# Bush circulates staff memo on what to say about his Admin's record **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 10, 2008, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-circulates-staff-memo-on-what-to-say-about-his-admins-record/476473 "2008-12-10T00:05:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![BJMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@BJMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BJMoose)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-circulates-staff-memo-on-what-to-say-about-his-admins-record/476473/61 "2008-12-11T15:20:04Z")
It’s a shame he didn’t do anything that would have kept America safe _on_ 9/11. Not that we’ll ever be able to determine what Fearless Leader actually accomplished. I expect that the card catalog at the George Walker Bush Presidential Library and Grill will contain just a single 3X5 card, reading “Sorry – this information is classified”. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-circulates-staff-memo-on-what-to-say-about-his-admins-record/476473/62 "2008-12-12T00:28:08Z")
> [@BJMoose](#): > > It’s a shame he didn’t do anything that would have kept America safe _on_ 9/11. The usual suspects will be arriving to put all the blame for that on Clinton in 5 . . 4 . . . 3 . . . ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-circulates-staff-memo-on-what-to-say-about-his-admins-record/476473/63 "2008-12-12T00:43:40Z")
[On the lighter side, one Bush Administration official doesn’t think that the American people would support a US response to the **nuking** of Israel.](http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1045687.html) > [@](#): > > A senior Bush administration source said that the proposal for an American nuclear umbrella for Israel was ridiculous and lacked credibility. “Who will convince the citizen in Kansas that the U.S. needs to get mixed up in a nuclear war because Haifa was bombed? And what is the point of an American response, after Israel’s cities are destroyed in an Iranian nuclear strike?” Guess they don’t teach the policy of MAD, or the importance of Israel in politics at Bob Jones University. ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-circulates-staff-memo-on-what-to-say-about-his-admins-record/476473/64 "2008-12-12T21:07:13Z")
_if_ YOU **wa** NT **to see** _your_ Leg **AS** _y_ please **DEPP** osit **we** pi_ns_ of **Mass** distruc **tion** at _the_ **following address** … ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-circulates-staff-memo-on-what-to-say-about-his-admins-record/476473/65 "2008-12-12T21:25:32Z")
> [@faithfool](#): > > Thank you overlord. **BrainGlutton** is a cat? ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-circulates-staff-memo-on-what-to-say-about-his-admins-record/476473/66 "2008-12-12T21:42:46Z")
> [@Fish](#): > > _if_ YOU **wa** NT **to see** _your_ Leg **AS** _y_ please **DEPP** osit **we** pi_ns_ of **Mass** distruc **tion** at _the_ **following address** … [Co. buys back Bush library domain name for $35K](http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iELmXPO-zqWxED14jd8eZvlWn2LQD950T4CO0) > [@](#): > > George W. Bush’s presidential library domain name has been retrieved after a Web developing company accidentally let it expire — and it apparently came at a high price. > > Raleigh, N.C.-based Illuminati Karate paid less than $10 for the [http://www.GeorgeWBushLibrary.com](http://www.GeorgeWBushLibrary.com) domain name and sold it back earlier this year for $35,000 to the library’s contracted Web developers, Yuma Solutions, said George Huger, lead Web developer for Illuminati Karate. ---
**Author:** ![Rack-a-Bones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rack-a-Bones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rack-a-Bones)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2008, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-circulates-staff-memo-on-what-to-say-about-his-admins-record/476473/67 "2008-12-13T00:21:53Z")
> [@glee](#): > > From this side of the pond, Bush departs leaving the US: > > - economy at its worst for many decades > - involved in three wars; two of which are stupid (v Iraq, Afghanistan and Drugs) > - with its international reputation at an all-time low (Guantanamo Bay, Abu Graib) > **- with the reputation of having elected a President who simply wasn’t up to the job and who divided the country with his right-wing religious views** Twice! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2008, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-circulates-staff-memo-on-what-to-say-about-his-admins-record/476473/68 "2008-12-13T00:48:54Z")
> [@Rack-a-Bones](#): > > Twice! :eek: Well, let’s say once-and-a-half. ---
**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2008, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-circulates-staff-memo-on-what-to-say-about-his-admins-record/476473/69 "2008-12-13T17:56:24Z")
This is what Bush said about the legacy he would leave: \*\* [‘Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over’](http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28784)\*\* ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2008, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-circulates-staff-memo-on-what-to-say-about-his-admins-record/476473/70 "2008-12-13T18:13:44Z")
