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X-Ray-Spex
I'd start you all off but I've got nothing...
TapDuncan
He practially gauranteed us the WH, The House and the Senate next year.
gutterballz
zero


adamquestor
Well, he woke people up; much the same way as Adolf Hitler did....

brotherdavid
Can't think of anything before January 20, 2009, when the Shrubuehrer leaves for Paraguay.

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egghead
He provides lots and lots of fodder for comedians!!

Yeah, baby!!
Fellixe
He killed a lot of myths the Republicans had about what would be possible if they had a President who would let them do what he has tried to do.
X-Ray-Spex
Excellent responses...

Oh Kay I've got one.

He has permanently dispelled the myth that Republicans are fiscal conservatives.
GCurry
QUOTE (adamquestor @ Jun 26 2008, 12:07 PM) *
Well, he woke people up; much the same way as Adolf Hitler did....

That's the first think I thought of ...
Seeker1
He's helped convince the pretzel industry to make safer products. wink.gif

carmenjonze
QUOTE (Seeker1 @ Jun 26 2008, 01:37 PM) *
He's helped convince the pretzel industry to make safer products. wink.gif


And probably sent the Segway engineers back to the drawing board.
pestone
Gave us the Bush Backwards Countdown Clock?

OK, so he didn't give it to us. But he inspired it.

Oh, wait! He gave us a benchmark to compare any future crappy President against!
GregC
The Worlds Greatest Liar is soft on terror

Randys
I will be forever grateful I have not had to look at flag draped coffins every night on the evening news...
Christine
He cured a LOT of people from voting republican!
gutterballz
he caused my anut and uncle to switch parties biggrin.gif
Motor-City
he got a lot of people politicaly active; writing their representatives, marching in protests, running for office, writing letters to the newspaper ect. he had to openly torture kill and imprison innocent people, carryout a terrorist attack on iraq, loot the treasury, destroy the American economy and military, kill and maim tens of thousands of our soldiers, and hundreds of thousands of iraqi's to do it, but he did get people active.
X-Ray-Spex
QUOTE (Randys @ Jun 26 2008, 03:54 PM) *
I will be forever grateful I have not had to look at flag draped coffins every night on the evening news...



That one's a double edged sword Randys.
I'm glad I didn't have to see that every night too but we really should have.
The ploy was to desensitize the public by forbidding the media to show dead bloody bodies and flag draped coffins. It worked. Out of sight = Out of mind.
Randys
QUOTE (X-Ray-Spex @ Jun 26 2008, 03:23 PM) *

That one's a double edged sword Randys.
I'm glad I didn't have to see that every night too but we really should have.
The ploy was to desensitize the public by forbidding the media to show dead bloody bodies and flag draped coffins. It worked. Out of sight = Out of mind.

was being sarcastic, thought about saying

"because i sure as hell wouldnt want to have to watch that and then american idol, woulda ruined my fun time"
IVEATCH
He signed the designation creating the World's largest Marine National Park ................

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...6061402455.html

Hawaiian Marine Reserve To Be World's Largest
Bush to Designate National Park in Pacific Waters

By Juliet Eilperin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, June 15, 2006; Page A01

President Bush plans to designate an island chain spanning nearly 1,400 miles of the Pacific northwest of Hawaii as a national monument today, creating the largest protected marine reserve in the world, according to sources familiar with the plan.

Establishing the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands as a strictly protected marine reserve, which Bush is slated to announce this afternoon, could prove to be the administration's most enduring environmental legacy. The roughly 100-mile-wide area encompasses a string of uninhabited islands that support more than 7,000 marine species, at least a fourth of which are found nowhere else on Earth.


Best Regards,
ctrl-z
He's made every other President look better.
X-Ray-Spex
QUOTE (ctrl-z @ Jun 26 2008, 07:21 PM) *
He's made every other President look better.



Good One! clap.gif
X-Ray-Spex
QUOTE (IVEATCH @ Jun 26 2008, 06:46 PM) *
He signed the designation creating the World's largest Marine National Park ................

Best Regards,



So what's the catch? There has to be a catch. Does he get to drill for oil or what?
This president's motto is "Not for Nothing" so what does he get?
IVEATCH
He gets a strictly protected marine reserve?

And how about the leadership of Libya deciding that it was no longer in their best national interest to pursue weapons of mass destruction? Does the President get credit for tht one?

Best,



Alildotonearth
QUOTE (X-Ray-Spex @ Jun 26 2008, 02:50 PM) *
I'd start you all off but I've got nothing...


Ah come on, the Comedian-in-Chief has vastly entertained the populus, the world.

