What has GWB EVER done to prove himself "heroic"?

[Just Me]

Has he EVER had to pull himself up by his own bootstraps, without any support?

Has he EVER voluntarily served his neighbor or community (we're talking TIME not money)?

Has he EVER voluntarily compensated those he wronged?

Has he EVER volunteered his life to serve this country?

Has he EVER volunteered his time, without expectation of return, to this country?

WHAT HAS GWB EVER DONE TO PROVE HIMSELF THE "HERO" THAT HE DEMANDS OF THE REST OF THE CITIZENS OF THIS COUNTRY?

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. Present a SOTU address that he knew was full of lies

in order to start an illegal preemptive war. That was about as "heroic" as it gets.

[havocmom]

2. If he really has stopped drinking, he is a dry drunk. Not the slightest

inclination to ever take responsibility for anything he has done that he shouldn't have done or failed to do that he should have.

He is a total USER & ABUSER. Substances, people, excuses, he uses and abuses them all.

[Just Me]

16. I can honestly say that I've met substance abusers who were more heroic

by far, than GWB can ever proclaim. But, they abused substances to escape pain from the outside rather than using substance abuse as an excuse to inflict their own pain upon others.

GWB abuses to serve himself, period. He doesn't fall within the majority of substance abusers who are attempting to escape from the pains of existence that Georgie Dear has NEVER, in his worst nightmares, had to confront and overcome.

[solinvictus]

3. He won a life or death fight with a pretzel..

but barely.

[alittlelark]

12. That's what I was gonna post....

too slow.

[smirkymonkey]

18. Actually, by the looks of it, the pretzel won.

but it was indeed a heroic battle! :evilgrin:

[susanna]

19. LOL! Now that's funny. n/t

[Lisa]

4. he voluntarily hopped on board that nasty Segway

Even though he knew it was designed by those nerdy scientist types he used to give "swirlies" to at school.

[rzemanfl]

5. I gotta ask, what the hell is a "swirly?" I have seen the term

several times on DU but have no idea what it means.

[Lisa]

7. at our school, it was used in this context

Not among the girls (or Charlene what's-her-name and her posse would probably have done it to me!) -- but the meaner boys would drag someone, usually a younger/smaller/nerdier guy, into the washroom -- stick his head in the toilet -- and flush it.

[rzemanfl]

11. I grew up in simpler, more sanitary times. A "pink belly" was

when two guys held your arms and legs while a third slapped your bare stomach until it was bright red.

[alittlelark]

13. At our school it was termed a 'Royal Flush'.

[billkurtmeyer]

6. Nothing! Nada! Zilch! In fact he has failed at everything short of

being picked up off the floor (literaly I imagine) by his family name and influence. If he hadn't been born into money, with a silver spoon stuck in him mouth, with his brains and lack of curiosity he would have been just another Joe-Blue collar, sitting next to you on a bar-stool in a wife beater t-shirt, working a menial blue-color job - in other words a nobody!

[emulatorloo]

8. According to his bio film at the Republican Natl Convention, he

pitched a baseball after 9-11. It was a great pitch, and it proved his steadfastness and heroism. I kid you not; I am not making this up.

[susanna]

20. I keep thinking of a DU post a few months ago...

...and I can't remember who posted it. That said, it implied that if * took a shit in the Rose Garden, his followers would proclaim it a "bold and inspired shit." I think that type of thing ties into your example of the propaganda bio-pic narrator gushing over his "steadfast, heroic" pitch.

[Mist]

9. After the attack on 9/11, he flew extensively around the interior of

the country, risking repeated eardrum discomfort.

[ClintonTyree]

10. Hey,cut that crap out...

demeaning our grate president. He admirably served in the Texas Air National Guard,part time,and came within a year or so of fulfilling his obligation with them. If it wasn't for heroes like george bush, the Viet Cong would have over-run the Texas-Mexico border and you'd be speaking Vietnamese and eating bowls of rice right now, you commie, Liberal, fag! :sarcasm:

Nothing, the spoiled little, rich boy from Kennebunkport has never done a thing to prove that he is a man, let alone a man of valor.

[Elwood P Dowd]

14. He was a cheerleader for his private school football team

He was a star bench warmer on his Yale fraternity rugby team.

He is a Christian.........during the Summer and Fall every 4 years.

He holds the record for the most prisoners executed by a governor.

He has given more money to rich people than any president in US history.

He received the Distinguished Lying Cross from the Texas Air Guard.

[Princess Turandot]

15. I found it! I found it!

From The American Heritage Ductionary:

heroic drama

NOUN: Restoration tragedy or tragicomedy composed in heroic couplets and generally characterized by exotic settings, bombastic rhetoric, and exaggerated characterization.

[mitchum]

17. Not a single goddamn thing

Christ! I wish his bitch of a mother had been sober enough to push GHWB away that fateful night

[BuyingThyme]

21. He used to fly planes while drunk.