TIME: BUSH "Has Become The LAMEST Of All Possible Ducks"

[kpete]

Bush's Last Days: The Lamest Duck
By JOE KLEIN Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2008

We have "only one President at a time," Barack Obama said in his debut press conference as President-elect. Normally, that would be a safe assumption — but we're learning not to assume anything as the charcoal-dreary economic winter approaches. By mid-November, with the financial crisis growing worse by the day, it had become obvious that one President was no longer enough (at least not the President we had). So, in the days before Thanksgiving, Obama began to move — if not to take charge outright, then at least to preview what things will be like when he does take over in January. He became a more public presence, taking questions from the press three days in a row. He named his economic team. He promised an enormous stimulus package that would somehow create 2.5 million new jobs, and began to maneuver the new Congress toward having the bill ready for him to sign — in a dramatic ceremony, no doubt — as soon as he assumes office.

That we have slightly more than one President for the moment is mostly a consequence of the extraordinary economic times. Even if George Washington were the incumbent, the markets would want to know what John Adams was planning to do after his Inauguration. And yet this final humiliation seems particularly appropriate for George W. Bush. At the end of a presidency of stupefying ineptitude, he has become the lamest of all possible ducks.

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[Why Syzygy]

1. He has never been anything more than a national disgrace. nt

[Gman]

2. The son of a bitch is a friggin' paraplegic duck

He does not give a shit about anything right now.

[LynnTheDem]

3. "He is less than President now, and that is appropriate."

"He was never very much of one."

[charlie]

4. Yeah, Joe Klein

Not known as Jokeline for nuthin'. Always willing to extend the benefit of the doubt to Bush for actions he wouldn't countenance with Clinton. Always kicking leftward at people who had ZERO influence on the drift of the nation while occasionally offering tepid disapproval of the Unhinged Right running everything into the ground...

So, at this 11th hour he joins the parade of cowards finally taking unequivocal whacks at Bush -- WHEN IT ABSOLUTELY MAKES NO FUCKING DIFFERENCE TO THE WELFARE OF THE NATION.

Color me mightily impressed.

NOT.

[DeepModem Mom]

5. Excellent piece -- K&R!

[Hubert Flottz]

6. It just proves what I've been saying for eight years...

The people pick better presidents than the Reich wing Supreme Court Cronies do. The founders had that part right.(the PEOPLE should ELECT a president, not a rigged voting machine, Karl Rovism or a Crony Court)

The ones who predicted a "great calamity" for the year 2000 were right and George W Bush and the disaster after disaster he has brought on, is living proof! America made it through 2000 without that major disaster striking, until the twelfth day of the twelfth month of 2000...and WHAMMO!

[opihimoimoi]

7. Yup...the Parapalegic Duck who also lost all his feathers...he is a Naked Duck

on his way to the Library named after him...the bush library ...in the parking lot of Walgreens in Waco....

He is going away in a whisper whimper....America cannot wait till he and his buddies are GONE

[Hubert Flottz]

9. What in the hell would special needs george do with a library?

He couldn't maintain an F- average in study-hall. The man is dumber than a day old euglena with fetal alcohol syndrome. If the library is at Walgreen's bush won't go near it because he's afraid of the little 25 cent a ride kiddy pony there by the front door.

[opihimoimoi]

10. The store ponies lil kids ride is the reason he fears horses...rumor has it he

was stuck on one, his foot caught in the stirrup....crying and carryin on for 6 minutes until the manager came to yank the plug...he was a mess since...

I will be so glad when he is not on TV and outta the Oval...he has been a disgrace and an embarrassment...

No turkey for him....not even Spam....maybe some hot dogs...

[Hubert Flottz]

11. Let them eat roadkill!

And be thankful for it!

[opihimoimoi]

13. And no Deer meat...only buzzards and crows

He is the Pubs HERO??? Ya gatta be kidding me...

[Hubert Flottz]

14. The only turkey George cares a damn about comes in a jug!

He's the Pubbie's Top Gun!

[opihimoimoi]

17. He has morphed into TOP TURKEY.......OMG the TOP Bird....OMG

TOP CHICKEN.....Fog Horn Leg Horn comes to mind....

[RaleighNCDUer]

8. Unfortunately, he's a lame duck that still has several million

uniformed personnel under his command, and a button that can destroy half the world.

I'm not changing my avatar until 1/20/09.

[madmom]

12. Good read!

[onethatcares]

15. is there anything remotely "Presidential" currently residing at

the White House? I hadn't noticed a smidgeon of any type of executive action, thought, or follow through from there in the previous 8 years. Did anyone expect anything else except photo ops the next month and a half?

[Cash_thatswhatiwant]

16. Time never spoke more truth.

[lib2DaBone]

18. He gave his mother a Bleeding Ulcer......

... her husband killed JFK and her son destroyed the world.... that would give anyone ulcers.....