Bush thinks highly of himself, but it requires rewriting history

[ProSense]

BUSH GETS INTROSPECTIVE....

George W. Bush appeared in Chicago yesterday, speaking at a conference for a finance trade association, and talked a bit about his upcoming book -- which will be published the week after the midterm elections. There was one point from the Chicago Tribune's report, however, that stood out for me.

Of his legacy, Bush said he "would like to be remembered as a guy who had a set of priorities and was willing to live by those priorities."

"In terms of accomplishments, my biggest accomplishment is that I kept the country safe amid a real danger," he said.

I hate to be a stickler about such things, but that's not quite right. As I recall, amid a real danger, quite a few national security catastrophes happened -- including the attacks of 9/11, the anthrax attacks against Americans, terrorist attacks against U.S. allies, the terrorist attacks against U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

During the summer of 2001, against the backdrop of reports of a pending al Qaeda attack, a CIA official traveled to Bush's summer getaway to call the president's attention personally to the now-famous Aug. 6, 2001, memo titled "Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in US." Bush reportedly heard the briefer out and replied, "All right. You've covered your ass, now."

His biggest accomplishment was keeping the country safe amid a real danger?

[existentialist]

1. but Bush is completely unqualified

to judge his own performance just as he was completely unqualified to become President or Governor of Texas.

So who cares about his silly self-glorifications and rationalizations?

[ProSense]

3. "So who cares about his silly self-glorifications and rationalizations?"

He's on a book tour.

Yikes!

:rofl:

[derby378]

4. Time for pie?

Just askin... :evilgrin:

[TheWraith]

9. He's unqualified to judge a pig contest.

Unfortunately that never stopped the little fucker.

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. There really aren't words to describe that singular jackass.

[Politicalboi]

5. For embarrassing purposes

Everyone had to take off their shoes. LOL! Damn I wish that guy would have nailed him that day.

[sdfernando]

6. Not possible

The blivet had a LOT of experience dodging things thrown at him...and I'll bet Laura had a much better arm than that Iraqi. :)

[existentialist]

11. He may have had experience ducking things thrown at him

but that Iraqi would have hit him if he hadn't ducked.

The throw, of the first shoe in particular, was right on target.

[The Backlash Cometh]

7. He was the real danger.

[krawhitham]

8. who was President on 9-11 again?

You did a real bang up job keeping people safe monkey boy

[Permanut]

10. Is it 1984 yet?

"From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the Party:
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH."