NED!

WEBB!

Are trolls monogamous?

Where is everyone?

Right here. *g*

Fitz!

EPU’d but not OT for this post.

…how the Commander Codpiece persona can blind the media…

For those of you that watched the Decider-in-Chimp’s presser this AM, maybe you remember the reporter that stood up to ask a question and was cut-off by the Decider who said %u2013

THE PRESIDENT: Yes, Peter. Are you going to ask that question with shades on?

Q I can take them off.

THE PRESIDENT: I’m interested in the shade look, seriously.

Q All right, I’ll keep it, then.

THE PRESIDENT: For the viewers, there’s no sun. (Laughter.)

Q I guess it depends on your perspective. (Laughter.)

THE PRESIDENT: Touche. (Laughter.)

Q Following up on the other Peter’s question about Karl Rove.

Well - turns out that the reporter in question in legally blind. Thinkprogress reports:
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/.....er-shades/

Why can’t the friggin press EVER ask a decent question like the ones you offer Christy?
There was only one good question about Rover and credibility, the others just plain STUNK!

Christy, yep. The MSM continue to let him off the hook. His simplistic red herring non-responses beg SO many questions that they will never follow through with. Makes me ill.

twolf1….OMG….that is UNBELIEVABLE

He’s the most hated man in the world. What else could we expect?

Franco 10

I watched the presser this AM and saw the exchange. I thought Chimpy’s comments were out of place (but trying to keep up his frat-boy, regular-guy persona). BUT, now knowing that the reporter is actually blind and that is why he was wearing shades, makes it SOOOO much worse. I think chimpster owes someone a public apology.

This whole photo op, happy looked him in the eyes thing has me reeling. No diplomatic protocol. I guess he is preznit of Iraq too– it seems obvious to me, anyway. Diplomacy, schiplomacy. Democracy, schemocracy. I say potato, you say potahto. Let’s call the whole thing off.

Did he have to have a visa to enter sovereign Iraq?

Blech.

Darkblack OT

I was wondering if you could apply your considerable photo techniques and sense of humour to that vortex of evil currently im-bunkered in the WH, known as Dick Cheney.

He has demonstrated implicitly and explicitly since (and before?) 9/11 that he has the credibility and legitimacy of another notorious socio/psychopathic individual who was found not guilty for his heinous crimes :OJ Simpson (Obviously, I hold little hope for the prospects that Cheney will be convicted by this Department of Justice (although hope springs eternal)).

As OJ pledged to continue the search for Nicole’s killers and proceeded to play all the local public golf courses in this quest, I was wondering if you could construct a photo treatment featuring OJ and his spiritual fellow Cheney tooling around in a golf cart, valiantly ensuring that the world remain free and true.

Do you take requests?

Bushco is an ‘F-n’ liar.

Love the picture of him, though. The WH propaganda machine keeps claiming he’s 5′11′ barefoot. He’s not a milimeter over 5′8″.

Maybe he could get the name and address of the outfit who makes Tom Cruise’s lifts? :-)

I caught about the last twenty minutes of his babbling, and he undercut every point he tried to make. When asked directly why he snuck into the country he went on and on about how dangerous Iraq is and what a high-value target he is. But the part that really jumped out at me was when he said we’re working toward a well-defined goal, meanwhile being unable to state what the goal was. Okay, sure.

And from the looks of Bush in that photo I see he still has his alien technology harness on underneath his coat.

So GW Clusterfuck met Howdy Doody- the new puppet Prime Minister of the US Republic of Iraq and found him to be a satisfactory marrionette?

This can’t be true:

“Traveling with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and a small retinue of other top officials, Bush flew to Baghdad in secret Monday night, landing Tuesday afternoon local time.”

Our government, which has exercised impeccable judgment in every other aspect of its reign, did not pack both the puppet and the puppeteers into a plane and drop them into the middle of their war on terror.

Ah, twolf1 beat me to it.

You have to give him credit - Bush can digest shoe leather pretty damned well. God knows, he has to, the way he’s always sticking his foot in his mouth.

Christy,

They can spin their whirlygigs all they want. The public isn’t buying their shtick anymore, cept of course for Ann Molter, Noron etc….

