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3-year-old-in-chief says'Russia's big and so is China.'

 
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R. S. Refugee



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PostPosted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 7:00 am    Post subject: 3-year-old-in-chief says'Russia's big and so is China.' Reply with quote

Now which one is the infant again? I keep forgetting.





Does the President of the United States know he's holding the book upside down? Can he tell the difference? Can he actually read? These are important questions.The little girl has her book right side up.

'The ugly truth:
Our president is an imbecile'

by Cenk Uygur



You know it, I know it and the American people know it. But everyone is afraid to say it. They say it privately, but people are afraid of saying it publicly because you will be branded as a liberal, elite, intellectual snob. But believe me, you don't have to be an intellectual to see how painfully stupid our president is.

Just look at the conversation he is having with world leaders at the G-8 summit. Mikes picked up the causal talk between the world leaders. Forget that Bush appears to have three sandwiches in his mouth while talking. Forget that he calls out to the Prime Minister of Britain as if he is Flounder in "Animal House." Forget that he uses profanity. I don't give a shit about those things.

I thought it was ridiculous that people made fun of George H. W, Bush for vomiting on the Japanese Prime Minister. What was he going to do? He had to puke, so he puked. It happens to the best of us, and more importantly, has nothing to do with his intelligence or how capable he is as a leader.

But his son's verbal vomit does have a lot to do with his ability to lead this country and the world. What I found to be the most damning is the least quoted part of Bush's comments. As you read this transcript, remember that this is not a small child talking, but the President of the United States of America:



The camera is focused elsewhere and it is not clear whom Bush is talking to, but possibly Chinese President Hu Jintao, a guest at the summit.

"Bush: Gotta go home. Got something to do tonight. Go to the airport, get on the airplane and go home. How about you? Where are you going? Home?"

"Bush: This is your neighborhood. It doesn't take you long to get home. How long does it take you to get home?"

Reply is inaudible.

"Bush: Eight hours? Me too. Russia's a big country and you're a big country."

At this point, the president seems to bring someone else into the conversation.

"Bush: It takes him eight hours to fly home."

He turns his attention to a server.

"Bush: No, Diet Coke, Diet Coke."

He turns back to whomever he was talking with.

"Bush: It takes him eight hours to fly home. Eight hours. Russia's big and so is China."

Russia's big and so is China??????? This guys sounds like a third grader. Do you know anyone who would have a conversation like this with their neighbor, let alone a business associate, let alone a world leader? Who's proud to know that Russia is big and so is China?

Can anyone now credibly claim that Bush is secretly working on a master plan behind the scenes and that he's just playing cowboy for the cameras? I hope the master plan doesn't involve figuring out how long it takes to get to China.

If someone is this ignorant, they're usually embarrassed and try not to talk much. But this guy is so dumb he has no idea how dumb he is. This sounds like a conversation you might have with a child, a mentally challenged child. Johnny, do you know how big Russia is? How about China?

This would all be unfortunate if George was your dentist, or worse yet, your accountant. But he is the leader of the free world. This man makes life or death decisions every day. If you say you're not scared about that, you're lying.

Would you let him do the books for your business? Would you trust your company in his hands for eight years? (No matter how Republican you are, you know you just said no to that question.) Would you trust him to be your kids' guidance counselor and take his advice seriously? If your kids were in the Army and he was their field commander, would you feel good about putting their lives in his hands?

Come on, no one is crazy enough to say yes to that. Yet, he has all of our lives in his hands. The emperor has no clothes. The emperor has no clothes. It's about time someone in the mainstream media said it.

In the old empires, there would be a lot of marriages between the royal families. And from time to time, these inter-family marriages would produce a mentally challenged son who would inherit the throne. This would set the empire back for hundreds of years. I'm not saying anything, I'm just saying. Russia is big and so is China.

The Democrats for a long time have felt embarrassed about pointing out the obvious. The emperor has no brain. This is what I can't understand about the Democrats, they're always playing patty cakes while the Republicans are ripping their face off. John Kerry should have stood at the lectern during the debates and pointed to George Bush and said, "The leader of this country has to be the best and the brightest. If any of you think that he is the best and the brightest America has to offer, go ahead and vote for him!"

The theory is that people would be turned off by that. The theory assumes that people are also idiots and they love their cohorts. That is simply not true. Everyone understands that they have a friend they'd like to go fishing with and a friend they can trust to look after their affairs - and they're not necessarily the same guy. And that your fishing buddy might not be a great choice for President of the United States of America.

Kerry should have embarrassed Bush, made people feel sorry for him. It would have hurt in the short run and given him a temporary downward blip in the numbers, but in the end, when people went into that voting booth, they would have felt pity for Bush - in that scenario, Kerry wins easily. Nobody votes for someone they pity.

Unfortunately, right now we are in the position of being pitied by the rest of the world. We have third grader for a President. And worse yet, the Vice President has him convinced he is the second coming of Winston Churchill. Scared yet?

The Young Turks

Copyright 2006 � HuffingtonPost.com, LLC

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dogbert



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PostPosted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 7:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

There is no American named "Cenk Uygur".
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On the other hand



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PostPosted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 8:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Quote:
Russia's big and so is China??????? This guys sounds like a third grader. Do you know anyone who would have a conversation like this with their neighbor, let alone a business associate, let alone a world leader? Who's proud to know that Russia is big and so is China?


Oh, for Christ's sake. I'm pretty sure I've said something along the lines of "well, you know Korea's a pretty small place" when telling someone that it takes about four hours to get from one end of the country to another. It's not that I just learned that information, or even that I think the other person really needs to know it. It's just one of those prosaic observations you make without attaching much meaning to, which occasionally someone rebuts by chastising you for pointing out the obvious.

Seriously. Iraq is knee-deep in the middle of a civil war, which NOBODY in the USA has a bloody clue how to end, and the best that the American left can do is continue on with the "hyuk hyuk hyuk, we're smarter than Bush" routine? Yeah, that schtick just worked so well for Anne Richards, didn't it? Last I heard, she was guest-voicing on the Simpsons.
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bucheon bum



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PostPosted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 9:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

how news worthy. Rolling Eyes
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WorldWide



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PostPosted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 4:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

america sucks


I didn't read the article.

Very Happy
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Mitch Comestein



Joined: 13 Jun 2006
Location: South

PostPosted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 6:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

WorldWide wrote:
america sucks


However, at least you, as an American, can vote in American elections. Are you a registered Democrat? Why don't you just vote Democratic? Who did you vote for in 2004?
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