My President Is A Bastard

I heard about that.

They really should make that into a public service announcement.
 
Ok, I don't have quicktime, and don't want to download quicktime, or that file onto my computer due to the fact that I have a very slow dial-up connection. So please just tell us what it's about.
 
Here's the description from the site:
In light of the killing of 5 marines and 4 private contractors in Iraq today, we thought it would be appropriate to repost this video by Jason for America. If you missed it last week, Bush attended the Radio and Television Correspondent's Dinner and made a few jokes about our failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Pretty poor taste, if you ask us, when our soldiers are dying for his mistakes. Jason pulled together some clips of Bush's dinner speech and juxtaposed them with some not so pretty pictures from the front. Check it out. It really wakes you up to some of the human costs of this war.
 
I saw it, and it doesn't really affect me. So he is making light of the situation, it is only one time, in counter-balance to all the times he has been dead serious about the situation. You see one attempt at public relations, perhaps an ill-conceived one, but what about the meetings you never see. The ones where the plans for Iraq are created?

For Bush, I don't really support the guy. He has my vote, but only because he is a better type of failure than Kerry (what a miserable election). If there was a better option, I'd jump on it, unfortunately there isn't. Just, for explanation, this video didn't raise any issues inside me. Really, we all make do in our lives without worrying every minute about all the children who starved to death, and how many of us here have all we want to eat (just about everyone, if you have internet access you have a certain standard of living).
 
He's making light of a lie he told, which is getting kids killed as I type this.

Not cool.
 
Kotario, how can you say that? Are you not able to empathasize? For chrissake, one of the soldiers in that video was holding his baby daughter. She's not going to have a dad growing up now. And Bush makes jokes about it all. He knows there are no wmds in Iraq. And yet, that was his basis for going into Iraq. It still is! But he feels he can make jokes about it. Its not funny. And how could you vote for him... its voting for a lieing murderer.
 
and how can you say h has your vote? A lot of BAD CRAP has happened in this country in the past 4 years. What does Kerry do that's wrong?
 
Jesus. I bet if Bush farted in his own bedroom, at this point you lefties would accuse him of trying to punch a whole in the ozone laywer with farting.

He made fun of HIMSELF and HIS STAFF. HE DID NOT SAY "HAHA, MR.SOLDIER MAN, YOU ARE DYING NEEDLESSLY!"
 
True dat...

Anyhow CCR has a point. So does Kotario, about the election that is. I don't see why this is surprising everyone though. I mean, the guy's a fucking politician for crying out loud. And this came as a shock to you?
 
You make it sound like we should excuse his behavior because he is a politican. I found this today which I found interesting.

This too:
THE BUSH RESUME
George W. Bush
The White House, USA

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

LAW ENFORCEMENT
I was arrested in Kennebunkport, Maine, in 1976 for driving under the influence of alcohol. I pled guilty, paid a fine, and had my driver's license suspended for 30 days.
My Texas driving record has been "lost" and is not available.

MILITARY:
I joined the Texas Air National Guard and went AWOL. I refused to take a drug test or answer any questions about my drug use.
By joining the Texas Air National Guard, I was able to avoid combat duty in Vietnam.

COLLEGE:
I graduated from Yale University with a low C average.
I was a cheerleader.

PAST WORK EXPERIENCE:
I ran for U.S. Congress and lost.I bought an oil company, but couldn't find any oil in Texas.
The company went bankrupt shortly after I sold all my stock.
I bought the Texas Rangers baseball team in a sweetheart deal that took land using taxpayer money. With the help of my father and our right-wing friends in the oil industry(including Enron CEO Ken Lay), I was elected governor of Texas.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS GOVERNOR OF TEXAS:
I changed Texas pollution laws to favor power and oil companies, making Texas the most polluted state in the Union.
During my tenure, Houston replaced Los Angeles as the most smog-ridden city in America.
I cut taxes and bankrupted the Texas treasury to the tune of billions in borrowed money.
I set the record for the most executions by any governor in American history.
With the help of my brother, the governor of Florida, and my father's appointments to the Supreme Court, I became President after losing by over 500,000 votes.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS PRESIDENT:
I am the first President in U.S. history to enter office with a criminal record.
I invaded and occupied two countries at a continuing cost of over one billion dollars per week.
I spent the U.S. surplus and effectively bankrupted the U.S. Treasury.
I shattered the record for the largest annual deficit in U.S. history.I set an economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12-month period.
I set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12-month period. I set the all-time record for the biggest drop in the history of the U.S. Stock Market.
In my first year in office, over 2 million Americans lost their jobs and that trend continues every month.
I'm proud that the members of my cabinet are the richest of any administration in U.S. history.
My "poorest millionaire," Condoleeza Rice, has a Chevron oil tanker named after her.
I set the record for most campaign fund-raising trips by a U .S.President.
I am the all-time U.S. and world record-holder for receiving the most corporate campaign donations.
My largest lifetime campaign contributor, and one of my best friends, Kenneth Lay, presided over the largest corporate bankruptcy fraud in U.S. history, Enron.
My political party used Enron private jets and corporate attorneys to assure my success with the U.S. Supreme Court during my election decision.
I have protected my friends at Enron and Halliburton against investigation or prosecution.
More time and money was spent investigating the Monica Lewinsky affair than has been spent investigating one of the biggest corporate rip-offs  in history.
I presided over the biggest energy crisis in U.S. history and refused to intervene when corruption involving the oil industry was revealed.
I presided over the highest gasoline prices in U.S. history.
I changed the U.S. policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts.
I appointed more convicted criminals to administration than any President in U.S. history.
I created the Ministry of Homeland Security, the largest bureaucracy in the history of the United States government.
I've broken more international treaties than any President in U.S. history.
I am the first President in U.S. history to have the United Nations remove the U.S. from the Human Rights Commission.
I withdrew the U.S. from the World Court of Law and I refused to allow inspectors access to U.S. "prisoners of war" detainees and thereby have refused to abide by the Geneva Convention.
I am the first President in history to refuse United Nations election inspectors (during the 2002 U.S. election).
I set the record for the fewest number of press conferences of any President since the advent of television.
I set the all-time record for most days on vacation in any one-year period.
After taking off the entire month of August, I presided over the worst security failure in U.S. history.
I garnered the most sympathy for the U.S. after the World Trade Center attacks and less than a year later made the U.S. the most hated country in the world, the largest failure of diplomacy in world history.
I have set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously protest me in public venues (15 million people), shattering the record for protest against any person in the history of mankind.
I am the first President in U.S. history to order an unprovoked, pre-emptive attack and the military occupation of a sovereign nation.
I did so against the will of the United Nations, the majority of U.S. citizens, and the world community.
I have cut health care benefits for war veterans and support a cut in duty benefits for active duty troops and their families in war time.
All records or minutes from meetings that I, or my Vice-President, attended regarding public energy policy are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public review.

PLEASE CONSIDER MY EXPERIENCE WHEN VOTING IN 2004
PLEASE SEND THIS TO EVERY VOTER YOU KNOW.
 
I was aware of this footage for some time now, I saw it on the news a week or two ago, and I have to admit: it doesn't really influence me. Using pictures of war casualties to make the war monger look bad will always work, but hey: if there's a war, there's going to be casualties - always. These soldiers knew what the risks were.
I don't think either of the parties has any respect for the casualties, actually. The Bush side doesn't seem to care, the opposition turns them into leftish propaganda material so they can win more votes and... eventually make similar mistakes in the very near future.

Also: the context of these messages (Bush/casualties) is so different (he's at a party, for crying out loud, amidst friends), that this movie doesn't make a lot of sense. You might as well compare the images of war casualties to images of Bush taking a piss, having a shower, having breakfast, playing with his dog...
 
I thought it was a pretty funny joke. When he makes some dumb comment you laugh at him, when he makes some dumb jokes you cry about him. Bizarro. And the soldiers are volunteers to. If you're stupid enough to sign up for the army after a plane crashed into some buildings, perhaps you shouldn't be complaining?

I don't see the point in all the anti-bush shit. He does silly things, big deal. The President doesn't have dictator like control anyway, the people behind him are bigger bastards than he is.

I'd vote Bush, because he's a funny old bean.
 
Hmmm, im curious, should I be honest, or just mumble, "Yeah, I agree with all of you." Look, people die everyday. There are people that will laugh at it. On 9/11, don't you think there were people who thought it was funny, and joked about it? HELL, I'Ve joked about it! Am I supporting bush, hell no, he is a jackass, but I am trying to say, this is a bit of a petty argument. "Oh no, bush was making jokes about dead people!". Pffft, big deal, you can't take evrything too seriously. "Ohhh great, a baby girl with no daddy!" My father walked out on everyone just 3 days ago, he is as good as dead to me, but I have a sister and two brothers who are bawling their eyes out. Lifes tuff, so stfu and deal with it. So bush made a joke, I doubt he meant harm, but fuck him anyway, I just hope he isn't re-elected. Meh, I spoke my mind, so if any haters out there got something to say, OUT WITH IT! :P King Of Creation, true story. My ex-dad and his buisness partner where putting in a satellite at a jewish womans home, and this jewish lady was being a bitch. Just giving them shit, "Oh, are you sure you know what you are doin???" Yaddy Yaddy Yaddy Ya. So she has this good story behind her life, her grandma and grandpa where killed in concentration camps during WW II. Finally, my dads friend gets pissed and he says in German, "How would you like to go to the gas chamber?" and the lady just freezes, and says "Just finish up" and she walks out and leaves. Now, that was a very bad thing right? I WAS LAUGHING MY FUCKING ASS OFF!!! But hey, that is just an example of what bush did, no need to single him out. :)
 
Yeah, thats what I thought. *Flexes bicep*

Hehehe, im just tinkering with you. But really, what the hell kind of post is that?

What

Damn dude....that blows a popcicle.
 
[HpA said:
|GHOUL|DWELLA|]My father walked out on everyone just 3 days ago, he is as good as dead to me, but I have a sister and two brothers who are bawling their eyes out.

No offense, young man, but after reading your post, I have come to the conclusion that it would not be a waste of time nor of good money for you to go visit a doctor immediately and tell him everything you have just told us.

Trust me, I know what I'm talking about.

I've seen cases like you around before.

Making fun of Jews and/or concentration camps is dead wrong, by the way. :evil:
 
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