BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush

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

I got one: He doesn't get pissed off when he's referred to as Dubya; but then, maybe he doesn't know that means him. Sorry.

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: Greg F.
Date: 03 Nov 03 - 04:11 PM

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

Ya got that turned 'round just about three-hunnerd 'n sixty dee-grees, son.

Ol' Dumbya's the half-wit fronting for THEM!

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: GUEST,pdc
Date: 03 Nov 03 - 04:37 PM

He doesn't call his dick "Morris".

No silly, he calls it "Cheney."

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: JenEllen
Date: 03 Nov 03 - 06:23 PM

Well, before his presidency, people had to pay good money to cable TV companies to see "Jackass" on MTV, now they can get it every night on local news for free....Who knew he would have cared so deeply for the common man?

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: Gareth
Date: 03 Nov 03 - 07:12 PM

Well If Lee Harvey Oswald was reincanated he would have a perfect target.

Ard M - remember - Oliver Cromwell was a Welshman, born Oliver ap Gwillym at Llanrhymney, a suburb of Cardiff.

Gareth

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: kendall
Date: 03 Nov 03 - 07:31 PM

Sure, all you have to do is screw a few people out of enough money and you can build your own country club.
Without labor there is no capital, and boy, is labor taking a screwing these days. Not to mention veterans whom Bush promised to look after, and is now gutting funding for us.

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: Neighmond
Date: 03 Nov 03 - 08:59 PM

Mr. Bush's most admirable quality is that someday he, too, must die.

Chaz

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: GUEST,pdq
Date: 03 Nov 03 - 09:15 PM

Yes, and may he outlive his enemies.

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: kendall
Date: 03 Nov 03 - 09:19 PM

He may outlive his PRESENT enemies, but history will be very unkind to this loser.

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: Bobert
Date: 03 Nov 03 - 10:51 PM

Well, it should be pointed out that inspite of his mom's confession that George has been a pain in the butt, she thinks that the dems, who want his job, are worse.... Hmmmmmm, wonder how many of the dems she had to bail outtta jail fir driving drunk?

Know who to call if I ever get busted...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: freightdawg
Date: 03 Nov 03 - 11:13 PM

Kendall, having served as a sports official, I would say that every call is going to anger at least half of the crowd. However, don't make any call and you immediately anger 100% of the crowd. Any decision, especially one involving life and death, is especially open to second guessing from every armchair politician and wisecracker.

Kat, I would suggest that W doing what he did in Iraq has more to do with his Dad's not finishing up than any massive public opinion. The fact that public opinion is fading fast is an indication that W led the American people at a time when they were leaning toward finishing up with Saddam, but he made way too many errors in implementing his plan.

I am quite frankly stunned by the sudden turn of public opinion regarding the war. We fought for over 4 years (Europeans, even longer) in WWII and we had a sense of collective purpose. And it was only after the war that we had a complete picture of the evil that Hitler was capable of doing. I just wish some of those who think we are wasting our time over there would be able to talk to the Iraqis who no longer have to worry about death squads and their wives and children being raped and tortured.

Our best opportunity to achieve this was when Saddam threw the inspectors out when Clinton was President. He had every opportunity to achieve the goal of liberating the Iraqi people, but he did not have the political nerve.

I abhor the duplicity coming from the White House, but in the name of whoever or whatever you consider holy, let's be grateful the Iraqi people now have a chance for a stable future. And, most certainly, let us hope the reign of terror will quickly come to an end. I don't think that is a democratic or republican wish. Just a human one.

humbly,

Freightdawg

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: InOBU
Date: 03 Nov 03 - 11:17 PM

Well, a pal of mine from Papua New Guinnie assures me that he likely would be tender and taste good, as he eats well and would likely taste a little better than most ham.

Also, he is friendly ... remember when he waved to Stevie Wonder? (OK I know that is an urban legenend, but it shows what a friendly guy he is...)

His daughters know how to party hearty? Or put more positivly, he has not let his own reform away from drugs and alcohol ruin his daughters fun?

He has all his major body parts.

He is a beacon to stupid people everywhere that even YOU can become the most powerful man in the world.

