Why is Bush in the UK and not IA?
Can someone please tell me why our glorious leader is on an eight day tour of Europe when parts of the Midwest are buried under water?
The National Guard has been called out in Iowa A lake in Wisconsin has completely drained into the surrounding towns with houses being washed away. The lower third of Indiana is under water. All along the Mississippi, towns are under siege.
Where is our President?
In other countries.
Please let me take this opportunity to say, Mr. President, FUCK YOU for your ongoing lack of concern for people here in this country. Go overseas to continue to strong arm other countries to continue your war.
Will the Midwest be another Katrina? NOLA is still not recovered from that.
Compassionate conservatives, my ass.
The National Guard has been called out in Iowa A lake in Wisconsin has completely drained into the surrounding towns with houses being washed away. The lower third of Indiana is under water. All along the Mississippi, towns are under siege.
Where is our President?
In other countries.
Please let me take this opportunity to say, Mr. President, FUCK YOU for your ongoing lack of concern for people here in this country. Go overseas to continue to strong arm other countries to continue your war.
Will the Midwest be another Katrina? NOLA is still not recovered from that.
Compassionate conservatives, my ass.
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Perhaps he doesn't want it to look as if he really didn't give a dang about New Orleans, and thus is an equal-opportunity ignorer?
Or maybe he thinks "Brownie" still somehow has it covered....
June 15, 2008 1:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
His "Farewell Tour" of Europe is probably much more fun.
It sure would be a downer for the awesome time he's having if someone in Europe took him into custody and hauled him in front of the International Court for crimes against humanity.
But wait! He doesn't recognize the International Court.
Just keep your hands over your ears, George, and continue repeating, "La la la la la la la la la la la."
June 15, 2008 3:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
It gets worse. Bush's new bud, Gordie Brown, made sure that there were none of those pesky protesters hanging around Heir Botch.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9284
All these friggin leaders are enabling our sociopath in chief.
June 15, 2008 5:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
heck of a job, brownie!
June 15, 2008 7:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Good one!
June 16, 2008 12:31 AM | Reply | Permalink
I wouldn't exactly call Brown "Bush's new bud". Bush made a point of publicly admonishing Brown's positions on withdrawal from Iraq, and snubbed him by having a meeting with his real buddy, Tony Blair, before even having the courtesy to call by with the Prime Minister.
Blair shared the with-us-or-against-us-smoke-'em-out'-freedom-vs.-evil-cowboy-diplomacy-worldview of Bush. Brown very much doesn't, which Bush ain't too keen on.
As for the lack of demonstrations - meh. This is nothing new. Britain has no rights-based culture, no bill of rights. You can't complain that the freedom of speech has been abridged when that freedom isn't enshrined anywhere. The London Police have been authoritarian assholes for as long as anyone remembers, and they certainly have no problem with trampling on human rights. My point isn't that this is a good thing, but it's a part (and problem) of British culture. To his credit, Brown wants to rectify it by having the balls to propose a codified constitution or bill of rights for the UK. With his political capital at rock bottom, though, I doubt that plan is going anywhere in particular.
June 16, 2008 6:33 AM | Reply | Permalink
`Britain has no rights-based culture, no bill of rights.`
I can't let this one go.
Britain has a long, long culture of freedom of speech, (don't you know how proud Brits are of Speakers Corner in Hyde Park?) rights, and a constitution that is very different from the kind that the US is used to - but it's still a crucial constitution, it's been built up over centuries, and goes back to Magna Carta.
What we don't have is a Bill of Rights. To Americans that may seem horrific but there are very many academics/lawyers who argue compellingly and passionately that not having a formal Bill of Rights in a western democracy is an advantage. Because in stipulating rights, you also restrict them. ie If a right isn't defined in the Bill, it doesn't exist and in the US you can't claim it. Whereas in countries such as Australia and England, you can claim all sorts of rights under the common law and the courts will uphold them if they're deemed reasonable and not infringing someone else's `right` or deemed more important than another competing claimed `right`.
Bills of Rights are controversial: not the only hallowed bastion of the rule of law, democracy and individual freedoms.
England is one of the great democracies, and to suggest that it doesn't have a culture of rights, or freedom of speech, is pretty offensive & in fact it's simply absurd. As witness how hard it was for Brown recently to get through Parliament an extension of the right to detain terrorism suspects without due process for just six weeks. (He was only able to do it with the aid of opposition votes) and it's a virtual foregone conclusion that it will fail in the Lords.
June 16, 2008 8:34 AM | Reply | Permalink
Bush is unwilling, rather than incapable of learning from his past mistakes. He has become the poster child for his own designation of "evildoer."
RFK said: "Past error is no excuse for its own perpetuation. The only sin is pride." He then quoted Sophocles: "All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and he repairs the evil."
June 15, 2008 4:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
He's not running for office. Its not worth it for him anymore.
June 15, 2008 6:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
Is anyone else as disgusted as I am?
I am not just disgusted, I am absolutely livid.
We have become a third world country.
June 15, 2008 6:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
No big surprise that a sociopath doesn't care about flooding victims.
June 15, 2008 7:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
InfiniteNether - Succint. Biting. True. The man is a fucking sociopath with dissociative powers that rival Manson.
June 15, 2008 9:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
He's totally hung up now on his post presidential `image` that he was the international bully/warmongerer: all he cares about is trying to mitigate that.
June 15, 2008 7:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Things are only going to worse. The earthchanges are just beginning .. IMPEACH now before millions die. The MSM is not being honest, but Bushikins&Co know the whole story.
Take a look at www.iris.edu/seismon/ as the "fun" is about to begin. I'd recommend bookmarking it for future reference.
When BuZh lives in that Imperial Bubble, we get to pay for the helicopter rides he takes WHEN he feels like taking them. The quote of all time after Katrina was when Barbara BuZh said how much better live would be for the victims. Think they'll say that when LA goes under?
As for The King's enablers, I hope they have damned good lawyers ..
June 15, 2008 9:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Bush is irrelevant now. I do fervently wish he and his co-conspirators would be sent straight to Jail without passing Go, but the probably won't come to pass. I grew up with 1950s TV, and the bad guys always got what what coming to them. The good guys always won. And there was always a happy epilogue. I've learned, since, that the world doesn't really work that way, but that karma can work in mysterious ways. I'm hoping for some karma here, since justice seems unlikely.
As for Bush's avoidance of the calamities in Iowa, let's face it. He's probably doing them a favor. He'd only fuck it up. Maybe for once in his life, he's doing the right thing. Who knows? And anyway, the rightful leader of this country is actually there, shoveling dirt and stacking sandbags. Who needs Wrong-Way Bush when we have The Real Deal Obama (with apologies to Evander Holyfield).
June 15, 2008 9:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
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ARGH!
June 15, 2008 10:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
The Cowboy is a complete, pathetic mess WHO HAS no clue whatsoever...
but who's more of a dumb-ass are those who voted for him in the first place; not to mention the second time. Now THAT"S CLUELESS!
June 15, 2008 10:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
And how about all the brain dead idiots who want another 4 or 8 years of even worse. Is it something Rove has put in the water. These guys have as much concern for us as they do for an ant.
June 16, 2008 12:13 AM | Reply | Permalink
You know what's funny is that it didn't even occur to me that Bush should be in Iowa. Think about that. A national crisis, and I don't even think about the president. This is a sad state indeed.
June 16, 2008 7:49 AM | Reply | Permalink
Bush isn't in Iowa becasue he doesn't know where it is.
June 16, 2008 8:32 AM | Reply | Permalink