Bush is not Stupid

How correct you are!

Destabilizing the country, the presidency, dissolving our laws and borders, looting the treasury--it may make him look stupid to some, but to me, it looks as if things are proceeding along nicely for his nibs and his globalist backers.
And he fancies himself a thespian--and has already admitted that "catapultin' the propaganda" is his "job."
The people who fell for his cowboy rope tricks are the dumbleheads--now he's got America hanging by a thread--just as he/they planned from the start.

I agree - Bush is sly and conniving and most certainly not stupid.
Nobody who can fight their way to the top of a barrel full apes can be stupid.

then again, if i found myself surrounded by guys who were all wearing t-shirts that said "i'm with stupid", and i had on a tie... i can't believe he's an evil genius when cheney's the gorilla in the room.

remember - he doesn't even read the papers. he has the people who make the news tell him what's happening. goes to bed at 9pm.

evil geniuses don't go to bed at 9pm.

'nuff said.

I was always told to follow the money if you want to find out who is behind something, well, he is making money, he must know something. Besides, I never claimed genius status, hell I figured it out and i'm not trying too hard.

BERLIN (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush told a German newspaper his best moment in more than five years in office was catching a big perch in his own lake.

"You know, I've experienced many great moments and it's hard to name the best," Bush told weekly Bild am Sonntag when asked about his high point since becoming president in January 2001.

"I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7.5 pound perch in my lake," he told the newspaper in an interview published on Sunday.

Assalam u Allaikum brothers and sisters

1) he presided over the biggest energy crisis in U.S.history and refused to intervene when corruption involving the oil industry was revealed.
2) hechanged the U.S.policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts.
3) he created the Ministry of Homeland Security, the largest bureaucracy in the history of the United States government.
4) he is the first President in U.S.history to have the United Nations remove the U.S.from the Human Rights Commission.
5) he garnered the most sympathy for theU.S. after theWorld Trade Center attacks and less than a year later made the U.S.the most hated country in the world, the largest failure of diplomacy in world history.
6) he has set the all time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously protest me in public venues (15 million people), shattering the record for protest against any person in the history of mankind.

He is not evil genius rather evil to any society.

Regards

Tyler, I agree that we should not let his ignorance serve as an excuse. I think of him as somewhere inbetween. I don't believe for a second he has the intelligence to run this country, or to even comprehend most of what is happening. On the other end, I believe he is capable of understanding how wrong it is to sit in that position and allow the people around him to destroy this country to enable hiis friends and family in their quest for power and money. I think he is as guilty as those who plotted the mess.

I agree!!





Sandy, you have a little spit-up on your chin...

Tyler,
I agree he is not stupid.. He IS however totally inept and functionning like he is God's agent. That in itself is very dangerous! He needs to be held accountable I could not agree more. He should be turned over to the ineternational Criminal court in the Hague for international judgement. That should be his path he chose it and he made it and now he needs to be held 100% accountable.He has defied the UN, World Opinion and his own countries wishes. He is responsible for the negligent genocide in New Orleans and the gulf coast. as you said the list goes on and on.

Bush is the smoke screen designed to keep the focus off the people who are really running the show. He's being used. He knows he's being used. He'll be well compensated for allowing himself to be used, and he's perfectly happy with that. Does any of that get him off the hook for the crap that's been going on? Nah. When/if they all go down, he's certainly gonna go down with them.

As to the man's intelligence; he's just about smart enough to recognize that there are a bunch of people around him who can make things happen and if he plays his cards right he'll get to go along and enjoy the ride. He's a well-trained organ grinder's monkey.

His command of English is so bad that he can rarely express any ideas other than those that were scripted for long ago and he's been practicing for six years now. When he does get an idea out, it's absolutely ludicrous (and because of the import of his position, highly offensive). Case in point, the thing with the fish that Martin pointed out above. The way one of our local morning DJs put it: We now know that, in Bush's mind, the WTC attack and catching a fish are of equal importance. He paraphrased it like this (and very poignantly, I think), "Sure you have bad days... when terrorists attack and destroy the Twin Towers, but then you have good days when you catch a big fish, to balance it all out."

The man is a dunce. He's just got some really savvy handlers...

In other words: I believe the man IS stupid. The only thing for which I give him credit is KNOWING that he's stupid, and realizing that he was socially positioned in such a way that he could actually profit from his stupidity. The rest of the story is just follow-through...

George Bush has written in more than twice as many signature statements than all the Presidents combined to add his little "except me" statements about laws. He is taking advantage of all loopholes possible; very conniving, not particularly stupid.

Also, saying he equates fishing to 9/11 doesn't make him stupid, it makes him an asshole.

At least we all agree he sucks as a president, so no hard feelings.

I don't know exactly what to think--the arguments on both sides of the question of his intelligence are convincing here. I just wish there were a good way to make that fish quote stick to him, some way to rearrange the words into a saying that catches the public mind and hooks him forever. I think what we all want more than anything is a change for the better, for the good of our country and our planet, irregardless of his cunning or his cunning stupidity.

His handlers are not stupid. His family is not stupid, and they've been doing evil things behind the scenes in this country and around the world as part of the intelligence community for many, many years. One of his family members - grandfather or great-grandfather, I forget which - helped finance Hitler, you know.

Whether he personally is stupid, I'm not sure. If he's not, he does a very good imitation of stupid. I think maybe they have him on some serious drugs, actually.

The only thing I agree with him on is the national anthem. Not from a jingoistic point of view, but an historical point of view. Example- 1820's Mexico let the Norte-americanos come and keep their culture and language. Soon Mexico lost the modern day American Southwest. A NATIONAL Anthem is just that, a celebration of a nation in it's own language and culture.

From the National Anthem -"Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, / And this be our motto: "In God is our trust." " Is that what are culture is all about? Conquering and God? Remember, conquering is imperialism, not humanitarian. You also say "Mexico lost the modern day American Southwest" but the people living there didn't move, nor did they convert their culture, or language, because the borders changed.

He may not read newspapers. He may not read - period. He may have been just a partying, stuck-up, rich frat boy in college who had trouble maintaining a C average. But I agree with the author; he's not stupid. Ignorance is a convenient defense.

Saw the Enron movie recently and their business practices and the Bush crew's methods are very similar. Waiting for the crash.

James F. makes an interesting comment, but I don't know if it holds up very well historically. Mexico lost more than the modern American southwest; it lost half its country when an American expeditionary force landed in Veracruz, marched inland and took the capitol, forcing Mexico to sign the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, in which for a paltry payment, we took half what may have been the best half of their country. The year was 1848, and one could make a case that Mexican immigrants are simply reclaiming their own country, and more. In fact, this trend has been characterized as nothing less than the "reconquista" in Mexico. The effects of the things we allow our politicians to do now will play out in consequences for hundreds of years to come. Stupid or conniving, will it matter as our ancestors struggle to deal with the future?

U.S. Grant, a hero of that conflict considered it an unjust invasion of a soviergn nation, driven by slave interests. The reconquest of the former Mexican territory is a real political reality today. And all for a few cents a share in cheap labor. Viva conservative capitalism, not.

Interesting point, Gerry.

Sam,

I didn't know about the connection to slave interests. How exactly did that work? Another way the consequences of our actions ring down through the years!

That was Grant's contention. The postioning of American troops in Mexican territory was done to provoke attack and the "justified" response. It was a set up and, in his contention, was promoted by slave states to expand slavery, create more slave states with the end of influencing the majority controll of the government.

Sam, the settlers in California hoisted a bear flag and declared a republic, outlawing slavery in their constitution. John C Fremont, an abolishionist, is believed to have whipped up the settlers into a fervor to sieze the state. US Marines rode inland from Montery on the coast and arrested the bear flag leaders, and released Genl Vallejo from jail, he signed the state over to the US as a protectorate. (the anti=slavery law statyed. Rsanchewrs in the south of the state were already enslaving Indians that had left the missions, as this was allowed under martial law imposed by Vallejo, Pico, and Moraga. California being a free state through the seesaw balance off kilter.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but entering the War for Mexican land can still be driven by slave intrests even if that idea failed in the end. Don't be fooled by talk of "civilizing" and "Manifest Destiny", they covered a good deal of slave dealings.

"The war had been widely supported by Democrats, and opposed by Whigs. Many Northern abolitionists attacked the war as an attempt by the slave-owners to expand slavery and assure their continued influence in the Federal government. Henry David Thoreau wrote his essay Civil Disobedience and refused to pay taxes because of this war. Former president John Quincy Adams also expressed his belief that the war was an effort to expand slavery. In 1846, Democratic Congressman David Wilmot introduced the Wilmot Proviso to prohibit slavery in any new territory acquired from Mexico. Wilmot's proposal did not pass, but it sparked further hostility between the factions." - wikipedia

It did not pass for what reason? Pro-slavery balance.

How long will it take to bring this criminal to justice? What amazes me even more is how many people would call this a conspiracy and just refuse to believe it. The American people have been dupped again!

Hear, hear! This is a man who openly admitted that enacting safety measures at the nation's airports after 9/11 would be easier if America were a dictatorship - provided he gets to be the dictator. The press did not give him even a fraction of the evisceration he deserved for that! Everything he has done since then has been moving our country in that terrible direction. He has been trying very hard to solidify as much power as possible in the executive branch, preaching about his Christianity all the way. If he hasn't read his Aristotle, then Karl Rove has. Aristotle pointed out that a leader who is deeply religious - or acts like he is - is not somebody anybody wants to mess with. He also posits that people are more willing to put up with otherwise intolerable treatment at the hands of a religious man than one who isn't because he is seen as inherently more "righteous," and at any rate, is seen to have God (or in Aristotle's case, the gods) on his side. Hence, the use of the Religious Right. I have no problem with people being whatever religion they want, but our founding fathers insisted on a separation between church and state for a very good reason. See the Federalist Paper for details.

Furthermore, with every security catastrophe that occurs, more and more people are increasingly willing to give up their freedoms to feel a little safer. This terrifies me, and I can't imagine why it doesn't terrify the entire nation. Our founding fathers declared that anybody willing to give up their freedoms for a little safety deserve neither.

Bush's imputed ignorance and stupidity is what, regrettably, make him seem more "accessible" to the greater number of Americans. I lament this and what it says about the underlying anti-intellectualism in this country noted by Alexis deToqueville so many years ago, and which has only grown so much stronger since then. This is what made him a star, as an "average Joe." It's his angle, and what garners the votes. Basically, it's just pandering. He was a party-boy, more likely to swat people on the bum with a moist towel than pose a philosophical question for discussion in college, but underneath that superficial exterior lies a man who wants to change our nation into something it's never been before, and he has surrounded himself with people with a proven track record to make it happen, if they're put in the right places. That exterior is what keeps people from seeing the truth about him, and it's what enables him to act while everybody's busy not taking him seriously. I only hope he'll run out of time before he can finish what he's started, and I fervently hope he pays for what he's done. There's so much damage to undo, and I can only hope again that it's not too late for us.