He became vice president well before George Bush picked him. And he began to manipulate things from that point on, knowing that he was going to be able to convince this guy to pick him, knowing that he was then going to be able to wade into the vacuums that existed around George Bush-personality vacuum, character vacuum, details vacuum, experience vacuum.

Wow. Cheney is just unbelievably evil.

Great read, so far. We'll be back with full snark and commentary after sports, the weather, arts, world news, and the rest of the sports.

Ask Al Gore.

Well, it all started with a trillion dollar Porkulus giveaway... I don't know how the story ends.... let's see if he manages re-election before was speculate on the answer to this question.

How did one two-term presidency go so wrong?

When Democratic Libtards got in our way of purifying the world for Jesus, and they screwed it all up to the point President Bush couldn't succeed.

PoopStain: I myself blame him for things he doesn't control, too.

lol wat

They did handle the Chinese fighter-Orion crash pretty well, and they initiated the Do Not Call Opt-In, so they had that going for them.

How does an airplane with no pilot fall out of the sky?

Easy. Extreme stupidity. Of him, his assistants and his supporters.

Of a corrupt person or a stupid person in charge, the idiot will always do more damage. Although, there is a cap on intellect, there is no depth to stupidity and willful ignorance.

Because his egregious personality flaws were so intrinsic that there was no way they wouldn't determine the shape of his presidency.

It was a combination of a poor philosophical starting place and his complete lack of critical self-examination that prevented him from acknowledging, learning from, and then fixing, his mistakes.

True believers are poorly suited for any task that requires dealing with reality.

QED.

Vanity Fair has some surprisingly great writing lately. Kinda a weird magazine. fashion and politics?

It certainly did go wrong. Very, very wrong. I think it's a combination of absolute incompetence, combined with not even meaning well. Really, I don't think Bush was even trying to do good.

This is gonna be good.

*Grabs the popcorn*

Oh, and I forgot to say that he was such a lazy suck that he would have been fired from any other job that used competence as a criteria.

co-conspirator: Because his egregious personality flaws were so intrinsic that there was no way they wouldn't determine the shape of his presidency.

I don't think it was personality flaws. HW. Bush, Reagan, and even Ford were able to keep Cheney and the boys under control. W. Bush couldn't. W. Bush was simply not a leader and someone with vision. He just didn't care.

Yeah, because absolutely NONE of that had any roots in anything prior to Bush taking office, and everything in the world is the fault of the President of the United States. *rolls eyes*

I miss those golden days when there was no such thing as Al Quesa and Bin Laden didn't hate America, and the housing wasn't over priced, and our economy wasn't being built on a credit base it couldn't afford and etc etc etc.

The problem with this crap is that it is at least as much bullshiat to blame it all on Bush as it is to say he had no responsibility, and it's damn sure that somebody trying to do either one is full of shiat.

Wraithbane: Yeah, because absolutely NONE of that had any roots in anything prior to Bush taking office, and everything in the world is the fault of the President of the United States. *rolls eyes*

I miss those golden days when there was no such thing as Al Quesa and Bin Laden didn't hate America, and the housing wasn't over priced, and our economy wasn't being built on a credit base it couldn't afford and etc etc etc.

The problem with this crap is that it is at least as much bullshiat to blame it all on Bush as it is to say he had no responsibility, and it's damn sure that somebody trying to do either one is full of shiat.


lol wat

The Thnikkaman: When Democratic Libtards got in our way of purifying the world for Jesus and paving the way for our corporate friends, and they screwed it all up to the point President Bush couldn't succeed.

I think your summary was excellent, but his terms were also marked with many many giveaways to corporate cronies.

Tripp Johnston Private Eye: Al Quesa
lol wat

Behold, the power of cheese.

Tripp Johnston Private Eye: Wraithbane: ...I miss those golden days when there was no such thing as Al Quesa and Bin Laden didn't hate America...

lol wat

He's just confused the Islamic and Mexican terrorists. Either he means Al Qaeda and Bin Laden or he means El Queso and Con Carne.

