Tell me he didn't fucking say that (Bush)

The BBQ Pit
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Yesterday?

When asked how John Edwards stacks up against Dick Cheney? What did he fucking say?

"Dick Cheney can be president"?

Hey. Little George. Seriously now. You aren’t actually implying that a six-year senator who’s served on the Senate Judiciary committee and the Select Committee on Intelligence can’t be president while a lying, mouth breathin’, missile launchin’, evidence-inventin’, Daddy-string-pullin’, National Guard no-show oil-whore Texas governor can, are you? After an embarrasingly partisan Supreme Court touched you with its sword and proclaimed it actually legal for you to play G.I. Joe with the nations of the world for the past four years? (Stop me when my political leanings bleed through.)

This guy. . . I don’t know. Every time I think he can’t possibly say anything dumber or more ignorant or more arrogant, he makes the goofball Texas puppet of just three years ago look like. . . like John Edwards!

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You know, I’ve tried to be respectful of other political views on this board. When Reagan died, I said that while I didn’t think he was a good president, I understood that other people disagreed and were truly sad…

BUT

I can not for the life of me understand how anyone can think that Shrub is doing a good job. I see polling that his approval rating is below 50% and I ask myself “who is this 45% who think he is doing a good job?”

Shrub will prove to be one of the worst presidents in our nation’s history. Our standing in the world is at an all time low, we have entered an unneccessary war that has mobilized militant islam in a way that a thousand bin Ladens never could have and on the eve of that war he cuts troop strength to a bare minimum ensuring that looting and lawlessness would destroy the infrastructure of the country we are now responsible for rebuilding.

and what does he give us? Snotty little semi-coherent sound bites like “Dick Cheney can be president,” or “Bring em on” all said with that frat boy smirk. I can’t wait to see his concession speech this November. I’ll go down to the White House and help that piece of shit pack if it will get him out of town faster.

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Actually, it struck me as one of the few times I’ve seen him being sharp off the cuff. You may not like what he said but his delivery was a nice departure from the norm.

It’s politics. You vant him should play nice?

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I had somebody tell me yesterday that first term senators don’t ever get important committee assignments, and since Edwards is a first term senator, he can’t be on any important committees. Ergo, he’s not qualified to step in as POTUS.

I’m suprised he wasn’t checking his notes from Hannity or Rush.

When I pointed out that Edwards is on both the Judiciary and Intelligence Committees, which some people think are kinda important these days, he didn’t have anything to say.

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Get used to it.

It seems like that will be the republican strategy. . .to say that Edwards would be unfit for the presidency.

I think that Kerry said the same things when they were running against each other, so the GOP is going to hammer it.

It’s a silly attack, but this certainly ain’t the first election that’s ever been used as an attack either.

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Just what we need. A president that would tell foreign leaders to go fuck themselves.

But in reality, there are actually a large number of people that would like to see Cheney president. The majority of them Democrats.

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I loved Kerry’s response to this: he quipped yesterday (paraphrasing): “Cheney can be president, and since day one, he’s shown that, running everything behind the scenes.”

Daniel

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I think I love you. So what am I so afraid of?

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How about the Republican attack:

McCain was Kerry’s number one choice, Edwards is Kerry’s number two choice
WELL…
McCain ran for the nomination so Bush is McCain’s number two choice for president and…

Bush lost the popular vote so he was America’s number two choice.

Now, I’ve got myself all worked up and can’t see straight. Gonna give Kerry some more money that always helps.

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To which Kerry replied:

I agree with the OP - if Bush can be brought up to speed on being President, certainly Edwards can.

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It was completely gratituous of you to put that song in my head. I don’t believe I’m going to be able to remove it without an application of Eminem or possibly AC/DC.

Bastard.

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Here’s Kerry’s actual quote

Heh
Daniel

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And they have the balls to call us unpatriotic.

THEY are the ones who arrange cushy contracts for their cronies stealing from our fighting forces

THEY are the ones who try to suppress debate

THEY are the ones who cynically use a national tragedy to mislead the American people into quagmire

THEY are the ones who were in bed with Ken Lay and his band of Enron thieves.

But lets never forget who the real enemy is:

Al Gore over estimated how much his dog’s medicine cost during the 2000 election. We couldn’t have let a man like that get elected.

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It was, it was.
Though if you try and get me back with an Eminem quote, I’ll have to, I don’t know. Shoot myself in the face? :wink:

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All morning up until I read that post, and no doubt due to some misconnected neurons in my brain, I’d had Neil Diamond’s “Longfellow Serenade” running through my head.

“We were born for a night like this…”

Ha! Take that!

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Am I the only one who gets the giggles every time George W. Bush denounces John Edwards as being “inexperienced” and “unfit” to be POTUS? Sheesh, George, you’re one to talk! :wally

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Well, uhm, no, especially when yesterday he tried explaining why HE (POTUS) was better for the South than Edwards…

I’m paraphrasing, but it came out something like this: “…uhm, because, errr, because… uhm, well, because we share your ideals. (Yeah, that’s the ticket. Ideals)” :wally

(And I really wanted to like him, I really did.)

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I saw the clip of Bush saying this. You know, for the first time Bush looked Hitler-evil to me when saying this. Just like, “We’re the power, fuck you and anyone who opposes us.”

He looked grayer, tireder, meaner, and eviler than ever before. Heaven and goodness forbid that this slimeball should ever win reelection.

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The Bush campaign’s initial public reaction to Kerry’s announcement re: Edwards (paraphrasing): “He’s not ready to be President because he’s only been in public office [X number of] years.”

Turns out the “X number” was exactly the same number of years that Bush himself had been in public office when stepped into the Presidency.

d’OH! Doesn’t anyone on his staff check his public announcements for degree of foot-in-mouthness before they’re released?

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Hee - not only that, he said pretty much the exact same thing twice, in answer to two separate questions! It was to the effect that he shares the same values with North Carolinians/Americans, and “the senator from Massachusetts” doesn’t share those values. It was silly the first time he stumbled through it, hilarious the second.

Did anyone else see him being an absolute ass to the reporter who asked about the appointees? I missed part of the question, but they got into some weird pissing contest about whether the appointees were behind the curtain “back there” or not, and Bush was just an incredibly snotty, I-have-to-get-the-last-word-in jerk.