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    The 10 Most Awesomely Bad Moments of the Bush Presidency

    Brad Reed has compiled the extensive list, but I’ll give you the Reader’s Digest version here.  Go read the full article at Alternet:

    10: Bush Gets Re-elected
    9: Alberto Gonzales’ Congressional Testimony
    8: North Korea Conducts a Nuclear Test
    7: Colin Powell’s Bogus WMD Presentation at the U.N.
    6: The Terri Schiavo Affair
    5: Bush and Condi’s Excellent Gaza Adventure
    4: “Brownie, You’re Doing a Heckuva Job”
    3: Abu Ghraib
    2: 9/11
    1: “Mission Accomplished”

    Seems like the hardest part is simply narrowing it down to just 10.




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    1
    Ruth Says:

    I’d give ‘we don’t torture a listing in the high zone. And having the courts overturn their really weak cases. Like happened yesterday. http://cabdrollery.blogspot.co.....rning.html

    2
    Savanation Says:

    I would suggest # -1: Bush given Presidency by Republican Judges.

    That started the whole mess.

    3
    Heraldblog Says:

    Number 10 doesn’t really belong there. I’d replace it with “We do not torture”, or “l’affaire Plame”

    4
    spiritcatcher Says:

    yup, Number 10 is kind of a false statement … should be “Diebold hands Ohio (and the country) to Bush”

    5
    Kerry Says:

    “Bring it on” was pretty bad

    First, it’s so good to see this site back up and running. I missed you guys.

    Funny I was thinking about these things today and wondering what would be the worst. I think the Patriot Act and then the invasion of Iraq.

    7
    Kevin Foster Says:

    Bush wasn’t RE-elected, remember he was appointed the first time.

    8
    hate2haggle Says:

    Yes, 10 is tough when the Hughes’ List is up to 366. I can’t argue with any of your picks, however.

    9
    Pericles Says:

    I think $4/Gallon gas should be on that list someplace.

    10
    moniker Says:

    Every time he said “nucular.”

    11
    Jo Says:

    Hooray! I thought I was banned ’cause I couldn’t get on. Good to be back!

    One of the worst is the lie he told that he watched the first 9/11 plane hit on TV. So stupid he thinks everyone else is.
    And then the blank look when he is told about the second plane.

    12
    JM Says:

    And that’s why I‘m Voting Republican!!

    Sheesh!!

    The picture of McCain hugging bush has to be the most disgusting moment.

    14
    Mickxotic Says:

    For just plain boorish, embarassing, everyday dumbshittery the massage of German Prime Minister Merkel gets high marks from me. “They hate us for our freedoms” makes me shudder to this day.

    15
    mudshark Says:

    I dunno, theres so many to choose from. But I think this one was pretty damn funny.

    16
    dw Says:

    take out north korea drop everything down and place bush as prez at #1

    17
    xenophon Says:

    Savanation @ 2:

    I would suggest # -1: Bush given Presidency by Republican Judges.

    That started the whole mess.

    Good one. That’s arguably a #1. I don’t see how it was overlooked. Maybe because he wasn’t the President, yet?

    Using the phrase, “the war on terror” was the stupidest damned thing he ever said and it has cost so many so much. President Obama should drop that phrase from his vocabulary. We all should.

    19
    apeman Says:

    Being spawned #1

    20
    spiritcatcher Says:

    nah, Bush grabbing chancellor Merkels shoulders was impressively stupid, but it was actually Dubya trying to be nice. the most interesting part of the Heiligendamm adventures were the photos proving that his detail keeps a stash of beer for this “former” alcoholic …

    21
    Walnuts Says:

    The (non) response to Katrina…

    22
    Jo Says:

    His note to Condi asking when he could go wee wee.

    23
    mudshark Says:

    Lettermans top 10 moments.

    24
    mudshark Says:
    25
    Bitter Bud Says:

    Don’t forget the disgusting slide show -

    “Where are the WMDs? They’re aren’t under the couch! BWAAHAHAHAHAA!”

    It was that exact moment in time that I completely realized that George W. Bush is just a complete douchebag.

    This is like summarizing the Bible in 25 words or less. Out of this list which is not even complete how can you come up with any list of ten?

    Kevin Foster @ 7:

    Bush wasn’t RE-elected, remember he was appointed the first time.

