When Did Bush Jump-The-Shark?

[SemiCharmedQuark]

I don't mean when you started disliking him, or think he was a dirty crook. I mean, at what point did you really see that he was an evil thug who needed to be stopped?
I mean, I never liked him. I hated him in fact and I hated that he stole the election. But at the beginning I thought he was a simple spoiled brat who would go through the next four years and then get ousted.

[ComerPerro]

1. 9/11/01

[movonne]

2. before he was selected !!!!

[RT Atlanta]

3. When that fucker sent...

all of those people to die in TX

[MikeG]

4. Damn! The shark missed him again!

[coloradodem2005]

5. I would say July of 2003.

He was acting all big and bad on the aircraft carrier. Then in July they were talking about how there were still casualties in Iraq. At which point he was talking and looked real diminished in bravado. Then I realized that he was vulnerable.

[SharonAnn]

7. I thought it was May 2003 when he landed on the aircraft carrier.

At the time I thought he'd "jumped the shark" and was anxious to see if that was true.

It was!

[coloradodem2005]

9. Maybe I noticed late.

It was July when I noticed that the tide had turned against him.

[annxburns]

In the South Carolina primary in 2000 against McCain

Anyone who would smear a guy who spent 6 years in the Hanoi Hilton and also go after a man's family is a dirty, despicable, soul-less spine-less coward.

That is what Bush is. All anyone needs to know about Bush was revealed in the South Carolina primary in 2000.

[Nightjock]

17. ditto

[DURHAM D]

6. When he ran against Ann Richards - evil little bully.

[Wickerman]

8. July 6, 1946

sorry, someone had to say it.

[CO Liberal]

19. And Somebody Had To Beat Me To It!!!!

:-)

[madmax]

10. August or September of 2000

He sounded so false and empty. About as deep as a bird bath.

[TrustingDog]

11. The Axis of Evil speech.

that was The tip-off that he was the flocking moronic dangerous delerium tremens short thumbed arsehole I suspected him of being.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

12. During the SC Primary and the Fla. recount only reconfirmed it.

n/t

[MissMarple]

13. I used to teach school. He's the kind who draws your eye

when he walks into the room, and you know you will have to maintain a firm hand. And never turn your back. He doesn't respect other people. He thinks we are here to be used. I later found that his entire life has been spent that way. The truely evil clearly showed when he laughed at and mocked Carla Fay Tucker. I wouldn't do that to Saddam.

[proud patriot]

14. "Fool me once....abadaba.....ahhhh..............We won't get fooled again"

:shrug:

[coalition_unwilling]

15. The first time I heard him say

"Evil-doers". (Don't remember exactly when that was.) I realized at that point that he was projecting onto others his own internal demons.

[proud patriot]

25. You know that is an excellent observation

about the way bush projects his inner demons .

[coalition_unwilling]

26. Thanks. Actually, I'd like to reflect on it a little more, since

Bush has blended into Cheney, Rumsferatu, Wolfowitz, Kindasleezy, Myers and on and on.

As I think about it, Bush has always reminded me of this little boy who is smirking because he's gotten away with something, even as his smirk betrays his own internal knowlege that he's also done something wrong. One could almost say that he secretly wants\needs to get "caught."

His comment that the great thing about being Pres is that you don't have to explain yourself to anyone again can be read as some sort of pathology (maybe narcissism or delusions of grandiosity?), although I'm no psychologist.

[mark11727]

16. 42 nano-seconds after his hand hit the Bible at his Coronation...

...I knew in my soul and in my gut, that we were in serious trouble.

[Catfight]

18. during the 2000 debates.

[krkaufman]

20. Incorrect use of "jump the shark"

Boosh "jumping the shark" would be the point-of-inflection in his success as President. When did he start going downhill? My response to *this* JTS definition is December 2001: the Taliban had been taken down, bin Laden was supposedly in Tora Bora, and the Boosh turns away from Afghanistan to Iraq. Alternately, his "Mission Accomplished" flight of fancy is another choice.

As for when did I think he was dangerous? Before the election. When did I come to believe that he was evil? During the month-long debacle trying to figure out the Florida vote? (But even then I didn't guess just *how* dangerous or evil.)

jump the shark:

Urban Dictionary:

a term to describe a moment when somethin that was once great has reached a point where it will now decline in quality and popularity.

Origin of this phrase comes from a Happy Days episode where the Fonz jumped a shark on waterskis. Thus was labeled the lowest point of the show.

e.g. Cousin Oliver on Brady Bunch, Scrappy Doo.

WordSpy v. In a television show, to include an over-the-top scene or plot twist that is indicative either of an irreversible decline in the show's quality or of a desperate bid to stem the show's declining ratings.

[Gelliebeans]

21. When he banned stem cell research Aug 2001

[TheCentepedeShoes]

22. When he picked

Cheney for VP. Something didn't pass the "smell test."

[rniel]

23. IRAQ

I wasn't paying much attention to him or politics before this. When I heard they were going after Iraq that's when I went, hey dude wrong country, wait a minute here. Then it was one thing after another heading downhill

[bobbieinok]

24. never did like him but the total freak-out point was FL and the SCOTUS 5-4

vote

I was in IA in June 2000 for my son's wedding celebration. No one wanted to talk to me because I was so freaked out about the media spin.