Laura Bush: "as historians look at his presidency, there are so many, many accomplishments"

[sabra]

http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080227005744&newsLang=en

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Q Do you worry that all of this talk will tarnish your husband's legacy?

MRS. BUSH: No, I really don't. I really don't. I think that over the long term, as historians look at his presidency, there are so many, many accomplishments. And I think that that's what will -- when the partisan rancor is gone, that that's what will show up.

:rofl:

[babylonsister]

1. La-la Land from the Stepford Wife! I think she's in for a hugh disappointment! nt

[Tyler Durden]

12. A bona fide victim of the "Stockholm Syndrome."

That is, if you want to give her that much CREDIT.

[TheDebbieDee]

26. "......there are so many, many accomplishments."

And none of them GOOD!

[sinkingfeeling]

2. Sure there are. Bankrupting the country. Ending Constitutional civil rights.

Destroying the country of Iraq. Allowing thousands of citizens to drown in NOLA. Losing all required papers and documents. Creating a huge number of homeless, hungry, and ill people. Destroying the US military.

[bdamomma]

3. ....................

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

it just boggles my mind why these SOB's are not thrown in the streets themselves.

[gasperc]

4. I just threw up a little bit in my mouth

[Wickerman]

5. ...

Oh, that's rich!

:spray:

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

[momster]

6. Name Two

Come on...we're waiting.

Can't name two?

One? Can you name one?

:crickets:

[hendo]

27. he is

fairly well liked in Africa, from what I have heard.

[liberal N proud]

7. Depends on what the definition of accomplishments is

If fucking up the entire US economy, nearly starting WW-III, removing most environmental protections and putting millions out of work an accomplishment then I guess you could come to those conclusions or should I say delusions

[peekaloo]

8. If you count each lie as an accomplishment, she's very, very correct.

:eyes:

[Tyler Durden]

9. If Jesus came back today, he'd never stop vomiting.

I know that I should laugh at Laura's naivete, but it's just not funny any more.

May she, her husband, and her brood...well, let's just leave it there.

[EnviroBat]

19. The image of that made me laugh quite a bit..

"Puking Jesus". I've got to get on that as my next artistic rendition... Thanks for the inspiration!

[Tyler Durden]

33. I am SO happy you didn't make the ignore list.

Soooooo many did on my last (and FINAL) excursion into GD-P!

I look forward to it, and here's a gift:



I got that little jewel from an article in a Sunday magazine about Born Again Bankers and Businessmen. Hope you like it. The title of the actual painting is "Unending Riches."

Let the puking begin.

[EnviroBat]

50. That is awesome!

Look out iMac, here I come...

[Tyler Durden]

53. Hey, I want to photoshop something...

But I don't have the program. Is there anything else "quick and dirty" that would work? VERY minor stuff.

[eShirl]

10. didn't he read a few Shakespeares?

sonnets, I'm guessing

[Beausoleil]

11. He really has accomplished a lot

for the HAVEs and the HAVE-MOREs! I'm sure they'll remember him as a great investment.

[katsy]

13. I agree.

The top 1% have been enriched beyond their wildest dreams.

FDR's New Deal policies are in peril and the country is bankrupt for all intents and purposes.

Regulatory agencies that don't regulate.

A military/industrial complex on a murderous rampage.

Stripping away of our civil rights.

*bushco is a gop'ers wet dream. Mission accomplished.

On edit: I forgot - he gets away with all this!

[Wizard777]

14. SCOTUS will spend the next 100 years looking at and overturning those accomplishments. n/t

[Swamp Rat]

15. They've upped her meds.

[HughBeaumont]

16. The First Joker has been huffing the unleaded again . . .

The only thing he's accomplished is handing the "have-way-too-damned-muches" all the cash while handing US the bills . . . and the risk!!

[mulsh]

17. of course Laura can't tell us even one accomplishment.

Back to the pig farm with both of you.

[Mountainman]

18. Sure there are accomplishments, look at the new crop of billionaires. Cheney must have made a few

billion himself on his holdings alone. It will take years to pay back the debt while oil companies are making record profits. So many Indians have a much better lifestyle then ever before. The Chinese economy is booming.

The American middle class has all but disappeared. We've finally returned to those days of noblesse oblige. Yacht sales are up.

[Mythsaje]

20. I suppose if one considers being the top choice for the modern political figure

most likely to be burned in effigy as an "accomplishment," I guess she may have a point.

Other than that...

[DS1]

21. Partisan Rancor approves of this message

[Flying Dream Blues]

22. Many, many accomplishments...and those would be? hmm?

What she doesn't say says it all. Partisan rancor? I guess that would be about 80% of us partisans. I believe that 30% is quite overstated.

[Turbineguy]

23. Ted Bundy's Mom syndrome

[L0oniX]

24. Clearly a case of Kool Aid abuse.

[SidDithers]

25. The meds have kicked in, I guess...

Sid

[Vickers]

28. Even the question soft-pedals it...it isn't "all of this talk" that is

the problem; it's all of his actions (and in some cases, inaction).

[JohnnyRingo]

29. Hahahah..."So many, many, accomplishments"

1. Do not call list
2. Set the economy back 60 years
3. Ignored alarm bells on climate disaster
4. Caused global unrest on an unprecedented scale.

Indeed, the list goes on, but I wouldn't call the Rushmore sculptors for a sitting quite yet.

