Bush: "an "undeniable" sense of economic optimism sweeping the country???"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

From Reuters:
Under Fire Over Jobs, Bush Hones Upbeat Message

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=584&e=3&u=/nm/20040216/pl_nm/bush_jobs_dc

"Nearly 2.8 million factory jobs have been lost since Bush took office and the issue looms large ahead of November's vote.

Bush acknowledged during a visit to a Tampa window and door manufacturer that "a lot of economic growth depends upon the psychology of the people making decisions all throughout our economy."

Bush did his part on Monday to shape that "psychology." "You can say, 'Well of course, they just pick the upbeat people.' Well, the truth of the matter is people are pretty upbeat all over the country. That's what I'm here to report to you," he said.

Bush's goal: to reverse his slide in recent polls by boosting confidence in his economic stewardship."

[Shoedogg]

1. Really?

Well then how come I'm broke?

More broke than I have EVER been?

[pinto]

2. heard him on the radio: "5 (jobs) here, 45 there and that's excitement!"

sounded like an idiot.

ed for spell

[kitkatrose]

5. He didn't really say that, did he?

Please tell me he's not that stupid.

[Maeve]

3. Keep telling lies, Georgie

Shoot your credibility to little, teeny, tiny pieces! We'll wait.

[belle]

4. Oh, that's so cute, Dubya is trying to channel the Gipper.

It's "Morning in America!" Even though the terrorists are still after us! And, uh...look at me! I'm a PILOT!

Nice try, but I don't think so.

[Webster Green]

6. I see an undeniable sense of optimism.....

but it ain't about economic growth, its about sending smirky packing back to Crawford, where he can spend the rest of his miserable life pretending to clear brush on his phony-baloney "ranch".

[Zeke]

7. Nothing to See Here...

Yeah, everyting's great.

3.1 million out of work and climbing. GOP congress not renewing unemployment benefits either.

Iraq on edge of nationwide civil war between Kurds, Sunnis and Shiites and 500 plus US soldiers dead---for what?!

And I can't get my can opener to work!

[CityZen-X]

8. The Bu$h*t Keeps Coming!

Next thing you know dogs will be mating with cats!
I guess the Commander & Chimp didn't hear those boo's directed towards him at the Daytona 500 yesterday?
Dumbya would be better served delivering his economic pipe dream to an audience that might be more accessible to his Bu$h*t-like WWF Wrestling!

[thinkingwoman]

34. if dogs mate with cats

that will be the fault of the "librls" you know. First we let gays marry and then comes polygamy and bestiality and dogs mating with cats.

It's the end times.

</sarcasm>

[Norquist Nemesis]

9. Sure people are upbeat

We're about to overthrow King George!

[ochazuke]

10. Maybe he mis-spoke

He might have meant to say "undetectable".

Peance-Freeance!

[tom_paine]

11. I'm sure he's referring to the mood at the Cocktail Parties of the Uber

Rich. I'm sure they are a perfectly tha-rilled at the propsects to returning to the 1890s and the 1590s.

It's been far too long since wealthy people could order people killed without some Filthy Little Nobodies coming along andf trying to investigate it.

[Elidor]

12. Unfortunately, the country he was referring to is India

[Deja Q]

13. ROTFLMAO!

I must be in a parallel world, if people think that * has helped the economy and the non-wealthy.

Stewardship? Of what?! Destruction, layoffs, misery, betrayal, death, lies, sleazy ambition?

[htuttle]

14. Just like his dad...

Out.Of.Touch.

[ComerPerro]

15. Well, its true that there is optimism about the economy

Most of that optimism comes from the richest Americans and from CEOs. But, as far as Bush is concerned, they are the only people that matter.

[Bandit]

16. Two established businesses closed their doors this month in my hometown

KB Toys and a old established restaraunt have called it quits in this great new economy we are living in. I have lost six accounts in a one year period from them going out of business and one declared bankruptcy.

[wellstone_democrat]

17. Huh? No layoffs here but no "optimism" at all!

I'm in a job where I do not immediately fear layoffs or outsourcing. No one in my organization does either. We have a highly diversified economy so no big ups OR downs locally either. Yet...I know of NO ONE at all (freeper, paleocon, disaffected, liberal or radical) who is expressing ANYTHING but discomfort or fear about the economy.

This is more evidence for the "competency" hearing that is surely in this madman's future.

