Is Bush an idiot? Judge for Yourself

[Dutch Nick]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH-CGkoNIbA&NR

[gossman]

I like him singing bloody sunday better.

[freesw]

Oilman Bush has gas in background
By Margery Eagan
Boston Herald Columnist
Thursday, August 24, 2006 - Updated: 02:19 AM EST

Maybe if Iraq were going better, I’d chalk this up to some cowboy thing.“Blazing Saddles Does D.C.”
As it is, I worry that the supposed leader of the free world is trapped in the body of a 7-year-old and hiding a Whoopie Cushion under his bed.
Has Dubya lost it?
Anyway, here’s the news, such as it is. U.S. New & World Reports’ Paul Bedard says our commander in chief “loves flatulence jokes . . . can’t get enough of fart jokes. He’s also known to cut a few for laughs, especially when greeting new young aides.”
In an interview yesterday, Bedard, who writes “Washington Whispers” for the weekly newsmagazine, also said he’s heard about Bush’s full-salute “Austin Greeting.” That’s when new aides come in for their “meet and greet.”
“Word is,” says Bedard, “he likes to gas a couple, and then bring the aide in and see what the kid’s face looks like.”
Naturally, the aide can’t accuse the President or grimace or hold his nose. This dilemma apparently drives the presidential funny bone wild.
So does this mean our president farts on command?
“It’s all in what you eat, I guess . . . beans, nachos,” Bedard told me yesterday.
Does he do this with Cheney, Rummy and Rove?
“You mean the old farts?” says Bedard. “I like to think so.”
...
Yet most everybody else said this reveals George as a regular guy.
...
“He’s just ringing the Taco Bell!” said Jeff, who owns a pet store in Salem and didn’t want his last name used, for obvious reasons.
We’ll protect, too, my sober, downtown law firm friend Stephen, lest he get fired: “As a new young intern in the White House, which would you rather have the president say, ‘Pull my finger,’ or ‘Have a cigar?’ ”
...
Maybe this is a gender thing. Several men, but no women, told me they remember sitting around with buddies having loudest bodily function contests when they were young. The key word there, however, is “young.”
But this latest leak from the Bush White House does explain a lot, doesn’t it? All those furrowed brows and deer-in-the-headlights pauses in his speeches and press conferences. And that devilish litle laugh.
Now we know: something else could be going on there. I’ll never look at George again without wondering.
http://news.bostonherald.com/columnists/view.bg?articleid=154220&format=text

[freesw]

Why Bush Can't Talk: It's not the drugs, and it's not senility.
by Inland
Thu Aug 24, 2006 at 07:00:43 PM PDT

Bush's press conferences and unscripted remarks are so painfully bad, it spurs the question: what is his PROBLEM?

People have remarked that he wasn't that way when he was the Governor of Texas, and therefore theorize that he has deteriorated due to premature senility or a lifetime of drug use.

I think the reason George Bush stumbles, ends sentences midway through to jump to another thought, rattles off non-sequiturs, and makes up words, is that George Bush is breaking under the strain of lying almost all the time about almost everything.

I think it's because lying is hard work, and he's trying to hold several different false scenarios in his head while not blurting out what he's really being told behind closed doors.

Bush looks like a person stumbling over the easiest things, but in fact, he's not a person unable to relate simple facts. He's a person trying hard to NOT relate simple facts. He's a person trying to avoid the pitfalls of saying what's on his mind, and trying to keep his stories straight.

As I lawyer, I see people trying to construct false scenarios all the time. But you don't remember lies the way you remember truth. It's easier to remember, e.g., how fast you were driving than it is to remember the exact lie you told the police officer about how fast you were driving. People who lie have to put a lot of energy into keeping their lies consistent with each other and, well, consistent with undeniable facts.

My grand theory is that Bush's entire presidency, from the beginnings of his campaign until now, is based on his taking public stances that at least obscures goals and positions shared secretly. He and his Roves have always accepted that the majority of the country wouldn't want him if they knew the promises he made to the right wing christians and the rich, if they knew the actual effect of his tax cuts, if they knew the evidence behind environmental damage, and on and on. Now, he's hiding the entire foreign policy fiasco(s), who is being held by him incognito, who is being spied upon, what he knew before 9/11, and on and on and on.

