Official Goodbye Bush Thread

[Michael]

Heck of a job Bushie!

He took the nation to a war of choice under false pretenses -- and left troops in harm's way on two fields of battle. He embraced torture as an interrogation tactic and turned the world's champion of human dignity into an outlaw nation and international pariah. He watched with detachment as a major American city went under water. He was ostensibly at the helm as the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression took hold. He went from being the most popular to the most disappointing president, having squandered a unique opportunity to unite the country and even the world behind a shared agenda after Sept. 11. He set a new precedent for avoiding the general public in favor of screened audiences and seemed to occupy an alternate reality. He took his own political party from seeming permanent majority status to where it is today. And he deliberately politicized the federal government, circumvented the traditional policymaking process, ignored expert advice and suppressed dissent, leaving behind a broken government.
Source (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2009/01/13/BL2009011301509.html?wpisrc=newsletter&wpisrc=newsletter)

That seems to sum up G.W. Bush's legacy in a nutshell...

[partofme]

The general feeling here is: Is he not gone already?

Because of the election he has been pretty much ignored for some time now.

[Americano]

Getting rid of him is like trying to scrape shit off a vibram boot sole; some of it sticks until it can be worn-off. His nightmares will be with us for a long time.

[drgoodtrips]

I think Bush agrees with you guys:

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/bush_can_i_stop_being_president

;)

[drgoodtrips]

By the way, I'm curious about what this guy is going to do now:

http://www.dubyaspeak.com/

If you have never been to this site, it is one of the most simultaneously hilarious and frightening website visits you'll ever encounter. That is, it's just a catalog of verbatim Bush quotes over the years of his reign.

[Michael]

By the way, I'm curious about what this guy is going to do now:

http://www.dubyaspeak.com/

If you have never been to this site, it is one of the most simultaneously hilarious and frightening website visits you'll ever encounter. That is, it's just a catalog of verbatim Bush quotes over the years of his reign.

Well, I don't think you should misunderestimate him! ;)

[The Sister]

Watching him leave on the helicopter and later on the plane, was truly one of the best moments of the day. He's gone, he's really gone.

[Dominick]

Just as there is way too much focus on the person Obama, there is way too much focus on the person Bush. I've never considered GB more than a figurehead for a movement within the Republican party (and even with some cross-over into the Democratic party) much better identified by people such as Rumsfeld, Cheney, Richard Perle and that whole PNAC think tank.
It isn't as much that Bush sucked (though he did in pretty much every domain) but that the ideology behind the throne sucked. Likewise, the danger wasn't in the person Bush but in the ideology that used him as a figurehead. If the ideology had survived while the person Bush didn't (politically speaking of course), the world, the US included would have been in much more peril without Bush than with him. In a sense, the incompetence of Bush attributed to the demise of the ideology. Which is good.
I'm not defending the man, I'm suggesting he's irrelevant. How could he not be with the limited capablities the man has.

[SMadsen]

Watching him leave on the helicopter and later on the plane, was truly one of the best moments of the day. He's gone, he's really gone.
As Dominick just hinted, although he said it way more eloquently than I ever could, the ideology is still hiding in the bushes :)

[phungus420]

Bush was one hell of an evil sunovabitch. The man has no redeaming qualities, the fact the US populace buys this whole notion he's some sort of bumpkin is beyond me, the little bastard grew up in connecticut with a silver spoon up his butt! How I hate thee, let me count the ways: He's an unapoligetic theocrat, he believes torture is an accptable practice, he believes in a unitary executive, he's against stem cells, he's against reproductive rights, he believes manipulating and falsifying scientific data is an acceptable practice for the government, he believes the invisible hand can right the market w/o government intervention, he beleives a man porking another man is a reason to exclude them from work they are otherwise qualified with, and the same he beleives basic legal rights don't pertain to said individuals, he beleives deficits don't matter, he beleives in what his father called voodoo economics, he believes creating a false premise to start a war is an acceptable practice, and on and on. Oh and durring his 8 years in office he actively persued the above agenda. The fact the republican party picked this servant of the devil as their standard bearer has thrown the country into one of it's darkest chapters. Getting out of this pit will take much more then pretty words, and optimistic hope to crawl out of.

When the fucker was elected I was in Korea, and I just about flipped. I fucking called all this shit, and got in mad arguments, fist fights even. I knew that this bastard was a true dark lord, Star Wars Sith style. On the morning of Sept 13 for me, (Sept 12th for you Norte Americanos), I was so goddamn drunk in formation, and kept shouting "I told you so!" (thankfully PT was suspended, and nobody was in the mood to argue/displine me). I called all this shit on Nov 5th of 2000, from the World Trade Centers falling, to The Invasion of Iraq, to the Millenial Great Depression we are entering, and all of it, every god damn bit of it is a result of Bush's actions.

All I can say is, good riddence piece of shit.

[Michael]

Don't hold back now my phungoid phriend, tell us how you really feel about Bush! :rofl:

[Americano]

Bush was one hell of an evil sunovabitch. The man has no redeaming qualities, the fact the US populace buys this whole notion he's some sort of bumpkin is beyond me, the little bastard grew up in connecticut with a silver spoon up his butt! How I hate thee, let me count the ways: He's an unapoligetic theocrat, he believes torture is an accptable practice, he believes in a unitary executive, he's against stem cells, he's against reproductive rights, he believes manipulating and falsifying scientific data is an acceptable practice for the government, he believes the invisible hand can right the market w/o government intervention, he beleives a man porking another man is a reason to exclude them from work they are otherwise qualified with, and the same he beleives basic legal rights don't pertain to said individuals, he beleives deficits don't matter, he beleives in what his father called voodoo economics, he believes creating a false premise to start a war is an acceptable practice, and on and on. Oh and durring his 8 years in office he actively persued the above agenda. The fact the republican party picked this servant of the devil as their standard bearer has thrown the country into one of it's darkest chapters. Getting out of this pit will take much more then pretty words, and optimistic hope to crawl out of.

When the fucker was elected I was in Korea, and I just about flipped. I fucking called all this shit, and got in mad arguments, fist fights even. I knew that this bastard was a true dark lord, Star Wars Sith style. On the morning of Sept 13 for me, (Sept 12th for you Norte Americanos), I was so goddamn drunk in formation, and kept shouting "I told you so!" (thankfully PT was suspended, and nobody was in the mood to argue/displine me). I called all this shit on Nov 5th of 2000, from the World Trade Centers falling, to The Invasion of Iraq, to the Millenial Great Depression we are entering, and all of it, every god damn bit of it is a result of Bush's actions.

All I can say is, good riddence piece of shit.

:) I never understood how the general public bought the Texan facade.

"No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public"

Hmmm. Could be a decent sig line for a cynic such as myself.