Bush speech to offer vision of world leadership

[EuroObserver]

Financial Times. By Andrew Balls in Washington
Published: January 29 2006 18:16 | Last updated: January 29 2006 18:16 (GMT)

President George W. Bush is expected on Tuesday to try and retake the initiative in the Washington political debate, in a speech that is expected to be long on optimism and short on detailed policy proposals.
...
White House aides have characterised the speech as one that will lay out his approach and views on the importance of US world leadership and be visionary and thematic rather than deal with policy specifics.

In an interview with CBS television on Sunday, Mr Bush said the low level of public support for his policies in Iraq showed that the public had been distracted from achievements made in the country by images of violence on the news. He said he intended to play the role of “educator in chief” as well as “commander in chief”.
...
He is also expected to make optimistic comments on the US economy – unbowed by a report on Friday that suggested it slowed sharply at the end of last year – and to endorse policies aimed at improving the competitiveness of US industries.

/more at link: suggest start honing rebuttals... what does real leadership take in an increasingly multipolar world... without forgetting the crony economy, stupid... ah yes, and worry I guess about whether that "educator in chief" phrase really sounds as potentially sinister (or just absurd) as some would think...

[napi21]

1. Whose???? n/t

[Demeter]

59. They're Calling It "The Apocalypse"

Catchy title, don't you think?

[twaddler01]

81. I couldn't agree with you more

:D

[Erika]

2. Nazi reeducation camps

for those of us in the world who disagree with his empirical madness?

[and-justice-for-all]

32. Bush = nazi schwein

Ok, When does the IMPEACHMENT process begin? and what the fucking hold up?

[mrbassman03]

96. Will we see a new position in the administration?

The idea of having a "minister of educating the world to fit U.S. policy" is more than a little frightening.

[tanyev]

3. Educator in chief

:rofl:

[XanaDUer]

6. I'm with you

"Educator"? :eyes:

[tanyev]

Edumacator in chief, maybe.

[rodeodance]

37. we can have a good laugh over the educ. in chief stuff but Jr takes it

seriously--lots of campaign style campaign ahead.

[eppur_se_muova]

43. Is that anything like the "Great Teacher"? Mao Tse Dubya?

"Let a thousand Turd Blossoms bloom".

[Tight_rope]

66. That coming from a man who can't speak English, his first and only

languague.

[mrbassman03]

95. I dunno... I've seen the videos of him speaking Spanish...

I had no idea that Spanish wasn't his first language.
:sarcasm:

[eppur_se_muova]

98. Yeah, he's bi-ignorant. nt

[wordpix]

82. yeah, that is LOL ROFLMAO funny

[Skittles]

87. IS YOU LEARNING YET, TANYEV ???

:7

[jimshoes]

4. No thanks .

Had three Reich's already. Don't need the fourth.

[Burried News]

5. Ein Reich, Ein Volk Ein Unitary Executive.

[IndianaGreen]

17. Alito supports an all-powerful Presidency, an American monarch

Our Kommandant in Chief is at the helm, doing the job that Congress and the Courts used to do before. We are so lucky to have the Almighty annoint Bush are our Messiah and King.

:puke:

[hatrack]

7. A "vision"? Isn't that what the Lakota sought through deprivation?

Isn't that what South American tribes seek through the religious use of psychotropic drugs?

Isn't that what the mentally ill and criminally insane see continually?

Why would I want that from someone acting as president?

[LynnTheDem]

8. I'll just join the rest of the entire sentient world and say

ROTFLMAO!

[truthisfreedom]

9. they're just floating this crap to see what the blog reaction will be...

they're testing it to see if there's gaping holes in their 'catapulted propaganda.'

[OKNancy]

10. Hummmmmmmm can you say:

PNAC

http://www.newamericancentury.org/statementofprinciples.htm


As the 20th century draws to a close, the United States stands as the world's preeminent power. Having led the West to victory in the Cold War, America faces an opportunity and a challenge: Does the United States have the vision to build upon the achievements of past decades? Does the United States have the resolve to shape a new century favorable to American principles and interests?


We are in danger of squandering the opportunity and failing the challenge. We are living off the capital -- both the military investments and the foreign policy achievements -- built up by past administrations. Cuts in foreign affairs and defense spending, inattention to the tools of statecraft, and inconstant leadership are making it increasingly difficult to sustain American influence around the world. And the promise of short-term commercial benefits threatens to override strategic considerations. As a consequence, we are jeopardizing the nation's ability to meet present threats and to deal with potentially greater challenges that lie ahead.

We seem to have forgotten the essential elements of the Reagan Administration's success: a military that is strong and ready to meet both present and future challenges; a foreign policy that boldly and purposefully promotes American principles abroad; and national leadership that accepts the United States' global responsibilities.


Of course, the United States must be prudent in how it exercises its power. But we cannot safely avoid the responsibilities of global leadership or the costs that are associated with its exercise. America has a vital role in maintaining peace and security in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. If we shirk our responsibilities, we invite challenges to our fundamental interests. The history of the 20th century should have taught us that it is important to shape circumstances before crises emerge, and to meet threats before they become dire. The history of this century should have taught us to embrace the cause of American leadership.

[fooj]

12. One wonders when the PNAC will ever get the recognition

it deserves.:grr:

peace.

[sweetheart]

11. bush is selling leadership

is he kidding is has he slipped,
are we to laugh or we to cry
our dear leader now begs to try
leadership again, oh what bumbling
foolish silly men, in their world of yesterday
stalin, nixon reagan then, no more leaders ever again
we are the people after all,
ignoring lectures of our fall,
leaders die after all, but true leaders do not fall,
unless they be incompetent, impeach we must in this big tent.

[punpirate]

13. Bush's vision of world leadership is that...

... he's the leader of the free world. I recall all the shit that Carol Coleman of Irish television, RTE, got from Bush's staff for challenging him in an interview. She said in an article afterwards that she was quite surprised that they actually referred to him as "the leader of the free world." Paraphrasing her, she thought that it was just an editorial embellishment used in the United States, not a literal title his staff (and by extension, he) used.

I recall someone telling me about a visit from some French relatives, where one happened to turn on Fox News and heard Bush being described as "the leader of the free world," whereupon the French citizen said, rather derisively, "no, he's not."

Quite predictably, Bush is starting the spin to create his legacy, and it's going to peak a little too early. Not much more than a year after Nixon started his legacy-building with a trip to China, he was out on his ass after resigning in disgrace. If anything, George W. Bush's ego is monstrously larger than Nixon's outsized gourd, and hubris will give him a very strong kick in the nuts. Character is fate. George W. Bush isn't a true leader--he's a poseur pretending to act like one--and that characteristic will define him more than any other in the history books.

[AnneD]

69. the more insecure the man...

the more grandious the title and bigger the ego compensation. Which leads to my second thought. GOP does to the country (and phoney reporters)what they should be doing to their wives.

[fushuugi]

93. don't forget his delusions of adequacy (n/t)

[IndianaGreen]

14. Everyone hates the USA

that's Bush's greatest accomplishment as Maximum Leader.

[Ben Ceremos]

49. Sorry Indiana,

but do you have to pervert "El Lider Maximo's" title by using it to describe Dictator 43?

Viva Fidel!

[ismnotwasm]

15. It's even going to worse than I thought

And I knew it was going to be bad.

[Redstone]

16. Good God, how delusional has he gotten? I swear, he's turning into

Nixon right before our eyes.

Though right now, I'd sure as hell rather have Nixon back.

Redstone

[Burried News]

18. Nixon's starting to look like a short Abe Lincoln to me.

[Redstone]

31. And you're not theonly one. He may have been a crazy, evil

motherfucker, but he was our crazy, evil motherfucker at least.

And, at the last, he summoned probably his last, miniscule shred of human dignity and got the fuck out when it was cleaar he wasn't wanted anymore.

Redstone

[RDANGELO]

19. Prediction.... he will talk about spreading democracy.

They will use this as a cover for the US maintaining its economic dominance in the world through force. This is what the big gamble in the Middle East is all about.

[Pachamama]

45. Yeah, that "spread" just is going so well - particularly this weeks spread

in Palestine.... :eyes:

[ninkasi]

20. Sheer lunacy...

chiefn't be giving a State of the Union address, he will be indulging in wishful thinking. He is a sociopath who truly seems to believe that he has been "chosen" to lead the world. This is coming from a man who has badly screwed up everything he's ever touched. The world is going to recoil in horror at the thought of this madman imposing his "visions" of leadership on everyone.

What has Bush brought this country but war, debt, the inability to protect or restore the Gulf Coast and New Orleans from a catastrophic natural disaster which we knew was on the way, more people falling into poverty, fewer people having health insurance, jobs being outsourced, liberties being stripped away...and he actually thinks he can impose this on the rest of the world?

He still doesn't realize how badly he has fucked up. "In an interview with CBS television on Sunday, Mr Bush said the low level of public support for his policies in Iraq showed that the public had been distracted from achievements made in the country by images of violence on the news. He said he intended to play the role of “educator in chief” as well as “commander in chief." In other words, forget the fact that civil war has started in Iraq, forget the fact that the people are worse off now than under Saddam's reign, forget the fact that Iraq will be an Islamic theocracy, or that women are being stripped of rights under Islamic rule, and forget the DU that poisons the land and people, forget the disease, the lack of electricity, or sewer facilities...just let the educator-in-chief lecture to you like you were a slightly retarded 3 year old about HIS vision, and what HE wants, because nothing else matters.

The low level of public support is due to the monumental incompetence of the whole Iraq war fiasco. People are beginning to wake up. People also know, if they are average people, that they areworsee off than they were under Clinton's presidency, and no amount of this twit's "educating" us is going to change that.

[Demeter]

60. You Forgot Death

Bush has given a lot of people death--and it's been intentional, and universal, not even sparing the US population from his scythe.

[muriel_volestrangler]

21. He's delusional. We're all fucked. (n/t)

[TheCentepedeShoes]

22. "Educator in Chief?"

Does that mean he'll hold is copy of "The Pet Goat" right-side up this time?

[bvar22]

23. Oh, its going to be like that spooky speech in New Orleans...

*Grand Illusions

*Empty Promises

*Outright Lies

[EuroObserver]

24. Reuters Alertnet has a bit more here:

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N27232186.htm

...
The White House called the speech "thematic in nature."

"The president will have some new policies that he will talk about that will reflect the priorities that the American people care most about, but this is more of a visionary and directional speech than it is a laundry list of proposals," said White House spokesman Scott McClellan.

Aides described the speech as optimistic in tone, saying he will argue as he has in many recent speeches that progress is being made in Iraq, and that the fundamentals of the U.S. economy are sound despite an anemic growth rate of 1.1 percent annual rate in the fourth quarter of 2005.

Bush is also expected to touch on Iran amid U.S. attempts to rein in Tehran's nuclear program. He is likely to argue anew that a U.S. surveillance program aimed at possible al Qaeda links to and from the United States is legal despite Democratic charges it amounts to unlawful domestic spying.

Domestically, Bush is expected to focus on a package of initiatives to rein in the soaring cost of U.S. health care by expanding the use of tax-preferred savings accounts and giving tax breaks to Americans without employer-provided health insurance so they can purchase health plans on their own.
.../more...

AP has a piece out that's not even worth quoting.

See also Google News: http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=state+of+union&btnG=Search+News

Yeah, so far this looks mostly like Scott McClellan trailing...

[screembloodymurder]

103. Vision is what you have left when your ideas have failed.

Vision is the last refuge of an utter failure.

[Malva Zebrina]

25. He loves to think of himself as a world leader

right up there with Lincoln, Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt. He is quite insane in his delusions.

Other world leaders laugh at him behind his back. His SOS wife, Rice is reduced to trivial activities and photo ops that mean not a dam thing in world politics and she is probably not capable of doing anything else but that.

He is insane in these beliefs. He has killed, tortured, murdered, bombed, destroyed and arrogantly gone above our own laws by spying on American citizens, in his delusion that he is a world leader--indeed, he is a self appointed "war president" as he smirks and struts, when we are not fighting any war at all.

What more evidence does one need to accuse the bastard of delusions of grandeur that is eroding our country at his insane will?

[EuroObserver]

27. War President? You remind me of this

Washington Post blog by William M. Arkin
Posted at 09:30 AM ET, 01/26/2006
It's the second post down, but I'll be reading the first one right now :-(
Goodbye War on Terrorism, Hello Long War

One phrase contained in the draft Quadrennial Defense Review document circulating amongst defense experts is sure to be a part of your life for years to come: The long war.

Defense experts want the long war to be the new name for the war on terror, a kind of societal short hand that will stand shoulder to shoulder with the Cold War, promoted to capital letters, an indisputable and universally accepted state of the world.

"This generation of servicemembers will be in what we're calling the Long War," Army Lt. Gen. Ray Odierno, assistant to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said earlier this week.

"Our estimate is that for at least the next 20 years … our focus will be … the extremist networks that will continue to threaten the United States and its allies."

/much more...

ed. Thanks for the recommendations. Anyone offer a couple more to give more attention to this?

[Geo55]

26. Looking forward to the SOTU like going to the dentist.

"visionary and thematic rather than deal with policy specifics"
What else could you expect ?

He said he intended to play the role of “educator in chief”
Ahhh....this is beyond laughable..."IS OUR CHILDREN LEARNING"?

[BiggJawn]

73. Actually I like going to the dentist MORE.

They numb me up and give me drugs for later at the dentist. The WASFU speech has to be endured straight....

[hippiechick]

28. Seig Heil ! Not.

:mad: Crazy Ass Motherfucker.

[wildwww2]

29. Bu$h`s achievements made in a country my tax dollars have helped to

murder innocent people who did nothing to me or my fellow Americans? What kind of human being would call the shit Bu$h has done an achievement? I, as a person have a lot of flaws. But wanting to kill people who have done nothing wrong to me or my family just seems really sick. And not human. Do Bu$h and his psychophant followers believe they are dieties or something?
And they can lay to waste anyone or anything they want in the name of God?
Peace
Wildman
Al Gore is My President

[DELUSIONAL]

30. Delusions of Grandeur -- Megalomania -- Narcissistic syndrome

take your pick.

He is crazy -- nuts -- should be in a nut house.

He had admitted that he is hearing voices. . . . .

When is this long nightmare going to be over??

[tabasco]

33. Here's a pic of Oil-Boy and his master.

Servant of the Saudis expects rest of world to consider him a leader!



Here's pics of Great Leader Bush in action in time of crisis. I can see why the rest of the world would want to emulate Bush's great leadership and follow him wherever he wants to go!

[rodeodance]

34. the role of “educator in chief” ---oh my gawd!!!!

[rodeodance]

35. we need to tell him he needs to pass the NCLB tests before he gets to

to be Mr. Educator in chief.

[rodeodance]

36. k and recommend

[HuffleClaw]

38. “educator in chief" ?

bawhwhhhahahhahaaaaaaaaa

"White House aides have characterised the speech as one that will lay out his approach and views on the importance of US world leadership and be visionary and thematic rather than deal with policy specifics."

'saddam gone... democracy on the march... iran bad... dissent is terror...'

[savemefromdumbya]

39. oh so we were distracted by photos of violence were we?

The more I read this stuff about 'him' the more I'm about to explode!

:puke:

[EuroObserver]

62. Hence the "bomb al-Jazeera" tantrum, I guess n/t.

[savemefromdumbya]

63. He's like a small child

[Hissyspit]

40. Optimism?? I'm optimistic that someday...

I'll be able to dance on the grave of the "visions" of the Bush administration.

[The Backlash Cometh]

41. I hear the working title of his speech is, "Why I should be King."

And you should shut-up about it.

[mrbassman03]

97. hahaha, if only...

If this is truly the focus of the speech (in so many words), I am waiting to see what the backlash is like from the MSM, if any.

[ClayZ]

42. We are (not) all ears!

[WinkyDink]

86. They look a wee too friendly in that pic.

[eppur_se_muova]

99. Is the kid on the far right von Spakovski ? nt

[eppur_se_muova]

44. HAHAHAHAHA! Oh wait...they're serious...WTF?

This had the potential to be SUCH a good satire.

"I laughed 'til I cried, and then I kept crying."

[EuroObserver]

46. ...Spending cuts (health care) more analysis here:

(San Francisco Chronicle) State Of The Union's Health

Washington -- President Bush has promised to talk about big things in his State of the Union address Tuesday, but talk may be all he can deliver in an election year when Republicans fear losing their 12-year grip on Congress and Democrats smell blood.

Five years of rapidly rising federal spending on everything from the Iraq war and Hurricane Katrina to big entitlement programs such as Medicare and Medicaid are driving Bush into an ever-shrinking corner of unpleasant choices.

"He's trapped himself," said Leon Panetta, head of the Panetta Institute in Monterey and former chief of staff to President Bill Clinton, a Democrat.

...

This year the president plans to tinker around the edges of health care -- widely acknowledged as the pre-eminent domestic challenge facing the nation -- by expanding tax breaks for health savings accounts, computerizing medical records and allowing national pooling of health insurance.

...

Previewing his speech last week, Bush said he would "remind folks we've got a responsibility to lead. ... I recognize it's an election year, but I believe that we can work together to achieve results."

...

Bush is expected to focus again in his speech on what Republicans still consider their strength, national security -- this despite public disenchantment with the war in Iraq that has driven Bush's popularity to Nixonian levels and put the administration under intense pressure to reduce troop levels before the midterm elections in November.

"I'm going to remind people we're living in historic times and that we have a chance to make decisions today that will help shape the direction of events for years to come," Bush said last week. "We're going to continue to lead the cause of freedom in the world." ...

[radfringe]

47. things always look rosey

when you're in a bubble - don't see the trouble....

[LibertyorDeath]

48. “educator in chief” You were a C student you delusional fuck

and that's after buying your way into school.

Go back to Cheer leading you were so good at that.

[obreaslan]

50. Ironically, "educator in chief"....

had to be spelled out on the tele-promter as "Eh-joo-kator in Cheef" just so he didn't flub the phrase. :D

[Sugar Smack]

51. "Thematic", huh? Like the PROM?

What an ass. Bush couldn't run a laundromat.

[alcibiades_mystery]

55. LOL: Bush is calling his SOTU "Under the Sea"

(Unfortunately, it is a sea of debt).

[Niccolo_Macchiavelli]

52. it makes me nervous

that the big red button is at the reach of his fingertips...

[Javaman]

53. Great, so now he's seeing visions...

but that's pretty much morons* mentality, he offers visions and imagery rather than the real thing: an actual leader.

[alcibiades_mystery]

54. In other words, the Bush Presidency stripped down to essentials

Bush has never had a coherent policy focus. Bush has never, in effect, argued for any policy at all, if argument, as traditionall conceived, requires, at the very least, "good reasons." Bush has never offered good reasons. His rhetoric is without sustainable warrants. Rather, Bush circulates affects. He attempts to lend an emotional tone to the brigandage and piracy that his administration supports and practices. In the past, such an affective rhetoric has been loosely tied to specific policy initiatives. This is why he's always sounded mildly delirious, even absurd. It didn't matter that the manned mission to Mars literally made no sense (a fact of argument that Dave Chappelle brilliantly parodied in his now famous "Black Bush" skit: Mars, Bitches!). The supposed policy initiative was not meant to convince you that going to Mars would be possible or even desirable. Rather, it was meant to circulate an affect that is associated with progress, set a telos, get you involved in a larger project, fill you with wonder, etc. Similarly, the bizarre business about steroids in sports (and particularly baseball) had little to do with real policy. It was designed really to comfort those who were unclear on the more widespread political and economic "ideas."

But now, by their own admission, they have even lost the capacity to connect these affects to policy. "Short on detailed policy proposals" is no new thing with Bush. It is endemic and constitutes a modus operandi of his whole rhetorical gambit. What's striking here is that they feel they must announce that in advance: this tells you that the shift towards an affective rhetoric is utterly complete. It is the Bush Presidency stripped to its bare essentials. It has never been concerned with policy discussion, or arguments related to policy, complete with good reasons and persuasion; it is an autocratic operation from start to finish, and in an autocratic regime, one need not discuss policy with those who are led. Rather, one must cultivate affects that favor the policies that will be implemented regardless.

[Jackpine Radical]

56. By Jove, I think you've Got It!!

The whole thing is about manipulating emotion. If you stray too far from camp, you become overcome with fear. If you stay in camp, watch the hypnotic little flickering light and play by the rules, you feel safe. They gather you around & tell stories that inspire you, scare you, and feed your deepest fantasies. The stories neither are, nor have to be, true.

[Jackpine Radical]

57. By Jove, I think you've Got It!!

The whole thing is about manipulating emotion. If you stray too far from camp, you become overcome with fear. If you stay in camp, watch the hypnotic little flickering light and play by the rules, you feel safe. They gather you around & tell stories that inspire you, scare you, and feed your deepest fantasies. The stories neither are, nor have to be, true.

[Marie26]

61. True

But since most people voted for him based on the affects they created, who's to say it won't keep working?

[alcibiades_mystery]

64. Not me

In fact, it is the only thing that has ever worked. Bush just shifts the balance from the argument to the affect more than most. Perhps Democrats should quit trying to oppose an affect with an argument, and start circulating competing affects. I think one of the key reasons why the Democrats are sometimes viewed as cold and ineffectual is because they continue to try to oppose arguments to affect. This has never worked in the history of human contact.

[Marie26]

71. Right

People don't really want technical arguments, they want an emotional appeal to their values. Rove has been very good at creating these kinds of "affects," but the Democrats haven't. But I think in a way they're just too honest - Kerry used to give highly reasoned position statements in opposition to Bush's attacks as if it really mattered. You seem to be advocating that Dem. become as good at propaganda & innuendo as the Republicans. Maybe that's what they need to win, but it seems like a shame to stoop to their level. I wonder if there's a non-shady way to use these "affects" w/o doing the Bush disconnection from reality thing.

[alcibiades_mystery]

75. I don't call it stooping

I think it is the only way that arguments actually work, and that it is no worse than any other way.

[symbolman]

58. I've always called this the "Post It Note" administration

they have absolutely NO plans, no concrete leadership, all done on the fly according to polls and what they can steal while others are bullshitted or helpless..

Even their economic reports when they come out are nothing more than COMIC BOOKS, they added PICTURES of FLAGS and crap like that to FILL the pages that contain no real CONTENT or plans.. sort of like trying to fill up the pages of a term paper to try to fool the Prof because you really don't know a damn thing about the subject.

He was never chosen to LEAD or RUN the govt, nor were his cronies, it's all about handouts, Peter Principle, and the Never Ending run for office, even when you are no longer going to be elected..

Rove may be considered a genius, but only because he figured out that the TV 7 second attention span, those of the last few generations WON'T ask real questions and the rule now in our society is style over substance..

It's frightening, the US being reduced to grade school bullies, brown shirt followers and meaningless information for the mindless masses.

Works perfectly, until someone needs to HELP our countrymen, but that's probably never going to happen now - we've become a nation of pathetic losers thanks to these phony thieves..

Post It Notes, not even a condensed Reader's Digest intellect.

[Rex]

65. US world leadership

US global dominance by military force is more like it.

[AnneD]

67. The jokes...

just write themselves. :rofl:

[Canuckistanian]

68. His whole career has been "short on details"

This shouldn't be any different.

There is some good news. The rose-colored glasses industry is picking up.

[BiggJawn]

70. Long on Bee-Ess, short on substance.

Andrew's aptly named if he thinks anyone will actually believe that screed who already isn't a member of the "choir"....

[txaslftist]

72. It'll be the same crap he's been spewing...

warmed up and recycled.

Nobody's going to listen past the first five minutes, because he's said it all before.

[Marie26]

74. I will

if only to see what country we're attacking next.

[spindrifter]

76. If the stakes weren't so serious

I'd be laughing out loud. Whoever wrote the SOTU must have fallen into a well of cowsh*t that permeated their brains.

[MellowOne]

77. Swing Heil! n/t

[boobooday]

78. You have to laugh

Keep laughing. Laugh right in their fearmongering, fascist faces. This is the best weapon against the bully.

:rofl:

[Deja Q]

79. No details? What else is new? Besides, who wants details?

Details are annoyances anyway.

Besides, "world leadership"? Not with his financial record; how is 4 or 5 years' worth of big deficits a sign of leading? Unless there were signs the debt WAS being paid back; the budget actually balanced? Then I'd be more inclined to believe it.

Until then, it's all hogwash - the same talk ANY politician would be bound to say and that goes for any politician on either side.

[The_Casual_Observer]

80. Leadership = giving a speech and not losing your place

leadership my ass.

[xxqqqzme]

83. do the neo-cons

have an idea of who might assunme that leadership role? there is certainly no one currently on the world stage that is fit 2 assume such a position. will raisen-brain-chuckle nuts suggest who it might be?

"...be visionary and thematic rather than deal with policy specifics...."

They have no policies other than eliminating anyone who gets in their way. chuckle-nuts wouldn't know policy if it bit him on the chuckle-nuts

[President Kerry]

84. oh boy..

..Mr Bush said the low level of public support for his policies in Iraq showed that the public had been distracted from achievements made in the country by images of violence on the news. He said he intended to play the role of “educator in chief” as well as “commander in chief”...

This is all some kind of a twilight zone. Mr. Bush, you have to be recognized as a leader to call yourself one. The free world, the vast majority of it, disrespects you (mildly put).

You never have been my President, you never will be, and nobody who has ever showed any support for you will ever get my vote or respect.

[Amonester]

85. Thank you, Mr. President.

Actually, Mr. Bushitler only leads the torturers, the robber-barons, the polluters, and the taxpayers' money looters.

Did I forget anyone?

Now back to my "distractions" (reality).

[opihimoimoi]

88. Bush has had 5 losing Seasons in a row...clearly, he is no Leader and

visionary....He is a Wannabe...a Fraud, A Peter, a Crony, a window dressing for the Pub Party.

[leesa]

89. Funny. That's a good one. I guess it will be a shot for every time

the First Fool uses the word 'visionary'

[wordpix]

90. I wonder what the Great Educamator will say about Big Oil profits while

we're turning our thermostats down to 50 F and paying $30 per fill (for my Honda Civic)

[samplegirl]

91. More like brief us in on how

dictatorship is progressing.

[Puglover]

92. "Educator in Chief"

How bout War Mongering CHEERLEADER in Chief you facist piece of puke.

[Rocknrule]

94. "Do what I say or I'll kill you"

[MetsMatt]

100. If he were honest, this is what the SOTU would sound like

My fellow Americans, I am evil.

I only care about rich people, and rich people only care about other rich people -- unless, of course, your name is Kennedy. In fact, it is misleading to say that I only care about the rich. I truly only care about Republican, white, Christian males who are rich.

I would say that I am truly the president of Halliburton, except I'm having the darndest time spelling the word "Halliburton." I'm corrupt, incompetent and racist. Oh, sure, in order to help deal with the problem of illegal aliens, I have offered a guest worker program, but "guest worker program" spelled backwards means "shoot to kill." Or at least I think it does.

The black Democratic congressman from New York, Charlie Rangel, nailed it when he called me "our Bull Connor." Donna Brazile, the black lady who ran the presidential campaign for Al Gore, also got it right. I am the titular head of the Republican Party, the party of the "white boys."

I stole the election in 2000. I conspired with the governor of Florida to steal votes. The governor of Florida just happens to be my brother. I stole the election in Ohio in 2004 by conspiring with my buddies at Diebold, who make the voting machines, which they rigged in my favor. When you think about it, those white boys at Diebold, well, they're my brothers, too.

Minister Louis Farrakhan of the Nation is Islam is right. I ordered the Army Corps of Engineers to blow up the levee in New Orleans in order to flood and kill black people. Oh, sure, we snagged a lot of whites -- that's why they came up with the term "collateral damage."

I'm pretty stupid. Martin Sheen, the man who played a real president on "West Wing," got it right -- I am a "moron." Aaron McGruder, who illustrates the comic strip "The Boondocks," also got it right when he called me "functionally illiterate." Maybe someday I'll wake up from this dream in which I make an SAT verbal score higher than Rhodes Scholar Bill Bradley, get better college grades than Al Gore, graduate from Yale, and get an MBA from Harvard.

I've been a lousy economic steward. I came into office with an economy headed towards recession, and shortly thereafter we endured the 9/11 terrorist attacks. We then invaded two countries, Iraq and Afghanistan. And, most recently, our economy endured hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Since I've been in office, our productivity growth has averaged over 3.5 percent per year, with inflation remaining low. Unemployment stands at 4.9 percent, 400,000 new jobs were created in the last two months, and homeownership is at an all-time high. But, I agree with nearly half of Americans who believe we are already in a recession. And I expect to go down in history -- as I should -- as presiding over the worst economy since Herbert Hoover.

I agree with Harry Belafonte and Cindy Sheehan that I am the world's greatest terrorist. I'd have to go some to emulate my idols -- Joe, Mao and Adolf -- but a fella's gotta start somewhere.

Sen. Ted Kennedy is right. I lied us into the war. Repeatedly. I intentionally sent men and women in harm's way, so that I could be a wartime president, because -- unlike Michael Dukakis -- I sure look spiffy in a flight suit. As Sen. John Kerry puts it, our military terrorizes Iraqi civilians. Meanwhile, I should tell you the real reasons for going into the war: to steer defense contracts to my buddies; to get the SOBs who tried to kill my daddy; to engage in torture; to find a justification to spy on American citizens who have no connection to terrorism whatsoever; and to send soldiers into the field with no body armor and no exit strategy.

How our military managed to topple two governments and free 55 million people just beats the dickens out of me. How Iraq and Afghanistan managed to hold free elections -- well, that's a head-scratcher. And how about that Oxford Research International poll showing almost 71 percent of Iraqis say their own life is "good"? Boy, I could use numbers like that. And even though I'm a warmonger, polls show support for terrorism is falling in the Arab world.

Yep, I not only lied, I got the British to lie. I also got the worldwide intelligence community -- the United Nations, the French, the Germans, the Egyptians, the Jordanians, and the Russians -- all to deceive the world by agreeing that Saddam possessed WMD. And who says I can't bring the world together?

I would recommend impeachment, but then you'd just get Cheney. I would go to my White House bedroom and kill myself, but then you'd just get Cheney. Oh, if only I hadn't been born. But then, as my daddy used to say, if a dog's butt were square, he'd poop bricks.

Thank you, and God bless.

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101. ROTFLMBAO...Kick

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102. No thanks, bunkerboy - we LIVE that nightmare every fucking day!