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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-24-07 11:14 AM
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Bush Frets About Place in History
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Bush Frets About Place in History
by Bill Gallagher | Apr 24 2007


President George W. Bush is thinking about himself and his place in history. The conqueror of Iraq is pleased on both counts. That assessment brings shudders to the thinking world and more evidence of the depth of his delusions.

Speaking to an audience at a high school in Tipp, Ohio, last week, Bush talked about the massacre at Virginia Tech. He didn't mention the violence he supports on a global scale and how that bloodshed nurtures a mentality that violence is a preferred choice in human behavior on other levels.

Bush then fielded a few questions. The New York Times reports an audience member asked Bush, "When you go to bed at night, and you see these polls -- everybody and his brother does a poll now -- how does it make you feel?"

Bush loves handpicked crowds stacked with the local Republican faithful. The school is in Republican House Minority Leader John Boehner's district, and Boehner helped select the near-braindead hacks who prefaced questions with bows and "this is truly an honor" refrains. Bush relishes the fat pitches that enable him to feign reflection.

Bush mused about his retirement and how, when he settles down in Crawford, Texas, he'll do routines the queen in "Snow White" inspired. The cocaine allusion could be pure coincidence, or maybe not.

When our "war-time" president leaves the White House and comes to permanent rest at his faux ranch, he says he'll reflect on his presidency: "I will get there and look in the mirror, and I'll say, 'I came with a set of principles and I didn't try to change my principles to make me popular.'"

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no_hypocrisy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-24-07 11:17 AM
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1. He doesn't have much to worry about. The majority of public school history books
Edited on Tue Apr-24-07 11:18 AM by no_hypocrisy
are written, edited, and printed in the great state of Texas. The fix is in.

Thank you Mel Gabler
:sarcasm:

http://www.textbookreviews.org/index.html?content=http%3A//www.textbookreviews.org/nl_05_05.htm
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Cobalt-60 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-24-07 08:27 PM
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14. we need t o see to it that a true record survives
even if we have to acid etch stainless steel plates and bury them
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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-24-07 11:18 AM
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2. Behind his name: Worst US President in history*
*Never having won an election, George W. Bu$h was appointed to the office of President by the Supreme Court. Once in office he proceeded to destroy the US Constitution and the reputation of the United States among the world.
He is credited with starting ___ wars that lasted ____ centuries.

Fill in the blank for wars and centuries.
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MUAD_DIB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-24-07 11:19 AM
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3. The VT gunman has nothing on Bushy. Monkeynutz is in a violence class al his own.

I hope t hat Bush has a long life: one filled with drunken suffering and hauntings of all those he has sent to their death.


But who am I fooling? Sociopaths aren't haunted by anything except their own desire to kill more.
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reprobate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-24-07 11:50 AM
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11. I hope that Bush has a long life, locked safely away at the Hague.
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Felix Mala Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-24-07 11:23 AM
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4. Nor did he change his principles to be remotely competent.
I think it's nice that this guy is such an ignoramus when it comes to history. It will make it that much easier to live with his delusions.
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Kurovski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-24-07 11:23 AM
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5. Well, given his war and Jeff Gannon,
Edited on Tue Apr-24-07 11:24 AM by Kurovski
Bush's place will be somewhere between Iraq and a hard place.
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-24-07 11:29 AM
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7. Ba dum bum!
:spray:
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chelsea0011 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-24-07 11:27 AM
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6. I don't know if this was the same speech at the same school but,
there was a quote on Bill Press's show this AM where the President had said he read three history's last year on George Washington and doesn't think what books say about him matter right now. He's saying that over 200 years later and they are still writing about G. Washington. Is George Bush for real? He is equating himself with one, if not, the most important President in our history with himself. How many books are being made about most Presidents right now Mr. Pretender-in-Chief? Not many. The most important writings will be about the Bush legacy will be in the law books for all to see throughout this countries history. And most books will be how this corrupt Presidency affected the country and the world.
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Kurovski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-24-07 11:44 AM
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8. With a self-deluded alcoholic screwball like George, he could easily make such an equation.
everyone else is wrong and George will be vindicated when the Middle East has a Baghdad Disneyworld, and produces dog food and American flags for our consumption.



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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-24-07 11:45 AM
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10. Yes, I'm pretty sure it was the same speech. Very
diffult for me to believe he read 3 books, on any topic, for starters.
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Ganja Ninja Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-24-07 11:45 AM
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9. The only debate future historians will engage in about Bush is
whether he was completely insane or just a compulsive liar.
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-24-07 05:05 PM
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12. what a sickening, egotistical piece of SHIT he is
:puke:
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katty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-24-07 07:16 PM
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13. yes-shut the f***up you puerile asshole!!!
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Lisa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-26-07 01:40 AM
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15. I'm sure he'll be making many appearances in US folklore ...
.... as a type of bogeyman. One Latin American writer once commented that parents would be scaring their kids, in centuries to come, with stories of a dreadful monster inspired by General Pinochet. Well, Bush will be the equivalent up here.
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camero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-26-07 06:27 AM
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16. Bush legacy: The only pres to OPENLY endorse torture
Edited on Thu Apr-26-07 06:27 AM by camero
Not even Lincoln with the suspension of habeas corpus or FDR with the Japenese Internment camps tried to cross that threshold.
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classysassy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-26-07 02:04 PM
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17. Fear not
great leader,you'll go down in history as a great puppet in the hands of that equally great vice leader,Dickless Chaney.
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Bravo Zulu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-26-07 03:34 PM
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18. Codpiece-in-chief:
bu$h gives GOPig women a thrill ...turdblossom filled up *’s crotch with his old socks to get the effect!

Also, didn’t this nitwit declare victory?






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natrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-26-07 08:20 PM
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19. his place is at the bottom of the out house
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