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Now, about this “I will not accept his resignation” meme. Didn’t you guys amend the constitution around 1865 to forbid this sort of compulsory employment? Or is saying “nope, not firing the guy” too forward?
Bush is a decider. It’s just too bad that all his decisions go to shit right away.
Only two more years. Only two more years. Only two more years. Only two more years. Only two more years. Only two more years. Only two more years.
Sorry, no. 'Tude in my book is “all show no go” and “no brass no ass”. Anyone can have a 'tude. It means jack shit. It’s the little yappy dog that you kick across the room when nobody is looking.
In that case, since he is a man of no character at all, we’re all fucked.
Wasn’t anyone else reminded of Rick Moranis - “I am the keymaster” after hearing the ‘decider’ statement?
Alas, it’s closer to three years. But as I said, his second term has gotten very lame in very short order.
Wow. I just saw the actual clip on the Daily Show, and the way he says the words actually makes them worse. What a terrible soundbite.
At least he didn’t say “I’m the decisioner.”
BobLibDem, it’s decisionist. That sounds more official and scientific and stuff.
I still think it’s new and different that C-plus Augustus (thanks, Charlie Pierce) actually stood up in public and announced a decision, any decision, that is his and his alone. And Marley23 is right: he looked a lot worse saying it than the transcript looked reporting it.
But if Rummy is ever dragged up before the Hague (I’m prayin’ as hard as I can!), this quote will see to it that all the Bush fortune and political pull gets spent saving their little slow one from the dock. And that’s not perfect, but it’s not bad.
Yeah, listening to it, its actually worse than when you read it in the OP. Not one of Bush’s verbal shinning moments…and with the bar so low on his speaking skills thats REALLY saying something! :smack:
-XT
It would have better if he had said “deciderer”.
Agreed, it would have been betterer.
Not only does it seem strange for a rightist to express discontent with this statement in the context of all the other things one might be upset with Bush about, but this statement seemed to be exactly what the conservatives liked best about Bush in the past (which I’m not the first to point out, to be sure). It’s a straight-taking, take charge, no-nonsense kind of statement, phrased in the manner of the common man (if, by chance, the common man has a limited ability to express himself in English). It’s the same “attitude” as forever with Bush. Why it should be a vice now when it was a virtue before is beyond me.
Isn’t that the guy at the grocery store who’s responsible for taking the apple juice off the shelf when it spoils?
Drag him out and shoot him. Warrant pending.
You’re all wrong, it’s Decisionator 4: Impeachment Day (hope springs eternal).
The rehabilitation of friend Scylla is coming along nicely, we of the SDMB Popular Front (Trotskyist) have boundless hope for his progress. Kicking and screaming, to be sure, but coming along, coming along.
But you make an interesting point. For instance, when the story got out about Bush poking his head into Condi Rice’s office and saying “Fuck him! We’re taking Saddam out!”, no real effort was made to deny the story, even though it directly contradicts his oft-stated crapola about striving for a peaceful solution.
They loved it, is why. Loved showing off The Leader as a forceful, direct, manly kind of guy. Really a pity he couldn’t vent his testosterone poisoning by slipping Laura the pork sword more often, would have been better for all concerned, and she seems the kind of woman who would grit her teeth and accept her role as stern duty demands. Taking one for the team, so to speak.
Unless, of course, there is some…problem.
If her very consistent body language for a couple of hours during the Coretta Scott King funeral is any indication, the First Lady is not open to that particular duty – or at least she wasn’t then. The President sat of her right and he often leaned heavily in her direction. Of course, Maybe she always tilts at a forty-five degree angle to her left with her right leg so firmly crossed over her left leg that the centers of her knees were a foot apart.
Let’s say you have a 20 year old girlfriend that’s a perfect size 5 and is an incredible sex partner. But she laughs like a donkey. That doesn’t bother you a bit because she’s a size 5 and gives great sex. In fact, you might even find her laugh endearing. Then 20 years later you’re married to her, she’s put on 50 pounds and has wrecked the car and burned the roast. Now you ask yourself, why did I marry this woman that laughs like a donkey?
Bush’s misspeaking may have endeared him to some when he was seeking power. But when he got it and mishandled it, all of a sudden that lack of language skill isn’t so lovable.
The saddest thing is that the American people got to decide the “deciderator” of the Iraqis.
Would Joe-Average Mr/Mrs Iraq want to thank the “Decider” for their Liberation? It’s not looking likely any time soon. It seems Mr/Mrs Average Iraqi were A LOT safer under Sadam then under Bush.
The “Decider” is probably the worst mistake Americans ever made but he is DEFINITELY the worst thing ever to happen to Iraq.
Mr “Decider” is the reason the rest of the world thinks 2 terms of an American president is ENOUGH.
God knows who the next one will be but it is a fairly safe bet that he couldn’t be worse and it would be fairly hard for him to be a more arrogant, fucked up MORON!
No, we decided one term was enough before 2004, but the guy got voted back in. Damn shame, that.