Countdown's <I>Bushed!</i>: Illiterate, Hypocritical and Extra-Constitutional
By Nicole Belle Monday Feb 11, 2008 12:31pm
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That sums up the Bush Administration in a nutshell, doesn't it? On Monday's edition of Bushed!, Keith Olbermann notes the continued mangling of the English language by the president as exemplified by his interview with FOXNews Sunday:
And secondly I believe the Iraq democracy is going to take hold and — it's very hard to write the future history of America before the current history hasn't been fully written.
I'll admit that I read that sentence several times without being able to make heads or tails of it, but this is news? Keith, dude, they have websites devoted to "Bushisms."
Next is the typically hypocritical stance of the White House for excoriating Congress for doing something while basically doing the same thing themselves. Case in point: Sen. Dick Durbin submitted last year a $1.5million earmark to combat the emerald ash borer beetle, responsible for killing ash trees throughout the midwest, which Bush vowed to veto. This year, the federal budget that Bush submitted includes a whopping $330million allocated to fighting pests like the emerald ash borer.
And finally, the news we brought you yesterday, that the White House has announced its plans to charge and try in secret six detainees for murder and war crimes relating to 9/11.
Not to say they may not be guilty and not to say they may not deserve it, but how convenient. The trials could probably start just as the presidential election kicks into high gear, meaning if there was a quick conviction or the trials were simply ongoing, the Republicans could take credit for their extra-Constitutional torture, detention and trials. And if there were quick acquittals, they could blame the Democrats for not being enough torture, detention and trials.
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Too bushed to be Bushed (again)..
Huge rally for change to be held in Washington D.C. this summer proposed by GOP presidential candidate on national radio this morning!
5 minutes Mr bin Laden....5 minutes!
Bush is unconstitutional only because the Democrats and the Republicans want it that way.
Better add telecom immunity, Keith.
Oh and thank you, Democratic senators. (AKA, Scurrilous cowards.)
At this point, the Democrats are almost as guilty as the Republicans. Pelosi is still refusing to impeach the war criminal.
what do you think you get from an ignorant drunkard bully president?
did you expect competence?
did you expect compassion?
did you expect responsibility?
did you expect promises to be kept, when he breaks all promises?
did you expect anything from a president who vacations more than he works?
did you expect the president to honor his oath to uphold the Constitution?
what did you expect when bush/cheney illegally stole both elections in 2000 and 2004?
I sure hope Americans are as sick and tired of the Bush Regime as the rest of the world is. Let's all learn from this fraudulent government.
This. Country. Is. So. Fucked.
Keith you need to start saying, "Imagine, you don't even need to speak proper English to be able to fleece your own country of $7 trillion dollars for you and your buddys personal piggy bank. Thats one trillion a year. Now who's the dumb ones?"
From what I'm hearing on tv from people who know a lot about these trials, they are saying the chances of them even beginning before the end of this year are slimmer than slim.
I think it's just a sneaky way to get 9-11 back on people's minds without screaming 9-11 every other word. McCain needs everyone back in their duck and cover mode if he wants to win. He's all about the war and such.
"...it’s very hard to write the future history of America before the current history hasn't been fully written."
Trying my best to understand what he is saying, it sounds like he has a little more to add to this "current history" that might change the "future history". What's this drunk cowboy got up his sleeve? I don't think I want to know.
Head: Desk
America the cast of characters a reading for baby boomers
Obama as a presidential candidate is asked how you are going to stop terrorist ?
Then Obama says, yes we can, we will give them something to believe in, we will turn a page in history, and we will bring the voice of the people to the White House. The whole world will change, when I’ am President, suffering and poverty will diminish, a new economy will take your breath away, jobs for every one, fair labor wages will be expanded, as we address Mexicans to aim for better wages, every one will have health care, even though Hillary was characterized as an evil when she started doing that years ago should be given some credit. Obama, says, But, I know how to get this done, were she did not. For when I was ten years old my mom, and my gamma taught me how, and my experience on the streets of Chicago working with minorities give me experience to know poverty. Vote for me. The war will end.
A twenty one year old super delegate from Wisconsin asks ? O.K. How yaw goin ta do it Barrack ?
Obama says we will give them something to believe in, Obama says we will turn the pages of history, Obama says change the way America thinks, leave the ideals of the same old, same old people elected over and over again not getting what you want, lets change the way we do things in Washington and the world. Those baby boomers, those children, whose fathers fought fascist in the second war have lost their way. They had challenges as we will, but like you, my mother and grand mama has taught me the values to understand how to do this. Vote for me, I know how to do this, I got experience in the streets of Chicago.
Now my “Reflection” on America the cast of characters a reading for baby boomers
There is a huge dimensional difference in pure reason here, I know my characterization is kind of stretched, there is a reason, for that, sort of like the New York Times article about Obama “over characterizing” his drug problem. But another ideal was identified by only one political analyst that I listened so far, Charlie Rose on PBS had the slightly wining dialog about this age gap thing going on in the election, accept for the Middle East Indian so called expert who had no clue on how to address the foreign policies talked about in a round robbin discussion tabled at what is Microsoft’s new surf screen interface.
These few days having the opportunity to spend time watching cable news Mainstream Media and reading the Blogs, and finding a special small story that was illustrated on the Internet by a Rabbi, I have to honestly say tied it all together for me. In just praying for something, just does not always does it, as Jesus was the one that started to use parables, one needs to resort to parable or analogies to understand what’s happening. Most of all talk about it.
In modern terms some parables fit better then others but any culture has to agree to the right one, then work through it, which is what we all call testing. Things must fit easily for the dynamics of that divine hand shake to take place for good values were we all see the miracle. If not we need to know how to back out gently. God is forgiving but man is not to himself. So, the small story from the Rabbi, or where did he find it ?
Once upon time a king was on his way through the forest making astonishing observations in arrows from bows some archer always hits the targets in the center upon every tree. Absolutely with extraordinary precision. The King proclaimed this man must be found, send word to the country side in the Kingdom and fetch this archer to the King. The archer was found and to the Kings surprise it was a ten year old boy, who was delighted to exhibit his skill in bow and arrow to show the King. So, the young boy aimed his arrow at a tree then went to the tree to paint a bull’s eye around the arrow. LOL. Indeed.
Clever, yes and how do we relate this young man to our time, deeds and needs ?
Obviously there are no rules to hit the target. Just as in the elections from Pontius Pilot to now, each time a clever way has to be done to win. And will be accepted. In today’s culture something is happening that is extraordinary brilliant. But needs to be carried out with the technology and expert front line operators co-operation, or complicity likely to include abuse and corruption. The story about the archer perhaps will go to denial for many, but I will sling my arrow of thought about it.
As a Boomer I have to go back and defend experience, real working experience, simple straight forward, it can not be compared. It’s unique. And in many respects has been very under rated by historians and especially the free market system commanded by the Elite College Culture. Good working experience performs obviously in honor very different then so called degree people, which as major government, corporate operations are loaded with. All guiding and deliver bias and corruption at rates with horrible balance.
What’s my point ? The boomers Obama want to dismiss have had different struggles, yet layed the foundation for the progress we have now. For me as a child when I was ten years old, I had no grand mother, I had no father when I was four my dad left my mother, my mother kept a factory job to survive, I had no telephone till I was about nineteen, no running hot water till about high school. Had the same pair of pants socks for school every day, I didn’t know better watching flash Gordon shows and wishing I was on a different planet and life. So much in common with Obama, yet struggling every day.
But now approaching sixty two as a white male trying to dedicate myself as a citizen activist even after serving as a veteran in Vietnam, lucky to be alive with all my limbs and senses, can reflect back to share not a dream but a real happening. Sure its hindsight but to me it fits. I feel like Colin Powell, but he and his son are luckier then me. With that turn, Obama, dismisses decades of reparations a sort of free economy built from compassion, not Democratic guilt.
The Change of the basic welfare economy that Bill Clinton had the courage to put the breaks on, a six trillion dollar expenditure in time, where spending could have been applied to everyone, but was shared with a huge black and white population, ironically America saw the evaporation of huge dollars and real working experience of the poor extend itself. All this diminishing real growth and good values. But now as we all see America has a broken culture, babies with unwed mothers, decades of minorities that are illiterate and responsibility in the shadows and lost. With bitter realities a lost opportunity that was enough to change out America’s fundemental infrastructure, improving it at least once. Why didn’t it work? It was leadership stupid. Or a combinations of greed and leadership at the wrong time. Anyway.
Obama dismisses another huge cultural leap, more than extraordinary the aggressive implementation and application of the Internet. Perhaps even some will say a miracle, a way from the grip of Mainstream Media, being removed from the corporate squeeze on everyone, all done during the Clinton administration. So, kudos’ to Clinton, heck no, simply not going to argue the reasons for or against Clinton on this one, just enjoy any the benefits and opportunity to escape to real cultural and economic freedom. Like a movie, or song, with a happy ending in sight. Jimmy Dean comes mind, about, Big John, big John, big “BAD” John, with all his might lifted the timber, then a trapped miner shouted look a light up above, and twenty men scrambled from a would be grave. For me I salute Clinton for his dream and the results the Internet brought to America and the World.
Obama says he will end the War. How could this be, America, the reality of the War started from the time of Christ. It never ended. Well, let’s leap to today, It’s so easy to parade around and object to the War in Iraq. For that matter any War. Here, we need to examine the basics in what we know. Since America has a Secret Shit Society we don’t know much about anything. The reality as to what is happening from what is said and what is interpreted to what we should know from who for why is so convoluted in the Mainstream Media today it shouldn’t surprise how cookoo ideals with relational thinking aim for the roadrunners, as Rush Limbaugh says the drive by media exists so you and me must the audience, yet Limbaugh wildly claims he is not the media all the while talking into his golden microphone. Isn’t that being cookoo?
So, what is my point ? The target has been there a long time for the War in Iraq or where ever. With good observation, understand some of the experience that has built the fundamentals of the situation. Obama, dismisses the a huge background of work experience, perhaps with good intensions that can not be duplicated, filled with honor by avoiding, could insult all invested. Senator Hillary Clinton entered a new culture known as the Senate, and likely realizes this a great deal more then Obama.
To dismiss the exhaustion, anxieties, understandings, personal particulars derived from the international arena likely would be a mortal risk. Americans must consider the United Nations, International law, early Congressional Resolutions, War Powers Act, and the basic of the Constitution and Congress rights to challenge “ANYTHING” the President does. Including the Iraq War Resolution which I support the debate that would support it, including the majority of Senators that supported it, it was a good Resolution, it was not carried out by our executive president with the measure it was designed for, consequently, arrogantly, defiantly, and in violation with criminal actions disregarded basics in the defense of the Constitution.
Bush and Obama are in the same sense talking about the target the tree and painting the bull’s eye around it. Obama, not having to buckle up in the Senate seat to anguish and think about those concerned in secret meetings and secret intelligent reports known today as largely cooked up to apply enough pressure to swing votes rather then to be accurate meaningful addressing America’s security needs, all this really designed for profiteering and Mainstream Media play.
Remember, Obama was not a Senator at the time of the Iraq Resolution, not part of the intimate insider knowledge supposed to secrets meant to be kept away from the public but really used to pressure in guiding a false plan. Obama knows this measure of poor moral authority, yet plays it with the Media knowing too, like Michael Jackson in concert across the nation. Very disappointing, but now known how will the forces of power play out.
Vote Hillary Clinton 2008
What can we do and as a boomer with experience, watch your back....
Administration's Dramatic About-Face: Now Seeks Trial of 9/11 Suspects Before Judge Judy
pissed off patricia @ 11:
Like any greedy and corrupt CEO looking out for himself in order to get the rewards you decide you are entitled to you have to basically loot, plummet, and destroy your own company and leave it bankrupt while you ride off into the sunset with tens of millions if not hundreds of millions ultimately of the companies money.
Obama should appoint Olbermann director of the War Department's Propaganda Office.
Just to keep our Generals on their toes.
(Keeping Generals 'On Their Toes' isn't torture, is it? If it is, Fu*k It, do it anyway)
AP - 59 minutes ago
DETROIT - General Motors Corp. reported a $38.7 billion loss for 2007 on Tuesday, the largest annual loss ever for an automotive company, and said it is making a new round of buyout offers to U.S. hourly workers in hopes of replacing some of them with lower-paid help.
"Lower Paid Help"
See where it's going.
I've heard it a few times, and I know you have too.....the chimp " is a very intelligent man" bullshit.
Now, I'm sorry folks. You can toss out lies and the pravda network spins them as if they are some sort of extra-gallactica truth, but when some one tells me this total buffoon is anything CLOSE to "intelligent", I can't swallow that nut.
We have the more illiterate idiot running this nation with rove and cheney's hand up his ass that you could ever possibly imagine. But I won't expect anyone, myself included, to imagine that he is "intelligent". Our fearless leader has made us all proud......shame on us.
In the 30's we had plenty of mineral resources, lots of trained-and-regimented manpower, millions of productive family farms, factories that were practically new, and more than 90 percent left of the greatest petroleum reserve anywhere in the world.
How in the hell could there be a great depression with mass unemployment under those circumstances?
In his secret heart of hearts, The Dummy knows that before he finishes not writing the current history of his future legacy, and long before the future of his current deeds is left unwritten, he will be swept to 'HEAVEN' in his 'RAPTURE', and not have to no more not think about nothing.
And he'll finally unmeet that whispering assh*le figment who's been dis-directing his unlife.
the shame of this country.
zorro @ 13:
what an incrediible waste. where did you cut and paste that from? nevermind, I really don't want to know.
"...it’s very hard to write the future history of America before the current history hasn’t been fully written."
Wow. Twig has got to stop channeling Dan Quayle for elocution insight. Reminds me of my favorite Quayle quote: "Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the - to the back! "
CoIntelPro @ 21:
But if your rich you can choose to live in Shady Haven Gated Golfing Community and not have to think about shame.
Dr. Acula @ 9:
Well said . . .
pissed off patricia @ 11:
i think he is up to staying in office beyond his current term. setting the cia up with a
new secret division to oversee homeland security(more than likely blackwater),too many more signing statements of his new illegal above-the-law I-won't-obey-the-law actions. charles I was beheaded for less arrogance than bush's bullshit lies.
zorro @ 13:
please stop pasting someone else's articles and write your own words. just supply the link next time. thanks
My guess is bushs pest control spending is Ok because delay will be the contractor?
L.A. Confidential @ 19:
Just put the country in the hands of megalo-maniacs?
then slow-boil it like a frog.
they'll never know what hit them.
and since they hate each other so much, we can fu*k all of them, one group at a time.
and they will revel in each other's suffering.
this country is morally bankrupt. . .
L.A. Confidential @ 23:
"Shame is for poor people" - mama busch
dadams @ 25:
No he's not. Bush never wanted to be President. It's been 8 years of sh*t he doesn't want to deal with for him all he wants is his money and perks.
Whats going to happen if the Dems get in is you'll hear the Bush Co and GOP say "It's not our problem" when a broke American populace is facing destitution and banana republic economics.
CoIntelPro @ 27:
Exploit the Masses. Exploit the Masses. Rinse, repeat.
dadams @ 25:
rachel maddow had a great take yesterday:
admitting torture to congress
gates in Iraq
6 gitmo detainees go on trial with death sentence implications
end of troop reductions declared
LIEberman asks 16 agencies about nukular event response
They are in an all-out, double-dog-dare-you, lollapalooza, in-yer-face campaign mode to make 9/11 an issue for the 2008 election.
L.A. Confidential @ 31:
Too true! So sad.
zorro @ 13:
Ahhh yes trust the people who brought us Nixon, Reagan, and both bushs. Time for your generation to take a nap. This is a job for the Lost Generation, those born 1960 - 1970. we really can't trust the boomers anymore after the mess they've got us into.
L.A. Confidential @ 19:
there was an engineered depression to consolidate those resources into the hands of the elite oligarchy.
just like measures enacted today, the elite sneaked past the population the Federal Reserve, the Income tax, and other measures.
The trials could probably start just as the presidential election kicks into high gear
Well once you're done with torture you always have an Autos de Fe before the executions.
Here is the choice. Whoever becomes President.
Immediately end the war, bring home the troops and slash defense and war expenditures to maintenance and preparedness.
Continue the current course forcing Americans to become ever more dependent on the MIC-Security complex just to earn an income.
Raise taxes on Americans until we can no longer afford to live in our own homes much less chase around after bling and mobility.
Forgive everybody in the worlds debts and start from scratch.
Anything else?
They expect to have the judges rounded up soon, though...
sites that worship bushism oh god what has happened to inteligent thought in this country but then again American idol is the most watched show I think it's de-evolution
Or find a secluded area somewhere on this planet and build a self sustaining community, just to wake up one morning five years later and find U.S. Covert Special Forces knocking on your door telling you. . "this land is owned by U.S. Timber Resources and we are here to give you notice you will have to vacate by no later then 30 days.
zorro, I get the feeling that I should respect you for your caring and compassion. I know I want to thank you for serving our country in Vietnam. However, I really have no idea what you were trying to say! I got that you are voting for Hillary...but all fo you comments about Barack are half sentences and claims that he is dismissive. Just because Barack's stump speach is about hope, reconciliation, teamwork, and justice, it does not mean that he is dismissive. Read his website. Look into his background. Understand that Hillary lays claim to no more experience than Barack except the difference of her first 4 years in the US Senate compared to his 7 years in the Illinois State Senate. The two have a couple of appreciable differences in policy stance. (namely, healthcare specifics) Mostly though, they have the same platform and similar experience levels. So, if you agree that their positions are better than those of McCain, then you must choose the person that inspires the most people to do their best and the one that will have the best chance to defeat the general election opponent. I happen to think that is Obama, but you are entitled to your opinion.
I think the reason they are having a "trial" for the accused is because they want them convicted and executed before the next administration takes over. We know they were tortured. Who knows what they might say to an Administration official who might want to interview them?
Robin @ 44:
Usually when the government goes public with something, it's already happened.
A military tribunal away from the scrutiny of the public has only one intention and that certainly isn't acquittal . These men may have something to share with the world that is not flattering toward Bush/Cheney . Time to get rid of them, and hey, why not as Dubya is leaving office ?
zorro @ 13:
Yes vote for Hillary who didn't vote against telecom immunity but who did vote for Bush to invade Iraq. Twisted logic or experience we can trust?
Time to break up?? It's past time.... Way past time... His 'use by' date expired in 2000....probably earlier.. I think he knows it somewhere deep inside. Probably why he sold out for one last shot at the big brass ring.... No scruples... no worries....Pretty nifty defense mechanism is you can sell yourself that shit... I never much agreed with him, but for the longest time, one vet to another, I respected him.....Respected his right to hold opposing views to mine...respected what he went thru in that damnable Nam fiasco. That respect on my part vanished along with his principles over these last seven years...
I've said this before and I'll repeat it here again.. He's old, he's tired, and his pitch is weak...waay weak. I'm beginning to get really sick and tired of looking at him with his phony 'my friends' comeon... The republicans, as stupid, as penny proud pound foolish as they've repeatedly shown themselves to be... As immoral and mendacious as these republican leaders demonstrate daily.. All those fucks might well deserve to be saddled with this worn out old plowhorse fuckstick... But this nation doesn't deserve his presence finishing off what the frikkin Bush administration started... I don't care what all the foreign born America hatin posters say... We don't deserve this shit anymore than any other nation deserves being brought down from within by immoral morons.......
After seven years of Bush? WE ALL and the world deserve better than this tiredassed freekin war mongerin rightwing suckup.... Of course, with the dems caving on any little thing they can in appeasement of the current power glitterati, I'm not sure anymore who that better someone is... Obama? H. Clinton??? I ain't yet sold on either one of them frankly.... Damn I wish the little dweeb from Cleveland and Mr. Haircut from the south were still in this thing... I really do... They had the better ideas in my opinion.....Regardless of the fact that one wasn't Hollywood perfect with his little sidecar ears and squenched up face and the other guy was way too pretty faced, with a lawyer background and his bad haircut deals.......
Of course I blame the media for their marginalization out of the picture.. And I could now rant on and on about that too... But I won't..... I'm just pretty much totally disgusted with all this shit now.......Guess I'll be holding my nose along with a lot of other people come election day......JD
Zorro, you should really get to know Les Ismore.
Whoops.... Wrong thread.. Oh well, whatever......JD
According to a book by Carl Bernstein due to come out next month, Hillary's judgement that the White House environs would prevent Bill from pursuing his numerous affairs.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_ar...
We sort of know that already, but we need to be reminded that her judgement was wrong, even with her own husband.
Guys, i am all for the money to fight the emerald ash borer, keith should do his homework here. The ash borer is gonig to be respondisble to the practical extinction of the genus Fraxinus (ash) tree, one of our most important trees ecologically. There are vast forest stands of ash, and it is used widely as a street tree. It is one of our finest in the country and we WILL miss it.
-I am a landscape architect whom is very concerned about this.
L.A. Confidential @ 19:
Because greedy frenzies and fearful hysterias can wreak a hell of a lot of havoc with the fundamentals, that's how. As of late, in regards to subprime mortgage "crisis," both the MSM and blogosphere seem to be intent on triggering a panic.
earl @ 49:
caught your attention huh.
Johnny2Bad @ 5:
Way too kind, way too kind of you.. in this case, scurrilous cowards is a complement compared to what they should be called.
Tom @ 43:
Here is what you have to know about me, I like Obama, just like Clinton, I will vote for either one who might be on the ticket. But, Obama, has so many negatives as compared to Clinton when it comes to knowing what to do, know the best resources. It is Clinton. Obama will be ripped apart by the Republican machine. Whatching the crowds and my home grown intutitve perception is that a lot of Obama's support are fixed shallow Republicans laying ready to bolt.
If ever there was a Rovian scheme suppying Republican energy this is it, and it's brilliant all the while daily ranted with the support of Mainstream Media. They, the media are all complicit to Bushs goof. Haven't you noticed this past year since Democrats took a even small margin of control, America looks like a huge broken corrupt cash cow sewer to the world. I would speculate first line Media Journalist are so tied together and biased guys like Chris Matthews, Dick Gregory, or whos that analyst Todd probably could tell were Sean Hannity's car is parked right now. Of course they would be in denial. LOL.
Obama's book the Audacity of Hope is loaded with what one can call a Norman Vincent Peale positive thinker, dressed with a little Norman Rockwell, with slices of not knowing what to do, which clearly shows a person who can not stand alone. Clinton can stand alone and media is terrified. By the way are you Tom the guy from that gay blog Americanblog that is anti-Hillary?
I agree with Jon Q- the emerald ash borer is a new invasive pest which is spreading and has already done massive amounts of damage. Destruction of he nation's ash trees will cause billions of dollars of damage and we need all the money we can get to fight it. The emerald ash borer has already killed >20 million trees. It's not just 'a bug,' Keith O. Look at emeraldashborer.info.
zorro @ 13:
God, "zorro"...shorter wanking would really work better for ya. Fewer. Words.
bilhelm-X @ 47:
Oh paleez. If you took all Obama's "no shows" (Kyl Lieberman for example) and laid them end to end, they'd reach almost all the way around Hillary's calf.
So get down off the indignation train.
Whycome I keep picturing booshie on a streetcorner, wearing knickers and a huuuge cap, yelling, "Extra, extra, don't read about it!"
zorro @ 54:
I thought the name was Les Wynen.
"What was his name, again? What ever happened to him, again?..."
Keith,
His name(s) was Dick cheney and George W. Bush.
They are alive and well, committing daily atrocities against america and the world.
ralph @ 30:
do not confuse your country with the government. When these parisites are gone and WE take back our country I hope some semblance of sanity will be restored in the swamp on the potomac.
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