I am not a Bush lover. I wouldn’t say I’m a Bush hater but I definitely have some very negative opinions of his worth as a chief executive; however, I wanted to watch his farewell address.
I just forgot it was on.
Did he do a shot of Wild Turkey and flip the bird like I expected he would?
Woodrow Wilson?
I made the mistake of flipping to it during a commercial break. His smirk was in full flower.
The brief snippet I caught had him insisting that it is “evil” and intolerable to kill innocent people in support of an ideology, while in the next sentence declaring that efforts to spread democracy abroad are noble.
Anyone able to explain to me how this is not horribly contradictory?
Man, this guy can’t be gone soon enough! :rolleyes:
Why would anyone want to watch the idiot try to justify himself (with the help of his good buddy, God) yet again? Not like anything new or different was going to come out of his mouth. From what I’ve heard on morning TV, it was just more self-delusional whining.
Is this the end of it? Are we going to have to watch any one hour specials, something like “The End of Bush’s Presidency”? with a lot of talking heads saying their goodbyes? I would hope he just packs up the U-Haul and toddles off to a life of obscurity in his new mansion. Maybe he’ll feel free to start boozing again, waiting for that call from Mount Rushmore. Maybe Laura will come out of her tranquilized fog and get a divorce.
I will miss him in a way, though, namely David Letterman’s Great Moments in Presidential Speeches. Those little snippets of Mushmouth trying to spit out a sentence had the same level of appeal as watching a primate showing off in the monkey cage at the zoo.
Short version: "There are a lot of Evil People in the world. We are the Good People. They want to hurt us and we have to stop them.
If I’ve made any mistakes, it’s because I cared so much. (smirk)"
I do believe you’re being wooshed.
I don’t know, but that’s what I’d have done if I had watched it.
The Daily Show will feel a little diminished without him and (You Don’t Know) Dick Cheney.
Bush said one his biggest disappointments was not finding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. That means he wishes they had them? Would they have used them on our troops? How would that have been better. The fool still does not know what he is saying.
He’s also said he’d have gone to war anyway (“Fuck Saddam. I’m taking him out.”).
So why is he now saying that that particular aspect of reality was a “disappointment” to him?
Caught a bit on the radio last night. I chortled wshen he said this:
“nation must continue to speak out for justice and truth.”
Truth? I don’t think that word means what he thinks it means.
I loved the bit in his last press conference in which he went on about the logistical and security problems of landing Air Force One near New Orleans. As if the problem was that he didn’t show up soon enough for a photo op.
He does seem awfully petulant. He knows he’s hated, and my feverish imagination supposes that it’s piercing his consciousness that history will not get any kinder to him as the years go by, as they have with Regan.
I haven’t sat and watched this whole fiasco – either the final press conference or final speech, but the bits that have trickled down to me suggest he’s giving a final gift to his enemies. The biggest ‘fuck you’ he could have given was a dignified exit that didn’t acknowledge any need to explain himself. It’s much more gratifying to watch him go out in manic swings between smirking highs and bitter, lip-quivering flights of point-missing rationalizations. Instead of hearing “defiant to the end” or “held his head high” we get to say “went out like a bitch” and “Jesus, what a baby!”
Of course, I’m sure the “head held high” talking points are already hot out of the printers, wending their way to the faithful indifferent to all observable facts.
The irony . . . Hey gonzomax, you ever figure out how interest on a mortgage works?
Rachel Maddow said the same thing about the same line but she said it about Justice.
Of course not, a brave rogue such as yourself cares not for consequences or the opinions of others. That’s why I’m in such admiration that you would just take the big risk and put this out there, not giving a damn about the repercussions.
Someday I’d like to collate this and some of your other great and daring OPs on citizenship, responsibility, and civil disobedience. I’d title it Brave Stands and Other Exercises in Antipopulist Free-thinking.
Chapter One “I’ve decided not to watch Bush tonight”
Chapter Two “I prefer butter to margarine”
Chapter Three “Beige is an ok color”
Chapter Four “Today I wore Khaki pants to the mall.”
Chapter Five “Experiences with the number 5 Value meal, NSFW”
Chapter Six “Mashed potatos with steak? Who knew?”
Chapter Seven “I find many supermodels are quite attractive”
Chapter Eight “Removing tag from mattress. Come get me fascist bastards.”
I’d like to write the introduction. May I?
"Love him or hate him Frank’s edginess and controversial nature are timeless. He says the things you daren’t say. He does the things you daren’t do. He brings it to the people with prose that roll over you like a runaway train. Many is the time that I’ve lain awake for hours wondering how he does it. What drives this man?
I’ll give you one example: Many is the time I’ve gone to the sink to commence my daily ablutions and wondered what would happen if I flossed before I brushed. Of course, I never had the courage to try it, much less the courage to write about it anonymously on an internet message board. I’m not that crazy.
But Frank is.
He’s out there. Keeping it real, laying it down and bringing it to the people.
That’s Frank."
You mean Scylla and Rand Rover are cohorts? Man, your threads make strange bedfellows.
And since I pretty much agree with them about this particular thread, I can only say, YACK! Damn you, Frank!
Scylla write the entire book and I’ll buy it 
Ah, I get it now. Nobody should say that they are happy that Bush is leaving office because saying such a thing is not edgy or unpopular. Because, I of course, was never brave enough to oppose Bush or his policies before now; because I have never posted, since July 2002, anything on this board that would even suggest that I thought he was a horrible President of the United States. I am now merely jumping on the band wagon because it’s safe.
I’m reading your mind again, or at least I would be if I had a strong enough microscope. It’s a bit difficult, you see, since your brain cell hasn’t divided yet.
It’s not just that. Anybody could have done that. You took it a step further. You took it out there to the screaming blinding edge. Only you could have decided to take a stand and not turn on the tv! Only you would dare write about it.
You gotta fill us in. What happened after you didn’t watch Bush? Did the Secret Police come to your house? Were you fired from work? Were your family members tempted to turn you in?
What did you do while everybody else in the whole world watched? What was it like?
What will you do next?
Somehow, I don’t think you want to know.