Bwhahaha!
How do you come up with this shit?
It’s fucking humor. And pretty funny at that.
“but actually doing so on the graves of thousands.”
Udder cow shit!
-IS
Sure, but it was pretty obviously also a reference to the deck of cards on which the US printed Iraqi criminals, and various right wing organizations embraced wiht their own decks of traitors. The implication is pretty clear for Europe’s leaders.
ISTR as he was delivering the speech to hear him refer to the cards in the picture as trading cards. As in baseball or Pokémon. Didn’t click with me to associate them with the “wanted deck” until this thread, and I’m as committed to sending him back to Crawford permanently as you can find.
And is the OP about to already own up to that he AT NO TIME in the speech made fun of "MIA"s?
Dammit don’t make me speak good of him!
OTOH:Athelas, you git, we’re here fighting ignorance. Not revelling in it.
Sure, but for now Europe’s leaders have a much, much deadlier hand to worry about.
I remember that; more than a minor embarassment, if you ask me (though no one ever does).
If you’re a presidential candidate, and a reporter asks you, “Do you know the name of the leader of such-and-such country”, there are only two good answers: A) “Yes, it’s So-and-So”; B) “No, but ask me tomorrow and I’ll know all about him.” Bush’s answer was, “No – do you?” This shows an unattractive combination of ignorance, pettiness and an inability to think on his feet, since it invites one of two answers, both of them bad news for the candidate: A) “Yes, it’s So-and-So”; B) “No, but then I’m not running for leader of the free world.”
That incident drove home to me that Bush, while not necessarily actually stupid, is temperamentally unsuited to the job. I had already gotten some hint of that possibility when he tried to get a website (www.gwbush.com) because it made fun of him.
Oh puh-leeze. Do you gladly swallow down every line Limbaugh feeds you? :rolleyes:
Love that Economist cover El Cid. The world will be a much better place without those four arses in power.
As for the topic at hand, I’m with others who say that this is not remotely funny in the context that Dubya hasn’t and never will own up to his mistakes regarding the WMDs and Iraq war. I only hope that the people back home in Britain will follow the lead of those in Spain.
That cover is already old. The president of Poland has announced his resignation after his cabinet deserted him. So now it’s two down, two to go.
I think the USA will have to do some pretty fast maneuvering in the coming weeks in order to get some semblance of UN backing or it is going to find itself more and more isolated in Iraq.
Bush is a clown.
A low-grade buffoon with the sense of humour of an eight year old. The Ben Stiller of politics. A jerk. A moron. A cretinous arse. An insensitive jerk better suited to being the resident bar-joker than out among the serious grown-ups.
Nothing wrong with that, except someone made him the most powerful man in the world. Would someone please, please tell us that the American voters are taking note of this?
What more worrying is that Bush didn’t come up with these yucks all by himself. The keepers at the zoo thought it would be funny to send their monkey out with this schtick as well.
If nothing else… check out CNN, MSNBC, (you might want to avoid Fox, though) or an online US newspaper to see how many people are disgusted with Bush. Hopefully enough of us are “taking note of this.”
This really makes me uneasy, too. The thought of… “You know… Bush couldn’t be in the picture, and taking the picture as well… Crap.”
LilShieste
What makes it work is being the butt of one’s own joke.
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If I tell a story about where I goofed up, and was embarrassed by it, it should be funny if I tell it reasonably well, and I’m laughing at myself too.
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If I tell a story about where I goofed up, and somebody else was embarrassed by it, it should be funny too, if the consequences were pretty trivial.
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If I tell a story about where I goofed up, and bad shit happened to people as a result, I can be making fun of myself and what a goofball I am all I want to, but it isn’t funny.
Examples, all of which are made up:
1’) I’m telling the story of when I was getting ready to do a juggling trick. I empty out my tote bag on the table while my audience watches, expecting my beanbags to fall out. Instead, I find that’s where my wife stashed the dildos and the handcuffs when she was cleaning up the den before company came over. Boy, was my face red!
2’) I’m telling the story of when I was practicing juggling meringue pies in the kitchen. My wife comes in unexpectedly, I’m distracted, and I lose control of the pies, one of which catches my wife right in the face. Man, I can’t believe I did that! Fortunately, my wife wasn’t too upset, so I just started licking meringue off her. Wound up working out pretty well after all.
3’) I’m telling the story of when I was practicing juggling shot-puts in the garage when Uncle Arnold walks in unexpectedly. I lose control of the shot-puts, and one of them lands on Uncle Arnold’s foot, breaking most of the bones in his foot. Man, I can’t believe I goofed up like that!
Like I said, these are all fictitious. But if #3 was real, there’d be no way to make it funny, no matter how self-deprecating the humor was, because everybody would be going, “Omigod! How’s Uncle Arnold? Is he OK?” And then you’d have to explain that he can’t really use the foot much anymore, and people wouldn’t be able to believe you’d joked like that about it.
Same with Bush. He’s making fun of himself, but while it may have been his goof, he wasn’t the one hurt. Funny as long as you forget that.
Current running tally: 593 US soldiers dead, 3394 US soldiers wounded, 101 allied soldiers killed, and so forth.