Bush giving the middle finger, what's the big deal really?

[Fire]

I'm proud to be an american Bush hater but it looked to me like Bush was just joking around when he flipped off the camera. It seemed like non-news to me. Why was it worth talking about?

[Hoffnung]

1. Deleted

Nevermind I thought this was GD

[lebkuchen]

2. Agreed. It's not as bad as the one of Bush waving his dick in the camera

Just one person's opinion~

[Village Idiot]

7. Didn't somebody film

* rolling around on the White House lawn with Condi?

[Kipepeo]

3. Because to his "believers" it's a lapse of what they believe

to be his moral character.

I couldn't care less about someone flipping the bird, but it's his moral hypocrisy on display for his followers that's the issue.

[BUSHOUT]

4. Did you watch the whole clip?

It wasn't just giving the finger...it was the pompous, ignorant manner in which he did it...and then cackled at someone (likely Karen and Karl) off camera.

[Fire]

8. Did we see the same clip?

Did we see the same clip? He seemed to be giggling more than cackling. I didn't catch any pompousness in the clip, he's to dumb to be be pompus and the clip didn't contain any pro-republican arguments so I didn't see any ignorance.

[BUSHOUT]

10. He was giggling more than cackling? OK, *whatever*...n/t

[jedicord]

5. A Repub told me that they were disappointed in Theresa H. Kerry

because she told someone to f off. I told her I've said that before, she felt this was wrong for a First Lady.

I pointed out that Cheney said that to someone on the Senate floor and Bush shot the finger on video, so don't be a hypocrite.

She thinks it's OK for Cheney and Bush, but not a First Lady.

:wtf:

[Fire]

6. I thought she said "Shove it."

I thought she said "Shove it."

[jedicord]

9. You are correct!

Thanks for the mind jog...

[Midlodemocrat]

14. Plus she said to a reporter from whichever

pittsburg paper is published by Mellon Scaife. They have shit on her for years.

[LZ1234]

11. I would like to point out that Bush appeals to a great many

fundamentalists (12% of our voters I believe) because "he has such high moral character" and that's what the point of the video is. He's trying to gain votes with the belief that he's religious and holy. I have a fundamentalist friend who thinks he's the next best thing to Jesus. Somehow I can not imagine Jesus giving the finger to the public. I also can not imagine my pastor at my church doing this.

[Fire]

12. On the contrary

On the contrary, I think that another good sized segment of his base are the beer chugging NASCAR dad crowd who would take something like this as a sign that he is one of the boys.

[Gut Check]

13. He's appealing to his base...you know the "moral majority" n/t