BS: George W Bush Still Rocks!

Subject: BS: George W Bush Still Rocks!
From: Bo Vandenberg
Date: 10 Sep 05 - 06:53 AM

Read the Article

Painful summary of the shrub.

Subject: RE: BS: George W Bush Still Rocks!
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 10 Sep 05 - 07:04 AM

Excellent article.

Subject: RE: BS: George W Bush Still Rocks!
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 10 Sep 05 - 07:04 AM

You leave Georgie's rocks alone!

Subject: RE: BS: George W Bush Still Rocks!
From: Tam the man
Date: 10 Sep 05 - 07:41 AM

WHAT A LOAD OF SHITE

Subject: RE: BS: George W Bush Still Rocks!
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 10 Sep 05 - 07:44 AM

Brillant Ironical Satire!

Subject: RE: BS: George W Bush Still Rocks!
From: GUEST,van lingle
Date: 10 Sep 05 - 07:52 AM

I don't know if he rocks but he probably should be stoned and not in the good way. Thanks for the link, Sigurd.

Subject: RE: BS: George W Bush Still Rocks!
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Sep 05 - 09:22 AM

Its all quite true however I know how he can put a cherry on top of this disasterous sundae and emerge a victorious hero just as he artificially did when he sat in a co-pilot seat and was flown onto the deck of USS Mission Accomplished.

http://www.angelfire.com/md2/customviolins/fs4.jpg

Going on an afternoon tour and hugging black child victims on camera will not be enough.

Subject: RE: BS: George W Bush Still Rocks!
From: Tam the man
Date: 10 Sep 05 - 09:54 AM

He's just trying to their votes that's all

Subject: RE: BS: George W Bush Still Rocks!
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 10 Sep 05 - 10:08 AM

Tam I get the feeling you are posting on the basis of reading this thread title but without reading the article. Would you agree with

Let's say it outright. The truest measure of any president, of any leader, is how well he takes care of his own people. And Bush, well, Bush has done a simply spectacular job of taking care of exactly his own people -- the wealthy, the corporate, the extreme religious right, his core base of supporters [...] ?

Subject: RE: BS: George W Bush Still Rocks!
From: Amos
Date: 10 Sep 05 - 10:21 AM

Great phrases!


But it's so unfair, isn't it, to attack poor Dubya like this? Just a little misplaced? After all, Bush has always been the rich white man's president. He is the CEO president, the megacorporate businessman's friend, the thug of the religious right, a big reservoir-tipped condom for all energy magnates, protecting against the nasty STDs of humanitarianism and progress and social responsibility.

He has always been merely an entirely selective figurehead, out of touch and eternally dumbfounded, a hand puppet of the neoconservative machine built and fluffed up and carefully placed for the very specific job of protecting their interests, no matter what. Repeat: No. Matter. What. Flood hurricane disaster war social breakdown economic collapse? Doesn't matter. Corporate interests über alles, baby. Protect the core, reassure the base, screw everyone else unless it begins to affect the poll numbers and then finger-point, deflect, prevaricate. All of a piece, really. Because Bush, he was never actually meant to, you know, lead...


A

Subject: RE: BS: George W Bush Still Rocks!
From: Peace
Date: 10 Sep 05 - 11:56 AM

Bush has done a magnificent job ensuring that the wealth of the rich is not eroded further by annoyances like inflation or unemployment. I don't care whether you like him or not, but at least give the man his due. Damned whiners, all of you!

Subject: RE: BS: George W Bush Still Rocks!
From: dianavan
Date: 10 Sep 05 - 11:56 AM

That article says it all; in very plain and easy to understand language.

Subject: RE: BS: George W Bush Still Rocks!
From: Peace
Date: 10 Sep 05 - 11:58 AM

If you think he doesn't rock, just look here!

Subject: RE: BS: George W Bush Still Rocks!
From: Ebbie
Date: 10 Sep 05 - 12:04 PM

The rocks are balanced in his bottom and in his head- the only rocking he does is like that PUNCH ME clown. One of these days his apologists will suddenly see the truth and on that day I wouldn't want to be in their shoes. Hey, I don't even want to be in my shoes. The man is an utter disaster. And we still have three and a half years of him. I shudder to think of what he is capable of given all that time.

Subject: RE: BS: George W Bush Still Rocks!
From: Peace
Date: 10 Sep 05 - 12:06 PM

He still has time to use a nucular weapon and start WWIII.

Subject: RE: BS: George W Bush Still Rocks!
From: Amos
Date: 10 Sep 05 - 12:45 PM

I notice he is playing a G-sharp cacophonous configuration on that Presidential Seal geetar. I think that has to say something. Tells you two thinks -- whatever the hell he's got goin', it ain't from the folk, and it ain't blues. And harmony is not among his talents.

A

Subject: RE: BS: George W Bush Still Rocks!
From: Peace
Date: 10 Sep 05 - 12:57 PM

It is a blues/jazz chord.

GEORGIE HAS "DUH" BLUES.

Subject: RE: BS: George W Bush Still Rocks!
From: dianavan
Date: 10 Sep 05 - 01:16 PM

Georgie is not half as scary as Cheney. Georgie just gets the kickbacks. If you're going to blame someone, look for the guy hiding in the background. Cheney is the one making fortunes from energy, war and natural disasters. No point in going after Bush. He's just a stooge.

Subject: RE: BS: George W Bush Still Rocks!
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 10 Sep 05 - 02:44 PM

As the country's Chief Executive, he can still give orders, whether his handlers like it or not, and if he had an ounce of integrity, that is exactly what he would do.

Stop making excuses for him, and realise that, as a president, he is as rocky as it gets.

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: George W Bush Still Rocks!
From: dianavan
Date: 10 Sep 05 - 02:48 PM

Who's making excuses for Bush?

Of course he has no ethics or integrity but by focussing on him, Cheney is getting away with an awful lot.

Subject: RE: BS: George W Bush Still Rocks!
From: Peace
Date: 10 Sep 05 - 02:56 PM

Cheney--is he the Vice-President or is he still working for Halliburton?

Subject: RE: BS: George W Bush Still Rocks!
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 10 Sep 05 - 03:09 PM

I think Dianavan has a point Don. Bush should be held accountable but the whole system seems scarey to me. The one that bothers me the most (altough I haven't seen much mention from US people here so maybe I'm wrong and probably will be told so in a couple of posts) is that Rice woman. In my mind I can see her groomed/grooming herself as next president but instead of someone a bit short of the old grey matter, them having someone with intelligence and I think with the capability of being absolutely ruthless.

Subject: RE: BS: George W Bush Still Rocks!
From: Peace
Date: 10 Sep 05 - 03:11 PM

Well, no doubt she'll be wearing nice new shoes.

Subject: RE: BS: George W Bush Still Rocks!
From: Kaleea
Date: 10 Sep 05 - 03:12 PM

ounce of . . . something, but surely not integrity!

Subject: RE: BS: George W Bush Still Rocks!
From: Peace
Date: 10 Sep 05 - 03:16 PM

Any remnant from the Bush administration will simply carry on the Neocon aganda. But then, it seems the Democrats aren't much of a difference either.

Subject: RE: BS: George W Bush Still Rocks!
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 10 Sep 05 - 06:54 PM

I hate to say this, but the collapse of the USSR may well have been the greatest disaster of all for the American people.

Communism did keep the US, and many other democratic countries focussed on the ideals of democratic government, and without it we seem to be sliding rapidly toward an era of totalitarian rule by corporations which care less for humanity than Hitler ever did.

Puppets like George help these people to remain in the background, unaccountable and untouchable. Remove the figurehead and they will have to put their heads above the parapet where they can be shot at (figuratively of course).

Any candidate who shows enmity toward Bush and Cheney would seem to be preferrable.

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: George W Bush Still Rocks!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 10 Sep 05 - 08:04 PM

Exactly, Don. I've been saying that ever since about a year after it happened. Without a "loyal opposition" on the World stage to keep them somewhat honest, the rich oligarchs of the West have gone totally out of control in their mad search for yet more riches, and their trashing of our society and its democratic traditions. Russia is now run by the Mafia, and America is now run by something equally evil, and far more powerful...uncontrolled corporatism. The $ySStem has, in fact, gone completely mad.

Subject: RE: BS: George W Bush Still Rocks!
From: Amos
Date: 11 Sep 05 - 10:31 AM

Corporatism, and management by corporate methods, is a very poor political system in many ways. The sorry fact is that not a lot of thought has been given to the differences. Those who work for a large corporation -- while they are free not to do so -- are somewhat enchattled by that bond -- their life hangs at the mercy of a bad opinion.

We tried to build something better in the American constitution, recognizing that the chaos of human opinion was sometimes volatile and reprehensibly loose in its loyalty to good principle. We tried to address this condition by building the best universal principles of human rights into the COnstitution. Unfortunately, especially under Neo-conservatism, these principles have not been held to their traditional importance, but have been treated as inconvenient after-thoughts, and badly slighted.

The vow to uphold the Constitution is almost meaningless in its current context. Anyone who, as Bush does, thinks it should be a vehicle for enforcing moralisms about the nature of private arrangements like marriage is too ignorant of its nature to be entrusted with it.

A

Subject: RE: BS: George W Bush Still Rocks!
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 05:07 AM

Yeah! Ole Geedubya still has rocks............in his head.

DT