Bush: Dems Should Worry More About bin Laden than heed demands of MoveOn and Code Pink

[marmar]

Oh, the gall! :argh:


via MichaelMoore.com:



June 26th, 2008 1:51 am
Bush raises GOP cash in Michigan


By Jennifer Loven / Associated Press

LIVONIA, Mich. — Campaigning for fellow Republican John McCain in a crucial swing state, President Bush accused Democrats Wednesday of "running on empty" on energy policy, "acting like teenagers with a new credit card" on federal spending and heeding warnings from anti-war activists more than those from Osama bin Laden.

Bush never mentioned the name of McCain's opponent in the November race to succeed him. But his criticism of Democratic leadership clearly was meant to include Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.

The speech, before a group of about 300 supporters raising money for the state Republican Party, came as Bush is significantly stepping up his efforts — both public and private — on McCain's behalf.

Though the two hardly appear together, Bush has pledged his full support to help get his former foe elected. McCain unsuccessfully ran against Bush in a bitter race for the Republican nomination in 2000. They eventually made up and McCain backed Bush the rest of that year and again in his 2004 re-election bid.

Most of Bush's appearances so far this year for McCain have come at GOP fundraisers that are closed to the media. But that is starting to change.

In Wednesday's speech, like one in the Washington Convention Center last week, Bush mentioned McCain on every topic he raised, such as taxes, spending, energy, judges, Iraq and the war on terror.

But he also cranked his standard political stump speech up a few notches, adding several sharp punch lines aimed at Democrats.

On Iraq and the war on terror, he said "Democratic leaders should pay more attention to the warnings of terrorists like Osama bin Laden and spend less time heeding the demands of MoveOn.Org and Code Pink."

On energy, he suggested he is the only policymaker to make proposals that would lower gas prices and that Democrats "have rejected virtually all of them."

"They say they want lower prices at the pump, but they're against measures that would actually do that," Bush said. "You might say when it comes to energy policy, the Democrats in Congress are running on empty." .....(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=11751

[jobycom]

1. Spoken like a man who thinks he is king.

He sees the world that way. Americans are dumb followers, not citizens. It couldn't be that MoveOn and Code Pink are organic organizations that grew up as an expression of the outrage at his war crimes and traitorous behavior. It must be that Democrats are just obeying the wrong king.

Well, in a few months he can retire somewhere, and no one will care what he says or does until he dies of whatever drugs or alcohol he's using then. I wonder if his kids will even mourn him. I doubt it.

[Mojorabbit]

3. Cope Pink and Move on

must be more effective than we think if they merit mention.

[jobycom]

13. True dat. nt

[EFerrari]

14. This morning Lindsay "Jackass" Graham said the Hard Left

was going crazy over the FISA bill. "Hard Left special interests". It seems like a way to shut down dissent more than anything.

[JaneQPublic]

2. Remember these quotes from Bush:

"I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority."
- G.W. Bush, 3/13/02

"I am truly not that concerned about him."
- G.W. Bush, repsonding to a question about bin Laden's whereabouts,
3/13/02 (The New American, 4/8/02)

[wtmusic]

4. CodePink wants you to stand trial for war crimes, Mr. President

Don't let that influence your opinion of them

[sinkingfeeling]

5. Would somebody please point out that he and his Republican Congress doubled the national debt!

[alfredo]

6. So we should not listen to the voters.

[malaise]

7. Is this the same Bush who publicly stated

that he wasn't looking for Bin Laden.

Benazir Bhutto said to Frost than Bin Laden was dead. Then she was dead. Then McSame's peeps said that her death was good for him. They're playing up the fear factor - here we go again. :tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat:

[Lasher]

8. McLame must not be trying to win anymore.

Getting the most unpopular president since Truman to campaign for him does not seem prudent.

So Democrats aren't concerned about bin Laden? Who was president when we took our eye off the ball in Tora Bora? Well OK it was Cheney.

And this is the same guy who was critical of Clinton for the 'high' gas prices in 2000. Said he would 'jawbone' the Saudis to lower prices. Now he seems to have forgotten he's been president since January 22, 2001 when gas was $1.46 a gallon.

And it's Democrats who are going to max out the federal credit cards? Well that mission has already been accomplished. During Junior's presidency spending increased at the fastest rate in 30 years.



http://www.independent.org/newsroom/news_detail.asp?newsID=31

[DinahMoeHum]

9. Good, the more Bush opens his big fat mouth to support McCain,

the more galvanized WE get.

Let's tie Bush around McCain and every other Repuke pig LIKE AN ANCHOR.

:kick:

[Johonny]

10. Democrats in Congress are running on empty.

I said running on empty. Hello is this mic on.

[Ghost in the Machine]

11. Fox News: "Bin Laden Already Dead"

Fox News: "Bin Laden Already Dead"

Wednesday, December 26, 2001

Usama bin Laden has died a peaceful death due to an untreated lung complication, the Pakistan Observer reported, citing a Taliban leader who allegedly attended the funeral of the Al Qaeda leader.

"The Coalition troops are engaged in a mad search operation but they would never be able to fulfill their cherished goal of getting Usama alive or dead," the source said.

Bin Laden, according to the source, was suffering from a serious lung complication and succumbed to the disease in mid-December, in the vicinity of the Tora Bora mountains. The source claimed that bin Laden was laid to rest honorably in his last abode and his grave was made as per his Wahabi belief.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,41576,00.html

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The Death of bin Ladenism
By AMIR TAHERI
Published: July 11, 2002

Osama bin Laden is dead. The news first came from sources in Afghanistan and Pakistan almost six months ago: the fugitive died in December and was buried in the mountains of southeast Afghanistan. Pakistan's president, Pervez Musharraf, echoed the information. The remnants of Osama's gang, however, have mostly stayed silent, either to keep Osama's ghost alive or because they have no means of communication.

With an ego the size of Mount Everest, Osama bin Laden would not have, could not have, remained silent for so long if he were still alive. He always liked to take credit even for things he had nothing to do with. Would he remain silent for nine months and not trumpet his own survival?

Even if he is still in the world, bin Ladenism has left for good. Mr. bin Laden was the public face of a brand of politics that committed suicide in New York and Washington on Sept. 11, 2001, killing thousands of innocent people in the process.

What were the key elements of that politics?

The first was a cynical misinterpretation of Islam that began decades ago with such anti-Western ideologues as Maulana Maudoodi of Pakistan and Sayyid Qutb of Egypt. Although Mr. Maudoodi and Mr. Qutb were not serious thinkers, they could at least offer a coherent ideology based on a narrow reading of Islamic texts. Their ideas about Western barbarism and Muslim revival, distilled down to bin Ladenism, became mere slogans designed to incite zealots to murder.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9405EFDE1230F932A25754C0A9649C8B63

Someone with an account at Michael Moore's site should post this there....

Ghost

[JHB]

12. "Republican leaders should pay more attention to the warnings of terrorists like Osama bin Laden...

...and spend less time "clearing brush" from old hog farms they bought so they could pretend it was a ranch during photo ops."

[spanone]

15. fuck bu$h* he is irrelevant

[bunkerbuster1]

16. Even if you've never given those groups a dime in the past...

I would humbly suggest putting Chimpy McFuckstain in his place by doing so now.

(I happily contributed for the first time to the ACLU the day after his Daddy smeared Dukakis by calling him a "card-carrying member of the ACLU.")

[Alter Ego]

17. Fuck off, Dubya. Your henchmen in Congress

are responsible for the largest spending increase in history. Thank God we got most of them out in 2006 before they could do permanent damage.

And your tired, cliched insults about Democrats are getting old and stupid.