- You know it, I know it and the American people know it.
But everyone is afraid to say it. They say it privately, but people are
afraid of saying it publicly because you will be branded as a liberal,
elite, intellectual snob. But believe me, you don't have to be an intellectual
to see how painfully stupid our president is.
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- Just look at the conversation he is having with world
leaders at the G-8 summit. Mikes picked up the causal talk between the
world leaders. Forget that Bush appears to have three sandwiches in his
mouth while talking. Forget that he calls out to the Prime Minister of
Britain as if he is Flounder in "Animal House." Forget that he
uses profanity. I don't give a shit about those things.
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- I thought it was ridiculous that people made fun of George
H. W, Bush for vomiting on the Japanese Prime Minister. What was he going
to do? He had to puke, so he puked. It happens to the best of us, and more
importantly, has nothing to do with his intelligence or how capable he
is as a leader.
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- But his son's verbal vomit does have a lot to do with
his ability to lead this country and the world. What I found to be the
most damning is the least quoted part of Bush's comments. As you read this
transcript, remember that this is not a small child talking, but the President
of the United States of America:
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- The camera is focused elsewhere and it is not clear whom
Bush is talking to, but possibly Chinese President Hu Jintao, a guest at
the summit.
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- "Bush: Gotta go home. Got something to do tonight.
Go to the airport, get on the airplane and go home. How about you? Where
are you going? Home?"
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- "Bush: This is your neighborhood. It doesn't take
you long to get home. How long does it take you to get home?"
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- Reply is inaudible.
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- "Bush: Eight hours? Me too. Russia's a big country
and you're a big country."
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- At this point, the president seems to bring someone else
into the conversation.
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- "Bush: It takes him eight hours to fly home."
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- He turns his attention to a server.
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- "Bush: No, Diet Coke, Diet Coke."
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- He turns back to whomever he was talking with.
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- "Bush: It takes him eight hours to fly home. Eight
hours. Russia's big and so is China."
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- Russia's big and so is China??????? This guys sounds
like a third grader. Do you know anyone who would have a conversation like
this with their neighbor, let alone a business associate, let alone a world
leader? Who's proud to know that Russia is big and so is China?
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- Can anyone now credibly claim that Bush is secretly working
on a master plan behind the scenes and that he's just playing cowboy for
the cameras? I hope the master plan doesn't involve figuring out how long
it takes to get to China.
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- If someone is this ignorant, they're usually embarrassed
and try not to talk much. But this guy is so dumb he has no idea how dumb
he is. This sounds like a conversation you might have with a child, a mentally
challenged child. Johnny, do you know how big Russia is? How about China?
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- This would all be unfortunate if George was your dentist,
or worse yet, your accountant. But he is the leader of the free world.
This man makes life or death decisions every day. If you say you're not
scared about that, you're lying.
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- Would you let him do the books for your business? Would
you trust your company in his hands for eight years? (No matter how Republican
you are, you know you just said no to that question.) Would you trust him
to be your kids' guidance counselor and take his advice seriously? If your
kids were in the Army and he was their field commander, would you feel
good about putting their lives in his hands?
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- Come on, no one is crazy enough to say yes to that. Yet,
he has all of our lives in his hands. The emperor has no clothes. The emperor
has no clothes. It's about time someone in the mainstream media said it.
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- In the old empires, there would be a lot of marriages
between the royal families. And from time to time, these inter-family marriages
would produce a mentally challenged son who would inherit the throne. This
would set the empire back for hundreds of years. I'm not saying anything,
I'm just saying. Russia is big and so is China.
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- The Democrats for a long time have felt embarrassed about
pointing out the obvious. The emperor has no brain. This is what I can't
understand about the Democrats, they're always playing patty cakes while
the Republicans are ripping their face off. John Kerry should have stood
at the lectern during the debates and pointed to George Bush and said,
"The leader of this country has to be the best and the brightest.
If any of you think that he is the best and the brightest America has to
offer, go ahead and vote for him!"
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- The theory is that people would be turned off by that.
The theory assumes that people are also idiots and they love their cohorts.
That is simply not true. Everyone understands that they have a friend they'd
like to go fishing with and a friend they can trust to look after their
affairs - and they're not necessarily the same guy. And that your fishing
buddy might not be a great choice for President of the United States of
America.
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- Kerry should have embarrassed Bush, made people feel
sorry for him. It would have hurt in the short run and given him a temporary
downward blip in the numbers, but in the end, when people went into that
voting booth, they would have felt pity for Bush - in that scenario, Kerry
wins easily. Nobody votes for someone they pity.
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- Unfortunately, right now we are in the position of being
pitied by the rest of the world. We have third grader for a President.
And worse yet, the Vice President has him convinced he is the second coming
of Winston Churchill. Scared yet?
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- The Young Turks
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