The 10 Most Awesomely Bad Moments of the Bush Presidency
By Nicole Belle Monday Jun 30, 2008 5:00pmBrad Reed has compiled the extensive list, but I'll give you the Reader's Digest version here. Go read the full article at Alternet:
10: Bush Gets Re-elected
9: Alberto Gonzales' Congressional Testimony
8: North Korea Conducts a Nuclear Test
7: Colin Powell's Bogus WMD Presentation at the U.N.
6: The Terri Schiavo Affair
5: Bush and Condi's Excellent Gaza Adventure
4: "Brownie, You're Doing a Heckuva Job"
3: Abu Ghraib
2: 9/11
1: "Mission Accomplished"
Seems like the hardest part is simply narrowing it down to just 10.
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I'd give 'we don't torture a listing in the high zone. And having the courts overturn their really weak cases. Like happened yesterday. http://cabdrollery.blogspot.com/2008/07/sanity-returning.html
I would suggest # -1: Bush given Presidency by Republican Judges.
That started the whole mess.
Number 10 doesn't really belong there. I'd replace it with "We do not torture", or "l'affaire Plame"
yup, Number 10 is kind of a false statement ... should be "Diebold hands Ohio (and the country) to Bush"
"Bring it on" was pretty bad
First, it's so good to see this site back up and running. I missed you guys.
Funny I was thinking about these things today and wondering what would be the worst. I think the Patriot Act and then the invasion of Iraq.
Bush wasn't RE-elected, remember he was appointed the first time.
Yes, 10 is tough when the Hughes' List is up to 366. I can't argue with any of your picks, however.
I think $4/Gallon gas should be on that list someplace.
Every time he said "nucular."
Hooray! I thought I was banned 'cause I couldn't get on. Good to be back!
One of the worst is the lie he told that he watched the first 9/11 plane hit on TV. So stupid he thinks everyone else is.
And then the blank look when he is told about the second plane.
And that's why I'm Voting Republican!!
Sheesh!!
The picture of McCain hugging bush has to be the most disgusting moment.
For just plain boorish, embarassing, everyday dumbshittery the massage of German Prime Minister Merkel gets high marks from me. "They hate us for our freedoms" makes me shudder to this day.
I dunno, theres so many to choose from. But I think this one was pretty damn funny.
take out north korea drop everything down and place bush as prez at #1
Savanation @ 2:
Good one. That's arguably a #1. I don't see how it was overlooked. Maybe because he wasn't the President, yet?
Using the phrase, "the war on terror" was the stupidest damned thing he ever said and it has cost so many so much. President Obama should drop that phrase from his vocabulary. We all should.
Being spawned #1
nah, Bush grabbing chancellor Merkels shoulders was impressively stupid, but it was actually Dubya trying to be nice. the most interesting part of the Heiligendamm adventures were the photos proving that his detail keeps a stash of beer for this "former" alcoholic ...
The (non) response to Katrina...
His note to Condi asking when he could go wee wee.
Lettermans top 10 moments.
This is on that list.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2h8RrSGStMI
Don't forget the disgusting slide show -
"Where are the WMDs? They're aren't under the couch! BWAAHAHAHAHAA!"
It was that exact moment in time that I completely realized that George W. Bush is just a complete douchebag.
This is like summarizing the Bible in 25 words or less. Out of this list which is not even complete how can you come up with any list of ten?
Kevin Foster @ 7:
He wasn't elected the second time either. Ohio was rampant with election fraud. The Media Industrial Complex chose to ignore it.
Nor can we omit the appallingly botched response to Katrina.
3 Greatest Attacks on America:
1) Pearl Harbor
2) 911
3) The Bush presidency
Not necessarily in that order considering number 3 has done more long term damage to American than numbers 1 and 2 combined.
it is called capitalism and it is doing its thing.
until we understand how a system like capitalism can do this to a country we will continue to blame everyone and everything but the source of the problem. ie deregulated capitalism
thank the universe it is self destructing it is about profits not people
before it goes away with a national revolution it will eliminate the middle class
they were dumber than dumb so we cannot hold anyone else to blame
brainwashing works and it is in our schools and universities.
get the young into nationalism and patroitism and you got most of them for life and big time in he southern states.
even dear old stanford hired rummy the war monger and will soon hire condi so they can teach their graduates how to war monger
the brainwashing is everywhere folks even with the corp media
Both links in the heading are broken, by the way
9/11's got to be #1.
