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#1 2008-07-10 3:06 pm
- ShnickyShnack
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From the "I can't believe he's president" file ...
Bush, leaving a G8 meeting, tells the room: "Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter"
He then punched the air while grinning widely, as the rest of those present including Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy looked on in shock.
Mr Bush, whose second and final term as President ends at the end of the year, then left the meeting at the Windsor Hotel in Hokkaido where the leaders of the world's richest nations had been discussing new targets to cut carbon emissions.
One official who witnessed the extraordinary scene said afterwards: "Everyone was very surprised that he was making a joke about America's record on pollution."
Sigh ...
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#2 2008-07-10 3:21 pm
- sturner
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Re: From the "I can't believe he's president" file ...
I am continually surprised, at everyones' surprise that he is a jerk and an idiot.
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#3 2008-07-10 3:27 pm
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Re: From the "I can't believe he's president" file ...
Dumbass-In-Chief
Aw, he's no fun, he fell right over.
Unless you become as little children, there's no way you will believe this crap.
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#4 2008-07-10 3:43 pm
- bratboy
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Re: From the "I can't believe he's president" file ...
Hey, at least he didn't molest a fellow world leader this time.
What more do you want?
"One thing we've learned is there's a difference between being disappointed and having madmen in authority."
--Paul Krugman
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#5 2008-07-10 3:51 pm
- Tallgeese
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Re: From the "I can't believe he's president" file ...
bratboy wrote:
Hey, at least he didn't molest a fellow world leader this time.
What more do you want?
A fatal pretzel accident.
In other pollution news, did anyone else hear when Papua-New Guinea shamed the U.S. at the Bali conference by standing up and saying "“We seek your leadership, but if for some reason you are not willing to lead, leave it to the rest of us. Please get out of the way." ?
He can even take his son with him into the shower, where the boy cannot help but notice that Dad has a penis
- Dr. James Dobson, on "preventing" homosexuality
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#6 2008-07-10 3:59 pm
- JakeTheTall
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Re: From the "I can't believe he's president" file ...
What's the point of being the big dog if you can't have a little fun and tell the truth at the same time ?
“I don’t see (subprime mortgage market troubles) imposing a serious problem. I think it’s going to be largely contained” -- U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, April 2007
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#7 2008-07-10 4:07 pm
- Tallgeese
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Re: From the "I can't believe he's president" file ...
W wrote:
Join us in a campaign that's going to restore honor and dignity to the White House.
He can even take his son with him into the shower, where the boy cannot help but notice that Dad has a penis
- Dr. James Dobson, on "preventing" homosexuality
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#8 2008-07-10 4:10 pm
- Jdude
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Re: From the "I can't believe he's president" file ...
Tallgeese wrote:
W wrote:
Join us in a campaign that's going to restore honor and dignity to the White House.
Yes. Vote for Jdude. I promise the next guy you vote for will be a great improvement.
The problem I have with discussing freedom is that people have been conditioned to expect "of me to tell you what to do" to follow it... inevitably they notice I don't ever get to that part, and they feel like I am trying to trick them.
Sometimes before replying to a topic, I think to myself: I am just so original!
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#9 2008-07-10 4:25 pm
Re: From the "I can't believe he's president" file ...
They need to stop serving drinks at the G8 conferences.
I’m not ready to make nice-I’m not ready to back down-I’m still mad as hell and
I don’t have time to go round and round and round-It’s too late to make it right
I probably wouldn’t if I could-‘Cause I’m mad as hell-Can’t bring myself to do what it is you think I should
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#10 2008-07-10 4:32 pm
- Duke Stratosphere
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Re: From the "I can't believe he's president" file ...
What is this, Dumb-Ass-Political-Comment week?
Yesterday I read that John McCain said that importing more cigarettes to Iran would be one way to kill "them." That's just a great idea if Ahmenidjahooberjaddy smokes, John. Otherwise you're just killing innocent Iranian teenagers. 
Then today my supervisor tells me that Jesse Jackson was caught over a mike that he thought was off saying, among other things (not all of which have apparently been released), that he'd like to personally and surgically remove Barack Obama's testicles. 
When are these guys gonna learn their lesson that once a stage hand has put a microphone on your person, it just might be on, and it's time to shut the smurf up? Looks like Jesse pulled a ... *snicker* ... a Bush of all things!
If I didn't know better (and I really don't) I'd think that Bush saw McCain and Jackson being smartasses in the news and he's just giving in to peer pressure. Just trying to fit in with the rest of the gang, you know?
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#11 2008-07-10 4:33 pm
- Tallgeese
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Re: From the "I can't believe he's president" file ...
I think they should broadcast McCain's comment to Virginia, Tennessee, the Carolinas...
See if they like McCain calling their cash crop a WMD.
He can even take his son with him into the shower, where the boy cannot help but notice that Dad has a penis
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#12 2008-07-10 5:16 pm
- ShnickyShnack
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Re: From the "I can't believe he's president" file ...
