Bush also POKED a Flautist in Germany...

[Octafish]

Between talkin' 'bout slicin' some pig and givin' a Deke neck rub to Frau Kanzler, Smirko found time to probe a musician.

Bush, Merkel slice into roast pig at German barbecue

Thu Jul 13, 2006 2:09 PM ET
by Steve Holland

TRINWILLERSHAGEN, Germany (Reuters) - President Bush put Middle East tension, violence in Iraq and Iran's nuclear program behind him on Thursday to feast on a wild boar roasting on a spit.

"Laura and I come from Texas," Bush told his host German Chancellor Angela Merkel on a warm summer evening. "One of the greatest compliments you can pay a guest is to have a barbecue."

SNIP...

They walked past a red-coated band playing a medley of songs like "Hooray for the Red, White and Blue," and Bush plucked the conductor's wand from his hand and led the band for a few notes.

Then he and Merkel posed for pictures with the band as its members played on, Bush startling a woman playing a flute by poking her on the shoulder.

CONTINUED...

Can the guy be any lower?

SICK COWPOKE

[boston bean]

1. holy christ, they guy is sauced!

[Octafish]

3. Morford pegs Smirko as ''That Guy.''

And he's being nice about it...

Gee whiz, Bush thinks he's That Guy

Mark Morford
Wednesday, July 19, 2006

EXCERPT...

The pictures, the video, reveal all. Merkel reacts accordingly: is instantly creeped out, cringes and shrugs Bush off with a look of surprised revulsion.

Dubya is, of course, oblivious. His expression is his classic blank "Who, me?" stare that recalls a child caught eating a live grasshopper. He looks right past Merkel, and quickly dashes away as though nothing happened, as if the powerful German leader didn't just recoil visibly at his very touch.

It all happens in about four seconds. It is merely, on the surface, a minor infraction, a stupid gesture, a "what-the-hell?" moment you want to forget immediately but is unfortunately burned into your retina like a flaming spear of, "Oh, please, God, no." And it speaks volumes.

Let us imagine how it would be if, say, French President Jacques Chirac walked up behind Condi Rice and gave her a quick grope before a fancy state dinner. Or maybe if Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi sneaked up behind Laura Bush and gave her a hearty, unexpected squeeze. How charming! Or, you know, not.

Now we get it. This is the bottom line, the final truth, George W. Bush in a nutshell. Bush thinks he is That Guy. The one everybody just loves to have around, the one who sincerely thinks his goofy charm is so appealing and so innocuous and so licky-puppy friendly that he can get away with all sorts of casual infractions and weird gestures that no one else would care to attempt lest they appear, you know, dorky as a knob.

He is That Guy, the best man at the wedding party who is standing in the center of the room, casually and cluelessly telling off-color or racist jokes that offend everyone but that he thinks are hilarious. And hell, if you're offended, then you're just some dang hippie liberal. Haw.

CONTINUED...

He is insane, MassDemm. Let's hope he leaves the White House before he presses all the buttons.

The Little Turd
from Crawford

[leftchick]

7. how perfect

and scary was that?

[Swamp Rat]

23. "Who, me?"

[ima_sinnic]

63. oh Mark, Mark, even while the world is on fire you crack me up

"How charming! Or, you know, not." For some reason that particular line made me snicker audibly. If I couldn't laugh I would break down and cry inconsolably. NO good is going to come of this. I cringe when I think back to 2000 and how we (or maybe many? some?) said, "oh, how bad can it get--he's got some people behind him who will run things okay and then in 4 years we can get rid of him." little did we know that the world really could change--DRASTICALLY.

[Mugsy]

41. I have no doubt he was "under the influence" on his trip.

His behavior was extremely familiar... the frantic juvenile behavior that has one taking nothing seriously and behaving in an emotionally regressed manner.

I was raised with an alcoholic step-father. I saw the same behavior in Bush this trip as I saw in my step-father when he "had one too many".

[wordpix2]

72. juvenile and why must he eat pig in public? It only provokes Muslims &

observant Jews, too.

Geez, the guy is like a 12 year-old. "Let's go eat Pig."

[malaise]

2. There you have it

Bush is a wild boar.

[Octafish]

10. Boor. Boar. Bore. Bomb.

The idiot is also stark, raving mad.

Case in point: Nuke Iran.

THE IRAN PLANS

Would President Bush go to war to stop Tehran from getting the bomb?

by SEYMOUR M. HERSH

EXCERPT...

Last month, in a paper given at a conference on Middle East security in Berlin, Colonel Sam Gardiner, a military analyst who taught at the National War College before retiring from the Air Force, in 1987, provided an estimate of what would be needed to destroy Iran’s nuclear program. Working from satellite photographs of the known facilities, Gardiner estimated that at least four hundred targets would have to be hit. He added:

I don’t think a U.S. military planner would want to stop there. Iran probably has two chemical-production plants. We would hit those. We would want to hit the medium-range ballistic missiles that have just recently been moved closer to Iraq. There are fourteen airfields with sheltered aircraft. . . . We’d want to get rid of that threat. We would want to hit the assets that could be used to threaten Gulf shipping. That means targeting the cruise-missile sites and the Iranian diesel submarines. . . . Some of the facilities may be too difficult to target even with penetrating weapons. The U.S. will have to use Special Operations units.

