Exclusive image of the rehersal put together by Karl Rove,
Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney:

Yeah, watch their options trades right before the "tests".

How about some nutjobs fly a plane into a building while you are reading to some kids...See how he reacts...

Yes, it is quite stupid for the Bush administration to attempt to prepare for a handover of power. What dumbassery will he think up next.

This is the first wartime transition in 40 years, and it's probably the first transition in a couple of centuries in which our homeland itself has been under threat," says White House chief of staff Joshua Bolten


/shudder

EatHam
Yes, it is quite stupid for the Bush administration to attempt to prepare for a handover of power. What dumbassery will he think up next.

Right you are. He really should be giving Obama and his transition team the mushroom treatment. After all, they're durn liburl dumbocrats.

Bush and his people should be pissed off, petty and doing everything they can to make life difficult for Obama because their guy didn't win. Never mind that the peaceful transition of power is one of the things that makes this country great.

This makes perfect sense, but they need to start at a point that Bush himself could handle after 8 years in office. Something like mopping up corndog vomit on that teacup ride at Disney.

So long as Dick Cheney is never again put in charge of war games involving NORAD, the Republic should be safe.

While I'm sure anything the Bush Administration has it'd grubby little hands in will end up as a colossal failure, the basic idea behind this is hardly stupid...

keylock71:

the basic idea behind this is hardly stupid...

No, it isn't stupid, but the premise that Dubya and his band of merry cronies "know" what is best for the country, anti-terrorism-wise, is a flawed concept to begin with.

FTA: in a series of tabletop exercises involving top Bush and Obama officials



keylock71: the basic idea behind this is hardly stupid

Maybe not stupid... but a little dorky. ;)

big_pth: keylock71:

the basic idea behind this is hardly stupid...

No, it isn't stupid, but the premise that Dubya and his band of merry cronies "know" what is best for the country, anti-terrorism-wise, is a flawed concept to begin with.

Hence the first part of my post...

JohnnyC: id

Maybe not stupid... but a little dorky. ;)


I love those... ever see the scale model WWI battlefield at the War Museum in London?

One of my favorites... can't seem to find an image of it though.

All of the tests begin with "Pop quiz, hot shot." and end with an ominous "What do you do? What do you do?"

Honestly, I think it's condescending. "Here are some little games for you, since you don't know things like we do." As far as I am concerned, Obama passed the only test he needed to -- he earned the confidence of the American people.

We can put the Bush administration up in the mountains where they can't bother anyone, come inauguration day, right?

"No, the answer for that situation is to invade Iraq."

"No. Sorry. The answer for that situation is also to invade Iraq."

serpent_sky: We can put the Bush administration up in the mountains where they can't bother anyone, come inauguration day, right?

"They will be examined by top men"
"Who's that?"
"Top.... men..."

You know, the idea of "getting [them] up to speed" is a good one. Whatever the "tests" are, I'm sure Obama's folks will work through them and use them to advantage.

Regardless of one's opinion of the current administration, this really is a non-issue made to look like a petty, condescending power-play by the article.

That's like the kid in the Offspring video "Pretty Fly for a White Guy" where he shoos evernyone away from the dancing mat and he does the "white man overbite" shuffle.

/Please don't takwe any "tips" from these guys... they were idiots... which is actually an insult to the retarded.

OlafTheBent: /Please don't takwe any "tips" from these guys... they were idiots... which is actually an insult to the retarded.

True, I'm sure many retarded individuals know how chew their pretzels before they swallow, unlike some members of the current administration. Isn't that like... you know... an instinct thing?

MonkeyVegetables: This is the first wartime transition in 40 years, and it's probably the first transition in a couple of centuries in which our homeland itself has been under threat," says White House chief of staff Joshua Bolten

True, as I cannot think of a single recent example of anyone being determined to attack inside America in the early days of a new President's term.

So if he reads a childrens book for less than 11 minutes after an attack he passes the test?

T.M.S.: So if he reads a childrens book for less than 11 minutes after an attack he passes the test?

