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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-30-07 09:41 PM
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BUSH: “I’m about to crank this sucker up.”


“I would suggest moving back,” Bush said as he climbed into the cab of a massive D-10 tractor during his visit to a Caterpillar factory today. “I’m about to crank this sucker up.” Newsweek notes, “As the engine roared to life, White House staffers tried to steer the press corps to safety, but when the tractor lurched forward, they too were forced to scramble for safety. ‘Get out of the way!’ a news photographer yelled. ‘I think he might run us over!’ said another. … Even the Secret Service got involved, as one agent began yelling at reporters to get clear of the tractor. Watching the chaos below, Bush looked out the tractor’s window and laughed, steering the massive machine into the spot where most of the press corps had been positioned.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/30/i-would-suggest-moving-back/

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waiting for hope Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-30-07 09:43 PM
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1. Have we not been embarrassed
enough already? I say just impeach him on his stupidity alone. I know I've had enough of his crap.
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Cocoa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-30-07 09:44 PM
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2. what a great metaphor for his presidency
driving it drunk.
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City Lights Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-30-07 09:46 PM
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3. There's never a cliff around when you need one.
:evilgrin:
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SammyWinstonJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-30-07 10:00 PM
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16. LOL
:spray:
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Joyce78 Donating Member (497 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-30-07 09:47 PM
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4. Don't mean to be nasty but
when I first read that quote I thought it was a reference to his relationship with the "lump in the bed". Then when I read that he is quoted as saying "I would suggest moving back" ... I thought it was a directive to Pickles. Now I see these statements have to do with steering a tractor.
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DearAbby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-30-07 09:47 PM
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5. It's a circus?
Edited on Tue Jan-30-07 09:48 PM by DearAbby
:IDONTF*CKINGBELEIVEITSMILEY:


Edit my smiley icon
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Jackpine Radical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-30-07 10:07 PM
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17. Test
:IDONTFUCKINGBELEIVEITSMILEY:
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LSK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-30-07 09:48 PM
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6. maybe we can just let him drive tractors for 2 years
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SammyWinstonJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-30-07 09:48 PM
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7. It's always ALL about him, isn't it? He clearly doesn't have any perception of reality.
Edited on Tue Jan-30-07 09:49 PM by Blue State Native
Time of your life, eh george? All fun all the time for the spoiled rotten frat boy/man. :puke: Evil little pissant! Will he ever grow up? What an embarrassment he is and he clearly needs new handlers to manage his self serving behavior. The World is watching, and it's not amused by his spoiled antics!
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bdamomma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-30-07 11:06 PM
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28. oh you know he has got to go frat boy go back to Texas huh?
no even better go to the Hague. What a stupid sick man. I hate him.
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-30-07 09:49 PM
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8. Oh what he's giving up brush cutting for farming reporters?
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SammyWinstonJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-30-07 09:54 PM
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14. LOL! His new pastime, running down reporters who might possibly disagree with him.
Nip that in the bud, posthaste! :evilgrin: Hey, he warned them first! :rofl:
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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-30-07 09:50 PM
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9. El Presidente Cabeza de Mierda
What a fucking embarassment.
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Dinger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-30-07 09:50 PM
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10. Probably Winding Up For A Fart, Since he Likes To Do That Sort Of Thing (nt)
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Olney Blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-30-07 09:52 PM
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11. I can't take two more years of this.
:banghead:
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bdamomma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-30-07 11:08 PM
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29. this country and us cannot take this anymore. get him out now
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greenbriar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-30-07 09:53 PM
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12. dumb ass frat boy should NOT be pResident
Bush looked out the tractor’s window and laughed, steering the massive machine into the spot where most of the press corps had been positioned.”
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Botany Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-30-07 09:54 PM
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13. Put him in an open pit mine w/ that Cat D-10 and walk away.
Don't come back for about 6 hours ..... :rofl:




I have driven a D-9 and they are beasts.
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goforit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-30-07 09:55 PM
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15. He laughs at people running scared? Is this what he did with the 911 videos?
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cynatnite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-30-07 10:07 PM
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18. Surely someone had a camera catching this...
someone? anyone?
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Strelnikov_ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-30-07 10:14 PM
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19. maybe someone should tell him that it is a dangerous piece of equipment
Edited on Tue Jan-30-07 10:14 PM by loindelrio
D-10 with ripper:



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tinfoilinfor2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-30-07 10:24 PM
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20. Is there no way out of this nightmare?
:argh:
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bdamomma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-30-07 11:09 PM
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30. crash the gates?????
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damntexdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-30-07 10:36 PM
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21. About to crank? Hell, he's already a crank!
And he takes all of us for suckers.

But at least Dubya's tractor driving was more competent than his leadership in government.
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tanyev Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-30-07 10:38 PM
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22. What. An. Ass.
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frylock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-30-07 10:43 PM
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23. git-r-done!
what a maroon.
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niyad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-30-07 10:43 PM
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24. it's a true pity that he doesn't know anything about japanese culture--like hara-kiri
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Kadie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-30-07 11:02 PM
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25. Here is a bit of it on Video - link
Edited on Tue Jan-30-07 11:04 PM by Kadie
“I would suggest moving back, I’m about to crank this sucker up.”

http://video.ap.org/v/en-ap/v.htm?g=2D0CF734-BDC9-45C3-82A0-F1F86E259B74&t=s60&p=ENAPus_ENAPus&&f=ILCHS



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bdamomma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-30-07 11:04 PM
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26. he is sick bastard, I bet he had that smirk on ear to ear.
:puke: :puke:
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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-30-07 11:04 PM
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27. Good LORD. He has his FINGER. ON. THE. BUTTON.
Horrifying.
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Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-30-07 11:10 PM
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31. I'm surprised they told the reporters to move!
Ruined Georges fun!
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NastyRiffraff Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-31-07 12:16 AM
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32. Good God...
He's like a twelve year old, but stupider and meaner.
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BrewerJohn Donating Member (499 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-31-07 01:13 AM
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33. You know, given the news, that can be taken two ways...
:scared:
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