George W. Bush: ‘Eight years was awesome’

[kpete]

Source: Politico

In case there was any doubt, George W. Bush made it abundantly clear in a recent interview that although it was “awesome” being president for eight years, he doesn’t miss life in political office.

“Eight years was awesome and I was famous and I was powerful,” Bush told the Hoover Institute’s Peter Robinson. “But I have no desire for fame and power anymore. … I crawled out of the swamp and I’m not crawling back in.”







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[Drunken Irishman]

1. Like a seven year old talking about camp.

[Major Nikon]

45. Or a 30 year old talking about a 3 day drunken bender at a LaGrange whorehouse.

[roguevalley]

58. may this bastard live forever and feel the hatred.

[LibGranny]

2. and I'm VERY happy you're "not crawling back in"

we were miserable enough with you for 8 LOOOONG years!

[Wait Wut]

3. Um...

...the correct phrase would be, "infamous and drunk with power".

[Arugula Latte]

19. Or just plain "drunk"

[Punkingal]

4. As always, a model of eloquence.

Not.

[JBoy]

5. "Awesome!" Same way I described spring break in Daytona Beach when I was 18.

What a statesman. A man of letters.

[BeyondGeography]

6. Hey, lurking Freepies, thanks for this guy

You must feel so validated.

[bongbong]

31. Wait...

According to the sheep voters, Bush was a flaming Liberal! That's why so many of the repigs "changed" to teabagger, liebertarian, or independent.

Don't worry, however, they will all be voting straight repig in 2012 so as not to break their 100% "vote to destroy America" historical record.

[Uncle Joe]

7. The swamp wouldn't have Bush because he stank it up,

all the critters there are still trying to get that foul, Bush septic taste of raw sewage out of the water.

Thanks for the thread, kpete.

[MindMover]

8. Crawled out of the swamp that he built and infested with rats ....

[maddezmom]

9. Party On Dude

[LynneSin]

10. Well that's one

The rest of us think otherwise!

[Lint Head]

11. So, murdering innocent people is awesome?

[wordpix]

55. starting two unnecessary wars, killing millions while helping his buddies make billions

Isn't that awesome?

[bluesbassman]

12. Wow. Don't think in all of my years following politics I've ever heard someone say "I was famous".

But I guess that pretty much sums up Bush The Lesser's mindset as to what he finds important. Pitiful.

[Neoma]

39. Famous? Notorious & infamous more like.

[The_Casual_Observer]

13. Stupid piece of shit did an unimaginable amount of damage to this country.

It will probably take another 20 years to recover from it, if we ever recover from it.

[patrice]

16. e.g. Can you think of a carbon footprint bigger than war? nt

[libinnyandia]

29. We won't know until the last Bush appointed judge retires and Citizens United is overturned. The

decisions by his judges will impact us for a long time. And when you add his tax cuts, his wars, etc it boggles the mind.

[lunatica]

35. And hundreds more times damage to Iraq and Afghanistan

[The_Casual_Observer]

41. I stand corrected, I should have said "the whole world".

[Arugula Latte]

14. "Dude, I was like, OMG, I'm like the prez and shit!"

[patrice]

15. "...the swamp..." of actually WORKING for us. America, can. it. be. any. clearer?

[lunatica]

36. It was the swamp when he left

[patrice]

37. Yeah, 'cause he was ir-responsible and lazy.

[Gregorian]

17. He trashed America.

I am patient enough to wait to see him in a cell.

[cindyperry2010]

18. what an absolute moron

still stupid

[progressivebydesign]

20. "awesome" well, except for that day in September, 2001, and for everyone that died in Iraq.

But other than that, it was totally bitchin', right?

[tanyev]

24. Don't forget the abysmal response to Hurricane Katrina.

Awesome.

[SunSeeker]

27. How can I? I'm still haunted by the sight of dead bodies floating in the streets of New Orleans.

And that picture of him looking down from the window of Air Force One.

[nolabear]

30. You and me both. Yeah. So awesome I could scream.

Jesus on a goddam pogo stick.

[NMlib]

21. Can you imagine

President Obama ever saying something that juvenile ... well ...about anything .... much less referring to leadership of the free world?

[BattyDem]

22. Awesome?? Famous???

No wonder our country got so screwed up ... we had a freakin' 10 year old in The Oval Office!

[liberal N proud]

23. Not for the rest of us you asshole

What the fuck? Awesome?

[NMlib]

25. Obama last night

Even his half time interview was presidential ... yet warm and inspiring ....perfectly on cue for a sporting event ....times like that is when I realize just how smart he is

[Enrique]

26. and no year was better than 2001!

at the end of that year, Bush might have been the only one to choose the word "fabulous".

"All in all, it's been a fabulous year for Laura and me"!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2028187

[bongbong]

28. "For a coupla' minutes ....

.... sometime in 2003 or 2004 I was forced to be sober by that old nag Laura, but the rest of the time was spent sampling the best brews & booze the US taxpayer was paying for!"

[Ian David]

32. Especially that time he caught that fish.

George W. Bush's Best Moment in Office? A Presidential Fish Story...

