The Dead Are Always Such Optimists

Bush's official statement for Mother's Day.

Laura and I want to wish everybody a happy Mother's Day. It's just a special day to give thanks to our Moms; appreciate the hard work that Moms do. And I understand that for some, however, Mother's Day is a sad day for those who lost their lives in Oklahoma and Missouri and Georgia because of the tornadoes, are wondering whether or not tomorrow will be a bright and hopeful day.

Well, if you lost your life, you might have good reason to not be all that hopeful, but I suppose today isn't going to get any worse.

•  Seven years we sufferred this fool....

  And, if you people let Obama lose it's all your fault.

  Stop your bitchin' and moaning about Clinton and get to fucking work!

  by David Kroning on Tue May 13, 2008 at 07:38:00 AM PDT

  •  Amen!

    NO MORE CLINTON-HATE DIARIES!

    by Alfonso Nevarez on Tue May 13, 2008 at 07:42:19 AM PDT

    •  No more "Clinton Can Win" diaries either!

      by David Kroning on Tue May 13, 2008 at 07:47:47 AM PDT

      •  At least those don't make the rec list - eom

        by Alfonso Nevarez on Tue May 13, 2008 at 07:57:38 AM PDT

  •  Not a fool

    he's evil, and he misspeaks a lot, but it is  a mistake to think him a fool.  Evil, not foolish

    by plf515 on Tue May 13, 2008 at 07:50:19 AM PDT

    •  No, Bush *is* a fool

      His handlers are the evil ones.  

      by Stop It on Tue May 13, 2008 at 08:18:57 AM PDT

      •  perhaps

        an evil fool is the best description.

        by FreeTradeIsYourEpitaph on Tue May 13, 2008 at 08:28:03 AM PDT

        •  Because sometimes the ventriloquist's dummy

          Might actually BE alive and evil and go around killing people, y'know?  I mean really, dozens of crappy horror movies can't be ALL wrong; we just got spectacularly unlucky and ended up with Chucky in the White House.

          by SmartAleq on Tue May 13, 2008 at 08:50:58 AM PDT

          •  Chucky in the White House.

            That is the name of a good horror pic.  Unfortunately, we've been living it for 8 years.

            I used to prefer "Bush the Destroyer" but Chucky in the White House lends the humor element...always important.

            by maxschell on Tue May 13, 2008 at 09:32:37 AM PDT

            •  I suppose it could be worse...

              ...he could be enamored of dressing up as a clown.  There's nothing scarier than an evil, stupid clown, nothing!

              by SmartAleq on Tue May 13, 2008 at 10:17:40 AM PDT

              •  like John Gacy?

                the only difference between Gacy and George Bush is Gacy did his own killing, George told our fellow Americans kids to go do it for him.

                by FreeTradeIsYourEpitaph on Tue May 13, 2008 at 03:21:07 PM PDT

•  OH FFS

  can we just please stop giving that man a microphone.  No good can come of it, people.  

  by gihrose on Tue May 13, 2008 at 07:38:27 AM PDT

  •  Better a Microphone than Nuclear Launch codes

    If he's busy shooting his mouth off he's too busy to "Push the button"

    by JML9999 on Tue May 13, 2008 at 07:46:01 AM PDT

  •  The election of Barack Obama

    and a whole lot of Democrats.

    Give Bush a microphone whenever he wants.  He helps us when he talks.  

    by plf515 on Tue May 13, 2008 at 07:51:16 AM PDT

•  Great catch, DT

  I laughed out loud.  Yesterday one of my brothers sent me a little video compilation of some of Bush's finest moments in speech with the plaintive note "We are really gonna miss this guy".

  by St Louis Woman on Tue May 13, 2008 at 07:39:13 AM PDT

•  Bush is phoning it in, even by his own standards

  Every day seems to be like senior skip day.  

  by theran on Tue May 13, 2008 at 07:39:14 AM PDT

  •  Don't they still have somebody on staff to

    write these statements.  And I assume they can at least get somebody with a B. A. in English.

