Comments on: Prez-idential Meltdown

by: dougwe

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 20:48:46 +0000

The thought of W wondering about anything is totally foreign. He is, as they say, “other directed”. As long as his voices tell him he’s right, he’ll keep on doing what he’s been doing.

by: spencert

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:00:27 +0000

Oh sorry. I meant to say that they were mass-muderers.

by: spencert

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:59:00 +0000

msteele,

First of all, I didn’t even mention Mao and Stalin. Secondly, I’m not denying that the ones I did mention were not mass-murderers and perhaps the worst people to have ever lived. What I was saying is that at least they knew what they wanted and how to go about getting there. In other words, THEY HAD A GOD DAMN PLAN!!! I very much have a sense of perspective and it only gets sharper the longer this asshole is in office.

by: lostinutah

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 04:02:42 +0000

I am with Nic, Great Grandpa and Larry. Reesh. Can I vote for Al Gore again? Turn back the clock for Heaven’s sake.

by: Nic

Tue, 10 Jul 2007 19:32:54 +0000

I’m w/Great Grandpa Bill and Larry. Bush doesn’t have the brains to Know he has NO brains.

by: rmwarnick

Tue, 10 Jul 2007 17:03:44 +0000

If President Bush is privately feeling sorry for himself it’s nothing a couple hours of bike riding can’t cure. In public, he just says that historians are still writing books about George Washington and that means it’s obviously too soon to draw any conclusions about the Bush administration’s success or failure. The resemblance to Alfred E. Neumann is uncanny. “What, me worry?”

by: Holly

Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:38:16 +0000

I’m posting this comment for “Great Grandpa Bill,” who e-mailed mullentown to say he’s having trouble registering as a new user:

Excuse me, Holly, but I can’t visualize ‘W’ asking “Where did I go wrong?”You’re crediting him with having enough intellect to override his stubbornness/lack of intellect.

I’ve seen presidential elections since the 1930’s. As I recall, it had been sort of a gentlemen’s agreement that a second-term president would not seek re-election. After Franklin Roosevelt got a third term, and then a fourth
(!), the two-term limit was established.

What we need to do now is to find a way of keeping a dim bulb from getting into such a powerful position.

But, the real problem is not the individual, but the individual’s handlers. And that’s what makes me so pessimistic about our country’s future. I’ll not
be around for many more presidential elections, but what I’m seeing in the parade of elections is a change of faces at the top, while the support staff, advisers, consultants, lobbyists, etc. remain essentially the same.

Right now, (besides the dim bulbs) we have too many people in powerful positions who don’t give one good god-damn about our country. All their energy is devoted to keeping, and enlarging, their power to steer rewards to the people who got them appointed/elected in the first place. And the
rewards keep getting bigger. Where will this end?

How to change this? I’m pessimistic.

Great-grandpa Bill

by: msteele

Tue, 10 Jul 2007 15:41:46 +0000

Yes, there are mistakes aplenty, but it will be decades before we can fairly assess GWB as a president. Just reviewing the last 50 years, he has stiff competition for worst president label. LBJ with the Great Society and Vietnam escalation, Nixon’s paranoia, Carter’s Eeyore as President routine…

And saying that President Bush is worse than the greatest mass murderers in history is just pathetic. Perhaps you’ve forgotten, but Hitler, Stalin, and Mao each murdered tens of millions. spencert, you’ve lost all perspective.

by: chardonnay

Tue, 10 Jul 2007 15:19:21 +0000

Perhaps there is a ray of hope in Iraq. The U.S. envoy Ryan Crocker is comparing his role and that of Petraeus to Ellsworth Bunker and Creighton Abrams ( whose 1967 report to Congress started the the downfall of LBJ ).

Maybe some real honesty from our people in Baghdad will give courage to the spineless repubs to end this disaster. LBJ and Nixon were much smarter than W…but they were entangled in Vietnam for eleven years.

Guess Bush is gonna give a speech later this week. Can`t wait.

by: Holly

Mon, 09 Jul 2007 23:52:59 +0000

You may be right, Larry. Bush is more likely looking out the window saying “Where did THEY go wrong?” As in, blaming the American people for losing faith in him and his ill-fated policies (though “policies” connotes some forethought, and we can’t give that kind of credit to this miserable president).

I have read “American Fascists,” blogged about it several months back. It’s really excellent, but deeply sobering.