Calvin Coolidge
How does an airplane with no pilot fall out of the sky?

When it runs out of gas, or hits a flock of seagulls in the Lebanon?

Wraithbane: Yeah, because absolutely NONE of that had any roots in anything prior to Bush taking office, and everything in the world is the fault of the President of the United States. *rolls eyes*

I miss those golden days when there was no such thing as Al Quesa and Bin Laden didn't hate America, and the housing wasn't over priced, and our economy wasn't being built on a credit base it couldn't afford and etc etc etc.

The problem with this crap is that it is at least as much bullshiat to blame it all on Bush as it is to say he had no responsibility, and it's damn sure that somebody trying to do either one is full of shiat.

You sound like someone trying to deny treason. Knock it off.

Ishidan: Tripp Johnston Private Eye: Al Quesa
lol wat

Behold, the power of cheese.

jgi: Tripp Johnston Private Eye: Wraithbane: ...I miss those golden days when there was no such thing as Al Quesa and Bin Laden didn't hate America...

lol wat

He's just confused the Islamic and Mexican terrorists. Either he means Al Qaeda and Bin Laden or he means El Queso and Con Carne.

CHEESE DID 9/11

As an Iraqi vet set to go again involuntarily (stop-lossed) after being out over a year, I can actively say I hate Rumsfeld and his cronies, Cheney, Bush, ect.

I blame them for the stupidest idea to come from them. (And there were doozies) Iraq. Rumsfeld immediate reaction to "go bomb more stuff" or some Shait is personally offensive. I think he's a goddamn criminal.

I hope history will not forgive these menaces, I know I will not.

Afghanistan is a righteous war, I would proudly fight there, but it could have been averted if these fools had listened and acted.

Republicans tend to blame Clinton for the attacks. Before he left office, he was mocked for focusing too much time on the issue of Ladin and Al Queda. He had drawn plans to invade Afghanistan, but no it was a WAG THE DOG scenario in order to drive attention from the farking intern.

God Bless America, Goddamn 44 and his Criminal Coalition of mentally deficient republican asshats.

bravian: He just didn't care.

Absolutely everything about him is colored by this truth.

Alphax: You sound like someone trying to deny treason. Knock it off.

You sound like someone who doesn't know what that word means.

NewEnglandGangster: God Bless America, Goddamn 44

Republicans will probably agree with you on this point.

Bush-bashing went out in 2008. How many times do I have to tell you that?
Vanity Fair is lazy, tacky, sleeze only appealing to the lowest common denominator. DO NOT BUY.

OOOPs I meant BUSH 43 ME BAD

NewEnglandGangster: As an Iraqi vet set to go again involuntarily (stop-lossed) after being out over a year, I can actively say I hate Rumsfeld and his cronies, Cheney, Bush, ect.

I blame them for the stupidest idea to come from them. (And there were doozies) Iraq. Rumsfeld immediate reaction to "go bomb more stuff" or some Shait is personally offensive. I think he's a goddamn criminal.

I hope history will not forgive these menaces, I know I will not.

Afghanistan is a righteous war, I would proudly fight there, but it could have been averted if these fools had listened and acted.

Republicans tend to blame Clinton for the attacks. Before he left office, he was mocked for focusing too much time on the issue of Ladin and Al Queda. He had drawn plans to invade Afghanistan, but no it was a WAG THE DOG scenario in order to drive attention from the farking intern.

God Bless America, Goddamn 44 and his Criminal Coalition of mentally deficient republican asshats.

Agreed. Although it's sadly a fantasy to think Bush or Cheney will ever be prosecuted for war crimes, I've still got my fingers crossed on Rumsfeld. Everything he did in office points towards extreme incompetency and "24" mentality. Especially for that snarky sidenote he wrote on the document detailing torture about how detainees at Gitmo should be able to stand on their feet for ten hours a day because he can do it regularly.

