Bush has yet to outgrow his hubris

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07145/789000-153.stm

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While watching President Bush's news conference yesterday, I was struck by his unwavering support for policies that have proven to be unmitigated disasters for the United States.

When asked by a reporter why Americans should consider the Bush White House a credible source about al-Qaida's plots, given its lousy track record on intelligence, Mr. Bush answered with a tautology: "I'm credible because I read the intelligence."

It was a moment that crystallized everything wrong about the Bush administration -- from its overweening arrogance to its inflexibility in the face of mounting failure.

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Mr. Bush spent part of the news conference trying to remove a splotch of bird droppings deposited on his sleeve by a sparrow -- a final sign that the mandate of heaven he once took for granted had been withdrawn.

When the definitive history of this war is written and a full account has been taken of its spillage of blood, its rituals of mutilation and its mindless embrace of death, Mr. Bush may be the first president to be regarded by future generations as both evil and stupid.

[Bluestar]

1. Hubris is in the DNA of the Bush crime family nt

[global1]

2. A Better Quote By * Would Have Been - "I'm Credible Because.....

I keep getting my way."

As long as he keeps winning these showdowns with the Dems. As long as the MSM remain complicit with this man - he remains credible.

Analogy - as long as the school kids remain afraid of the class bully and give in to him or run from him - he will remain the class bully. Until someone stands up to him and calls his bluff - he remains credible.

The Dems had the perfect opportunity to stand up to * and call his bluff - but they decided wrongly to provide him the cover he needs to remain credible. He doesn't even need to read intelligence - the Dems provide him credibility.

[aquart]

3. Nuh, nuh, nuh.

Hubris is the fatal arrogance in the otherwise perfect hero. Bush is NOT an otherwise perfect hero. He's a fascist. And his arrogance has yet to prove fatal.

[SharonAnn]

4. He'll never outgrow it. That would require a self-awareness that he just doesn't have.

[MasonJar]

5. Excellent article---thanks for posting it. If Bush actually believed in

anything besides his own self-aggrandizement and self-inflicted amorality, he would be shaking in his boots at all the evil he has perpetrated. And Cheney with that faulty "ticker" and floating blood clots must have no concern about the great hereafter or he would be re-considering and re-constituting his eviseration of the rights of the world and the earth. The two together comprise IMHO the antithesis of all that is sacred, being instead a braindead anti-Christ merged with the great Satan.