[Womblestuffer]

18. Look at me! Look at Me! I ask you are our children learning?

[buycitgo]

27. IS our children learning, of course

in the words of a most misunderestimated man

[newyawker99]

32. Hi Womblestuffer!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[newyawker99]

33. *dupe*

[ignatius]

19. King Georgie is soooo out of touch with reality that it is

a pathetic joke. When he goes to all the fundraisings across the country,he needs to spend some time with the little people instead of the $2,000 a plate crowd. Spend some time with retirees who can't afford their medicines. Spend some time with a working single mom who can't afford clothes for her kids. Spend some time with the woman in Indianapolis, who lost 2 daughters, when her mobile home caught fire by a space heater she was using in below zero tempature because her gas had been disconnected.

I imagine that will happen about the same time his highness attends a funeral of one of the children he sent to their death.

Stick it up your ass, George.

[seasat]

20. Shrub has a head up the Haliburton approach.

"undeniable" sense of economic optimism sweeping the country???""
Posted by Bush_Eats_Beef

I guess Laura forgot to read him this:

(LINK)

The University of Michigan index of consumer confidence slumped to a surprisingly low 93.1 in February, reversing January's hefty rise to 103.8.

[guitar man]

21. I'm just bubbling with optimism

I have gone from making $25-30 an hour at home to commuting 90 miles one way to make $10 per hour. I'm just real goddamn optimistic about every fucking thing,George!

[Screaming Lord Byron]

22. He meant undetectable. A simple mistake.

[TreasonousBastard]

23. What else is he going to say?

It's not like he can say the whole thing is going down the crapper and he has no idea what to do about it.

It's in Politics 101-- Keep the message upbeat and hope like hell something good happens.

[maxsolomon]

24. well, we are hiring people as fast as we can find them

bizarre for an architecture firm, i know. the developers have decided to stop sitting on their hands & start building again.

but i haven't seen a real raise in 3 years. about the time bush took office.

[Cat Atomic]

25. He's being honest here.

For men like Bush and Cheney, the economic outlook couldn't be better. They've handed control of the second most oil rich country on the planet to U.S. oil companies. They're undermining domestic labor, so you work more for less money. They've eased environmental restrictions on polluters, rigged the tax system even further in their favor, and they're in the process of destroying all government programs that don't directly benefit the extremely wealthy.

On top of all that, they've consolidated and essentially seized the media, so they can marginalize anyone who doesn't like it.

It's boom time for the aristocracy, make no mistake.

[kodi]

26. sweet jesus, pass me some of what that man is smoking

there are two ways to look at what bush said; one optimistic, the other dreadful to behold.

1. bush is so clueless as to what is going on in america that his fall from power is pre-ordained by his stupidity.

2. bush is so clueless as to what is going on in america that he is a danger to the world.

my hope that #1 is true is dampened by my realization that #2 is too.

[buycitgo]

29. not clueless at all!

Orwellian

Machiavellian

Goebbelsian

that's all it is, all it ever was

deny reality

tell the HUGEST lie imaginable

repeat endlessly

lots of people buy that garbage

look how many did three+years ago

helps immeasurably when you have the media hammering in that nail relentlessly

just saw a CNN piece on this very subject moments ago.

they showed the stammering chimp at the 'townhall' gathering at which he spewed the crap being discussed. the announcers gave PLENY of airtime to this propaganda, then, as a tossoff, mentioned that the dems disagree, with no footage of anyone saying WHY what dumbo said was total garbage

and that's the way it is

[sendero]

30. It has worked well for him....

... in the past no doubt. But I think it will not work so well in the future. It only works when people trust you to some extent, and since he has failed to deliver on a single thing hes set out to do, I don't think Americans are in a trusting mood right now :)

[RedEarth]

28. George.......you're drinking too much again....time to take a vacaiton

clear your head a little. Maybe try a little coke down on the ranch. Clear some brush. Play cowboy.

[damnraddem]

31. Well, there may be reason for some economic optimism:

after all, it likes like Dubya might lose, so maybe the economy could have a chance of improving in a year or so.

[democrank]

35. Just once

I`d like to hear Bush tell it like it is. Where is this "economic optimism" he`s talking about? Oh,I forgot. He doesn`t read the newspapers.

Does he think that that because there are a bunch of nodding heads on the financial networks that everything is A-OK? Get this moron out of my sight.