Bush says he's earned re-election

[maddezmom]

Between Lebanon, Ohio, and Cincinnati — Sitting in a leather captain's chair and tossing back a throat lozenge as his Bush-Cheney campaign bus rolled toward Cincinnati, President Bush told reporters Tuesday he has earned re-election.

"We've been through war, we've been through emergency, we've been through corporate scandals and things are better. Things are improving," he said. "They are not as good as they will be, but as we sit here in May 2004, I can say the life of the Ohio citizen is improving. The fundamental question is who'll put policies in place to make sure that it continues to improve beyond the election cycle."

Without naming John Kerry, his Democratic opponent, Bush, his voice cracking from two days of continuous speechmaking, said he welcomed the "contest of ideas."

~snip~
more: http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/election/0504nation/05bush.html

[MSgt213]

1. He's earned the right to submit is application to as many companies as he

chooses.

[Tellurian]

9. Re-ELECTION? He's never been elected...

Bush is still in denial of a set of facts..

He was unjustly appointed to a presidency that he never earned.

[tom_paine]

51. Exactly. And I fear it is about to happen again

n/t

[rebellious woman]

2. Gonna need

a "tank" to get his illiterate ass out of there. God
I can't wait for him and his to GO, November not
soon enough for me.

[Tellurian]

23. If the military mutiny against the WH...

And I believe they are at the breaking point.

There won't be a problem there..

[benburch]

3. Just like he earned...

His college diploma.
His oil money.
His pilot's license.
His honorable discharge.

[amber dog democrat]

7. Word

Well stated.

[skooooo]

4. george, you've never "earned" a g-dam thing in your life.

......your time is up, baby.

[amber dog democrat]

5. But was he elected the first time?

Seems to me he deserves so much more than just being the president.
I would not want to have his karma.

"We've been through war, we've been through emergency, we've been through corporate scandals and things are better. Things are improving,"

These are things that he is responsible for to one degree or another - he needs to mention the deficits he ran up and the environmental disasters too.

And how are things improving?

Interesting.

[dbt]

6. Bullshit Headline.

Re-election? He would have to have been elected first. And don't get me started about all the shit he does deserve!

:evilgrin:
dbt

[opihimoimoi]

8. The "Losing Coach" wants a 4 year "EXTENSION??"

Gimme a break.

[Racenut20]

12. I love that one

Losing Coach wants extension. Love it.

[bowens43]

10. A far as I can see

the only thing he has earned in his entire life is contempt.

[goobergunch]

62. I disagree

I also think he's earned impeachment. :evilgrin:

[crossroads]

66. I second that emotion!

[SammyWinstonJack]

92. impeachment, removed from Office

That would be a good start. Include Cheney as well.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

11. What is he running for?

Sure not the President. Maybe dictator, spawn from H*ll.....

[dusty64]

13. This guy is

DEFINITELY drinking and using again. :puke:

[Nihil]

20. Subtle phrase change in the article

> Sitting in a leather captain's chair and tossing back a throat lozenge

Hmmm ... "tossing back a throat lozenge"?

:wtf:

"Tossing back a Bud" or "tossing back a cold beer" maybe but a throat lozenge??

Either you guys have a nifty new euphemism for "alcoholic beverage" or
someone's tweaking the censorship rules on the old Canadian bus there ...

[Misunderestimator]

40. You might just have something there...

Could be he's traded alcohol for cough medicine? I hear that Robitussin is abused by some kids, since they can get it over the counter. Perhaps he was tossing back a bottle of tussin? That'd be a kick.

[Paranoid_Portlander]

60. There really is a Tussin syrup that's not Robitussin.

Robitussin is the one that's sometimes mis-used by kids. The tussin label says "We're not Robitussin" or words to that effect.

[Misunderestimator]

69. The other "tussins" I've seen are just generics of Robitussin

with the same exact ingredients.

[Paranoid_Portlander]

75. Remarkable coincidence.

Both of us have precisely equal post numbers at 452. Of course, my saying so now makes it 453, but you will be at 453 soon. Odds are 1,000 to 1 for the first match.

[Misunderestimator]

88. That IS pretty funny

... but I bet I beat you to a 1,000. :)

[Paranoid_Portlander]

93. You probably will.

It took me about 18 months to reach 450 posts, but I do find myself posting more often. The 1000 to 1 odds refers to the first match of 452-452, the probability of two 3-digit numbers being a match on the first try (actually 999 to 1). Subsequent matches are more likely now that the 452-452 match has been established. Good luck!

[Triana]

14. he would have had to have been ELECTED

once to earn re-election. HA! Furthermore, he has NOT earned it.

What HAS EARNED is a prison sentence - and a very long one at that.

He's screwed up everything in and outside of this country and he needs to be FIRED and put in PRISON - for incomptetence, negligence, lack of ethics, lying, crimes against humanity, and other high crimes and misdemeanors. He should wear a striped suit. His prisoner number?

666

;)

(edited to add more to my rant about the Evil Weasel)

[susu369]

15. "We've been through war..."

This is Latest Breaking News - damn, I didn't realize the war was over. The Potemkin Village Idiot makes it sound like war is a thing of the past and now life is improved.

[Cooley Hurd]

16. The only thing he's earned is...

...a boot in his ass

...it's the Ah 'Murican way.

[Cocoa]

17. all those things we've "been through" are his fault

he sounds like the kid that killed his parents pleading for mercy since he's an orphan.

[kwyjibo]

49. exactly what i thought

how can he use those as merits? doesn't he understand that none of them should have happened? how can he possibly ask for respect and votes BECAUSE he started a war that many people think is unnecessary?

[Robbien]

18. Sorry George, you don't get to decide if you earned election, we do!

It is our right to make that determination, not yours.

[The Backlash Cometh]

19. He's a piece of work.

kick

[tabasco]

42. More like a piece of laziness.

Laziness that comes from never having to work in your life. Being born rich and comfortable makes people weak in character. Some overcome it, like John Kerry. But Bush has never stepped up to the plate in his life. He is a weakling mentally and morally. His parents are much to blame for raising such a worthless cretin.

[calimary]

46. "Piece of shit" sums it up better for me.

It's fascinating, actually. A real case study.

Here we have a complete train-wreck of a human being - IN CHARGE. At least he's being true to his track record.

Think of the three (count 'em, THREE) oil companies - TEXAS oil companies - HELLO!? - driven into a ditch - while HE was at the helm. What could do that? Bad management? Disorganization? Too much delegation so the delegator-in-chief doesn't have to bother with any of the work? Too much self-flattery and then fiddling while everything burns? And, lately, LITERALLY the warden's asleep so the inmates run wild? Look at his track record. Sammy Sosa gets traded from the Texas Rangers - while HE was at the helm. The state of Texas left in complete disarray once he's gone from there? Which got there while HE was at the helm? What else could we expect from him at the highest heights? Just that much more he can screw up.


All we're seeing now is a PRESIDENTIAL-LEVEL version of things he already screwed up in lesser venues and lower-powered positions. Except now, he gets an entire country - and because it's the most powerful country - the entire PLANET to fuck up. He's now fucked up THREE countries. Iraq, Afghanistan, and the US. Well, FOUR if you count Great Britain. He's a one-person demolition derby. A one-person sink-hole. He drags down everybody he touches - like a human ball and chain.

His esteemed mother once was quoted, I believe, as once saying she didn't think he'd amount to much. Turns out our entire country will not amount to much, by the time he gets through with us.

george, you ARE deserving. But HARDLY of another four years. At least not four years in the Oval Office. Four years in Leavenworth would be more appropriate. For starters.

[yardwork]

63. Hilarious and so apt!

A couple more countries he fucked up - Spain, Australia, Poland, Italy.... Who else has troops in Iraq?

We'll all be blamed together when we go....

except the U.S. will get blamed the most.

[ComerPerro]

21. Ha. We have been through all that, but he is responsible for them

He brought those problems, he is the reason we had to face such difficulty.

Fuck him

[llmart]

22. All of my immediate family live in Ohio....

and not a one of them would say that "life in Ohio is improving" under him. Not one of them will vote for him.

[Eurobabe]

54. mine too, i doubt whether they will

vote for fucknutincharge, some will vote kerry, others will just sit out the election.

