Remember when w was the golden boy who could do no wrong?

[Philosoraptor]

Remember how he out-teflonned st. ronnie reagan's teflon? He had it all, the power and the glory and the sympathy of nine eleven, he exploited the tragedy superbly, he was splendid in his aw shucks, bring it on bravado, he was strong, I remember they said strong, and resolute, and they said he was the right man to have in the oval office bla bla bla, remember all that?

Those were the good ol' days huh? We all sat around slack jawed and amazed at the way he got away with virtually every damn thing he wanted, had no fear of looking stupid in public, strutted like king kong on meth, swaggered, postured, and generally played the stupid fool dictator, but those happy days are long gone.

I don't have a point here, I'm just basking in the glow of the final chapter of dubya's legacy, watching georgey fall, I never thought I'd live to see his Achilles' heel exposed, I swore I'd lost my mind, it's just now sinking in.

He's not invincible after all.

[flowomo]

1. it was all built on bullshit; failure was inevitable...

Of course, if the Iraqis had, indeed, strewn flowers in the path of our troops and Baghdad had turned into Smallville -- well, things would be different. But that was never going to happen.

[Demobrat]

2. Remember when

it was unpatriotic to criticize the president? Worst year of my life. Thank God Howard Dean came along when he did.

[Philosoraptor]

7. Jay Leno didn't make w jokes for over a year

Nothing but tired Clinton sex jokes.

[pearl]

3. He doesn't have a sincere bone in his body

his talk of "bi-partisanship" is as much an act as everything else he has done.

[Mythsaje]

4. You mean the first two days after 9/11?

Oh, yeah. Even I--who hated him from the beginning--was like, "well, maybe I was wrong."

THAT delusion didn't last long.

[Arugula Latte]

14. I never had even on second of not hating him.

When he took that bullhorn and stood on the rubble, I was thinking: "What a B.S.ing pile of shit this guy is." Where was Mr. Bravado when we were attacked? Sitting on his ass in a classroom for more than 20 minutes, then flying about the country like a scared little bunny. Not to mention he failed to protect us by ignoring ample warnings. Then he thought he was so cool because he could use a bullhorn, and the media fell over itself in orgasmic Bush worship. I could see through the propaganda from the get-go.

Meh, don't get me started ...

[Mythsaje]

19. I blame a state of shock...

Momentary insanity.

[Arugula Latte]

28. It's understandable.

After a shock like that, who wouldn't WANT to believe that their "leader" has two brain cells to rub together and actually has the best interests of the American people at heart?

HAH! They translated 9/11 into "Big Opportunity For Halliburton et. al."

[Ecumenist]

21. After my own heart, Oregonian...

I have despised him from day 1 when he first "appeared" on the scene in 1999. Never fell for hisd bullshyt...

[leeroysphitz]

35. Try to imagine how you would have felt had there been a REAL

leader there for us in those awful days. It makes the whole thing seem even more tragic and infuriating.

I took W* for an empty suit during the primaries. A dullard front man with name recognition, powerful backers and nothing more. Nothing he has done since then has altered that initial assessment of him even minutely.




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[mwb970]

40. I never thought I was wrong.

The very first time I saw the Creep, I thought he was a nasty, arrogant jerk. "They'll never nominate such a loser," I thought. "We'll never elect this fool president," I thought. "He'll never get re-elected after such a horrendous first term," I thought.

Right after 9/11, I felt that he was a worthless moron. I feel exactly the same today. No change.

The president's popularity has dropped steadily from the very beginning, aside from peaks after 9/11 and the start of Bush's War In Iraq. He's not getting worse, he's always been just this bad. Instead, the people are waking up. Finally.

[blm]

5. Bush couldn't have done it without the full complicity of many in the media.

.

[EstimatedProphet]

6. Pride goeth before a fall

Just a little quote to help explain...

[Lautremont]

8. Frankly, no.

Always thought he was a buffoon.

[Kolesar]

12. "the brown-haired Dan Quayle" -Michael Feldman, 1999

The "Whaddya Know" guy on NPR Saturday. His other great quote was "George Bush, the other white meat"

[Kolesar]

9. bush* had the corporate media building and promoting his "cult of personality"

His Churchillian resolve was just so Churchillian.

[Sweet Freedom]

10. Yes, I remember that

I also remember feeling very alone and horribly depressed because I couldn't believe people liked him.

Then I found DU and was so thrilled to find that I wasn't alone and the entire world had not gone insane!

[Philosoraptor]

13. I kept hearing Rod Serling's voice in the hall

for several years, started doubting my own sanity, (still do)

[jaysunb]

11. No....can't say that I do.

and doubt any other honest person can either.....

[donco6]

Me neither.

He's always been an idiot in my book - from the first Gore/Bush debate.

[tblue]

15. It's taken a while to sink in for me, too. I never thought we could overcome the

well-oiled R*ve machine. 99% of the media was (and is) lying on *'s behalf. Telling us how 'popular' * was. Remember that? And Iraq was involved in 911. Then we had voting machines rigged and the news wasn't covering it. Voters purged for no good reason. Evangelicals in total lockstep. I had been wondering if we'd see Dems win ever again my lifetime. So this happened way sooner than I ever thought it would. I think progressive radio and the 'internets' saved us. And the troopers, like Russ Feingold, who never gave up, ever. May their reign be long and worth the wait.

[zanne]

16. One of my first thoughts on 9/11...

"Boy, is Bush is trouble".

[Chorophyll]

20. One of mine...

...was "oh shit, now we'll never get rid of him." :hi:

[zanne]

25. His ratings were in the 40's that morning...

I remember telling my husband that Bush was losing popularity fast. Two hours later, the carnage. And I thought it made him look unbelievably bad. I was wondering how in the world those planes weren't taken down, and what a failure he was at national security. Then, he seemed to have disappeared. On CNN, they were asking "Where's the president"? Now we know that he was up in the air with his advisors, trying to turn the whole thing around to make him look good.

[Chorophyll]

31. Full disclosure: that morning is a blur to me.

I live really close to NYC, and I had a new baby at the time and some good friends working downtown. I don't recall thinking about Bush at all until his "bullhorn" moment. That might have been when I realized we'd never get rid of him. (But we did get rid of him, mostly! Yay.)

[Chorophyll]

17. I really still don't get it.

I don't understand how anyone could have thought Shrub was anything but a demented idiot. It was like some kind of collective hypnosis.

Glad it's over.

[Rose Siding]

18. I remember his pitch at Yankee Stadium when Rove said it reminded him

"of a Nazi rally". I don't think that frightened him the way it did me.

[Uncle Joe]

22. It's easy to have Teflon, if

the mass corporate media does not cook anything on you which might stick.

[reichstag911]

23. His Achilles' heel(s)...

...has been visible all along to those of us not swigging the Kool-Aid and/or buying into the "liberal media" meme. He's a gutless, spoiled, ignorant, incurious, lazy, delusional, drunken bully.

[Hardrada]

24. He was Churchill. He was Jesus. He talked to God.

Actually I think W made that last part up. (I hope he didn't actually believe that).

[mentalsolstice]

26. My thoughts on 9/11 and thereafter

Thought #1: Oh shit!
Thought #2: Oh shit, look who's in charge!

Never liked the guy, nor did I ever have any faith in him.

[Uncle Joe]

29. Thought #3

Oh shit, look who's in charge if something happens to the one in charge!

[Demobrat]

27. There was just one moment.

One teeny-tiny moment when I thought maybe .... he wasn't totally full of shit - and that was a day or two before the invasion of Baghdad when it was rumored Saddam had been captured. I thought, okay, if they capture Saddam alive and put him on trial without a shot being fired or a bomb being dropped - maybe THEN I'll give W the benefit of the doubt. Other than that I have despised him every moment of every day since his daddy's supreme court annointed him POTUS.

[baby_mouse]

30. Certainly NOT.

The only emotion I felt rushing over me was DREAD.

And I was right.

[Chomp]

32. Excellent post.....nt

[DeepModem Mom]

33. Fineman rhapsodizing on his big silver belt buckle; Tweety calling him a young warrior prince --

I'll never forget, and I hope they don't ever forget what fools they were!

[Arugula Latte]

34. And it wasn't too long ago that Tweets swooned over his "sunny nobility."

Dubya's cinched-up crotch in the flight suit really made an impression on Tweety.

[Philosoraptor]

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[TheBaldyMan]

37. No, he's always been a walking fuck up as far as I can remember

back to the days of Arbusto oil that boy has done nothing worthwhile nor has he done achieved anything of note.

A deserter, a merciless fool, a polluter, a thief, a pretender, a coward.

[Philosoraptor]

38. you left out "Lincolnian", another tweety utterance

would also have accepted "Churchillian"

[TheBaldyMan]

39. I could have continued but I'd risk RSI ;)

[opihimoimoi]

41. Nekkid as a Plucked/Flucked Chicken...Bush has been EXPOSED

as a Major Fraud....he cannot think....He cannot Lead.....

[Philosoraptor]

42. he's a DEAD duck