George Bush gets almost 9 minutes of RNC time to talk about McCain
By John Amato Monday Sep 01, 2008 10:30pm
How much does the GOP not like Bush? He couldn't even crack the 10 minute mark at the RNC convention tonight as he tried to introduce John McCain to America. He is very, very, very optimistic though...(h/t Heather)
Here's the text of the speech....
Oh, and did you hear the canned Chuck Berry music in the background after Frederick of Hollywood spoke? Embarrassing.
UPDATE: I almost forgot. Bush never really mentioned the economy either. WOW, what a shocker.
John is a steadfast opponent of wasteful spending. As president, he will stand up to the high-tax crowd in Congress and make the tax relief permanent. He will invest in the energy technologies of tomorrow and lift the ban on drilling for America's offshore oil today.
That's it. I guess he's attacking himself. How is the economy doing under Conservative rule, Mr. Bush?
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I'd rather listen to Barney bark for ten minutes.
crooks & liars get's no spell check.
j/k john, who luvs ya, baby?
GOP Base Sends Message: McCain Stood Up to N. Vietnamese, But Not to Us
http://satiricalpolitical.com/?p=2886
Nothing new since 911. I thought shit decomposed.
Worst. Convention. Ever.
Gotta go read the text... I officially cannot stand that man's voice anymore...
Plus, I read better than he does anyway.
bruuuuuuuutal
The audio of the crowd doesn't sound right. It is artificially increased and decreased to make applause sound louder than it really is. Maybe some of it is even dubbed in.
I believe McCain & Palin represent that last great Christian political victory before the rapture. Now just to make sure that whack-jobs don't take what I said out of conext, I did NOT say that the rapture would occur directly following the election and/or inaugaration of McCain and Palin; I said that I believe that the McCain Palin victory will be the last great political triumph of Christians on earth prior to the rapture. I believe Bush, Palin, and possibly McCain will be among the millions who'll vanish from the world in the rapture.
Two terms, eight full years as President. Legacy lasts in the persons of Alito and Roberts. Kept our nation safe from terrorism after 9/11 attacks. 50 million Iraqis free.
John's right. Nine minutes was a slight.
Sarah Barracuda tomorrow night. Get the popcorn popper ready. History in the making.
The new Teddy Roosevelt.
Thoughts... @ 7:
Is our children learning?
"and promised the survivors i would never let them down."
so much for being a promise keeper.
Yuk!
Someguy @ 12:
More to the point: Is the voters learning?
The country's most absent senator is using "Country First" as his slogan? More like "Campaign First."
GWB.......Prisoner of Wank!
dennis@11
you have no idea how ignorant you sound
Presume a bit do we John?
Obviously someone isn't learning when a presumably grown adult uses a singular to-be verb with a plural subject.
GWB came across as a little man, trapped somewhere so that he couldn't hurt himself or others. Even his parents were unimpressed.
I swear the applause had all the genuineness of a 1960s-era sitcom laugh track. Either the delegates are well-trained automatons who start and stop their applause within 0.1 seconds of the "APPLAUSE" light going on or off, or the Republicans can't afford a modern applause-generating machine.
Eerie.
Well, there it is; Bush at his best.... a cheerleader.
dbvill @ 18:
hahahahahahahahahahaha. It's not just me, then...You should hear about his hardon for Laura, the presidunce's missus.
listen to the canned laugh at 8:05 when the "you have traded up" joke is rolled out one more time.
dennis @ 11:
I gotta tell you, dennis, sometimes I am pretty sure you are, in truth, a dyed-in-the-wool, storm-troopin' democrat who comes here just to hold up the target gloves for us. Keep us limber and sharp. Foo foo foo! Five more miles! Come on, you guys! Double-time!
Thanks, man.
;)
Shellemilyrose @ 10:
One can only hope.
Letterman is ripping the Republicans apart tonight! He said, "this running for president thing is ruining john mccain."
Shellemilyrose @ 20:
Duh. That would be a take on a direct quote from Chimpy McFlight suit.
What we have learned from The Deflect and Change the Subject Convention thus far and time alloted for each:
50% - John McCain's was a POW
10% - Pretending Reagan was a greater president than he was then having to go back over 150 years to find a truly good Repubican president, Lincoln.
5% - Bush 41 at the convention in person being tribute to and applauded as if he was the president the last 8 years
5% - Bush 43 in Cheney's undisclosed location via satellite feed reminding America that we wished he wasn't president the last 8 years.
10% - Pretending Palin was not a huge mistake
5% - Reminding voters we dodged a bullet when Frederick of Hollywood wasn't the nominee.
0% - Economic solutions
5% - Laura Bush makes a better Joker than Heath Ledger or Jack Nicholson.
10% - If you're not a Republican you don't put your country first
dennis @ 11:
Indeed, history in the making. A direct quote from the captain of the Titanic as they set sail for the New World I believe..
Shellemilyrose @ 10:
didn't the bible say only 100,000 people would be rapptured?
BTW Our constitution is not a christian document, and thus, we are not a christian nation
Chris Matthews just let Rep. Heather Wilson lie about Joe Lieberman being our Vice Presidential candidate FOUR years ago. She said it twice and Chris with his ugly hair didn't correct her. How stupid can these people be. I hope you get the video up of that shit. Fucking LIES.
Did they resurrect Ronald Reagan yet?
dennis @ 11:
Why didn't he keep us safe FROM 911?
Don't forget they didn't air this on Network TV either!
Black_Knight @ 36:
Haven't you been banned here, too?
Shellemilyrose @ 10:
Are you serious?
Judging by the relatively small number of comments both bush threads have received here on C&L, it's pretty clear no one gives a shit about him.
dennis@11
"...Kept our nation safe from terrorism after 9/11 attacks"
Of course, you do realize that BEFORE Fearless Flightsuit became 'preznit', that there had not been a foreign attack on American soil since Pearl Harbor (Dec. 7, 1941). Thus, the argument could be made that GWB is a colossal screw-up for allowing the only attack in over half a century, and one he was pre-warned about as well.
Never understood why that isn't brought up more.
I wonder what this "new Roosevelt" will select as his motto: "Talk out of both sides of your face and carry a big woody"
Had to read the text too. If I never hear the ookookook from that ratzenfratzen chimpanzee's banana hole, it'll be too soon.
Stunning endorsement of Palin. I make it one line.
Near the end.
Miatch @ 32 - correction, the bible says 144,000 jews would be branded by God's angels to teach and lead those who come to Jesus AFTER the rapture. Close though, but close doesn't count. But nice try.
bubba @ 34:
They are going to lower his mummified corpse from the ceiling and make it dance for the finale, at which point they will all strip down and bite each other to near-death in an orgy of GOP-style troop supportin'.
(good gosh, is that canned cheer for Bush the same one every time? Is it my imagination or does it start and stop totally on cue? Bwaahahaha! These guys...lucky for them the bulk of the MSM works for them. So embarrassing...)
Always follow the money... Palin's tie in with Senator Stevens:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080903/ap_on_el_pr/cvn_palin;_ylt=AjsnJugUu...
Campaign money hurts Palin's outsider image
WASHINGTON - GOP vice presidential pick Sarah Palin accepted at least $4,500 in campaign contributions in the same fundraising scheme at the center of a public corruption scandal that led to the indictment of Sen. Ted Stevens.
The contributions, made during Palin's failed 2002 bid to become Alaska's lieutenant governor, were not illegal for her to accept. But they show how Palin, a self-proclaimed reformer who has bucked Stevens and his allies, is nonetheless a product of a political system in Alaska now under the cloud of an ongoing FBI investigation.
Worse than Rev. Wright..........
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13098.html
Shellemilyrose @ 43:
Oh please, ya'll....please don't turn this into another argument about the finer points of a fairy tale used to scare children. These threads get silly enough as it is.
lolz
Gotta love how Bush's canned speech from the jumbotron (which wasn't half as exciting as the one he did on DEAL OR NO DEAL) he railed about reversing the evil offshore drilling ban...which was brought in by his own father! I can't believe George Bush Sr. didn't at least get a CUTAWAY shot for that.
palin's husband Todd was a Registered member of Alaska
Independence Party until 2002.
this party is famous for secessionist Alaska
they hate the u.s. government don't respect the flag
apparently there are witnesses that sarah was at there
convention
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/09/todd_palin_was_registe...