It’s a very small comfort to know that atleast they don’t believe the shit they’re shoveling.

GW Clusterfuck is going to play his big victory with 500 lb bombs for everything it’s worth. He’s already stretched it through four or five news cycles. How far can it be stretched before it snaps?

On Bushbabble and Iraq. It’s gotta be clear that he has put us in a problematic quagmire. He cannot anything but incoherently dissemble now. He has kicked open the hornet’s nest. And our soldiers will continue to die and be maimed in the crossfire until he is out of office, and probably beyond. The neocon dream of the effortless cakewalk transformation of Iraq and the region lies in a Baghdad morgue.

What a fucking mess.

Secret President Man!
Secret President Man!

This relates this morning’s “On Point” on NPR, where I heard talk about the way forward in Iraq. They talked about a report by Barry McCaffrey and various other ideas for things to do, but seemed oblivious to the idea that for many of them, they’re not things “we” can do. We would either have to undermine any illusion that Iraq is sovereign, or convince the Iraqi government to do them without making them look like puppets.

When we were actually running Iraq, the neocons were more concerned with conservative dogma like destroying labor unions and privatizing government than in creating institutions that would actually work, and now that they’ve rushed to declare Iraq’s government sovereign for the sake of GOP domestic politics, they’ve closed off a lot of options.

Thinking about it, I think the GOP plan was that if they created an Iraqi government and pulled back our troops from active patrols as much as possible, the news media would stop caring about it and it would disappear as an issue. I think this has backfired and the media are less constrained about reporting car bombs and insurgent attacks, since there are less grounds for smearing them as reporting things that are bad for the troops or for America.

clem says:
June 14th, 2006 at 11:30 am

It doesn’t say they were on the same plane. At least that’s how I read it, and I don’t think they normally would be. On the other hand, sneaking into Baghdad in the middle of the night tells me how bad it really is around there. Any corners we’re turning are on the road going straight to the sanitation facilities.

The ReTHUGlican meme…”the way forward”, knocking over whomever at whatever expense, criminal, fiscal, personal.
Plain and simple.

Christy, you say that Iraq is a sovereign nation BUT we are occupying it. I’m not trying to justify it but Bush and the others have been flying in and out of Iraq since 2004 with regularity and probably with little notice to the government.

Sneaking into Iraq and
hamming for the webcam!

Secret President Man!

D.Mason your 21

I see little indication that they don’t believe that the shit coming out of their mouths and Commander Codpieces piehole is actually duck liver pate…

Redshift 25 -

Yeah, all ya gotta do is re-read Naomi Klein’s “Baghdad Year Zero” piece, she captured the mess-making dead-on.

http://www.harpers.org/BaghdadYearZero.html

A mess.

Mary @ 80 from down yonder:

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

I’m at “who knows” re: what is going on. I care, but not like I care about GITMO, NSA & other secret law, secret testimony (defendants own) and secret legal arguments - so secret they can’t tell the court - crap going on. Add in a war that has young soldiers singing and chuckling over holding up a child to take a bullet; voting machine issues; a raft of Democratic candidates that are not worth saving a square of toilet tissue for, much less the Republicans there; and a completely subverted and perverted remnant of a system of justice in this country and %u2014 well, take one of those off the plate and I’d buy Rove coffee and give him a big wet kiss. Maybe even a donut with yellow sprinklies making a happy face.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Well said!!! I’d spring for the coffee and donut– the wet kiss, er, not so much. ;)

twolf1 and watertiger,

He has an unnatural affinity for this kind of faux pas. I remember the one where to a widow who lost her husband on 9-11 which was also their anniversary, he said, “Double whammy!” and then there was the vet in a wheelchair to whom he showed the scratches on his arm from clearing brush.

It’s an absurdist drama being performed as reality that only the mindless and the shameless could possibly be buying; the administration’s continued insistence that freedom is on the march is taking on a slightly hysterical undertone that has me questioning their collective sanity.

They talk about troop reductions - the bone they throw to ward off the increasingly angry citizens - at the same time they are sending more in. In their world, more equals less.

