He's always talking about himself, Kevin, always himself. A real brain-half-full kinda guy.

Bush is talking about every world leader who opposed invading Iraq.

You forget that you are dealing with a liar, a coward, a moron and a texan. Oh, and a republican. but then areen't all liars, cowards and morons, republicans?

Don't you dare call him a Texan - he's a Yankee sob.

Is this how it feels like when the pilot of the airplane you're in addresses the passengers shortly after take-off and you realize he's drunk as a skunk?

"Some people say" that Bush is a moronic frat boy who's never had to earn a single thing in his life.

Actually, in this case - a lot of people say that.

This is CLASSIC Bush. A sweeping, unconsidered, uninformed generalization with no supporting facts, posed as just good ole Tejas common sense. This is what Gore means by "Assault on Reason."

I like to imagine him doing a mincing, fancy-pants voice and dance ('Oh, the problems are so significant, let us retreat...') to mock those silly, silly world leaders who run from significant problems. To make his point clearer, you know. Because we obviously aren't listening, or else we'd all agree with him by now.

'Oh, the problems are so significant, let us retreat, let us not take them on, they're too tough'

Isn't he describing his own administration's response to global warming?

Is this how it feels like when the pilot of the airplane you're in addresses the passengers shortly after take-off and you realize he's drunk as a skunk?

Maybe, but that's the kind of pilot I'd love to hang out with and have a beer! Which happens to also be how I evaluate Presidential candidates....

Or maybe he was talking about the numerous members of his own cabinet who've resigned since he took office. It's almost as if living up with Bush is a significant problem that they've retreated from.

Bush's Brain = brain fart

Ahh, Al, always willing to take on the world and solve its problems...

...Just as long as it lines Republican crony pockets, anyhow.

All those Democratic names he mentions aren't 'world leaders' for one, and for two... What does pulling out of Iraq have to do with squat? We went in, did what Al said we should do already. Done.

Can we get my friends home now, please? They've been out there for awhile now, and I'd like them to come home safe and sound.

On the side point, we can't solve any problems, not even our own, while our National Guard is pinned down in a country on the far side of the planet.

Of course he was taking a backhanded slap at Democrats and anyone else who would dare to disagree with him, not necessarily just "foreign leaders." Much of what has dribbled out of his mouth all these years has been in code -- little nuggets that speak directly to the base. The key phrase he makes sure to assign to these unsavory characters is "let us retreat." Any doubt who he's referring to there?

Um, the Iraqi government?

Bush obviously isn't well schooled in the conventional Republican precepts. It goes something like this:

A Democrat says the glass is half full.
A Republican says "Hey, who drank half of MY glass of water?!?"

Is he writing his own material again ?

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WTF? He's a cretin. You want sense from him? Go squeeze blood from stone.

C'mon guys, there's bad guys out there, we gotta go find 'em before they attack the town.

--Space Cowbow, our President

A false dichotomy based solely on a strawman construct -- somewhat like "theAmericanist's" response to me regarding the supposed efficacy of "Godwin's law". ;-)
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Bush's "credibility" is not only stone cold dead, it's decomposing before our very eyes. .

Ah, Kevin.

That quote isn't from GWB; it is from Homer Simpson.

That's not my favorite 'Bush on Brown' quote from yesterday: my favorite is "He's a humorous Scotsman."

That's rich, coming from a comedy Texan.

(you can take that either way, depending on whether you think he's a real Texan or not)

If you've ever been to a Zig Ziglar seminar, you'd understand. Mark my words, GWB will make millions on the motivational-speaker circuit after he leaves the White House.

He's been described as "blissfully ignorant."
He tries to be so down home folksy in presentation and at the same time confuses or forgets what his advisors told him to say.Then again we might be all "misunderestimating" him...Do you think he is sending "mexed missages?"

More people need to call him on what the heck is he talking about. Good for you, Kevin.

Bush, not a Texan? Perhaps.

But wasn't it Texas where he was nurtured into the leader we enjoy today? Wasn't it that fertile soil where he flourished?

Just sayin'

Sen. Barack Obama actually moved closer today to the Bush plan for withdrawing from Iraq.

Obama let it be known that were he elected President the first item on his agenda would be to seek from the Pentagon a plan for withdrawal.

In short, Obama's plan is to get a plan.

Very Bushlike. Or Bush Lite.

Good to see the anti-Obama trolls haven't abandoned us.

Pretty hilarious though to have an HRC/Edwards volunteer painting Obama as the war monger.

Yes, very Bushlike/Bushlite.

Please Kevin, you've been listening to this sock puppet for the last 6 years with the rest of us, you don't really take him seriously?

1.) His lips were moving, he was lying.
2.) I know, you need to keep the readers interested and there is nothing like dumping on the chimpenator to make people feel good.
3.) Shrub's purpose is to say stupid things to make people identify with him. Almost worked in 2000 and 2004, he just needed a little "extra" help.
4.) Gotta wear that codpiece to keep the real Americans energized.

