# The president is having a lovely vacation. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 27, 2003, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-is-having-a-lovely-vacation/197888 "2003-08-27T03:03:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2003, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-is-having-a-lovely-vacation/197888/41 "2003-08-27T13:47:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Blonde \* > \*\*If he’s at his ranch in Texas, I can assure you that’s it’s not that lovely this time of the year. \*\* Yeah, the most you can rag him on over this is his intelligence - what kind of idiot takes an extended summer “vacation” in that part of Texas? At least his father had the brains to vacation in Maine and eat lobster. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2003, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-is-having-a-lovely-vacation/197888/42 "2003-08-27T13:59:04Z")
Hey, as long as he’s polluting the Pit and not GD, I’m a (relatively) happy camper. This is a rant, however ill-defined and inchoate it may be. This is the proper place for it. ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2003, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-is-having-a-lovely-vacation/197888/43 "2003-08-27T15:38:38Z")
> [@](#): > > _Muad’dib_ > _puts on goggles and rereads Reeders post_ > > AAUUUGGHHH!!! THe goggles! They do nothing! Were you using your beer goggles? ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2003, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-is-having-a-lovely-vacation/197888/44 "2003-08-27T15:40:56Z")
Come on, **Reeder**. This is stupid, even for you. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2003, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-is-having-a-lovely-vacation/197888/45 "2003-08-27T16:35:26Z")
Is this even an acceptable way to act on the boards? **Reeder** _should_ know better. ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2003, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-is-having-a-lovely-vacation/197888/46 "2003-08-27T16:37:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Michael Ellis \* > \*\*I guess you could call him a one-trick ameoba. \*\* Thats amoeba! Sheesh! Many-celled creatures can’t even spell correctly!!! ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2003, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-is-having-a-lovely-vacation/197888/47 "2003-08-27T16:52:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by vanilla \* > \*\*Thats amoeba! > Sheesh! Many-celled creatures can’t even spell correctly!!! \*\* Well, since you’re correcting people, the word you meant to use was “that’s”, being a contraction of “that” and “is”. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2003, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-is-having-a-lovely-vacation/197888/48 "2003-08-27T16:54:26Z")
Guess we can call that Airman’s Law! ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2003, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-is-having-a-lovely-vacation/197888/49 "2003-08-27T17:33:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by spooje \* > \*\ ***Reeder** , even us liberals think you act like a child. \*\* Nope. I know children that behave better. You know where to find me. Garcon, more chablis! ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2003, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-is-having-a-lovely-vacation/197888/50 "2003-08-27T18:29:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by wring \* > You know where to find me. Garcon, more chablis! Do they have Thunderbird on the wine list, or will I have to settle for the inferior MD 20/20 ? ---
**Author:** ![bernse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@bernse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bernse)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2003, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-is-having-a-lovely-vacation/197888/51 "2003-08-27T19:03:08Z")
> [@](#): > > May the gods rain down their fury on those who use our troops as cannon fodder. Oh, for fucks sake. You might want to take that 2x6 of righteousness out of your ass before you sit down. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2003, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-is-having-a-lovely-vacation/197888/52 "2003-08-27T22:20:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Coldfire \* > \*\*Bullshit. Most children are more creative than **Ree _“paste link and post oneliner”_ der** , and almost all are smarter. I’d say if anything, **Reeder** acts like a rather stupid dog who doesn’t realise the crowd is completely bored by the one trick he’s been inadequately performing for years on end. \*\* So why is he still here? Surely Hammie could use a break from **Reeder** ’s endless drivel postings. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2003, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-is-having-a-lovely-vacation/197888/53 "2003-08-27T22:23:07Z")
II’m sorry I don’t have a link, but I read somewhere that when Bush goes for a jog he tends to use more oxygen than he would need if he wasn’t jogging. If true, I find it sad that the Presdient feels he has some sort of right to consume more than his fair share of air. ---
**Author:** ![Avalonian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee7513/32.png) [@Avalonian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avalonian)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2003, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-is-having-a-lovely-vacation/197888/54 "2003-08-27T22:45:41Z")
At least he’s not posting this shit in GD anymore, but still, I had hoped he would improve as he promised. Ah well. ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2003, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-is-having-a-lovely-vacation/197888/55 "2003-08-27T23:01:55Z")
Shouldn’t \*\*Reeder \*\*and **december** cancel each other out? Or both explode in a firey cataclysm of death? Or be forced to fight to the death when **december** undergoes _pon farr_? ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2003, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-is-having-a-lovely-vacation/197888/56 "2003-08-27T23:15:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tars Tarkas \* > \*\*Shouldn’t \*\*Reeder \*\*and **december** cancel each other out? Or both explode in a firey cataclysm of death? Or be forced to fight to the death when **december** undergoes _pon farr_? \*\* Ah, crap – I was going to post the exact same thing, especially after just seeing **december** ’s “Bali bomber thanks anti-war protesters” thread (no, I’m not going to link to it). I’m guessing they’d undergo some sort of matter-antimatter type of explosion. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2003, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-is-having-a-lovely-vacation/197888/57 "2003-08-28T04:45:27Z")
> [@](#): > > May the gods rain down their fury on those who use our troops as cannon fodder. Greek or Roman? Anyway, why don’t y’all lay off my man **Reeder** there. I’m here to testify, brothers and sisters, that the OP has changed my life. You see, once upon a time, through the frequent and deceptively polite missives of another poster, named for the 12th month, I was soundly convinced that George W. Bush was the greatest man to have sat in the Oval Office since, oh, at least the Harding administration. The only thing I wondered about Bush was when they were gonna start carving a fifth face, a second George, into the cliffs of Mount Rushmore. Well, thanks to **Reeder** , dear readers, the scales have truly fallen from my eyes. I now see my doglike love and obedience for the Midland Mediocrity was misplaced; I have been tugging at the hem, not of greatness, but of pure, mother-raping, father-castrating evil. I don’t know how I missed it before, the resemblence to a certain paper-hanging son of a bitch who led western Europe into the fires of hell earlier in this century, but by damn if a little mustache and comb-over wouldn’t make GW the spitting image of a certain other mediocrity, from Munich. And to think, without **Reeder** ’s terse little cluster fu- er, bomblets hitting these boards every single goddam day, reminding me every 24 hours what a horrid, horrid person our president _really_ is, I would have never remembered. So thanks again, soldier, for fighting the good fight, and don’t let the bastards grind you down. ---
**Author:** ![Early\_Out](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Early\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Early_Out)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2003, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-is-having-a-lovely-vacation/197888/58 "2003-08-28T04:54:44Z")
Sometimes a pile-on is truly deserved… Let me preface this by saying that I think the Bush Administration is the worst we’ve had to endure in over a century. I disagree with almost every policy, action, and proposal they’ve put forward. I think their fiscal policy is putting us into a hole that it may take a decade to climb out of. I think their environmental and energy policies may well cause damage that’s irreparable. Their efforts at law enforcement are jeopardizing the very principles upon which the nation was founded. And their foreign policy is so misguided, I don’t even know where to start on it. I think the top levels of this Administration are populated by cynical liars, religious zealots, and incompetents. Nonetheless, I dearly wish that **reeder** would shut the fuck up. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-is-having-a-lovely-vacation/197888.md?page=2)