If you had so much to hide, you too would only use canned speeches, carefully vetted by speechwriters who don't know the real story anyway, to keep it all straight, and you would stumble and hem and haw in all other circumstances.

Which explains why his problem wasn't so evident as Texas Governor. Bush's brand of crony capitalism and piestic christianism went down well in Austin, at least for a governor with no real constitutional authority: Bush only had to repackage himself for the national race, essentially submerge his real persona and his real ideas and his real goals and pretend to a compassionate ... conservatism.

You know how they tell you, on a date, just be yourself? And how you think, no, I don't want her to meet that guy just yet? Well, Bush and Rove have been saying that for six years, and Bush has been schizo, trying to send signals and winks and nods to his fundamentalist christians and send money to his corporate sponsors while slinging a load of bull at the nation. Add to that all the bodies he has to keep buried, and you've got a guy who is in a state of flop sweat every time he has to open his mouth in public.

Bush isn't senile, or drug addled. ... Only truly gifted and intelligent sociopaths like Rove and Cheney can rattle it off. Bush can't.
http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/8/24/22043/1891

(Edited to remove two instances of gratuitous insults that the writer himself should have edited out, as they only serve to diminish his otherwise insightful piece, that is plenty devastating enough for its highly plausible explanation for why there is an elephant in the living room.)

[plinky]

Oilman Bush has gas in background
By Margery Eagan
Boston Herald Columnist
Thursday, August 24, 2006 - Updated: 02:19 AM EST

Maybe if Iraq were going better, I’d chalk this up to some cowboy thing.“Blazing Saddles Does D.C.”
As it is, I worry that the supposed leader of the free world is trapped in the body of a 7-year-old and hiding a Whoopie Cushion under his bed.
Has Dubya lost it?
Anyway, here’s the news, such as it is. U.S. New & World Reports’ Paul Bedard says our commander in chief “loves flatulence jokes . . . can’t get enough of fart jokes. He’s also known to cut a few for laughs, especially when greeting new young aides.”
In an interview yesterday, Bedard, who writes “Washington Whispers” for the weekly newsmagazine, also said he’s heard about Bush’s full-salute “Austin Greeting.” That’s when new aides come in for their “meet and greet.”
“Word is,” says Bedard, “he likes to gas a couple, and then bring the aide in and see what the kid’s face looks like.”
Naturally, the aide can’t accuse the President or grimace or hold his nose. This dilemma apparently drives the presidential funny bone wild.
So does this mean our president farts on command?
“It’s all in what you eat, I guess . . . beans, nachos,” Bedard told me yesterday.
Does he do this with Cheney, Rummy and Rove?
“You mean the old farts?” says Bedard. “I like to think so.”
...
Yet most everybody else said this reveals George as a regular guy.
...
“He’s just ringing the Taco Bell!” said Jeff, who owns a pet store in Salem and didn’t want his last name used, for obvious reasons.
We’ll protect, too, my sober, downtown law firm friend Stephen, lest he get fired: “As a new young intern in the White House, which would you rather have the president say, ‘Pull my finger,’ or ‘Have a cigar?’ ”
...
Maybe this is a gender thing. Several men, but no women, told me they remember sitting around with buddies having loudest bodily function contests when they were young. The key word there, however, is “young.”
But this latest leak from the Bush White House does explain a lot, doesn’t it? All those furrowed brows and deer-in-the-headlights pauses in his speeches and press conferences. And that devilish litle laugh.
Now we know: something else could be going on there. I’ll never look at George again without wondering.
http://news.bostonherald.com/columnists/view.bg?articleid=154220&format=text

Hey I can fart on command too. Does this qualify me for the office?:lol:

[Boogyman]

Plinky for President! He can out-fart Bush any day!

:lol: :lol: :lol:

[freesw]

Yes but whose are more malodorous?*
:lol:

Now we know what those furrowed brows really indicate. :lol:











* That's "stinky," for those that still think Saddam had a role in 9/11.

Even Bush finally acknowledged there was no link. Cheney reportedly was not amused.

[plinky]

Plinky for President! He can out-fart Bush any day!

:lol: :lol: :lol: You can bet your ass...:lol:

[markw76]

Clinton got blowjobs, Bush just blows a few..:blink:

[Boogyman]

:lol:

Just a matter of time before somebody drags Clinton into it again... :rolleyes:

But farts vs. blowjobs? Geez...:blink: