New Bush? Aides say he's just feeling good

[emad]

Elisabeth Bumiller The New York Times
Monday, April 4, 2005


WASHINGTON George W. Bush has been acting like a man liberated from the American presidency.
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At an event in Denver, he mused that sending out quarterly statements for the private investment accounts he wants to add to Social Security could encourage people to pay more attention to government, but then chuckled that investors might conclude from tepid returns that "maybe we ought to change presidents or something."
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At a news conference Bush joked that he didn't have the time "to sit around and wander, lonely, in the Oval Office, kind of asking different portraits, 'How do you think my standing will be?"'
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And at the end of an interview with a Belgian television correspondent, Bush blurted out to the young woman that she had "great eyes," glanced away slyly and then a little sheepishly, but for the most part seemed sorry that the session was over.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/04/03/news/asialetter.html

[illflem]

1. Maybe he finally found a connection for Ecstasy

[kedrys]

3. Or Laura brought him back some great hash from Afghanistan n/t

[NeoConsSuck]

58. Same thought here..

better cuts of coke. Colombia is lending a hand to the white house cokehead.

[TahitiNut]

17. Clearly, "feeling good" is pharmaceutically-assisted for him.

After all, his appetite for narcissistic supply is insatiable.

[Champion Jack]

2. What a sad, twisted little freak...

Why doesn't he just resign

[Jade Fox]

Exactly!!

We've got a President who is the sort of asshole no one wants to sit next
to at a dinner party. Lucky us.

[susu369]

4. Why this rerun?

This is the SAME puff piece that was posted about a week ago.

Nothing personal to you emad - the date is right there. I'm floored - it's bad enough we are fed this propaganda but to be served rehashed garbage is telling.

Yes, we know, Elisabeth - bu$h is fun and impish.

[teryang]

13. Really!

Repetition is the essence of PR. Keep those talking points going folks.

[Snap]

24. Heh heh heh

That rascal George!

[merh]

45. Maybe the keep repeating it because he looks so damned

bad!

Don't you believe your eyes ladies and gentlemen, believe what we tell you, he is fine, move along now.

[DARE to HOPE]

46. Exactly--WHY the rerun of news more like 4 weeks old?

To my mind, it shows how really DEVASTATING the news is these days for Bush. The "great eyes" bit (or "great ass" as some said they heard) was pushed out so robotically, you know it was an assignment--there was NO flirty interplay AT ALL. THAT is how widespread the "Bush is gay" rumours have gotten!

As to his cheeriness toward the staff, who who knows Bush believes that for a minute? As his numbers go down (and you know the ones he sees are much WORSE than they admit to us!) he is getting upset with everybody around him.

Finally--WHY does he risk his own base to go to a R Catholic mass in DC for the Pope? He is so DESPERATE to grab onto the Pope's popularity, abandoning the Schiavo mess as fast as he can. Russert's trial balloon on the "Today Show" today about Bush actually going to the Pope's funeral shows the desperation.

Soooo--what to do? Puff piece in the NYTimes to boost what is left.

[emad]

5. Maybe he's just soothsaying...."change presidents or something"

perhaps the light of inspriation has finally come down upon him.

[Jade Fox]

7. Yes, that was rather Freudian.....

wasn't it? His subconcious knows he's a disaster as Prez.

He appears to be medicated to the max.

[VegasWolf]

54. That's okay. It's not as if Bush is really running the country. n/t

[norml]

6. No Brain No Pain or

PR BS

[AlCzervik]

8. My own theory on Bush is that he never really wanted to be president

or actually have the work that came with it. He was picked by a group of scoundrels, promised 40 weeks of vacation a year and then he could retire. He doesn't want to be Presidenting anymore, the job for him was always about the perks.

[justsomegirl]

12. He didn't...

He really wanted to be baseball commissioner.

[BrklynLiberal]

9. Bumiller should just give it up and join the White House staff already..

[gratuitous]

14. How do we know she isn't already on the White House payroll?

It wouldn't surprise me if she was seen pricing new Hummers with Armstrong Williams.

[BrklynLiberal]

18. Excellent point...

[sundancekid]

10. proves the adage often applied to him: all hat, no cattle

[Zorra]

11. They stole another election and did not get caught at it. He's home free,

because there is little chance that they are going to get caught now.

What a relief for Buh; they pulled it off again.

[Botany]

15. The man is a train wreck!

A no horse riding phony cowboy living on "his spread" w/ rented cattle
built by Enron in 1998 all the while appointing screw ups to jobs that they
have no business having as he sleep walks his way through foreign and
domestic policy disasters as a bought off or scared media fails to cover what
is really happening and karl and dick steal elections and loot the country.

The man needs to be on trial for murder.

[0007]

16. I'm still choking on this one;

" Despite the beating he has taken on Social Security, other advisers say, Bush still presents a cheery face to the staff.
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"People are not walking around with their heads hung on Social Security," said Joshua Bolten, the White House budget director. "When we have our Social Security meetings - and those are often very detailed, substantive meetings - he's consistently upbeat."

Everyone including Hitler sez junior is just a wonderful guy, 'eh?

[xxqqqzme]

31. no they're not hanging their heads

cuz they know it is going 2 get rammed down our throats, completely ignorant of how 'the people' feel. Arrogant pricks

[dkofos]

19. Screwing makes me feel good.

He must be on top of the world, as many people as he's screwed.

[susu369]

22. Feels good - that reminds me

Right before bu$h* announced the war (in that television speech to the nation that we would be attacking - i.e., bombing the hell out of) on Iraq, it was reported that he was pumping his fist and saying, "Feels good."

Chilling.

[Virginian]

52. I understand BBC has a tape of that.

It sure would be nice to see it.

Or was that the part in F911 where everyone was getting made up for the camera and Wolfie licked his comb. Gross.

[mattclearing]

20. He's just happy that he is no longer accountable to voters.

Look at all the press conferences since the election.

Now he doesn't have to act anymore, he can be as dumb as he wants to be.

[Teaser]

21. What kind of fucking story is this?

This is one of the most ass-licking stories I've ever read, bar none.
I hate Bumiller.

[cliss]

23. Here's the worst part:

Bush actually thinks he's funny. I'm sure some PR person has coached the "bad working material" Guy. They probably told him to always start out his speeches with a joke. "Try to be funny", they urge Bush. "It makes you appear humble. Ordinary people will connect with you", they say.

Bush tries it. At his next speech, he makes a joke. People laugh. Bush looks out at them, and sees their mouths open and the decibel level rises. He feels good. "Man, I'm really something". "They're connecting with me".

Little does Bush know his audience is laughing at him, not with him. They think he's a scream because he stutters, merges old sayings into something completely new, confuses words, mangles grammar, and just comes out sounding like an idiot.

Which is exactly what he is.

[rppper]

25. well zipity-f'n-do-dah......

nice to know whistle ass has found a new spring in his step....he better watch it though....he doesnt want another black eye at the hands of pickles for hitting on some belgiun "hunney"...maybe he's been taking pointers from ahhhh-nuld. this is the kind of BS puff piece that makes me wish for nefarious things and raises my BP.......:banghead:

[Writer]

26. He's a narcissist...

who no longer has to worry about posturing for reelection. But he's wrong. 2006 is just around the corner.

I wish a shrink would finally, officially, diagnose this man.

[AnneD]

50. Try reading Bush on the Couch by Justin Frank MD.....

he did just that. It'll scare the bejezuz outta ya.

[bettyellen]

27. And a New Osama !! Wow, are Shrub and Osama using the same PR guy?

"al-Iraqi says that bin Laden himself is looking more confident and relaxed, noting that when he visited the Qaeda leader in November, al-Iraqi noticed fewer checkpoints than previously. "The sheik has a new mentality and is more healthy," al-Iraqi told Zabihullah."

NEWSWEEK: Al Qaeda Envoy Met With Iraq Insurgency Head Zarqawi in 2003
Sunday April 3, 11:18 am ET

[Toucano]

28. This story continues to be rehashed every week.

Dubya is drunk with power.

I get it already.

[FreeStateDemocrat]

32. Paid media whores disseminating White House propaganda line.

[regnaD kciN]

53. I'm not sure it's just "on power"...

Complementing a female reporter on her looks seems a bit too much of a Joe Namath moment -- "I wanna kish you!" I think somebody's off the wagon again...

[DARE to HOPE]

56. Did you see the videotape of that moment?

It was FORCED as could be--he was TOLD to say something. The "Bush is gay" rumours really took off in DC the week Bush went to Europe. And that freaks them like nothing else.

[Digit]

29. He feels the change in The Force....nt

[Harlequin]

30. Just wait for the withdrawal... and subsequent headlines...

[glitch]

33. Of course he's feeling good - he feeds on death and there's been a lot of

it lately.

Side note: Gawd, wouldn't you just hate to be bumiller?

[obxhead]

34. yeah he's "just high on life"

or oxy's
or coke
or something even better that we don't get.
He knows he'll never get a trial like clinton, will get the 200K a year for the rest of his worthless life, etc, etc, etc......
I could just puke - this is "news" way to go NYT

[Ilsa]

35. They must have told him that he's a lame duck already,

so why bother working on anything? I don't believe for a minute that he really wants to work on anything. And he's got three and a half years to kill. No telling how many people, if he gets his way.