One of the military’s initial option plans, as presented to the White House by the Pentagon this winter, calls for the use of a bunker-buster tactical nuclear weapon, such as the B61-11, against underground nuclear sites. One target is Iran’s main centrifuge plant, at Natanz, nearly two hundred miles south of Tehran. Natanz, which is no longer under I.A.E.A. safeguards, reportedly has underground floor space to hold fifty thousand centrifuges, and laboratories and workspaces buried approximately seventy-five feet beneath the surface. That number of centrifuges could provide enough enriched uranium for about twenty nuclear warheads a year. (Iran has acknowledged that it initially kept the existence of its enrichment program hidden from I.A.E.A. inspectors, but claims that none of its current activity is barred by the Non-Proliferation Treaty.) The elimination of Natanz would be a major setback for Iran’s nuclear ambitions, but the conventional weapons in the American arsenal could not insure the destruction of facilities under seventy-five feet of earth and rock, especially if they are reinforced with concrete.

There is a Cold War precedent for targeting deep underground bunkers with nuclear weapons. In the early nineteen-eighties, the American intelligence community watched as the Soviet government began digging a huge underground complex outside Moscow. Analysts concluded that the underground facility was designed for “continuity of government”—for the political and military leadership to survive a nuclear war. (There are similar facilities, in Virginia and Pennsylvania, for the American leadership.) The Soviet facility still exists, and much of what the U.S. knows about it remains classified. “The ‘tell’ ”—the giveaway—“was the ventilator shafts, some of which were disguised,” the former senior intelligence official told me. At the time, he said, it was determined that “only nukes” could destroy the bunker. He added that some American intelligence analysts believe that the Russians helped the Iranians design their underground facility. “We see a similarity of design,” specifically in the ventilator shafts, he said.

A former high-level Defense Department official told me that, in his view, even limited bombing would allow the U.S. to “go in there and do enough damage to slow down the nuclear infrastructure—it’s feasible.” The former defense official said, “The Iranians don’t have friends, and we can tell them that, if necessary, we’ll keep knocking back their infrastructure. The United States should act like we’re ready to go.” He added, “We don’t have to knock down all of their air defenses. Our stealth bombers and standoff missiles really work, and we can blow fixed things up. We can do things on the ground, too, but it’s difficult and very dangerous—put bad stuff in ventilator shafts and put them to sleep.”

But those who are familiar with the Soviet bunker, according to the former senior intelligence official, “say ‘No way.’ You’ve got to know what’s underneath—to know which ventilator feeds people, or diesel generators, or which are false. And there’s a lot that we don’t know.” The lack of reliable intelligence leaves military planners, given the goal of totally destroying the sites, little choice but to consider the use of tactical nuclear weapons. “Every other option, in the view of the nuclear weaponeers, would leave a gap,” the former senior intelligence official said. “ ‘Decisive’ is the key word of the Air Force’s planning. It’s a tough decision. But we made it in Japan.”

CONTINUED...

CHIMPAGEDDON
ANYONE?

[malaise]

16. I swear these neocons are not

just mad but also ignorant, myopic and dangerous. I can only hope they self destruct, since it looks like they're willing to take the entire planet with them. From December 2000, this has been nearly six years of hell.

[goforit]

54. This is just scarey shit!

[C_U_L8R]

4. and he doesn't come from texas

he's a spoiled snotnosed Connecticut frat boy...

with a totally bogus cowboy act... the man is a fraud .. through and through

[Octafish]

14. Accordin' to the CODE: George W. Bush Ain't No Cowboy

From someone who knows what a real cowboy is:

George W. Bush Ain't No Cowboy

See how the little feller measures up to the Cowboy Code, and you tell me.

by Erik Baard
September 28th, 2004 10:10 AM

George W. Bush is a fake cowboy. From media accounts, you'd reckon that the president was a buckaroo to the bones. He plays up the image, big-time, with $300 designer cowboy boots, a $1,000 cowboy hat, and his 1,600-acre Prairie Chapel Ranch in Crawford, Texas. He guns his rhetoric with frontier lingo, saying that he'll "ride herd" over ornery Middle Eastern governments and "smoke out" enemies in wild mountain passes. He branded Saddam Hussein's Iraq "an outlaw regime" and took the vanquished dictator's pistol as a trophy. As for Osama bin Laden, Bush declared, "I want justice. And there's an old poster out West, I recall, that says, 'Wanted: Dead or Alive.' " Britain's liberal newspaper The Guardian noted that "such language feeds the image overseas of Mr. Bush as a hopelessly inarticulate, trigger-happy cowboy."

But liberals from both coasts and Europeans who derisively call Bush a "cowboy" foolishly insult not Bush, but one of America's prime ennobling myths. Instead of ridiculing the myth exploited by George W. Bush, they may want to measure him against it.

"The idea of the American cowboy is the direct lineal descendant of the chivalric knight," observes Bonnie Wheeler, a medievalist in cowboy country. "The only serious difference is that your status doesn't depend on your social class." Editor of Arthuriana, the journal of Arthurian studies, Wheeler teaches at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.

"Our president," she says, "is neither a knight nor a cowboy. He doesn't believe in taking care of the little guy, nor does he have the restraint or dignity of the cowboy."

Children of Bush's generation grew up knowing of the Cowboy Code, which echoed the chivalric one. It was written by screen cowboy Gene Autry. In real life too, this lifelong Democrat was the kind of white-hat cowboy our president presents himself to be. Autry was the son of an itinerant cattle driver and horse trader in rural Texas and Oklahoma. He was a recreational small-aircraft pilot, but during World War II he paid for his own flight lessons on larger planes so he could serve in the Air Transport Command on the war front, instead of being stuck at a domestic base. Ultimately he flew explosive supplies (ammunition and fuel) over the Himalayas. A grateful U.S. Army bestowed a singular honor on Autry: He alone was allowed to wear his cowboy boots in uniform.

CONTINUED...

He IS one thing...

The Little Turd
from Crawford

[Cha]

19. Right, to call bush a

"cowboy" is to Insult Cowboys!

[txwhitedove]

34. Thank you. Bush embarrasses all Americans, but doubly humiliates...

'Southerners', 'Texans' and 'Cowboys'.
Even some Dems still think of him as such, but
he is none of those. He is just an opportunistic,
illiterate, ignorant CLOD.

Clod: dull, stupid, a dolt.
Clodhopper: a clumsy, coarse person; a bumpkin.

[Democrats_win]

5. Keep your hands to yourself! Like being mauled by a drunk. Yuk!

[Octafish]

25. A Drunk NUT.

Witness:

IS BUSH NUTS? – THE SEQUEL

by Will Thomas
04/02/05

Is Bush nuts? Or merely a convincing actor? As his murderous charade crumbles around him, will his fantastic feats of denial hold up? Or will this pretend president crack up - taking the rest of us who knows where?

The Israeli newspaper Haaretz has published transcripts of last year’s negotiating session between Palestinian Prime Minister Abbas, faction leaders from Hamas and other militant groups and America’s latest Action Hero – who stunned everyone present by saying, "God told me to strike at al-Qaeda and I struck them, and then He instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East."

Would you call this speaker delusional?

How about a bad liar? Bush has denied knowing the now-discredited Chalabi - despite having invited him to sit with Laura Bush during last year’s State of the Union address. Bush also denies knowing Enron’s’ Ken Lay of Enron, whom he has corresponded with, and who was a chief contributor to Bush's 2000 election bid.

Or just plain sick? Having promised during his presidential campaign to avoid tapping Social Security - except in cases of war, recession or a national emergency - Bush gleefully told his budget director just after the horrific Sept. 11 attacks: ”Lucky me. I hit the trifecta.” –
CONTINUED...

He's even worse than the worst.

PSYCHO NAZI

[DanCa]

6. A flute and and organ

How phallic can the chimp get?

[Octafish]

28. No doubt about it: Bush likes men.

Remember when he couldn't help but notice how much prettier Canadian Scott Reid was than his Scotty McClellan?

Bush prefers Martin spokesman to his own

by Jane Taber, Globe and Mail

Ottawa — This is the tale of the two Scotts — one American, the other Canadian. One is dark-haired, the other blond. Both are 35 and both work for the most powerful men in their respective countries.

SNIP...

Mr. Bush wandered over during Mr. Reid's chat with the Prime Minister. Mr. Reid introduced himself and shook hands with Mr. Bush.

“Well, what do you do for this guy?” the President asked as he pointed to the Prime Minister.

“Well, you know, sir, I can't really say,” Mr. Reid said. “It's not that I don't want to. It's just that, you know, I don't really know from day to day.”

This is true. Mr. Reid handles a number of files and performs a number of different duties, depending on the issue and the day.

The President chuckled. “Well, you got a pretty face,” he told the surprised Mr. Reid. He wasn't done. “You got a pretty face,” he said again. “You're a good-looking guy. Better looking than my Scott anyway.”

CONTINUED...

[wordpix2]

74. bwahahaha, "You got a pretty face"---to a guy? Why doesn't he just

dry hump the guy right there?

[cascadiance]

35. He must have heard comments that he liked "skin flutes" a lot as a kid...

... and dumbass that he is, he probably took them to heart!

[eppur_se_muova]

43. You missed "plucking a wand" ... nt

[skylarmae]

8. when I hear of behavior like this or the other antics at the G8-I want to

just laugh in Pickle's face...How can she be married to this ape and the thought of any intimate moments they might share, just breaks me up into uncontrollable laughter...She deserves the likes of him...Pickles finally gets hers...He's all she's worth....

[Octafish]

29. Rumor is she's got something going on...

...an old college chum may be a big part of her life.

Can't say I blame her.



LOL! "He's all she's worth."

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!!!

DIMEBAG LAURA
LOATHES ME

[On the Road]

9. Boris Yeltsin, When He Was Drunk on a State Visit,

did something very similar -- grabbing the baton and leading the band. It might even have been in Germany.

Russians were mortified over the behavior of their leader. Americans? Not so much.

[Minstrel Boy]

33. It was in Berlin:

Twice in 1994, Yeltsin made international headlines on his behavior alone. While visiting Berlin, he erratically conducted a police band -- and sang a song that, as the London Independent later stated, "bore no resemblance to the one the musicians were playing."
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/24/spotlight/

[Octafish]

39. Bush's Armageddon Obsession, Revisited

The guy's leading us somewhere all right. Someplace that's very, very bad.

Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory

Bush's Armageddon Obsession, Revisited

by MICHAEL ORTIZ HILL
Counterpunch January 4, 2003

"We are lived by forces we scarcely understand," wrote W.H. Auden. What forces live us now as America again torques toward war?

George W. Bush is certainly the plaything of such forces as the geopolitics of oil but it seems that he is susceptible to other even darker archetypal concerns. Let me be blunt. The man is delusional and the shape of his delusion is specifically apocalyptic in belief and intent. That Bush would attack so many vital systems on so many fronts from foreign policy to the environment may seem confusing from the point of view of realpolitik but becomes transparent in terms of the apocalyptic worldview to which he subscribes. All systems are supposed to go down so the Messiah can come and Bush, seemingly, has taken on the role of the one who brings this to pass.

The Reverend Billy Graham taught Bush to live in anticipation of the Second Coming but it was his friendship with Dr. Tony Evans that shaped Bush's political understanding of how to deport himself in an apocalyptic era. Dr. Evans, the pastor of a large Dallas church and a founder of the Promise Keepers movement taught Bush about "how the world should be seen from a divine viewpoint," according to Dr. Martin Hawkins, Evans assistant pastor.

S.R. Shearer of Antipas Ministries writes, "Most of the leaders of the Promise Keepers embrace a doctrine of 'end time' (eschatology), known as 'dominionim.' Dominionism pictures the seizure of earthly (temporal) power by the 'people of God' as the only means through which the world can be rescued.... It is the eschatology that Bush has imbibed; an eschatology through which he has gradually (and easily) come to see himself as an agent of God who has been called by him to 'restore the earth to God's control', a 'chosen vessel', so to speak, to bring in the Restoration of All Thingss." Shearer calls this delusion, "Messianic leadership"-- that is to say usurping the role usually ascribed to the Messiah.

In Bush at War Bob Woodward writes, "Most presidents have high hopes. Some have grandiose visions of what they will achieve, and he was firmly in that camp."

"To answer these attacks and rid the world of evil," says Bush. And again, "We will export death and violence to the four corners of the earth in defense of this great nation." Grandiose visions. Woodward comments, "The president was casting his mission and that of the country in the grand vision of Gods Master Plan."

CONTINUED...

Also: Please see Rose Siding's Reply #30

EVIL ZERO

[Mugsy]

42. Yeltsin also goosed some woman on one visit.

I forget who, but remember it clearly.

[eppur_se_muova]

45. He also peed on an airport runway. Something to look forward to for **? nt

Oh, and he shelled the Parliament Building. But that couldn't happen here.




















(Because we have a Congress, not a Parliament, dummy.)

[me b zola]

77. It is rumored

It is rumored that when bush*s father was president that the younger gw peed on the white house foor.

[eppur_se_muova]

78. Just another "youthful indiscretion". nt

[treestar]

11. Boy, he is really doing up proud on this trip, isn't he?

[Octafish]

56. The Ugly Truth About the President

There's something weird about having someone for "commander-in-chief" who's also a puerile pyschopath.

The Ugly Truth About the President

By Cenk Uygur, HuffingtonPost.com
Posted on July 19, 2006, Printed on July 21, 2006
http://www.alternet.org/story/39164/

You know it, I know it and the American people know it. But everyone is afraid to say it. They say it privately, but people are afraid of saying it publicly because you will be branded as a liberal, elite, intellectual snob. But believe me, you don't have to be an intellectual to see how painfully stupid our president is.

Just look at the conversation he is having with world leaders at the G-8 summit. Mikes picked up the casual talk between the world leaders. Forget that Bush appears to have three sandwiches in his mouth while talking. Forget that he calls out to the Prime Minister of Britain as if he is Flounder in "Animal House." Forget that he uses profanity. I don't give a shit about those things.

I thought it was ridiculous that people made fun of George H. W, Bush for vomiting on the Japanese Prime Minister. What was he going to do? He had to puke, so he puked. It happens to the best of us, and more importantly, has nothing to do with his intelligence or how capable he is as a leader.

But his son's verbal vomit does have a lot to do with his ability to lead this country and the world. What I found to be the most damning is the least quoted part of Bush's comments. As you read this transcript, remember that this is not a small child talking, but the President of the United States of America:

The camera is focused elsewhere and it is not clear whom Bush is talking to, but possibly Chinese President Hu Jintao, a guest at the summit.

Bush: "Gotta go home. Got something to do tonight. Go to the airport, get on the airplane and go home. How about you? Where are you going? Home?

Bush: "This is your neighborhood. It doesn't take you long to get home. How long does it take you to get home?"

Reply is inaudible.

Bush: "Eight hours? Me too. Russia's a big country and you're a big country."

At this point, the president seems to bring someone else into the conversation.

Bush: "It takes him eight hours to fly home."

He turns his attention to a server.

Bush: "No, Diet Coke, Diet Coke."

He turns back to whomever he was talking with.

Bush: "It takes him eight hours to fly home. Eight hours. Russia's big and so is China."

Russia's big and so is China??????? This guys sounds like a third grader. Do you know anyone who would have a conversation like this with their neighbor, let alone a business associate, let alone a world leader? Who's proud to know that Russia is big and so is China?

CONTINUED...

TOTAL ZERO

[DanCa]

12. It only matters if he poked an embryo in a blue dress.

Thats the only way that they'd care.

[Octafish]

57. What about Bush calling a guy ''SWEET''?

Perhaps a bit of a wedge issue for fundies... (and with all DU respect to good people of whatever sexual orientation, Bush and Blair find someone most "Sweet" and "Honey." WTF?):

Bush-Blair exchange: more “honey sweet” curiosities

By Larry Chin
Online Journal Associate Editor
Jul 21, 2006, 00:37

This is a follow-up to "Were plans for a Middle East war escalation exposed in Bush-Blair exchange?" (7/19/06), spurred by the input of Online Journal reader Ann Kroeber (thank you, Ms. Kroeber).

Ms. Kroeber correctly pointed out that more than one transcript of the Bush/Blair recording at G8 has been published, and cited the version from the BBC. I noted when the story broke, and suggested in my article, that inaccurate and conflicting versions are out there (perhaps by design). I worked off the Washington Post version, which seemed to be more complete than most.

That said, the BBC version does contain this curious passage, which has been blacked out of many US versions. It is audible on broadcasted versions that are out there. It goes as follows:

Blair: Look -- what does he think? He thinks if Lebanon turns out fine. If you get a solution in Israel and Palestine, Iraq goes in the right way.

Bush: Yeah, yeah, he is sweet.

Blair: He is honey.

CONTINUED...

DIM & SOUR

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

13. Maybe it's a Chimpanzee thing

Don't Chimps in the wild engage in the grooming of each other and carressing each other to try to forge bonds within the clan? Maybe Bush was hunting for lice on Angela Merkel.

[Octafish]

60. Crazy Monkey: 'Alpha Male on the Cruise Ship'

Although it's a good bet she's infested, I'd bet Smirko wasn't a lice hunt.

The dimwit's frat grope was more of a Vulcan neck pinch of the tribal pecking order.

Great thinks mind alike, aint_no_life_nowhere. Paralleling your thoughts, what Robert Parry wrote:

Bush: 'Alpha Male on the Cruise Ship'

By Robert Parry
May 18, 2006

EXCERPT...

At a joint White House press conference May 16 with Australian Prime Minister John Howard, as the two men stood side by side, Bush slipped in a couple of zingers about Howard’s bald head and supposed homeliness.

Bush joshed, “Somebody said, ‘You and John Howard appear to be so close, don’t you have any differences?’ And I said, ‘yes, he doesn’t have any hair.’”

Getting a round of laughs from reporters, Bush moved on to his next joke: “That’s what I like about John Howard,” Bush said. “He may not be the prettiest person on the block, but when he tells you something you can take it to the bank.”

SNIP...

Though many men are very sensitive about losing their hair, Bush seems to find their baldness a source of humor, a way to put them in their place.

At a press conference on Aug. 24, 2001, Bush called on a Texas reporter who had covered Bush as Texas governor. Bush said the young reporter was “a fine lad, fine lad,” drawing laughter from the national press corps.

The Texas reporter then began to ask his question, “You talked about the need to maintain technological …” But Bush interrupted the reporter to deliver his punch line:

“A little short on hair, but a fine lad. Yeah.”

CONTINUED...

BTW: Hendrix was the best electric musician of the 20th century ever.

WORST OF THE
WORST

[BillZBubb]

15. So? Bill Clinton poked a ...

Sorry, I couldn't resist the typical Repug retort.

[Octafish]

61. She said she instigated things.

Then again, he shoulda knowed better.

IDIOTIC NUTJOB

[bullwinkle428]

17. OFFENDING PEOPLE 'ROUND THE WORLD!! (n/t)

[Octafish]

62. ''If it's not on TV, it didn't happen.''

That's how I remember Poppy Doc Bush refer to the mass medium of television in regards to one of his covert treasons.

Baby Doc Bush's neck-gropes, flautist pokes, and pig comments have not been covered on ABCNNBCBSFauxNoiseNutwork at all.

That's some control.

Bush's pig tales show disengagement

BY TIMOTHY M. PHELPS
Newsday Washington Bureau Chief
July 15, 2006, 9:03 PM EDT

WASHINGTON -- As Israeli warplanes were preparing an attack on Lebanon Thursday afternoon, and a Lebanese militia was aiming a rocket at the ancient Israeli city of Safed, President George W. Bush was bantering with reporters in Germany about a pig.

Bush kept bringing up the roast wild boar he was about to dine on at a banquet that night, even when asked about the swelling crisis in the Middle East, where pig meat is forbidden to religious Jews and Muslims.

"Does it concern you that the Beirut airport has been bombed?" a reporter asked. "And do you see a risk of triggering a wider war?"

"I thought you were going to ask me about the pig," Bush replied blithely. Then he brought the pig up again -- for the fifth time -- before giving a long answer that ended with his saying Israel needed to protect itself.