    He wasn’t elected the second time either. Ohio was rampant with election fraud. The Media Industrial Complex chose to ignore it.

    28
    mrbadmood Says:

    Nor can we omit the appallingly botched response to Katrina.

    29
    Ruthless People Says:

    3 Greatest Attacks on America:

    1) Pearl Harbor
    2) 911
    3) The Bush presidency

    Not necessarily in that order considering number 3 has done more long term damage to American than numbers 1 and 2 combined.

    30
    researcher Says:

    it is called capitalism and it is doing its thing.

    until we understand how a system like capitalism can do this to a country we will continue to blame everyone and everything but the source of the problem. ie deregulated capitalism

    thank the universe it is self destructing it is about profits not people

    before it goes away with a national revolution it will eliminate the middle class

    they were dumber than dumb so we cannot hold anyone else to blame

    brainwashing works and it is in our schools and universities.

    get the young into nationalism and patroitism and you got most of them for life and big time in he southern states.

    even dear old stanford hired rummy the war monger and will soon hire condi so they can teach their graduates how to war monger

    the brainwashing is everywhere folks even with the corp media

    Both links in the heading are broken, by the way

    32
    Tommy Gunn Says:

    9/11’s got to be #1.

    And if we’re counting the entire 8 years, how can we leave out Cheney shooting another man in the face and then having the victim APOLOGIZE to Cheney! That’s gotta be top 5.

    researcher @ 30:

    it is called capitalism and it is doing its thing.

    until we understand how a system like capitalism can do this to a country we will continue to blame everyone and everything but the source of the problem. ie deregulated capitalism

    thank the universe it is self destructing it is about profits not people

    before it goes away with a national revolution it will eliminate the middle class

    they were dumber than dumb so we cannot hold anyone else to blame

    brainwashing works and it is in our schools and universities.

    get the young into nationalism and patroitism and you got most of them for life and big time in he southern states.

    even dear old stanford hired rummy the war monger and will soon hire condi so they can teach their graduates how to war monger

    the brainwashing is everywhere folks even with the corp media

    I would say especially with the Corporate Media and especially in the schools.

    In the 1960s they taught students at Universities to think and they ended up with students protesting unjust war and unjust policies. The solution? Teach them how to make money instead.

    34
    JM Says:

    mrbadmood @ 28:

    Nor can we omit the appallingly botched response to Katrina.

    Spot on! Such a tragedy!

    Tommy Gunn @ 32:

    9/11’s got to be #1.

    And if we’re counting the entire 8 years, how can we leave out Cheney shooting another man in the face and then having the victim APOLOGIZE to Cheney! That’s gotta be top 5.

    If you say so, but i think torturing detainees and beating detainees to death is worse. Katrina is worse. Invading Iraq is worse. Patriot Act is worse. FISA is worse.

    In fact i can think of a whole lot of things they have done than Dick Cheney shooting somebody in the face. I will even go so far as saying i can think of a lot of things they did than Dick Cheney shooting ME in the face.

    36
    ElleninBigD Says:

    We all have our top 10 because there’s so many moments. The entire article is a hoot.

    37
    jjasonham Says:

    This makes me ill.

    38
    redsaunas Says:

    Iraq is no. 1.

    A million corpses, several million maimed for life and millions more in misery can’t be wrong.

    In fact, Iraq deserves to be no. 1, and to have a ‘ten worst’ all of its own.

    39
    jimbojames Says:

    How can someone put Mission Accomplished as worse than 9/11. 9/11 was clearly the worst day of the Bush years, Colin Powell’s speech is the second worst day, Katrina is right up there, and so is Abu Ghraib, but then all the other days are equally as bad because those thugs have been raping this country every day for almost 8 years.

    jimbojames @ 39:

    How can someone put Mission Accomplished as worse than 9/11. 9/11 was clearly the worst day of the Bush years, Colin Powell’s speech is the second worst day, Katrina is right up there, and so is Abu Ghraib, but then all the other days are equally as bad because those thugs have been raping this country every day for almost 8 years.

    I think it is a toss up. 9/11 may have been the worst day in America under Bush, but there have been days and days and weeks and months and years far worse in Iraq. It depends on your point of view.

    41
    joshsirjoshules Says:

    Well, Colin Powell was lied to, so scratch #7 and put the terrible response to Katrina.

    42
    Frank Says:

    The neocon cabal inflitrating washington.

    43
    Mac Says:

    xoites defends Constitution @ 26:

    This is like summarizing the Bible in 25 words or less. Out of this list which is not even complete how can you come up with any list of ten?

    Thanks for the link. The Alternet url does not respond.

    44
    cv Says:

    spiritcatcher @ 4:

    yup, Number 10 is kind of a false statement … should be “Diebold hands Ohio (and the country) to Bush”

    You could amend it to “Stealing Ohio.” “Stealing Florida” should certainly be there since it made all the other atrocities possible.

    45
    SadButTrue Says:

    xoites defends Constitution @ 26:

    This is like summarizing the Bible in 25 words or less. Out of this list which is not even complete how can you come up with any list of ten?

    That’s got to be the best link I’ve ever seen. Every blogger in Greater Left BlogSylvania should have that one bookmarked.

    It does fail to catch one of my favorite moments though. That was when Sara Taylor, testifying under oath in the Senate revealed that she had taken an oath TO THE PRESIDENT, not the constitution. Known as the Führer oath, I would mark that as one of the low points in America’s 230 year history.

    46
    Attila the Appeaser, No Stomach for Kristol Says:

    Feel Good, worse than Mission Accomplished.

    http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/feel_good.html

    47
    ConcernedCanuck Says:

    I’d have to pick Colon Powell’s bogus UN address as #1. Without it, an appalling amount of cash and lives lost would not have happened….and excuse me for saying it, but Powell KNEW it was all BS.

    SadButTrue @ 45:

    xoites defends Constitution @ 26:

    This is like summarizing the Bible in 25 words or less. Out of this list which is not even complete how can you come up with any list of ten?

    That’s got to be the best link I’ve ever seen. Every blogger in Greater Left BlogSylvania should have that one bookmarked.

    It does fail to catch one of my favorite moments though. That was when Sara Taylor, testifying under oath in the Senate revealed that she had taken an oath TO THE PRESIDENT, not the constitution. Known as the Führer oath, I would mark that as one of the low points in America’s 230 year history.

    Send Hugh an email. He will happily add it.

    The hardest part is simply narrowing it down to just 10.

    NO DOUBT!

    50
    ysbaddaden Says:

    No pretzel choking

    Or wanting to dig into that pig

    Or telling the pope, great speech

    Or copping a feel of Angela Merkel

    Or spanking the monkey?

    51
    karl Says:

    Pericles @ 9:

    I think $4/Gallon gas should be on that list someplace.

    yeah………the fact that he said he hadn’t heard that gas was going to be $4
    goff ball totally out of touch and doesn’t care personally i want his approval rate to stay low

    52
    karl Says:

    and to think this is the guy that beat mccain in 2000
    what’s that say about mccain…….geeze

    53
    Ruthless People Says:

    The 5 Republican appointed conservative activist judges should have been impeached for trumping the American democratic process installing Bush. Especially now after all the damage the Bush regime has done to America, it’s military rediness, it’s economy and it’s moral standing in the world and all the criminal activity they have engaged in.

    Well, lookie lookie lookie what we have here!

    Turns out PUMA (Party Unity My Ass!) was started by a McCain Donator. The media has been all over this group saying it was started by Hillary supporters!

    PUMAs are Swiftboats

    55
    General_Rennenkampf Says:

    researcher @ 30:

    it is called capitalism and it is doing its thing.

    until we understand how a system like capitalism can do this to a country we will continue to blame everyone and everything but the source of the problem. ie deregulated capitalism

    thank the universe it is self destructing it is about profits not people

    before it goes away with a national revolution it will eliminate the middle class

    they were dumber than dumb so we cannot hold anyone else to blame

    brainwashing works and it is in our schools and universities.

    get the young into nationalism and patroitism and you got most of them for life and big time in he southern states.

    even dear old stanford hired rummy the war monger and will soon hire condi so they can teach their graduates how to war monger

    the brainwashing is everywhere folks even with the corp media

    What do you want to replace Capitalism with? Sovietism? That system is hardly better, and actually much worse, at least the Gilded Age US didn’t willingly starve its own citizens the way Stalin’s Russia did, or create a similar situation the way Mao’s China did, or exterminate a quarter of its citizens the way Saloth Sar’s regime did.

    Replacing Capitalism sounds easy. The subsitute system is the problem.