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9 Comments: What Is This List?

by: elwood

Tue Nov 09, 2010 at 19:03:13 PM EST
  1. The Twin Towers on September 11, 2001
  2. New Orleans after Katrina
  3. The escape of Osama bin Laden in Tora Bora
  4. The first time he met the family of a soldier fallen on his watch
  5. The first time he ducked meeting the family
  6. The collapse of the financial system in 2008
  7. The confirmation of Teri Schiavo's death
  8. Nancy Reagan's call for supporting stem cell research, and turning her down
  9. The fragmentation of Space Shuttle Columbia with all astronauts dying
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Table Of Contents (4.00 / 1)
of W.'s new book?

Promise. No Teh Google.

Whack-a-mole, anyone?

The answer: Each of these incidents paled in comparison (4.00 / 3)
to the most personally painful moment of George W. Bush's Presidency.

That was when Kanye West said that he didn't care about black people.

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Darnit! (4.00 / 1)
That was gonna be my answer.

I missed the test deadline.

birch, finch, beech

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Things that are totally the Democrat Party's fault. (4.00 / 3)
That was my guess.
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Sometimes (4.00 / 2)
it takes a totally jaded point of view to allow me to feel comfortable with my cynicism and disgust.

Enter Mathew Norman , writing in the Independent about Bush's re-emergence:


It takes a certain minimal intelligence for the truly dim to have a notion of their own dimness, but this is denied him. Unlike Mr Tony Blair, who emerges from his well-calibrated if often chilling memoir as a man of colossal cleverness (though not intellect), W has the self-awareness of a bison. There seems even less to him than met the eye, and there was precious little of that. Astounding as it appears, we misoverestimated him.

I have to admit to a sense of weariness about this subject.  Bush's legendary imperfections and hollow character have worn me down, and I'm just happy to be done with him, understanding, as we all do so well, that we'll be cleaning up his mess for decades.  



"Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world." A. Einstein

The Poet: (0.00 / 0)
I make a virtue of my suffering
From nearly everything that goes on round me.
In other words, I know wherever I am,
Being the creature of literature I am,    
I shall not lack for pain to keep me awake.

Kit Marlowe taught me how to say my prayers:
"Why, this is Hell, nor am I out of it."

- New Hampshire


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