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I’m a time traveler from 2005. This was definitely a low water mark for American political debate and I take solace knowing that the next 20 years would be much more sophisticated and high minded
I want to live in your timeline.
I too wish want to live in u/AssociationDouble267 timeline
sure you can come right in right after i get back from visiting my favorite lowland gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo in 2024
...yup, all uphill from here.
(I'm not gonna be the one to break their heart. You do it)
Broooooooo lmao
Getting called a racist was W’s 9/11
"Mr. President..."
"A second 9/11-joke has hit your legacy."
LOL
Amazing comments
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words shall melt steel beams
Close second
That was his best moment. He never showed such confidence and resilience.
He’s got great dodging skills that’s for damn sure.
That's some ADAA All American type moves there
Learned it back during Vietnam dodgin the draft
The 5 D's of dodgeball:
Dodge, duck, dip, dive & dodge.
Ex baseball player. He’s got reflexes
If he'd dropped the "Who throws a shoe, honestly" line from Austin Powers it would have arguably been the greatest presidential moment in US history
If he’d caught it and threw it back, he’d be legend.
Random Task…
I hated the guy and even I was proud he dodged both shoes with such aplomb
I voted against him twice, but that shoe dodge was a power move for damn sure.
... now watch this drive is up there as well.
Also voted against him. But W had that swagger.
That first pitch at the Yankees game after 9/11 was pretty badass too.
So was when he goes Now watch this drive! and smacks the shit out of the golf ball.
Yeah, that was 10/30 so when you reduce the fraction is like top 1 of 3.
Did he throw well?
I was there that night covering the game.
Man it took us a long time to get into the ballpark.
We all had to go through metal detectors.
That and the little laugh he did when security grabbed the guy.
He played baseball and has some moves. Was a decent athlete and kept in good shape which was very respectable
When I'm having a bad day I like to recall that the US Armed Forces remanded the offending shoe into custody to prevent it from being displayed in a museum in Tehan or Beirut. STRONGEST CLAY.
Jihad really took a nosedive in the 7 years after 9/11, if a thrown shoe that missed Bush was museum worthy
They built a statue to the shoe. I’m busy right now but if you google “George bush shoe statue” it pops up
Sir... there's a second shoe...
The laugh I just laughed.
Lol
Sir, there’s been a second George bush hates black people
This comment is gold.
Now, watch this drive
I will nevar forget this joke
Holy shit. What an absolutely perfect joke.
Holy shit.lol.
Lolllllllllll
Lmfao
It’s days like today I miss the old award system
Wasn’t there something we were supposed to never forget?
How the turn tables
Mike Myers listens, looks concerned, and shuffles his feet.
yeah. George Bush seems real tortured over the comment.
Matt Lauer may be a terrible person but he was right on the money here.
I would have gone with invading Iraq under false pretenses.
I read because of what he did in Africa for the aids Epidemic, that he saved more lives than any other president and ended more lives than any orettt president.
Truman killed between 129,000 and 226,000 civilians in 3 days.
McKinley killed 250,000 Filipinos.
The bar is pretty high.
Yeah, I meet to look up how they came to that calculation. In some respects, it would have to be FDR.
Bush’s PEPFAR pet project saved an estimated 25 million lives. To this day in certain parts of Africa he is still celebrated.
He was more complex than people know. His memoir was great.
PEPFAR was his personal mission (and his wife’s) inspired by some books and learnings about the aids crisis there. He had a plan to help even before he was elected president.
I’m not excusing the rest of his presidency, merely illustrating the contrast, and he was a bit more nuanced than some evil bumbling maniacal war criminal.
I truly think that Cheney was the war monger of the two and Bush deferred to him often and imo was manipulated and lied to frequently by Cheney. Had he had a different vp, I think things would have turned out differently.
Hey, no one's perfect.
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I mean Bush is clearing talking about what was the worst moment for his personal mental self-image, not just "worst disaster moments of being President"
Otherwise even Katrina probably takes a back seat to another major history-altering catastrophe....
I'd like to believe that GWB's quote is a lot more nuanced than that interpretation of it. Like it's not that Kanye hurt GWB's fee-fees, it's that he kinda saw that there was some truth to it deep down, and that it affected his handling of a crisis. Or at the very least, that the insult is a reflection of just how poorly he handled the crisis and how much pain it caused.
Bush had very little control over what happened in Louisiana. Maybe he could have corralled the federal government to respond better but shit happens.
For a start, he could have not appointed the Judges and Stewards Commissioner for the International Arabian Horse Association to lead FEMA
Great job, Brownie!
i believe it was "heckuvajob"
I have vowed that if I ever meet Michael Brown there is going to be a story on that night's news that someone kicked him right in the dick.
There is also the matter of l. Paul bremer. The cia officers in iraq told him and others specifically not to do certain things and they did them anyways.
It was the response that got him. News stations able to get cameras and news crews to the superdome but rescuers can’t get there? Federalize an ARNG unit with airlift capabilities from another state and get pallets of food and water flown in and pathfinders to clear an area to begin evacuations with chinooks. That he had the power to do but he didn’t.
He had literally just been reelected on the premise that he was the guy you wanted at the helm in a crisis. Then he did a shit job handling a crisis. It undermines his whole deal.
Wasn't this the "2am phone call" election campaign?
This comes on here all the time but all my in laws are in the New Orleans, Kenner, Slidell region and are almost all very liberal but they blame Nagin, Blanco, and Brown well before Bush.
All of the above can & should shoulder the blame
There’s plenty of blame to go around.
Of course they dislike Bush but anyone who has done any attempt at research knows Nagin wasn't prepared and Blanco refused federal intervention to the point Bush and his cabinet considered declaring Louisiana in a state of secession to get aid there. Bush absolutely deserves the blame for hiring Brown/not replacing him but that's where it stops. Landing and touring the site would have taken resources away from saving people.
The South Park parody of this was totally spot on.
We've had a worldwide crisis since then. US Government response proved to be just as speedy and expedient as it was then.