I haven’t checked, but I heard Harry Reid was supposed to be rolling out the Democratic platform today. Here’s hoping it’s a winner.

Hugh,

as attaturk reminded me, there was also that incident a month or two ago when Bush was on his “Medicare is DA BOMB!” tour. He walked into a room and all the seniors but one got up to clap. He walked over to the one guy who didn’t get up and said, “Comfortable?”

The guy was wheelchair-bound.

the story quoted above about Bush traveling with Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld and a small retinue is incorrect. Those were the folk informed ahead of time about the Preznit’s forthcoming trip to Eye-wrack. They indeed traveled to Camp David for the Monday meeting but they did not travel on Tuesday to sunny historic beautiful downtown Baghdad…just the Preznit and a few courtiers…

Is FDL going super-slow for anybody else today?

Found this incredible tale on Drum’s site. Read it if you feel like shaking your head back and forth.

On the other hand, if you feel like furrowing your brow at the media’s passion for stereotyping people from Massachusetts check out what CNN has on their homepage:

A couple of Massachusetts construction types picked up some bathroom cabinetry and discovered some illegal extras with their purchases. One contractor found ganja ‘bricks,’ and a plumber found a stash of cocaine. Authorities are trying to figure out how it got there and who was supposed to receive it.

Wilson

More Like “I-wreck”.

hawkeye #28

Formal sovereignty was returned to Iraq on June 28, 2004. This coincided with the establishment of the interim government and the end of the CPA under Bremer.

Bush also said in the Rose Garden, (paraphrased) “When he walked out (Prime Minister of Iraq)I didn’t fear him”.

There you have it, Bush doesn’t fear the Prime Minister of Iraq. Now, what about Tony Blair and other heads of state?

Congress vote itself another pay raise….Thing are going soooo…well

BobbyG 31, “Baghdad, Year Zero” is some of the best writing on the subject since the invasion began. Period.

The part about the cement factories and Bremer Walls is the perfect metaphor for the entire situation and Bush administration approach to foreign policy.

Hugh and all the others:

Why, at this point, is anyone surprised at what insensitive and stupid things Bush says?

He is a sociopath incapable of having any feelings toward others, so he would have probably said the same thing to the reporter KNOWING he was blind.

Hey owlbear1, how ’bouts:

They’ve given you a codpiece

and taken ‘way your brain

Secret President Man!

I don’t get all you freedom hating cynics. George was most certainly at the controls of Airforce One when al- Zarqawi was dispatched with two 500 pound bombs. Condi navigated, and Donald pushed the release. It’s hard work, and dangerous.

Of course a cover story was necessary to protect the lives of our troops. This so called visit was that cover story.

Dover Bitch 42 -

And, her article is bulletproof. My wife’s company had recon contracts in Iraq (they’ve pulled out). I can tell you, from weekly security conference calls she participated in, that the mess was/is as bad as Naomi described.

It was all gonna be SO easy. They completely fucked Iraq up. The place is gonna be a stew of bloodshed for decades now.

I’ve been watching ABC news since Dan Rather got kicked off CBS. It has been a tragic farce. Peter Jennings dies. For months on months, Peter was continuously brought back; for this or that report on lung cancer and his favorite causes. Then Bob Woodruff and Elizabeth Vargas take over. Bob goes off to war and Elizabeth gets pregnant. Only after she is fired in her last days do they flash a full height view to show that Elizabeth really is with a child. Yesterday, Bob visits the office, looking a lot like Tom Hanks in “Forest Gump”. Charlie Gibson mentions he was “asleep, unconscious” for 36 days. ABC News never reported that their Anchor was in a coma for over a month. Perhaps, because it would shed some light on how really dangerous Iraq is and the trauma 18,356 wounded soldiers have experienced.

seeing the picture of the two aides on Air Force One fully suited in body armor, I really wonder how their’s compare to those of the troops

BobbyG 46,

No doubt. Iraq was a GOP corporate shill’s wet dream. An American-controlled empty slate with billions in taxpayer dollars rolling in to fund completely unregulated development with no labor or environmental standards to meet.

A perfect petri dish for the GOP experiment. Whoops.

Let’s see chimpy goes down vp takes over. Did vp think this up? The real President of America would not put his country or himself at risk for another pr stunt!

fyi– Dorgan back on the Senate floor hollering about waste, fraud and abuse…………….in Iraq.

Just a reminder…

Tonight at midnight is the last airing of The Human Experiments on the Sundance Channel. Set your Tivos (or in my case, the old VCR) because this one-hour documentary is a must-see.

Oops. “Human Behavior Experiments”

Man, those photos of Bush in Iraq are damning. Here we are nearly five years after 9/11 - Osama still on the loose, our feckless adventure in Iraq teetering on complete disaster, the economy creaking, real wages dropping, health care costs exploding ….

and Bush and his cronies look like a bunch of frat boys playing dress-up for a mock survivalist weekend. Tee-hee, look at us! Isn’t this fun! Aren’t we cool! And the press laps it up. Pathetic.

What - no trips to see all the school openings? How is he going to report to us on all the good things going on in Iraq when he just stays in the green zone and …

never mind.

Dont forget, Bush also had Malki COME TO MEET HIM at the United States EMBASSY (American turf) as opposed to meeting at the Prime Minister’s office….the nerve….

When we have to stop acting like Iraq is our 51st State then it will be time to come home…..

What is health care?

Who is the redhead sitting in the front row in front of the podium?

what’s galling is that americans still fall for bush’s 9/11 gag about saddam being buddies with osama, thanks to what america’s stooge reporters keep parroting: that’s more enervating than the missing wmd because it lets bush keep saying iraq’s the leading front in fighting the war on terror — the irony is that by being sheep, our news media make blogs like FDL the roaring success they are

I’m struck by the constant smoke and mirrors stylistics that confuse those in the MSM. It seems to me that all the focus was on what a herioc thing Bush had done by pulling off this secret flight and “dropping in on” the Prime Minister of a country we have bombed to smithereens. Like he’s some kind of Boy Scout earning his latest big badge. It was most obviously a publicity stunt, especially playing up the angles of how he fooled even his most trusted advisors - which makes no sense unless they themselves would have tipped off the insurgency - and how crafty and damn near cinematic his descent into the Green Zone had been. Mission Accomplished regurg. The guy is a Class A chickenshit who can’t buy himself an uptick because his little gig is falling flat for just about everyone save the real lunatic power mad fringe. The press weren’t especially laughing at any of his condescending jokes. He treats them like buffoons, which of course they are fast becoming, primarily because they buy all the distractions. Bush looks like a stark raving maniac to me. Absolutely pathological.

Bobby G.

Thanks for the Harpers link. Absolutely incredible story- and very well written.

Most americans know NOTHING about any of this- and it’s why we’re stuck in the sand in Iraq.

If someone wants to make a blockbuster movie- this is a place to look! Could totally change the political atmosphere in this country.

Mary: you’re right! damn! what a missed photo opportunity! The Preznit in a blue shirt with rolled up sleeves perspiring while helping repaint a school ! A picture for the ages!

twolf1 and watertiger

I guess it offends him when one of us peons wears sunglasses when addressing him, but what about what’s his name the Saudi Ruler when he was holding hands with “the decider” and wearing his shades?

I know that picture’s out there somewhere

The Stenographers of the Press in the front row all look like Shooter does these days, either half asleep or just asleep.

John Byrne, NYTIMES, just said on ‘To the Point” that Maliki was conspicuously irritated by the conspicuous photo-op affront by the president’s surprise visit. Like all of Dubya’s grandstanding, it seems this serves a purpose contrary to the one that he is selling the U.S. electorate. I’m not buying any of the political theater.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t Rep. Peter King (R-Larchmont Lockjaw) speecifyin’ yesterday how his wife could walk through beuatiful downtown Baghdad without a care in the world, but Washington, DC was much more dangerous?

You’d think the Mighty Wurlitzer could play from one sheet of music, as organized as Mehlman’s Musicians are reputed to be, but maybe not.

