Seriously?

I hate this fucking guy.  When's January already?

Citizens, get your liquor ready.  This is the last year we're doing this.  You know when President Obama gives his speeches, we'll be drinking for another reason. 

I present, the 2008 State of the Union Drinking Game.

One day, President Bush visited an elementary school. All the kids were so excited to get to meet the President. He began to talk to them and asked them to define the word ''tragedy.''

"Well," one girl replied, "If my mommy ran over my dog, Rover, that would be a tragedy!"

The President smiled at the little girl and said, "No, sweetie. That would be an accident! Can anyone give it a try?"

A little boy sitting across the room raised his hand and said, "I know! I know! If our bus driver ran off of a cliff and killed everyone!"

The President shook his head and said, "No son. That would be a great loss! Doesn't anyone know of a good example of a tragedy?"

A small girl raised her hand and said, "Well, Mr. President, if you and Laura were in Air Force One and it was hit by a missile and blown to smithereens, most people would think that that was a tragedy!"

"Very good," he said. "And what was your reason for that answer?"

"Well," she said, "It would not be an accident and it would not be a great loss!"


{{{If anyone from the C.I.A. or Secret Service is reading this, hello and welcome!}}}

Bush owes us an apology

I know I've been posting a lot of videos lately, but this...I just can't stop watching it...

Politely stolen from DailyKos:

September 12, 2001-December 11, 2001:

We know from Richard Clarke's testimony and other sources that administration officials, including Bush himself, started asking the counterterrorism chief to find an Iraqi link to 9-11 from the day following the attacks. On December 11, 2001--- right around the time bin Laden began his escape, possibly the very day---Vice President Dick Cheney told FOX News, "If I were Saddam Hussein, I'd be thinking very carefully about the future, and I'd be looking very closely to see what happened to the Taliban in Afghanistan."

October 28-November 10, 2002:

Bush's comments about Saddam Hussein, each from a different speech:

"This is a person who has had contacts with al Qaeda."
"He's got connections with al Qaeda."
"This is a guy who has had connections with these shadowy terrorist networks."
"We know he's got ties with al Qaeda."
"We know that he's had connections with al Qaeda."
"He's had connections with shadowy terrorist networks like al Qaeda."
"We know that he has had contacts with terrorist networks like al Qaeda."
"This is a man who has had contacts with al Qaeda."
"This is a man who has had al Qaeda connections."
"He's had contacts with al Qaeda."
"This is a man who has got connections with al Qaeda."

December 17, 2003:

[T]he administration's attempts to tie Saddam to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11...worked so well that nearly 70 percent of Americans believed Saddam was "personally involved" in the attacks.

On March 21, two days after announcing the invasion, Bush wrote a letter to congressional leaders in which he said: "The use of armed force against Iraq is consistent with the United States and other countries continuing to take the necessary actions against international terrorists and terrorist organizations, including those nations, organizations, or persons who planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on Sept. 11, 2001."

March 19, 2003:

U.S. President George W. Bush sent Congress a formal justification for invading Iraq Wednesday, citing the attacks on the U.S. on Sept. 11, 2001.

September 16, 2003:

Vice President Dick Cheney, anxious to defend the White House foreign policy amid ongoing violence in Iraq, stunned intelligence analysts and even members of his own administration this week by failing to dismiss a widely discredited claim: that Saddam Hussein might have played a role in the Sept. 11 attacks.

June 18, 2004:

President Bush yesterday defended his assertions that there was a relationship between Saddam Hussein's Iraq and Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda, putting him at odds with this week's finding of the bipartisan Sept. 11 commission.  "The reason I keep insisting that there was a relationship between Iraq and Saddam and al Qaeda [is] because there was a relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda."

June 29, 2005:

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Bush slammed for Iraq link to 9/11
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August 21, 2006:

Q What did Iraq have to do with that?

THE PRESIDENT: What did Iraq have to do with what?

Q The attack on the World Trade Center.

THE PRESIDENT: Nothing!!  [...]  Nobody has ever suggested that the attacks of September the 11th were ordered by Iraq.

Hope?  HOPE!?!?!  What the fuck, dude?  You and your crummy administration have stolen all our hope! 

You're stealing Barack Obama's line right there!  And, newsflash, it doesn't work for you!

Obama at the Democratic Convention in Boston, 2004:

In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism, or do we participate in a politics of hope?

...I'm not talking about blind optimism here, the almost willful ignorance that thinks unemployment will go away if we just don't think about it, or health care crisis will solve itself if we just ignore it.

That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about something more substantial. It's the hope of slaves sitting around a fire singing freedom songs; the hope of immigrants setting out for distant shores; the hope of a young naval lieutenant bravely patrolling the Mekong Delta; the hope of a millworker's son who dares to defy the odds; the hope of a skinny kid with a funny name who believes that America has a place for him, too.

Hope in the face of difficulty, hope in the face of uncertainty, the audacity of hope: In the end, that is God's greatest gift to us, the bedrock of this nation, a belief in things not seen, a belief that there are better days ahead.

880 Days Left.  This is what gives me hope, right here.

MSM:  OMGGGGGGGG BUSH SAID "SHIT"  OMGOMGOMGOMG!!!11!!eleventyone!!111

I agree, this is some funny hidden microphone shenanigans, but does this country really think Bush doesn't curse?  You KNOW he has some choice phrases for Bin Laden and Kim Jong Il.  Hell, I'd probably vote for him if he went on national television and called out those "terrorist motherfuckers"... Actually, I'm sure I wouldn't vote for him even if he did that, but it would be pretty fucking hardcore. 

I think I would have peed my pants if Tony Blair had responded with a resounding "bollocks to that!" 

And this isn't the first time Bush has been caught cursing on camera.  Don't you remember the 2000 campaign?  He was caught on camera calling a New York Times reporter a "major league asshole".

He's a nightmare for live feeds.  This ain't news, folks.