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Island Blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-03-05 11:29 PM
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What we need now is a President who can juggle!
Edited on Sat Sep-03-05 11:31 PM by Island Blue



Sorry for stealing a photo from your Friday picture thread Whome, it's just that right now we really need a President who can concentrate on more than one thing at a time. Damn you, Ohio!


On edit: Pardon my silliness - I get that way when it's late and the world is going nuts.
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karynnj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-03-05 11:37 PM
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1. And juggle with a smile!
He almost looks more like a college student than a Senator here. I actually went back to look at Whome's thread 'cause it was the only happy thing here.

With Iraq, NO, and Rehnquist - I wonder if even Kerry can be positive.
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whometense Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 12:32 AM
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2. No inside knowledge,
but here's my prediction. When things get truly horrible there are people who feel like cringing in a corner with their arms over their head (like me) and then there are people like John, who, the worse things get, the more pissed off and energetic they become. He's had a long vacation away from Washington, but my prediction is he will return, to borrow TayTay's phrase, in blazing WRATH OF GOD mode.

The horrors of the past week, piled onto the Cindy Sheehan debacle (from Bush's perspective), piled onto the questions still unanswered about 9/11 have just stripped whatever tattered clothes remained on the emperor's body. Could it be any clearer how utterly naed he is??? (and sorry for the mental image there, but I'm trying to make a point.)

I think it was in one of the comments on Steve Gilliard's site - here - I found it:

I get the impression from watching Bush that he is bored of being Prez-nit now. His glorious Iraq war isn't going too well. Being "command in chief" and being a "war Prez-nit" is pretty much all he cares about. He doesn't understand that being President isn't just about prancing around in uniform, calling the shots and being "command in chief". Like a child, he craves adulation. That's all this Presidency means to him. He doesn't understand leadership. He doesn't understand the heavy burden of being President of the United States. He doesn't understand that he is responsible for the lives of real people. Katrina doesn't give him an opportunity to be a "War President" and to make threats against the evil-doer ragheads and feel like a big fucking man with empty words and threats like 9/11 did, so he couldn't give a flying fuck. Don't be fooled by his actions today - this is simply damage control. His aides know his lack of engagement looks bad so they rushed to do some damage control and make it looks like he cares. This President does not understand the suffering of the poor and the weak and the disinfranshised. He may say he does, but his words are hollow. His eyes tell a different story. His inappropriate smirks, grins and arrogant demeanour are proof enough that his words are insincere and just political theatre. It is all feigned concern. He is an empty shell of a man.

Look into his eyes - he is bored and listless and uninterested. He is simply going through the motions. Like a child, he's upset his 5 week vacation was ruined by Cindy Sheehan and now this hurricane. He's lost interest in the Presidency... he can't wait to get out of it and dump all the havoc he's created onto the sucker unfortunate enough to inherit the disasters, foreign and domestic, that he has created. That is George W. Bush's history - a fuck-up. A spoiled, rich, bratty-boy who fucked up one thing after another and never had to take responsibility for anything he did. He just walked away from every fuck-up in his life and had someone else clean it up. That will be the legacy of his glorious presidency.


There is just a total leadership vacuum right now, and that is what's freaking everyone out. The emperor is naked, and the line of succession is nothing but one naked emperor after another.

I have no doubt about what Kerry and the dem leadership will be feeling - the big question is what will they be able to do??
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TayTay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 12:40 AM
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3. They will be able to do some
The media is salivating over this story. And they are just waiting for the Dems to get back to work and start speaking out.

We will get a large clue tomorrow from the Dems, like Kennedy, who appear on the Talking Heads shows.

Dear Gawd in heaven, Kerry risked his image, integrity and career to oppose the war, expose Iran-Contra, BCCI and other scandals. And more Americans are dead in this tragedy in the Gulf than in any other natural disaster in American History. And Kerry friggin knew about the inadequate plans to shore up our infrastructure and to prepare for a disaster. He spoke about this all the time, not just last year, but since assuming office in 1985. This is what his whole friggin life has been about. Did you read tha tpress release. There was controlled rage in there.

Like the Wrath of God. This is one of those moments that exceeds political ambition and posing and everything else. And I know one Senator who has put it on the line before. And there is so much more cause here. People are dead, in part because of preventable government causes. Dear Lord in heaven, if this isn't something he raises holy hell over, then I quit.
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whometense Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 12:46 AM
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4. There's nothing like a full-blown
Edited on Sun Sep-04-05 12:46 AM by whometense
state of righteous fury. PLUS the f***ers stole the frigging election - so they could do THIS??? Good point about the media.

Bush's unalterable inner frat boy continues to stun me. And WTF is up with Clinton??

Do you think it's possible there are power repukes in DC who are seeing all this and still thinking they have the upper hand? That nothing has changed? What do you think they will do? Back away or keep in line? Frist certainly seems to be hell bent on marching himself off a cliff.
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TayTay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 12:48 AM
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5. Know it? I'm banking on it.
Oh please Repukes, just keep on with the arrogance and the 'pas the blame' game and the head-in-the-sand antics. Make my day.

They are clueless, stupid, arrogant and think they are forever. Nothing is forever. Things change. Tides turn. And they fucked up big time. And they are going to have to pay.
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sandnsea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 01:46 AM
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6. My first laugh in DAYS
That was the LAST thing I expected. A real knee-slapper. :)

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Island Blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 05:58 AM
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7. I'm glad you enjoyed my moment of loopiness!
:)
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