He makes it possible for people in 48 states to feel superior to Texas AND Kennybunkport Maine all at the same go (49 as Mainers can look down just at that little part of Maine...)

His is not frightningly tall.

If he contacts Altzhimer's... no one will notice and therefore, we will not worry about him as we do for Mr. Regan...

His speaches are less hateful than Adolf Hitlers....

He makes underachivers feel triumphant

He does not hunt eliphants or net dolphins or eat gorillas (at least I don't believe he does...)

He did not ride with Jesse James.

Forensic evidence rules him out as Jack the Ripper

He is not a theater critic.

HE DOES NOT PLAY THE BODHRAN!
Good night
Larry

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: LadyJean
Date: 04 Nov 03 - 12:20 AM

I don't think he curses as much as Nixon.
He isn't senile of schizophrenic.
He's never sent me a rejection letter.
He's giving Molly Ivins something to write about.
He might make Howard Dean president.

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: Little Hawk
Date: 04 Nov 03 - 01:51 AM

Yeah, okay...

He loves baseball, and he did a great job running the baseball team in Texas (the Texas Rangers, was it?).

Kendall - Will you drop this hackneyed shit about "no Italian war heroes"? There were plenty of them, they just got no recognition whatsoever in Allied propaganda, and their country had too weak an economy to properly arm them...putting them in a wretched spot on the battlefield where they were usually outnumbered and always outgunned.

Here are some Italian heroes: the frogmen who penetrated Alexandria Harbour in their submersibles and sank 2 British battleships at their moorings, the soldiers who fought a virtually forgotten campaign with the British in central Africa, nearly winning it despite being basically cut off from supply, the bomber pilots who made the Royal Navy's life miserable flying the S.M.79 torpedo bombers in the Med (they sank a whole lot of Allied ships and suffered heavy losses doing it), the many Italian fighter pilots who became aces flying underarmed Italian aircraft against overwhelming odds from mid '42 on...

There were lots of Italian heroes. They did not lack courage, they lacked enough modern equipment, and they lacked an intelligent government, and they were in a war they should never have gotten into in the first place, but they were led by a glory-seeking idiot (Mussolini).

Not one of their names is remembered now outside of Italy...except by air history buffs such as myself.

(I am not Italian, I just know a lot about World War II, and I'm getting tired of this cliche being endlessly repeated.)

The oft-maligned French have also demonstrated tremendous courage under fire on more occasions than can be counted.

Yes, this is thread drift.

Back to the admirable qualities of George Bush...

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: kendall
Date: 04 Nov 03 - 06:33 AM

LH, that was indeed a hacknyed statement, but it is famous for whatever reason and I only used it as an example. How about Italian sharpshooters? Hyberbole, thats all it was, no offense intended.
By the way, Saddam did not kick the inspectors out, they left of their own accord because he made their job difficult. I see a big difference, don't you?
And, if Bush was so successful as a baseball team owner, why did he sell it?

So far, my question still hasn't been answered.

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: InOBU
Date: 04 Nov 03 - 08:44 AM

OH another good quality... in case of acedental poisoning, one can watch one of his speaches to bring up all the stuff in your tummy.

AND as to Italian war heros, there were all the heros who surendered who had fought on the side of facism, that act of surrender made them heros in my book!

Another good quality of GWB, is that if forces us to try really really hard to see that of God in everyone...
Larry

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: Little Hawk
Date: 04 Nov 03 - 12:37 PM

I'm sure Bush has some other good qualities, but I just don't know the man that well...

Brian Mulroney had some good qualities too, but I wouldn't vote for him.

Mike Harris? Ummm.... Umm.... I'm thinkin'....

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: GUEST,pdc
Date: 04 Nov 03 - 12:38 PM

You are actually thinking about Mike Harris? I wouldn't admit that out loud, if I were you!

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: Little Hawk
Date: 04 Nov 03 - 01:06 PM

Ha! Yes, it's a really, really creepy feeling... He would have made a wonderful partner for Maggie Thatcher if she were a bit younger. Together they could have ruled the World!!! Oy!

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: Amergin
Date: 04 Nov 03 - 03:00 PM

i found one...

he keeps eating pretzels....

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: Peace
Date: 04 Nov 03 - 03:05 PM

Thanks, Amergin, he'll get my vote. Of course, he likely won't run in Canada. Ah, well . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 04 Nov 03 - 03:34 PM

"...Tolling for the warrior whose strength is not to fight" There's a Dylan quote for everything.

Italian war heroes? There's a song by one of them he wrote in a German prison camp on this thread, looking for a translator from the Italian.

Bush? He's made the world know what a pretzel is. And he was just a heartbeat away from making it about the most well-loved delicacy on the planet.

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: Ebbie
Date: 04 Nov 03 - 03:56 PM

The first verse says:
When over the lager in the mattino without color one get
looses the wind and dark door ices in the
cuor in the country of the sol,
all light and calor on its seggiolina, the Carlottina is.

Enjoy. :)

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: Deda
Date: 04 Nov 03 - 04:08 PM

He doesn't stab himself in the cheek with his fork when he eats. Well, maybe that's actually more of a shame than an admirable quality...

OK, I'm in the "I'm thinking" corner now.

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: Greg F.
Date: 04 Nov 03 - 07:08 PM

Dunno, Deda- I've never seen him eat, have you?? ;>)

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: InOBU
Date: 04 Nov 03 - 07:30 PM

He floats?
Larry

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: Rich(bodhránai gan ciall)
Date: 04 Nov 03 - 08:18 PM

At least he doesn't smell.

He could be twins.

He has a job?


I give up

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 04 Nov 03 - 08:30 PM

He hasn't thrown up at a State Banquet yet either, has he?

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: kendall
Date: 04 Nov 03 - 10:04 PM

Good one, McGrath!

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: GUEST,guest from NW
Date: 04 Nov 03 - 10:16 PM

can't any of the bushbuddies among the mudcatters come up with one admirable quality of this guy that is not relative to bill clinton, democrats, liberals, etc.? i recall lengthy posts during rthe run-up to the war by teribus, plenty of "me too!!" from dougr, many other defenders of this mans policies and procedures. surely there must be one among you to give us an objectivly quantifiable quality about him that we can all admire. well?

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: GUEST,pdq
Date: 04 Nov 03 - 10:23 PM

No. But there are just enough of us to buy you some capital letters if we pool our resources.

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: LadyJean
Date: 05 Nov 03 - 12:42 AM

He doesn't swagger around in a uniform ALL the time. (Of course once is rather more than enough.)

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: GUEST,guest from NW
Date: 05 Nov 03 - 12:43 AM

use a few for your name if you've got extras pdq.

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: Amos
Date: 05 Nov 03 - 11:16 AM

He looks almost as good as a real pilot in that flight uniform. WOnder if he's still wearing it to bed...

A

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: GUEST,pdq
Date: 05 Nov 03 - 01:13 PM

Everywhere Bush campaigns people win. Every where Clinton campaigns people lose. Maybe ol' "NW" needs to revise the definition of "loser".

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: Peace
Date: 05 Nov 03 - 01:44 PM

I HAVE GOT ONE!
I HAVE GOT ONE!
I HAVE GOT ONE!
I HAVE GOT ONE!
I HAVE GOT ONE!
I HAVE GOT ONE!
I HAVE GOT ONE!
I HAVE GOT ONE!

Ah, crap, I forge---no, got it again: His nose hairs don't show.

Thanks for waiting. I feel better, now.

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: GUEST,pdq
Date: 05 Nov 03 - 02:09 PM

Good for you. The best part about venting on an internet site is that no one gets hurt!

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: Peace
Date: 05 Nov 03 - 02:57 PM

pdq: Absolutely!

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: Don Firth
Date: 05 Nov 03 - 03:20 PM

He must have some redeeming features, because Laura seems like a nice lady (quiet, submissive, doesn't stand out much), and when he's giving a speech, she always sits there looking at him adoringly.

Of course, she may have the brain of a cocker spaniel. . . .

Don Firth
Now Hilary, on the other hand, has the brain of a potentially very good president. . . .

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: Little Hawk
Date: 05 Nov 03 - 05:42 PM

Yep, Hilary is as sharp as a tack...

