Bushwhacked
May 16th, 2008 at 7:21 am by Susie
I know many people are upset at Bush for the speech he gave yesterday, but really, considering all the stuff this guy has done (and all that he still has time to do, like bombing Iran), I just can’t get that worked up about it.
Is there anyone in the world who still considers him a foreign policy expert? Does he have a leadership role in anything that anyone respects? In the broad spectrum of disasters that is this administration, where exactly does this rank?
No, I consider this in the same category as a toddler who throws his pacifier on the floor again and again because it’s so amusing to watch mom and dad dive for it yet again. He just wants people to pay attention to him, and the only people who do are going to vote Republican, anyway.
i kind of agree with you susie. everyone seems to be outraged that he broke some rule that you’re not supposed to engage in partisan sniping when you’re in a foreign country. has he ever followed that rule? didn’t he visit iraq prior to the 2004 election in what was clearly a campaign photo-op? why are we only talking about this rule now?
Iraq in 2004 was under US occupation. He did his campaign photo op at a US military base there. It was the worst king of pandering, and a horrible misuse of his position of authority with the troops, but it isn’t like going to the floor of a foreign parliament and trying to score political “gottcha” points during a formal speech made, not as a candidate or individual, but as the US President formally representing our country.
They are both wrong, but there is a difference in the wrongness. The first one is more of an internal US issue while the second is a betrayal of the entire country while serving as our representative to a foreign nation.
but what about susie’s point that no one other than his ever diminishing base considers him worth listening to on foreign policy matters? honestly, bush sticking his nose into an obama-mccain spat probably helps obama. anything to link mccain to the least popular president ever is doing the democrats a favor.