George Bush wrote a book!

[Foggy of the Fogbow]

Dude, you wrote a book!
Didn't think you had it in you!

Hey, Foggy. Long time no see.
Yeah, I wrote a book.
Had a little help on the big words.

I read a review about it, broham.
It said you were a little ticked that McCain
didn't want you campaigning with him.

He hurt my feelings, Foggy.
I wanted to help him!
I wanted to help him SO MUCH!

Dude, you were at 25% in the polls.
You were toxic.

The base still loved me, Foggy.
The base will ALWAYS love me.
McCain didn't have my base, is what it was.

I thought Sarah Palin brought in the base.
She had your base all whipped up, remember?

That freakin' moron! I hate that bitch!
She made them forget me!
While I was still president!

Dude, it was an election.
They were trying to win. Don't take it so hard.
You were toxic, and couldn't help.
They didn't want Cheney, either, pal.

I know, Fogmeister. You're right.
But I just wanted to help so bad.

So who do you like in 2012, broham?
Who's lookin' good for the GOP?

Well ... see ... it can't be Sarah Palin.
She's still a freakin' moron.
This guy Marco Rubio is kinda hot right now.
I like Jindal some.

They're not natural born citizens, my brother.
They had non-citizen parents.

Don't you freakin' lay that birther crap on me, Foggy!
I never was a birther, goddammit!
I didn't say a word when Obama won!
Keep those freakin' birthers away from me!

You should step up for the president, George.
You should tell the birthers they're full of BS.
Do it for the Republican Party.
They're hurting the Republican Party, y'know.
Do it for the children.

They won't listen to me.
They'd just add me to the list of traitors
who need to be jailed for letting
Obama win the election.

OK, my man. Be that way.
It's not like we need your help.
Us Obots are wreaking havoc
on them just fine without you.

So, umm ... yeah.
You gonna buy my book, Foggy?

Dude, grow up.
Remember who you are.
Worst president in history.
I don't need no stinkin' book to know that.

Sit on this, punk!
Don't call this number again.

Buh bye, George!!​

 

[Foggy of the Fogbow]

58 views, no comments.

Nobody even says, "Well, OK, maybe it's a little funny."

Y'all are really hurting my feelings.

 

[Tricky]

Is that a copyrighted image?

 

[Foggy of the Fogbow]

Your transmission garbled.

There are 20 different images in that post.

All of them are in my Photobucket.

I've posted them many times over the years, without complaint.

Are you referring to a specific image?

And if so, can you identify it?

And if you identify it, can you identify the copyright holder?

And if you identify the copyright holder, is it you?

And if it's not you, are you whining about it anyway?

 

[Puppycow]

George Bush Book 'Decision Points' Lifted From Advisers' Books

When Crown Publishing inked a deal with George W. Bush for his memoirs, the publisher knew it wasn't getting Faulkner. But the book, at least, promises "gripping, never-before-heard detail" about the former president's key decisions, offering to bring readers "aboard Air Force One on 9/11, in the hours after America's most devastating attack since Pearl Harbor; at the head of the table in the Situation Room in the moments before launching the war in Iraq," and other undisclosed and weighty locations.

Crown also got a mash-up of worn-out anecdotes from previously published memoirs written by his subordinates, from which Bush lifts quotes word for word, passing them off as his own recollections. He took equal license in lifting from nonfiction books about his presidency or newspaper or magazine articles from the time. Far from shedding light on how the president approached the crucial "decision points" of his presidency, the clip jobs illuminate something shallower and less surprising about Bush's character: He's too lazy to write his own memoir.
. . .
In a final irony, Bush appears to draw heavily from several of Bob Woodward's books and also from Robert Draper's "Dead Certain". The Bush White House called the books' accuracy into question when they were initially published.

 

[Brainster]

One of the keys--I say, one of the keys--to pulling off a successful impression is to get the patter right, boy! You haven't even tried--are you listening, son?--I say, you haven't even tried to mimic Foggy's speech patterns. Your joke, such as it is, is completely lame--that's spelled L-A-M-E--and predictable.

(Aside to the audience) Nice kid, but not--I say, not--exactly Ivy League material, if you know what I mean.

 

[Foggy of the Fogbow]

Hahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Breathe, rooster, breathe!!!!!!!!!!!1!!!

Omfg!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you, puppycow!!!!!!!!!!

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!11!!!!!!

 

[Regnad Kcin]

58 views, no comments.

Nobody even says, "Well, OK, maybe it's a little funny."

There may be a clue there.

 

[Unabogie]

One of the keys--I say, one of the keys--to pulling off a successful impression is to get the patter right, boy! You haven't even tried--are you listening, son?--I say, you haven't even tried to mimic Foggy's speech patterns. Your joke, such as it is, is completely lame--that's spelled L-A-M-E--and predictable.

(Aside to the audience) Nice kid, but not--I say, not--exactly Ivy League material, if you know what I mean.

This explains...so...much.

 

[Madalch]

And if you identify it, can you identify the copyright holder?

And if you identify the copyright holder, is it you?

And if it's not you, are you whining about it anyway?

It is against forum rules to repost copyrighted images. Tricky, if memory serves me correctly, is a moderator- one of the enforcers of those rules.

 

[Virus]

Sucks.

 

[dc1971]

58 views, no comments.

Nobody even says, "Well, OK, maybe it's a little funny."

Y'all are really hurting my feelings. [qimg]http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee232/foghorn_leghorn_photos/emoticons/eusa_boohoo.gif[/qimg] [qimg]http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee232/foghorn_leghorn_photos/emoticons/crying.gif[/qimg]

I agree with your point that the birthers are hurting the Republicans!

 

[Howie Felterbush]

"Broham" is funny, but "Brosef Stalin" is funnier.

You can use it if you want, I hold no copyright.

 

[Sword_Of_Truth]

Bush's book is getting good reviews:

Bill Clinton praises Bush book

Former President Bill Clinton is heartily praising "Decision Points," the new memoir by his successor, former President George W. Bush, as "well-written and interesting from start to finish."

"I think people of all political stripes should read it," Clinton said in a statement Friday. "George W. Bush also gives readers a good sense of what it’s like to be president, to take the responsibilities of the office seriously, do what you think is right, and let history be the judge.


Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1110/45034.html#ixzz158ZYe2el

 

[Brainster]

George Bush Book 'Decision Points' Lifted From Advisers' Books

That's an exceedingly silly column unless the author has some better examples. The fact that Bush has Karzai making the same quote at Karzai's inauguration... I mean, that's not plagiarism or "lifting" by any means, it's just reporting what happened second-hand. Ditto with the Tommy Franks quote; if Bush indeed took it from Franks' memoir, so what? Of course, there's also the possibility that the discussion was taped, or that Franks' remarks were prepared and Bush had a copy. As for the McCain quote, I don't see where, to quote the writer:

In a separate case of scene fabrication, though, Bush writes of a comment made by his rival John McCain as if it was said to him directly.

It may be that in the book, it does sound like McCain was talking directly to Bush, but I don't see that from this:

"The surge gave [McCain] a chance to create distance between us, but he didn't take it. He had been a longtime advocate of more troops in Iraq, and he supported the new strategy wholeheartedly. "I cannot guarantee success," he said, "But I can guarantee failure if we don't adopt this new strategy."

Actually what I would critique there is any notion that McCain would distance himself from Bush on the surge, given that McCain was a loud and persistent advocate for it.

So overall there are three supposed examples given of Bush's laziness, none of which seem strongly argued to me.

 

[Whiplash]

Calling Bush the worst president in history is one of the greatest lies Liberals have ever told.

 

[Foggy of the Fogbow]

Well, can we just agree that he made the worst foreign policy mistake in history?

He directed the invasion and occupation of a country that was no threat to the U.S. at all, and turned a country the size of California into a terrorist training ground.

If I had conducted a war against terrorism, and there were vastly more terrorists in the world at the end of my term than there were at the beginning, I might suspect I hadn't really achieved any results to be proud of.

And I realize that, after it turned out there really were no WMD that were any threat to the U.S., the justification for the invasion/occupation was revised ex post facto to be "we saved our best friends the religious Muslim Iraqi people from a really mean secular dictator".

But that's not really the reason given to the American people before the war. If we'd been told that before the war, there would have been a huge groundswell of objection. We were told that America was in great danger because of the vast amounts of WMD that Saddam held. And it was an outright lie.

Maybe Bush knew it was a lie. I remember that the very week the war began, he stopped talking about WMD and barely mentioned them again, like he understood that they wouldn't be found. Or maybe he just made a colossal mistake in judgment, by cherry-picking the intelligence to support the conclusion he wanted to reach, instead of an accurate assessment.

The biggest American embassy in the world is in Baghdad. Is there some reason Iraq is considered the most important ally of the United States? Is there some other reason it's the most important country in the world to us, that we put our largest embassy there?

 

[Virus]

Well, can we just agree that he made the worst foreign policy mistake in history?

Bringing democracy to an Arab country? On the ruins of the worst dictatorship in the region?

He directed the invasion and occupation of a country that was no threat to the U.S. at all,

Good.

and turned a country the size of California into a terrorist training ground.

Didn't.

If I had conducted a war against terrorism, and there were vastly more terrorists in the world at the end of my term than there were at the beginning, I might suspect I hadn't really achieved any results to be proud of.

Did you do a head count? How do you know there's more terrorists? 9/11 meant that Al-Qaeda needed some deep hurt, and Bush put the deep hurt on them.

And I realize that, after it turned out there really were no WMD that were any threat to the U.S., the justification for the invasion/occupation was revised ex post facto

It always was that. US policy was to transition Iraq into a democracy. The policy was voted in under Clinton in 1998.

to be "we saved our best friends the religious Muslim Iraqi people from a really mean secular dictator".

No. He never said that.

But that's not really the reason given to the American people before the war. If we'd been told that before the war, there would have been a huge groundswell of objection. We were told that America was in great danger because of the vast amounts of WMD that Saddam held. And it was an outright lie.

Prove it was an outright lie. Even Saddam's generals thought he had WMD up until the eve of the invasion.

Maybe Bush knew it was a lie. I remember that the very week the war began, he stopped talking about WMD and barely mentioned them again, like he understood that they wouldn't be found. Or maybe he just made a colossal mistake in judgment, by cherry-picking the intelligence to support the conclusion he wanted to reach, instead of an accurate assessment.

That's your proof he made it all made up? Weak sauce.

The biggest American embassy in the world is in Baghdad.

Good.

Is there some reason Iraq is considered the most important ally of the United States? Is there some other reason it's the most important country in the world to us, that we put our largest embassy there?

Why shouldn't Iraq be an ally? Would you rather it remain under a genocidal rogue regime that was our enemy?

 

[dc1971]

Calling Bush the worst president in history is one of the greatest lies Liberals have ever told.

What? Would you consider him THE GREATEST President?

And once again, here we go with calling people who don't agree with you or the mainstream media, "Liberals"!!

 

[Foggy of the Fogbow]

Heh, heh.

A right-wingnut I know predicted that the Iraqis will erect statues of Bush in the near future.

I doubt that, but I had to agree with him that Bush did a hell of a lot more for the Iraqi people than he ever did for the American people.