George W. Bush: STFU!
by matt at 6:10 am on July 21st, 2004 in STFU!A lot of people have been waiting for this for a long time, so enjoy it fuckers.
A month ago, I wrote about private conversations the President was having with aides about changing his image from the war President to the peace President.
It was absurd then, but nothing much came of it. Until now.
Now that the campaign is heating up and Bush finds himself on the short end of the popularity meter, he’s reaching back for the peace President nonsense:
“The enemy declared war on us,” he told a re-election rally. “Nobody wants to be the war president. I want to be the peace president.”
I’d accuse the President of conflation, but I’m all but positive that he would have no idea what that means.
No one except the far left criticizes the decision to go to war with the Taliban in Afghanistan. We’ve sharply criticized the tactics used in that war, but stand behind the decision to remove the Taliban for shielding Osama bin Laden who had declared war on this country.
Had the war in Afghanistan been the only war of the last four years, Bush would not be calling himself the war President. He calls himself that because one wasn’t enough. Neither Saddam Hussein nor anyone else in Iraq declared war on the United States, and that much is undeniable fact. But again and again, the President lumps all the darkies into the same group and uses it as campaign rhetoric.
In the same speech, he went on to say:
“For a while we were marching to war. Now we’re marching to peace. … America is a safer place. Four more years and America will be safe and the world will be more peaceful.”
I’m left in awe except to say that this sounds like his speechwriters pulled this line out of a trash can at The Onion.
Say it with me: “SHUT THE FUCK UP!”
Thanks to Talkingpointsmemo for the heads up.
TRENT wrote:
Amen! Very well said.
Posted 21 Jul 2004 at 6:42 am ¶
gijyun wrote:
what?! i can’t hear you over this standing ovation behind me.
Posted 21 Jul 2004 at 7:11 am ¶
abby wrote:
I particularly love how he specifies that the magical transformation to peace will take exactly “four more years”. How lucky for us all!
Posted 21 Jul 2004 at 8:51 am ¶
goose wrote:
“Nobody wants to be the war president. I want to be the peace president.”
Ahh yes, doublespeak. Dubya is now the warpeace president.
Or is it… peacewar?
Posted 21 Jul 2004 at 12:28 pm ¶
elephant man wrote:
how about the ‘lied under oath’ president?
maybe the cigar president?
i’m sure everyone wants to be the ‘bombed iraq to distract attention from my impeachment’ president.
tool.
Posted 21 Jul 2004 at 9:07 pm ¶
andysine wrote:
ummm….elephantman….you’re ugly….STFU
Posted 21 Jul 2004 at 9:17 pm ¶
ian wrote:
Elephant, I think you’re trying to be provocative but I’ll bite anyway: when has Dubya NOT been lying in his four years in office and you bring up the one thing that the GOP forced Congress to spend millions of dollars on trying to bring Clinton down?
When Clinton tried to deal with Al Qaeda, Republicans accused him of trying to “wag the dog” plus, last time I checked, 1000 coalition soliders and 12,000 plus Afghanis and Iraqis hadn’t lost their lives because Clinton tried to cover up a few blowjobs in the Oval Office.
Get a life, son.
Posted 22 Jul 2004 at 11:32 am ¶
Clayne H. wrote:
Good Read
it really is funny that he says four more years to peace and if hes re-elected(dear god lets hope not) than its a true statement, becuase in four years hed be out of office for good. ill call that Peace.
p.s. to ian
-get a life grandpa-
Posted 25 Jul 2004 at 1:33 pm ¶
demssuck wrote:
You libs need to move to france. You hate America and its’ founding fathers’ genius and fairness.
STFU! yourselves! Isn’t it awful to not be in power? Sore losers suck. They suck more when they can’t admit they lost. And more still, when they ‘Monday-morning-quarterback’ every day out of spite and hatred. Nothing is ’sorrier’ than having a temper tantrum for four years. SHUT THE FUCK UP and GROW UP!! yeah right- you don’t have the capacity.
Posted 26 Oct 2004 at 7:27 am ¶