Describe your activities in 1972-73 in detail: were you Absent Without Leave from your National Guard duties, for which you pulled strings to join to avoid the draft, during this period?
I am not a violent person so no kicking, but there is nothing he could tell me that I’d really care to know. I suppose I could ask him to give me his shoes just to see what he’d say.
Can I kick him in the nuts and ask him, “how does that feel?”
I don’t think there’s any doubt. What I’m more interested in is why the National Guard chose not to take disciplinary action and if they were normally lackadaisical about it. Or did they let it slide because of who he was? I’m also kind of surprised that mystery hasn’t been solved yet. Shouldn’t that information be publicly available?
I think you know the answer. What career Guard officer, hoping to get his years in quietly before retiring, without getting sent to Vietnam himself, is going to do anything about a Congressman’s son? Nothing good can come of that. There was no secret even then about Fortunate Sons. You might also ask about what exactly he did to get that community service sentence in Houston that was later expunged. That’s a bit more of a mystery.
My only question would be “Can I go get my steel-toed boots first?”
I’d like to ask him how he could be so thoughtless- tactless- clueless as to say to US personnel in Afganistan: “I must say, I’m a little envious. If I were slightly younger and not employed here, I think it would be a fantastic experience to be on the front lines of helping this young democracy succeed. It must be exciting for you … in some ways romantic, in some ways, you know, confronting danger”.
I’ve always wondered if he was embarrassed fronting the ownership group of the Texas Rangers when the Ballpark hosted the All Star Game and was in such bad shape they had to spray paint all the dead grass green for TV? He’s too nice a guy to kick in the nuts. The real question is why my fellow Merkins keep electing one dumbass after another President.
There’s no grab and twist option :mad:
Kicking him in the nuts seems unsporting, but he has no information I’d want, so a kick it must be.
Who else runs? To me, the beauty of GWB, in hindsight, is how little handling he accepted. If you ever wanted to see what a regular joe as President would look like, he came the closest. Chewing with his mouth open at diplomatic dinners, wiping his glasses on other people’s shirts, giving massages to female foreign leaders, struggling to answer even the most basic questions about basic topics he hadn’t been coached on. It could have been one of the guys from Duck Dynasty. If there had been a movie about the Bush Presidency before it happened, no one would have ever believed it could happen in real life.
Most politicians that get that far are coached and handled to the point where they barely seem like real people anymore. And they still aren’t that bright beyond academic achievement. They often have no accomplishments outside of politics. Or like GWB, they tried to do other things, and at best, achieved mediocrity. In his case, he more often than not just failed. Who could have predicted that such a man would make a poor President?
Regular Joes are overrated. This is typical anti-intellectual claptrap—contempt for people who actually know things. And if you think you know how much or how little most successful public figures are “handled,” you’re fooling yourself.
Also, regular Joes tend not to be the son of a US president, grandson of a senator, go to Ivy League schools and hang out with Saudi royalty.
I voted nuts because I didn’t read closely enough at first and thought I was the one who got to do the kicking. Now that I understand what I’m actually voting for, I choose…nuts.
Bush the Younger was an awful president, but I think he’s a good man. (This is in contrast to Bill Clinton, a great president but wretched human being.) So I’m not going to kick him in the nads.
NUTS!
NUTS!
NUTS!
NUTS!
NUTS!
Truly, I do not even want to hear his voice, or see his face, much less hear his opinions.
How can history punish him? He’s gonna be dead. I want him to have some punishment that he gets to experience.
Hope you’re fully recovered from your last nut shot, Shrubya…
Go right ahead. Obama is a pretty good President, and so was Bill Clinton. And even if she’d not likely be my first choice to take the nomination, I expect Hillary to be a pretty good one as well.
Yeah, I didn’t really consider that much of a threat either. I doubt very much that Clinton will ever consider Obama a weight hanging from his neck. Certainly we Democrats don’t.
I’m not anti-intellectual, but if you elect someone to DO things, then they should already have actually DONE things, not just thought things or wrote about things or advocated for things or given great speeches about things.
I’m not saying we need Joe Public as President. What we need is people with Bush’s lack of concern for his public perception combined with a record of accomplishment outside of politics. Even better if their record of accomplishment pertains to problems we are having right now. If only there had been a candidate in 2012 who had experience at fixing broken organizations. Who wouldn’t have supported someone like that?