we are losing troops daily, bush goes fishing, what the f**k is wrong here

[dajoki]

something is horribly wrong here. the country is a mess, we are losing more and more troops everyday in the hellhole we created in iraq because of all the lies, and our "president", who is afraid of a greiving mother, heads for the hills. http://famulus.msnbc.com/famulusgen/ap08-23-170657.asp?t=APNEW

''I'm kind of hanging loose, as they say,'' Bush said earlier outside of his lodge at the 9-month-old Tamarack Resort, where he was spending two nights away from his Texas ranch.
Bush spent part of the day with Idaho Gov. Dirk Kempthorne, although the governor wasn't always able to keep up with the brisk pace Bush set on his morning laps around the pine-studded grounds.
''Did they come by this way?'' Kempthorne asked a uniformed officer as he rode past a checkpoint Tuesday morning about two minutes behind the presidential cycling pack.
Shortly before 4 p.m., the president and first lady Laura Bush took a short ride to a nearby lake spotted with small whitecaps. The couple were joined by Kempthorne and his wife on the small pontoon boat that had been stocked with fishing gear.
White House spokesman Trent Duffy said Bush fished for a couple of hours, but he had no word on whether the president caught anything.

[Patchuli]

1. I wish he'd catch a clue eom

[Enraged_Ape]

31. I wish he'd catch the clap

But on second thought, maybe THAT's why Jeff Gannon isn't allowed around the White House anymore.

[Patchuli]

34. Maybe he'll be the catch himself

with the spec prosecutor? :patriot:

[lvx35]

2. Why can't this asshole stop vacationing?

I can't believe that he thinks this is good for his PR. He looks like such an asshole. He really looks more and more like Nero every day.

[dajoki]

14. he looks like an asshole...

because he is an asshole.

[Skittles]

19. yes

he's behaving the same way now as he has for the past four years - like a dipshit asshole

[dajoki]

22. he's been...

a dipshit asshole his entire life.

[Skittles]

27. OMG DAJOKI YOU ARE SO CORRECT

AND I LIVE IN TEXAS FOR CHRISSAKES; I'VE BEEN PUTTING UP WITH THAT DIPSHIT ASSHOLE A LOOOOOONG TIME NOW

[Mr Rabble]

35. Youre so upset that you broke the capslock button!

[Skittles]

38. OH NO SWEETIE

ASK ANYONE ON DU; SKITTLES IS ALWAYS SHOUTING :D

[dajoki]

44. KEEP IT UP...

WE NEED SOME SHOUTING!!

[deadparrot]

41. Well, he does less damage in Crawford than he would in Washington...

so maybe it's not so bad. :shrug:

[dajoki]

45. agreed!!

he doesn't do anything in D.C. anyway. it's all his cronies.

[Burried News]

3. I'm willing to give him a paid leave of absence for the next three

years. Take your time George. We deserve a break today.

[gokar]

47. Great idea...lets give shrub 3 years paid vacation

[wanpete]

4. just proves the point that * doesn't give a rat's Patooty about the troops

this is about the most callous thing he can do in a time like this. And then to sang that he was going to "hang loose" today and maybe do some fishing. I can't see how any parent of a son or daughter in Iraq could support this sicko. Why can't these adoring * loyalists see him for what he really is...a spoiled, shielded warmongerer who could care less about the casualties of this war.

Now off to clear some brush and don't forget to "watch this drive"!
:mad:

[niallmac]

6. Any historians out there know of a worse U.S. Prez?n/t

[dajoki]

12. i'm not an historian, but...

can you imagine any worse?

[LittleClarkie]

5. I still remember, right after the election,

seeing this:



and realizing it was the thing we'd never seen Bush do. Go to a funeral. Really got to a few people.

[prouddem316]

8. thanks for sharing LittleClarkie

what a moving picture of John Kerry and how right you are. 
Hell, GW doesn't even want journalists to be able to take
photos of coffins returning for fear, "well
shucks...folks just might figure out kids are dying over
there" is what I assume the idiot is thinking, let alone
talk to a greiving mother whose son HAS died OR go to a
funeral. thanks again. 

[Skittles]

20. howdy prouddem

:hi:

[newyawker99]

26. Hi prouddem316!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Carla in Ca]

30. I love that picture

Thansks for posting

[democratic veteran]

7. hanging loose

keeps him from starting another war. That's why we've got Pat Robertson.