[Just Me]

24. *chuckle* He's earned the title "miserable failure"!!!! n/t

[Proud Liberal Dem]

25. All I Can Say Is......

Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!!!!! Not to mention the fact that he comes right out and admits that things are not as good (now) as they will be(?), how has this country improved since he has been President?! *crickets chirping* Lets see here, we lost +/-3000 people in a coordinated terrorist attack that Bush appears to not have acted aggressively enough to prevent, we launched an unnecessary war on false (or at least HIGHLY dubious premises) against a third-world country that did not nor could not threaten us resulting in a hellish occupation-without-end that has resulted in the death of 6-700 US troops, the economy has been bad for as long as I can remember, layoffs and outsourcing (which appears to be considered a good thing according to Bush) are rampant, we have US citizens designated "enemy combatants" (read:enemy of the state) languishing in military brigs deprived of any due process. Can anybody here point to ANY one way that Bush has worked to improve this country thus making him "deserving" of being re-elected?! I'm waiting for an answer!!!!

[Misunderestimator]

41. Good Rant.... Nothing to add. n/t

[yardwork]

64. ...and let's not forget -

The Chimp also wrecked....

the environment and three decades worth of environmental protection laws.....

any attempt to support public education, by mandating an unfunded and incredibly stupid and wrong-headed ideology called "No Child Left Behind".... (I guess the fact that it was left unfunded is the only point in its favor, as it will be impossible to enact the stupid legislation, although it would have been simpler to just skip the whole thing....)

scientific study, data, and debate, by altering and suppressing data that doesn't support his fundamentalist religious ideology...

health care, by promising to expand access but instead pouring hundreds of millions into "abstinence only" faith-programs (yes, that will really halt the diabetes epidemic, good work george....)

numerous other departments, including Health and Human Services, which is now in complete disarray and dysfunction, thanks to his replacement of long-time personnel with brainless ideologues....

It will take decades to dig out of the damage the Chimp has caused in three short years. Give him four more and we can just throw in the towel.

[0007]

71. Welcome home - where in the hell have you been?

:toast:
Do we have to put an electronic monitor on you?

[Vladimir]

26. ReSelection, surely? n/t

[wubbathompson]

27. He has a funny

Inner compass for what earns him another term. Most of us would have been fired long ago for so many screw ups.

[kentuck]

28. Yep ! He's given us everything except diarrhea.....

but we're getting better now.... :mad:

[Bridget Burke]

34. Deregulation of Food Production, Pollution of Water Supply....

Buy stock in Immodium.

[DFWJock]

29. Re-election?

Sure, why not -

The rest of the world hates us.
Record deficits
2+ million jobs lost.
Thousands of lives lost on a pack of fairy tales.

I mean who in their right mind wouldnt want 4 more years of this.

[54anickel]

30. Just more Dubya-speak, what was running thru that pea brain while

he was saying it:

I marched our asses into an war that can't be won thanks to my brilliant policy allowing me to call for that war all on my own, all perfectly legal. Those reps are so damn gullible.

I staged that 9-11 deal brilliantly to toss everyone off balance while
I passed more policies to allow some great corporate profits and made it all perfectly legal. While I was at it I made sure those corporations wouldn't get their asses in a sling in that worthless international court or any other court while they rape the ME during that war.

Now how the hell do you think all that will continue if I don't get re-selected?

[crossroads]

73. Re-select me please?

:nuke:

[74dodgedart]

31. Bush hasn't "earned" anything in his life...

We should just hand it to him on a silver platter..

[Skittles]

32. NO SHIT

WHAT AN ARROGANT ASSHOLE HE IS.

[74dodgedart]

43. How can you earn something when you don't take responsibility for anything

Nothing is his fault, he never makes mistakes, bad luck just seems to follow him...

[bullimiami]

33. hes "earned"

life in prison followed by an enternity in hell.

[MadHound]

35. HA! HA HA HA HOO HOO HOO HEE HEE HEE!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHOOHOOHOOHOOHEEHEEHEEHOHOHOHOHOHOHHAHAHAHAHAHAHEEHEEHEEHEEHEE! Oh please, make him stop, my sides hurt!

Earned reelection! That's some mighty potent Prozac you're on there Georgy boy!

[dand]

36. He earned a trip to the Hague, along with the other war criminals

in his administration, he is guilty of being the biggest fucking disaster to ever hit this country.

[Sub Atomic]

37. "Tossing back a throat lozenge"

Is that what they call drinking Jagermeister shooters these days?

:eyes:

[Misunderestimator]

38. "We've been through war,

we've been through emergency, we've been through corporate scandals"
...we've been through lies, we've been through treasonous scandals, we've committed impeachable offenses, we've killed thousands of innocent people...

