Man...How do you keep it to just TEN?

MaxxLarge: Man...How do you keep it to just TEN?

They limited it to "dumb" and did not include "malicious," "subversive," "illegal," "ignorant," "vindictive" ....

Yeah, "Fool Me Once" was pretty classic. I actually felt uncomfortable for him.

Was the pretzel incident dumb or just funny?

The world would be a much different place today if that damned pretzel had finished the job.

Meh, several items on that list were meaningless slips of the tongue or actual literal missteps that could have happened to anyone.

Though they may have been a little amusing, those minor incidents fail to reflect the absolute amorality and incompetence of Bush as president.


As far as dumbest Bush ACTIONS I'd have to say:

1. Iraq

2. Throwing away everything that America stands for and using police state tactics in the name of "National Security."


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I know-- the article was meant to be a lighthearted chuckle at some hapless fool, and probably should be taken in that spirit.

Yet, Bush is about to get away with mass murder while turning the US into a rouge nation.

It's going to be a long time before I feel much like joking about him.

Riche: Meh, several items on that list were meaningless slips of the tongue or actual literal missteps that could have happened to anyone.

My thoughts. I don't give a shiat that he's not a great public speaker. It's his actions which are shameful.

Riche: Yet, Bush is about to get away with mass murder while turning the US into a rouge nation.

Riche: Meh, several items on that list were meaningless slips of the tongue or actual literal missteps that could have happened to anyone.

Bingo. That kind of thing is going to happen to anyone, and attacking him for it reduces you to the level of the neocons who are going to be desperate for such "gaffes" to scream about during the next 4 years.

Don't go there, you can never come back clean again.

Diogenes: Was the pretzel incident dumb or just funny?

The world would be a much different place today if that damned pretzel had finished the job.

As bad as Bush has been, I can't imagine that Cheney would have been any better. I think Bush is just a bumbling idiot who actually thought that he was doing what was best for the country, while Cheney is an evil bastard who's looking out for his best interests.

Damnit Diogenes Now you went and made me laugh :-)



_{/You ruined a perfectly good brooding mood
//rogue nation, of course}

Someone needs to spend an extra thirty minutes and find the real 10 dumbest moments. Those were his ten smartest.

Riche: Damnit Diogenes Now you went and made me laugh :-)



/You ruined a perfectly good brooding mood
//rogue nation, of course

Well, in some respects, Bush did make us look like whores ;-)

A few of those were stupid, like the camera falling during the news conference or him cursing on mike. As to the African dance, the comment was asinine ("Africa. In Liberia, the final leg of the tour, he found some people who actually liked him"). Bush has actually done a lot of good in Africa and is generally well liked there.

/gave them money and didn't bomb them -- who can ask for anything more?

PSA about rouge and rogues.

/yes, I still read that comic
//I swear, it's gonna get better..

Top 2 Stupid Moments in Recent American History

1) Electing G. W. Bush

2) Doing it again

MaxxLarge: Man...How do you keep it to just TEN?

He gives it to his dad who hands back saying, "Again, but shorter." And then he goes fishing.

/obscure?

hellbilly: Top 2 Stupid Moments in Recent American History

1) Electing G. W. Bush

2-10) Doing it again

ftfy

Meh. Verbal gaffes and "haw haw gotcha!" moments are nowhere near the dumbest moments of his presidency.

Actual list:

1) Appointed an incompetent, unqualified crony to head FEMA, seemingly unaware of what the "E" in FEMA stands for.

2) Praised that incompetent, unqualified crony for doing a great job on a day when hundreds had died and tens of thousands were stranded.

3) Promising to get Osama bin Laden "dead or alive". Even W himself has said he regretted saying it

4) Saying "bring em on" to the Iraqi insurgents. They brought it on. Again, W himself has expressed regret for shooting so quickly from the lip.

5) Insisting that he'd fire anyone who was involved in leaking Valerie Plame's name to the press. Turns out it was I Scooter Libby and Karl Rove? Ooops. "Did I say 'fire'? I meant 'pardon'".

6) Harriet Meiers. Even the GOP thought she was (yet another) incompetent and unqualified Bush crony.

7) My Pet Goat. Those many minutes of inaction when the WTC was falling speak volumes about his presidency.

8) Dealing with foreign leaders. Whether calling Prime Minister Harper "Steve", or massaging Ms. Merkel's back, Bush never failed to ensure that even close allies found his presence off-putting, to say the least.

9) Authorizing torture. "If you beat this prick long enough he'll tell you he started the Chicago fire, but it ain't necessarily fukcing so!". If Al Libi hadn't been tortured maybe he wouldn't have "confessed" to Saddam and Osama's alliance and maybe that false intel wouldn't have made its way to Colin Powell and maybe the war in Iraq might no have been?

10) WMDs. From Bush to Cheney to Rumsfeld all the way down the administration -- they all KNEW that Saddam had banned weapons. Their certainty in 2002 is like a loaded cigar that blew up in all their faces. Now, faces blackenend and burned, they insist that they never fell for the gag and that they were never so certain. Dumbest. Administration. Ever.

How about when he apologized to China after they shot down our plane and help the pilots hostage.

Does that count as dumb or just spineless?

