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sabra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 03:01 PM
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Bush: "My mission is to -- today, though – is to lift people's spirits"
VIDEO: Bush consoles Kansas tornado victims


http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/news_theswamp/2007/05/bush_brighter_d.html#more

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“Our role as government officials is to work with the states and local folks to get whatever help is appropriate here, whatever help is in the law be here as quickly as possible,’’ the president said. “My mission is to -- today, though – is to lift people's spirits as best as I possibly can and to hopefully touch somebody's soul by representing our country, and to let people know that while there was a dark day in the past, there's brighter days ahead.’’
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Sapere aude Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 03:02 PM
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1. Give me a fucking break Bush, you lying piece of shit! You don't give a damn about anyone but
yourself!
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BOSSHOG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 03:03 PM
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2. The best way he could do that would be to leave
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no_hypocrisy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 03:04 PM
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5. Beat me to it!
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sarge43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 04:54 PM
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29. in an orange jump suit with matching steel bracelets.
My spirits would soar like an A-10.

What a tool.
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MotorCityMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 05:45 PM
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34. Naw, it's just something else he can fail miserably at
just like everything else in his life.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 03:03 PM
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3. Who is writing this shit?
:puke:
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 03:04 PM
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4. Yes, if a visit from a clown doesn't fill the void of total loss, nothing will...
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chelsea0011 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 03:04 PM
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6. He's there for a photo and some comments that show we have
a moron running the country. Notice the comment "is appropriate". In other words, we will screw you where we can.
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Demit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 03:05 PM
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7. Those brighter days will commence on Jan 20. 2009.
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rasputin1952 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 03:13 PM
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8. It is very easy to see he's full of shit...anyone who has
compassion and empathy would not attempt a prepared statement, but would speak from the heart. When one does that, thye rarely speak in such idiotic language and w/gaffes galore; he is trying to push himself into an emotional reality, and since he has no emotions, as most sociopaths are prone, he can't do it.

Want to slow down the melting of the glaciers? Send bush to the North Pole and Cheney to the South, as cold as those hearts are, re-freeze would take less than 45 minutes.
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Lobster Martini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 03:14 PM
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9. My spirit is lifted already...
No, wait, it's back. How on earth can he say that while Tony Snow and Sam Brownback argue that the fact that Kansas' national guard's equipment is in Iraq isn't a problem?

Chimpy thinking: "Oooh, a natural disaster! Photo ops!" Bet he'll be on the evening news in a plaid shirt swinging a hammer.

Bonus quote: “There is a lot of destruction," the president said. “Fortunately, a lot of folks had basements here in this part of the world..." Man, is that straight out of Dr. Strangelove or what?
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Lobster Martini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 03:18 PM
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12. Oh crap, I just saw the photo
I was wrong about the plaid shirt. Close, though.
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niyad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 03:25 PM
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16. didn't the tornado strike basically without warning? can't get into your basement if there isn't
time.

every time I wonder how much more ignorant and oblivious he can appear, he shows me. I am so tired of being embarrassed before my friends in other countries.
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SaveOurDemocracy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 03:48 PM
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20. There was a 20 minute warning, I believe.
Looking at the complete devastation left in it's wake, I can't imagine what the death toll would have been without that warning.
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hatrack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 04:57 PM
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31. Uh, didn't Little Boots even LOOK at the aerial photographs?
Concrete slab after concrete slab after concrete slab. In fact, one of the items under discussion for rebuilding Greensburg is the need for more people to have basements rather than slab homes.

Fucking dumbass.
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karlrschneider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 03:14 PM
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10. The prick should buy his own booze.
;-)
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 03:14 PM
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11. "to hopefully touch somebody's soul"
ew. :puke:
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Lobster Martini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 03:21 PM
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14. "to hopefully touch a live power line"
Note to FBI--just kidding, really--please don't tap my phone.
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Stephanie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 03:21 PM
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13. Well he gave them something to laugh at, anyway. Just like the Three Stooges.

http://news.yahoo.com/photo/070509/480/125026e39e6b4e68829daa9f3ecd0636


http://news.yahoo.com/photo/070509/480/b6f8548c47814b498c10821cc759d430


http://news.yahoo.com/photo/070509/480/ec0a56b5ee124693a1698afdc1bc9541
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tanyev Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 03:23 PM
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15. Now he's the Lifter-in-Chief.
621 days left.
621 days left.
621 days left.

:banghead:
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donkeyotay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 03:32 PM
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17. The man is not only a bafoon, he's an insane bafoon
His mission is to "hopefully touch somebody's soul by representing our country?" Wait. I thought he was the Commander Guy. It's hard to believe there are "brighter days ahead" when the commander guy has completely screwed the war on terror. We are at risk, at war, and will be for decades to come. Touch my soul, and resign.
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gatorboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 03:34 PM
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18. So he's basically Dr Phil that likes to bomb shit.
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ProgressiveFool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 04:02 PM
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22. LOL I can see Stewart or Colbert stealing that one n/t
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Lautremont Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 03:42 PM
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19. That damn underclown!
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Mr. Ected Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 03:54 PM
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21. I Only Wish A House Had Landed On the Wicked Witch of the White House
And his little toes had curled up under it.

"Toto, I can't believe his ass is in Kansas anymore".
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sakabatou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 04:15 PM
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23. He's doing a heckuvah job
:puke:
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Solly Mack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 04:17 PM
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24. So now he's the ascension guy?
wait for it


wait for it



LMAO
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SammyWinstonJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 04:24 PM
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25. WFT?
Our role as government officials is to work with the states and local folks to get whatever help is appropriate here, whatever help is in the law be here as quickly as possible,"

:wtf: Dumba$$! What a simpleton! He really could not care less! This was just another photo op for him, that much couldn't be any clearer.
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juno jones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 04:47 PM
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26. I saw "skirts" the first time I saw this headline....
For him to lift my spirits he would have to attempt japanese ritual seppeku with a rusty can opener, singing an aria fron "Die Gottdamerung" while dressed as Homey the Clown. I might find that amusing.
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 04:48 PM
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27. indeed!

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treestar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 04:49 PM
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28. Why is he representing the country to people in the country?
Isn't Kansas in this country?

:wtf:
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 04:55 PM
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30. he doesn't know where he is, he doesn't even know how he got to where
he doesn't know.
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Disturbed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 05:02 PM
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32. "there's brighter days ahead.’’
Is he saying that he and the rest of his Criminal Cabal will resing and confess to their crimes?
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deutsey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 05:37 PM
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33. As usual, quite the inspiring rhetorical flourish he provides...
:eyes:

Jerk.
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Forkboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 05:48 PM
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35. If he really meant that he would have shown up and blown his fucking brains out live on tv.
It certainly would have lifted mine.
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