Wow, George W Bush is an Elitist Prick! Quote from Time Magazine

Have any of you seen this quote from Time Magazine?  It is an articles by Matt Cooper about the Bush-Delay relationship.  Check out this little quotation:

http://www.time.com/...

"Even before DeLay's announcement that he would abdicate his leadership post, top Bush advisers tell TIME, the President's inner circle always treated DeLay as a necessary burden. He may have had an unmatched grip on the House and Washington lobbyists, but DeLay is not the kind of guy--in background and temperament--the President feels comfortable with. Of the former exterminator, a Republican close to the President's inner circle says, "They have always seen him as beneath them, more blue collar. He's seen as a useful servant, not someone you would want to vacation with."

Did you read that?  Delay was "Beneath them" and "Blue Collar" who was a "useful servant."  What a bunch of elitist pricks!  I though Georgie was supposed to be the President Americans wanted to sit down and have a beer with.  Maybe if you're a useful servant you might get a chance.  Excuse me whilst I vomit.

•  Help a brother get his TU status back

  While you ponder the arrogance you just read.

  by Larry Horse on Mon Jan 09, 2006 at 10:28:18 AM PDT

•  I've always been confused about the beer thing

  he doesn't drink, right?  but I have to say, "wow" was not my first reaction to this story.  Good catch, though.

  by zenbowl on Mon Jan 09, 2006 at 10:30:00 AM PDT

  •  Have a beer with George.

         He's always struck me as the kind of guy you'd stop for a beer with after work and, he'd throw up on the bar, get you into a fight and stick you with the tab.

    by irate on Mon Jan 09, 2006 at 10:34:05 AM PDT

    •  heh

      nice analogy.  I might add something like: the type of guy who shows up for drinks when you're expecting to meet someone else.

      by zenbowl on Mon Jan 09, 2006 at 10:38:22 AM PDT

  •  re

    The phrase that voters say about bushie and wanting to have a beer with him best sums up the ignorant electorate called the american people.

    HE'S A FRELLING ALCOHOLIC FOR GEEBUS SAKE!

    by cookiesandmilk on Mon Jan 09, 2006 at 10:37:49 AM PDT

    •  Well, yeah!

      When I answered the poll, that's what I had in mind. I'd rather have a beer with George to knock him off the wagon. Isn't that what everybody was thinking?

      hink

      by MrHinkyDink on Mon Jan 09, 2006 at 11:28:44 AM PDT

    •  more like ignorant pollsters

      they're the ones who came up with the wording of the question.
      i'd love to know how and when that question got it's start. i'm sure it was before the bush presidency. before clinton even? does anyone know?

      by isis2 on Mon Jan 09, 2006 at 12:42:09 PM PDT

•  the only thing beneath

  bush/cheney is an earthworm.  However, as a gardener, I understand the worth of earthworms - so perhaps a bad analogy.  What exactly is the worth of this admin to the majority of Americans?  Of course, we knew this - but it needs to be put out there in print once in awhile so we don't forget what absolute horrors these people are.  It's not Delay's class -- it's his bloody character - typical of this group.  

  by xanthe on Mon Jan 09, 2006 at 10:32:32 AM PDT

  •  you're not being fair to earthworms

    sure they may be slimy, but they're at least useful. In more ways than one.

    by arkylib on Mon Jan 09, 2006 at 10:39:03 AM PDT

  •  Best analog for this admin

    is I believe a Hindu curse.

    They're lower than a maggot living off the crap of a rabid female dog.

    by DisNoir36 on Mon Jan 09, 2006 at 10:41:29 AM PDT

  •  How about tapeworms?

    Earthworms -- however lowly -- actually contribute something to the local scene.

    Tapeworms, on the other hand, take control of the "host," force it to ingest stuff that's bad for the host and good for the tapeworm.  But most importantly, if allowed to run rampant, tapeworms can take down the whole host system.

    Sounds kind of like the US economy, doesn't it?

    by JenThinks on Mon Jan 09, 2006 at 11:49:50 AM PDT

    •  References?

      How does a tapeworm take control of its host?  I'd like to learn more about this.

      by snakelass on Mon Jan 09, 2006 at 12:03:42 PM PDT

      •  Economic reference

        I'm looking for biological references right now, but here's a well-known economic reference:

        http://www.ratical.org/...
        

        by JenThinks on Tue Jan 10, 2006 at 07:34:11 AM PDT

  •  Earthworms are good

    Snails are the spawn of Satan.

    Not only that, you catch them by putting out a saucer of beer. The cheaper the better.

    Sounds like Bush to me. ;-)

    by mmacdDE on Mon Jan 09, 2006 at 12:15:45 PM PDT

•  Hey, Delay is beneath me, too...

  Compared to him, EVERYBODY is an elitist prick.

  When I think of Delay, I think of the Joe Pesci character in "Casino", the guy in the bar that stabs you in the throat repeatedly with a ballpoint pen, and then kicks you in the spleen after you go down.

  by Vagabond57 on Mon Jan 09, 2006 at 10:41:08 AM PDT

  •  but then he gets beaten with a baseball bat

    and buried alive...

    by Glickman on Mon Jan 09, 2006 at 11:10:54 AM PDT

    •  Sounds good...

      We'll give Ronnie Earle the first shot at him, followed by Jack Abramoff.  After that, take a number.

      by Vagabond57 on Mon Jan 09, 2006 at 02:08:13 PM PDT

•  Tommy must read this.

  Tommy must find out what the Bush rep said about him.

  by enoughisenough on Mon Jan 09, 2006 at 11:11:25 AM PDT

•  It could be...

  ...the attitude of that "Republican close to the inner circle", rather than Bush himself. Of course I wouldn't be surprised if it was both.

  by hux on Mon Jan 09, 2006 at 11:28:40 AM PDT

•  "Blue collar and beneath" them

  After all, people like Bush got where they are because of hard work and skill--they didn't benefit from anyone else's name, money, or anything like that...

  by turning blue on Mon Jan 09, 2006 at 11:30:04 AM PDT

•  Its really really really

  important for people to understand that DeLay was not, and I repeat, not a close associate of Bush.

  Let me tell you something.  When the president spoke out during an ongoing investigation and litigation to say the Tom DeLay was innocent, his intentions were to contaminate the jury pool for DeLay's trial.

  If he'd do this for someone he's really not comfortable with, what would he do for a close friend?

  by nupstateny on Mon Jan 09, 2006 at 11:47:48 AM PDT

•  As long as the media

  is in Bush's hip pocket, he can get away with anything. Clearly, the media is bought. The media is the main buffer between Bush's fascism and popular outrage. The media is Bush's information sentry.

  That's where Bush gets his political capital.

  by Eyeball Kid on Mon Jan 09, 2006 at 12:41:00 PM PDT