Bush is actually comparing himself to Winston Churchill...(on CNN)

[glarius]

He said Churchill was made fun of when he tried to save the world in the 1930s....(Just as he is now?)....What a fool....

P.S. He hasn't come right out and said it but he's slyly hinting at it all over the place.

[JasonDeter]

1. Can you believe this? We just noticed the same thing! barf!

And the family is sitting there listening to him. Are they looking for a reporter?

[glarius]

4. The man is a SHAMELESS FOOL!

Not much applause!

[JasonDeter]

8. We can't let the sucker go anywhere! Somebody call his mother!

[Demonaut]

43. Churchill Quote:" Never hold discussions with a monkey

when the organ grinder is in the room" or better yet "When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber" ONeil, Kay and now Tenet are starting to jabber

[GOPisEvil]

2. Hahahahahaha!!!! What? You're kidding, right?

Please tell me you are kidding.

[glarius]

9. NO KIDDING....He's comparing what he's doing in "the war on terror" to

Churchill in world war 2!!!

[JasonDeter]

10. Its a tribute to Churchill but he's talked more about himself!!

Britain stand up and tell him to shut up!!

[glarius]

12. Any moment now he'll shout HALELLUJAH!....LOL

N/T

[JasonDeter]

15. No, Proverbs says, "Let anothers mouth praise you and not your own."

bush* has to get stomped for this. Its shamefull.

[proud patriot]

He looks like he's about to cry

* poor ignorant bafoon * .....NOT !

[truthspeaker]

3. Well, Churchill was a heavy drinker too

But the similarity ends there, chimp-boy.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

5. Churchill was way to the left of Bush.

Way to the left.
How depressing is that!

[TacticalPeek]

25. A sobering thought,

provided one thinks it.

Too bad Shrub hasn't been able to think since he was 'young and reckless'.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

30. Yeah, I was being a little dramatic, but Churchill wouldn't side with Bush

I doubt he'd recognize Bush as a 'Conservative'

[hatrack]

33. Yeah, but at least Winston was honest about his drinking!

He liked to drink and made no bones about it.

[Loonman]

6. Churchill at war was a giant, Bush is a pipsqueak

As he always will be.

[tom_paine]

7. Jesus Christ, Tiberius really IS nuts!

Yeah, King George, sure you're like Chruchill.

Actually, I think he's more like his Grandpa Bush's former business partners in 1930s Germany.

[glarius]

11. This must be embarrassing to the members of theChurchill family who are

present....

[JohnyCanuck]

19. Maybe one of Winny's relatives will say:

"I knew Winston Churchill. Winston Churchill was a relative of mine, and you Mr. President are no Winston Churchill."

[glarius]

24. very good...LOL

N/T

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

32. Well ...

(from 2002)

Bush 'no Churchill' says grandson

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/2223188.stm

[rocktivity]

37. dupe

n/t

[rocktivity]

38. I knew someone who was a Winston Churchill

The ad agency I worked at was in financial trouble, and two people were in line for a pivotal creative slot--a hard-working, brilliant, motivating, talented born leader who could easily turn the company around, and an universally-disrespected doofus whose only talent was for failing upwards. The latter got the job, of course, ingniting a mass resume mailing and the immortal words, "We could have had Winston Churchill; they gave us Captain Spaulding."


rocknation

[Sagan]

13. uummm.. yeah... see, Chimpy, it doesn't work that way..

When you get up there and say "See, I'm like Churchill" that's in poor taste. You're supposed to let OTHER people tell us how much like Churchill you are. Don't you have enough media whore bootlickers that would do that for you?

[Zero Gravitas]

14. what an ASSHOLE

[TheWebHead]

16. just heard him say "Democrat values"

* afraid of the word Democratic....

[Robin Hood]

17. Churchill did not agressively invade a country, Hitler invaded countries.

n/t

[Old and In the Way]

18. This "tribute" to Churchill is nothing more than a campaign speech

He is not talking about Churchill at all, it's all about him and his reasons for invading Iraq. Of course, it not about the threat of WMD, it's about democracy.

"We won't leave until the job is done". Of that, I have no doubt....the job, however, will be done in November, 04.

[pinto]

23. and an awkward, embarrassing one at that......notice he had a little

trouble with the "truth supports freedom"....and such an overall piece of self aggrandizement.

[glarius]

20. He's so damned PROUD of what he just said..that's what's so pathetic!

He doesn't have the brains to know how out of place this speech was, under the circumstances...It was supposed to be a tribute to CHURCHILL!....

