Bush: "There's this kind of almost -- kind of a weird kind of elitism..."

[kpete]

BUSH: And one of the challenges, of course, is to convince people that Muslims would like to be free, that there's other people other than people in Britain and America that would like to be free in the world.

There's this kind of almost -- kind of a weird kind of elitism that says well maybe -- maybe certain people in certain parts of the world shouldn't be free; maybe it's best just to let them sit in these tyrannical societies.

And our foreign policy rejects that concept. And we don't accept it. And so we're working.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/28/AR2006072800939.html


kind of answer

[WinkyDink]

1. The most a**holish straw man argument in history.

Why doesn't he go to his boyfriend princes in the Saud family and tell them to DEMOCRATIZE?!?!

[Cha]

25. CAuse he's a little

Chickenshit scraredy pants and unca dick would blast outta the oval office?

[partylessinOhio]

2. Hmmmm.

...maybe it's best just to let them sit in their homes in peace.

Butt out, azzhole!

[eleny]

3. There's this kind of almost -- kind of a weird kind of...

INSANITY that runs in your family, W.

[Ezlivin]

4. Mr. Blue Blood speaks authoritatively about elitism

When's the last time that Mr. Bush stood in line to get food or cash his paycheck?

Listen, Mr. Bush, take time to leave the Land of Mordor and see what the rest of Middle Earth is like.

[EstimatedProphet]

5. In what way did he set anyone free, ever?

[MissWaverly]

12. He liberates the Iraqi people from their oil

He liberates blue collar and middle class Americans from their earnings all the time.

[QuestionAll...]

15. as well as plenty of mortal coil liberation. nt

[MissWaverly]

20. yes, unfortunately

I just saw the horror movie "Homecoming" last night; it's out on DVD, in one scene, there
is a young dead soldier just walking in the rain (they come back to life to vote); and I
thought there has been so much suffering over this Iraq War and Bush is getting ready to
host the American Idol celebs, what is wrong with this picture.

[QuestionAll...]

21. I think we have to stop assuming the B and gang have human

feelings about us great unwashed all over the globe.

Our own humanity may be holding us back in a way - we cannot understand how or why they act like this - and it really goes to their favor in a way while we stumble about in confusion and disbelief.

[MissWaverly]

22. it reminds me of a Colombo episode

I think that he has done everything he can to encourage a large scale terrorist effort, it's
like a guy who's bored with his girlfriend, suddenly she's taken off in the car of the
neighborhood bully and is the victim of foul play. The guy can be a media celeb, he's off
the hook of a commitment he's tired of and someone else is blamed. Simple as A, B, C.

[QuestionAll...]

28. I really enjoyed those shows.

heh, thanks for the reminder, it's been a while.
One of a handfull of things I valued on tv.
Colombo would pay attention to the little details and snag them with that.

We need a buncho Peter Falks strewen across the planet, in shabby overcoats!

[MissWaverly]

30. Hey, thanks, you can get Colombo at Borders

and the old Kojaks with Telly Savalas, they are great!, I felt Kojak was more of a police
drama where Colombo was more like "Clue"

[QuestionAll...]

32. Kojak! omg.

and another one I liked was Night Stalker, with Darren McGaven. Another fashion senseless sleuth.
hahahha, what a trip down old tv memory lane.

[MissWaverly]

33. Darren McGavin was great, I think I saw Nightstalker at

Borders as well; if you don't see it ask, I always have trouble finding things in Borders,
most things I find by accident.

[Ghost in the Machine]

23. well, in *his* warped mind, he's sent over 2500 soldiers on their way

to fight in Jesus's Army... onward christian soldiers, indeed!

[MissWaverly]

26. it's so sad really

not only them but thousands of innocents, children, women, men who were not soldiers who only
died because they live over the 2nd largest oil field in the world, and now we have Lebanon,
which has no oil and is only being used as a stick to enrage Iran, Syria and Hezbollah.