Bush's best moment in office? Reeling in big perch
BERLIN, May 7, 2006 (Reuters) -- U.S. President George W. Bush told a German newspaper his best moment in more than five years in office was catching a big perch in his own lake. "You know, I've experienced many great moments and it's hard to name the best," Bush told weekly Bild am Sonntag when asked about his high point since becoming president in January 2001. "I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7.5 pound (3.402 kilos) perch in my lake," he told the newspaper in an interview published on Sunday. (Source)

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[SunSeeker]

33. You stay classy, Dubya!

[Robb]

34. "Why do you want to be President?" "To be famous and powerful. That would be awesome."

What an asshole.

[Special Prosciuto]

38. Awsome criminal acts. monkey motherfucker.

[aquart]

40. Hand that man a bag of pretzels.

[maindawg]

42. discusting

This man is an embarrassment to me as an American. He is a disgrace.That the teabaggers still adore him is proof that they do not accept reality. Perhaps a sanity test should be invoked as a barrier to voting for people who cannot understand acceptable behaviour. In case you doubt my premise, remember the law is based on acceptable behaviour and under that definition, W is a criminal.
I am very disappointed in my country. I am saddened that there are apparently some 65 million eligible voters who suffer from a lack of understanding. Are they ill? have they been left out of the free public education they were guaranteed ?Brainwashed by some church cult? Taught to hate and frightened into delusion?
Have we no shame?

[spiderpig]

65. You stated it better than I ever could have

I traveled overseas extensively during the Jr. years and was continually humiliated by his antics when I wasn't drop-jawed over his criminal activity. My foreign hosts would give me sympathetic looks and shoulder pats, as if I had to suffer the embarrassment of an inebriated spouse.

I thought he'd gone away for good, but he keeps popping up sporadically like a nasty case of (something nasty).

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

43. Eight years wuz?

Iz our children learnin?

[emmadoggy]

44. "I wanted to be Prez so I could be famous and powerful!"

"And it was AWESOME! But, Dude, that job was HARRRRRRD. So I trashed the place and got the heck out of Dodge!" :smirk:

[IDemo]

46. "Shock n' awed the world, indeedy doody."

[bighughdiehl]

47. Hey Dubya...

if you just went off and fucked yourself, that would be soooo AWESOME, dude!

[Still Blue in PDX]

48. As always, it's all about him. What an asshat! nt

[yurbud]

49. I hope he keeps making public appearances and keeps talking about his time as president right up

until he wins the election for Obama.

[Turbineguy]

50. It's somehow comforting

to see he hasn't become less of a buffoon.

[AlbertCat]

51. The swamp was awesome?

What a tool.

He's not crawling back because the swamp dwellers are done with him. He's useless... even detrimental.

[wordpix]

56. mixed metaphors, what do you expect from Dimson?

[JHB]

52. Dear George, You are cordially invited to a most awesome breakfast at Windows On The World...

...where we will hear dramatic pauses in reading "My Pet Goat" between courses of New Orleans delicacies drenched in sauce katrina.

I eagerly await your arrival. You know where to find me.

(signed) Osama bin Laden

[Third Doctor]

53. They sure were...

For the privileged elite and military contractors.

[ailsagirl]

54. Yeah...

WE thought so

[wordpix]

57. 'Bush says he’s reading “56: Joe DiMaggio and the Last Magic Number in Sports' - very well read guy

for baseball reads, that is.

[lib2DaBone]

59. He's a war crminal... yelowcake... there was none....

WTC-7 fell down all by itself. How was this possible? Ohj, I forgot.. it was "pulled".

[truthisfreedom]

60. Huh? No comment about being proud to serve your country? Just power, fame and a... swamp?

Jesus is bush delusional. We did not survive him.

[Canuckistanian]

61. The swamp metaphor was particularly appropriate

He came from it and he retreated to it, AFAIC.

And when he was in power, he inflicted that swamp on the whole country.

[tawadi]

62. He can take his book and shove it

You know where.

[trusty elf]

63. If there were any justice, this cretin would be behind bars.

[IMG][/IMG]

[LiberalLovinLug]

64. So the whole 8 years was "awesome"?

Even when the towers came down eight months in? The largest terrorist attack ever on American soil. An event that happened despite months of warnings and after being briefed about the threat of al Qaeda from Richard Clarke and others during the transition from Clinton. Months that Bush broke the record for taking the most vacation days ever for a sitting President

Seriously?...he doesn't even have the brain cells to at least PRETEND to show a little awareness, some humility by pointing out at least the one exception to the Hee Haw Good Times? Lifes a bitch without handlers. He never did once what Clarke did, and that is apologize to the American People on his administration's behalf for this happening under their watch and that they should have done a better job. Even if they HAD done all they could to prevent it...its about leadership. Instead they actually had the balls to turn around the stamp of his presidency to "keepin us safe" (not like those Dems). Amazing what a compliant news media will get you.

He was an AWOL Chickenhawk goofball aristocrat that felt he won the lottery when he was chosen as the front man for all the evil workings of lies, wars, and wiretaps directed by CheneyCo behind the scenes. IMO they may not have planned and executed the attacks on 9/11 but they facilitated everything along the way. All the official emails were destroyed "accidentally" for months before so we'll never know how exactly. That's the real reason that little sociopath is so happy. He thinks hes the big hero of the .01%, because he was the big Decider in Chief over one of the biggest orchestrated Disaster Capitalism plunders in US history.

[samsingh]

66. not for the hundreds of thousands of innocent people who died because of his policies

his evil, and his incompetance.

[bobthedrummer]

67. It will be even more awesome when you die, you treasonous war criminal. K&R n/t