Bush perceives himself as a 'strong asset' to GOP
By Steve Benen Wednesday Sep 19, 2007 6:49pm
Ken Herman threw the president an entertaining softball at today’s White House press conference:
Q Mr. President, for Republicans seeking election next year are you an asset or a liability?
THE PRESIDENT: Strong asset. (Laughter) ...Look, candidates who go out and say that the United States is vulnerable to attack and we’re going to make sure our professionals have the tools necessary to protect us are going to do well. Candidates who go out and say that helping these Iraqis realize the benefits of democracy are going to do well. Candidates who go out and say that it’s very important for the United States to have clear principles when it comes to foreign policy, they’ll do well. Candidates who say we’re not going to raise your taxes will do well.
So, as far as Bush is concerned, Republicans should not only embrace him as a “strong asset” on the campaign trail, but should also emulate the beliefs and agenda that have made him the successful and popular leader he is today.
I’d hope that Republicans embrace Bush’s advice, but I don’t think Dems are that lucky.
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Yeah, well, just remove the "et" part from that one word, and he gets it right.
Someones attorney daughter said at dinner last night. "This country is too large and too fragmented for a coherent, focused revolution to ever succeed". Unfortunately, she may be correct.
By all mean, GOP, follow your leader...right off the cliff.
New strategy, kill them off one by one..."Cholera Now Appears in Baghdad ".
"Candidates who go out and say that helping these Iraqis..........."
These Iraqis, as compared to 'the Iraqis' or 'the Iraqi people'?
Sounds like he's talking about something less than human.
Unfortunately, it may not matter as the hapless Democrats are making themselves a liability. The gang that couldn't vote straight.
Candidates who SAY it, but who actually believe any old thing.
Appearances are all to these NeoCon jerks. Appear macho and you will be.
George W Bush is a 'strong ass'. that's what he is now and forever too. history has judged him so thorougly there won't be any reason to bother with thinking about him later. he's a failure.
Another prime example of the "liberal" media asking the tough question.
Gee, why didn't he just ask Chimpy about his favorite movie and which pretzels are the tastiest.
Unreal.
From the vote by the DEMOCRAT SENATORS to condemn Moveon for telling the truth, it is more than obvious that NONE OF THEM HAVE THE INTEGRITY TO BE IN THE SENATE IN THE FIRST PLACE.
The hand writing on the walls of BAGDHAD SAYS THAT AMERICANS NOW HAVE NO PARTY OF THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE, AND BY THE PEOPLE as almost all have rolled over for FOX NEWS, THE BUSH CABAL, AND CORPORATE AMERICA.....
DAMN THEM ALL!
breakspear @ 8:
But very successful at looting Americas treasury and other assets.
Thats been the Bush family game all along.
Well really, what were you expecting GWB to say to such a question? I mean, if Bush had answered anything to the effect that he might be to blame for the Republicans poor prospects in 08' and terrible standing in 06', I would have to seriously entertain the possibility he was replaced by a doppleganger.
Hell, Bush taking any blame for anything that has gone wrong in his administration would make me have to come up with elaborate weekend at Bernie conspiracies. Even actors, clones or androids which have replaced the president would seem more likely to me then the president taking responsibility for anything.
he's more of an ass then an asset, but if your going to be delusional you might as well go all the way!
he's an asset in the sense that his ancestors came over on the mayflower, his family is wealthy and well connected, and oh yea, he's above the law.
Let's hope that the American people will link the Republican party to their failed President. The will of the people is firly set against the policies of the Bush.
Only this can prevent the Democrats from imploding yet again.
tr @ 14:
Oh Blackwater keep on rolling
DemoChristian @ 15:
Congresses approval rating is 11%
If thats not implosion nothing is.
Strong asset... LOL! Yeah, strong asset for Jack Daniels. The ASSet-in-chief has been on the roll all day today.
The Truth Hurts @ 9:
Well, offering pretzels to The Chokinator could be perceived as a threat. Or at the very least, could be interpreted to be the same as saying, "Choke on it, Mr President."
:lol:
Olbermann's doing on a Special Comment on some of the stuff Dubya said today on tonight's show, fyi.
Is a hemorrhoid an asset or a liability?
Classic Smirking Chimp. Now I'll go back and read the post.
The empty speech a day pretzelnit.
L.A. Confidential @ 17:
Hey, isn't that approval rating an indictment of Congress as a whole? Yes, Congress ain't doing much for the country, but who's fault is that? A reticent GOP wing of the Senate backed by a preznit(wit) who will veto anything the Dems don't get passed with 60+ votes. I wish the public at large were asked a two part question:
1) what do you think of Congress? "THEY STINK!"
2) who do hold largely responsible for your harsh evaluation? "THE GOoPers!"
Apparently some Democratic Senators think hewing to his views will help them, as well.
gambitRF @ 20:
Ah yes when all else fails there is always humor.
he is seriously out of it!....way way out of touch.he has to have some kind of mental disorder...seriously....I'm not trying to be funny...I mean it.
he's the same kind of asset that mortgage banks and hedge funds have on their books now.
Wow again. And the hits just keep on comin'. Well, that'll sure get the pure Dems voted in and then look out. We will have universal healthcare, end the Iraq OCCUPATION, feed the hungry, fix New Orleans, focus on global warming, step up production, increase jobs, save the whales, cure cancer, restore American prosperity, and if given enough time, throw riches to all Americans...yippee!
Sadly, he probably does believe it. Years of drug and alcohol abuse have fried his synapses and he's certifiably delusional. Also, he's NEVER been held accountable for any of his fuckups. Daddy and his daddy's buddies, including the bin Laden clan, have bailed the chimp's sorry ass out time after time. Only this time, nobody can rescue this turd, or sadly, the rest of the country, and the world. He is the poster boy for the estate tax, which, if properly reinstated, would eliminate many of these trust fund imbeciles.
What's with this new phrase "my government"? That's what the Queen says about Gordon Brown and the rest of the cabinet. I liked those old fashioned constitutional presidents who talked about their "administrations".
what a fucking joke is george bush.
history will spit on him
My parents taught me to never hate anyone.
Sorry moms and pops but I hate that freak that squats in the White House with every fiber of my being.
The Truth Hurts @ 9:
Or they could have asked him what his favorite color is.
"Blood red."
CensoredFan @ 29:
Don't you have a public restroom to troll, eh troll?
jwf @ 30:
Your partially right.....He has never been held accountable for any of his fuck ups....and he has plenty....way more than the average spoiled rotten kid born with his foot in his mouth.....but sadly he'll get away with all this crap too....
Sweet Jesus!Whats wrong with his face!!
Did he have a stroke???
Thats it:we're all doomed.
motorfingaz @ 35:
Wonder what colour the sky is in his world?
All the Republican candidates have to do is kill all the Mandelas...
By the time the electioneering really begins, bush will be like "Typhoid Mary" to the repukes who are running. I say, let him go and campaign for them!
Oh he's an ass-hat alright.
mudshark @ 36:
Unfortunately, you're probably right. But these are exactly the results he wanted. One of the scariest books I've ever read was Justin Frank's "Bush On The Couch". As bizarre as it may seem to sane people, Bush actually thinks he has been a successful leader, because in his diseased mind he enjoys seeing people suffer and die. Everybody will pay for this psychopath's behavior.
"Incurious"?
Now There's an understatement!
I remember three repugs shunning the shrub as he tried to appear on their behalf.
But then again, anyone who tells him the truth is usually banished.
He is a strong ASS.
Yea he's an asset alright. That's why the Republican candidates are photographed with Bush all the time and bring his name up constantly in public and during their debates. HAHAHA, right.
Kieth Olbermann just reat that BITCH MAN in the White House!!!!
the only things these assholes can pass is fart gas!
"Bush perceives himself as a ’strong asset’ to GOP"
Pfft. Think again, monkey.
L.A. Confidential @ 2:
Bah! She gave you a pedestrian assessment that sounds a bit vapid. When the pain gets really direct and inescapeable all we need is one group anywhere to jump in and so will bunches in other places. The Right Time will hit us between the eyes. Guess she's never heard of the internet either.
to them, a big assethe's but just a big "ass" to everyone else. . .
He's a "huge asset" alright, much the same as my toilet is. I certainly wouldn't want ot go without it, not would I want to lean on it if I didn't have to!
dear mr. bush, mr. president, sir,mr. commander-in-chief, uh, sir,uh, your high commanderish and decider and press conference picker-outer and king of wannabe spies: STIIIIIIICK IIIIIIIT!!!
L.A. Confidential @ 2:
The French monarchy thought that the peasants were too busy subsisting to have enough energy left over to think about how screwed they were. The Romanovs thought that Russia was too large and too fragmented for any sort of dissidence to take place, esp. since the capitalistic experiment was creating a middle class that would buffer any sort of Bolsheviks uprising.
Unfortunately, as he walked blindfolded to the execution stand, Louis XVI thought he was going to a surprise festival the peasants were throwing in his honor. And as the tzar and his family was escorted to the basement, I am sure they thought the peasants were going to offer the czarina a pony for her birthday.
The moral is this, hunger and poverty tends to unite people faster than quick super glue. Never underestimate what people will do once there is no food on the table for their kids. The greedy bastards at the helm always seem to forget this lesson, unfortunately that the process required to remind them that there is more of us than them is not very pleasant for all the parties involved.
This Tyrant is going to go down in history as one of the most hated and powerful men in history. I look forward to seeing Bush brought to justice for the genocide in Iraq.
Huge asset with a huge ego. No humility except when it serves the ego. Bush you fucktard.
Paddy @ 4:
Destroying their water supply was a war crime. It breaks my heart what bush has done in our name to the Iraqi people. Billions spent on "reconstruction" so there is not only shit coming out of the light fixtures its in the drinking water.
Caption for the photo: "Bush Talks Out The Side Of His Ass."
He is not concerned with who will be the next president. One way or the other, he and his power money friends will still be in control.
"Look, candidates who go out and say that the United States is vulnerable..."
after eight years of a rubber stamp congress giving you everything you wanted we're still "vulnerable"? asshole!
I promise you that when Bush finally leaves office we'll hear pundits talk about "Now that Bush is gone we realize that he was really a great president." They'll talk about how he made them feel safe and President Hillary doesn't. Etc.
Mark my words. This will make you PUKE.
"Bush perceives himself as a strong asset to the GOP."
Sure.
And the USA perceives itself as a strong asset to the rest of the world.
Uh huh.
shill @ 62:
That is expected, the war will get passed to Hillary, she rightfully ends it and noise machine will call her soft on terrorism or that she supports terror and appease some fictional threat to us. yawn.
If you're on/in the toilet, you'll find the flush handle on the right.
He's the commander and chief of all dolts priding himself on his happy station as a dingle-berry precariously perched on the anal crevice of the Republican parties symbolic elephant who no matter how much it evacuates it cannot dislodge this dictating piece of shit from deteriorating the reputation of the Executive Branch or the decimated stench he's lodged all over our constitution and his narcissistic foreign and national relations.
Bush perceives himself as a 'strong ass
ethat' to GOP:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: Keep telling youself that, Dubya
C'mon. No-one with an ounce of self respect would answer 'Well, yeah. I'm a liability.' A politician even less likely to.
Those who support more dead troops & home forclosures will do well.
Those who support higher gas prices & health care costs will do well.
They are ready to attack.
Except that Bush still has a 73 approval rating among Republicans. Now, I don't really understand this and I wish someone could explain it to me. (This also explains why Congress's approval ratings could be even lower: both the Democrats and the Republicans disapprove of them.)
http://www.pollingreport.com/BushJob1.htm
http://www.pollingreport.com/CongJob1.htm
Syphillis always on the march at the "Western White House"
Lollimom @ 1:
I second that emotion.
This is one delusional sob...drugs and alcohol have horrible affects in the long term.
The fact that 73% of the GOP still approves of this goofy bastard tells a lot about the intelligence of the GOP.
AND DON'T ANYONE GO TELLING HIM ANYTHING DIFFERENT!!!
Yes, mr. decider. You are an asset. You are the single most critical component to every republican campaign. Assure that you align yourself with every republican Senator running for re-election. EVERY.SINGLE.ONE.OF.THEM.
Do it for America. It will be, in all honesty, the greatest gift you could give America....you ASSet you!
The problem is the media sees all of this as sport, Democrats Vs. Republicans. Then they reported yesterday's vote on the Webb Bill as a devastating loss for the Democrats, they didn't even consider that it was also a loss for the American people. It's not just the Democrats who want this war to come to an end.
When they say they wish politicians would forget about getting re-elected and just think about what's good for the country, what they really mean is, why don't they just do what Bush wants them to do. They are still the same old bunch that fell in lockstep behind Bush to get us into this war. They really want the country to fall back into line behind Bush again. Their world is built around sound bytes and catch phrases so Bush is their kinda guy. He never asks them to do a lot of thinking because he doesn't do much himself.
kasinca @ 74:
Could it be that all the Republicans who don't like Bush get labeled as Independents?
He is a strong "acid" to the GOP!
Republicans should wear their albatross with pride, like a blood-soaked feather boa.
i think he's planning on donating a small portion of those millions he's expecting to get from his speaking engagements after his holiday in office is over... ;-)
Uh - Yeah. Right - if you say so.
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klunk @ 80:
To buy coloring books for his presidential(not) library?
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Freeze!
Bush is clearly having a gender identity crisis as he sees himself an assette, instead of an ass.
I hope the GOPer candidates take him at his word.
Let them cast all the votes they want. Let the American people see them wasting time on these stupid votes instead of doing the will of the people. The only ones who think the moveon ad is going to have a negative effect on the Democratic Party are the beltway pundits who haven't done their job since Watergate. They just can't deal with the Web, because now we call call them out on their mistakes and their hypocrisy and their ass-kissing of the Washington elite. Who knows how much other atrocities were commited by them before the popularity of the Internet? So let them prattle on about the moveon ad ad more American soldiers are thrown into the meat grinder. Some people are going to pay for the disaster in Iraq and in our country, and it is not going to be moveon.com. Moveon has probably signed up more new members since the ad was first run than the Republican Party will.
Put a muzzle on the sob. He's so stupid.
strong asset?... no........Strong asshat......maybe.........BIG El Grande ASSHAT...yep you betcha!
This man is out of his mind.
What is amazing is the Bush DOES think himself an asset. He is wrong about so many things, so many times that his delusions have to be coming from a bottle or a needle. Normal healthy people simply don't think this way.
Of course Bush would think of himself in these terms. He's a narcissist and a megalomaniac. He cannot think of himself as anything but an asset to the GOP. To do so would go against his f-ed up and damaged brain chemistry.
I hear boosh is leaving his brain to science.
It'll help them in focussing their microscopes.
It's good to know which leaders are pro-murder and pro-theft, ie; pro-war and pro-stealing other countries resources.
It's very insightful about their morals, or lack there of.
Bush is deluded if he thinks he can be an upright "Christian" and yet on a massive scale ignore "Thou shalt not kill" and "Thou shalt not steal".
McDuff @ 84:
We've got the words wrong... He said Asshat--not Asset--and he's right... he really is an asshat!!
mudshark @ 88:
Yeah! like you said...
Let's not forget the 06' election and how many candidates Bush campaigned for in their home states and how many of them won!!!!! Remember it was 0 candidates who won. Yes, he's an asset all right. This guy really has no clue.
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Bush is the best thing to ever happen to the party.
The democratic party.
The 08 election is a lock for the democrats, given how all the republican candidates (minus Ron Paul) support a war that 70% of Americans are against.
I just pray democratic voters will take the opportunity and elect a Kucinich, rather than Hillary who's just another establishment hack like Bush and her husband.
Will you people get the quote correct? He said 'strong asshole'. Geesh.
a lot of coke has gone up that nose
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