God, what an asshole.

Own up to your failure, Conservatives. Own up and take responsibility.

Gee, our first MBA president ran the country just like he ran every business he was in charge of and people are shocked?

I wonder how the folks on charge of Operation Polish a Turd (aka the Bush legacy project) will deal with this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFmMGYv3mag

The thread needs more Ashcroft.

Ishidan: Tripp Johnston Private Eye: Al Quesa
lol wat

Behold, the power of cheese.

Taco Bell must have released their new menu item. It's an explosion of flavor!

ifarkthereforiam: Gee, our first MBA president ran the country just like he ran every business he was in charge of and people are shocked?

I wonder how the folks on charge of Operation Polish a Turd (aka the Bush legacy project) will deal with this?

At the moment, they can't drum enough money to finish their think tank/propaganda farm. Because of the economy, you know.

Subby: "How did one two-term presidency go so wrong?"

I'd guess it was because it was because it was President George W. Bush's two terms.

Easiest question I've answered all week.

Al Quesa...I agree. I once slept with that clown, I thought for money, but he only gave me fat thighs.

Calvin Coolidge: Al-Quesa is a much bigger threat then Al-Qaeda:

While details of the conspiracy are still a bit sketchy at this point, it is known that McDonald and other al-Quesa operatives have been engaging in a campaign to contaminate the food supply of the industrial and developing world with huge amounts of substances linked to hypertension, coronary heart disease, type-2 diabetes, osteoarthritis, cancers, and stroke. Their activities have already resulted in large numbers of premature deaths and billions dollars in unnecessary medical costs and lost productivity. In addition, the plot diverts grain from hungry people the world over causing even more suffering. Other charges relate to increased green house gas emissions from animals, contamination of ground water, sabotage of solid waste management systems, and additional destruction of rainforests by al-Quesa linked ranchers.

The eccentric billionaire, who most people mistakenly believe to be a fictional marketing character, is known for dressing up as a clown and luring children away from healthy sports activities in public parks by offering them sweets and toys.

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff told this reporter, "Al-Quesa is a much larger and more organized group than al-Qaeda and is considered far more dangerous due to the super size of its activities and the fact that its members are accepted by the unsuspecting public as ordinary, even friendly, business people."

Keep cool with Coolidge!

Thanks biatch.

When Shinseki said, Hey, it's going to take 300,000 or 400,000 soldiers, they crucified him. They called me up the day after that, Wolfowitz and Rumsfeld. They called me the next day and they said, Did you see what Shinseki said? And I said yes. And they said, Well, that can't be possible. And I said, Well, let me give you the only piece of empirical data I have. In 1991, I owned 5 percent of the real estate in Iraq, and I had 22,000 trigger pullers. And on any day I never had enough. So you can take 5 percent-you can take 22,000 and multiply that by 20. Hey, here's probably the ballpark, and I didn't have Baghdad. And they said, Thank you very much. So I got up and left.

It is just mind-boggling how this all happened.

Apik0r0s: Thanks biatch.

The mystery of the Band-Aid will keep me guessing all day.
Probably thought she could talk down to the protesters outside the RNC. Possibly nut-burn.

I'm not sure what the liberal version of whaaarrrgarbl is but it would fit here.

Yet every Obama mistake will be "blamed in the roots of the past Presidency".

Geez, did they run out of Lincoln jokes?

liberal whaaarrrgarbl

moar funny pictures

Tripp Johnston Private Eye: Apik0r0s: Thanks biatch.

The mystery of the Band-Aid will keep me guessing all day.
Probably thought she could talk down to the protesters outside the RNC. Possibly nut-burn.


It was a GOP gimmick at their Convention, wearing Band-Aids with Purple Hearts on them - to make fun of John Kerry, who earned Purple Hearts, while Bush was guarding the skies of Texas from the North Vietnamese Air Force and, later, guarding Alabama's cocaine supply.

Nut-burn, lol.