[arikara]

36. What a stupid puff piece

I wonder how much the payment was for that?

[jokerman93]

37. Ha!

They must have changed his meds again -- or rolled out the upgradee Chimp V3.1

[DawgHouse]

38. He said she had "great eyes"???

Creepy.

[Julius Civitatus]

40. Imagine if Clinton had done that

The outrage! Oh, the outrage if Clinton had even dared to look at that woman in a funny way...

But again, this is Bush and his halo. He is allowed to make an inappropriate move on that female reporter, and the servile media just genuflects and laughs it up as something cute.

[Julius Civitatus]

39. Read the excellent rebuttal to this crap by the Daily Howler

Excellent rebuttal to this embarrassing propaganda piece put out by Bumiller:

http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh032805.shtml

They call her article a "tongue bath" and Bumiller "geisha girl." Well deserved.

:applause:

Here's a choice quote from The Daily Howler on Bumiller's puff piece:

You can’t get dumber than Elisabeth Bumiller. Nor can you be a more faithful courtesan. By her own admission, the timid scribe was far too frightened to ask a question of Bush pre-Iraq (see THE DAILY HOWLER, 3/25/04). But she isn’t too scared to run her warm tongue up and down an emperor’s keister. Fawning, pandering, pimping and puffing, Bumiller continues to show the world the soul of our vacuous “press corps.”

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

63. I remember that Howler for this tidbit:

Bush could be “the first president since Eisenhower” to do this? Bumiller knows to omit the obvious fact— since Eisenhower, there have only been two other presidents who served a full second term! Yes: That “number” to which Bumiller deftly refers is two! And yes, to state what is patently obvious, that’s why she doesn’t provide it.

Uh, one, uh two. How many licks does it take to get to the center of Chimp's dumper?

[DulceDecorum]

41. Meanwhile, In Belgium

31 March 2005
BRUSSELS - Belgian interior minister Patrick Dewael has been embarrassed by a Belgian police training manual containing photos comparing US President George W Bush to a chimpanzee, it was reported on Thursday.
Dewael insisted he did not know that the pictures had been included in the manual, which is being used by police officers in Bruges.
<snip>

The newspaper printed copies of the photos in question.
They showed a series of Bush's facial expressions next to those of a chimpanzee making similar faces.
The idea behind the pictures was to make police officers aware of the importance of body language.
The revelation was doubly embarrassing for Dewael as he had signed a letter to Belgian police chiefs urging them to use the manual.
http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=48&story_id=18609&name=Bush+chimp+photos+embarrass+Dewael

Is this a new George Bush?


White House officials insist not, and say that the frisky president that people are seeing in public is simply the one he has kept private for the last four years.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/04/03/news/asialetter.html

[NYC]

48. Time to buy more Beligian chocolate.

:)

[fooj]

42. "still presents a cheery face to the staff"

As long as they've signed their "LOYALTY OATH"...BWAHAHAHAHA!

Peace!

[orpupilofnature57]

43. Shrubs , "Jack hand-glee" moment costing us our future.Helen Keller...

Got less slack conforming to agreed on behavior, and thats not okay.

[Pepperbelly]

44. Must be Elisabeth-Bumiller fellating Bush day.

Why in the world do they give this harpie weekly space to blow Bush? It is dreadful. I love the way the liberal media takes care of our side, don't you?

[illflem]

47. On his last trip to Europe

junior kept complimenting people on their shoes.
Me thinks he was just trying to divert attention from the fact that he was staring at their crotch.

[Lisa]

49. so now he's James Brown?

"Feeling good", indeed. Isn't it interesting how many people are leaving a dream job at the White House ... not much fun, having a boss with a sulky, nasty temper who blames his employees for his mistakes (e.g. the staffer he yelled at when someone else's cell phone went off).

[chomskysright]

51. he's full of anti-depressants used to Rx his Narcisstic Personality Disord

[JawJaw]

55. Bouncy Bunker Boy !

"You have great eyes, Eva!"

[Zerex71]

57. Xanax does wonders for a person's depressed, anxious state.

[SpaceBuddy008]

59. "Build a Better Bush" website from Italy

Design your own Bush. Here's my fave.


L.A. Boo!SSh rad' dude

http://www.ilfoglio.it/uploads/camillo/BuildabetterBush.htm

[leftchick]

60. kinda scary....

I may play with it when I am no longer under his dictatorship.

:(

[SpaceBuddy008]

61. hey LeftChick, dictatorship joke I heard

I heard this I don't do jokes that much, now my GrandFather I use to make lists of his to carry around

anyways here goes

what is the difference between Bush and a jockstrap?
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one is a dictator and one is a dick toter

[leesa]

62. Wonder who he killed. Seems to make him happiest...