Bush to G8: 'Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter'

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

Source: The Independent

President George Bush signed off with a defiant farewell over his refusal to accept global climate change targets at his last G8 summit.

As he prepared to fly out from Japan, he told his fellow leaders: "Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter."

President Bush made the private joke in the summit's closing session, senior sources said yesterday. His remarks were taken as a two-fingered salute from the President from Texas who is wedded to the oil industry. He had given some ground at the summit by saying he would "seriously consider" a 50 per cent cut in carbon emissions by 2050.

But green groups had protested that the meeting was a missed opportunity to secure the radical reductions in carbon emissions that were needed to reduce global warming. China and India, who were among the emerging economies invited to the summit, refused to sign up to binding agreements without firmer commitments from the US and the other industrialised nations to cut their CO2 emissions.



Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/bush-to-g8-goodbye-from-the-worlds-biggest-polluter-863911.html

[msongs]

1. he is a child trapped in an adult body. cheney runs the country nt

[HomerRamone]

12. I didn't think I could ever feel as much hate

as I do for those two.

[beac]

20. I think that's an insult to children. At least a child has the

excuse of being young and inexperienced when they behave like little horrors.

But I agree with your point that Cheney holds the reins and merely gives Bush little pats on the head while calling him "The Decider".

Did you ever see that SNL skit where Cheney et al is deciding policy while Bush plays with a ball of yarn in the corner? F-U-N-N-Y. But probably an insult to cats.

I can't actually think of ANY living creature Bush could be compared to that wouldn't insult the other life form--- including black mold and the ebola virus.

[Hardrada]

36. He makes me ashamed to be living in the same dimension.

[Sanity Claws]

2. "two-fingered salute?"

I don't know what that means. I understand his remark to be a middle-finger salute.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

4. That's what the finger is in Britain. (nt)

[nxylas]

22. Yep, same thing

Sort of like the two-fingered "peace" sign, but with the hand turned so that the fingernails face outward.

There's a popular myth that it derives from the battle of Agincourt, where the French would routinely cut the first and second fingers off any English archers they captured, so that they couldn't use their bows. The myth states that the English archers would hold up their fingers as a gesture of contempt to the French when they failed to capture them. This is historical fancy, however, and there is no record of the French mutilating their captives in this way.

[Mz Pip]

3. What an ass.

He has about as much class as a 12 year old pouting because he didn't make "most popular."

[all.of.me]

38. Yeah, I definitely read him as a middle schooler. nt

[bluesmail]

5. He's feeling extra confident since winning FISA

I'm in mourning

[hisownpetard]

9. I'm with you. The thought of him receiving the news that he got everything he wanted

(from a Democratic-controlled Congress) just makes me want to barf.

[mr_hat]

6. [Insert Jon Stewart's best "heh-heh" here.]

[KansDem]

7. He got his pals in the telecom industry their "Get Out of Jail Free" card...

Why the fucking arrogance?

You'd think he'd show some humility, even if he had to fake it.

[Indenturedebtor]

11. Why bother. He can do whatever he wants with impunity

Why should he show anything but what a pig he is?

The checks and balances are tipped heavily in his favor.

Long live the King.

[ailsagirl]

17. You may be right but I'd hate to be in his shoes...

[Indenturedebtor]

18. Hell I wouldn't even want to have the smell of him in my nostrils

What a disgusting sack of shit :puke:

[Radio_Lady]

39. I have the ugliest taste in my mouth.

This is sickening.

[xchrom]

8. he has just provided the best commentary on his 8 years in office right there. nt

[Ian David]

10. "Goodbye from the world's biggest douchebag!" n/t

[Jefferson23]

13. An arrogant disgraceful war criminal, off to the Hague, thats are only chance at justice.

[DogPoundPup]

15. Hear, hear!

[Mike Daniels]

16. Never going to happen. Doesn't matter if Obama is in the WH

the US isn't going to allow any past or sitting president to be tried at the Hague.

Yes, I understand there's a disconnect but I imagine that no major power anywhere in the world would allow their leaders to be tried either.

[Demeter]

31. Ah! But If He Was NOT Elected, Would That Not Change Things?

and be a very neat way to take care of the embarrassment!

[DogPoundPup]

14. Being the inarticulate imbecile such as he is, is one thing .........

But being an arrogant, depraved inarticulate lunatic, is quite another.

[DeepModem Mom]

19. No words. K&R

[tanyev]

21. My four favorite words in the article: "his last G8 summit"

Ahhhh..... :)

[MadrasT]

23. Disgraceful

Simply disgraceful. At times like this, I'm (almost) ashamed to be a U.S. citizen.

What I'm really ashamed of, though, is the moron currently residing at 1600 PA Ave.

[jbane]

24. Bush leaves G-8 with a joke about pollution.

Source: Telegraph.co.uk

The American leader, who has been condemned throughout his presidency for failing to tackle climate change, ended a private meeting with the words: "Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter."

He then punched the air while grinning widely, as the rest of those present including Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy looked on in shock.



Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/2277298/President-George-Bush-%27Goodbye-from-the-world%27s-biggest-polluter%27.html

---

He's lost his mind at a very bad time.

[GCP]

25. What an absolute POS

I am so ashamed of this country, that people were dumb enough to elect him in 2004. AAARRGGHH :banghead:

[BreweryYardRat]

32. "Elect" nothing.

The Repubs committed gross election fraud and stole the election. (Ohio, Florida.)

[hisownpetard]

26. I can practically hear their stomachs turning.

God, what an a**hole he is.
What an embarrassment.

Can't wait for 1/20/09!

[SteelPenguin]

27. A bad time?

What was happening a decade ago when he lost his mind?

[Cleita]

29. I see he's drunk and popping pills again.

Only a person high on chemical euphoria would make such an asinine statement in public. Yes, even an idiot like Bush would not say this sober.

[llmart]

30. I really have no words left to describe......

how mind boggling it is that this asshole is even allowed out of the asylum let alone running our country. I just hope that the world will forgive us once he's gone.

[ailsagirl]

60. Disgraceful and ignominious

I like to think that the rest of the world understands
that's it not our doing. That he doesn't represent in
any way our interests... that he's a runaway train and
we're the unfortunates onboard.

[llmart]

63. I'd like to think that too......

but the truth is that many, many Americans DID vote for this idiot or else he wouldn't be in office. So what does that say about us? I just wish people in this country who are uninformed and won't take the time to research before they vote, just wouldn't vote at all.

[Dulcinea]

65. He is such a rube.

Walking proof that money can't buy class. I'm embarrassed for this nation.

[GCP]

28. What a fucking POS he is

No other words for him.
I loathe him more than I have ever loathed anybody, ever.

[windoe]

33. Somebody make him stop

drop him off in Crawford until the trial can be arranged..

[PfcHammer]

34. just secured his position as most hated and disgusting

US pResident :puke:

[daleo]

35. Bush to Planet Earth

FOAD.

[superconnected]

37. And the world says, don't let the door hit you in the arse on the way out.

[BlueJessamine]

40. Bush to G8: 'Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter'

Source: The Independent

President George Bush signed off with a defiant farewell over his refusal to accept global climate change targets at his last G8 summit.


As he prepared to fly out from Japan, he told his fellow leaders: "Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter."

President Bush made the private joke in the summit's closing session, senior sources said yesterday. His remarks were taken as a two-fingered salute from the President from Texas who is wedded to the oil industry. He had given some ground at the summit by saying he would "seriously consider" a 50 per cent cut in carbon emissions by 2050.

But green groups had protested that the meeting was a missed opportunity to secure the radical reductions in carbon emissions that were needed to reduce global warming. China and India, who were among the emerging economies invited to the summit, refused to sign up to binding agreements without firmer commitments from the US and the other industrialised nations to cut their CO2 emissions.



Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/bush-to-g8-goodbye-from-the-worlds-biggest-polluter-863911.html

[Hardrada]

41. "Yeah, we don't take shit from nobody. You guys think you

can tell us what to do. We'll piss on your corn flakes and you'll like it, you bunch of dorks. USA USA!!"

[msongs]

42. the child trapped in a man's body speaks again. whatta moron nt

[Olney Blue]

43. Where is President Gore when we need him?

[ailsagirl]

67. In my more masochistic moments, I can't help wondering where

this country would be had Gore taken his rightful place as
President.

:cry:

[geomon666]

44. I hate this man.

I hate him more than I have ever hated anybody before in my life. I wish nothing but ruin on him and his family. I don't care if that makes me evil. I can sleep well at night knowing that if I am evil, I'm infinitely less evil than him. Fuck him.

[Eric Condon]

49. To paraphrase Morrissey, I wish nothing but the very very worst for him for the rest of his life. nt

[yardwork]

45. What an asshole.

I want to tell the world, "We hate him too."

