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The light bulb comes on over Dear Leader’s head

The dolt finally figured out that the buck stops here—his total destruction of the country just might have had a hand in a change at the top, according to Bush. (CNN):

President Bush told an interviewer that his presidency may have helped Barack Obama win the White House.

“I think it was a repudiation of Republicans,” he told Charlie Gibson of ABC News, according to a transcript released by the network Monday. “And I’m sure some people voted for Barack Obama because of me. I think most people voted for Barack Obama because they decided they wanted him to be in their living room for the next four years explaining policy.”

Of course he couldn’t leave well enough alone, and still tries to blame others for invading and destroying Iraq when there were no WMDs.

“A lot of people put their reputations on the line and said the weapons of mass destruction is a reason to remove Saddam Hussein,” Bush said. “It wasn’t just people in my administration. A lot of members in Congress, prior to my arrival in Washington, D.C., during the debate on Iraq, a lot of leaders of nations around the world were all looking at the same intelligence.

I wish the intelligence had been different, I guess,” he said, but would not say whether he would have pressed forward with the decision to invade Iraq if he had known otherwise: “That is a do-over that I can’t do.”

 

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Posted by Pam Spaulding on 09:03 AM • (47) Comments

Well, never let it be said he allowed reality to intrude upon his born-again euphoria.

Comment #1: Andrew  on  12/02  at  09:31 AM

He’s a walking joke.  However, the joke was on us…

He is a disgrace to inbred, over-entitled, under-performing, self-important, preening, strutting, legends-in-their-own-minds assholes.  And considering the competition, that’s saying a lot…

Comment #2: MikeEss  on  12/02  at  09:45 AM

I wish the intelligence had been different, too. I wish Bush had some.

Comment #3: DonnaH  on  12/02  at  09:58 AM

DonnaH, that’s word for word what I said when someone read this interview out loud in my presence.

Comment #4: LauraB  on  12/02  at  10:14 AM

DonnaH wins the internets.  Forever.

Comment #5: INTPagan  on  12/02  at  10:18 AM

I guess LauraB, too.  Y’all can do whatever you like with the internets, but please don’t fight.

Comment #6: INTPagan  on  12/02  at  10:19 AM

That’s the closest we’ll get to eavesdropping on the whingeing, excuse-laden conversations he had with Poppy Bush after driving yet another endeavour straight into a wall. He’s had decades to polish this routine.

Comment #7: Gracchus  on  12/02  at  10:45 AM

I never know whether to laugh or cry when I read this stuff.  How can it take this long for him to get it, that’s the part I don’t understand?

Comment #8: aftercancer  on  12/02  at  11:17 AM

I especially had the wry smile at the part where he goes “Obama in their living rooms explaining policy”.

Quite the Straussian, isn’t he?  Only thing is, he thinks he’s the puppeteer.

Comment #9: shah8  on  12/02  at  11:23 AM

“It wasn’t just people in my administration. A lot of members in Congress, prior to my arrival in Washington, D.C., during the debate on Iraq, a lot of leaders of nations around the world were all looking at the same intelligence.

Am I going to have to dig out the French speech to the UN at the time of the invasion YET AGAIN, in which they essentially said “there’s not enough proof, war’s a big step, and it can very easily all turn to shit if you invade”?!?

Comment #10: Phoenician in a time of Romans  on  12/02  at  11:46 AM

“Am I going to have to dig out the French speech to the UN at the time of the invasion YET AGAIN…”

Goddam French…think they’re so damn smart…

Of course, the problem now is this ridiculous meme has become The Truth, so anyone questioning the veracity of Commander Codpiece’s asinine statement looks like some kind of conspiracy wacko…

Comment #11: MikeEss  on  12/02  at  11:54 AM

At least we can go back to calling them French Fries again, without some jack-off getting in my face and yelling…

Comment #12: Ellen  on  12/02  at  11:58 AM

We’re not really giving this asshat credit for being human are we?

Oh good, I didn’t think so.

Because he’s not.  He’s a monster that should be in jail not whining about his legacy in the media.

Comment #13: ice weasel  on  12/02  at  12:01 PM

”I wish <strike>the</strike> intelligence had been <strike>different</strike> present, I guess,” he said

There. Fixed.

Comment #14: Ms Kate  on  12/02  at  12:09 PM

Is it me, or is the Obama in their living rooms comment a backhanded complement and dog whistle all in one?

Comment #15: Ms Kate  on  12/02  at  12:11 PM

Speaking of, ice weasel, does anyone know if Bush can pre-emptively pardon himself for anything/everything? Not that I have high hopes that any of this will ever get investigated or prosecuted. It’s not like BJs were involved…

Comment #16: Ellen  on  12/02  at  12:11 PM

I blame Forrest Gump - the movie - for the whole fiasco.  I hated that movie, and now we all know why a simpleton in power really is NOT a good idea!

Comment #17: Ms Kate  on  12/02  at  12:11 PM

Speaking of, ice weasel, does anyone know if Bush can pre-emptively pardon himself for anything/everything? Not that I have high hopes that any of this will ever get investigated or prosecuted.

I saw someone on Rachel Maddow a couple of weeks ago—Johnathan Turley, I think—say, in essence, no, though he also said that it’s never been tried before, so there’s no telling how it would play out if he tried it. I share your point of view on whether or not anything will actually happen, though.

Comment #18: Incertus, Nacho Daddy  on  12/02  at  12:14 PM

“Senator Obama, what will you do if President Bush pardons himself for all acts shortly before leaving office?”

“Well, I guess he has the right to do that, enemy combatant that he is…”

Comment #19: Phoenician in a time of Romans  on  12/02  at  12:27 PM

How about he pardons Cheney, then resigns in the last half hour of his term, and acting President Cheney pardons him?

Comment #20: Lymis  on  12/02  at  12:28 PM

“I blame Forrest Gump - the movie - for the whole fiasco.”

Hey!  Come on now, that’s not fair. 

I will leave to others the question of whether Forrest is smarter than Bush or vis versa.  However, Forrest Gump had two huge things going for him: He didn’t think he knew all the answers ahead of time, and he listened to people around him who were smarter than he was…

Comment #21: MikeEss  on  12/02  at  12:30 PM

He didn’t think he knew all the answers ahead of time, and he listened to people around him who were smarter than he was…

Yeah, well, so did Bush…Cheney, Rummy, and Rice anyone?

Comment #22: Gozer  on  12/02  at  12:35 PM

he listened to people around him who were smarter than he was…

One Bush decision that I supported was his first major public one: the one way back in early 2001 about refusing to allow stem cell research. The reason I supported it was because he had obviously discussed the matter with some people who actually knew something about stem cells, and listened to them, even if the conclusion he came to was not what I would have come to.

Comment #23: atheist  on  12/02  at  12:45 PM

Is it me, or is the Obama in their living rooms comment a backhanded complement and dog whistle all in one?

That was my first take on it, too.  He’s an all talk and no action pointy headed intellectual elitist who will talk down to you IN YOUR OWN HOME!  A NEGRO who will look down on you, violate the sanctity of your hearth and probably bugger your dog, too.

Comment #24: togolosh  on  12/02  at  12:56 PM

Of course, when the “smart people around you” are a Neoconservative faction with a jones to attack Iraq, and who are quite willing to lie to the public, attack their own government, and subvert constitutional rights, to accomplish this end, listening to “smart people” ceases to be a virtue.

Comment #25: atheist  on  12/02  at  12:58 PM

How can it take this long for him to get it, that’s the part I don’t understand?

aftercancer

Yeah, but you’ve got to remember that stuff which seems extremely important to you and me, like the lives of foreigners, the state of the economy, the geostrategic position of the USA, the state of the environment, etc. etc., might be totally beside the point to Bush. I think that sometimes people underestimate how estranged the conservative movment has become from what we would call the mainstream culture.

Comment #26: atheist  on  12/02  at  01:15 PM

I know I shouldn’t, but I can’t help but feel sorry for Poppy. Sure, he was an out-of-touch plutocratic Republican blow hard, but at least he had some brains. Now his name is associated with his idiot son for all of history.

Comment #27: Ben D.  on  12/02  at  01:21 PM

How can it take this long for him to get it

I think his moment of clarity came when he watched the entire world go crazy with joy and relief when Obama won. I think he brushed aside everyone’s righteous anger at his continual pig-headed fuck-ups as us being jealous because he’s richer and prettier. Watching everyone breathe a collective sigh of relief may have made him realize for the first time that the world really did think his presidency was a nightmare they finally woke up from. I think he thought either John McCain would win, meaning that most Americans actually approved of the job he did and all the criticism was mostly from the liberal media, or that Obama would win and America would be all up in arms over what is sure to be 4 years of liberals taxing and spending. I don’t think he ever dreamed that Obama would win and the world would start immediately begging him to help us fix the mess Bush made RIGHT NOW.

Must have been quite a shock for him if he’s actually starting to behave lucidly.

Comment #28: flea  on  12/02  at  01:43 PM

Flea wins the internets…

Comment #29: Ellen  on  12/02  at  03:11 PM

I will leave to others the question of whether Forrest is smarter than Bush or vis versa.  However, Forrest Gump had two huge things going for him: He didn’t think he knew all the answers ahead of time, and he listened to people around him who were smarter than he was…

And Forrest was a fundamentally decent person.  Beyond government policy and war, Bush has proven himself to be a shitheaded son of a bitch on many occasions throughout his entire life.  I can tolerate stupidity perfectly well when it’s coupled with basic decency.

Comment #30: keshmeshi  on  12/02  at  04:42 PM

Is it me, or is the Obama in their living rooms comment a backhanded complement and dog whistle all in one?

That was my first take on it, too.  He’s an all talk and no action pointy headed intellectual elitist who will talk down to you IN YOUR OWN HOME!  A NEGRO who will look down on you, violate the sanctity of your hearth and probably bugger your dog, too.

I dunno about that. Of all the things I can, will and do call GWB on a regular basis, an active, conscious, literal racist is not one of them. I think that phrasing was due to some combination of being 1) stupid, 2) knocked back by recent events and 3) drunk.

Comment #31: Rick Massimo  on  12/02  at  04:48 PM

You DEMONcraps are just jealous that Mr. President George Willard Bush, the jet pilot hero of the Battle of Iraq, wasn’t on your side.  Maybe you forget that he announced “Mission Accomplished” and landed on the battlership after killing off the extertressrials that were killing all of humanity off?  How many times has your precious black J*sus put on a flight suit to show his package to the world? Never, I’m guessing.

Comment #32: Rugged in Montana  on  12/02  at  04:49 PM

Yeah, Bush is a lot of things. But I don’t think he’s racist.

Comment #33: Ben D.  on  12/02  at  04:53 PM

I think most people voted for Barack Obama because they decided they wanted him to be in their living room for the next four years explaining policy.”

Motherfucker.  They want him to “explain” policy? 

Won’t Obama be the Deciderer?  The Commander Guy? No?  He’s just the “Explainer of Policy” guy?

The Hague is almost too good for W.

Comment #34: Caren  on  12/02  at  05:19 PM

Is that… is that remorse? Or at least something that looks like it?

Comment #35: J.V.  on  12/02  at  05:52 PM

The Hague is almost too good for W.

Oh Caren, Caren, Caren.  Don’t be mean.

It’s plenty good enough.

Comment #36: Phoenician in a time of Romans  on  12/02  at  06:01 PM

I don’t know if anyone else has ever noticed this . . . the pictures of his facial expressions reminded me . . . Bush makes this face every time he’s walking to a podium to give a speech.  Doesn’t matter if it’s the State of the Union address or just a quick, inane few comments in front of the press corps on how he’s efficiently wrecking our lives. 

Okay, he shifts his eyes over to (usually) a corner, and gives a smug smile before he plasters on that look of a dumb man’s gravity.  It’s the kind of look a mischevious underachiever gives his buddies before he has to go onstage and host the high school football awards.  (Nothing against football players.)  The vibe is a cross between “can you believe these idiots let me talk up here?” and “man, these idiots are lucky I’m on my best behavior right now.  I could be lighting beer farts.”

I don’t know if anyone else has noticed that look, but I hate it.  I completely. Fucking. Hate. It.

Comment #37: deep6  on  12/02  at  06:18 PM

I think Shrubby is back on the sauce.  These statements make no sense and he doesn’t do his party (or the smoldering cinders that are left) much good either.

Methinks The Decider Guy fell off the wagon - into a barrel of Jack Daniels.

Comment #38: CParis  on  12/02  at  06:47 PM

Speaking of, ice weasel, does anyone know if Bush can pre-emptively pardon himself for anything/everything? Not that I have high hopes that any of this will ever get investigated or prosecuted. It’s not like BJs were involved…

That would be very sketchy, under US v. Nixon if nothing else.

Comment #39: Rebecca  on  12/02  at  06:51 PM

Hey, dude, if you’d wanted the intelligence to be different, you could have arranged that.

Comment #40: paul  on  12/02  at  06:57 PM

Baby, I would love to have Obama explain policy to me for the next four years. God, the man speaks in full sentences and was a constitutional law professor! <3

I think Michelle might get a little jealous if he was doing it in my living room, though….

Ahem.

I think his moment of clarity came when he watched the entire world go crazy with joy and relief when Obama won.

Quoting flea for truth. It’s just possible that millions of people dancing in the streets might have been enough to get through Bush’s thick skull. Maybe. He still seems to think that he can make his “legacy” into something good by saying that’s what he wants it to be, though.

Comment #41: Nenya  on  12/02  at  07:29 PM

I went to a preview of Frost/Nixon last night (great movie), and left thinking about the staggering differences between Nixon and Bush. Nixon was a power-hungry criminal, but he was smart enough to realize it when he was utterly disgraced. Bush is a clueless, power-hungry criminal, and I can’t imagine him submitting to something like the Frost interview without getting torn utterly to shreds. Nixon’s worst legacy is that his Republican successors have managed to make him look halfway decent by comparison.

Comment #42: Nathaniel  on  12/02  at  08:15 PM

The Peter Principal President.

Bye, Dubya.

Comment #43: Magis  on  12/02  at  08:17 PM

Is it me, or is the Obama in their living rooms comment a backhanded complement and dog whistle all in one?

It is a dogwhistle, but not in the way you’re thinking. He’s mocking Obama for being the sort of person who would meet voters and have enough respect for them to discuss policy with them rather than crack jokes and be “the sort of guy you’d have a beer with.” And he’s mocking voters for being interested in policy/intuhlekshul stuff rather than getting excited by some tough guy posturing.

Comment #44: Tyro  on  12/02  at  10:01 PM

I actually agree with Tyro on the dogwhistle about (no doubt elitist) policy in the living room. Because Bush’s policy appears to have been to either have none or only policies that can be expressed in 3 words or less (like “war on terra” or “abstinence only”). No explaining required.

Comment #45: JC  on  12/03  at  12:10 AM

Considering 14 FBI and CIA top officials signed their names to an open letter to the public (with the endorsement of I-can’t-remember-how-many anonymous ones who wanted to keep their jobs) stating that the intelligence had been different, and Bush demanded they bring him new intelligence more in line with what he wanted to hear the brunt of the intelligence being what it was is his to bear.
They said the yellowcake memo was a fraud. He listened only to those who told him it was plausible. They said the aluminum tubes could be used for non-weapons programs. They said the trailers in the desert weren’t important. He shooed them away and got the NSA to tell him what he wanted to hear.

I hope his nose gets rubbed in his rejection of the ‘different’ intelligence.

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