Actually, no, I already had come to that conclusion. Let’s see… Started a war under false pretenses (Iraq attacked us?), then changed the reason (WMD?) then changed again (wanted WMD and gaming the food for oil?). Whenever it went sour, there was the scramble to blame someone, anybody else, after disregarding his own military experts and agency reports, feeding us platitudes about steadfast resolve against the “haters of this n that” instead of the truth. Completely blowing Tora Bora when we had a chance to get Osama and diverting it all into Iraq. Pouring anti-terror (?) money into Wyoming instead of the cities that would be targets. Mishandling the “post war” Iraq and failing to secure enemy munitions? Now he is trying to spin the latest report from the CIA. Did he read it? Did he comprehend it? Doing nothing to stop the hemorage of jobs (outsource) to other countries. Trying to do away with “patient’s rights”. Claiming we need to pay more than Canada does for medicines, even if they are re-imports because terrorists will poison us (or is it because drug companies are lobbyists and donators with deep pockets). Need I go on? No comment on his bastard status, I believe his parents are married.
Spew is a great word for it. Really. I don’t have to make him look stupid, he does it for me. The best talker? How about one of the worst ever to besmirch the tradition of presidential debate ever? Comparing Bush to Slick Willy, well hell. Whats worse, trashing our good name worldwide over a temper tantrum and getting our troops killed by waging preemptive war “on the cheap” while Halliburton rakes in millions, or getting a blowjob in the Oval Office?
But not as low as his buddies the Swifties, or as low as Wolfowitz who in the Salon interview all but admitted that he (Wolfie) and the rest of the gang have no problem lying, in order to get their way, or Cheney saying in effect “vote for us or we’re all gonna die”.
[Emily Litella voice] What’s this I hear about internets? Why so many? Where are they hiding? Why can’t my Internets Explorer find them? Oh. Never mind.[/Emily Litella voice]
You disagree with Mockingbird, therefore you are conservative. And you eat puppies. Raw.
Duh.
As to the wink, Adam Felber mentioned it on “Wait Wait” this morning. He figured there were going to be millions of Americans waking up this morning after watching the debate and thinking “Hold it . . . was he coming on to me?”
Bush was advised to use the term ‘Internet’ while practicing, but he’s such a stickler for technical accuracy that he insisted on the plural even though most people accept that there’s only one internet, or
For Pete’s sake, everybody has slips of the tongue. What’s really damning about Bush isn’t when he misspeaks, but when he says clearly what he believes.
I was glad one of the questioners asked him to name three mistakes he’d made, because I made a bet with myself that the man simply couldn’t do it. And I was pretty much right; the closest he came was saying that he’d appointed some of the wrong people – and even there, it sounded more like he was saying some of his appointees had disappointed him, rather than that he’d made bad decisions.
The relevant snippit from part 3 of the transcript:
FWIW, I got the same impression you did from how he said it - that he was disappointed in performance, not that he thought he had picked the wrong person. That doesn’t seem, at least from a literal sense, to be borne out in the purely textual sense, but then the whole thing about a televised debate is that it isn’t just about what yuo say but how you say it.
Wow, that’s a lot. Would sort of support that the plural is a valid choice if it wasn’t for…
INTERNET = 399,000,000 hits.
The plural is used only one out of every 473 times. And if one looks at how the plural is used, it is usually in the technical sense of separated networks. When one talks about the general online community, the singular is used.
And defending the plural use… stupid.
And for overreacting to catching some verbal gaffes… um… Bush does this all the friggin time! This isn’t picking on an occasional mistake. If one is not aware of that fact… stupid.
The damning thing for me was that he didn’t answer the most important part of her question, namely,
The only wrong decisions he mentioned were appointing the wrong people, and he offered no evidence of anything he had done to correct these decisions. Indeed, he refused to take the most elementary step of naming names, for fear it would hurt feelings.
The man has a phobia of responsibility. It terrifies him so much that he’s not even willing to make other members of his team take responsibility.
As for the “Internets,” check out the context:
It’s extremely unlikely that he’d be referring in this scenario to the technical concept of multiple interconnected networks, especially given his lack of technical expertise. It’s far likelier that it was a simple slip of the tongue, made by somebody who’s not very tech-savvy.
I thought he meant “internet forums.” Being an inarticulate dweeb, he presumably couldn’t retrieve the word “forum” from the dusty recesses of what passes for his brain, so a momentary confusion between trying to say “the internet” and “internet [thingies]” got blurted out as “internets.”
He didn’t really say “mexed missages” last time, either; he corrected himself before the words were completely out of his mouth. C’mon, the guy says enough genuinely dumb stuff without counting innocent fumble-tongues.
Not really a “bushism”, but another poster here and a couple other places noted what struck me: the homeboy accent. Started right in talking like be was born and raised just outside of Odessa, in a simple, rural gated community till he got all wound up, and then he talked like a Type-A personality from Nowhere in Particular.