We know that Iraq is sovereign because the liberal NYT dutifully duplicated Condi’s handwritten “Dear Mr. President, Iraq is sovereign” on its cover. And we know that Fredo understands the concept of “sovereignty” because he’s explained it to us:

“Tribal sovereignty means that, it’s sovereign. You’re a — you’re a — you have been given sovereignty and you’re viewed as a sovereign entity.” -George W. Bush, August 6, 2004

end centering, please!

al-Scooter 66,

That was Rep. Steve King (R-IA).

I guess it depends on who’s wearing the shades

WASHINGTON (AP) %u2014 The economy flashed signs of slower growth heading into the summer but that didn’t help alleviate inflation concerns. Stung by rising costs for energy and other materials, some businesses felt inclined to boost their prices.
That was the picture emerging from a Federal Reserve survey, released Wednesday, of the business climate around the country.

USA Today

So GWClusterfuck has created chaos in Iraq and stagflation at home.

Heckofajob Clusterfuck!

the Congressman with the endangered Washington wife was one from Kansas … I cant find the news story right now…

DB, thanks. I got my Kings mixed up. Once past King George IV, I begin to lose track.

It was Steve King from Iowa.

Oh- and how’s Clusterfuck’s roadmap for peace goin?

Whichever, will Mrs. King be escorting Dubya through the non-Green Zone anytime soon?

rwcole at 75 — He’s having trouble getting it folded back up properly.

I’m still waiting, though not holding my breath, for this question: “Now that you can’t prejudice an ongoing criminal investigation, when will you be firing Karl Rove? After all, your firing threshold, as articulated in 2003, was involvement, not indictment or conviction. And you’re not going to stand there and seriouesly contend Rove wasn’t involved, are you? Or are you?”

Good one, Christy.

Christy at 77,
Because ,like the rest of his policies, it is upside down.

America is suffering from Bush fatigue.
I know his that Raw story has a link to a new USA today poll with Bush at 38%, But I can not imange Americans wanting another two years of this hell.

.

BOEHLERTING ALONE, YOU FOOL NO ONE.

WORKING UP THE NERVE TO ACCEPT EMAIL ANY TIME SOON?

Ha! Following up on my post #37…

CNN has edited their homepage blurb:

A couple of Massachusetts construction workers picked up some bathroom cabinetry and discovered some illegal extras with their purchases. One contractor found ganja ‘bricks,’ and a plumber found a stash of cocaine. In each case, the merchandise boxes originated from a Texas location and were distributed through one Massachusetts warehouse.

ralphbon, THAT is the question.

I took his statement at this morning’s presser that everything Karl did is A-OK with him.

Iraqi quote of the day:

…Shaykh Mahmud Jarad al-Isawi, imam and preacher of the (Sunni) Al-Kilani Mosque, as likening the US’s presence in Iraq to the presence of a dead animal in a well, “spoiling” its water content. Al-Isawi says: “A decaying rotten animal has entered our country. There is no solution to the problem we are suffering from without the departure of this animal. The occupation forces spoiled everything when they entered our country, including our ethics and morals, until we have reached our present unenviable state.”

Great shot Redd- wish I’d thought of that!

To heck with the Bush twins, sounds like Mrs. King is a volunteer. Wait till she finds out she gets a new outfit too!

Things are going so well the Brits want us to give up Humvees and assault weapons and go with bicycles and better enunciation.

tralalalalalalalala

Mary #87: ROFL!

Where are those pictures of commander codpiece and his posse in Iraq?

Two most recent Clusterfuck Polls:

6/11 Gallup 38%- up 2%

6/11 CBS 33%- down 2%

So GW Clusterfuck has either gotten a bump or a kick in the ass depending on which poll you want to pick. (Both are inside the margin of error- so statistically there is no change).

What bothers me about the Chimpinator is that he seems so hung up on the trappings of the office and seems piqued whenever someone slights him…you know the crippled guy not standing…the blind reporter not taking off his glasses..Bill Clinton trying to walk through a door BEFORE him.

It all seems so juvenile and petty. He doesn’t appear to have an ounce of humility or grace, yet we are always given “stories” about he is just filled to the brim with those qualities.