Excuse me, but Bush started by saying he couldn't be at the convention because he was monitoring the hurricane progress. 3years ago the man was cutting birthday cake with McCain when people were dying, today he is monitoring a CAT 2 hurricane that did minimal damage. Anyone else think this was dumb on his part.
Shellemilyrose @ 43:
Thanks for filling me in. I guess this isn't the place for a religious conversation, but I never really understood how I could go some place physically, that does not physically exist. Or do you think Heaven has a physical location in the universe, that my body could be placed in? eh, don't bother. I getter better reasons to laugh at you today.
Dennis @11
I believe the correct comparison would be Warren Harding.
Uppity @ 47
I gave him credit for trying; at leas the knows some element of the prophecy. It might profit you to learn it for yourself, at least when you debate myself or someone like myself, you'd have something substantive to debate with. I appreciate your brotherly love though, thanks so much.
God bless you.
Pericles @ 48:
President Bush literally phoned it in!
Peter G @ 15:
I'd say the "demostrations" in front of the RNC are a sign.
One name: Orson Swindle.
Two Personalities: LIEberman's a Democrat again.
Now there is a video i will never watch.
That audio is dubbed! They probably paid the DNC for some of their audio. HAHAHAHA this convention is awful and did you see dubya's parent's...How proud they must be...Anything anyone says is POW this POW that POW, POW, POW. Palin can't keep her house under control how in the hell is she going to step in as POTUS after Mc....wait they can't win, that just won't happen...
Ruthless People @ 6:
Personally i am not complaining.
dennis @ 11:
What the HELL do the doctors have you on now?
dennis @ 11:
Yes... you Bush-McSame Republicons have indeed left quite a legacy...
President Clinton said it best at the convention and made the choice abundantly clear...
Now he could have gone on and talked about the millions of home foreclosures and the meltdown of the financial sector that McSame's financial adviser Phil "foreclosure" Gramm played an integral role in but he didn't
I thought I'd share some more of the Bush-McCain legacy for America in some headlines that I collected in the last two weeks...
Foreclosures Surged 36% in August, Report Says
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/18/realestate/18foreclose.html
July incomes drop by largest amount in 3 years
WASHINGTON (AP) — Personal incomes plunged in July while consumer spending slowed significantly as the impact of billions of dollars in government rebate checks began to wane.
The Commerce Department reported Friday that personal incomes fell by 0.7 percent in July, the biggest drop in nearly three years and a far larger decline than the 0.1 percent decrease that analysts had expected.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jsanM66tszKz1zFq0LOG4XvWS7zAD92RV0M00
Consumer Spending in U.S. Slowed in July as Prices Rose Most in 17 Years
U.S. Economy: Spending Slows, Inflation Accelerates
Aug. 29 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. consumer spending grew at a slower pace in July as the impact of the tax rebates faded and a pickup in inflation eroded Americans' buying power.
Purchases rose 0.2 percent, one-third the pace in June, the Commerce Department said today in Washington, while prices surged the most in 17 years.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=ave9IW1bnaLI&refer=home
FDIC Adds Office Space in Dallas, Ready for More Bank Failures
Aug. 28 (Bloomberg) -- The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is preparing to sign a five-year lease to add five floors of space at its Dallas regional office as the agency prepares to increase scrutiny of failing and troubled U.S. banks.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a4CHPudHiwIs
Thrifts Posted $5.4 Billion Loss in Second Quarter
Aug. 27 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. savings and loans posted a $5.4 billion loss in the second quarter as lenders set aside record reserves for loan losses amid the slump in the housing market, the industry's regulator said.
Provisions for bad loans reached $14 billion, helping to extend industry losses to a third straight quarter, the Treasury's Office of Thrift Supervision said today in Washington. A list of ``problem thrifts'' increased 42 percent from the first quarter to the second, the agency said.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=arGyBsJhLMXI
U.S. Says Banks on `Problem List' Rose 30% in Quarter
Aug. 26 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said its ``problem list'' of banks increased 30 percent in the second quarter to the highest total in five years as more commercial real-estate loans were overdue.
