Jesus Fucking Christ Almighty!
George W. Bush is our president.
I've been repeating this to myself every night for 5 years, but it never looses that new car stink.
George W. Fucking-Ass-Wipe-Shit-for-Brains-Motherfucking-Criminal-Liar Bush is our president!!!
Reading the president's speech tonight was like one of those dreams where your running and running and running, but never get to where you want to go (where was that, anyway?).
Yes, I read the text, couldn't bring myself to watch... can't stand to hear the thing's voice, so the wife and I settled in for Six Feet Under during tonight's speech - a speech that Scott "Are We Done with the Briefing Yet" McClellan characterized as a speech where the President would "talk about the strategy we have for succeeding in Iraq, the strategy we have for victory, and where we are in terms of implementing that strategy." Right Scott, blah blah blah.
The village idiot, this guy who sits in the Oval Office once in a while (when he's not clearing brush off his ranch... must be a Brush Ranch for all the hours he spends there picking up sticks), actually got up and gave the same speech he's been giving since 2003! This is after a month of public opinion polls showing that the US citizenry is eager for him to get real and level with them!
Tonight W showed not only his stubbornness and myopia (resoluteness and focus according to the GOP) but he also showed us all just how much contempt he has for the American people.
Shit, his captive audience didn't even want to applaud at the designated lines.
What a scum-sucker
posted by Batsoup @ 10:15 PM
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Well, it was weird to watch him -- I swear it looked like he was doing a Bill Clinton impersonation. He had a smile on his face the whole time, but not his usually smirk, more like he was attempting Clinton's "I feel your pain" wan mini-smile. But the kicker was how he kept pressing the tip of his tongue between his lips -- a classic Clinton quirk that all the impressionists, good (like Hammond on SNL) or bad (uh, anyone else), employ.
I think Junior was placed in high-rehearsal mode where the handlers were saying, "We've GOT to capture some of that warmth Clinton had when he was delivering a bitter pill."
But Jr got tired towards the end -- it was a gosh-awful long speech w/ mucho repetition (of course) or same words and phrases; he started to lapse into smirk. He bumbled words at the end too -- I forget which, but they were close enough to the end that it fouled up his big send-off.
The other hilarious thing was the applause sign that must have gone on at one point. He made some statement that I bet the handlers wanted to have look like it rec'd a resounding repsonse from the soldier-audience. But of course Jr couldn't pull off the timing and it was so obvious that it was cued applause. But he "acted" as though they were spontaneous! What a hoot!
And the stage design was gag-inducing and oddly hypnotic. At all camera vantage points, you could see "Fort Bragg" a number of places. The actual stage look a bit like the Brookstone packaging my new electronic toy came in. Flashy, but cheesy.
That sounds hilarious, actually. I almost tuned in the late-night replay on CSPAN, but couldn't bring myself to do it (a bit like considering a leap into an ice-cold pool)
I have no doubt he had some serious training for that infomercial. I wonder just how deep the Clinton aspect goes; did they actually press the Clintonisms? I also wonder who they brought in to coach him.
Imagine if they actually brought in President Clinton, in the spirit of this inexplicable friendship he has forged with Papa Bush (a match the likes of which we haven't seen since the Felix Unger moved in with Oscar Madison... or when Chico started working for The Man). I can just see the two presidents sitting across from each other, Bill saying, "no, the smile needs to be softer. Like this," then Chimpy says, "like this?" Bill, "no, now you look constipated..."
Naw, Clinton would never do it. Not even as a joke.
hee!
You're right, Clinton wouldn't go that far. But I think his 'friendship' w/ Papa is to help Hilary down the road. Benign and noncommittal enough for us progs and lefties to dismiss it ("it's all for the good of raising money for tsnami victims and when it isn't, they're just playing golf and who doesn't like that…") and yet the bulk of the Rebug middle are fooled by surface crap and they might just subliminally nudge Hil's Q factor in the upward direction.
So, I can see Bill being friendly w/ Daddy Warbucks, but not Jr. What I can see is that Daddy has told Jr, or Daddy's handlers have told Jr's handlers to give a little bit of the Clinton impression a try.
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