"He was asked a serious question," said Ian Lustick, a Middle East expert now at the University of Pennsylvania, and his answer "epitomized his disengagement in the Middle East."

CONTINUED...

EXCEPTIONALLY DIM

[Nikki Stone 1]

18. Junior is running a "frat boy" government.

They do what they please, have no sense of responsibility, and embarrass their fellowman at every turn.

Oh, and they think they deserve the high life and bully those who try to stand in their way occasionally.

[Octafish]

64. Alpha male attitudes with delta-minus brains.

Frat boy mentality explains why BFEE think themselves royalty.



In reality, those who think they're better than others are low.

In the case of the Bush Crime Family, they're as low as traitors can be.

Gods Among Ordinary Men

by Charles Sullivan
OpEdNews.com July 17, 2006 at 08:13:54
http://www.opednews.com

When a man abuses the power that was entrusted to him by the people there is clearly a void between what the people want and what they receive. Such abuse stems not only from immense hubris, but from contempt for the people and for civil law. The president, we will recall, is a man who referred to the Constitution to one of his Whitehouse aides as "...just a god-damned piece of paper." Bush and his cacophony of neo-conservative fascists clearly hold the most sacred institutions of this nation in contempt, including the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

The Bush regime's contempt for human rights and their disdain for the earth are systemic. They have resulted in a litany of abuses that would rival those of Hitler and Mussolini combined. Most of the key players cut their teeth in the Reagan regime where they perfected the dark arts. These abuses occur equally at home and abroad. Characterized by hypocrisy without bounds, they are reflected in a foreign policy that is putting the world in peril as never before. Those policies have resulted in imprisoning people indefinitely without criminal charges and without access to legal council, widespread torture, extraordinary rendition, unprovoked attacks upon sovereign nations, occupation, and unprecedented secrecy and domestic spying on law abiding citizens on a broad scale.

The Bush regime operates in unprecedented secrecy under the pretense of fighting a war on terror. They are, in fact, waging a war of terror and they and their corporate pay masters are the terrorists, not Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda. Their success depends upon keeping the people and thus democracy out of the equation.

Democracy, as opposed to the Plutocracy we have in America, operates in the open under the supervision of the citizenry. Democratic government is transparent, not secretive. In a democracy the people know what the government is doing and are active participants in the decision making process. Clearly that is not the kind government we have.

Mr. Bush's extraordinary contempt for the law is in part the result of his Plutocratic upbringing. It is reflected in his unprecedented use of presidential signing statements which, in effect, allow him to circumvent the law and do as he pleases. Don't like a law that keeps a corporation from spewing toxic waste into a river? Just issue a signing statement and ignore it. Bush has used presidential signing statements more than 750 times since his inauguration-more than all of the other presidents combined during the 230 year history of our nation. He has yet to veto any legislation that the corporate lobbyists have put before him.

CONTINUED...

Royals think they're better than everybody for a reason: The God they invented told them they're appointed by God to rule in God's place.

It's why the real God invented Aqualung.

Like I said to SoCalDem, here's what I mean:

TALKED TO BY
A VOICE WHO TOLD
HIM TO ATTACK
AN INNOCENT
COUNTRY.

[Dudley_DUright]

20. Didn't his mom (*shudder*) ever tell him,

"be careful with that, you'll poke someone's eye out"? What an asshole.

[Octafish]

65. Babs gave him an audience, too.

But her main role was instilling certain "attitudes."

Here's an example:

Barbara Bush: Things Working Out 'Very Well' for Poor Evacuees from New Orleans

By E&P Staff
Published: September 05, 2005 7:25 PM ET updated 8:00 PM

NEW YORK Accompanying her husband, former President George H.W.Bush, on a tour of hurricane relief centers in Houston, Barbara Bush said today, referring to the poor who had lost everything back home and evacuated, "This is working very well for them."

SNIP...

In a segment at the top of the show on the surge of evacuees to the Texas city, Barbara Bush said: "Almost everyone I’ve talked to says we're going to move to Houston."

Then she added: "What I’m hearing which is sort of scary is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality.

"And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this--this (she chuckles slightly) is working very well for them."

SOURCE...

Contrast that with what the coup replaced:



President Kennedy had it right when he remarked: "It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds, a Harvard education and a Yale degree.

SOMEONE ELSE
TOOK HIS EXAMS

[Lindacooks]

21. Remember the incident on Letterman, when Our Great Leader

cleaned his glasses on a woman's sweater?

The guy is a total buffoon.

[fishwax]

38. everyone is there for his use and amusement

he's an asshole. The Letterman thing was the first incident I thought of too. It just goes to show what he really thinks about people. We are all here to serve his needs. It also reminded me of the scene in Farenheit 911 where he shoots a quail (or whatever bird it was), and then when nobody in his group congratulates him he demands petulantly: "isn't anybody going to say nice shot?"

[wordpix2]

75. LOL, I didn't hear about that one, geez, what a moron

[Octafish]

80. That was a low way to treat another human being.

The guy believes all reality is here for his pleasure -- people included. I'd call him a solipsist, but he doesn't know what that is.



He's a sociopathic idiot. And that's being nice.

The truth is, he's nothing more than...

The Little Turd
from Crawford

[jayctravis]

22. Sounds like an SNL skit.

Condi and he are at at tense UN session, and George keeps getting up and dancing like John Roberts' son, poking people, and invading their space.

[Swamp Rat]

24. Serial sex offender

Women fight back

[sui generis]

26. and one time! at band camp! I put a flautist in my

. . . .jeez he is such a monumental embarrassment not just to America but to mankind. And add dumb to stupid, guess where barbecue originated George!

What an utter goof.

[npincus]

27. he needs to wear one of these...

when they take him out of his cage.

[Rose Siding]

30. My daughter is aghast about him taking the conductor's wand

mid-number. (high school orchestra) That isn't done.

Bush is so certain he's more important than anyone else -so sure that respect is something that only applies to him- and he's dissembling so badly that he can't hide it at all anymore.

[knitter4democracy]

55. Absolutely!

We only took and hid our director's baton in our flutes when he started getting furious over something (he'd forget it was in his hand, and it would come flying at our section).

As a flute player, I'm just sick that anyone would think it's okay to bother the band like that. You never talk to anyone as they're playing or interrupt them to take the baton or touch them. Sheesh!

I'm thinking of writing his mom. That's just beyond the pale.

[Lisa]

67. Bush would have a fit if someone strolled up and grabbed his phone

... out of his hand as he was talking to another leader ... or snatched away his pen as he was signing something.

p.s. hiding a baton in your flute -- brilliant! I would never be able to do that (I play the harmonica).

[knitter4democracy]

68. Well, it was an issue of self-protection.

:D

Seriously, you only have to duck from flying batons so many times before you start figuring out how to make it stop. It became first chair's job to see if he was escalating and then quickly grab it and hide it.

For our last concert my senior year, I hid a rose in my flute for a part in a medly that was his and his wife's song. That was fun, too. See, flutes can be useful. ;)

[Lisa]

83. plus, the flute itself is a serious piece of metal!

You could really clock someone with it (even if you just turned around and jabbed, let alone if you swung it like a mace). Probably do a lot more damage than a set of bongos, or a violin -- and without as much harm to the instrument.

Maybe I should take up the piano again ... at least I could stash my lunch in there.

[knitter4democracy]

84. Or yarn.

:)

The Yarn Harlot has a great explanation in one of her latest books on how to stash yarn inside a piano so that family can't find it.

[tbyg52]

69. You really think his mom would care???

She's the one who raised him in the first place!

[knitter4democracy]

70. She knows decorum, though.

Babs was very good at proper decorum all through Bush I's presidency, I think. She knew what to wear when, she was careful not to be too much herself in public (with her acidic tongue), and she was always proper. I'm sure she's mad as heck at Bushie about his behavior there.

[tbyg52]

71. Yeah, you're right

I forgot about how she had me fooled for years and years (blush). I'm sure she does care how he *appears*.

[teewrex]

31. Maybe he has Asbergers Syndrome

They mis-read body language, aren't aware of others personal space, say totally inappropriate things at inappropriate times and are basically socially stunted and inept. That and the alcolholism would explain a lot.

[Thoreau-Ly]

37. Ahh, Very Good

At the very least, he's an asshat. It's like, Jesus, where did they get this guy?

"What's next, high-fiving the Queen?? That guy has no idea how to act on the international stage. I am not a fan of protocol but it does exist and he just made himself (once again) the butt of all jokes. What a total idiot. Amazing."--galore @ DailyKos

[Dora]

66. I think it's Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.

Just my opinion.

[wordpix2]

76. could be damaged brain cells from pickling his brain in alcohol & coke

[grasswire]

32. That's something Harpo would have done.

He's a freaking lunatic now.


"Bush plucked the conductor's wand from his hand and led the band for a few notes.

Then he and Merkel posed for pictures with the band as its members played on, Bush startling a woman playing a flute by poking her on the shoulder."

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

36. Maybe Bush could massage his way across the Middle East for peace

He could put those impressive massage skills to work in loosening the taut muscles and calming the tense nerves of the Israelis, Lebanese, Hezbollah, Syrian, and Iranian leaders. After that, they could all go into the steam bath together and talk things over.

[Lisa]

82. at the very least, he can give them all something to agree on

I'm sure it's not very often that the leaders of Germany, Britain, France, Lebanon, Iran, Brazil, China -- and many other countries besides -- can exchange gossip and anecdotes, all about what an idiot Bush can be!

I love your "Bush massaging for peace" idea. I can just picture him, hard at work, with a towel over his shoulder!

[emmadoggy]

40. Wow. You know, his behavior has always been, well....

embarrassing, ignorant, repulsive, rude etc. But on this trip he seems to have exhibited a whole flurry of this type of behavior - all at once. Not just one blunder, but many. So what's the deal?? Is he starting to completely crack under the weight of his sick agenda and all it's consequences?? Is it that he's rebelling against his puppetmasters who have put him in this role as one of the most important and powerful leaders in the world and he's sick of it, tired of the work it takes to pretend to be smart and worldly, and acting like a petulant child (his true self) instead? Is it that he considers himself so popular, charming, and irresistible that everyone will think such behavior is just so cute and funny?? Or is it simply that he's just flat out loony?? My personal suspicion is that it's a combination of all of the above. No matter what the explanation, I find it just sad, emabarrassing, shameful and infuriating to be saddled with such a pathetic excuse of a leader. :eyes:

[truth2power]

44. I suppose time will tell..

but I think, we'll see the social improprieties and boundary problems increasing in frequency. This can be an indication of some type of dementia (disinhibited behavior).