"and things are better. Things are improving," he said. "They are not as good as they will be, but as we sit here in May 2004, I can say the life of the Ohio citizen is improving. "
You can't say it, but I shore can

"The fundamental question is who'll put policies in place to make sure that it continues to improve beyond the election cycle."
I don't know what I just said, but it sure sounded important, didn't it?

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

39. "contest of ideas"? is he going to debate Kerry? EVER?

The man is fucking JOKE!!!

A very blood stained joke.

[Blue-Jay]

44. He's earned a swift kick in the beanbag.........n/t

[CBHagman]

45. For what? Incompetence, selfishness, and shamelessness?

The most outrageous thing about this administration is that it's so obviously incompetent and short-sighted, yet its members prance around telling us that it's improving our overall situation and besides, even if what they told us 12 months ago was wrong, wrong, wrong, it wasn't a mistake to do anything that they've done in the past three or so years.

Somehow it slipped their notice that 100,000 people marched through the streets of London during Bush's state visit to the U.K. and told this country exactly what they think of our alleged president.

[The_Casual_Observer]

47. Since he has never "earned" anything in his life

who is he to judge?

[lebkuchen]

48. was he high on crystal meth at the time he said this?

[Zero Gravitas]

50. Bush has never "earned" anything

Hes a useless aristocrat who thinks the world owes him a position of power.

[MurrayDelph]

59. While we may never be able to award it to him

He has earned a lifetime assignment to the Nurenburg Hilton.

[ElementaryPenguin]

52. Chimpy couldn't win a "contest of ideas" with a new born gorilla...

Much less with a John F. Kerry!! Bring it on, dumb fuck!!

:crazy:
:silly:
:argh:

[JohnOneillsMemory]

53. Classic corporate ad tactic: Sell Your Weaknesses.

In the spirit of the Big Lie being more successful than the small lie, corporations have learned to actually advertise their weaknesses to cover up their crimes.

So ExxonMobil advertises environmentalism.
Phillip Morris advertises helping families and abused women.
Auto companies advertise freedom instead of debt.
Wall Street advertises opportunity in a fixed system.

It's the Orwellian principle deployed because it works!

Destroy the Bill of Rights with the Patriot Act.
Gut environmental regs with the Clear Skies Act.

Now Bush* can say he helped us through adversity when he really BROUGHT us adversity.

Absolutely classic mind-fuck technique. Fascinating, like a car-wreck.

[Eurobabe]

55. DENIAL anyone?

this guy is unreal. he deserves to go back to Texas from whence he came.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

56. He really needs AAA

Arrogant Assholes Anonymous

How clueless can one man be? This morning I heard a radio news broadcast about his speaking on Arabian TV with regard to the recent torture of Iraqi captives. I nearly puked when he said it was disrespectful and unAmerican.

When has he ever been respectful of anyone who thought differently from the repiglican party?

Someone please tell me what this jackass who bought and forced his way into the White House knows of respect...

[NewYorkerfromMass]

57. Psych 101: The fact he said this means he is going down.

No humility here. The idiot thinks he has earned re-election. He will be rejected by the voters. This is counting your chickens before they're hatched.
This is an unusual thing to say, betraying a lack of confidence. I smell desparate spinning, grasping at straws.

[truthisfreedom]

58. "earned re-selection?" no thanks, george, although we've lost all faith in

pretzels and diebold, we still know we can vote your dangerous band of madmen out of office this fall.

[bear425]

61. But can we really vote him out?

I am really worried about the Diebold boxes working properly (or accurately) How can regime change occur if the vote is fixed again? Do we just have blind faith? Anyone else worried? P.S. I live in Florida...

[crossroads]

67. be afraid... be very afraid!

I worry too and I don't live there.

[Tellurian]

84. No, I don't think we will or can...

Diebold is a dead end.

Anyone that tells you we can
win by voting him out is one
of his team mates.

[zonmoy]

65. when did hell hold an election

and elect him ruler.

[pinniped]

68. This A$$HOLE also said he doesn't plan on losing his job...

What kind of dirty tricks are these a$$holes planning on?

- October surprise
- Cancellation of election
- Martial law
- Florida election abnormalities
- Other state election abnormalities
- Widespread voter machine fraud
- ?

[maveric]

70. I hate to sound like a "Doomsday Dem", but * and his administration

will not give up their power. Regardless of the election results, he will have at least 4 more years. Kerry will win 53-47% of the popular and the electorate as well, but some, if not all, of the dirty tricks you mentioned in your post WILL occur.
I hate to think this way but these guys are facists and have had their way with the country and the world, and they want MORE!
Fuck!!

[TankLV]

72. HE caused the "war". HE caused the scandals. HE created the emergencies.

It is not his "responsibility" - it's his fucking FAULT!

If he wasn't appointed to his position, and Gore was rightfully President, none of this would have happened.

But then again, HE believes he was choosen by god.

He's an idiot/criminal/thug - who cares what he thinks - we all knew long ago - and the vast majority of us REJECTED him and his thoughts.

[Mattforclark]

74. Mattforclark says he hasn't

[DianeG5385]

76. Over my dead body will * be elected!

He has been a singular disater and has done more to destroy the reputation of the US as the beacon of freedom in the world His policies, as a whole make no economic or political sense unless the end result is to control the resources of sovereign countries through destabilization (except for Israel; note am I not an anti-semite because I disagree with the actions of the 51st state), dumb down the American populace by underfunding education and practising trickle up economics. They actually believe we are tools to be used to enrich themselves and for the most part we let them get away with it!

[Tellurian]

77. It all boils down to one of three things..

Are we going to play follow the Leader and blindly walk into the abyss?

Or are we going to put a stop to this charade and at least try circulating a petition (or a referendum) for Impeachment around the country, thereby bypassing the House of Representatives?

Or are we just going to sit here, day in and day out, complaining we've been outfoxed, outmaneuvered, omarosaed and do nada?

[flaminbats]

78. Does he deserve some credit for achieving the impossible?

Ecclesiastes 6.8 For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?

7.4 The heart of the wise is in the the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.

7.5 It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.

7.6 For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this is also vanity.

7.7 Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart.

10.2 A wise man's heart is at his right hand: but a fool's heart at his left.

10.3 Yea also, when he that is a fool walketh by the way, his wisdom faileth him, and saith to every one that he is a fool.

10.12 The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow him up himself.

10.13 The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness: and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.

[0rganism]

79. He's earned something, I have to give him that much

We'd probably disagree on exactly what he's earned, but damn has he ever earned it.

Is everything the "president" says disgusting, incoherent, and/or absolutely pregnant with irony? Enough I say! Enough!

[wickerwoman]

80. Entitlement really is his middle name.

Time for a wake up call, Georgie.

Daddy's money and last name pulled strings with people who haven't seen your black puking "soul" in action, but the average American has had a good look at you now.

You don't have a shot in hell.

[True_Blue]

81. Bush has not done anything

except destroy America in every way possible.

I asked a Republican at work if he could name one single thing Bush did that actually benefited our country in some way. He looked perplexed for a moment, and then he walked away and hasn't spoken to me since...:P

[Piperay]

82. "re-Election"???

:wtf: he was Selected NOT elected and he has earned NOTHING except contempt! :mad:

[anarchy1999]

83. Bush Jr. has been my personal nightmare since November of 2000.

I've suffered far too many sleepless nights these last three years. So Bush believes he has earned "re-election/selection". I don't think so, not in my nightmares. (I actually had a nightmare about Bush last weekend and ended up falling out of bed trying to come out of it!).

We the people of this country deserve so much more, at least I like to believe we do. Maybe though we don't, there are so many that don't even have a clue or seem to even want to find one.

[hyphenate]

85. Earned? EARNED?

He really IS the stupidest moron on the face of this planet. JHC, he's a dumb shit. The only thing he's earned is the boot in his ass on January 20, 2005.

[Ganja Ninja]

86. 'I can't think of anything I did wrong so I've earned your vote.'

This sets an all time record for arrogance.

[Earth_First]

87. LOL

* never earned a damn thing in his life...it's all be HANDED to him...

[peekaloo]

89. Xanax comes in throat lozenge form?

:shrug:

[Jim__]

90. As I read through the other headlines in this folder ...

... Bush's claim becomes surreal.

The really pathetic part is that I think he believes it.

[fortyfeetunder]

91. Yes, he's earned something

Nomination as the most effed up POS pResident in this nation's history!