"Things didn't start well." Bush: The first 100 days

[Canuckistanian]

Interesting. The BBC's report on Bush's first 100 days. It's the only "First 100-day" report I've found on Bush.

George W Bush became president of the United States after losing the popular vote in a farcical election that will be forever remembered for its hanging, pregnant and dimpled chads.

However, at the 100 day mark President Bush has firmly stamped his mark both at home and abroad

He has appointed an ideologically conservative cabinet, looks set to secure a vast tax cut and is pushing ahead with his education reforms and faith-based initiatives.


Saddam Hussein continues to perplex the White House

~snip

For a president who five months ago didn't know who the leader of Pakistan was, the first 100 days have been a sharp learning curve and a fast introduction to the responsibility of leading the United States.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1302232.stm

[jkshaw]

1. Good grief.

[Buzz Clik]

2. "The first 100 days didn't go well. And then it all went to hell. The last 100? Don't ask."

[spanone]

3. the first sentence reveals more than the american media revealed in the last 8 years.

[csziggy]

4. These two paragraphs tell me all I need to remember about *

For someone who it was believed had minimal interest in the world outside the United States, President Bush has already spurned the international effort to reduce global warming, called off talks with North Korea about its missiles, bombed Iraq and expelled 50 Russian spies.

<Snip>
In his speech to the annual Radio and Television Correspondents Association dinner in March, President Bush outlined in a surreal, self-effacing way, his foreign policy vision: "When I was coming up, it was a dangerous world and we knew exactly who they were. It was us versus them. And it was clear who them was. Today, we're not so sure who they are, but we know they're there."

[warren pease]

5. Yeah, but a year later and the rotten little rat bastard was...

... running around the country, hop-scotching over the twisted and dismembered and atomized bodies of the innocents his "administration" was so good at murdering by the millions, cracking his cronies up saying stuff like:

"You know, I was campaigning in Chicago and somebody asked me, is there ever any time where the budget might have to go into deficit? I said only if we were at war or had a national emergency or were in recession. Little did I realize we'd get the trifecta. (Laughter.) But we're fine."

Remarks at GOP Luncheon, February 27, 2002 White House news release

Hee hee hee, motherfucker.

Prison isn't nearly good enough, but it'll have to do. Deciding which prison, though, is where the real fun begins. There's this one place teeming with scorpions and tarantulas out in the Iraqi desert called Abu Ghraib...

Comes with the original blood on the walls at no extra charge and, if you listen closely enough, you can still hear the screams as they echo off the iron railings and cell doors in the dark hours of the early morning ...

Seems like just the place and it's for sale NOW at a price impossible to imagine before the Bush Economic Miracle hit town ...


sf

On edit: because there's really not ever any such thing as too many modifiers.