An Arab said to us, George Bush goes to Heaven
At the gate he is asked to prove he is George Bush
He says I am George Bush
Man is not sure but he sees Einstein near the gate in Heaven
So the man says, who is that person standing over there
George Bush says I don't know
The man says, This must be George Bush

ba-bump.
X-Ray-Spex
QUOTE (IVEATCH @ Jun 26 2008, 09:59 PM) *
He gets a strictly protected marine reserve?

I ain't buyin' it.

And how about the leadership of Libya deciding that it was no longer in their best national interest to pursue weapons of mass destruction? Does the President get credit for tht one?

Best,



I'm absolutely sure ol' president dunderhead the diplomat had all and everything to do with bringing that about...absolutely.
With his charming way of speaking to heads of state and all. He can be quite eloquent I've heard.

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RandiLover
QUOTE (IVEATCH @ Jun 26 2008, 04:46 PM) *
He signed the designation creating the World's largest Marine National Park ................

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...6061402455.html

Hawaiian Marine Reserve To Be World's Largest
Bush to Designate National Park in Pacific Waters

By Juliet Eilperin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, June 15, 2006; Page A01

President Bush plans to designate an island chain spanning nearly 1,400 miles of the Pacific northwest of Hawaii as a national monument today, creating the largest protected marine reserve in the world, according to sources familiar with the plan.

Establishing the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands as a strictly protected marine reserve, which Bush is slated to announce this afternoon, could prove to be the administration's most enduring environmental legacy. The roughly 100-mile-wide area encompasses a string of uninhabited islands that support more than 7,000 marine species, at least a fourth of which are found nowhere else on Earth.


Best Regards,


Being that it is a national park, and thanks to the repugs, it is now LEGAL to mine there now.
IVEATCH
The sarcasm concerning the speaking eloquence is deserved by the current holder of the Oval Office. I think that it was more of the President's Bad Cop actions around the time of the beginning of the Iraqi and Afghanistan wars that allowed the U.S. State department's Good Cops to convince The Libyans that it was in their best interests to come clean and drop expensive and unproductive weapons programs.

Best Regards,

RandiLover
QUOTE (IVEATCH @ Jun 26 2008, 07:59 PM) *
He gets a strictly protected marine reserve?

And how about the leadership of Libya deciding that it was no longer in their best national interest to pursue weapons of mass destruction? Does the President get credit for tht one?

Best,


With an idiot on the nuke button, would you want to piss him off. He would do it just to get even, not even worrying about WW3.
Dan-From-LA
1) He helped to single handily destroy the Republican Party.

2) He helped destroy the myth of "conservatism" in this country as being an empty, pro-corporate agenda.


IVEATCH
QUOTE (RandiLover @ Jun 26 2008, 10:24 PM) *
Being that it is a national park, and thanks to the repugs, it is now LEGAL to mine there now.


Part of the Executive Order signed by President Bush reads as follows ...............

All Federal lands and interests in lands within the boundaries of this monument are hereby appropriated and withdrawn from all forms of entry, location, selection, sale, or leasing or other disposition under the public land laws, including, but not limited to, withdrawal from location, entry, and patent under mining laws, and from disposition under all laws relating to mineral and geothermal leasing.

This includes mining coral for jewelry and the mining of guano. This also includes drilling.

Best Regards,



Dan-From-LA
QUOTE (IVEATCH @ Jun 26 2008, 11:25 PM) *
The sarcasm concerning the speaking eloquence is deserved by the current holder of the Oval Office. I think that it was more of the President's Bad Cop actions around the time of the beginning of the Iraqi and Afghanistan wars that allowed the U.S. State department's Good Cops to convince The Libyans that it was in their best interests to come clean and drop expensive and unproductive weapons programs.

Best Regards,



Please read this about Libya. The so-called victory of Bush had been in discussion by, guess who, Clinton long before. 9/11 delayed the efforts. It's spin from the Bush admin. Here's a good source to educate yourself on the issue:

Foreign Policy In Focus: Libya


The Qaddafi regime has been trying to come in from the cold for more than a decade, as I detailed in a recent article, “Libya Is Not Iraq: Preemptive Strikes, WMD and Diplomacy,” published in the summer 2004 issue of The Middle East Journal (www.mideasti.org). Informal Libyan overtures, which began as early as 1992, were rebuffed by the first Bush administration and later by the Clinton administration. At the time, Libya indicated that it was willing to discuss a renunciation of terrorism and the abandonment of WMD programs in return for talks aimed at ending sanctions and normalizing relations.

The Clinton administration finally opened secret talks with Libya in mid-1999 aimed at resolving all issues related to the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. When Libyan officials later expressed an interest in broadening this dialogue to include unconventional weapons, the White House rejected the initiative, electing to remain focused on the Lockerbie issue. The Clinton administration took this decision in the belief that the Libyan chemical weapons program did not pose an imminent threat to the United States while the Libyan nuclear weapons program was in an early stage. Both judgments later proved sound. As the 2000 presidential campaign intensified, bilateral talks with Libya were suspended for fear they would become public and impact on the election.


Alildotonearth
QUOTE (IVEATCH @ Jun 26 2008, 11:25 PM) *
The sarcasm concerning the speaking eloquence is deserved by the current holder of the Oval Office. I think that it was more of the President's Bad Cop actions around the time of the beginning of the Iraqi and Afghanistan wars that allowed the U.S. State department's Good Cops to convince The Libyans that it was in their best interests to come clean and drop expensive and unproductive weapons programs.

Best Regards,



I think the facts have to be straightened out. Libya cooperated with non-proliferation agreements and Iraq was germ free. Libya continues to be a source of vital interests while Iraq barely maintains pre-invasion levels of fossil fuel exports.

Now since RR uses Global Security Group as a reliable source, I think it's important to review Libya from about 1990 to date. Someone drop a huge bomb in Quadafi's backyard one day killing children so I question the m/o of trying to take out opposition prior to detente' like I don't know, all those precision bombs that missed Hussein ?

http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/libya/khan-libya.htm
X-Ray-Spex
QUOTE (RandiLover @ Jun 26 2008, 10:24 PM) *
Being that it is a national park, and thanks to the repugs, it is now LEGAL to mine there now.



Ha! I knew it.
LibLaw
QUOTE (X-Ray-Spex @ Jun 26 2008, 09:23 PM) *

Good One! clap.gif

Taking that a little farther he's given us a standard that, try as they might, no future President could hope to match. He has in fact set the bar as low as it's ever been.
Ishmael
You forgot the biggest thing he's done of all. He has so tarnished the Bush name that Jeb probably couldn't get elected dogcatcher now, much less President. Now THAT's a GOOD thing.
adamquestor
I have to say that he enlarged the American vocabulary.

During this interminable term, I have learned the new words:

Fuckwad
Turd Reich
Shitstorm
Republitard
Fuckmass
Jeebus
Red State
Yamsack
Asswad
Anal-Cranial inversion
Freeptard
GWOT and TWOT (I like the second one)

X-Ray-Spex
QUOTE (adamquestor @ Jun 27 2008, 01:55 PM) *
I have to say that he enlarged the American vocabulary.

During this interminable term, I have learned the new words:

Fuckwad
Turd Reich
Shitstorm
Republitard
Fuckmass
Jeebus
Red State
Yamsack
Asswad
Anal-Cranial inversion
Freeptard
GWOT and TWOT (I like the second one)



That's Recto-Crainial inversion

Then there's ...

Fecalcephalosis!



(Thank you PoconoPragmatist from Democratic Warrior)
Ed-Kay
Proved once and for all, that Supply Side Economics is a bust!
RIP SSE
CowboySteve
I am certainly no fan of this fellow, but he has done ONE thing -

He truly has set a precedent for appointing people to high executive office regardless of race.

His appointment of his Secretaries of State - Mr. Colin Powell and Miss Condoleeza Rice - will be noted in the future as having been highly influential in expanding the American people's acceptance and tolerance of having African-American persons in executive leadership roles.

Mr. Bush's actions may have greatly advanced the possibility of Mr. Barack Obama's election to the Presidency.

For at least this one thing, and demonstrating this breadth of vision, President George W. Bush deserves thanks and admiration.


I gudda go throw up now.
LibLaw
QUOTE (CowboySteve @ Jun 28 2008, 12:47 AM) *
I am certainly no fan of this fellow, but he has done ONE thing -

He truly has set a precedent for appointing people to high executive office regardless of race.

His appointment of his Secretaries of State - Mr. Colin Powell and Miss Condoleeza Rice - will be noted in the future as having been highly influential in expanding the American people's acceptance and tolerance of having African-American persons in executive leadership roles.

Mr. Bush's actions may have greatly advanced the possibility of Mr. Barack Obama's election to the Presidency.

For at least this one thing, and demonstrating this breadth of vision, President George W. Bush deserves thanks and admiration.


I gudda go throw up now.


You gotta admit you could substitute Sen. Obama's name with anyone in Democrat cloths and scored a hit.
CowboySteve
QUOTE (LibLaw @ Jun 27 2008, 10:57 PM) *
You gotta admit you could substitute Sen. Obama's name with anyone in Democrat cloths and scored a hit.


Yeah, compliments for GWB don't come up easy, but he deserves this one.
nerdking
he single handedly made the horrid, scandal riddled, and positively wretched presidencies of Richard Nixon, Herbert Hoover, and Ulysses Grant look positively peaceful and serene. Hell, downright inviting!
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