BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush

Subject: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: GUEST,guest from NW
Date: 02 Nov 03 - 09:29 PM

since no one from the republican/GWB faction cared to answer the direct query posed by kendall in the thread "what's worse than bush in 2004" (tho pdq claimed he responded) i thought i'd start a thread on it and see if anyone could give a list of dubya's admirable qualities. i'm truly curious because personally i see nothing in his attitude, demeanor, resume, or policies that i would admire. this was the question from the previous thread...

"Now, what should we admire about this loser (GW Bush) who never succeeded at anything in his life?"

that shows some personal bias from the questioner so let's leave that alone and just tell us the things to admire about GWB without referring to bill clinton, the democrats, liberals, hypocrisy, etc. is this possible, bushbuddies out there?

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: Bobert
Date: 02 Nov 03 - 09:34 PM

He lies well! Hey, Clinton didn't! It takes a very special person to stand before a camera an' lie so convincingly. Sure, every one listening is saying "He's lieing" to themselves but most also mutter, "Yeah, but its as if he believes it."

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Nov 03 - 09:36 PM

He's good to his mother?

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: Amos
Date: 02 Nov 03 - 09:38 PM

Admirable? He seems to wear a clean shirt every day and he seems to have a nice ranch, and he seems to have his pecker under control (or someone does, anyway).
He's toilet-trained, as far as I know.

He's not personally violent -- he likes to use others.

I'll get back to you on this. There might be a couple of other things....he shaves good...



A

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: kendall
Date: 02 Nov 03 - 09:41 PM

He can lie without blinking.

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: Bobert
Date: 02 Nov 03 - 09:42 PM

Yeah, his shirts do always look clean....

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: kendall
Date: 02 Nov 03 - 09:42 PM

This will be the shortest list since the list of Italian war heros.

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: GUEST,pdq
Date: 02 Nov 03 - 09:47 PM

He can take abuse from his detractors and keep on going. Kinda like the Eveready bunny or a good ol' Timex watch.

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: kendall
Date: 02 Nov 03 - 09:51 PM

with a similar IQ

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: GUEST,pdq
Date: 02 Nov 03 - 09:59 PM

C'mon Kendall, were looking for admirable traits here. Course he weren't no Admirable, just a pilot.

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 02 Nov 03 - 10:42 PM

Thought this wuz gunna be a short thread...

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: Peace
Date: 02 Nov 03 - 11:42 PM

He's not the Canadian Prime Minister.

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: GUEST,pdq
Date: 02 Nov 03 - 11:48 PM

Oh gosh, a folk hero...right here on this thread. Yer famus now. BTW, is that really the handle you want to be known by. Ain't too late to change, really. How 'bout Bruce M .... maybe....well, think 'bout it....

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: Alaska Mike
Date: 02 Nov 03 - 11:53 PM

Dubya gives good return on investment. Contributors gave his campaign $100,000,000+ to run for President in 2000. In less than 3 years, he gave them back $350,000,000,000+ in tax relief. That's a return of 3500 to 1 folks. You don't find investments like that everyday. Granted, the deficit will eventually have to be repaid, but by then someone else will be stuck with it.

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: GUEST,Boab
Date: 03 Nov 03 - 01:01 AM

He's mortal?

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: Amergin
Date: 03 Nov 03 - 01:15 AM

i'm still thinking....

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: Ebbie
Date: 03 Nov 03 - 01:22 AM

Let me join you in that corner there, Amergin. This will take a little time. Admirable? That's stronger than neutral, right?

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: BlueJay
Date: 03 Nov 03 - 03:59 AM

He's managed to convince a majority of the American people that he is the right man for the job of President of the USA. That's some bullshit artist. It's like me saying I would be a good manager of our state's highways, when all I know is that there are stripes in the middle.

Some people have changed their minds, I only hope it's enough to keep this sawed-off little prick from winning another term. I am not optimistic. One lady I work with stated that the nine Democratic candidates should have been killed in the WTC disaster, because they voiced their opposition to the Shrub and his policies. I am very fearful for American society. Thanks, BlueJay

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: BanjoRay
Date: 03 Nov 03 - 05:41 AM

He doesn't take up much room - in the corporeal sense.
Ray

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: kendall
Date: 03 Nov 03 - 08:06 AM

He is a pilot you say? The only thing he flew was the coop.