    by illinifan17 on Tue May 13, 2008 at 07:41:57 AM PDT

    •  I reckon the staffers are still trying, but

      can the f*cker even read?

      by Ptown boy in NC on Tue May 13, 2008 at 07:42:45 AM PDT

      •  Thanks, I forgot about the reading part.

        by illinifan17 on Tue May 13, 2008 at 07:45:45 AM PDT

      •  staffers are busy on Monster.com

        and Jobs.com sending out jillions of resumes; if there is a Democratic surge there are a lot of embedded GOP workers who owed their jobs to patronage and are now anticipating patronage's backhand.

        by entlord1 on Tue May 13, 2008 at 08:11:14 AM PDT

      •  What a waste it is to lose one's mind

        As a great philosopher from the the last century said:

        "What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful.  How true that is."

        How true indeed.  Particularly for W.

        by Habitat Vic on Tue May 13, 2008 at 08:33:36 AM PDT

        •  Indiana's Own Dan Quayle

          Gee, and after Bill Moyers' "Hoosier" validation last night, thanks for THAT reminder!

          by CityLightsLover on Tue May 13, 2008 at 09:26:16 AM PDT

    •  I've Got an MA in English!

      But, I want hazard pay!

      by CityLightsLover on Tue May 13, 2008 at 07:47:05 AM PDT

      •  and a gas mask ! and some bleach, strong soap

        and maybe some waders for starters

        by pickandshovel on Tue May 13, 2008 at 07:51:51 AM PDT

        •  Duct Tape

          Gotta have some duct tape.

          by WSComn on Tue May 13, 2008 at 07:58:16 AM PDT

    •  Amend that: with a B.A. in English

      from some school other than Regent University.

      by Geenius at Wrok on Tue May 13, 2008 at 07:58:12 AM PDT

    •  As a former law clerk...

      ... I used to write not only opinions but also letters and correspondence for the judge I worked for.  He knew that he wasn't the best writer and that I was better at it than him, so he had me go over everything that he signed his name to.

      BUT now and then, he insisted that he was going to provide the personal touch and write it himself.  

      When he decided to do that, it was pretty hard to tell him that his material made no sense.

      I'd feel sorry for W's speechwriters... if they weren't all right-wing toadies.

      by gsbadj on Tue May 13, 2008 at 08:07:42 AM PDT

    •  Yeah, but

      the BA came from Liberty U.

      by Phil N DeBlanc on Tue May 13, 2008 at 10:16:12 AM PDT

  •  I'm really starting to wonder

    whether he's drinking again. For years I thought "Nah, couldn't be; someone would say something or stop him or intervene or something." After seven years of fuck-you-we're-not-telling, though, it wouldn't completely surprise me.

    by RickMassimo on Tue May 13, 2008 at 07:43:36 AM PDT

    •  I can't WAIT for the tell-all book

      Published Jan. 21, 2009 :)

      What went on for the last eight years are things that were kept from the American people...but not anymore.

      I am also looking forward to the tell-all book "behind the Hillary Clinton campaign."

      by ekthesy on Tue May 13, 2008 at 07:44:53 AM PDT

      •  Books. The plural is books.

        Enough to fill a library.

        by phonegery on Tue May 13, 2008 at 08:12:53 AM PDT

    •  He's been loaded for years n/t

      by theran on Tue May 13, 2008 at 07:46:43 AM PDT

    •  Laura is also clearly high on pills n/t

      by theran on Tue May 13, 2008 at 07:47:08 AM PDT

      •  Can you blame her?

        What would you be taking if you were married to him LOL

        by MA Voter on Tue May 13, 2008 at 09:31:14 AM PDT

        •  Uh, cyanide? This is a trick question, right? nt

          by SmartAleq on Tue May 13, 2008 at 10:19:29 AM PDT

    •  Apparently, the party store and pharmacy in the

      West Wing are open all night.

      by WSComn on Tue May 13, 2008 at 08:00:02 AM PDT

    •  Wasn't Jenna's wedding Open Bar?

      He may have sneaked away with a bottle or three...

      by frsbdg on Tue May 13, 2008 at 08:03:59 AM PDT

    •  Nobody tells George Bush

      what he can and can't do.

      ... someone would say something or stop him or intervene or something.

      by fritzrth on Tue May 13, 2008 at 08:11:10 AM PDT

    •  Spin the bottle settled that about 3 years ago

      when he was doing the Grand Tour of Europe. Some bloggers started counting glasses and attributing which glasses probably held what and belonged to whom at the table in each photo op. He was left holding his liquor several times, or not........

      by entlord1 on Tue May 13, 2008 at 08:13:03 AM PDT

    •  Remember when he "choaked on a pretzel?"

      He was probably fall down drunk.

      by trinite on Tue May 13, 2008 at 08:55:41 AM PDT

  •  Rec'd for senior skip day.

         Oh, the memories. Oh, the horror.

    by Hillbilly Dem on Tue May 13, 2008 at 08:04:26 AM PDT

•  He "understands"

  I love that this fraud's language is still couched in that Holy Father quasi-religious President as Caring Jesus bullshit that used to infuse his speeches.

  How about this.  I don't give a FLYING F@#K what you "understand" or don't "understand." Mr. President.  Just get the hell out of office.  You are a disgrace to this country.

  by WinSmith on Tue May 13, 2008 at 07:39:19 AM PDT

  •  "I understand"

    means "the next thing I'm about to say is utter bullshit."

    by frsbdg on Tue May 13, 2008 at 08:04:50 AM PDT

    •  Yes. Bush says, "It's one of those things

      you news guys call a new wants."

      by Ma Joad on Tue May 13, 2008 at 09:23:17 AM PDT

    •  Like "to be honest with you"

      which means that everything before or after (or mostly likely both before and after), is not as close to the truth as it should be.

      by Calouste on Tue May 13, 2008 at 10:40:11 AM PDT

•  Man!

  Fucking dead!  Always worrying about a bunch of bullshit.

  by mellowinman on Tue May 13, 2008 at 07:39:31 AM PDT

•  This is really more of a comment than a story. nt

  /dark snark

  by iconoclastic cat on Tue May 13, 2008 at 07:39:54 AM PDT

  •  Let's call it

    an open thread in disguise.

    by illinifan17 on Tue May 13, 2008 at 07:43:18 AM PDT

    •  The rest of the release

      This Mother's Day weekend was awfully special for Laura and me. Our little girl, Jenna, married a really good guy, Henry Hager. The wedding was spectacular. It's just -- it's all we could have hoped for. The weather cooperated nicely; just as the vows were exchanged the sun set over our lake and it was just a special day and a wonderful day and we're mighty blessed.

      Do you suppose, as he looked at the setting sun, he thought about the women and men killed in Iraq and how their parents would never be able to experience a moment like this?  Nah.....

      by fugwb on Tue May 13, 2008 at 09:07:57 AM PDT

•  Why not remember

  all those mothers who won't be getting a card or phone call from their child that got caught up in his merry little war of convenience in Iraq?

  by Patriot4peace on Tue May 13, 2008 at 07:40:10 AM PDT

  •  his war of fucking denial that he was wrong

    so prolong it till it ain't his problem anymore.
    what a sadistic sob.
    however, according to his accomplice in life, 'no one suffers more than we do' ....yeah right....

    by pickandshovel on Tue May 13, 2008 at 07:54:56 AM PDT

  •  I thought that as well

    but he had to go with what is at the front of his mind, not what shouuld always be at the front.  Someone told him about tornadoes so he had to demonstrate caring.

    by conlakappa on Tue May 13, 2008 at 08:28:45 AM PDT

    •  Indeed.

      He had to demonstrate caring by uttering a few words.

      Being a sociopath he doesn't really feel anything.

      by lcbo on Tue May 13, 2008 at 08:39:01 AM PDT

•  Somebody please

  daigram this sentence

  And I understand that for some, however, Mother's Day is a sad day for those who lost their lives in Oklahoma and Missouri and Georgia because of the tornadoes, are wondering whether or not tomorrow will be a bright and hopeful day.

  for me.

  by illinifan17 on Tue May 13, 2008 at 07:40:16 AM PDT

  •  Just think of the pattern made by a swarm

    of gnats.  That's the closest you can come to diagramming Bushspeak.

    by concernedamerican on Tue May 13, 2008 at 07:41:26 AM PDT

    •  How about shotgun pellets

      say 8 shot fired by a .28 gauge? Or would that be Cheney's ghostwriting?

      by entlord1 on Tue May 13, 2008 at 08:16:33 AM PDT

  •  Easy enough ...

    ...duh+duh+duh+duh+duh=duh.

    by Meteor Blades on Tue May 13, 2008 at 07:43:47 AM PDT

  •  Subject verb

    nonsense, dangling participle, syntax error, future tense error, run on,

    I give up.

    Diagramming BushSpeak takes forever.

    by Patriot4peace on Tue May 13, 2008 at 07:44:02 AM PDT

    •  Those (who lost their lives) are wondering...

      Sigh...  So much for having the best Ivy League education that money can buy.

      by bushondrugs on Tue May 13, 2008 at 07:51:48 AM PDT

      •  learning disability probably. n/t

        by heart4idaho on Tue May 13, 2008 at 07:54:39 AM PDT

        •  except his disability is a willful one

          not one caused by genetics or circumstance.

          by entlord1 on Tue May 13, 2008 at 08:25:55 AM PDT

          •  Correct

            As Mark Crispin Miller has documented, Bush doesn't make verbal gaffes when discussing subjects dear to his heart (which, disturbingly, include torture and war). The fractured syntax only comes out when he's saying things he doesn't really believe in but needs to say for political reasons. In this case he's trying to express compassion without actually feeling it.

            by ebohlman on Tue May 13, 2008 at 02:50:49 PM PDT

      •  Correction:

        Best Ivy League diploma money can buy.

        by llamaRCA on Tue May 13, 2008 at 08:03:30 AM PDT

    •  Danglers Blow!

      But, they can be funny, too!

      by CityLightsLover on Tue May 13, 2008 at 09:28:38 AM PDT

  •  Students in my Basic Writing Class

    express themselves better. Give me a few hours, and I may be able to come up with something.

    by CityLightsLover on Tue May 13, 2008 at 07:49:14 AM PDT

    •  Good luck

      I mean that.

      by WSComn on Tue May 13, 2008 at 08:03:25 AM PDT

      •  Puttin' on my Helmet,

        flak jacket, goggles, etc,

        by CityLightsLover on Tue May 13, 2008 at 09:04:24 AM PDT

  •  I'm thinking fractal patterns

    And somewhere, Strunk and White are weeping.

    by TakenByTheWind on Tue May 13, 2008 at 08:01:28 AM PDT

    •  If by "weeping" you mean...

      ...they're doing about 4500 RPM, then I agree!

      Damned moronic Chimp in Chief--how does his head not asplode from all the bad thinks that get beamed at his noxious melon on a minute by minute basis?

      by SmartAleq on Tue May 13, 2008 at 08:29:45 AM PDT

  •  I'm guessing

    an infinite number of monkeys are on strike this week.

    by frsbdg on Tue May 13, 2008 at 08:06:20 AM PDT

    •  ROFL. n/t

      by lcbo on Tue May 13, 2008 at 08:40:44 AM PDT

•  And why even bother mentioning

  Mothers of those he lied to their deaths in Iraq?

  by Dartagnan on Tue May 13, 2008 at 07:40:22 AM PDT

  •  That's really gets to me. He doesn't

    care one whit about the loss of troops' lives and the grief of their families.

    by roses on Tue May 13, 2008 at 07:48:38 AM PDT

    •  None of them do

      Not one of his inner circle, not Cheney, not Rice, no one in his godforsaken family, no one in his Cabinet, none of the cheerleaders and enablers in the media and practically no one in the entire Republican Party establishment.

      by Dartagnan on Tue May 13, 2008 at 08:02:19 AM PDT

      •  Well, of course not...

        The dead folks aren't any of theirs.

        Some of the dead folks were people who wanted to serve their country.  

        None of the 'inner circle', etc. did.

        And some of the dead folks were people who needed a way to get out of poverty/go-nowhere jobs and signed up for the benefits.  

        None of the 'inner circle', etc. needed to.

        by BobTrips on Tue May 13, 2008 at 08:31:22 AM PDT

•  Nothing about the mothers who lost children

  in Bush's massive Iraq massacre of US citizens.  Nope, not a word about those moms from our President on Mother's Day.  Guess they'll just have to remain misunderstood by him, given that he only understands the moms who lost their own lives in tornadoes.

  by concernedamerican on Tue May 13, 2008 at 07:40:25 AM PDT

  •  At least

    the tornadoes weren't his fault. 4000+ dead Americans children and, I don't know, a Million(?) dead Iraqi do not get the opportunity to "wonder whether or not tomorrow will be a bright and hopeful day".

    by Patriot4peace on Tue May 13, 2008 at 08:07:32 AM PDT

  •  Probably What He Meant, but WTF?!

    Even if you give the guy the benefit of the doubt and assume he meant the grief of the people who lost their mothers, how the guy blows it so bad is beyond comprehension.  It's not like these situations are ad-hoc appearances, they're staged and rehearsed in advance!

    I want, no, make that DEMAND, a president who can string a couple coherent sentences together in front of a camera.  The fact that there's a significant percentage (yes, 20-30% is SIGNIFICANT!) of Americans who think this dry drunk ivy league silver spoon fed f*ck-tard is doing a good job is frankly frightening.

    by JohnnySacks on Tue May 13, 2008 at 08:34:06 AM PDT

•  Can't we have a world..

  where the living and the dead can coexist

  by johnbrown on Tue May 13, 2008 at 07:40:50 AM PDT

  •  yeah!!

    and also "...with the fish."

    by seronimous on Tue May 13, 2008 at 07:55:41 AM PDT

    •  Perhaps he's always misunderstood

      the implications of "swimming with the fishes"?

      by lcbo on Tue May 13, 2008 at 08:43:26 AM PDT

•  George W Bush, Like a Rock

  Only Dumber.

  by manwithnoname on Tue May 13, 2008 at 07:41:04 AM PDT

•  That sentence isn't even logical...

  ...it is so un-gramatical that you cannot tell what the President is trying to say.

  No Republican should dare ask for any sort of "English-only" legislation as long as they support a President who cannot speak English himself.

  by ManhattanMan on Tue May 13, 2008 at 07:41:10 AM PDT

  •  Well, that sentence isn't even

    a sentence.

    by illinifan17 on Tue May 13, 2008 at 07:44:18 AM PDT

  •  He must have

    ...written and proof-read the statement himself.  

    by JungleFreak on Tue May 13, 2008 at 08:30:16 AM PDT

•  Even if everything else were to be a bust ...

  ...when President Obama takes over in January, I can scarcely wait to have someone in the Oval Office who can actually speak one complete, intelligible sentence.

  by Meteor Blades on Tue May 13, 2008 at 07:41:39 AM PDT

  •  Hear hear! I've been waiting some looong years

    for that one.

    by concernedamerican on Tue May 13, 2008 at 07:42:33 AM PDT

•  He's a laugh riot, I tell ya

  Can't we keep him around indefinitely?

  by Hudsonview on Tue May 13, 2008 at 07:41:58 AM PDT

  •  As long as we remove his deciderering power,

    I would be okay with telling him he's the president, throwing him in jail, and letting him out of his cell once in a while to give an "address," which would then be broadcast on Comedy Central.

    by paintitblue on Tue May 13, 2008 at 07:48:11 AM PDT

    •  awesome

      Can he still wear the socks with the parsedenteal seal on 'em?

      by Sparky McGruff on Tue May 13, 2008 at 08:42:54 AM PDT

  •  NNNNNNNnnnnnnOOOOOOOOoooo!

    Not even for laughs!

    by CityLightsLover on Tue May 13, 2008 at 07:50:52 AM PDT

  •  You mean, like

    Foster Brooks?  They kept dragging him out for those old "Dean Martin Roasts," and he'd get up to the mike and do his "fake drunk" routine.  Man, that was just HILL-arious!  Maybe when tensions are high at the U.N., and the Security Council is trying to decide what to do about nuclear proliferation, George could come stumbling through the door and give Angela Merkel a neck rub, then try to leave but walk into the coat closet.  Wouldn't that be just GREAT?!?!

    by frsbdg on Tue May 13, 2008 at 08:10:11 AM PDT

    •  Sorry to tell you...

      Those Foster Brooks drunk routines weren't all fake.

      I was in the wings when he was poured onto the stage a couple of times.

      And Bush ain't fakin' stupidity either.

      What did his good friend McCain say about him - "dumb as a stump"?

      by BobTrips on Tue May 13, 2008 at 08:35:00 AM PDT

      •  Jackie Gleason also really had a tipple

        in the cup when he proclaimed "how sweet it is"

        by entlord1 on Tue May 13, 2008 at 09:13:24 AM PDT

•  Just because you're dead

  doesn't mean you can't be hopeful.

  by sunflight on Tue May 13, 2008 at 07:42:28 AM PDT

  •  Or Grateful? n/t

    by Dartagnan on Tue May 13, 2008 at 07:45:50 AM PDT

•  Meh

  On the Bush scale of verbal stumbles, this is pretty minor.  Saying "lives" instead of "loved ones."  This would be front page materials if he said

  And I understand that for some, however, Mother's Day is a sad day for those who lost their gloves in Oklahoma and Missouri and Georgia because of the tornadoes, are wondering whether or not tomorrow will be a bright and hopeful day.

  by Steve G on Tue May 13, 2008 at 07:43:06 AM PDT

•  This man is so stupid

  it makes my heart hurt.

  When I tried to explain years ago to my Republican mother in Texas how stupid he really is, she insisted that since he went to Ivy League schools and was first governor and then president, he's way smarter than me.

  No wonder I have self-esteem issues.

  by Brooke In Seattle on Tue May 13, 2008 at 07:44:07 AM PDT

  •  Sorry to say this, but...

    apparently he is smarter than your mother.

    by God loves goats on Tue May 13, 2008 at 07:50:39 AM PDT

  •  Hey, That's My Mother In Law!

    We must be related by marriage because you just described my mother in law in one easy sentence!

    I once tried to explain to her that Mr. Family Values Newt Gingrich was having an extra-marital affair and divorced one of his wives while she was in the hospital and she told me those were all lies being spread by 'liberals'.  What can you do other than shoot staples into your forehead?

    by JohnnySacks on Tue May 13, 2008 at 08:41:46 AM PDT

    •  Shoot staples in THEIR foreheads--

      After all, it won't affect them in the slightest, and why should YOU bear the added pain of injury atop the insult of having given headspace to the rampant asininity?

      by SmartAleq on Tue May 13, 2008 at 08:45:21 AM PDT

•  Wow. This could be one for the ages.

  Just for its confusing nature and that it doesn't quite flow right.

  by ScottyUrb on Tue May 13, 2008 at 07:44:14 AM PDT

•  Bush: Dumbass-in-Chief. n/t

  by paintitblue on Tue May 13, 2008 at 07:44:30 AM PDT

•  It will be so nice to actually have a president

  that can speak properly.

  by stillwaters on Tue May 13, 2008 at 07:44:50 AM PDT

•  From a man who's messed up lives of a lot of Moms

  He's messed up the lives of millions of Mom's all over the world and quite a few children. What gall.

  by Timmethy on Tue May 13, 2008 at 07:44:55 AM PDT

•  Happy Mother's Day

  From the man who, along with his brother Jeb, refers to his mother as "The Nutcracker."

  by kaleidescope on Tue May 13, 2008 at 07:44:57 AM PDT

•  Diconnect and Apathy Always Echo in Bush's Words:

  Bush does not give a frick about real folks because he, clinically speaking, has no conscience.

  Bush is simply pathetic.

  by CW Wisconsin on Tue May 13, 2008 at 07:45:44 AM PDT

  •  It is the difference between the emperor has no

    clothes and the clothes have no emperor. GWB personifies the "empty suit" of the corporate world.

    by entlord1 on Tue May 13, 2008 at 08:23:48 AM PDT

•  Hey, GOD!

  If you really are out there, could I order up a huge ass tornado for, say, Crawford Texas? Please?

  by chanbo on Tue May 13, 2008 at 07:45:53 AM PDT

  •  Don't bother

    As of 01/20/09 he'll never go back to his pig farm again.

    by milkbone on Tue May 13, 2008 at 08:03:26 AM PDT

    •  He'll be hiding in Paraguay...

      ...from those mean nasty people who want to take him to the Hague.

      by CA Libertarian on Tue May 13, 2008 at 08:25:34 AM PDT

      •  "A consummation devoutly to be wished!" n/t

        by SmartAleq on Tue May 13, 2008 at 08:43:15 AM PDT

•  speaking of words:

  I believe Bush will be remembered as the man who would not settle to be a good president nor would he have to work to be a great president. No, Bush will be remembered as the man who not only didn't have to work at being a fair president but awoke everyday to work at being the 43rd best president the country has had. But not willing to let his legacy lie at simply the 43rd best, he pre-emptively strives to increase that number with each passing administration.

  that's my response to this

  by beneldon on Tue May 13, 2008 at 07:45:59 AM PDT

•  More Words of "Wisdom" from GWB

  His heart may have been in the right place, but good grief...

  by CityLightsLover on Tue May 13, 2008 at 07:46:05 AM PDT

  •  educator in chief is kinda uneducated n/t

    by heart4idaho on Tue May 13, 2008 at 07:56:03 AM PDT

    •  He Was a Child

      left behind.

      by CityLightsLover on Tue May 13, 2008 at 08:03:03 AM PDT

      •  Don't forget Barbara Bush

        as first lady chose literacy as her project!  You have to wonder if she ever read to him...perhaps that is why he was so engrossed with the reading of "My Pet Goat", it was the first time a story had been read aloud to him!

        by evdebs on Tue May 13, 2008 at 08:26:16 AM PDT

        •  I Don't Remember That

          about the Sr. Mrs. Bush. All I remember about her now are her comments about all the people in the Super Dome in Katrina's aftermath. *&^%$#@!

          by CityLightsLover on Tue May 13, 2008 at 09:02:36 AM PDT

  •  Heart?

    I'm pretty sure the ass in the White House has no heart.

    by Tom Paul on Tue May 13, 2008 at 10:11:17 AM PDT

•  what in the world is he saying again? Sigh---

  more nonsense.  Shouldn't he just shut up now for the duration?----we've had more than our fair share of this kind of punishment.  Our ears hurt---and our hearts---hurry up Obama!

  by dotster on Tue May 13, 2008 at 07:46:41 AM PDT

•  Was there ever a MORE embarassing President?

  I mean, you have to f-ing work at it to be that unconscious.  I can't believe ANYONE ever voted for him.  

  Amazing.

  Melissa
  OH YES WE CAN!

  by mwjeepster on Tue May 13, 2008 at 07:48:04 AM PDT

  •  Not in my lifetime

    and the first election I remember is Nixon.

    by llamaRCA on Tue May 13, 2008 at 07:56:49 AM PDT

•  how many damn days left

  till this juvenile delinquent is out of our house?
  and liable for all criminal conduct commited under his 'umbrella'????

  by pickandshovel on Tue May 13, 2008 at 07:48:05 AM PDT

•  The White House is so demoralized

  they don't even proofread the crap they generate.

  by Red Bean on Tue May 13, 2008 at 07:48:23 AM PDT

  •  Nah

    It's proofread. It's just that he's a low-grade dyslexic. Or a high-grade moron.

    by Hudsonview on Tue May 13, 2008 at 07:53:18 AM PDT