Of course, she and "W" will go to their graves thinking their grandkids grandkids will be foisted upon the shoulders of a nation grateful for not being awakened early by telemarketers.

It's always "history's yet to decide" when the news is bad for this Pollyanna administration, be it the economy, climate change, or foreign policy, and it takes hundreds of years to see the benefits of a president's effect.

After all, I can't go to the book store without seeing a book arguing whether Herbert Hoover or George Washington was the greatest president ever.

I predict phone books of the future will be filled with changed names like "Bursh", "Buth" and "Bunch" as unrelated families tire of the stigmaatic questions of their heritage.

Hahahahahahaha

[AndyA]

30. Good grief! The woman is as sick as her husband.

I have news for you, Laura Bush: your husband's Presidency will go down in history as a monumental FAILURE.

A HUGE MISTAKE.

An incredibly BAD MOMENT IN AMERICAN HISTORY.

Your husband is a liar, a hypocrite, he started a war that is responsible for the death of tens of thousands (we may never really know the true numbers), he has bankrupted our country, taken us to levels of corruption, cronyism, and deceit previously unknown in American government.

Your husband and his administration allowed the worst terrorist attack on American soil in history because of their irresponsibility, ineptness, and ignorance.

He has proven the saying that ANYONE can be President, because we literally scraped the bottom of the barrel with your husband. We would have been better with a cracked up coke whore in the Oval Office than with George. At least the coke whore would have had moments of sanity.

And you, Laura, have been a disgrace of a First Lady. You've contributed nothing during your time in the White House.

You and your family are an American disgrace. A parasite sucking the life out of democracy. You should be ashamed of yourself, if you had any shame but you do not.

Furthermore, no one cares what you think. You are a murderer, an enabler, and you enjoy watching others suffer. There are no words currently in existence that adequately describe you and your family.

:puke:

[indepat]

31. One would think such utterances were fanciful delusions from the mouth of a cockamamie cockalorum

:rofl:

[Tikki]

32. Ya..in this new world...anything is possible...like...

never-ending lies and killings are accomplishments!!!



Tikki

[ProgressiveFool]

34. 19% of the American people are "non-partisan"

That or they're too stupid to find their asses with both hands.

[Virginia Dare]

35. Right. Get back to us with a list, won't you Pickles, there's a dear...n/t

[Johonny]

36. so many, many accomplishments

Yes when the Party rancor goes away, everyone can now agree Hoover not so good. Just imagine when the 19 % rancors go away what people are going to think of the Bushes accomplishments.

[JBoy]

37. When you keep putting your faith in the historians, you know you're fucked.

"Help us Obi Wan Historian. You're our only hope".

[tabasco]

38. Through utter negligence, allowed the worst terrorist attack on the US.

Devastated the national economy.
Gas $4 per gallon.
Milk $5 a gallon.
Bread $3 a loaf.
Ruined international relations.
Eliminated US influence abroad.
Waged a war in Iraq for corporate profits.
Allowed our enemies to escape.

THAT'S JUST FOR STARTERS, PICKLES.

[Solly Mack]

39. She has spent a lot of years lying to herself....

Got no sympathy for her though.

[EndElectoral]

40. Absolutely clueless....

[lunatica]

41. She will be studied by phsychiatry for years!

As the prime clinical example of a person's incredible ability to manufacture their own reality in the face of monumental and overwhelming evidence. Her contribution to the literature of enabling self-deceiving pill-popping perpetual disassociation syndrome will be the single biggest contribution made by anyone, ever to the annals of psychological study.

She is beyond ever being confused by facts. "Facts? What facts? Where?" is her motto.



:silly:

[sakabatou]

42. O RLY?

[DemzRock]

43. Amazing. I can't think of a single positive accomplishment...

OH, you guys already pointed out that it might not be a positive one, eh?

[MilesColtrane]

44. I'll have what she's having.

If it can make the past seven plus years look rosy, then you know it's some good shit.

[PA Democrat]

45. "Many, many". Is that more than "lots and lots" ????

[benld74]

46. Not only looks like the Joker, but has the same sense of humor as well

[HuffleClaw]

47. 'partisan rancor'

WHICH party was it that was responsible for this 'partisan rancor' she speaks of? as for me, i cannot offhand think of a single 'accomplishment' of his administration. not one.

[Political Heretic]

48. Keep gulpin down that Abilify, lady.

[teacher gal]

49. Indeed!!

Thanks for posting this. I've had my midday laugh.

[shaniqua6392]

51. What an enabling stupid beotch.

Won't she be disappointed after the whole truth comes out in the history books??

[malaise]

52. Here are some of them

http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2008/02/24/us_military_deaths_in_iraq_at_3970/?rss_id=Boston.com+--+World+news
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As of Sunday, Feb. 24, 2008, at least 3,972 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes eight military civilians. At least 3,228 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers.
more stories like this

The AP count is nine higher than the Defense Department's tally, last updated Friday at 10 a.m. EST.

The British military has reported 174 deaths; Italy, 33; Ukraine, 18; Poland, 21; Bulgaria, 13; Spain, 11; Denmark, seven; El Salvador, five; Slovakia, four; Latvia, three; Estonia, Netherlands, Thailand, Romania, two each; and Australia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, South Korea, one death each.
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Just add a million Iraqis and we have some of the shining accomplishments of the leading 21st century war criminal.

[Marrah_G]

54. Wow...talk about pathetic.