[opihimoimoi]

9. See what IGNORANCE can resultr in??? A fucked up President

backed by fucked up peeps....

[FrenchieCat]

10. WTF is wrong is America....that's what wrong!

[Donna Zen]

11. Making progress?

59 American soldiers were killed in the first two-and-a-half weeks of August, including more members of the National Guard and Reserve than in any month since the war began. Iraqi leaders missed the first deadline for approving a Constitution.
And yet George Bush, on a five-week vacation at his ranch in Texas, insists that we are "making progress" in Iraq. Making progress? How so?...

The Bush Administration's insistence on pursuing its current failing strategy and its inability to come clean about its own mistakes are largely responsible for our lack of real progress in Iraq...

The Iraqi security forces that we have been hearing about for more than two years have still not materialized.


~Wes Clark

[dajoki]

13. he has no clue

What's the Plan?

By Dan Froomkin
special to washingtonpost.com
Monday, August 22, 2005; 12:36 PM

President Bush emerges from his Texas compound this week to make two speeches about Iraq in an effort to restore sagging public support for his war and his presidency.

But news reports suggest it's unlikely that he will answer the many questions being raised by the country's increasingly vocal antiwar movement.

[wli]

15. fascism on the goose-step n/t

[Fire Walk With Me]

16. He was told that Bin Laden had a secret headquarters in the lake

and arrived to stop that madman! Hooray, Bush!

[dajoki]

25. osama bin...

hidin' in idaho. LOL

[jayctravis]

17. Damn! If only some scuba diver could have attached a bottle

to his line containing a note "Talk to Cindy!"

[NVMojo]

18. He needs to serve on the ground in Iraq ...Draft Bush!

[Q]

21. This is what happens when..

...an election is stolen and the opposition does nothing about it. The system failed and Bush slipped through it.

[dajoki]

32. pretty easy for slime...

to slip through or away from anything, including responsibility.

[Mr Rabble]

36. you are correct Q. nt

[rniel]

23. There must be a connection

Between his vacationing and numbers plummeting. I think americans feel then need him to do some work. If this guy is supposed to be working for us he should've been layed off a long time ago.

[dajoki]

24. he needs...

to be put on a permanent vacation.

[mikelewis]

28. Don't blame me, I voted for Kerry

Sorry, I just love this bumper sticker.

[gratuitous]

29. What's wrong here? To hear our friends in the media tell it

The major thing going wrong is all them military folks dying. So inconvenient for their pretty, pretty pictures of President Permanent Vacation to have to interrupt themselves for news of some more traitorous soldiers getting killed just so they can embarrass the president.

I have a slightly different opinion.

[dajoki]

48. yeah, "the liberal media" LOL

what a joke!!

[Mr Rabble]

33. Nero had his fiddle.

GWB has his fishing rod and his bicycle.

[dajoki]

46. i think he got...

training wheels. LOL

[PurityOfEssence]

37. Sport killing's fun; Dick's going to staple some birds to a fence post

I don't feel like a man unless I can kill. You guys are just no fun.

[PaganPreacher]

39. Oh, quitcher bitchin!

Presidents have always taken vacations during wartime.

Didn't you learn in school about Abe Lincoln's caving expedition during the Battle of Gettysburg? Honest Abe was a well-regarded spelunker, and never passed up a chance to go down.

FDR was a heck of a trout fisherman, and was in the water up to his chin on the day we bombed Nagasaki.

JFK took a little trip to Acapulco to do some cliff diving during the Bay of Pigs invasion. J. Edgar Hoover had some pictures of the energetic Prez and Marilyn Monroe playing "otter and clam", which he put to good use later.

LBJ spent the first two years of Viet Nam in a boat on a river, with tangerine trees and marmalade skies........

Think about it: Isn't it better for all of us that W was fishing, instead of signing something?

The Pagan Preacher
I don't turn the other cheek.

[dajoki]

42. uh, i hate to burst your bubble...

but FDR was dead and Truman was president when we bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. read some history.

[paineinthearse]

40. Brilliant minds!

See my very similar post started 20 minutes prior. Yours is doing better, no doubt, by its splendidly worded subject line!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2033316&mesg_id=2033316

[dajoki]

43. you know what they say...

great minds think alike. thanks for the compliment.:toast: