Bush Struggles For Relevancy As Obama Follows Him To Africa
By Logan Murphy Sunday Feb 17, 2008 11:59am
Via CNN:
It took two days, but Obama-mania finally crashed President Bush's party in Africa ever so briefly on Sunday.
Jennifer Loven of the Associated Press asked Bush a question about his AIDS relief plan and then turned to Kikwete to note the excitement in Africa about Obama's candidacy and asked the African leader to comment on "what you think it says about America that we might elect a black President with roots in Africa?"
Even though that part of the question was not directed at him, Bush weighed in first with mock exasperation that everyone seemed to be forgetting he was treated like a rock star on the trip. "It seemed like there was a lot of excitement for me, wait a minute," the President said to laughter. "Maybe you missed it." Read on...
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What an impetuous little child he is. It’s all about me, isn’t it Georgie?
Playing 'dress-up' these last 7 years , like you wanted an audition to be one of the members of the Village People , doesn't make you a "Rock Star" , Chimpy ............
He's relevant . . . as the poster child for dictators.
Struggling for relevancy?
Bah! A pox on you! I refuse to believe it!
Egos are like balloons. The more inflated they are, the more delicate they are.
No retard ; you "missed it"...........The excitement generated is over the countdown to your leaving the Oval Office............
Douche-Bag President.
and while bush is touring africa in the hopes of finding the only people in the world who still like him, the armed forces are now offering a 40k bonus for enlistment...with a catch
http://www.slate.com/id/2184482/
But didn't ya'll see all the fake fans I had on the way in? Oh yeah, and the best way not to get AIDS is to just stop fucking. Which way to the oil wells?
ME ME ME ME ME oh, and ME!
Bu$h needs to wake up to the fact that he has no relevancy... a rich white man who is a crook and lies is not someone who can give the people of Africa anything they need. Other than providing them with money for what they need... and keeping his word this time, but this is Bu$h and that's not gonna happen because he's incapable of keeping his word.
They ought to take Busholini to a diamond mine and let him work in the filth for a day. Then accuse him of stealing a diamond and ask if he'd like "short sleeves" or "long sleeves"! (Blood Diamond reference).
if there are mysterious holdouts from the prehistoric still thriving in Africa..... would it not be appropriate to lose this one where it can be with it's own?
Can someone just dump him in the poorest part of Africa and leave him there with nothing? How long would he survive....
The boy-king's ego is so fragile. If he was a man instead of a man-child he would not have been so hurt.
Jealous much?
It's like taking a photo of some people and he's asked to keep moving to the side until he's outta the frame completely, that's how irrelevant he is. Or rather with his reckless leadership style he's made himself that irrelevant. he deserves to be shunted to the side, even before his time is done, because he isn't important anymore. we have to tolerate him but that's it. he was 'done' awhile ago.
The True Reason for Bush’s Popularity in Africa
Bush. What a pitiful mess... But does the Nation regret it yet? Oh, sorry, only the MSM counts....
breakspear @ 17:
Unfortunately for us, he still wields the veto pen.
What a pissy little snot.
Thanks Barbara!!!
Snickering idiot. GET OUT.
The countdown continues...
SWoods @ 14:
Difficult to say - many would take pity on someone that is so obviously mentally handicapped.
This reminds me of a snippet of TV's legendary "The Simpsons."
Bart Simpson(/GWB) (Wearing a cape, banging on a pot, and screaming at the top of his lungs): I AM SO GREAT!! I AM SO GREAT!! EVERYBODY LOVES ME, I AM SO GREAT!!
Marge Simpson(/Laura?): Be quiet!
Bart (in the same fashion): QUIET! QUIET! QUIET! QUIET!!!
10 year old brat. That's all W will ever be.
Kikwete said "...well, our excitement is that President Bush is at the end of his term, and the U.S. is going to get a new President, whoever that one is..."
Yeah, we're pretty excited about that too.
Kikwete said that he is excited that Bush is at the end of his term... well, we are excited too and wish it was over sooner then later.
Jesus, that's just pathetic. Imagine what private talks with other heads of state must be like when he's around. I don't think we would want to know. It would probably embarrass us to death.
""Well, I don't think I can venture into that territory, either," said Kikwete. "Of course, people talk with excitement of Obama — well, our excitement is that President Bush is at the end of his term(my emphasis), and the U.S. is going to get a new President, whoever that one is. For us, the most important thing is, let him be as good [a] friend of Africa as President Bush has been."
Kilwete screws up and has an honest moment.
He is such a child, our "president". *sigh*
I wonder if he went back to his room and had a right old tantrum, lying on the floor, kicking his heels and crying, "This is supposed to be about MEEEEE!"
I hope Americans understand how much goodwill will come from the rest of the world if we elect Obama. It would send a strong signal to the world that Americans are more open-minded and that the terrible reign of Bush is OVER.
If only he weren't so damn deadly.....I can't even enjoy making fun of him anymore because I know that, while we laugh at him and mock him, our troops are still dying and he's still ruining our country.
He needs to be publicly rendited and waterboarded until he squeals on Cheney.
And then get out the electrodes.
oldtree @ 13:
that is incredibly insulting to the people still living in pre-western-contact lifestyles...
People in Africa adore their Apes!!!!!
"Well, I don't think I can venture into that territory, either," said Kikwete. "Of course, people talk with excitement of Obama — well, our excitement is that President Bush is at the end of his term, and the U.S. is going to get a new President
And the whole freaking world is excited about that!
Yeah , Chimpy ; it's thoughtful and intellectual statements like the one I copied & pasted above , that has elevated you to "Rock Star" status , you moronic douchebag...........
He, dinkledork, never stops being a jackass!
MCMetal @ 35:
Damn...we sure are a sad lot....
"BUSH: I don’t think so. I think actually the spending in the war might help with jobs…because we’re buying equipment, and people are working. I think this economy is down because we built too many houses and the economy’s adjusting."
OMG.
Seriously.
I give up.
Suprised he follow that with:
"Axe yourself, is our soldierer's killin'?"
I'm surprised boosh isn't doing the crotch dance, rubbing the American flag back and forth between his thighs.
War is good for business.
Business is good for the country.
War is good for the country.
The business of this president is war, and business is good. Ignore that stench of death, go shopping. Buy your child a toy weapon or a video game that will train him to help some future Republican administration keep the ranks full for their next business venture.
When there is blood in the streets, there is money to be made.
Pathetic. I guess that's what they do their last year in office...rack up the frequent flyer miles and see the world at taxpayer expense.
Katie @ 24:
Bart was in his terrible two's in that scene.
I don't think Obama's African origins explain his popularity there. I mean, they don't like Bush, and he's part chimp.
ysbaddaden @ 40:
And were's the spandex pants and leather bustier ?
MCMetal @ 45:
I have them on order.
ysbaddaden @ 46:
Make sure the over-sized , conical-shaped Madonna boob covers are the proper size........
ysbaddaden @ 40:
boosh or douche?
He is the lamest duck.
What a jackass!
...go Obama!
Bush treated like a rock star? Only if those people in the crowd cheering him were paid off and hand picked would I agree with that statement. Bush has only his own policies and decisions to blame for his irrelevancy. Only Bush could go from a high 90% or so approval rating just after 9/11 to an all time current low of 29-30% (personally I think its much lower than that.)
People now, are looking for new leadership and from the looks of things around the world they like what they see in Obama and I tend to agree with them.
Just HT'd you.
As the NY Times pointed out over the weekend this is less about Africa and more about Bush's legacy. What legacy?
mercman @ 38:
Not news.
Early voting for the primaries start this week in Texas.
I'm going this Saturday to do so wearing my favorite shirt:
http://www.superherostuff.com/bush_sucks_tshirts/images/bushvampire.html
What a rude bastard! I cringed when he announced his intentions to spend his last months traveling the globe on the American peoples' tab. He's fulfilled my expectations by making a complete ass of himself everywhere he goes. I hope the people of the world remember all this when they start looking for the one person most responsible for the current instability in the world.
Bush/Cheney: The Hague in 2009!
Most people are able to hide their insecurities and unpleasant impulses to some extent.
Not shrub.
As the head criminal is on the run, someone should sneak
in a real journalist and confront him on this..
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Dr. Acula @ 48:
Douché!
He is in Africa because it is the only country that likes him on President's Day.
But the people of Kosovo are celebrating their independence:
"In an outpouring of adulation for the United States, the architect of NATO’s 1999 bombing campaign against Serbian forces under President Slobodan Milosevic, revelers unfurled giant American flags, carried posters of former President Bill Clinton and chanted, “Thank you, U.S.A.” and “God bless America.”"
No love for President Clinton on President's Day and that is a damn shame.
MCMetal @ 47:
Mine are bigger than hers.
336 Days 10 Hours 9 Minutes 30 Seconds.
getalife @ 59:
That's awfully Bushian of you.
ysbaddaden @ 60:
Ummm.................Congrats ?
I guess the Presidential candidates can really look forward to one thing. No matter who eventually becomes President, he/she will not have to do much to make themselves relevant. I mean, just look at the standards Bush has set for the next President. They are so low anyone can meet them.
On the other hand, the next President could very well go down in history as the greatest President of all time if he/she can drastically improve things for the United States and all of this will be due to George W. Bush's piss poor legacy that will surely follow him.
MCMetal @ 63:
Guys know when they're getting middle-aged, when they go to a topless bar, and discover theirs is the biggest one in the place.
Please make sure his farewell tour doesn't include the UK.
That and Madonna has the built of Olive Oyl.
(Which sounds like a lubricant by the way.)
I keep getting this overwhelming desire a lot recently to "Check Out" from America for a while.
What a nice gesture! 700 million is what we spend per day
in Iraq!
Did boosh amuse the Africans by doing his imitation of Carol Burnett's imitation of Johnny Wiesmuller's imitation of an ape yell?
ysbaddaden @ 54:
I might have to buy that t-shirt. Personally, I like the one with Bush pictured on it and next to it is an arrow pointing to Bush saying "I'm not with stupid".
SteamRanger @ 55:
Bush/Cheney: The Hague in 2009!
Now that's where he should end his tour on behalf of the American people!!
That was frankly an insulting question. Bushs trip is about BUSH and HIS legacy. Not some black liberal hopemongerer who wants to embrace Ahmadinejad and invade Pakistan
Did the "blown noodle in the back of the limo" story follow Obama to Africa?
It is just too funny watching the media trying to do their "jobs" while knowing that this story is out there. You know that they are all talking about it once they are off camera.
Here's the Bizarro World Fox News report. Notice the omission at the end:
"Well, I don't think I can venture into that territory, either," said Kikwete. "Of course, people talk with excitement of Obama — well, our excitement is that President Bush is at the end of his term, and the U.S. is going to get a new President, whoever that one is...
pongo @ 49:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97RjuC9YeXg
galmud @ 74:
Because the retarded simian in the Oval Office hasn't pissed away enough lives and $'s , he's wasting US taxpayer $'s on being remembered as the worst president in US history ?
He doesn't need any type of trip for that ; he's got that position all sewn up........
Mi$$ion Accompli$hed
galmud @ 74:
That's funny.
ysbaddaden @ 43:
I stand corrected. And a little more depressed.
For Valentines day did pickes give georgie a heart shaped box of chocolate laxatives?
And had nothing installed in the White House but pay toilets?
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Samson- @ 32:
that is incredibly insulting to the people still living in pre-western-contact lifestyles...
No, it isn't, because any such people are most certainly not reading this discussion. It's only insulting to people who feel the need to be insulted on their hypothetical behalf.
pongo @ 49:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8dY4xErkFM
lol, someone call the waaaaaaaaaaahmbulance, cause someone's not getting enough attention!
Jeremy @ 84:
No, it isn't, because any such people are most certainly not reading this discussion. It's only insulting to people who feel the need to be insulted on their hypothetical behalf.
just because you don't understand my point (see, bad joke) don't make yourself look like a jerk.
whoops. too late.
Bush said Americans are a generous people.
Meaning he won't have to pay a cent for for anything.
If only this cretin were in prison, the world would be a better place. I keep hoping. And, ya know, hope springs eternal.
c. atrox @ 89:
Only problem is they own the Prisons.
Gosh, this guy is an idiot, but a very very dangerous idiot.
L.A. Confidential @ 83:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgWiFTCZYBo
ysbaddaden @ 92:
Thats about where it's heading.
If Chimpy wanted to go somewhere that people still think he's great maybe he should go to Albania and get a permanent home there
L.A. Confidential @ 90:
Hey chimpy ever been in a Turkish prison? ala Airplane
It is kinda of scary to think what Bush may do on impulse to show he is really relevant. Frankly he is less stable and less constrained than the heads of state of Iran or North Korea at this point.
getalife @ 59:
The people most celebrating the so-called independence of Kosovo should be the heroin users throughout Europe. After 10 years of U.N. monitoring the place is a haven for drug trafficking, smuggling and a host of other illegal activities.
Also celebrating today are those nations that flout international law except when it's convenient. The declaration and imminent U.S. recognition is a grave violation of the UN Charter itself, which affirms the territorial integrity, inviolability, sovereignty and national unity of states. Not only does the declaration shatter that principle, it further violates the Helsinki Final Act of 1975 and U.N. Security Council Resolution 1244. But again laws are inconvenient things, aren't they? Even for Clintons.
unsurebtwilling @ 95:
Go ahead dream on if it makes you feel better.
Laura, Condi, please keep your man at home. Every time this goof travels to another country he never fails to embarrass us. In a creepy way I do feel sorry for him though.
Bush`s legacy is tainted, he is trying to clean up his image during his final hours, but his failed attempt is overshadowed by his past and by Obamania
Getting back to why Bush is actually in Africa...
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/world/5549099.html
L.A. Confidential @ 98:
Don'tcha mean, a la Midnight Express?
Mommy look! Didja see what I did? Didja? Didja see me on the television?
Please George, just go back to your office and lose at minesweeper, ok?
L.A. Confidential @ 88:
Hmm... My crossword asks, "Synonym for 'generous.'" Seven letters, starts with "L."
This weeks "can I get some applause here?"
or I alo would have accepted:
"Do you have Blacks here in Africa too?"
loubie @ 75:
Sheesh! Do you post this on EVERY article on here???? What a douche.
Minor nitpick. What is this need that people seem to have for making a three syllable word out of "relevance"?
C'mon, let Georgey have his moment. It's not every day (or term in office) that he's respected for something not completely dickish. He needs his ego stroked by people other than his cronies every once in a while.
And now the creepiness begins. Am I surprised by the nubaggery? Nope
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=56626
ysbaddaden @ 102:
The pilot said that Ever been to a turkish prison to timmy in airplane too
Come on, folks - give the guy a break.
Clearly he was only channeling Sally Field in her 1985 Oscar acceptance gush:
"You like me! Right now, YOU LIKE ME!!"
unsurebtwilling @ 111:
Timmy, do you like gladiator movies?
Ever seen a grown man naked?
Mr. Irrelevant.
It must be hard for poor Georgy to look in the mirror and see:
* A criminal
* A murderer
* A spy
* A warmonger
* A dunce
* A liar
And still not realize he's the worst president in our history, that his name
is poison in every zip code on the planet, and he's utterly and completely
irrelvant right now, as everyone is SUFFOCATING for him to leave for good!
Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Not to be an asshole, but please note: the word RELAVANCY is completely stupid.
The word you want is RELEVANCE.
Really, It works. No shit. Check it out. And while you do that, please read Strunk and White.
keep up the keeping up.
Unleash the herd of elephants. Quick!
I can't believe you missed one of the choicest moments in TV punditry for 02-18-08. It came on Chrissy Matthews's show on MSNBC. He had on a blonde bimbo named Margaret Hoover (probably Herbert's granddaughter, or maybe J. Edgar's niece), identified as "a Republican strategist." (And while I'm at it, why are almost all of the spokeswomen for the GOP vapid headed blondes?) Anyway, she was commenting on statements made by Obama and criticizing the media for letting him get away with things a white person would be taken to task for saying. Hoover said (and I QUOTE): "[Obama] hasn't been held to the same level of scrutinty (sic)." I kid you not! She's been around Dubya too long. Next thing she knows, she'll be trying to make exits through locked doors.
getalife @ 59:
Of course not because that would require them to actually learn a little history and actually admit that Bill Clinton was one of the best Presidents ever which they would never do because it will make Obama look like the impotent, angry and inexperienced thug he really is!
As with all true geniuses, it must be difficult for this hero of the neo-conservative revolution to toil so arduously for the betterment of this Nation through the re-distribution of wealth remaining among those who obviously don’t know how to handle it to those who have earned it through entitlement. For now he must console himself with the knowledge that only Big Dick, William the Bloody, Alberto, his relatively small band of minions, and those who take their daily dose of Kool Ade recognize his achievements.
His hope is that history will smile favorably on his legacy. That can only happen if we, the voters, fail to fully recognize the magnitude of the threat his brand of thought represents to our Constitution and way of life.
dssdgdffdhggfh
There boosh goes again, describing the size of something with his hands
In this case Bill Clinton's penis.
Can't wait to see Dubya gone. What an impetus little shit.
Bush Struggles For Relevancy???
He's been kicking liberal ass for the past 7 years, and will continue to do so until his last day in office. Struggle For Relevancy? Seems to me the only thing irrelevant would be the people stupid enough to go around parroting pharases like 'chimpy' and 'Bushitler'.
Childern pout, stomp the feet, and resort to name calling when they don't get there way. What will you be doing when McCain enters office in 2009?
You guys are a joke.
terry @ 125:
Why are they sharpening their rigging skill in the election voting machine again. Because this is the only way Mcain or another repuklean will win the white house. Are you implying that Americans are too dumb to not learn their lesson and will vote for another stupid dumbass president. Just be thankful that America is not embodying the true blood of democracy because if they do repuklean heads including their supporters will be rolling like what happen in the French revolution. This is what happen when there is a continuous trends of growing number of people being starve and decieved by their leaders.
The Constitution always says that the government and it's leaders, the Presidents including this preznut works for the people elected by the same people and for the people ONLY. Since the time he was elected he never did that. I think you should remember that he should be serving the people of America all the thing that he raised and his hands in oath to uphold before he run this country has all been a lie. So you should be thankful that he was just earning the name calling because for all the disrespect and disloyal to the constitution that he promised uphold he deserve more than that. HE SHOULD FOLLOW WHAT HIS PEOPLE WANTS THAT IS HIS MAIN JOB IDIOT!!!!
eeekkkks @ 126:
Typical!
A lot of words that say nothing. Can anyone decypher this?
This is the face of liberalism.
P.S. The argument is Bush's Relevancy. Nothing more. I don't know what the hell any of that stuff that you are trying to grunt out means. Perhaps you should have studied in school instead of, well, doing whatever you did. You might have been able to express yourself like a person instead of like an ape banging a stick against the ground.
.....This is the face of liberalism.
You're a fool if you think Bush is any different then Hillary, or Hillary is any different then Obama, or Obama is any different then McCain. They will all end up selling you out to the highest bidder, and leave you holding the bag.
terry @ 127:
Here is the truth!
http://video1.washingtontimes.com/fishwrap/2008/02/bob_geldof_in_rwanda....
rb @ 129:
'The Truth' does not reside at the Moonie Times.
terry @ 127:
You're a fool if you think Bush is any different then Hillary, or Hillary is any different then Obama, or Obama is any different then McCain. They will all end up selling you out to the highest bidder, and leave you holding the bag.
Astonishing. Even the most ardent Bushite admits that the Commander-in-Chimp is a sell-out. Never though I'd live to see the day.
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