George W. Bush was a mush-mouthed moron as a POTUS candidate.

[MADem]

I thought I'd never heard such a stumblebum running for POTUS in my entire life.


I'm watching the 2000 Bush v. Gore debate with Jim Leher as moderator on CSPAN, and even though Bush still sounds like a mush-mouthed moron to my ear, he comes off like a frigging Rhodes Scholar compared to Trump.

How LOW can the damn bar go?

[guillaumeb]

1. The bar has been set so low that.........

you would have to be a coal miner to see it.

[MADem]

2. The bar has been set so low that ...

If you traveled 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, you'd still be too high!!!!

[guillaumeb]

3. Yes, the bar has been set very low,

but Trump uses it for pull ups.

[MADem]

6. Ha ha!! nt

[Warren DeMontague]

4. Remember the 2004 debates? "It's hard work"

Presidentin', and stuff.

After that first debate I thought for sure he was toast.

[MADem]

5. OMG, yeah--the limbo team had to get seriously subterranean for that one!

I wonder if they'll show that one on CSPAN, too--I am guessing they will.

[Warren DeMontague]

8. Yeah, he had some sort of radio device for the second one.

We know he did. Karl Rove whispering answers in his ear.

[MADem]

17. The box on his back!!!

I always thought that was a holter monitor....

When he had the pretzel incident I thought he had cardiovascular issues!

[Warren DeMontague]

21. There was a real difference in performance between #1 and #2

I sure thought it seemed fishy at the time.

http://www.salon.com/2004/10/30/bulge_5/

[hatrack]

22. "Let me finish!"

Yeah, I remember that one . . .

[Divine Discontent]

34. Yep. Was being helped. People are so dumb to have voted for W. NT

[sheshe2]

10. ...

Sadly none of them were limber or quick.

[MADem]

15. Jack be nimble Jack be quick, Jack go UNDER limbo stick!

I can't even imagine doing that on the most fit day of my long forgotten youth!!!!

[sheshe2]

18. We did as kids....

no, I never went that low...

[Avalux]

9. Shrub was right about it being hard work - it is.

Trump can't even handle the rigors of a campaign, he keeps canceling events. How in the hell could he handle being president?

[MADem]

14. He wants Pence to do it--he thinks he'll just be the "idea man."

Oh, and he'll be the king. He'll have AF1 gold-plated and ride around barking orders at people.

[UTUSN]

7. I would *kick* this topic!1 n/t

[MADem]

16. Heh heh...! nt

[DonRedwood]

11. Actually.... Watch the g bush Anne Richards debate

He was a shark in that one.

[MADem]

13. I don't seek that turkey out--CSPAN is doing the "let's have a look back" thing

in anticipation of the upcoming general election debates and when nothing's good on the TV, I'll wander over that way.

I loved Anne Richards, I don't think I'd want to see him sharking on her.

[DonRedwood]

37. Me too but it opened my eyes

He was a shark .... Yet played the town fool....

[MADem]

38. Oh I agree with that POV--when he made that comment about how

the Constitution was "just a piece of paper" and how he didn't give a shit how history would see him, because he'd be dead, it was obvious that he lacked what some would term a soul. No care or concern for his fellow man at any meaningful level...

[hunter]

12. A meat puppet.

Like Reagan.

I can't imagine any worse fate.

[awoke_in_2003]

19. I never thought Bush

would get us in a thermonuclear war. Trump- not so much.

[KittyWampus]

27. Remember when a plane with six nukes went rouge in 2007?

2007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident

Six nuclear warheads mishandled and unaccounted for, or improperly secured, for approximately 36 hours

The 2007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident occurred on 29–30 August 2007. Six AGM-129 ACM cruise missiles, each loaded with a W80-1 variable yield nuclear warhead, were mistakenly loaded onto a United States Air Force (USAF) B-52H heavy bomber at Minot Air Force Base and transported to Barksdale Air Force Base. The nuclear warheads in the missiles were supposed to have been removed before taking the missiles from their storage bunker. The missiles with the nuclear warheads were not reported missing and remained mounted to the aircraft at both Minot and Barksdale for 36 hours. During this period, the warheads were not protected by the various mandatory security precautions for nuclear weapons.[1]

The incident was reported to the top levels of the United States military and referred to by observers as a Bent Spear incident, which indicates a nuclear weapon incident that is of significant concern but does not involve the immediate threat of nuclear war.

In response to the incident, the United States Department of Defense (DoD) and USAF conducted an investigation, the results of which were released on 19 October 2007. The investigation concluded that nuclear weapons handling standards and procedures had not been followed by numerous USAF personnel involved in the incident. As a result, four USAF commanders were relieved of their commands, numerous other USAF personnel were disciplined and/or decertified to perform certain types of sensitive duties, and further cruise missile transport missions from—and nuclear weapons operations at—Minot Air Force Base were suspended. In addition, the USAF issued new nuclear weapons handling instructions and procedures.

Separate investigations by the United States Defense Science Board and a USAF "Blue Ribbon" panel reported that concerns existed on the procedures and processes for handling nuclear weapons within the Department of Defense but did not find any failures with the security of United States nuclear weapons. Based on this and other incidents, on 5 June 2008, Secretary of the Air Force Michael Wynne and Chief of Staff of the Air Force General T. Michael Moseley were asked for their resignations, which were given. In October 2008, in response to recommendations by a review committee, the USAF announced the creation of Air Force Global Strike Command to control all USAF nuclear bombers, missiles, and personnel



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_United_States_Air_Force_nuclear_weapons_incident

[LeftRant]

20. Bush still IS a moron.

I like how Michele looks at him at 0:45, like, "What is this FOOL doin'?!"

[MADem]

26. He didn't take his ritalin that day I think ...

His wife looks like she's ready to slap him silly.

[Divine Discontent]

33. Good God, that's so embarrassing. Laura had to cry later.

There's something screw there. Ya just don't do that a funeral DURING the emotional songs. He's creepy. Michelle showed such class. I think I might have asked Dubya to relax if I was the sitting president and I was presiding over this awful solemn event. I figure he was like, yep world, look at that giant Ass, the former pResident....

Thanks for the clip

[smirkymonkey]

23. I never thought I would see the day when a republican presidential candidate

would make me nostalgic for W.

[democrattotheend]

29. Seriously

I was just thinking the same thing. For all of his major faults, W was not overtly racist.

[dembotoz]

24. remember bush won....the base will vote for whomever bears the logo

[MADem]

25. He didn't win, though--how soon we forget! SELECTED, not ELECTED! nt

[democrattotheend]

28. What's scary is that even Bush doesn't seem so bad compared to Trump

I hated almost everything he did and said as president and I never thought another politician would make me angrier. But at least Bush was not overtly racist, went out of his way to point out that not all Muslims were terrorists, and actually tried to win Latino votes instead of using them as punching bags. His policies were bad for minorities but at least his rhetoric wasn't racially divisive the way Trump's is.

[PCIntern]

30. I know what you mean but

I find that versions of this conversation date back to the 1960 election: "for all his faults at least Ike didn't..."

[MADem]

32. Well, Ike spoke un-mangled English!

Bush murdered the English language, but at least he sounded like a sixth grader, not a third grader (that's Trump) when he made a pronouncement! I mean, it's a YUUUUUUGE difference! Sad!

[MADem]

31. YEP....not just a Rhodes scholar by comparison, but ....

((((SHUDDER)))) .... a statesman!!!


Only by comparison, mind you!


How low can we go?

[sammythecat]

35. A country of 320+ million, divided

roughly 50/50 red and blue, it would seem to be statistically impossible for such utter garbage to keep rising to the top of the red half, but it does. It keeps getting worse and I no longer think of this as an aberration. This is it, the reality of what America is and I find it, at best, very worrisome.

[MADem]

36. I keep saying that "Idiocracy" is coming true!

That movie infuriated me for its pure stupidity...yet I couldn't stop watching! It's a harbinger of our sad future, I fear!!!!!