Bush: Big Fat Jerk.

[Andonyx]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21378-2003Sep16.html


The two dozen mostly grainy black and white shots were a historic progression of great diplomatic moments, sources recalled.
There was an original political cartoon from the Jefferson era showing Britain and France pick-pocketing the Americans; there were pictures of negotiations with Indian tribes over land; President Woodrow Wilson at Versailles; former secretary of state Elihu Root somewhere; Roosevelt and Churchill signing the Atlantic Charter; former secretary of state James A. Baker III and former Soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze in cowboy boots at Jackson Hole; a splendid shot of the old State Department building; and a photo of President Ronald Reagan at a meeting with a very young Colin L. Powell seated behind him.
Then they were gone. And what was put up in their place? What else? A George W. Bush family album montage of 21 large photos of the president as diplomat.

[Sundog]

:roll:

[Brown]

One wonders whether those same pictures will be up sixteen months from now.

[Andonyx]

Originally posted by Brown
One wonders whether those same pictures will be up sixteen months from now.

Not if I and my trusty sharpie have anything to say about it!

(Great.....now you know what's going to happen? Someone is actually going to deface the pictures and they're gonna come after me because I posted this.)

[hgc]

Hubris, thy name is W.

The only consolation is that this excessive self-love will blind him to the coming defeat and keep him from acting sensibly to avoid it.

[hgc]

... the president as diplomat.Is that like when he travels the world pissing people off?

[HarryKeogh]

i hear next week those will be replaced with his favorite Mad Magazine "fold-ins"

[Vorticity]

Originally posted by Brown
One wonders whether those same pictures will be up sixteen months from now.
I suspect the answer to that is yes.
The nation seems to have been zombified by strange vapors...

[SRW]

Originally posted by Sundog
:roll:


Cough cough Ahem. Consistency?

Originally posted by Sundog


And here we have an unabashed example of what the right is really all about, intellectually. Throw mud at every opportunity, invent schoolyard epithets, glory in their insulting tactics and avoid honest debate at all costs. You heard it here first, folks.


It's US politics as usual.

[Sundog]

Originally posted by SRW



Cough cough Ahem. Consistency?



Is there a sequitur hidden here somewhere? :confused: What on Earth is the connection?

Edited to add:

Oh, I see. The thread title. You'll have to do better than that - I was laughing at the story itself.

[Ipecac]

While I am as appalled as the rest of you at the tastelessness of the display, do you really think George W. Bush himself ordered it?

The article says the pictures were requested by the State Department administrators. It's probably just some medium-level flunky who worships Bush. Let's not get all hinky about it.

[SRW]

Originally posted by Sundog


Is there a sequitur hidden here somewhere? :confused: What on Earth is the connection?

Edited to add:

Oh, I see. The thread title. You'll have to do better than that - I was laughing at the story itself.

Odiously you forget your reason for the above statement. I would hope if you are going to criticize the right for childish behavior you could do the same for the left.

My point was that both sides resort to childish name calling this thread title proves it don't you agree?

[hgc]

Originally posted by Ipecac
While I am as appalled as the rest of you at the tastelessness of the display, do you really think George W. Bush himself ordered it?

The article says the pictures were requested by the State Department administrators. It's probably just some medium-level flunky who worships Bush. Let's not get all hinky about it. Killjoy.

[Nie Trink Wasser]

Originally posted by SRW

My point was that both sides resort to childish name calling this thread title proves it don't you agree? [/B]


you're forgetting that it's election time.

it's okay if you irresponsibly insult and spin your political opponents in order to claim popular attention.

it's called advertising by John Q Left.

[Sundog]

Originally posted by SRW


Odiously you forget your reason for the above statement. I would hope if you are going to criticize the right for childish behavior you could do the same for the left.

My point was that both sides resort to childish name calling this thread title proves it don't you agree?

My electronic friend, if I defended good manners every time someone observed that Bush was an idiot, I'd have very little time for other posting, wouldn't I? :)

Your point is taken, of course.

[Brown]

Originally posted by Ipecac
Let's not get all hinky about it. [Tommy Lee Jones]
What does that mean, anyway, "hinky?" I don't like people who use words that ain't got no meaning.
[/Tommy Lee Jones]

Personally, I would be astonished if the redecorating order came from the White House in general or from the President in particular.

[jj]

Originally posted by Nie Trink Wasser



you're forgetting that it's election time.

it's okay if you irresponsibly insult and spin your political opponents in order to claim popular attention.

it's called advertising by John Q Left.

You mean spinning the truth like you are, and making an outright lie about how it's ok?

You tell me, NT
Is it okay to lie now
If it's for good cause?

[SRW]

Originally posted by Nie Trink Wasser



you're forgetting that it's election time.

it's okay if you irresponsibly insult and spin your political opponents in order to claim popular attention.

it's called advertising by John Q Left.


Well for once you are half right, It called advertising by John Q. Left and John Q. Right.

Sorry to hyjack this thread ya'll go back to Bush bashing.

[Mike B.]

Well Bush has many faults, but is being overweight one of them???
;)