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Fog Tripper
Mar 3, 2008

by Smythe

Justin Godscock posted:

Remember how conservatives bent over backwards for Bush and told us to GET OUTA MURICA! for raising good points over Iraq?

Yeah, gently caress that dude.

lol, remember that you followed up his presidency with what we currently have? lolx2

op sure is working hard to take peoples minds off our current mess. :)

Fog Tripper fucked around with this message at 04:34 on May 6, 2015

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Doctor J Off
Dec 28, 2005

There Is
code:
Who can say where the road goes
Where the day flows, only time
And who can say if your love grows
As your heart chose, only time

Who can say why your heart sighs
As your love flies, only time
And who can say why your heart cries
When your love lies, only time

Who can say when the roads meet
That love might be in your heart
And who can say when the day sleeps
If the night keeps all your heart
Night keeps all your heart

Who can say if your love grows
As your heart chose
- Only time
And who can say where the road goes
Where the day flows, only time

Who knows? Only time

gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007
this might be a controversial opinion, but i think that bush looks kind of pale compared to obama.

TEAYCHES
Jun 23, 2002

Doctor J Off posted:

code:
Who can say where the road goes
Where the day flows, only time
And who can say if your love grows
As your heart chose, only time

Who can say why your heart sighs
As your love flies, only time
And who can say why your heart cries
When your love lies, only time

Who can say when the roads meet
That love might be in your heart
And who can say when the day sleeps
If the night keeps all your heart
Night keeps all your heart

Who can say if your love grows
As your heart chose
- Only time
And who can say where the road goes
Where the day flows, only time

Who knows? Only time

Simstim
Mar 16, 2005

You just gave me a great idea buddy.

Doctor J Off posted:

code:
Who can say where the road goes
Where the day flows, only time
And who can say if your love grows
As your heart chose, only time

Who can say why your heart sighs
As your love flies, only time
And who can say why your heart cries
When your love lies, only time

Who can say when the roads meet
That love might be in your heart
And who can say when the day sleeps
If the night keeps all your heart
Night keeps all your heart

Who can say if your love grows
As your heart chose
- Only time
And who can say where the road goes
Where the day flows, only time

Who knows? Only time


want this sung at my funeral

Idiot Kicker
Jun 13, 2007
I'm sure Enya was thrilled to have the Official Theme Song of 9/11

Caesar Saladin
Aug 15, 2004

we made a lot of fun of you guys when that was happening, but australia is now being run by our own GWB so i guess we shouldn't have said a thing

Doctor J Off
Dec 28, 2005

There Is

Fonzarelli posted:

we made a lot of fun of you guys when that was happening, but australia is now being run by our own GWB so i guess we shouldn't have said a thing

complacency is the invitation to tyranny

Emanuel Collective
Jan 16, 2008

by Smythe
george bush, he resemble a common ape;

Ivor Biggun
Apr 30, 2003

A big "Fuck You!" from the Keyhole nebula

Lipstick Apathy
Curious George.

scopes
Jun 5, 2004

fuuuuuck. gently caress it. i vote gwb for president for life

Junkfist
Oct 7, 2004

FRIEND?

Simstim
Mar 16, 2005

You just gave me a great idea buddy.

so regal, I'd follow this man anywhere

Doctor J Off
Dec 28, 2005

There Is
Black People React To George W. Bush:

electrigger
Dec 18, 2005

so gay and you don't even like boys

I'm the half asleep secret service guy who takes like 8 minutes to react.

You Are A Werewolf
Apr 26, 2010

Black Gold!

Blurry Gray Thing posted:

I think he's a pretty okay but not-smart man who was under the influence of some cartoonishly evil people.

This is the best way of describing Bush, honestly. The cartoonishly evil people being this:

Backweb posted:

His problem was that he surrounded himself with Nixon-Reagan-Dad's Cold War cronies. He was too yokely and folksy to tell them to gently caress off after they hijacked his policy after 9/11. That's why Colin Powell quit.

Punished Chuck
Dec 27, 2010

Blurry Gray Thing posted:

I think he's a pretty okay but not-smart man who was under the influence of some cartoonishly evil people.

Dropping the facade of GBS irony for a while, yeah, this is basically how I feel.

electrigger posted:

I'm the half asleep secret service guy who takes like 8 minutes to react.

This is something I've wondered about since it happened. I feel like someone cocking their arm back to throw something at the president of the united states should have like a dozen bullet holes in their center of mass before they can throw it.