[Ghost in the Machine]

27. but those others are brown people... they don't count.

yes, the whole war is a farce, with deadly consequences. So much needless death and destruction. It's all very sad.

[MissWaverly]

29. By the numbers

World populations by religion

Christian 2.1 billion, 33%
Islam 1.3 billion, 21%
Non-Religions, atheists, etc. 16% 1.1 billion
Hindu 900 million 14%
Judaism, 14 million 0.22%




link for numbers is here:

http://www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents.html

[november3rd]

6. He's a

frontman whose job is distract, deflect and confuse.

The press is showing itself to be most irresponsible by continuing to report on Bush's statements and actions.

They should just cover Cheney and Rumsfeld, and their staffs, instead.

They should report on the statements and comings and goings of the CEOs and Chairmen of ExxonMobil, Shell, Halliburton, KBR, DynCorp, GE, and a few of the others who are REALLY in charge of what the government and the Congress are doing. The smart money's on those guys.

Bush is not only a lame duck, he's just a quack.

[Jim__]

7. And, about 1 paragraph later bush says:

There's this kind of almost -- kind of a weird kind of elitism that says well maybe -- maybe certain people in certain parts of the world shouldn't be free; maybe it's best just to let them sit in these tyrannical societies.

And our foreign policy rejects that concept. And we don't accept it. And so we're working.

BUSH: And this is -- I said the other day, when these attacks took place, I said it should be a moment of clarity for people to see the stakes in the 21st century.

I mean, now there's an unprovoked attack on a democracy. Why? I happen to believe because progress is being made toward democracies.

An unprovoked attack on a democracy? Is he talking about Lebanon now? Or, does that unprovoked attack on a democracy not count? Is that some kind of weird kind of elitism?

[Jacobin]

8. Yes. They are all in agony, just BEGGING us to come bomb them

into democracy.

Just look at Iraqis. They love us and their government is great now.

:eyes:

[mikeyj84]

9. Elitism

What do you expect from a country that has to keep reminding itself and the rest of the world their the greatest, and you thought Mohamed Ali had an ego problem!

[Javaman]

10. Okay, moron* if that's the way you feel..

invade your buddy saudi arabia, then I will know that you are serious then.

In the mean time, shut...the...fuck...up!!! go back and play with your blocks.

[smacky44]

11. As opposed to the "elitism" that says "You need to be a democracy like our

[Kurovski]

13. The republican party twists every single thing that you can say about them

and attempts to turn it back on everyone else.

The projection has become so obvious as to be tediously predictable.

They are willfully insane when not hopelessly so.

[sinkingfeeling]

14. It seems to me that only Bush supporters hold that 'kind of elitism'.

They seem to believe that only white Americans should be 'free' from poverty, free to go wherever they want, free to pay little or no taxes, and free to buy favors from our government and our elections.

[yella_dawg]

16. What kind oj weird elitism prompts someone to say...

that only the US and Britain are free democracies.

Good god, you moron, drop by Denmark just once to see what freedom really looks like.

I hate the stupid.

[Radical Activist]

17. Tell that to Chile, Venezuela and Nicaragua.

Asshole

[Disturbed]

18. There is an assult upon Democracy!

It is coming from the Busholini Junta.

[hatrack]

19. There's this kind of almost . . . weird kind of straw man which I trot out

. . . every time I'm called upon to make a statement on the Middle East, and when I just can't remember what the other two tired, pointless cliched sentences I can still remember are.

[SmokingJacket]

24. Elitism? WTF?

Code word for liberals. Straight from the reeking mouth of ROve.

[MissWaverly]

31. yes, what was that again, Perrier drinking liberal elitists

I wonder how much perrier James Webb drinks as he wears his combat boots, I saw an appeal
over on Daily KOS that he needs money to beat George Allen in Virginia, I sent him money
last week. Yea, the GOP is for the Common Man, we all saw that during Katrina, while
Heckuva Job was contemplating what shirts to wear.