> [@sailor](#): > > This is what Bush said about the legacy he would leave: \*\* [‘Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over’](http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28784)\*\* Finally! A pol who keeps his promises! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Jaglavak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85f322/32.png) [@Jaglavak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaglavak)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2008, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-circulates-staff-memo-on-what-to-say-about-his-admins-record/476473/71 "2008-12-13T20:49:24Z")
Quote: Bush said his administration… has “laid a foundation of trust” between Israelis and Palestinians. > [@Squink](#): > > Where does he _get_ this stuff 😕😕😕😕 That’s what you call it when there’s nothing showing above ground. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2008, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-circulates-staff-memo-on-what-to-say-about-his-admins-record/476473/72 "2008-12-14T01:19:59Z")
> [@smiling\_bandit](#): > > Yup, that’s right. Bush “let” the economy crash. Gosh darn that Bush, if he just hadn’t let his hands slip, the economy would have been just fine. > > Fact is, the president does not and never did have much poer o’er the economy. I think that is probably true, but if you’re gonna claim credit for lifting the economy circa 2001, you gotta accept the blame for the crash of '08. Consistency & all that. EDIT:: dangit, **Tim** … ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2008, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-circulates-staff-memo-on-what-to-say-about-his-admins-record/476473/73 "2008-12-14T14:00:04Z")
Okay it’s been several days now! Has anybody seen an actual complete copy of this elusive yet hilariously excerpted two-page memo? Hey L.A. Times, whose Washington bureau ostensibly obtained a copy! Why so coy? Is it illegal for you to publish the whole thing, or what? ---
**Author:** ![constanze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f9ae1b/32.png) [@constanze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/constanze)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2008, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-circulates-staff-memo-on-what-to-say-about-his-admins-record/476473/74 "2008-12-14T17:57:10Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I’m not going to look for faults here. Bush’s African aid program may not have been perfect but no major program is. Overall, Bush deserves credit for increasing foreign aid to an area of the world that needed it. It was a positive act by his administration. No, giving money to abstinence-only programs which are worse than useless instead of giving free condoms and educating (and empowering) women on how to use them is not a positive act. From what I’ve heard (no cite) he activly cut funding to those programs that promoted condoms. As with most US “foreign aid” you only get credit for aid that helps the people over there, not what’s good for your own economy or what fits into your ideology. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-circulates-staff-memo-on-what-to-say-about-his-admins-record/476473/75 "2008-12-16T06:03:46Z")
> [@Terrifel](#): > > Is this even a real memo? I want to see the whole memo. Unfortunately, it’s being kept in the same vault as Obama’s (real!) birth certificate. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 9:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-circulates-staff-memo-on-what-to-say-about-his-admins-record/476473/76 "2008-12-16T09:36:16Z")
I hear the spin is that the people of Iraq are so incredibly grateful they take off their own shoes to give them to Bush. That’s how grateful they are. ---
**Author:** ![tagos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@tagos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tagos)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-circulates-staff-memo-on-what-to-say-about-his-admins-record/476473/77 "2008-12-16T09:58:17Z")
> [@constanze](#): > > No, giving money to abstinence-only programs which are worse than useless instead of giving free condoms and educating (and empowering) women on how to use them is not a positive act. From what I’ve heard (no cite) he activly cut funding to those programs that promoted condoms. That is correct. On the BBC World Service I heard some heart-rending tales from various third world places who lost funding because they provide contraceptive advice. One even lost its funding just for having a poster. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-circulates-staff-memo-on-what-to-say-about-his-admins-record/476473.md?page=3)