I still think that he's suffering from some type of progressive brain disease. He has multiple cognitive deficits, IMO. He's obviously briefed, day to day, on current issues, but when he's off script he flounders horribly. He can't seem to remember, organize, or process information he's been given so he can express it to others in a coherent manner.

His extemporaneous speech is remarkably concrete. His ability to abstract seems to be practically nil. That discussion at the G8 where he talks about Russia and China being "big" countries and how long it takes everyone to get home is a perfect example. There are many other examples.

Add to this his obvious impaired motor function (he falls an awful lot)and you have to wonder what's going on. All these things need to be taken as a whole, of course. We're all guilty of one or the other from time to time. I'm embarrassed to say I fell flat on my ass in my own kitchen recently, turning from the stove to the sink and trying to avoid stepping squarely into my dog's (large) water dish. These things happen. But with Bush, it happens all the time.

Of course, maybe he's just an a**hole. I read he used to fart in class in college. This is puzzling, if true. I know for a fact that this is common behavior in middle-schoolers and very immature 9th graders (boys. never seen a girl do this). They think it's great fun! But I've never experienced this in any college class I've been in. Arrested development, maybe?

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

47. There was a story in Salon online magazine about Bush

The Queen of England came to see Bush's father and mother for a dinner party. Poppy and Leatherface told George not to open his mouth because of his problems about saying whatever pops into his head. At the dinner table, Bush proudly showed the Queen of England his cowboys boots and the inscription 'God Save The Queen' which he had written on the heels of his boots. The Queen asked George if he was the black sheep in the family. He said that he was and then he asked the Queen who the black sheep were in her family.

After I read the story, I checked the date. It took place in 1991 and Bush would have been 45 years old. A 45 year old man coming to the dinner table in cowboy boots with 'God Save The Queen' written on the heels?

[Thoreau-Ly]

49. "The man is deranged, disconnected, dangerous."

"George W. Bush inserts the Oval Office rug into virtually every conversation he has. If a discussion veers away into matters of import, Bush steers it back to the rug. "He loves his rug," said Nicolle Wallace, the White House communications director, in the Post article. "I've heard him describe it countless times."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031706A.shtml

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

52. A rug? LOL Didn't he also have a fetish pillow he took everywhere?

I recall stories about Bush having to take a certain friendly pillow with him on the campaign trail because he could only rest his head on that one pillow. Kind of like Linus and the blanket.

[RedSock]

81. yes i think it's in frank bruni's book

he calls it "pilly"

really.

"pilly"

[truth2power]

53. 45 year old..

Yeah...that's the problem. I think the creepiness we experience has to do with seeing a child in a man's body. It's a disconnect. It's very unsettling.

An example is that "Aren't I cute?" little grin he does, where he hunches his shoulders, puts his chin on his chest and sort of looks to the side. It really creeps me out, because I've only ever seen children do that.

[VelmaD]

46. If that man EVER lays a hand on me...

I will rip his arm off and beat him with it.

[ArmchairMeme]

48. Alcoholic behavior

He obviously has the maturity and intellectual capacity that he had when he began drinking. If that was at 12 years. That's where he remains to this day. If he did other drugs it no telling what permanent damage he has done to his brain. Perhaps he began sipping his parents drinks when he was two years old or 8 or 9. Children are self-centered and when you spend time around an 8 year old boy you can get the hange of it when they tell bathroom jokes over and over when they are the only one who finds them funny but, they think that what they find funny everyone else will also. They have a very small world.

Or you can look at it from the absent father lost child perspective.

[flowomo]

50. next thing you know.... he'll be flouting a German in poker

then they'll get really mad

[goforit]

51. What an asshole!

[johnfunk]

58. ROTFLMFAO -- Randi Rhodes mentioned Boy George "groping a flautist"

... on her Friday show -- then busted Boy's speech to the NAACP.

[erknm]

59. At least Clinton had the sense to only fondle underlings

behind closed doors and not national leaders in front of the media. It takes a real sociopath to presume that he can behave in such a way in public view. Beyond the flautist, his physical contact with a political leader from another country, as if he is patting a Texas friend on the back, indicates his inability to understand what appropriate behavior is.

Thank God for the 22nd Ammendment.

FH

[Bluebear]

73. Yes, and said underling was only too glad to be fondled.

Bush, on the other hand, throws his position around by fondling, slapping, groping, without invitation.

[Blue Belle]

79. And we wonder why he doesn't do more trips abroad...

and hold more state dinners. Clearly, he's doing us a favor by not intermingling more... when he is entertaining, he takes foreign dignitaries to Graceland or Divey BBQ joints. When he's away, he's a bumbling embarassment. He's the Frat-boy President - he shows off and has no regard for those around him, because there's always someone to clean up the mess for him.

what a jackass.