Stewart on Bush chest bumps: Would we love him if he didn't f*ck things up

Stewart on Bush chest bumps: Would we love him if he didn't f*ck things up
David Edwards and Muriel Kane
Published: Friday May 30, 2008

President George W. Bush recently engaged in some rather juvenile behavior while speaking at the Air Force graduation ceremony.

Jon Stewart showed a series of photos of Bush's antic on Thursday's Daily Show and commented, "When I see the president do the chest bump, I cannot help but think that if he hadn't been fucking things up for the past seven years and was goofing around like this -- would we love him? Would we be like, 'He is irrepressible'? What a scamp!' Or does the whole doing that while Rome is burning aspect of his presidency sour us on his exuberance?"

"But, of course, he did fuck things up," Stewart continued. "So it all just seems -- asinine. But at least the president is out there supporting the troops, and isn't that what it's all about?" He then offered a montage of clips of John McCain, Dick Cheney, and other Republicans insisting that Americans must support the troops.

"Yes!" Stewart paraphrased enthusiastically. "We must support the troops -- but not necessarily with equipment -- or strategy -- or aftercare -- or ending their service when you promised -- or having their country contribute in any way other than shop and not question us."

"There actually is another way to support the troops," Stewart continued more soberly. "There's a new GI Bill, sponsored by Virginia Senator Jim Webb. ... This new bill is more generous for our troops -- which is a huge problem with all those people we showed earlier saying support the troops."


Rest of article and video at: http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Daily_Show_blasts_McCain_for_misleading_0530.html

He is damaged goods....what they call in Tuva...a souse....

I'd love to live next door to the guy. Can you imagine the parties? The guy was an instant party. Throw him into a group of people and you have an instant party. I'm sure he's got some great off-color jokes.

But president? A natural born fuck off does not make a good president. We've learned that lesson.

Politics aside, I imagine he'd be the asshole telling racist and sexist jokes. Maybe that's what you meant by off-color, I don't know, but I suspect he'd be one of those people where if I knew he was going to be there, I'd think twice before going.

I think much of his politics derives from being racist/sexist, and those aren't normally the sort of people I'm willing to spend time with.

If he wasn't such a screw up, these antics would certainly give him great appeal with some the younger voters and maybe even a sort of rock star popularity. It would add to his "ordinary guy" persona. I still think most voters would see such behavior as undignified and unpresidential - but we probably wouldn't give a darn if he was otherwise doing a good job.

Heck, look at Bill Clinton's presidency. Now what he did with Monica Lewinsky was terribly undignified - especially since he did it in the Oval Office. That's really pretty shameful. It's only partially to his defense that I don't think we had any business asking him that sort of thing under oath. The whole situation was just tacky. But while most of us may not like it, we still overall liked Clinton because he was so good at being president. So we forgave his sometimes crass behavior because he was effective.

Thank you, Jon! :applause: