Robert Scheer: What Bushs' open mike revealed

[raysr]

"Bombs were exploding and innocents dying, from Beirut to Haifa to Baghdad, and yet George Bush managed to pose for yet another photo op, smiling as he gave the thumbs up at the close of the G8 summit. Thanks to an unsuspected open mike, however, we could also glimpse the mind-set of a leader unaccountably pleased with his ignorance of the world.

What seemed to interest him most at that farewell get-together of leaders bitterly divided over a disintegrating Mideast was not some last-minute proposal for peace but rather the fact that it would take China President Hu Jintao eight hours to fly home from St. Petersburg to Beijing."

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http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20060718_robert_scheer_bush_open_mike/

[Erika]

1. W is bored to death with world happenings

Much like a small child who wants to go play when adults are speaking. The Bushbots wanted him there, they got him.

[cantstandbush]

5. More like a retarded child. (Apologies to the metally handicapped). nt

[NanceGreggs]

2. Special Subject: The Bleedin' Obvious

"... the fact that it would take China President Hu Jintao eight hours to fly home from St. Petersburg to Beijing."

Well, as the Idiot so wisely observed, "China is big, and Russia is big."

You've got to get up pretty early in the morning to get something past this intellectual giant.

[rooboy]

3. What do you expect from Nero? n/t

[Eagle_Eye]

4. Bush's open mike reminds me of that Beatles song

Eleanor Rigby

Bush puts on a show for the public, but what he does, thinks, and says in the back room deals where things happen are quite different.

"Lives in a dream
Waits at the window, wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door
Who is it for?"

[DoYouEverWonder]

7. That really sounds like

Laura Bush.

All the lonely people, where do they all come from?

[malaise]

8. Actually the Fool on the Hill

is even more appropriate.

[UTUSN]

6. It revealed what we (here, anyway) already knew

Here's Jimmy CARTER's former staffer, co-founder of the Carlyle Group, on how he fired Shrub and couldn't imagine him in a group of 25 million who might be POTUS.

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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3994.ht...

.... Rubenstein said, "We put on the board and spent three years. Came to all the meetings. Told a lot of jokes. Not that many clean ones. And after a while I kind of said to him, after about three years - you know, I'm not sure this is really for you. Maybe you should do something else. Because I don't think you're adding that much value to the board. You don't know that much about the company.

Rubenstein continued: "He said, well I think I'm getting out of this business anyway. And I don't really like it that much. So I'm probably going to resign from the board. And I said, thanks - didn't think I'd ever see him again. His name is George W. Bush. He became President of the United States. So you know if you said to me, name 25 million people who would maybe be President of the United States, he wouldn't have been in that category. So you never know. Anyway, I haven't been invited to the White House for any things." ....

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