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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-13-09 01:36 PM
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"I thought maybe that people would have some sense of warmth about George Bush as he leaves office,
CNN's Cooper: Bush's Katrina defense 'boggles the mind'
David Edwards and Muriel Kane
Published: Tuesday January 13, 2009

CNN's Anderson Cooper -- who reported memorably on Katrina's devastation as it was happening -- also was astonished by Bush's response.

"It's sort of a red herring to talk about the flyover," Cooper suggested. "To talk about what the Coast Guard did, which was valliant and courageous and brilliant, and totally forget about ... on Friday, days after the storm had passed, not even remembering people in the convention center -- it just boggles the mind."

Analyst David Gergen agreed with Cooper, calling Bush's response on Katrina "the most stunning thing, I think, that happened in the press conference."

"I thought maybe that people would have some sense of warmth about George Bush as he leaves office," Gergen continued. "I think I was wrong. ... I don't think we've had a time since Richard Nixon left office ... when people were so relieved to see the end of a presidency."

more:
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Maddow_guest_Katrina_mess_shaped_by_0113.html
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trayfoot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-13-09 01:40 PM
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1. I have nothing but CONTEMPT for Bush and his cronies.
January 20th cannot come soon enough for me. In my mind there is absolutely NOTHING of redeeming value in 43!
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bvar22 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-13-09 02:32 PM
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22. My contempt extends to a certain "wing" of the Democratic Party...
...that was more than happy to enable Bush/NeoCons.
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John Q. Citizen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-13-09 01:41 PM
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2. Ya think, David?
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endarkenment Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-13-09 01:41 PM
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3. I do!
that same awful disgusting sense of warmth one gets when a fart goes terribly wrong.
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truedelphi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-13-09 02:13 PM
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19. I thought you were gonna say you get all warm and fuzzy thinking
About the warmer fires of Hell that Bush shall possibly see

But at this point the fart analogy works too.
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phantom power Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-13-09 01:41 PM
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4. Warmth???
Even after 8 years, our MSM doesn't understand what everybody else already knows. Bush is a fucking sociopath and the worst president in American history.
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myrna minx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-13-09 01:44 PM
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5. Yes, my cheeks are flushed with the warm afterglow of the Bush Years.
Uh, yes, Mr Gergen, you were wrong.
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Stellabella Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-13-09 01:44 PM
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6. Well, burning torches and pitchforks, maybe.
That's the only 'warmth' he'll get.
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polichick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-13-09 01:46 PM
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7. Jeez, where the hell has Gergen been??
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Betsy Ross Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-13-09 01:47 PM
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8. Warmth? Fires of Hell. nt
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JHB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-13-09 01:47 PM
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9. Geez! What part of ...
Edited on Tue Jan-13-09 01:47 PM by JHB
"Get that worthless fucker out of there!" don't they understand?
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bdamomma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-13-09 01:47 PM
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10. Mr Gergen never underestimate the (some)American people
we know a BS'er and murderer when we see one.
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baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-13-09 01:47 PM
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11. .
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bdamomma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-13-09 01:48 PM
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12. what your picture shows is something we should have done a long time ago
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jpak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-13-09 01:48 PM
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13. Warm glow 2009 - standing around a 55 gallon drum of burning pallet lumber and trash to keep warm
Fuck you Bush
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guitar man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-13-09 01:49 PM
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14. I do
I have a sense of warmth after the Bu$h years, but I am hoping some Preparation H will take care of it. :(
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Loki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-13-09 01:51 PM
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15. The only warmth that will be felt
will be as Poppy 41 pisses down the leg of his pants as he realizes that his *president son will be indicted for war crimes. Sooner than later God, I want this old man and this family to see what they have wrought upon this world.
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madaboutharry Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-13-09 01:54 PM
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16. I think that someone has
been conducting LSD experiments again. Except this time they are using "news commentators" as the subjects.
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Harry Monroe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-13-09 01:57 PM
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17. A sense of warmth???!!!
He is supposed to leave us with a warm fuzzy feeling?? WTF!!! Yeah like a warm steaming pile of shit!!!
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bunny planet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-13-09 02:07 PM
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18. that sense of warmth
that's the steam coming off my exploding head after that last disgraceful news conference.
Unbelievably clueless press, when will their bubble burst, every other bubble has?
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seafan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-13-09 02:22 PM
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20. Gergen: "I thought .. people would have some sense of warmth about George Bush as he leaves office."
.....

Analyst David Gergen agreed with Cooper, calling Bush's response on Katrina "the most stunning thing, I think, that happened in the press conference."

"I thought maybe that people would have some sense of warmth about George Bush as he leaves office," Gergen continued. "I think I was wrong. ... I don't think we've had a time since Richard Nixon left office ... when people were so relieved to see the end of a presidency."

.....

Raw Story




These guys are hopelessly, helplessly and quite happily, out of touch with reality.






London, January 10, 2009



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ismnotwasm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-13-09 02:23 PM
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21. Nobody likes him
Poor Georgie. Best go eat worms.


In prison.
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booley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-13-09 02:35 PM
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23. said it before
Rehabilitating the Bush presidency is like trying to be positive about a bowel obstruction. The only good thing you can say is that it's no longer there.
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noiretextatique Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-13-09 04:15 PM
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24. gergen is a jackass
yes, you are wrong...again, gergenass.
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eridani Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-14-09 02:32 AM
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25. The "warmth" is just piss trickling down your neck n/t
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-14-09 04:20 AM
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26. the only thing that warms is my burning rage
may he rot in hell
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saltpoint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-14-09 05:37 AM
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27. Gergen is talking to himself. The real dialogue is still going on down
in New Orleans, and in international circles, among people who have watched the United States under Bush these last 8 years.

Great relief is the logical respons to the departure of fools from power.
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