The list had 117 banks as of June 30, up from 90 in the first quarter and the highest since mid-2003, the agency said today in its quarterly report without naming any institutions. FDIC-insured lenders reported net income of $4.96 billion, down 87 percent from $36.8 billion in the same quarter a year ago.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=afbiu39eNA4E
Yeah Dennis... that is quite a legacy and you think the Bimbo from the tundra is going to mean jack shit to the people who are hurt by your Republican legacy????... Rrrrrrriiiiight!
Miatch @ 51, the bible says that laughter doth the soul good like a medicine - so on that note, I am glad that you have found a reason to laugh - it brings joy to my heart.
In regards to the "religious conversation;" it is quite adequate since besides a disagreement in policy, many here at crooksandliars also disagree with Bush on religion as well. And the very policies that some oppose are guided be religious beliefs. You can't talk about the origin of raisins without discussing grapes, nor can you discuss the origin of prunes without discussing plums.
Without sarcasm, I did want to thank you for debating me in a respectfully intelligent and mature manner. You are a credit to whatever party you take membership in.
God bless you.
Shellemilyrose @ 53:
Sister, we will deadlock on every debate on scripture or whatever every time, because you will quote it back to me verbatim and I will go, "If you say so. I'll take your word that it says what you say it says".
But if you actually want to debate a topic that isn't in the ol' Wrath of God bailiwick, I'd be happy to bandy it about and learn something and maybe even get a chance to teach you something. Just in case it isn't clear: we haven't debated anything yet (and we may not. I gotta do some side work tonight).
But you have to believe me when I say:
I am not interested in reading about your religion here, ok? Thanks for the blessing and all, but let that be the width and breadth of the topic as far as lil' Bonkers is concerned.
mcBush:
war
no-bid contracts
torture
inflation
signing statements
stacked DOJ
filibuster
veto
deficit
tax breaks for the rich
corporate bail outs
missing white house e-mails
Tim @ 9:
I agree completely. The thunderous applause @ 3:26 definitely struck me as odd. It was a jerk-off throw-away line by Bush, but the audience seemed to respond as if it was this grand political statement.
I wouldn't be surprised if most of (or all of) the applause was piped in. There's very few crowd shots at all, let alone shots that would match the applause we hear.
Tim @ 9:
I agree, I wouldn't have come to the comments section but, after 4 minutes of my ears burning from the sound of this man's voice and the s*&$ spewing from his mouth, all I could hear was this fake "Friends" sitcom applause while the camera pans over a calm
crowd.... what's up with that?
constituent @ 64:
It is much much worse than that.
The audio is definitely tweaked.If not canned, there are specific areas of the room, which are mixed in hotter, that creates a greater sense of enthusiasm, the mic placement, and mic sounds much more "specific" than one would get from a large venue, all equally jubilant
Good get to those who heard the inconsistencies!
DAMN! I heard a faint refrain of that man in the back of my head.... "..evil-doers.."
What is the cure? HELP!! I need to wash my ears out with some... uhh... HELP!!!!!!!
I think that Bush prerecorded this. A lot of you are commenting on how artificial it all seems.
I think that's because they built in applause pauses and they are either piping in applause or the notoriously disciplined repubs are stopping/starting per the director's (Karl Rove) orders....
I can't think why they call McCain "special" when he couldn't even beat George in 2000. What does that say?
"In the time the Oval Office has been in my trust, I have kept near my desk reminders of America’s character – including a painting of a West Texas mountain lit by the morning sun. It reminds me that Americans have always lived on the sunrise side of the mountain."
Ok...Can anyone name a mountain in Texas that is a must see? The man is in the Oval Office and has to keep REMINDERS of America's character near his desk? The desk that he rarely sits at because he is usually at his ranch in Crawford, Texas. A desk that many presidents have sat at throughout America's history; yet, a painting of a mountain lit by the morning sun in west Texas reminds him of America's character.
It sure must be a prized possession that is one of a kind. Something tells me it is one of those successory pictures with a slogan about character.
xoites defends Constitution @ 60:
Sarah McPalin: "She’s the only nominee in the history of either party who knows how to properly field dress a moose.”
"The angry left?!?" Oh puhleeeeeeeeeease....
Way too long a speech.All he needed to say was-John McCain.A noun,a verb and P.O.W.
Watching the repubs go down in flames sure is fun. Dubya is so toxic he has to be isolated like Ebola virus.
And did you see what Cindy was wearing? Time for a fashion consultant, dahling. Ditch the cutesie little sleeves. And the hideous wristwatch too. Don't even get me started on the little red number that she wore on Sunday with the hot-pink arm sling. The horrors of it all.
dennis @ 73:
Well if you don't know i think you should ask them.
dennis @ 11:
Dennis, you cling to ideology, and it's not compatible with reality.
As depressing as reality has become under Republicans, we must face it to change it. It's not always easy, like right now, with Bush speaking for 9 minutes.
I couldn't listen to more than a minute. And politicizing Gustav should have been expected, considering the worst response in U.S. history to a national disaster. But I simply cannot stand the sound of that mans voice. Its the sound of everything that is wrong with the world
sawtooth @ 71:
Hey, he knows how to win wars, just ask him.
"Oh, and did you hear the canned Chuck Berry music in the background after Frederick of Hollywood spoke? Embarrassing."
Have you ever watched a NASCAR race? They LOVE corny fake shit. see also: monster truck shows, pro 'rasslin, bible, etc.
chris [not the troll] @ 80:
Hey! Those monster trucks are real!
I know we've all discussed this before, but whenever I hear this asshole speak, I am amazed at how low we have set the bar for being the president of the most powerful country on the planet.
I cannot believe that 33% of the population (100 million people!) approve of the job this incompetent ass wipe has done!
Vomit.
*
xoites defends Constitution @ 81:
Yes, but they pretend to race them...
Well..after reading this wonderful blog, I am so reminded as to the intellect of the nation...damn, you people don;t really have to act like the cattle that the democrats treat you as. Grow a brain, learn, educate yourselves. Doing as you are told, following the moron in front of you, as the jump off the cliff, ay be your way of saying "I am a well educated, intellictual American", but I have news for you....your full of yourself, and you need a good bowel movement. Open your eyes, and don't be mislead by those that would want you to believe that more government is the answer, we have prospered, by the strengths of this great nation, not by our weakness'....now for those of you who have need to go break ot the dictionary o read a good portion of this....I am very happy that you have finally made it to the end. Don't put the book down, use it to disseminate the rhetoric that eloquent, well groomed, slick talking people might want you to believe, but don't do it......think for yourself.....as Sen. Thompson stated, "who do you trust to run the nation?"
A twenty-one year-old reader writes:
There's one salient reason why people of my age are supporting Obama and that's because we feel that Obama will finally show us what it means to be proud of our president.
I read more than I should about politics and US history and am always confused as to how Americans can love their president so. Intellectually I understand why Americans love(d) Lincoln and the Roosevelts but I never felt why they did.
Andrew, people my age are too young to remember Bill Clinton. All we have is George W. Bush. The office of the President to us is a mockery. We don't link President Bush to concepts such as leader, we link it to ignorance and idiocy. Most people my age have never felt proud of our President. We grew up on the Daily Show, we only know how to make fun of him and mock him.
Read the rest. It's worth it.
willie @ 13:
No, he kept his promise! He promise the survivor that he will not let them(rescue worker)down to the ashes and recover the body.
You have to think like Bush and read between the line. Sometimes he let his inside voice finish the sentence.
bubba @ 34:
they're taking the same approach to gay rights as they do to this one... public disdain for science while conducting secret experiments on tissue reanimation at bus station bathrooms... ;-)
notoneofyoucattle @ 85:
lol... certainly NOT the rethuglicans... and that is precisely because democrats can think whereas every staunch repug just falls in line to tell everyone with strained faces that palin wasn't a marketing decision in the same spirit of spitting in the public's face as bush has been setting new standards for....