Banned Bush Interview from 2004

[Fermented Yeast Paste]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ben-cohen/bushs-banned-interview-an_b_111804.html

Oh dear. Cognitive dissonance, anyone?

Anyone?

[Roxie]

I can't hear you, it's too loud!

[Beowulf]

I can't hear you, it's too loud!
Now can I finish? Can I answer the question? I mean can I finish speaking? I just wanna finish. Lets have you ask questions and me answer them ok?

[h2orowe]

I like how she was in the middle of telling him something, he interrupts to say something when she was talking, she continues, and he goes "Can I finish?"

[akitaka]

If there wasn't a camera, it probably would have looked more like this, in the end:

http://www.b12partners.net/mt/images/bushsuckerpunch.gif

[blank slate]

Wow, just wow.

[Mastiker]

You can tell he loves the sound of his voice. This is getting too painful to listen to and I'm only a few minutes in...

[Samurai_Pooh]

"my job is to do my job"

o rly?

[Jetsetlemming]

I hate it when people describe something as "Banned" when it's not really banned. Banned is a way overused word these days tbh

[Plekto]

I prefer relegated-to-obscurity-because-nobody-really-cares-any-more-since-the-divot-heads-in-Congress-aren't-going-to-actually-do-anything-to-him-let-alone-press-charges-because-they-all-lack-a-single-pair-between-the-lot-of-them-and-he-is-going-to-be-a-lame-duck-in-a-couple-of-months-anyways-so-the-press-just-wants-to-forget-this-waste-of-flesh-as-soon-as-possible.

[japanat]

How about the I'm-gonna-advocate-something-that'll-never-happen-and-is-totally-unrealistic-instead-of-doing-something-constructive?

I don't like George W., never have, didn't vote for him. But the simple fact is that although the 2000 election is definitely disputable, he was re-elected, by a wide margin, in 2004. And the entire Congress jumped on the Patriot Act bandwagon (except for 1 or 2 who actually thought about the ramifications). Not to make light of those who died, but we were successfully attacked at home for the first time (what amazed me is how well the security services did until that time, foiling every attack up to that point but the World Trade Center bombing in the '90s) and Americans went absolutely bugaboo. I find it hard to believe that the majority of the changes we've seen at the airport do pretty much anything at all to make us safer.

Re: the interview. I actually thought that was a pretty good interview for Bush. Sure, he sounded cocky, overconfident, and upset that she was daring to question him. But he didn't sound mental. The "Let me finish answering your question" might even have been acceptable, if it happened only once or twice. After that it just looked like he had something to hide, and was unable to explain himself succinctly.

[MNJetter]

2001 was not in the 90's :P

[h2orowe]

2001 was not in the 90's :P
He was referring to this, I believe. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTC_bombing

[Citizen]

I prefer relegated-to-obscurity-because-nobody-really-cares-any-more-since-the-divot-heads-in-Congress-aren't-going-to-actually-do-anything-to-him-let-alone-press-charges-because-they-all-lack-a-single-pair-between-the-lot-of-them-and-he-is-going-to-be-a-lame-duck-in-a-couple-of-months-anyways-so-the-press-just-wants-to-forget-this-waste-of-flesh-as-soon-as-possible.

Isn't he already a lame duck?

2001 was not in the 90's

Hahaha, oh wow.


As for the interview, I agree with japanat. It's not a good interview, but it's nothing to raise a fuss over either.

[Candyvan Stan]

I'm by no means a fan of Bush at all (nor against him - I don't really care what's going on in the USA), but I don't think he did horrible in this interview. He just comes across as person who is naturally very uncharismatic, and had to work hard at it to make his point in interviews like these.

Had you asked me questions in a setting like that about topics I'm far more knowledgeable about than he is of the things he is talking about - I'd have probably performed much worse and come across as a complete idiot. Then again, I'm not leading a country yet.

[MNJetter]

Whoops, I completely forgot about that one. :box:

Meh. I was eleven at the time. Too young to pay attention much when it happened, and not young enough for it to have been in my history books in high school. :P

[Trump]

he was re-elected, by a wide margin, in 2004.


Umm... what?

Electoral Vote 286 to 252 = 53% for Bush
Popular Vote 62,028,285 to 59,028,109 = 50.7% to 48.3%

There was a 2.4% difference in the popular vote.
How is that a wide margin?
Granted all you ever hear is "OMG I have a mandate! Everyone loves me!!" but that just proves they are all mentally retarded.

[japanat]

Umm... what?

Electoral Vote 286 to 252 = 53% for Bush
Popular Vote 62,028,285 to 59,028,109 = 50.7% to 48.3%

There was a 2.4% difference in the popular vote.
How is that a wide margin?
Granted all you ever hear is "OMG I have a mandate! Everyone loves me!!" but that just proves they are all mentally retarded.But the popular vote is immaterial, hence 2000, no? And even though my numbers may have been slightly exaggerated, the fact remains that he was re-elected.

I don't know if it's because I've been overseas throughout all of this, but I never understood the urgency to give up all our rights to the Neo-Con boneheads after the attacks. It was like the earlier attacks such as the USS Cole, Beirut, etc had never happened and the World Trade Center happened in a high-tech vacuum. It was a balls-up, to be sure, but the intelligence services even had files on all the major players.

But in the months following the attack, Americans (or their politicians) were handing up their rights to things like the Patriot Act without even a whimper, and the supposedly leftist press didn't say a thing either. Friggin' bandwagon to hell...