-GSD

About this trip being a PR stunt

Exhibit A

Exhibit B

KABUL, Afghanistan, June 14 — An Afghan government delegation to Guantánamo Bay said today that about half of the 94 Afghans still being held there were not guilty of serious crimes and should be released.
The remainder, including several high-level members of the former Taliban government, should be tried in Afghan courts, said the leader of the delegation, Abdul Jabar Sabit, a legal adviser to the Interior Ministry.

John- linkies no worky

My personal - and unprofessional - opinion about the serial inappropriate comments Bush makes is that, as a weak person himself, he automatically seeks out those he perceives to be weaker than he is, and then asserts his “strength.”

OT: but obliquely relevant

Reading a disturbing trend cropping in the net neutrality argument. Hot on the heels of the perception that net neutrality has been knocked down in legislation, I’m starting to see arguments against ‘porn’ and ‘hate sites’ and ISP’s being pressured to block them.

http://www.gnn.tv/headlines/94....._Hate_Porn

A proposal to give Internet service providers the power to shut down hate-mongering or pornographic websites received an enthusiastic response Monday by top telecommunications executives, said the plan’s creator.

Since net neutrality has nothing to do with the internet being ‘free’, it has everything to do with filtering content. Mr. Whitacre’s assertion that nobody will ‘use his pipes’ for free is a red herring. Bandwidth is expensive, but people already pay for it, at both ends of the buyer/supplier market, this is an established fact of any thing to do with the internet.

The real issue here is about getting the ISP’s in a position to filter content, specifically content that is politically ‘inconvenient’ or could be labelled thoughtcrime hate-crime.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ar.....-7043.html

Part of the problem here is that it’s not always clear what the ISPs have in mind for the Internet. People like AT&T CEO Ed Whitacre can bellyache about people using “my pipes for free” and talk about extracting money from Google and others, then turn around and claim that he has no plans to “do anything to affect the Internet.” What exactly do firms like AT&T have in mind? Depending on what happens in the next several weeks, we’ll know soon enough.

Apologies for the off-topic, but there are lots of blogs and antiwar sites I am partial to that could become termed hate-sites for their critical appraisal of the neo-cons, and their role in the whole Iraq war run-up.

So van #86,

What do you think that al-Isawi is trying to say? Do they still like us aside from that rotting corpse thing?

Hmmmm, they work for me

Go to www.bagnewsnotes.com or http://bagnewsnotes.typepad.com/bagnewsnotes

Looks like there goes KOS and FDL. Notorius left wing hate sites.

Long live Free Republican and RedHates.

-GSD

Sophist, don’t worry, the decision on what is a hate site will be up to the steady minds of James Sensenbrenner and Sam Brownback.

Hugh- Yes- they like us very much. They say we taste like chicken.

If that Representative King is the one from Iowa’s 5th district….. He has no clue!! That’s also the reddest part of the state as well. Also, compared to where they’re from…. DC is an extremely dangerous area, comparitively speaking. Cow tipping and speeding is the worst that goes on in the western part of the state.

rwcole,

ROFL!

Should have been asked if the reason he didn’t inform his staff and other Cabinet members was due to fears of a leak.

You’ll know Iraq is truly sovereign when they start charging people for things like Haditha. The silver lining is that we’ll be out of there pretty quick when things like that start happening.

As for King’s wife, I’m sure we can all chip in and fly her out to Baghdad for the weekend. We can even throw in a Lonely Planet guide, so she can see all the sights. Can wait to see her photos!

OT: I left this in EPU territory of the previous thread, but there’s a question in it for anyone with legal experience (theoretical - I’m not looking for advice ;)).

Mary @ 12:31 pm (#110) - Hadn’t considered the idea before, but I suppose Fitzgerald might have shopped Rove to other prosecuters in connection with the Abramoff or Cunningham/MZM/Foggo/whoever/whatever scandal, or maybe one of the others (Ohio? Please, let it be Ohio!)

If you’re looking at the standard “moving up the food chain” scenario of prosecutions, then there’s no one left whom Fitzgerald can indict, is there? It’s Bush and Cheney, as far as I can tell (well, Andy Card …). So if it’s one or both of the first two, is it worth his while?

Any thoughts on that, current or former prosecuters?

Now, I’ll go read the article.

Frankly, all of the cloak and dagger stuff gives me the willies…He is behaving like some mob boss or third world dictator.

Pretty soon he is going to be using that dude from the Press Club joke-a-rama as his body double, just like Saddam used to do.

-GSD

Anne #96

I think it’s more a “subliminable” unease that perceives a potentially embarrassing moment and then perversely actualizes. Freud I think would call it anal, or just bad manners.

If Bush starts using a body double, we will know the moment he/she/it says a word — no one could possibly as inarticulate as Commander Codpiece.

Everything rwc says has a nugget of truth. *g*

OT Sophist - good to know, thanks.

OT Who is Olberman’s stand in? I really like that voice thing he has going and that very serious air he can bring to it all. I noticed some of the usual suspects almost look a little nervous when they are responding and he keeps giving them that very grave “it’s not that funny to have people dieing for this President’s photo ops” look. Can’t someone on cable ditch a Ritatype and give this guy his own show?

Okay, “let’s put on a show” was a cute shtick for The Mickey Mouse Club, but it’s way past time for the grown-ups to step in and put an end to the Bush administration’s deadly version.

And this “we’ll stand down when they stand up” thing is starting to remind me of some kind of weird game of musical chairs. How much more “up” do these alleged 240,000 trained Iraqis have to be before we bring our kids home?

ck- including his body language. Watch his body language during his Iraqi Presser, with the sound down…..says it all. At least Bush treats everyone with equal disdain.

Mary - Brian Unger. Cute too.

They say that the age at which someone starts abusing substances is the age that emotional growth stops. That might explain why Bush acts like a teenager.

Dover Bitch @ 11:52 am (#37) - Incredible tale, indeed. Oooh, I just feel so safe now, knowing we’re in the capable hands of Homeland (In)Security.

OT-Sorry if this story’s been posted/linked already, but here’s the AP’s take on Jane’s Lieberman scoop from last night:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200....._lieberman

I hope the screen door hits him especially hard.

Rather than show actual progress, Bush chose once again with his “5 hours in Iraq” tour to address a serious issue with PR and promises. We have all seen it before, about a thousand times. These guys never, never learn. They are a one trick pony now and forever. For them and the third of the voters who are their base, it never gets old and they think if they do it just one more time the rest of us will go ‘golly geewhiz’ and climb back on board.

cathy @ 115– that’s is exactly right– my best bud (who works daily with substance abuse/mental health clients) and I were just talking about that on Saturday!

except, Bush acts more like a rotten schoolyard bully whose development was halted at ca. 8 yrs. Just see how he treats the press corps and his best buds with the nicknames and the occasional slur… tough guy from the podium who stole 2 elections cause he has friends in high places.

Popping in to offer a quickie:

having suffered through the Gov Shrub years before us Texans palmed him off on the nation (deepest apologies), I’ve watched his body languish diminsh and change over the years, not to mention his verbal skills.

If you’ve never seen old debate tapes from his 1st run for govenor, you’d be amazed that he could actually talk coherently at one time. that is, string words together, without repeating them, that made sense,at least the snytax made sense.

Here’s what I’m watching for now:
The depth at which his head sinks further into his neck. Ever notice that his neck is getting shorter? It is.
The furtive glances that end with a faraway stare. His eyes dart and then stop on a dime and just freeze. That’s a recent thing too (well, since he was govenor).
His decrease in using his hands for emphasis. Less and less hand motion in the past 5 years, as though he’s frozen with fear and uncertainty.

I could go on but I’ve got a doc to finish in the next half hour.

Disclaimer: I cannot bare to listen to him anyhmore. The very sound of his voice sends me flying for the mute button. But I do study his body language which I find fascinating.

cathy says
June 14th, 2006 at 1:25 pm

They say that the age at which someone starts abusing substances is the age that emotional growth stops.
______

Really? Hmmmm.mm..m… that would make me ~27. I was into copious amounts of everything except smack (never went there). Then it seems one day I just decided ‘this shit is boring’ and quit.