Bush just now on NPR: "The American people voted for change in Iraq." Now the punchline.

[Bucky]

Republican skills at separating the literal meaning of words from the actual way they're used. And so our leader speaks: "The American people voted for change in Iraq, and that is exactly what our new commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus, is working to achieve."

It's kinda like an outraged public demanding the Chicago Police bring the criminal career of Al Capone to an end, and so Elliot Ness hires him as an Untouchable. Wallah! You've forced Al Capone to change careers!

[frogcycle]

1. Wallah?

are you series?

[JuniperLea]

3. That's mean!

Public floggings look worse on the flogger than on the floggee.

A kinder, gentler way to do this would have been to PM the OP with one word... voila!

[frogcycle]

4. sorry, I took it as a new and funny joke, and was going along with it

consider me thoroughly frogged
and screwn

[Bucky]

6. I gotcher humor. & I'm not gonna get 2 worked up about inventive spelling

And wouldn't "thoroughly frogged" mean you're getting kissed on by unmarried and somewhat optimistic princesses?

[frogcycle]

11. well, if that's what it means

I'm all for it

come on, princesses!

[Aviation Pro]

2. No, Bush....

...the American people resoundly defeated you in 2000 (by 500,000 votes), but your brother and noted crazy person, Kathryn Harris, stole that election. Likewise in 2004, you stole that election too.

George Bush, bumbling criminal, murderer and thief.

[Richard D]

5. This post

might be the scariest thing I've read all day. I read the last line and the thought came to me: What would happen here is a truly competent politician came along who was a murderer, liar, criminal and thief? There's really no safe guards that have worked with the * administration despite their obvious incompetence. I think I've given myself a nightmare and I just woke up.

[frogcycle]

9. this is what we are faced with - not a dream

There is no remedy in law. Impeachment and removal from office is the ONLY action that can be taken against a sitting president - even if he were to pick up an AK-47 and spray the cabinet room.

And if he has enough cronies/lackeys in congress to block that - well, its like a town where the mob "owns" the police, the mayor, etc. It's like a corrupt third-world country.

[frogcycle]

13. in writing the above

I did a web search on "arrest the president" to confirm my statement - I found on link to a petition for a citizen's arrest of bush, and a link to rants calling for Clinton's arrest in 1997 for supposedly kowtowing to oil companies!! Claimed he "put an ally(Israel) at risk" by promoting negotiation with Hamas et al.

I guess Israel feels a lot more secure now, huh?

Also raved on about cronyism in the White House, contributors getting to spend a night in the Lincoln Bedroom.

Ah, those were the good old days. Now the contributors get to be US Attorneys, FEMA head, run wars...

http://www.gamla.org.il/english/article/1997/dec/win1.htm

[frogcycle]

7. Sounds like a broken record

That few are buying.

I liked this line (emphasis added):

I will continue working with Republicans and responsible Democrats to do just that.

Is he referring to Lieberman? He's not a dem any more. I have seen no signs of his "working with" anyone else who could even loosely be called a Democrat.

[BrklynLiberal]

8. Olbermann also pointed how insane *'s logic is when he showed the speech

at the VFW where the idiot in the White House was claiming that the Democrats in Congress were denying the troops funds to support their actions in Iraq, and THEREFORE, it would be necessary to SEND MORE TROOPS TO IRAQ and to extend the stay of those that are already there.

HUH!?????????? So exactly how can we send MORE troops to Iraq and extend their stay if there is not enough money to support the ones that are already there???
and how does A lead to B????????

[frogcycle]

10. you forget

war is peace
up is down

[BrklynLiberal]

12. Ahhhhhhh yes. I must stop trying to look at things as they really are...

[frogcycle]

16. If you don't like Orwell, Lewis Carroll is another prescient author

http://www.jabberwocky.com/carroll/jabber/jabberwocky.html

O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!

Let's make George president for life

[Bucky]

17. war is up; peace is down

You're missing the obvious point that Bush appears more presidential when he can get thru an entire paragraph without stumbling on the words. Asking him to speak coherently AND have something intelligent to say at the same time is, frankly, setting the bar a little too high.

[frogcycle]

19. yeah, what we need

is for him to (for some insane reason) do a press conference and have a reporter read parts of this back verbatim and then pose the logic questions. Not the whole thing - just select a clear, concise stupidity, lay it out, and then say (in politer, more respectful terms) "what's up with that, shit-for-brains?"

I would expect an answer something like:

"ah... well, you see... ah... you can't fool me twice"

[spanone]

14. spin as in tornado.

[NNadir]

15. I heard it. Bush gets more out of touch every day.

He's overtly delusional at this point.

[Joe Fields]

18. More reichspeak.

[Name removed]

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