"People whose skins are a different color than white CAN self-govern." GWB

[Stephanie]

Impeach him NOW! He is getting STUPIDER every freaking day.

[SoCalDem]

1. mopaul & I beat you by one minute

:evilgrin:

poor mods :)

[Stephanie]

2. Hah! Let's wrestle for it!

Anyway, we were all equally outraged by it. What FREAK.

[keithyboy]

46. Does he know that these people were 'self-governing' long before

the people of 'white-skin' had a family unit.

[k in IA]

3. Today, he was was especially embarrassing to listen to. Unbelievable.

[belladonna]

4. I missed this

When and where? He actually SAID this???

[Stephanie]

7. Just now - live press op with Canadian PM

See the two other threads about it!

[glarius]

5. His shaking lower lip and chin makes him look on the verge of a nervous

breakdown...I've noticed this more and more in his recent unscripted appearances before the public...

[belladonna]

11. The idiot cannot speak unscripted

It's a disaster every single time he does. The great thing is that he's going to have to do it more and more as the election draws near. Let's hope the sheeple and undecided voters are paying attention this time around, because they sure weren't in 1999 and 2000.

[wysimdnwyg]

6. Is that the exact quote?

What a racist piece of shit. I hope every minority in America hears that. That dickhead will get beat so bad in November, we won't have to wait until January for the inauguration.

[Stephanie]

10. That's the exact quote so far as my transcription was accurate.

He made several attempts before he spit this one out. It was like "look, people think that just because people have dark skin they can't self govern. Well, just because they're not whi... just because they have skin color other than white..."

It's the most ignorant and infuriating thing I think I've ever heard out of him, and that takes something, to outdo even himself in the stupidity contest.

[belle]

35. Mighty white of him to say so, no? And right Christian.

Stupid fucking fuck.

Every time he makes a public appearance now, I just keep imagining one of those old-style vaudeville canes reaching out from the wings and hooking him off. Wouldn't it be a relief?

[glarius]

12. Oh yah....he's apparently very high on dark skinned people self-governing

I had to laugh at the way he fauned all over our Canadian Prime Minister....He hated us before because we didn't join the Iraq attack...I guess he's really in need of a friend....Hahahaha

[BattyDem]

42. All Kerry has to do is ..

put that quote in a campaign ad. No minority would ever vote for Bush* after hearing it. Damn ... I'm white and I'm offended!

:grr: WTF kind of a comment is that??? :grr:

Excuse me while I go take my ulcer medication ... I should never read DU before taking it.

[skippysmom]

8. I love when that moron

talk to us like WE'RE stupid. Hello, Georgie, YOU'RE the idiot, not us.

[Skittles]

9. come on Steph

you ARE putting us one - aren't you? Dear GOD tell me our "president" did not say something THAT F***ING STUPID. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.

[Stephanie]

13. Yes he DID - see the two other threads by mopaul and SoCalDem

We all freaked when we heard it.

[Skittles]

14. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[wysimdnwyg]

15. Skittles

Go kick his ass!!!!

[Skittles]

20. TEN F***ING YEARS

I HAVE HAD TO PUT UP WITH THAT NITWIT FOR TEN F***ING YEARS NOW. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.

[belle]

36. Ten?--Oh, you're from Texas? I'm so sorry. Then again,

I'm sorry for all of us...this has been the longest three years that ever were, I think...

[Skittles]

55. I'm not FROM Texas, sweet Belle

but yes I do LIVE here.

[Catherine Vincent]

49. Forgive me, Skittles, for I voted for the idiot for TX governor....

I don't know what I was thinking. I...I...panicked.

[Skittles]

56. I SHOULD COME OVER AND KICK YOUR ASS

but I appreciate your honesty and your acknowledgement it was a mistake. :)

[asjr]

17. I didn't hear it because I was taking out trash. If I had

heard it I would have tried to take him with me. I can believe he said it. He is the #1 moron in the country.

[maggrwaggr]

28. how ironic is it that right now Michael Jackson is all over the news?

an artificially whitened black man has pre-empted Bush's comments about dark-skinned people being self - governing .....

Somebody wake me up, quick!

[AtTheEndOfTheDay]

16. Actually he's said this on a prior occasion

several months back. Nobody pointed out how stupid and racist it was apparently. It's sure good news knowing that people can manage without white folks holding their hand.

[Stephanie]

18. I remember that and WE did point it out at the time

Apparently nobody pointed it out to Bush. I guess Karen and Karl and Dick share his views. I wouldn't be surprised. Otherwise, why wouldn't they attempt to correct him?

[charlie]

21. I think it was

an "off his leash" moment. He's so proud of the occasional pedestrian insights he has, he can't help but sharing them. Like that stupid story he told in the recent press conference about him and Koizumi meeting -- jus' friends talkin' y'know, when... *FLASH*... it occurred to him that if the US had bungled its post-war handling the two of them wouldn't be there. Talkin'. As friends.

Rove must be shitting his britches right now.

[donsu]

26. I remember that too, & at first thought that was what people were

talking about.

I think the bushgang is so sure of itself that they don't give a hang what they say anymore.

They know they can do what they want cause there is nothing to stop them.