Hey, NW, how about the one I volunteered about baseball? Doesn't that count? The word for Teribus' posts is not "lengthy" but "interminable" if you ask me. :-)

Perhaps he has found gainful employment or something and no longer has the time to type 5,000 word essays on Mudcat.

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: Greg F.
Date: 05 Nov 03 - 06:51 PM

That's no way to talk about cocker spaniels, Don! For shame!!

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: Bobert
Date: 05 Nov 03 - 06:52 PM

Don:

Whatz ya' got against "cocker spaniels"...

Deda:

Yeah, he may not stab himself in the cheek with a fork while eating, but keep the pretzels out of reach...

L.H.

Stick with the spirtuality of rocks which you know more about than anyone round this joint, but keep away from baseball... Our boy was purdy much given the team by his daddy and some of his daddies friends and then sold it fir whatever anyone would offer... In some circles that's smacks of money launderin'. *But*, no one got blown up, unlike his recent scrwups, so I reckon you gotta give the boy some credit fir that...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: GUEST,guest from NW
Date: 05 Nov 03 - 08:57 PM

i didn't define "loser" pdq. that question was quoted from a post by kendall on the thread "what's worse than bush in 2004". that's the thread where you posted a claim that you answered a direct question from a post by kendall, when in fact that was the only direct question he posed and you did not attempt to answer it. i commented on that in a later post and you continued on never answering this direct question. if you get a break from finding me some capital letters maybe you could tell us about bush's admirable qualities (this is the direct question that this thread concerns) rather than commenting on his campaign results.

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: GUEST,pdq
Date: 05 Nov 03 - 09:33 PM

Kendall's question is more slander than question and, therefore, does not deserve a straight answer. It will not get one from me, so give up and stop asking. I also never claimed to have answered it. If *your* question is "what is an admirable quality of George W. Bush", I will say that he has attempted to be inclusive and has tried to bring people together. But, as someone said long ago, "it takes two to tango".

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: Bobert
Date: 05 Nov 03 - 09:47 PM

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.......

Inclusive?

Just say *no*...

Like exactly who is included in his inclusiveness? The right winged war mongers. The rich folks, who always found ways to get abortions, who say "screw you" to everyone else. The Enrons, the Hallburtons, the Lockheed-Martins, the Harkin Energy's, the Christain Right who never made it to the New *friggin'* Testament, the Carl Roves, the Richard Pearl's, the Por-Choice folks who stole democracy?

Ahhhhh, what am I missin' here other than the complete derailment of Tom Jefferson's experienment? This ain't about gettin friggin' laid. It's about fascisim. Don't like the word then find yerseff another dictator to goose step behind....

That's the way it is...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: kendall
Date: 05 Nov 03 - 09:58 PM

I ask for an opinon, I get accused of slander.

Slander is illegal. It is a specific legal term, just like murder. Abortion is not murder under the law. Giving an opinion of G. Bush is also not slander. Your disapproval is not a reason to stifle opinions. That was what they did in Russia, still do in dozens of countries such as China. That the kind of place you want to live in?
You like what that gang in Washington is doing? Will you still like it when the democrats come back and do it their way?
Be careful what you wish for, you may get it.

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: GUEST,pdc
Date: 05 Nov 03 - 10:07 PM

Given the thread title, I can't believe it went on this long...

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: Amos
Date: 05 Nov 03 - 10:10 PM

Inclusive? The United States has been more polarized since Junior got selected than it was (if my memory serves) through all the decade before. I grant you the nation was badly rattled by the 9-11-01 attacks but they could well have served as a unifying force rather than a jingoistic one. There's a world of difference.

Bush's campaigns have caused divisions over issues of wealth, issues of privilege, issues of gender, race and Gawd knows what all. I can't find any exam[pes of his seeking to unify. Can you offer some?

A

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: Peace
Date: 05 Nov 03 - 10:11 PM

He's tryin' to unify Iraq.

Subject: RE: BS: Admirable Qualities of GWBush
From: GUEST,pdq
Date: 05 Nov 03 - 10:26 PM

Kendall- don't blow a gasket. Everybody in Mudcat loves 'ya. You know that. The origional postor was determined to get my opinion and he eventually got it. As you wisely said:
          "Be careful what you wish for, you may get it".