Baby Diego: PSA about rouge and rogues.

/yes, I still read that comic
//I swear, it's gonna get better..

Man, I hate ulda. Not as bad as the later instances (DM, start, etc...) but pretty crappy.

Also, these are just gaffes that could've happened to anyone. These probably are his 10 best moments.

I liked when he invented the word "internets" and "the google". He farked our country up pretty bad but at least we could point and laugh at him.

Diogenes: Was the pretzel incident dumb or just funny?

The world would be a much different place today if that damned pretzel had finished the job.

Did not RTFA, but spending half of his first 8 months as President dicking around on his ranch while terrorists plotted 9/11 would be #1 on my list.

for the life of me i can't find anyone who voted for bush in 2004. strange.

Bush's Biggest screw up?? when his dad did a skeet, skeet!

I'd be interested to see his top ten best moments. There's gotta be something he did well.

BobXXL:

That looks like an impeachable offense to me.

Hoboclown: I'd be interested to see his top ten best moments. There's gotta be something he did well.

Maybe his top ten vacations.

I don't have time to make lists. I'm too busy putting food on my family.

Hoboclown: I'd be interested to see his top ten best moments. There's gotta be something he did well.

1. Didn't blow up earth
2.

I'm out

Riche: Meh, several items on that list were meaningless slips of the tongue or actual literal missteps that could have happened to anyone.

Though they may have been a little amusing, those minor incidents fail to reflect the absolute amorality and incompetence of Bush as president.


As far as dumbest Bush ACTIONS I'd have to say:

1. Iraq

2. Throwing away everything that America stands for and using police state tactics in the name of "National Security."


===============================================================

I know-- the article was meant to be a lighthearted chuckle at some hapless fool, and probably should be taken in that spirit.

Yet, Bush is about to get away with mass murder while turning the US into a rouge nation.

It's going to be a long time before I feel much like joking about him.

The fact that you believe you're living in a police state right now makes me realize two things: you're unbelievably spoiled for having grown up in the United States, and for your own well-being you should not visit other countries.

Let us open our hymnals to mistake #3*: Politicizing the Department of Justice. It's going to take a long time to fix that. Also, (#4) angering all of the career civil servants so much that they all quit, leaving the State Department, FBI and CIA to do mass hirings of recent college grads. That may be great for me (recent grad), but it's not so great for the country.

Unless Obama can tempt the old crew back, it's going to be a decade before we have anybody even a little bit experienced in important national security, federal law enforcement, and diplomatic positions. The impact of those missteps may last longer than the recession.

*#1 and #2 are, respectively, pissing away the international goodwill we enjoyed after 9/11 and the Iraq war. But it sounds like those were already covered

SoCalChris: while Cheney is an evil bastard who's looking out for his best interests.

Yeah, but if Bush wasn't around, the plausibility that the destruction of this nation we just saw happen over the last 8 years was a mistake would have been a lot less.

1) Appointing Cheney to identify the best candidate to be his VP.

2) Acting surprised when Cheney came up with the name "Cheney" to fill that role.

Naw

its time for 4 short years of

CHAIRMAN Obama

this will be fun

The only thing I like that he did was dodge a pair of shoes.

kleppe

I remember the warm and charming DEATH TO DRUG DEALERS signs that welcomed me upon my arrival in Singapore. It hasn't been that long since an American kid was caned there for graffiti.

On the other hand, Singapore's a nice country. Very clean sidewalks.

Sheila_McSly: Let us open our hymnals to mistake #3*: Politicizing the Department of Justice. It's going to take a long time to fix that.

This is also the one that is the least defensible in terms of "we were just doing what we thought we needed to do".

This is actually my #1. It shows such an incredibly callous disregard for what a democracy is supposed to be, and smacks so much of autocratic party worship as to be perhaps the most anti-American thing I have ever seen done by any president in my lifetime.

And I was around for Nixon.

The time he nearly killed himself with a pretzel.

I hear there's rumors on the Internets that we're going to have a draft.

Why do I get the feeling that after Obama takes office, Bush will still be blamed for everything that goes wrong under Obama's tenure?

Bush waves, no one waves back ^

Bill_Wick's_Friend: 7) My Pet Goat. Those many minutes of inaction when the WTC was falling speak volumes about his presidency.

I don't think that's fair. In fact, I had a lot of respect for Bush right after 9/11 and I think he actually handled that remarkably. He lost that respect as soon as he started going after Iraq.

Riche: Meh, several items on that list were meaningless slips of the tongue or actual literal missteps that could have happened to anyone.

Though they may have been a little amusing, those minor incidents fail to reflect the absolute amorality and incompetence of Bush as president.


As far as dumbest Bush ACTIONS I'd have to say:

1. Iraq

2. Throwing away everything that America stands for and using police state tactics in the name of "National Security."


===============================================================

I know-- the article was meant to be a lighthearted chuckle at some hapless fool, and probably should be taken in that spirit.

Yet, Bush is about to get away with mass murder while turning the US into a rouge nation.

It's going to be a long time before I feel much like joking about him.

What police state tactics?

Number 8 on the lists wasn't a dumb moment. Anyone could be put off by a piece of camera equipment swing down in front of his face.

I thought falling off a Segway was qite talented.