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Nov 03 - 08:06 AM

Whenever I've seen his feet he's been wearing shoes.

His wife's a librarian.

He's never been found in the Tidal Basin with a stripper.

I don't think he smokes cigars, and if he chews tobacco he doesn't dribble it down his chin.

He is as good a President as Reagan ever was.

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: Peter T.
Date: 03 Nov 03 - 09:00 AM

A great quote from someone responding to an opponent: "Your position is so ill thought out that it does not even constitute a point of view." George W is a quantity to which no qualities of any kind can adhere -- he is the absence of presence, a moral nullity, a void where a man should be, a blank canvas upon which his masters paint their dark pictures, a hamstrung puppet, a cavernous echo for other voices, an empty vessel into which foolishness is poured, pressed down, and overfloweth, a disappearing trick from a rabbitless hat, he is not worth the invisible ink spilt in describing the lack of a there, there.

yours,

Peter T.

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 03 Nov 03 - 09:16 AM

He has hopefully inspired a substantial number of non-voters to register and go to the polls - so they can vote his sorry ass outta the White House.

Bruce

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: Greg F.
Date: 03 Nov 03 - 09:16 AM

He's got one helluva smirk. (still)

He does a real good phony Texas shitkicker accent for a guy from Connecticut.

(PS: his wife gives librarians and educators a bad name)

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: Beardy
Date: 03 Nov 03 - 09:51 AM

He's blind to criticism.

When he visits Britain from 19-21 November he will have to demonstrate this quality substantially. Demonstrations everywhere he goes and a mass rally in Trafalgar Square where a "statue" of him will be toppled. Should be fun!!

Stewart

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 03 Nov 03 - 10:10 AM

Molly Ivins was on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me! (on NPR) over the weekend, and said that she find's Bush "affable." Not a good leader, mind you, but always affable. Her view is that grown-ups can like someone and still think "boy, is that ever a bad idea, he shouldn't be doing that job." Like Bush doing the presidency.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: Amos
Date: 03 Nov 03 - 10:14 AM

Affability doesn't cut it. Mister Hitler was once called charming in the American press. Any psycho worth his salt can muster up a persuasive social machine. That's no way to measure the merit of the man, or lack of it.

Peter: God grant you never get mad at me!! LOL!

A

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: freightdawg
Date: 03 Nov 03 - 10:19 AM

An old "Wizard of Id" (cartoon) strip ran like this. Two soldiers are marching in a long line. First soldier: "Are we advancing or retreating?" Second soldier: "Where's Sir Rodney?" First soldier: "In front." Second soldier: "Then we are retreating."

I may disagree with some of GWB's decisions. But at least he by God made them. He never sent out his flunkies with a hundred questionaires to find out which way the "political wind" was blowing before he decided whether to lead or to follow. Ridicule him if you want, that is one of the great freedoms we have in America that makes this country great.

I just wonder what would have happened if Clinton had the political nerve to take Osama bin Laden when he had the chance, but refused because he was advised that it would be seen a politically risky move in certain parts of the mid-East.

Remember Jimmy Carter?

I do disagree with some of GWB's decisions, come to think of it. At least he is a president that gives me that opportunity.

humbly,

Freightdawg

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 03 Nov 03 - 10:22 AM

That's what puzzles me - I can imagine, at least in theory, how someone might like the way he does the job, and think he's what America and the world needs right now - it takes all sorts. (For example, a lot of people here admired Thatcher, close to idolatry in some cases, but I think there were very few people actually "liked" her.)

But liking Bush - that's a bit mind-boggling. He'd be the kind of next door neighbour that would make me use the back door in case I ran into him, even if we shared the same political views down the line. That kind of remark by that lady there is the sort that brings it home how wide the Atlantic can be, because it seems pretty clear that is how a lot of Americans do see it.

...

However, looking on the bright side, he'll make a splendid effigy omn bonfire up and down England on the Fifth of November.

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: TIA
Date: 03 Nov 03 - 10:43 AM

Actually, those who have been inside the White House inner circle come out reporting that aboslutely everything, everything, everything is based on the direction of the political wind. They report that there is no overriding foreign, nor domestic policy, only a continual re-election campaign.

I'll find the blickies to quotes for doubters.