[nam78_two]

46. Sounds like just the guy to have a beer with-president asshole.nt

[tularetom]

47. "Goodbye from the world's largest polluter". he chattered as he swung from

the chandelier, ate a banana, scratched his balls, and flung his poo at the delegates.

[Connonym]

48. I don't know how the hell we're ever going to recover any national dignity

after everything he's done. It will take years to earn back even a modicum of respect.

[Hekate]

50. What do they mean a "two fingered salute"? W flipped them the bird...

Dear gods, what in heaven's name did (most of us) ever do to deserve this SOB? He's an embarrassment to the human race.

Hekate

[ingac70]

51. His comment was viewed as...

a "fuck off!"

[Autumn Colors]

54. That IS the equivalent of flipping the bird in Europe

Palm forward is the victory sign (or the peace sign), but if you turn your hand around so the back is facing the other person, that's the same as sticking your middle finger up here in the US. That's what they mean by "the two-fingered salute".

[Hekate]

55. Thanks to both of you for explaining that.Christ on a TrailerHitch, that man is an embarrassment.nt

[marias23]

52. Certainly a Sociopath

...probably a psychopath. I only hope the Generals know it too or there will be more war before he leaves office.

[Hekate]

56. Since the compliant Petraeus just was given the Central Command...

...I fear for any prospects of restraint. :-(

Hekate

[jayfish]

53. Is This For Real?

It gotta be The Onion right? ...right?

Jay

[junior college]

57. He's not trying to hide anything at this stage of his presidency

Bush and his oil buddies are in rape overdrive. The party is almost over.....I hope.

[usregimechange]

58. Is the nightmare over yet?

[LuckyLib]

59. My favorite description of the Chimp from a DU member, saved a year or so ago:

“I've never before found myself actually cringing when the so-called president of the United States goes out in public and ‘does his thing.’

There was always at least some semblance of dignity and elegance and refinement, and the gravitas that automatically comes with that high office.

THIS guy, on the other hand, brings to it all the couth of Larry the Cable Guy at a Chug-a-Lug and Fart contest.”

[Stuart G]

61. Did this fool really make a joke this foolish?

...Did he really say this? Any verification past the London Independent? If true, this is unbelievable.
..Please respond if possible..thanks........

[54anickel]

62. Not defending the ass-clown, but it seems the entire summit was one big joke and the

earth was given the finger by the major industrialized nations. Obviously another "Frail grasp on the big picture". :banghead:


http://www.plentymag.com/blogs/political/2008/07/joking_around_at_the_g8.php

snip>

Still, Bush wasn’t the only one clowning around at the conference. Sure, the developed countries agreed to new stronger-than-ever language committing them to cut global greenhouse emissions in half by 2050. The G8 leaders touted the move as “a significant step forward”. In fact, though, it was little more than a token shuffle: The new policy contains virtually nothing that wasn’t already present in the goals signed up to by more than 200 nations way back in 1992, at the UN’s first climate summit.

Besides failing to endorse emission cuts at the levels scientists say are needed to avert catastrophe, the G8 nations were hopelessly vague about how and when to take action, and refused to make any kind of binding commitment even to their own watered-down emissions targets. That led greens to dismiss the plan as “pathetic”; even the UK government’s own carbon-reduction agency blasted the G8 nations, saying the summit had failed to do “a single thing” to reduce carbon emissions, and accusing all concerned - including Prime Minister Brown - of “an abrogation of responsibility."

Most damningly of all, the G8 plan utterly failed to address the issue of how to divide up emissions cuts between industrialized and developing nations - the single most important question for any serious climate strategy. That led the big emerging economies - Brazil, China, India, Mexico and South Africa - to scoff at the conference, calling for the developed world to aim higher and cut emissions by more than 80 percent by mid-century.

The Hokkaido summit only served to underscore the G8’s increasing irrelevance: The leaders of the world’s biggest developed economies failed to provide any leadership, and had to be nudged by developing nations to live up to their international responsibilities. It’s clear, sadly, that Bush’s buffoonery was entirely in keeping with the spirit of the summit. The entire conference was a bad joke, and America’s outgoing president merely provided the punch-line.

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[bdamomma]

64. this worthless POS!!

too bad our media could play that over and over again.

[Tight_rope]

66. And the moron makes a mockery of it. GOD HELP ME TO MAKE IT TO 01/20/09

:banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: