People often bring up the fact that Bush sat in a room reading “My Pet Goat” (or whatever it was) for about 8 minutes after he was told about the second plane, and say this attitude is terrible and horrific.
People often respond to this with “Well what was he supposed to do? Get up and SCARE THE CHILDREN?!”
Fuck you people.
Fuck you all.
What’s scary about “Excuse me for one moment kids”
Fuck anyone who ever tries to defend Bush not getting to action.
You said it.
Yeah, I’d say “lame” and “outdated” about cover it.
Nobody ever said that Bush should have stood up and told the kids, “Gosh, boys and girls, two planes have just crashed into some big buildings in New York City, and it looks like a terrorist attack. Who knows, maybe we’re all going to die. Anyway, I have to run. Bye!”
But how about, “Boys and girls, I’m very sorry about this, but something unexpected has happened that I have to go take care of. I’ve enjoyed our visit and I wish I could stay for reading class. Reading is very important! So good-bye, take care, and work hard in school” or other phrases he’d presumably planned to use when it really was time to go? Is that so hard, or so scary for the kids? I’m sure they’d be disappointed, but I would expect that in time they’d understand why the President had to leave them.
Hey - the world would be a lot better place if he’d stayed frozen into inaction. Pity it wasn’t War and Peace.
Or if he’d stood up and said:
‘Excuse me kids, the chance to attack whoever the fuck I feel like has just come up.’
At least that would have been honest.
Well, he probably had to stay seated to hide his raging boner.
True.
Criticizing him for this was stupid back in 2001, and 10x as stupid in 2008. 8 minutes of inaction is trivially explained away as time needed for underlings to organize a meeting place and pull in the necessary people to discuss the problem. Bringing this crap up after the Jackass-in-Chief got us into an unnecessary war is just idiotic.
Let’s focus on criticizing him for his decisions that have killed tens of thousands of people, instead of decisions that didn’t wind up hurting a single person anywhere.
Can’t we do both?
Bush is an asshole, scum, a demon, and a shmuck. But really.
If it were a Democratic president, he would have been lauded for continuing to read with the children - the CHILDREN! Our FUTURE! - even after hearing the dire news. People would have seen it as honorable.
There was a man
who had a goat
He loved that goat
just like a kid
Bullshit. Fuck you.
-Joe
I agree this is lame and outdated.
There were so many other ways to go with ‘Bush should have stayed because’:
True. But I can’t get Bush’s boner out of my mind. So this is what it feels like to be Sam Stone, Clothahump, Starving Artist etc.
…and while we are at it. fuck that Torquemada! Unifying the Spaniards my ass
If you’re going to quote me, at least have the decency to use attribution!
And it’s The Pet Goat. Often confused with My Pet Goat, which is a grainy Super-8 home movie available only in underground circles.
and at New Doper Initiations.
Perhaps Bush was confused himself, and kept reading hoping to get to the good parts.
Holding the book the right way up would have improved his chances there…or maybe not.
:rolleyes:As long as we are throwing out urban legends and falsehoods, did you know Barack Obama is a Muslim?:rolleyes:
This has got to be one of the stupidest things ever written.
(other than write in votes for GWB)