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: mack/misophist
Date: 03 Nov 03 - 11:51 AM

George W Bush is a man who stands by his friends through thick and through thin... As long as they happen to be CEO's of major corporations.

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: Alice
Date: 03 Nov 03 - 11:57 AM

He was able to kick his cocaine habit. I think that's about as much as I can come up with that I could admire about him. The problem is, he seems to have not improved other aspects of his character.

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: Alice
Date: 03 Nov 03 - 11:59 AM

As one of his elementary school teachers said, he was a little SOB when he was in her class, lording it over the other kids that his daddy was rich, and he's still an SOB in her opinion.

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: GUEST,pdq
Date: 03 Nov 03 - 12:09 PM

He doesn't call his dick "Morris".

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: Amos
Date: 03 Nov 03 - 12:22 PM

PDQ:

How would you be knowing this, then? :>)

A

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: GUEST,pdq
Date: 03 Nov 03 - 12:28 PM

Somehow I knew you would ask that exact question. Really. Actually, I work for the KGB and we have the White House bugged. We found out all those things about Clinton and fed them to the right-wing conspiracy.

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 03 Nov 03 - 12:38 PM

So what does he call it?

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: GUEST,pdq
Date: 03 Nov 03 - 12:45 PM

Ask Amos.

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: Amos
Date: 03 Nov 03 - 12:46 PM

ME? I never met the

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: katlaughing
Date: 03 Nov 03 - 12:57 PM

freightdawg...the shrub the elder had a problem in not finishing up in the Middle East and he was in office before Clinton...

I, too, have read some of those reports of the political wind having everything to do with his policies.

kat

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: Bill D
Date: 03 Nov 03 - 01:18 PM

well, the shrub was clever enuf to find very smart underlings to front for him..Wolfowitz, Cheney, Rice, Rove..etc....

....wait, maybe they found HIM..in which case, all I will say is that he is a very well-dressed puppet!

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 03 Nov 03 - 01:31 PM

I am not mature enough to be able to say I "like" Dubya as an individual--I dislike him intensely, and can't get past that smirk of his. But to be frank, it is telling that Molly Ivins who has written some of the most piercing (and funny) criticism of George W. Bush said it.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: TIA
Date: 03 Nov 03 - 01:44 PM

Wolfowitz and company aren't looking smart right about now. They snorted in derision at those who predicted the immense cost and number of troops that would be required in Iraq. As it turns out, those whom they dismissed as "wildly off the mark" were right. So exactly how are they so smart?

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: kendall
Date: 03 Nov 03 - 01:46 PM

Freightdawg, you remind me of that old saying.."Do something, even if it's wrong."
Alice, I have a close friend who worked at a Kennebunk hotel when Jeb and Dub were boys. They were, according to her, spoiled, nasty little bastards who used everyone like they were sub human.

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: ard mhacha
Date: 03 Nov 03 - 01:51 PM

I see in yesterday`s Observer that Bush and Blair prayed together before the invasion of Iraq, Christian fundamentalists are to be feared.    Bible thumpers always kill for the honour and glory of God, we still remember Cromwell. Ard Mhacha.

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: Peter T.
Date: 03 Nov 03 - 02:24 PM

He is the quintessential country club member, standing around after 18 holes, drink in the hand, talking about tax relief, sharing stock tips, agreeing how fine black people are as servants, and the general laziness of the poor. I have listened to these people all my life, and unless you are very very patient, they turn you into a bomb-throwing anarchist.

yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: GUEST,pdq
Date: 03 Nov 03 - 02:41 PM

The correct way to go, Peter T, is to build your own country club. Then invite the people you like.

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: Thomas the Rhymer
Date: 03 Nov 03 - 02:44 PM

Bush's most admirable quality, imho, is that he shows us how little importance the American public places upon scholarship and conscience, the wellbeing of the advantages-challenged here at home, and honesty... when it comes to selecting it's politicians and statesmen... Bush is no 'stand alone', but a product of our ambiguous American culture, and what he represents is as confusing to me as Bartok... but by golly... he sure is teaching us alot about ourselves... R U listening John Q. Public? ttr

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: Amergin
Date: 03 Nov 03 - 02:51 PM

i'm still thinking....

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: GUEST,Cotoneaster
Date: 03 Nov 03 - 02:54 PM

He doesn't govern Britian

- Oops - sorry my mistake.

Give me back the vote.