Flavahbeast
Jul 21, 2001




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FISnrHry_cQ

Homo Simpson
Oct 21, 2014

by Smythe
Lipstick Apathy
fool me once

-Misfit-
Apr 20, 2005

I come in the name of Jesus Christ by the power of the holy spirit Bitch!
his paintings will be his greatest contribution to human civilization

Prorat
Aug 3, 2004

by FactsAreUseless
Bush > Obama

Dieting Hippo
Jan 5, 2006

THIS IS NOT A PROPER DIET FOR A HIPPO

Doctor J Off posted:

this man was president of the us a

twice lol

-Misfit-
Apr 20, 2005

I come in the name of Jesus Christ by the power of the holy spirit Bitch!

one time it was even legal

Fuckabees
Aug 8, 2012

"White Liiiiiiines, blow through my miiiind"

--The Fat Boys

-Misfit- posted:

one time it was even legal

hosed up if true

Zippy the Bummer
Dec 14, 2008

Silent Majority
The Don
LORD COMMANDER OF THE UKRAINIAN ARMED FORCES
Bill and Dubya were probably the two most normal humans to be president in the last several decades imo

Bush was kind of a whimsical doofus. iirc there was some memoir by wolfowitz in which the wolfster basically says how excited he and the rest of the cabinet was because they realized Bush was a "blank slate" when it came to foreign policy and they knew they could just convince him to do whatever and just went whole hog on the nation building empire deal

Doc Block
Apr 15, 2003
Fun Shoe
LOL actual Bush apologists ITT

Sleeveless
Dec 25, 2014

by Pragmatica
















guidoanselmi
Feb 6, 2008

I thought my ideas were so clear. I wanted to make an honest post. No lies whatsoever.

Doc Block posted:

LOL actual Bush apologists ITT

sorry if bush was a better leader of this country than obama v :( v

Drink-Mix Man
Mar 4, 2003

You are an odd fellow, but I must say... you throw a swell shindig.

Hot Dog Day #82
Jul 5, 2003

Soiled Meat
Bush was also the subject of an incredibly mediocre Oliver Stone bio-pic, take that Obama!

Doc Block
Apr 15, 2003
Fun Shoe

Sleeveless posted:

The fact that he's spent the past six years doing almost non-stop charity work and humanitarian efforts make me think that on some level he has finally realized what a monster he is and is desperately working to try and atone for being directly responsible for an illegal war based on lies with a six-figure death count and literally nothing to show for it in the end.

Doubtful. A ton of people who know/knew him, including his own wife, have all said that he basically has zero capacity for introspection. He's not the kind of person who spends time reflecting on the past while feeling guilt and remorse for his mistakes and misdeeds.

To the apologists: while he was almost certainly manipulated a good deal, he wasn't exactly a good person himself. For instance, while governor of Texas, he refused to commute the sentence of a retarded person who had been sentenced to death.

And he was also just kind of a tool. When confronted by the grieving mother of a dead US soldier, he told her that she needed to leave him alone so he could get on with his life. And let's not forget that Bush used to insist on getting to bed by 9 PM no matter what was happening, and used to effectively take Sunday off (he insisted on there being no daily briefings on Sunday, etc).

As to why the Clintons warmed up to him? Well, rich people with close ties to Wall Street tend to stick together.

Doc Block fucked around with this message at 06:53 on May 6, 2015

Fog Tripper
Mar 3, 2008

by Smythe

Prorat posted:

Bush > Obama

Hector Beerlioz
Jun 16, 2010

aw, hec
Now watch this drive

Saga
Aug 17, 2009

extra stout posted:

its comforting to know that i havent done coke too many times in my life to become president

Abe Froman
Jul 2, 2003

The Sausage King of Chicago

Blurry Gray Thing posted:

I think he's a pretty okay but not-smart man who was under the influence of some cartoonishly evil people.

What's Obama's excuse for being even more of a failure?

Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

Abe Froman posted:

What's Obama's excuse for being even more of a failure?

the president isn't the supreme dictate and for the most part congress has been completely and utterly useless and filled with tea party assholes blocking every single piece of decent legislation?

at worst he's just as bad as bush since he's just continuing bush policy but worse than bush? lol

City of Tampa
May 6, 2007

by zen death robot

Abe Froman posted:

What's Obama's excuse for being even more of a failure?

I think he's a pretty okay and very smart man who is under the influence of some cartoonishly evil people.

Also he is setting himself up for mega Wall Street bux post-Presidency, ala Bill Clinton.

City of Tampa
May 6, 2007

by zen death robot

Moridin920 posted:

the president isn't the supreme dictate and for the most part congress has been completely and utterly useless and filled with tea party assholes blocking every single piece of decent legislation?

explain TPP

Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

ah well that's just the corporate interests who run america doing their thing, lol if you think a GOP president wouldn't also have TPP going at this very moment

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Abe Froman
Jul 2, 2003

The Sausage King of Chicago

Moridin920 posted:

the president isn't the supreme dictate and for the most part congress has been completely and utterly useless and filled with tea party assholes blocking every single piece of decent legislation?

at worst he's just as bad as bush since he's just continuing bush policy but worse than bush? lol

You do realize he had a democratic congress for two years and didn't get poo poo done then, either. Hilarious that people defend this poo poo president.

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