Bush in Kentucky: "It's like a tax that goes -- that money, and it's up"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Listen, I understand people are paying higher prices at the gas pump. I know that you're paying that tax -- it's like a tax that goes -- that money, and it's up because we're dependent. And the more dependent you are on somebody else's energy, the more likely it is you'll pay a higher price for it. And so I put a plan up there to get us to diversify away from the old habits and the old ways. The bill passed the House, it passed the Senate committee. It's now on the floor of the United States Senate. For the sake of economic security and national security, the Senate has got to get that bill passed; the House and Senate have got to reconcile their differences and get me a bill I can sign by August of this year. (Applause.)

Rick Paxton. Welcome, Rick, thank you. Where do you live?

MR. PAXTON: Yes, sir, I live right here in Hopkinsville , Kentucky here.

THE PRESIDENT: Good place to live, isn't it?

MR. PAXTON: It's a wonderful place to live. (Applause.)



THE PRESIDENT: Thanks for coming. Tell everybody what you do.

MR. PAXTON: I'm a financial consultant with Hilliard-Lyons, have been for the last 15 years.

THE PRESIDENT: Good. I ask -- on these panels I always ask somebody who -- to come who knows what he or she is talking about, an expert.

MR. PAXTON: Uh-oh. (Laughter.)

THE PRESIDENT: Usually it's a PhD. I know you're not one. And I -- (laughter) -- and I like to tell people, he's a PhD. I'm a C student -- was a C student -- and look who the advisor is. (Laughter.) So all you C students out there, work hard, but there's hope for you. (Laughter and applause.)

All right, Rick. Rick studies markets and investments. Let her rip.

MR. PAXTON: Yes, sir. Well, first, I have with me today my wife, Anne, and my two wonderful children, Chris and Elizabeth.

THE PRESIDENT: Well, good. Welcome.

MR. PAXTON: And on behalf of my children, I just want to thank you for being brave enough to take this on. I know it's politically been a thing that's been talked about. I can remember 30 years ago in a college economics class, the professor talking about the coming problem because of our generation, the baby boomers.

THE PRESIDENT: Yes.

MR. PAXTON: And I just want to commend you for taking this on.

THE PRESIDENT: Well, thanks Rick. You're kind to say that, thank you. (Applause.) That's what you're paying me to do. Go ahead.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/06/20050602-13.html

[Spiffarino]

1. Jeebus, the words read as bad as he speaks them

G.W. Bush: Ultra-maroon.

[Seeing Red]

2. THE PRESIDENT?

Next time you quote the WH transcripts, be sure to add quotes around their every use of "president"

[punpirate]

3. It's no surprise that the Bushies...

... continue to find people just as stupid and duplicitous as Dubya to pimp for him at these events. The energy bill will do nothing to help, and is a gigantic pork pie for mature industries.

[Jade Fox]

4. Bush always sounds like he's ad-libbing.....

like he's never actually thought about any of these issues, like he's sorta
heard of them and knows that others without his money and life-long
cushion from reality are concerned about them.

God, he's an idiot.

[googly]

14. But he beat Gore AND Kerry....both highly intelligent men...

Goes to show you you get elected more based on how much
voters like you versus your IQ.

[Rageneau]

20. He didn't beat Gore or Kerry. But the referees (MSM) rigged the results.

Bush couldn't even beat ME in any kind of debate, which makes him the only president in history I can say that about. Gore and Kerry both destroyed Smirk in all the debates, but the conservative consensus-manufacturers who run the all the broadcast and most of the print media immediately spun the results into Rumpledsyntaxskinian gold.

One example. In the Kerry - Bush debate, Smirk got caught saying that he had never said Osama was irrelevant (I think) when the record showed a clear contradiction - on a BIG area of history, trust, policy.

So what was the MSM slant on the debate's big story? It was the slant Rove hand-fed them, which they fell for snook, lie and stinker -- that mean old Kerry had alluded to Cheney's daughter, who is an openly self-identified lesbian, as being a lesbian -- the bastard! And that's all the press said for three days.

Only a press that willingly offers its nose can be so easily led by it.

The U.S.'s complacent, incompetant, over-coiffed, too-well-manicured main-stream media is a bigger threat to our remaining freedom that the Pugs are. The Pugs cannot succeed if the media tells the truth about them. Yet, watch them succeed again and again.

It's like BartCop says: We're in a debate where logic is no advantage.

[Sub Atomic]

5. HEY EVERYBODY -- LOOK!!!

Bush's jowls are growing!!

Let's make fun of them!!

[msongs]

7. he is starting to look like............nixon eom

[Sub Atomic]

8. oh my

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Thanks for the laugh!!

[Carolab]

17. Actually he looks more like Beautiful Mind Babs every day n/t

[LuPeRcALiO]

6. so the only beef in this fossilized burger

is what some wingnut flack remembers his wingnut prof saying 30 years ago?

That's the best they can do?

[Tux]

15. But

Was his professor a godless liberal forcing humanism onto the conservative Christian students who would fail if they didn't marry a gay person?

[evlbstrd]

9. It makes me want to find video of Clinton's speeches.

Or Gore's or Kerry's. What a president should sound like.

[TheDebbieDee]

10. The evil Forest Gump spouts gibberish once again!

Evil Forest and his mindless minions!

Forest and his useless host of shits!

[EST]

11. Too much for me---

:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[njdemocrat106]

12. These town-hall meetings sound more like public ass-kissings

Someone give Mr. Paxton a Tic-Tac please! :evilgrin:

[Stephanie]

13. That's what we're paying him to do? We hired a professional spokesmodel?

He's looking really bloated today - looks like hell.

[googly]

16. Yap, that is who the VOTERS hired!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Must be because he was more likeable than Kerry.
What other reason could it be??????????????

[Karmakaze]

18. How does Bush know the guy is NOT a PhD?

MR. PAXTON: I'm a financial consultant with Hilliard-Lyons, have been for the last 15 years.

THE PRESIDENT: Good. I ask -- on these panels I always ask somebody who -- to come who knows what he or she is talking about, an expert.

MR. PAXTON: Uh-oh. (Laughter.)

THE PRESIDENT: Usually it's a PhD. I know you're not one. And I -- (laughter) -- and I like to tell people, he's a PhD. I'm a C student -- was a C student -- and look who the advisor is. (Laughter.) So all you C students out there, work hard, but there's hope for you. (Laughter and applause.)


So how did Bush know that? Isnt this meant to be an open townhall meeting? How does he know so much about the guy?

[Ikonoklast]

19. When I hear this coked-up, booze-addled turd speak

I get this horrible pain in the left front part of my brain just like someone jabbed an ice-pick into it. It astounds me every time he tries to articulate an idea into words that he graduated from Yale and has an MBA from Harvard. I swear to God Almighty Himself that if I ever find out that D-uhbblyoo is a member of Mensa I will vote Republican.

[Disturbed]

21. I still wanna know why..

the American taxpayer, the Middle Class and the Working Poor, are paying for these "catapulting propaganda" meetings?

[Jo March]

22. OMG! That guy's statement - it's the same one that I've heard before!

I sort of "sat in" on the SS call for college repubs :evilgrin: and there was one guy who asked a question and he said the same thing as Mr. Paxton:

"I just want to thank you for being brave enough to take this on. "

Almost word-for-word the exact same thing as this dude said.

Oh, the kool aid must be really working. Even their questions and comments are all the same.

Freaky.

[gratuitous]

24. Yeah, was there a question lurking in that guy's comments?

Because I sure couldn't find it. Bush is out in the little meetings right now, doing the same show over and over again. The "C student" comment, the "isn't this a wonderful place to live" crap, and so on.

If you've ever been to a show in one town then watched it somewhere else, you know what's going on. The little "ad lib" things are carefully scripted, every line has been said a zillion times. But if you're there on the night the show comes to your town, it all sounds so fresh and new, and you marvel at the spontaneity and creativity.

The national press has all but given up on following Chimpy around to these staged dog-and-phony shows, but the local media eats it up because it's the first time they've seen any of it. And that's the coverage that Chimpy and his handlers are counting on. It would be real nice if one national new outlet sent some luckless reporter around to cover every one of these things, and filed the exact same story from every venue.

[Jo March]

25. I am just blown away that anyone can stand there & talk to *

without wanting to vomit all over him.

It's like you said - it's carefully scripted.

I'd love to find transcripts from each of these little town meetings and compare them using Word's compare documents function.

Might have to investigate this further...

:evilgrin:

[DemBeans]

23. huh?

"I know that you're paying that tax -- it's like a tax that goes -- that money, and it's up because we're dependent."

This really makes me want to weep. I know his ignorant supporters find this babble endearing, but I find it utterly humiliating that the so-called president of our country can't form a simple, coherent thought in that booze-fried brain of his.