Bush never did find out who jumped over the moon...

Test 1: Locate the working door.

Ed Finnerty: Test 1: Locate the working door.

Something about him reminds me of Mr. Bean.

Taking tips from the pro eh?

Presumably, then, Obama will just sit there and look really stupid and impotent.

They also laughed when Jerry Lewis said he was going to teach Marion Morrison to act tough!

/Or maybe that was a dream I had
//I am on major doses of decongestant.

He'll be just like Cato from the Pink Panther.

Do you think you can handle it-I said do you think you can handle it, "boy"?

and bush/cheney,Inc. are going to be the terrorists. that way, when they leave the whitehouse and our government, it will prove that President Obama was successful at removing the Terrorists. LOL

I suspect that the Obama Administration will be more ready to go on day one than Bush has been in the last eight years.

Maybe not, but we'll see.

BOW TO SENSEI!

Concerned about the first handoff of presidential power since Sept. 11, 2001, the White House also is preparing briefing books and office manuals designed to bring the incoming Obama administration up to speed in a hurry.

But unlike Bush, Obama and his staff will actually read them.

keylock71: JohnnyC: id

Maybe not stupid... but a little dorky. ;)


I love those... ever see the scale model WWI battlefield at the War Museum in London?

One of my favorites... can't seem to find an image of it though.

I suspect you might be thinking of the Siborne Model in the National Army Museum (which is the Battle of Waterloo), if not, here's a picture of a model of the Somme. Recreated in the distance is the 2nd Bavarian's ammo store at Aix-le-Chitole going up.

He needs to know what the current bureaucratic process is, even if he intends to change it.

I don't understand what's controversial about this.

Tenebreux:
I suspect you might be thinking of the Siborne Model in the National Army Museum (which is the Battle of Waterloo), if not, here's a picture of a model of the Somme. Recreated in the distance is the 2nd Bavarian's ammo store at Aix-le-Chitole going up.

No, it was definitely a WWI battlefield in miniature and it was at the Imperial War Museum in London right next to the "Trench Experience" exhibit they have... I saw it there back in '96, I think. Can't find it on the IWM website, though. Maybe it was temporary installation... or maybe I'm just on drugs.

Bush has been playing with his soldiers since we went into Afghanistan. It's nice that he's willing to share.

Oh, is that what they're calling the Iraq War now?

Prospero424: I don't understand what's controversial about this.

Dubya testing someone on their ability to handle a terrorist attack is like Ray Charles giving Mario Andretti a driving test.

IXI Jim IXI: Dubya testing someone on their ability to handle a terrorist attack is like Ray Charles giving Mario Andretti a driving test.

Oh, don't get me wrong. It makes a FANTASTIC joke...

;)

I hope it's not a standardized test.

African-Americans tend to score lower on those.

DarnoKonrad

A plan rams into a building.

A guy looks stunned for a moment.

What else is he meant to do? Don a cape and single-handedly rescue each person in thge WTC?

Swampthing in Korea: A plan rams into a building.

A guy looks stunned for a moment.

What else is he meant to do? Don a cape and single-handedly rescue each person in thge WTC?

Nope. Nothing else.

Clearly, the most logical thing to do was just to sit there, blank eyed, for what seemed like forever.

Q: If Al Queda is attacking a train going East-bound at 27 mph from San Diego and your Blackwater special ops team is in an West-bound train traveling 64 mph from El Paso, at what time does the United States President Bomb Iraq?

"This is the first wartime transition in 40 years, and it's probably the first transition in a couple of centuries in which our homeland itself has been under threat,"


Serious question, Is Obama planning on ending the war on terror? Or should we expect "Terrorist" using fear for political and financial gain for years to come?

Skleenar:
Clearly, the most logical thing to do was just to sit there, blank eyed, for what seemed like forever.

He was probably trying to figure out where he had left off in the book.

Death to America: Serious question, Is Obama planning on ending the war on terror?

Of course he is.

By surrendering.

Duh.