[belle]

38. Well, it's better than Bush can do, apparently...

Maybe someone should tell him that if only he were more dark-skinned, he might not need to cling to Cheney's hand every time he has to go to the bathroom or tie his shoe. Hey, maybe he'll even pick up on it. It's certainly a better-sounding excuse than the fact that he's JUST A FUCKING USELESS MORON.

[MisterP]

59. the recent stammering press conference?

or is this a new incident, or one prior to the "some people say Iraqis can't govern themselves, or brown-skinned people. I think they can."?

[Liberal Gramma]

19. Is this patronizing or what?

Who said they couldn't? Wolfowitz? Cheney? Rummy? What's this obsession with people's skin color? Or is the sly devil trying to link anti-war/racism in the public's mind?

[Ms. Clio]

22. he has trouble saying it because he doesn't really believe it

PNACers are racist to the core.

[snippy]

23. For some reason, this reminds me of this photo-op.

[charlie]

24. A truer to his regard for "non-whites" photo...

[belle]

39. www.blackpeopleloveus.com

[noiretextatique]

25. too bad he doesn't *really* believe that

yet another LIE from this sociopathic moran :puke:

[The Backlash Cometh]

27. Hee-hee. I just had a vision of the future.

The day that white men are a minority in the House and Senate.

[maggrwaggr]

29. imagine if anybody else but him said this

they would be immediately crucified

[charlie]

30. No shit

The first thing out of Brit Hume's mouth would be "who said non-whites couldn't govern themselves, Mr President?"

[BattyDem]

33. More accurately ...

Imagine if a DEMOCRAT said this - they would be immediately crucified :mad:

[BattyDem]

31. NO WAY!!! Did he really say that???

I can't even come up with a funny comment about this ... I am literally speechless! :shrug:

[Norquist Nemesis]

41. Was a "thud" heard when Karen fainted in the background?

[charlie]

50. It's not the first time

He proffered the same opinion, once again unsolicited, in that recent bizarro press conference:

Some of the debate really centers around the fact that people don't believe Iraq can be free; that if you're Muslim, or perhaps brown-skinned, you can't be self-governing or free. I'd strongly disagree with that.

I reject that. Because I believe that freedom is the deepest need of every human soul, and if given a chance, the Iraqi people will be not only self-governing, but a stable and free society.

[BattyDem]

54. That's right! I forgot about that ...

I guess it didn't shock me as much then because there was so many other things to be shocked about in that press conference! :mad:

[killbotfactory]

32. A masterful play of the race card!

and by "masterful" I mean "hamfisted". Get this insane idiot out of power before he destroys us all.

[Zorra]

34. If "Auntie" Condi and Colin "Uncle" Powell had any dignity left they

would resign immediately.

Hey, at least we know where Bu$h gets his clueless, thoughtless arrogance from:

"Why should we hear about body bags and deaths," Barbara Bush said on ABC's "Good Morning America" on March 18, 2003. "Oh, I mean, it's not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?"

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0429-11.htm

From his mother, Barbara "let them eat cake" Bu$h.

[tom_paine]

37. Well that was mighty WHITE of him

Fucking moron. Der Fuhrer* is a fucking moron.



There, I said it! Come and get me Mike the SS Man!

[ibegurpard]

40. Does anyone have a link with this quote verbatim?

I would really like to use it.

[Stephanie]

51. I just transcribed it myself from C-Span, here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1502868

It's also up at whitehouse.gov -

[Redleg]

43. More amazing insight from the Prez.

He should get a Nobel prize for that.

[AlCzervik]

44. I made this bumper sticker

for bartcop after monkey boys press confab a couple of weeks ago, imagine my surprise when it became relevent once again. I guess Bigfoot huges didnt give bush the 411 on not saying things like that.

[maddezmom]

45. OMG...he gets dumber by the minute

[LittleApple81]

47. ACTUAL QUOTE FROM Whitehouse transcript:

snip...

There's a lot of people in the world who don't believe that people whose skin color may not be the same as ours can be free and self-govern. I reject that. I reject that strongly. I believe that people who practice the Muslim faith can self-govern. I believe that people whose skins aren't necessarily -- are a different color than white can self-govern.

And the Prime Minister -- I don't want to put words in his mouth -- but I think he shares that great sense of optimism and possibility. And it's good to have a friend who shares that with us.

Would you like to have the First Ladies come on up?

PRIME MINISTER MARTIN: I've got to say, though, I really do like sharing a press conference with you. You answer those questions perfectly. (Laughter.)

PRESIDENT BUSH: Thank you. Record that.
more...

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/04/20040430-2.html

[Tommy_Douglas]

52. Best thing Martin could have done...

Is stayed away from Bush. Chretien did it for a reason Paul...

[MrBenchley]

60. Hell, there's people in his own damn family who say that

...and that's why Jebbo illegally pitched 90,000 black citizens off the Florida voter rolls.

[NormanConquest]

48. Is that why we wiped out the Iroquois after the Rev War?

They must have been doing TOO good a job of self-governing.

By the way, our original government (the AoC) was a pretty big failure. We're not exactly batting 1000 here...

[donhakman]

53. Picture of Bush quote

[theoceansnerves]

57. oh my god

there are so many things fucked up in that quote. when did he say this? will this get as much play as dean saying that he needs the votes of the guys with the confederate flag on their pickup trucks?

[AspenRose]

58. You're talking about a man

who had no idea there were blacks in Brazil. :eyes: