I never wanted to drink a beer with George Bush

[ThomWV]

I never wanted to sit down and have a beer with George W. Bush, not even back in 1999 when the thought was on every redneck's mind. Looking back now I find it funny that in fact no one ever did sit down and have a beer with George Bush. The man demanded coat and tie in the White house; no Budweiser was ever spilt on George's glorious round rug. Today, however, we have Bush's polar opposite in the people's house.

I understand President Obama has invited a number of people to come to the White House and enjoy the Super Bowl. I picture a room of happy rivals, nickle and dime bets, and quick-witted and imaginative jibes tossed across party lines between both the Democrats and Republicans who will be there. I'd bet a brew or two will be hoisted as well, its traditional. Isn't it funny what change can bring?

[Homer Wells]

1. For the Record....

I would be PROUD to have a glass of Chardonnay with Barack Obama!!

:beer: ( for want of a wine smilie!!)):D

[TZ]

2. Yep. You are right

Its ironic that alot of people perceived Bush as a down-to-earth normal person. Of course those same people believed Bush when he said he was a "uniter" and had no problem working with Democrats.:eyes:
In the end, Bush is nothing of what he was promoted as, where as its pretty obvious that with Obama is exactly as advertised.:)

[rurallib]

3. I would piss on him after drinking a few, though.

[immoderate]

9. Except if he was on fire.

--imm

[11 Bravo]

12. Just piss in between the burning parts.

:evilgrin:

[stuntcat]

4. he's too creepy to have fun with

I wouldn't stop thinking of him as a brat long enough to laugh or relax around him anyway :puke:

[chill_wind]

5. The corp media wanted to have a beer with him

in their fantasies, more than any American I ever knew.
Preserving that fantasy of an affable everyman George Bush for 8 years sure beat doing their jobs.

[givemebackmycountry]

6. Read this one:

Excellent article.
Have a beer and read.

http://www.alternet.org/democracy/120750/the_bushies_st...

And, where Washington was concerned, that meant that government was to become a vehicle to serve not the 300 million, but rather the 300 families at the top, who already owned the most but craved ever, ever more. It was a cash cow that could provide enormous riches to buccaneers who make the Somali pirates look like Campfire Girls in comparison. Social Security is not, from this perspective, a program to serve seniors and keep a roof over their heads during their final decades of life, but rather a pool of money which the government had been kind enough to already collect and centralize, just waiting for barons to come along and robber it. Deregulation is another important purpose of the federal government. Protecting the long-term integrity of the economic system from the exploitation of short-term Ponzi schemers with their derivatives and their garbage loans was so mid-20th century, you know? And then, chief among all purposes of government under Reaganism-Bushism, are the tax cuts for the wealthy, even if -- especially if -- they can be made more massive by borrowing from suckers' -- I mean, citizens' -- children in future generations.

(snip)

The simple fact of George W. Bush as two-term president of the United States and leader of the Free World -- as opposed instead to, say, the could-never-grow-up, could-never-stay-sober, 60-year-old-frat-boy-cheerleader, Midland-Texas-Elks-Club-secretary-treasurer-who-couldn't-actually-keep-the-minutes-or-balance-the-checkbook, local-car-crasher-extraordinaire -- will not exactly acquit us all very well in the history books. At least the Romans had the excuse of monarchy to explain Nero and Caligula. We don't. Nor can we plead ignorance. Our friendly neighbors in Europe dropped their collective jaws and looked on in astonishment from Day One.
"You guys chose what? Out of 300 million of you? You put a dude in charge of a planeticide-capable arsenal who can't even properly pronounce the word 'nuclear'? Are you freakin' kidding?"

(snip)

But my mistake was to conceive of an America characterized by rational thought and some rough approximation of deliberative democracy. It's so long ago now, and no doubt my memory is foggy, but it seems to me that's what we had in my younger days. Yep, even with Vietnam and Watergate, even with Nixon and McCarthy, we seemed so much closer then to the Enlightenment ideal of the country's founders. But something went desperately wrong -- beginning in the late 1970s or early 1980s and culminating with this reign of the American Caligula -- and it strikes me that there has been a paradigm shift in this country's cognitive architecture. Which is just a fancy way of saying we got ourselves real stupid, real fast. And real willfully, too.
We've been on a bender of exquisite proportions for 30 years now. We've done everything there is to do, to everyone there is to do it to, and more or less gotten away with it all. But now our creditors -- literal and figurative -- are lined up around the block, knives in their teeth, and they don't look happy.

(snip)

All I can say, America, is that I hope it was worth it.
I hope you enjoyed the free ride you took by offloading your woes on the rest of the world, including your own children.
I hope you feel good about yourself.
And I hope you liked your beer.

[ThomWV]

8. Please take the time to repost this link for everyone to read - Honestly!

My god, do I wish I had written this piece. Thank you. This deserves a post of its own, everyone should read it in its entirety.

[CrispyQ]

11. Wow. That is an excellent article.

Thanks for posting!

[90-percent]

7. GWB

Having a drink with GWB would be about as much fun as bringing a keg to an AA Meeting.

Making a dry drunk relapse by having a drink with them is not my idea of a good time.

-90% Jimmy

[mulsh]

10. I don't want to drink with any elected official.

I always thought that question was insulting and revealed the limited scope of referenceof those who posed it.

I especially would never want to have a beer with bush. He had a habit of reminding people of his job title, as if to reassure himself he actually had that job.

Mr. Obama, I assume, is far too busy to have a drink with someone like me and that's as it should be.

[20score]

13. I'm with you on this. But, loved The Onion's take:

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/42590