Wrong as usual on all counts, Disputo.

No one accused Obama of being a war monger.

If you were'nt so quick to be cute, you wouldn't have missed the substance of the post and perhaps might have addressed it. Probably not.

The substance, of course, is that Obama admits now to not having a plan for withdrawal.

That's very Bush like. Or Bush Lite.

As usual, Disputo, you are out of your league on this blog. Why not move to an AOL room where you possibly could have better luck taking on the 13-year-olds. Your speed, see? You are a moronic bore here.

(Troll: On the blogoshpere, someone whose posts make more sense than yours.)

Ta, ta.

planplan's ta ta's need support.

Let's see, Obama wants to consult senior leadership for their views on the current situation.

Sounds pretty Presidential to me.

planplan: 0
Disputo: 10+

'Oh, the problems are so significant, let us retreat, let us not take them on, they're too tough'

Well, Gordon Brown ran away from this problem!

In one short statement to parliament last week the defence secretary, Des Browne, broke the promises of two prime ministers, potentially misled the house, helped bury an international treaty and dragged Britain into a new cold war. Pretty good going for three stodgy paragraphs.

You probably missed it, but it's not your fault. In the 48 hours before parliament broke up for the summer, the government made 46 policy announcements. It's a long-standing British tradition: as the MPs and lobby correspondents are packing their bags for the long summer break (they don't return until October), the government rattles out a series of important decisions that cannot be debated. Gordon Brown's promise to respect parliamentary democracy didn't last very long.

Thus, without consultation or discussion, the defence secretary announced that Menwith Hill, the listening station on the North York Moors, will be used by the United States for its missile defence system. Having been dragged by the Bush administration into two incipient military defeats, the British government has now embraced another of its global delusions.

As other posters have noted, Bush is indulging in PROJECTION. He's the guy who runs away from problems.

If it wasn't Maliki, then he was talking about Karzai.

He might also be talking about the leaders of Albania, Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, El Salvador, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Poland, Romania, and South Korea. Those are the countries who have kept their forces in Iraq despite all the evidence that they are not accomplishing anything. It's a complete list, minus US and UK. Brown will bring back the UK troops once he gets a chance, which is why he's not on the list.

If Obama consults generals, then he will not be behaving as Bush would. If he just makes up policies that no independent mind would ever approve, then he will be Bush-lite.

Bush himself is too gutless to bring democracy to the Middle East. If he wanted to do it, he would institute a draft and send a million Americans over there. Instead we get Somalia II, but the sequel has one hundred times the cost of the original.

That world leader is called Mann; Straw Mann.

Dubya: the Jose Conseco of politics. Two minutes after entering a room the consensus of those assembled is "STFU!".

The problem here is that Bush imagines that he is a highly respected and important person whose praise is highly valued by world leaders.

Its not going to be very long before he discovers the truth and boy what a shock that will be.

Would Reid and Pelosi be called World leaders?

Kevin: "Where does [George w. Bush] come up with this stuff?"

Does that really matter any more?

I think he's referring to the Iraq War. Some people complain and are so negative, they want to retreat, but he's a glass half-full guy. Meaning, he tells Bush to stay in Iraq as long as he wants to.

I could go on, but I think I've made my point.

Was your point that you're an idiot? Yes, you made that well.

Hey, planplan,

Bush never consulted his generals for a plan. What he did was play musical chairs with his generals until he found one who agreed with his "plan." It took him a while, given that his "plan" is simply to run out the clock and dump any change in course on the next administration.

PlanPlan look up the word smarmy. It's an apt description of your comments.

Worst. President. Ever.
A National Embarrassment that won't end till '09.

Bush ISN'T talking about the president of Strawmanania. He's talking about virtually every other head of state of earth, all those namby-pamby types who aren't he-man types who go out and fight incredibly destructive elective wars on flimsy grounds.

Just like all of the bar fights Bush had into his 40s. "He lookt funny at mah girl fraynd!" ..."Ah din' like the cut of his jib!" ..."He was some kahnd of communist social-security lover, a real deviant-type!"

"Yeah, they won't mess with ol' George W. Bush and his squad of expensive breaking-and-entering private detectives agin!"

It's a lot of fun to read that quote from Bush while pretending you are David Brent from the original English series of "The Office." And as long as you are play acting, throw in Brent's facial expressions and end it with a look into the camera. Go ahead, try it - it will make you feel better.

Are you sure it was really Bush, or that Comedy Central show "Lil' Bush"? I swear if I'm not looking at the TV I can't tell the difference.

Who are these foreign leaders who are so overwhelmed with their jobs that they want to go hide in a closet? I want names.

The shrunken coalition of the willing perhaps?

FREAKIN' INCREDIBLE...I JUST WANT TO FEEL THAT MY PRESIDENT IS SMARTING THAN ME...WITH THIS GUY, NOT SO MUCH!