Jdude wrote:
Tallgeese wrote:
W wrote:
Join us in a campaign that's going to restore honor and dignity to the White House.
Yes. Vote for Jdude. I promise the next guy you vote for will be a great improvement.
But then again, voting for a lobotomized salamander would be a great improvement.
"If you would like a serious response, please ask serious, non loaded/leading questions" -- Steyr
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#13 2008-07-10 5:23 pm
- ShnickyShnack
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Re: From the "I can't believe he's president" file ...
I also like how the article showcased incompetent White House smurf #999383000393:
Mr Bush also faced criticism at the summit after Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian Prime Minister, was described in the White House press pack given to journalists as one of the "most controversial leaders in the history of a country known for government corruption and vice".
The White House apologised for what it called "sloppy work" and said an official had simply lifted the characterisation from the internet without reading it.
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#14 2008-07-10 5:30 pm
- Farmerkev
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Re: From the "I can't believe he's president" file ...
Hehehe, it's true though.
Never argue with an idiot.
They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
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#15 2008-07-10 5:34 pm
- Tallgeese
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Re: From the "I can't believe he's president" file ...
That the Italian PM is corrupt, that Bush hands out press material copypasta'd from Wiki without reading it, or that Bush is the kind of guy who will call you a POS to everyone and then smile and shake your hand when you walk in the room?
He can even take his son with him into the shower, where the boy cannot help but notice that Dad has a penis
- Dr. James Dobson, on "preventing" homosexuality
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#16 2008-07-10 5:36 pm
- Farmerkev
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Re: From the "I can't believe he's president" file ...
D. All of the above
Never argue with an idiot.
They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
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#17 2008-07-10 5:39 pm
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Re: From the "I can't believe he's president" file ...
Yes. All of the above.
The problem I have with discussing freedom is that people have been conditioned to expect "of me to tell you what to do" to follow it... inevitably they notice I don't ever get to that part, and they feel like I am trying to trick them.
Sometimes before replying to a topic, I think to myself: I am just so original!
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#18 2008-07-10 5:40 pm
- Jdude
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Re: From the "I can't believe he's president" file ...
Hay! How did wtf you bah!
Due credit goes to Farmerkev. Sigh.
The problem I have with discussing freedom is that people have been conditioned to expect "of me to tell you what to do" to follow it... inevitably they notice I don't ever get to that part, and they feel like I am trying to trick them.
Sometimes before replying to a topic, I think to myself: I am just so original!
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#19 2008-07-10 5:42 pm
- bratboy
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Re: From the "I can't believe he's president" file ...
The White House apologised for what it called "sloppy work" and said an official had simply lifted the characterisation from the internet without reading it.
Oh, well that's understandable.
"One thing we've learned is there's a difference between being disappointed and having madmen in authority."
--Paul Krugman
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#20 2008-07-10 5:51 pm
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Re: From the "I can't believe he's president" file ...
JakeTheTall wrote:
What's the point of being the big dog if you can't have a little fun and tell the truth at the same time ?
I thought that job belonged to the court jester.
Aw, he's no fun, he fell right over.
Unless you become as little children, there's no way you will believe this crap.
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#21 2008-07-10 6:04 pm
- ShnickyShnack
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Re: From the "I can't believe he's president" file ...
bratboy wrote:
The White House apologised for what it called "sloppy work" and said an official had simply lifted the characterisation from the internet without reading it.
Oh, well that's understandable.
It's quite astonishing.
The radio show I work for is national, the flagship program of the Canadian network. But it's still a far cry from the frigging White House.
Yet even in my office, nothing gets to air -- and I mean nothing -- that hasn't been vetted by not one or two but three editors. And a fourth, depending on circumstances. Meanwhile scripts are routinely looked over by non-editors, who sometimes flag errors.
It seems inconceivable that the White House press office has clodhoppers throwing together random bullsmurf that goes straight to publication.
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#22 2008-07-10 8:11 pm
- Jdude
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Re: From the "I can't believe he's president" file ...
Yes, but your company actually cares about the results.
The problem I have with discussing freedom is that people have been conditioned to expect "of me to tell you what to do" to follow it... inevitably they notice I don't ever get to that part, and they feel like I am trying to trick them.
Sometimes before replying to a topic, I think to myself: I am just so original!
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#23 2008-07-10 8:37 pm
- bedstuy
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Re: From the "I can't believe he's president" file ...
The Senate should vote to condemn this MoveOn.org ad!
I've abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system" - George W. Bush, 12.16.08
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#24 2008-07-10 10:34 pm
Re: From the "I can't believe he's president" file ...
I thought Bush's joke was actually funny. If someone else had said it or envisioned it happening or ran it as a skit on tv, I think it would have worked. But Bush doing it himself is a weird kind of meta-irony or something.
How can a person still have any hopes
who is addicted to what's superficial,
who grubs with greedy hand for treasures
and then is happy to discover earthworms! - Goethe
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#25 2008-07-10 10:43 pm
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Re: From the "I can't believe he's president" file ...
This story is so strange it almost seems fake.
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