Presidential Pompousness.
After the Democrats' stunning wins on Tuesday, capturing the House, the Senate, and 28 governorships, President Bush seemed to take a deferential tone, bowing to the will of the voters. He canned Secretary of War (er, Defense) Donald Rumsfeld, and admitted that the Republican party "took a thumping."
After months of portraying Democrats as being in bed with Osama bin Laden, Bush even promised to work with new Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and other Congressional leaders, saying this about the Democrats:
And here's how I know. At Wednesday's press conference, a reporter asked Bush if he was expecting the Republicans to lose so badly, based on the pre-election polls. Bush said this:
Oh, so that's why the Republicans got their asses handed to them. American voters are too stupid to "understand the importance" of these vital issues. We don't have the mental ability to understand that it's important to give huge tax breaks to the rich, apparently.
We don't understand the "importance of security." We don't see how the 2800 American lives lost in Iraq -- a country that had no WMDs, no ties to Al-Qaeda, and nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks -- are making America a safer place.
We're just stupid idiots, according to the president, and we don't "understand" things the way he does.
What a sanctimonious, arrogant prick.
After months of portraying Democrats as being in bed with Osama bin Laden, Bush even promised to work with new Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and other Congressional leaders, saying this about the Democrats:
"...we do agree that we love America equally, that we're concerned about the future of this country, and that we will do our very best to address big problems."And yet, it's all crap. Behind all of it, President Bush is a divider, not a uniter, and he always will be. He's a spoiled rich kid who doesn't want to share his toys, because he never had to. He doesn't want to share the governance of this nation, either.
And here's how I know. At Wednesday's press conference, a reporter asked Bush if he was expecting the Republicans to lose so badly, based on the pre-election polls. Bush said this:
"Well, there was -- I read those same polls. And believed -- I thought when it was all said and done, the American people would understand the importance of taxes and the importance of security."Let me repeat what the President said. Americans voted for a Democratic Congress because we don't "understand the importance of taxes and the importance of security."
Oh, so that's why the Republicans got their asses handed to them. American voters are too stupid to "understand the importance" of these vital issues. We don't have the mental ability to understand that it's important to give huge tax breaks to the rich, apparently.
We don't understand the "importance of security." We don't see how the 2800 American lives lost in Iraq -- a country that had no WMDs, no ties to Al-Qaeda, and nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks -- are making America a safer place.
We're just stupid idiots, according to the president, and we don't "understand" things the way he does.
What a sanctimonious, arrogant prick.
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4 Comments:
Boy you really seem to hate the President.
Do you really think everything he's done has been for selfish reasons?
Do you really think that him and all his advisors are complete idiots but some how managed to get through the top colleges in this country and rise to the level they are at now?
You said that the election was a stunning win but why? The press has been saying for years the Democrats would win. Not to mention more Republican seats were up for election.
Why didn't we talk about the economy? The low unemployment rates the record high stock market?
If you think the main stream press doesn't lean left your not being honest with yourself. Dan Rather and Walter Cronkite have already admitted to it. Just because they're afraid to swing to far to the left doesn't mean they aren't slanted that way.
As far as the war goes I think your wrong about the men and women dieing over there is for nothing. Standing up to terrorist is all they understand. Much like the Nazi party should have been dealt with long before they were. I hope we learned something from that. Our intentions in Iraq were pure. Start a democracy there that would spread through out the middle east. All people deserve to be free. This idea scares the Islamic extremist to death.
Explain this to me please, dictators kill their own people and that's ok. terrorist kill innocent people and that's ok but we kill the people that kill the innocent and we are the bad guys Huh?
Just some observations I had. Hope you don't mind. I'm just one of millions who feel this way.
I very nearly deleted this comment, as I usually do for cowards who won't leave their email address. But your assertions were so ridiculous, they needed to be answered.
Boy you really seem to hate the President.
No argument there. He has the blood of thousands on his hands.
Do you really think everything he's done has been for selfish reasons?
In Iraq? Yep. He lied to get us into Iraq, to help out his corporate pimps like Haliburton and the oil companies. He also did it for personal reasons, since Saddam Hussein tried to assassinate his father.
Do you really think that him and all his advisors are complete idiots but some how managed to get through the top colleges in this country and rise to the level they are at now?
The President an idiot? Absolutely. He got into Yale, and got through Yale, thanks to his grandfather, former Senator Prescott Bush, sitting on the Yale Board of Trustees at the time.
As for his advisors, many of them are likely intelligent, well-educated people. But they've been stifled by an Administration that doesn't like to hear bad news, doesn't welcome dissenting opinions. It's the President's way or the highway. "You're either with us, or with the terrorists." No middle ground for this guy.
You said that the election was a stunning win but why? The press has been saying for years the Democrats would win. Not to mention more Republican seats were up for election.
LOL. "Years?" Hardly. A week before the election, the mainstream press was convinced the Senate would remain in Republican hands.
As for "more Republican seats up for election," sure, in the House that was true, as the Republicans held the House and every House seat was open for re-election.
In the Senate, there were actually 17 Democratic seats up for re-election, plus one Democratic-leaning Independent, versus 15 Republican seats up for election. So in the Senate, the Democrats actually had more to lose.
There will be many more Republican Senate seats up for election in 2008, opening the GOP to more losses.
Why didn't we talk about the economy? The low unemployment rates the record high stock market?
President Bush, for better or worse, has chosen to make Iraq the centerpiece of his administration and his legacy. Unfortunately for him, the war is not going well, and it's all he'll be remembered for. Wars trump everything else as far as gaining public attention.
If you think the main stream press doesn't lean left your not being honest with yourself. Dan Rather and Walter Cronkite have already admitted to it. Just because they're afraid to swing to far to the left doesn't mean they aren't slanted that way.
Dan Rather? Walter Cronkite? Both retired, media anchors from a different century. The mainstream press is now all owned by large corporations like ABC/Disney, Hearst, Tribune, NBC/Universal, Viacom, etc. If you think that corporate America isn't conservative, and that those conservative policies don't affect their media coverage, you're a fool.
As far as the war goes I think your wrong about the men and women dieing over there is for nothing. Standing up to terrorist is all they understand. Much like the Nazi party should have been dealt with long before they were. I hope we learned something from that. Our intentions in Iraq were pure. Start a democracy there that would spread through out the middle east. All people deserve to be free. This idea scares the Islamic extremist to death.
Saddam Hussein was a terrorist to his own people, maybe. Not to us. Iraq had nothing to do with, no involvement with, the 9/11 attacks or any other attacks on Americans. President Bush has tried to tie this ridiculous war in Iraq to the fight against terrorism, but I (and the majority of Americans) know that it's bullshit. If we'd stayed out of Iraq, maybe we could have finished the job in Afghanistan, and captured or killed bin Laden by now. The fight against al-Qaeda and the Taliban is a moral and necessary one. Unfortunately, President Bush pulled large numbers of troops from Afghanistan and sent them to Iraq, preventing us from bringing to justice the man who murdered 3,000 Americans on 9/11.
Do you think democracy will flourish in Iraq and throughout the middle east? Do you think these idiots blowing themselves up over there want democracy? Do you think Iraq will be a nice place to live two years, five years, ten years from now? If you do, I say it again: you're a fool. What we're doing in Iraq is accomplishing nothing except bringing more Americans home in body bags.
Explain this to me please, dictators kill their own people and that's ok. terrorist kill innocent people and that's ok but we kill the people that kill the innocent and we are the bad guys Huh?
We've killed tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians in our attempt to get the "people who kill the innocent." Our misguided war has destabilized the country, leading to more chaos and death every day. We've killed more civilians in the last three years than Saddam did in the previous decade.
Just some observations I had. Hope you don't mind. I'm just one of millions who feel this way.
Fortunately, the "millions" of you who feel this way are now dwindling. The majority of Americans recognize that going into Iraq was a mistake, and President Bush will forever be remembered as once of the worst presidents in American history.
I didn't leave an email address because all to often if I leave a comment on someone's blog, on topic and no personal insults the person goes nuts and spasm my email to death because I dare not think like him. It's not being a coward it's protecting my family from seeing the hate that can be spewed when people have another point view.
My point about the millions of people that agree with me is this. These issues are more complex than stay or leave. Millions think your way and millions think mine. The truth is probably somewhere in the middle.
That being said I do believe Iraqis would love democracy but the extremist won't let them have it and you want to let the extremist have there way. Do I think these people blowing themselves up want a democracy? No, they are scared to death to live in a place where people get to decide how they live. you would like to deny them that right. Their Women sentenced to slave static's and the wealth funneled to a select few. You don't like tax breaks for the rich but you want Iraqis to starve while Saddam builds another golden palace.
Clinton erred by not confronting the terrorist sooner and Bush erred by miscalculating the involvement of extremist in Iraq. Those mistakes does not change the fact that we have to win against these extremist.
At some point we will have to face these Islamic terrorist who's stated purpose is to kill all who don't believe in their version of Islam. I don't think the President ever said Iraq was involved in 9/11 but people like to say that to tie up loose ends. If it was for oil why not Iran? When do we face them? Where?
Sigh. There are dozens of countries in the world that would "like democracy." Is it our job to help all of them? Is it our responsibility to shed American blood to help these people? In my opinion, no.
This is not a complex issue. We've done the best thing we could have for Iraq by getting rid of Saddam. The rest is up to them. It's time to go, plain and simple.
Our meddling in Iraq has actually helped Islamofascists. It's much easier for them to spread their brand of hatred now, by pointing to the mess we've created in Iraq. Long-term, the operations in Iraq make another terrorist attack on the US more likely, not less.
And it's laughable that you would insist the President has not ever said Iraq was involved in 9/11. He has repeatedly said that the war in Iraq is one more battle in the war on terrorism that began on 9/11. He has tied the two items together from the beginning, when they have no relation whatsoever:
"The battle of Iraq is one victory in a war on terror that began on September the 11, 2001..." (Bush, in the famously bullshit "Mission Accomplished" speech, May 1, 2003.)
And Dick Cheney has been even more blatant, saying this:
"it was pretty well confirmed that 9/11 attack mastermind Mohamed Atta met with a senior Iraqi intelligence official."
The 9/11 Commission later disproved this, of course.
Bush believed that the Iraq war would be a cakewalk, and he's not able to see the reality on the ground, which is this: we can't win. At some point, we have to leave. And Iraq will still be a nasty place, because the Sunnis and Shi'ites hate each other. But that's their problem, not ours.
It's time to go.
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