And if we're counting the entire 8 years, how can we leave out Cheney shooting another man in the face and then having the victim APOLOGIZE to Cheney! That's gotta be top 5.
researcher @ 30:
I would say especially with the Corporate Media and especially in the schools.
In the 1960s they taught students at Universities to think and they ended up with students protesting unjust war and unjust policies. The solution? Teach them how to make money instead.
mrbadmood @ 28:
Spot on! Such a tragedy!
Tommy Gunn @ 32:
If you say so, but i think torturing detainees and beating detainees to death is worse. Katrina is worse. Invading Iraq is worse. Patriot Act is worse. FISA is worse.
In fact i can think of a whole lot of things they have done than Dick Cheney shooting somebody in the face. I will even go so far as saying i can think of a lot of things they did than Dick Cheney shooting ME in the face.
We all have our top 10 because there's so many moments. The entire article is a hoot.
This makes me ill.
Iraq is no. 1.
A million corpses, several million maimed for life and millions more in misery can't be wrong.
In fact, Iraq deserves to be no. 1, and to have a 'ten worst' all of its own.
How can someone put Mission Accomplished as worse than 9/11. 9/11 was clearly the worst day of the Bush years, Colin Powell's speech is the second worst day, Katrina is right up there, and so is Abu Ghraib, but then all the other days are equally as bad because those thugs have been raping this country every day for almost 8 years.
jimbojames @ 39:
I think it is a toss up. 9/11 may have been the worst day in America under Bush, but there have been days and days and weeks and months and years far worse in Iraq. It depends on your point of view.
Well, Colin Powell was lied to, so scratch #7 and put the terrible response to Katrina.
The neocon cabal inflitrating washington.
xoites defends Constitution @ 26:
Thanks for the link. The Alternet url does not respond.
spiritcatcher @ 4:
You could amend it to "Stealing Ohio." "Stealing Florida" should certainly be there since it made all the other atrocities possible.
xoites defends Constitution @ 26:
That's got to be the best link I've ever seen. Every blogger in Greater Left BlogSylvania should have that one bookmarked.
It does fail to catch one of my favorite moments though. That was when Sara Taylor, testifying under oath in the Senate revealed that she had taken an oath TO THE PRESIDENT, not the constitution. Known as the Führer oath, I would mark that as one of the low points in America's 230 year history.
Feel Good, worse than Mission Accomplished.
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/feel_good.html
I'd have to pick Colon Powell's bogus UN address as #1. Without it, an appalling amount of cash and lives lost would not have happened....and excuse me for saying it, but Powell KNEW it was all BS.
SadButTrue @ 45:
Send Hugh an email. He will happily add it.
NO DOUBT!
No pretzel choking
Or wanting to dig into that pig
Or telling the pope, great speech
Or copping a feel of Angela Merkel
Or spanking the monkey?
Pericles @ 9:
yeah.........the fact that he said he hadn't heard that gas was going to be $4
goff ball totally out of touch and doesn't care personally i want his approval rate to stay low
and to think this is the guy that beat mccain in 2000
what's that say about mccain.......geeze
The 5 Republican appointed conservative activist judges should have been impeached for trumping the American democratic process installing Bush. Especially now after all the damage the Bush regime has done to America, it's military rediness, it's economy and it's moral standing in the world and all the criminal activity they have engaged in.
Well, lookie lookie lookie what we have here!
Turns out PUMA (Party Unity My Ass!) was started by a McCain Donator. The media has been all over this group saying it was started by Hillary supporters!
PUMAs are Swiftboats
researcher @ 30:
What do you want to replace Capitalism with? Sovietism? That system is hardly better, and actually much worse, at least the Gilded Age US didn't willingly starve its own citizens the way Stalin's Russia did, or create a similar situation the way Mao's China did, or exterminate a quarter of its citizens the way Saloth Sar's regime did.
Replacing Capitalism sounds easy. The subsitute system is the problem.
#1 is "Bring It On."
not even in the first 10?
Pffffft...
xoites defends Constitution @ 33:
No, in the 1960s, the draft caused all the trouble. University curriculums in the 1960s taught racist, stultifying, anti-Communist, anti-Other-in-general curriculums. My dad kept his report cards from high school and his college transcript, he was in school then. The 60s curriculum was worse than ours. The prospect of being sent to a foreign nation caused the 1960s antiwar protests, not anything the universities did. Unless you consider the Jim Crow-era scientific racism to be teaching people to think.
General_Rennenkampf @ 57:
Sorry, i disagree. Your dad was there. So was i. The movement to increase critical thought was very strong in the late sixties and most Jim Crow laws died in the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Yo, xoites defends Constitution @ 33:, & researcher @ 30:
The structure of the schools is pretty much expressly designed to deliver consumers to the the CorpoRat Media...They kinda sorta camoflage it, but look at the 'teaching tools,' and the 'texts' (many containing commercial ads), and it just jumps out at you. You get Straight As for rated on your enthusiasm for the myths of the market.
Savanation @ 2:
Precisely, he was appointed by Scalia and every bad thing was covered up by KKKarl. Could somebody somewhere ask questions about all of that? Nah, don't look back.
I'd have to say that falsifying the EPA reports on the air around Ground Zero was pretty dispicable.
xoites defends Constitution @ 58:
Technically, in much of the South, Jim Crow laws were never repealed, they're not enforced now, just as the Congressional acts to grant blacks the vote weren't enforced after 1877. And I would dispute that increasing critical thought happened in the late 60s. That generation grew up and elected Reagan. Evidently the seeds of critical thought fell on rocky soil.
woody, tokin librul @ 59:
Yep, that is my point. Thank you.
woody, tokin librul @ 59:
Remember "home economics" in high school? That one promoted keeping woman at home AND shopping. A toofer one.
pny @ 61:
That was one of the lowest blows of his administration.
One of the things, incidentally, that in conjunction with the Katrina-Rita one-two punch in Louisiana shook me out of the Night of the Living Wingnut mode I was in at the time.
General_Rennenkampf @ 62:
That may well be but most campus unrest did not occur in the deep south. The students in the south were preparing to be cannon foder if called upon. See the difference?
Ruthless People @ 64:
I think some guys take Home Ec these days, too though.
And yes, US education preaches capitalism. I'm sure the Soviet system was no less biased towards its ideology, Communism.
The parallel is deliberate, because unlike a lot of people, I view capitalism and communism both as ideologies with oceans of blood on their hands.
General_Rennenkampf @ 67:
There is no other way to view either system.
xoites defends Constitution @ 66:
Yes, I do. The students in the Deep South were also distracted with futilely keeping the blacks from getting freedom once they got organized enough to demand it. I don't think all Heaven and Hell together could have stopped the blacks of the 60s from breaking out of Jim Crow.
karl @ 51:
Well, the fact that he hasn't had to fill up his own gas tank since about 1990 probably contributed to his cluelessness. Sort of like Bush Sr., when he went into that supermarket and was flabbergasted because he'd never seen a checkout barcode scanner before. I'm pretty sure he hasn't been in a grocery store since the early 50s.
xoites defends Constitution @ 68:
Plenty of people view the former as better. If Communism has killed 100 million, Capitalism has killed 140 million. In this choice between Saul and David, I'd choose Option 3, Reboot and start over again.
General_Rennenkampf @ 71:
Most of Europe seems to have figured it out. Socialism, no troops in other countries. They have a lot of racial tension with immigrants, but those immigrants have come from former colonies. Colonies are a bad idea. We now have one in Iraq.
xoites defends Constitution @ 72:
Hmm, I'm not so sure much of what Europe calls socialism is really socialism. A bunch of welfare states, yes. But socialism of the Marxist variety isn't quite the mainstream. The socialists there are the equivalent of our Democrats. And among the Europeans I know online, at least the English aren't that pleased with Labour-style socialism, I'm not sure about the French or the Germans.
General_Rennenkampf @ 73:
I am not that pleased with Capitalism. In most of Europe if you have a real problem you can get help. Here you are out of luck.
The tv is on. (I hate when that happens.) Apparently America's biggest problem is erectile disfunction.
xoites defends Constitution @ 54:
I'd like to say I'm shocked, but, I can't say as I am.
xoites defends Constitution @ 74:
Capitalism sucks, yes. I, however, am not sure that European-style socialism can really work in a nation of 300 million people. Most welfare states with some modicum of success are relatively small states of under 70 million, Germany the only state outside Russia that has over 70 million. What can work well for 70 million may not for a little over 3 times that number.
Not top ten worthy, but how about insulting a blind reporter?
Check out the CNN graphic.
Deeper meanings...
signing statements that nullify laws. there are just too many disasters to list, Led Zeppelin knew the levys could break back in 1974.
Certainly Hinan fits in there. The guy showed his true colors in that one: all yellow.
pissed off patricia @ 13:
Naah. It should be when he and McCain were holding the cake while New Orleans drowned. A cake which they did not even eat...
11. Walter Reed/Treatment of Veterans-gates. And just when you thought Vietnam Vets had it bad...
12. Plamegate. Our spies can't trust our elected officials or their appointees. Well, I don't think they ever really trusted them, but they have to at least try to work with them. After this incident I doubt they're all that enthused.
13. Tora Bora. We could have had Bin Ladin and the entire squad. But we outsourced it to tribes who got bribed. It's like hiring the Italian Mob to fight the Nazis.
14. Minnesota bridge collapse and now the levee collapses of the Mississippi river.
15. No meaningful response to global climate change. We might not have sea ice in the Arctic this summer. Does he know what that means?
Number 1 should be: gw gets elected!
The 10 Most Awesomely Bad Moments of the Bush Presidency
1: “Mission Accomplished”
2: 9/11
3: Abu Ghraib
4: “Brownie, You’re Doing a Heckuva Job”
5: Bush and Condi’s Excellent Gaza Adventure
6: The Terri Schiavo Affair
7: Colin Powell’s Bogus WMD Presentation at the U.N.
8: North Korea Conducts a Nuclear Test
9: Alberto Gonzales’ Congressional Testimony
10: Bush Gets Re-elected
Please don’t let 11 be: John McCain gets four more years.
Heathwood @ 83:
That should be Selected, not elected.
LibertyLover @ 85:
#1 should be Valerie Plame.
Here's one of my personal favorites:
When Bush was questioned in a press conference just after the beginning of "Shock and Awe" with, "What did Iraq have to do with the attacks on the World Trade Centers?" Bush answered, "Nothing!!"
http://youtube.com/watch?v=zUKuumhrSk8
“Brownie, You’re Doing a Heckuva Job”
"Jane you ignorant slut!" (governor of new orleans, not declaring emergency, or much of anything else)
The Bush/Cheney debacle has left America a state of disaster with a list of failures so complete it will take 50 years or more to clean up. That is if anyone in Washington has the guts to tackle the job. We have gone from the most powerful nation on the earth to just hanging on by our fingernails. America has been sold out in no bid contracts that have made the Bushies rich and the rest of us bankrupt. The terrible two didn't do it alone, our vaunted Congress passed all the legislation needed to hammer the nails in our coffins. So here we say goodbye to the good old days of being able to get by, and hello to the how the hell are we going to pay the bills this month. I wish us all the best of luck, we are going to need it.
The worst time for for the American people was that the bitch was born
Two wars of aggression and a million or so dead make booosh a war criminal and the world's number one terrorist. His simian softshoe routine( waiting for McCain, with the tribal guys, etc.) is dancing on those million or so graves and is perhaps the most shameful of his boorish antics, though there are so many to choose from....
Savanation @ 2:
Re-elected is not the right choice...first time around he was not elected by the people..he was appointed by the SCOTUS
#10 should be changed to read: "GOP operatives and front companies steal 2004 election, Kerry - the real winner - caves"
I don't think you can leave Katrina off the list where he basically abandoned thousands of American citizens.
Actually I'll change my worst moment. The coming financial system collapse caused by Bush policies. I believe the recent stimulus check is nothing more than buying time so it will hopefully happen under the coming Democratic administration. Then of course it will all be the Democrats fault.
bush litterally high and dry over New Orleans. it was surreal. it was weird. it was heartbreaking. it was maddening. all that while bush advocates waxed on about the 'great job' they've done. as if the elderly, bed-ridden, infirmed, helpless folks relished being up to their eyelids in the toxic soup.
mccain's 'straight talk' and 'maverick' image indicates that like bush before him, leaving burning, smoldering wreckage, and broken lives and hearts in his wake would be par for the course.
This is like a bad dream!
Bush's sitting still for minutes on 9/11, when the country was under attack, deserves a medal of treason...
The nation re-electing Bush, after all of these bad moments came to pass, deserves some advanced interrogating...
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