influence Australian voters to vote a certain way, I think it will backfire on him - plenty of people were pissed off when the Ambassador Schieffer had the gall to interfere in the last one.
Funky Cthulhu: Why would he pay attention to Australia’s poll numbers? From what we hear, he didn’t even think the American poll numbers leading up to November 2006 were important.
Interesting article, Randy, thanks for the link.
Liked Fry and Laurie so much better as Jeeves and Wooster, but I’m also a die-hard PG Wodehouse nut.
All hail the club-tongued layabout! Really, didn’t everyone want to know what it would be like if the world’s only nukuler superpower was run by Governor Le Petomane?
In a democracy it is pointless to, having once (twice actually) elected your leader, say you don’t agree with that leader’s policies and actions on the most important matters. So:
1) The destruction of Iraq, its historic architecture, its infrastructure and the mass killing of helpless Iraqi citizenry, by seriously ass-kicking heavily-armed foreign troops, is the heartfelt wish of the American people, or
2) The president has been allowed to assumed the mantle of dictator to pursue a foreign war by a sterile, disinterested, deviously manipulated, somnolent, disenfranchised populace, or
3) Americans and American TV shows and films are predominantly violent. America thrives on violence. It is the nature of the beast. It is in the blood. America will search far and wide to find a warm body to put a bullet or knife into, or stick a bloody bayonet up, and if there is no suitable focus of hate close to home, it will prod and poke a percieved enemy so as to make itself the target of some outrage thus justifying its starting another bloody, man-and-weaponry-testing war to maintain the great American ethos of biggest, most feared, bully on the block.