George W. Bush is once again at the deceptive podium, trying his best to sink both the pathetic vestiges of his party and his own reputation to ever-greater historic lows. And Georgie is doing a helluva job. Wednesday night, as you know, he spoke gibberish for what must have seemed like an interminable hour in Erie, Pennsylvania to the Manufacturers and Business Association, proving that those on both sides of the lectern have far greater stamina than normal folks. He came loaded for bear and, characteristically, was chock full of virtually everything nonsensical that the American electorate just rejected, perhaps for good. For example he hauled along this standard rhetorical chestnut: "You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money." On dinner and a movie, absolutely. But what about, say, health care? -- where it just might help to have 300 million others buying into the same government-owned-and-operated insurance pool as you. Yet Bush, as he put it, "worr[ies] about encouraging the government to replace the private sector when it comes to providing insurance for health care" -- nice, since he has a government pension, complete with a government health-care package. And, besides, he's still in pretty darn good physical shape, largely because of those eight years he spent exercising on a government salary rather than worrying about your health care. When asked if he thought Barack Obama is a socialist, Bush said, "We'll see." But it would have been of greater benefit to us all if the questioner had instead posed, "Do you regard yourself as the halfwitted fascist the entire world with profound justification came to see you as?" At least we could have seen the famous Bush smirk. He was the worst ever, hands down. Worse than Buchanan, worse than Pierce, far worse, even, than the brazenly criminal Nixon. And no number of speeches can ever reverse that.
Who is George W. Bush?
Posted by: Barry Schwartz | June 19, 2009 at 11:43 AM
Right on! Someone in Dallas should put him on a short leash and muzzle him. Then again, having him out there and speaking again, serves as the best reminder of the nightmare he was for our country.
Posted by: Kathy | June 19, 2009 at 12:38 PM
Bush and Cheney are both now free to go JOIN the war they started. Ain't NOTHING but air and their own cowardice keeping them out of COMBAT.
CHENEY:
1) FIVE DEFERMENTS to dodge SERVING the Nation during Viet Nam, too busy advancing HIS career.
2) HIDES in a secret Bunker during and long after 9/11.
3) Now FREE to get a rifle and a plane ticket to Afghanistan where he could LEAD the Troops into COMBAT to show us all how TOUGH he is, he prefers to JACK HIS JAW safely AWAY from any danger.
4) "his" KBR/HALLIBURTON has murdered at LEAST three American Troops with faulty wiring in their WAR PROFITEERING in Iraq.
Posted by: Veronica | June 19, 2009 at 01:04 PM
I like how he gave an "atta boy" to the private sector after cutting Americans off at the knees with the massively fraudulent H1B program, suicidal "free trade" agreements, and tax incentives to move the remaining American jobs overseas. What an a$$hole.
Posted by: Alex | June 19, 2009 at 01:07 PM
The members of the Manufacturers and Business Association need to learn how to throw a shoe.
Posted by: Andy | June 19, 2009 at 01:58 PM
The Bush family and their fat little boy Dick Cheney , all are still getting away with murder. And until the UN, (also foundly known as the "YN" meaning Your Nations to those who know it belongs to corporate America)unless it soon proves it's moral worth by putting the people on trial for war crimes, only proves the entire system is as rigged as a Bush election.
This "New World Order" that the bible and various other prophets say would arrive in the future, has now arrived.
Posted by: Fast-Forward Button | June 19, 2009 at 02:01 PM
Bush worse USA president? Not realy! If only there was internet to expose Truman or Wilson-- or how about LBJ?
Don't blame Jr.Bush,blame the folks who allowed him to become President :^(
Posted by: george | June 19, 2009 at 02:18 PM
boosh "was chock full of virtually everything nonsensical that the American electorate just rejected, perhaps for good."
obambam is continuing - and accelerating, on some national and international policies (e.g., wars) - all the "nonsense" boosh started.
obambam is boosh on steroids, which has led some journalists to suggest he may prove himself even worse than boosh.
Posted by: tquigly | June 19, 2009 at 02:21 PM
Tired of defending Obama's perfidy, Carpenter? Taking it easy on yourself by taking some swings at the low-hanging fruit represented by our retired retard-in-chief?
Obama's recent argument that, while a demonstrably better system, we can't have single-payer because we already have a health-insurance system of some sort is exactly the same sort of insulting idiocy as that for which you lambaste Bush. Obama's young tenure is repleat with similar examples of destructive condescension.
But Bush is a certifiable moron, and nothing more should be expected out of him. Obama, on the other hand, is an educated man of great intelligence, and therefore, coming from him, such usurous lies and unworthy waffling hurts twice as much.
Posted by: Ken Duerksen | June 19, 2009 at 02:48 PM
I can't stand the litte nazi Bush
BUT Obama is well o his way to being WAY WORSE right now
all hes missing right now is a false flag psyop like 911 to justify EVEN MORE WARS
him allowing the Federal Reserve to take over the economy in FULL alone will put him in the top 3 worst along with Bush and Klinton
he does nothing but LIE and then lie SOME MORE
at least with the chimp furhrer we all knew he was a smack
Posted by: Timmy | June 19, 2009 at 03:26 PM
i cannot believe how stoopid can his audience be to be paying to listen to this dumb speaker
Posted by: Anonymous | June 20, 2009 at 02:18 AM