:(

I'm sad that I don't have a TV right now to join in all of the fun. Transcripts just aren't the the same. :(

by Rev. Robert Vinciguerra (32 articles, 5 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 50 comments) on Tuesday, December 4, 2007 at 11:17:46 AM
 

imagine

Imagine the headlines if Iran would actually be using a WMD in real life, just once...

Now realize that the US is using them for years now, on a massive scale and in various forms! The US government is the all time leader of hypocracy!

by Han (0 articles, 2 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 204 comments) on Tuesday, December 4, 2007 at 12:12:43 PM
 

I almost ran off the road

I listened to that conference while working, driving a tractor trailer loaded with electrical and gas equipment over gold country foothill roads, and in the rain also. I gotta tell you its rather hard to keep on those twisty wet roads when laughing so hard. Every time a reporter noted that Iran had stopped nuclear weapons research in 2003 George made one lame excuse after the other for continuing to beat the drum against that nation.

The one good thing, humor aside, was that several of the reporters seemed to be taking it to Georgie, and with some gusto. Asking him if the report noting that Iran had stopped its weapons program in 2003 compromised our credibility with our allies was a repeated theme.

by ardee D. (6 articles, 4 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 2377 comments) on Tuesday, December 4, 2007 at 12:37:37 PM
 

Bush on the kill!

Thanks for the report.

I see that I didn't miss anything.

Not only was I able to use the time productively for things like scratching places, I avoided having to look at his face.

by Carson Dugal (3 articles, 0 quicklinks, 5 diaries, 19 comments) on Tuesday, December 4, 2007 at 8:53:13 PM
 

Bush's press conference

Hey Rob I think I enjoyed that press conference as much as you did. It was so nice seeing him aggressively grilled for a change. They fried him in spite of a few detractors. He didn't even know who he was calling on half the time and that body language comment was worth it's weight in gold.

If this conference showed us anything, it showed what we knew all along. Bush should not be president. He isn't equipped to be the president. In fact the best things he can do is cheerlead and pose for Gary Cooperesque photo opts. Knowing that he and Condi are on the phones while we teeter on national bankruptsy and the brink of WW3 isn't very settling either. We should remove their phone privileges as well as their administrative ones. Even after they leave office. Impeach? Hell yea!

by Michael Shaw (8 articles, 1 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 339 comments) on Wednesday, December 5, 2007 at 1:03:51 AM
 

Thank you Mr. Rob

Whatever that was I just read, was a hoot  ... great take, fun to read ... ya got me laughing - I needed that after trying to digest just what's been going on over the past few days - weeks - months - years - but lately it seems like the lunatics have kicked it up a few notches ...

... it's just incredible, you listen to the man and you're waiting for one brave journalist to just bean bush with a cabbage the next time bush says something stupid and condescending, which we all know wouldn't take long - that journalist would become a world-wide hero over-night! Even the SS have to be sick of this clown by now - they'd be laughing too ... but here this phony vapid vile clown is - talking about attacking another country - when after trashing this one, went and bombed a country that was already bombed from stones into rubble, he ordered we bomb the rubble into dust - wasn't satisfied with that and ruined another country, for reasons only bush and a very few of his top advisers are allowed to understand - we don't get to see the big picture - what was - oh yeah, "covert" part that they do - you know that sneaky - scary stuff - you don't want to know that - I don't know, ha ha ... these press conferences are fun! You having fun - then - BAM! this is where the cabbage comes in ...

but ... and here's what's really flipping my switch - this gang of homicidal maniacs have yet to even get the equivalent as so much as a traffic ticket and the idiot-boy-king is still blabbing away about bombing another country as though its a forgone conclusion - knowing all along that he'll never have to witness the carnage he'll unleash - except for a few photo ops maybe - most likely not even that - he'll be out of office before he has to visit any wounded coming back from his next and greatest blunder - and nobody seems to want to be the first to throw that cabbage - or do anything -

 it's been talked about before - but when bush orders the bombing of Iran - will the only thing to stop him be a refusal by the top military command? Bush has purged the military with God's soldiers, as effectively as he purged the DoJ with graduates from Pat Robinson's God's College

 ... say what you want about this gang - they leave very little to chance - did we say 5,000,000 emails - nope - sorry - he'-he' - it was 10,000,000 emails - "POW"! - time for another cabbage - Ole' Wolfie' - what's wrong with him? I need people with experience - you want me to go get someone that doesn't know what they're doing? We already know Wolfie doesn't know what he's doing - another cabbage here -

but I keep on screaming - someone please - pull this man aside - have the nice men in the white coats tell him everything is going to be okay - hell - anything - make it obvious you're laughing at him not with him ... ah ...  someone give me a cabbage!

Kucinich's H.R 333 Impeachment bill  is just sitting there ... you know DK also showed-up to vote against that rancid H. R 1955 bill ...

by Mr M (4 articles, 0 quicklinks, 15 diaries, 1674 comments) on Wednesday, December 5, 2007 at 1:44:43 AM
 

NIE news conference Bush 'spins his way out of trouble'

I liked your article. You put things in an entertaining, dreamy kind of accurate nutshell.

Don't you love the Bush redefinition of terms and spin once he is caught in a blatant, impeachment worthy, traitor-revealing lie? 

The Iraq war as the fault of 'faulty intelligencce' (he didn't war monger with Iraq like he's doing now with Iran)

The revelation about Iran having no 'knuck-u-lar' bomb program was redefined and spun as 'gee, I'm sure glad I reformed the intelligence community: because of my reforms they got it right this time and didn't make me start another war...just in time too...jeesh...but never mind that....Iran is still a bad bunch and they will soon have the knowledge to make a bomb and so we should keep war on the table anyway...you know, preemptively, in case they even think about it.

Katrina was Brownie's fault

Valerie Plame was nobody's fault really, but poor ol' Scooter Libby had to be thrown to the howling pack of liberals...

Bush is master of blame-shifting, pretending and smearing ("I didn't know....I wouldn't have done it if I had a-knowed" and '"that nasty cabal of traitorous liberals are ruining this shining, successful surge" (not a lull over there because the warlords are gathering weapons waiting for us to leave and letting us exhaust ourselves, knowing we must leave soon....they will begin their civil war when the new president comes in and gives in to the American public wanting us out of Iraq...they know they can wait us out while we implode back home here with recession, massive debt and political unrest among the American citizenry.   Of course Bush has to safeguard his litle war and his legacy in his own eyes...and he will wait out the clock and kibbitz at the Dems calling them traitors and do-nothins (in spite of roadblock Republicans blocking action on any number of things the Dems want to do...it all becomes the Dems' fault anyway).

This loser-usurper "president" has America, apparently, by the throat until he leaves office and we are all  scared he will declare a dictatorship before then, but hope public anger will deter him from that....he is waiting out his term to keep the lid on things so he can exit and blame Dems when the house of cards collapses after him...apres lui le deluge/

by JOHN LORENZ (17 articles, 89 quicklinks, 63 diaries, 206 comments) on Wednesday, December 5, 2007 at 3:47:50 AM
 

brilliant piece

This is a brilliant piece of writing, Rob; simple yet poignant.  I'd really love to see it turned into a not-for-children children's book, complete with appropriate illustrations.

by mlevans (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 9 comments) on Wednesday, December 5, 2007 at 8:54:49 AM