In 6 years there hasn't been one word or phrase out of this man's mouth that has shown the slightest evidence of reason, wit, intelligence, character, generosity of spirit, decency. Why expect it now?

If he had any self-respect or dignity he should just slink off to Crawford and shut up for the remainder of his hellish term.

Alternate Quote of the Day:

Mr. Bush "is obviously gifted in the way that he always picks exactly the wrong approach in foreign policy and security matters,

"Olde Europe" Opinion on Bush's 'Gift' for Foreign Policy (title by Craig Johnson/cognitorex)
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By Bloomberg News
July 31, 2007

Germany's ruling Social Democratic Party said President Bush's plan to sell arms to Saudi Arabia and five other states in the Gulf is misguided and myopic.

Mr. Bush "is obviously gifted in the way that he always picks exactly the wrong approach in foreign policy and security matters," Hubertus Heil, general secretary of the Social Democrats, which is in coalition with Chancellor Merkel's Christian Democrats, told a news conference in Berlin yesterday. "It's short-sighted and irresponsible" to distribute weapons in the Gulf region.

Weapons of Messopotamia Destruction

That was a surprisingly disappointing effort by Al, who has just claimed that President Bush was calling environmentalists and liberals 'world leaders.' I figured France and Spain were in for some slander, at least.

I wonder what Bush thinks of Half-full Brown’s plan to eliminate global poverty? Click here for details. I’m sure Bush, being a half-full guy, will be happy to ask his wealthy constituents to pay more taxes to support this initiative, don’t you???

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"He's a problem solver. He's a glass-half-full man, not a glass-half-empty guy, you know. Some of these world leaders say, 'Oh, the problems are so significant, let us retreat, let us not take them on, they're too tough'."

It's simple snidery (The practice of sly malicious disparagement).
He is pissed that he isn't going to have someone like Blair around to worship his narcissistic ass anymore. No more poodles. Also, when the Brits bug out we will have a whole new set of logistical problems to worry about. Brown essentially told Bush that they were going to get out regardless of what trouble the Americans were going to get into (real or manufactured).

Oh, and one more thing... Don't forget that the Brits essentially told us to take a hike with respect to the hostage thing with Iran. I also think the Brits were approached about an Iranian attack and turned it down. We would likely need their help don't you think? They are in the Shia south of the country and along a major part of the Iraq/Iran border. They may have been the "spoilers" of an Iranian fiasco of some kind. Not to say we might pull one off anyhow.. but I think the chances are greatly diminished without the Brits support.

In the world of software "the glass is half full" guys are marketers and the salesmen, "the glass is half empty" guys are the engineers. Which ones do you want solving problems ? Perhaps, it depends on the problem. Still, I've got my money on the "half empty" types, if only because they see there's a problem that needs a solution.

The Brits are pulling out of Basra, and according to the Arab media, al Maliki has fired the Governor of that province.

Gordon Brown’s response was interesting. He stated that “terrorism is a crime�. As if the “GWOT� is a bumper sticker slogan. As if we would be better off preparing indictments then getting mired in counter-productive wars in Asia.

It shows Bush ready to make another British PM to say yes for everything he tell. But my doubt is, whether Bush indirectly saying that Blair is doesn't have any of those characters? I'm just asking...
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Forget Roberts, give Bush the brain scan. The technical term for the way he talks is "word salad", and what it means is "See a doctor".

"Where does he come up with this stuff?"

I bet he really thinks this way. It's not just a 'straw man argument' calculated to win debating points. No one wrote that for him yesterday; he's probably proud to have come up with that himself extemporaneously. No, this is his mental process. What he hears inside his head. Call it childlike thinking, call it narrow minded, call it diminished functionality when confronted with differing intellectual positions. But this may be the extent of Georges critical thinking abilities. He literally paints these mental pictures of any person that disagrees with him. Yikes!!

Yes, I preferred his comment that Brown "is not a dour Scotsman, not an awkward Scotsman, but a humorous Scotsman."

I want to know where to buy some of these stereotypes. Didn't know these were the ones commonly marketed!

Call it childlike thinking, call it narrow minded, call it diminished functionality when confronted with differing intellectual positions. But this may be the extent of Georges critical thinking abilities. He literally paints these mental pictures of any person that disagrees with him. Yikes!!

Indeed.

And after he bravely pointed the finger at those laggardly, cowardly world leaders, he resumed hiding from all citizens who had not passed the Bush Screening for Full Unquestioning Loyalty (BS-FUL) Test. He also had some time left over to not read or listen to any news before his regular 9 p.m. bedtime.

It is to larf: Bushlet's two major allies, Prime Minister Gordon Brown and France's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bernard Kouchner, are both Socialists -- and neither one is in love with his nutbar "war on..." formulation of things.

Hmmm. I wonder whether Kouchner uses Colgates.



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