[K8-EEE]

21. LOL!! He's Sees Churchill's Courage In Tony "Poodle" Blair!

Ooooooh BROTHER!

[beyurslf]

22. I am glad I am not at home and watching.

I may have thrown something and broken my tv

[Bandit]

26. We really need a Loyd Bentson moment

"I knew Winston Churchill, he was a friend of mine and you sir are NO Winston Churchill

[Bonhomme Richard]

27. If Churchill was like bush we would be....

all proficient in german right now. What an embarassing fuck up he is.
The upside? He is going down big time.

[grasswire]

28. he had that...

...smirkly grandfather face on today. God, that's the one I hate most. Run away, kiddies!

[peekaloo]

29. More like Churchill Downs

lots o' horse pootie!

[stopbush]

31. So by his own admission, bush is like the world leaders from WWII.

I wonder when he gets to the Stalin and Hitler comparisons?

[The Backlash Cometh]

34. Well, maybe on one of Winston's bad, drunken days?

*

[Aidoneus]

35. well, Churchill's conduct in occupying Iraq *IS* rather similar

that's not a compliment.

though Bush has yet to drop any poison gasses on Iraqis, like Churchill did.

[SoCalDem]

36. He just keeps celebratin' & celebratin' & celebratin'

those "victories" TWO WARS WON IN TWO YEARS. rah rah rah

ecxept for the fact that the only thing we accomplished in Afghanistan was to install our new puppet, and we left our soldiers therew to guard him so that none of the bad guys (who we let escape) kill him..

and except for the fact that we have had almost 5 times the number of soldiers killed since we "won" the war in Iraq..:eyes:


Yep.. That's really somoething to celebrate, Doofus..

[denverbill]

39. Amazing coincidence. I keep comparing myself to Winston Smith.

And I keep thinking it's 1984.

[prolesunited]

47. No kidding!

Have you read it again lately? Frightening.

[Serenity-NOW]

40. Love this quote

Mr Soames, Winny's grandson, continued: "I also think one of the comparisons that does not stand up was that Churchill was a great thinker in the round of the whole scene".

[librechik]

41. Don't panic; it's just the corollary to "Liberals are Chamberlin" meme

the pundits are flogging this week. Against the war? Oh, I suppose you want Saddam in charge, you appeaser! It's a throwaway, nobody can argue it or rebut it because it is total nonsense. Of course he is like Churchill in that he was a failure until middle age (and beyond) and had a psychological problem about his father... Nothing else fits.

[JasonDeter]

42. Does this Churchill quote fit the bush*/cheney ticket or what?

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
Sir Winston Churchill

[jmowreader]

44. Bush could never do this...

England was being battered by relentless V-2 rocket attacks. It was the darkest of dark times.

On June 4, 1940, Prime Minister Winston Churchill strode to the podium in the House of Commons, and spoke all of these words:


"I have myself full confidence that if all do their duty, if nothing is neglected, and if the best arrangements are made, as they are being made, we shall prove ourselves once again able to defend our island home, to ride out the storm of war, and to outlive the menace of tyranny, if necessary for years if necessary alone.

At any rate, that is what we are going to try to do. That is the resolve of His Majesty's Government, every man of them. That is the will of Parliament and the nation. The British Empire and the French Republic, linked together in their cause and in their need, will defend to the death their native soil, aiding each other like good comrades to the utmost of their strength.

Even though large tracts of Europe and many old and famous States have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Gestapo and all the odious apparatus of Nazi rule, we shall not flag or fail.

We shall go on to the end;

We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans;

We shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air;

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be;

We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds;

We shall fight in the fields, and in the streets;

We shall fight in the hills;

We shall never surrender,

And even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, the new world, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old."

[Lisa]

45. Sir Winston is probably spinning in his grave!

Dubya up there, chortling away. Hey George, what bets the "cigars and whiskey" smell you referred to is coming from YOU and not the exhibits?

Okay, so Churchill did meddle in the Middle East (by urging "regime change" for Mossadegh's populist elected government in Iran) -- that type of interference is just about the only thing you've got in common with him.

Bush sneakily backs off from his self-adulation at the last minute and solemnly declares that he was thinking of Tony Blair. Oh, right.

[9215]

46. Sounds like Nero after he burned Rome and the people

were pounding on the gates looking for justice. He said that the world will be deprived of a great man.

Though, most certainly not a modest one, in that case or this one.



This is the height of arrogance to start comparing your self to great people.

Let history be the judge and just SHaaaT UP! Already.