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Cenk Uygur   07.18.2006
The Ugly Truth: Our President is an Imbecile

You know it, I know it and the American people know it. But everyone is
afraid to say it. They say it privately, but people are afraid of saying it
publicly because you will be branded as a liberal, elite, intellectual
snob. But believe me, you don't have to be an intellectual to see how
painfully stupid our president is.

Just look at the conversation he is having with world leaders at the G-8
summit. Mikes picked up the causal talk between the world leaders. Forget
that Bush appears to have three sandwiches in his mouth while talking.
Forget that he calls out to the Prime Minister of Britain as if he is
Flounder in "Animal House." Forget that he uses profanity. I don't give a
shit about those things.

I thought it was ridiculous that people made fun of George H. W, Bush for
vomiting on the Japanese Prime Minister. What was he going to do? He had to
puke, so he puked. It happens to the best of us, and more importantly, has
nothing to do with his intelligence or how capable he is as a leader.

But his son's verbal vomit does have a lot to do with his ability to lead
this country and the world. What I found to be the most damning is the
least quoted part of Bush's comments. As you read this transcript, remember
that this is not a small child talking, but the President of the United
States of America:

    The camera is focused elsewhere and it is not clear whom Bush is
talking to, but possibly Chinese President Hu Jintao, a guest at the
summit.

    Bush: "Gotta go home. Got something to do tonight. Go to the airport,
get on the airplane and go home. How about you? Where are you going? Home?

    Bush: "This is your neighborhood. It doesn't take you long to get home.
How long does it take you to get home?"

    Reply is inaudible.

    Bush: "Eight hours? Me too. Russia's a big country and you're a big
country."

    At this point, the president seems to bring someone else into the
conversation.

    Bush: "It takes him eight hours to fly home."

    He turns his attention to a server.

    Bush: "No, Diet Coke, Diet Coke."

    He turns back to whomever he was talking with.

    Bush: "It takes him eight hours to fly home. Eight hours. Russia's big
and so is China."

Russia's big and so is China??????? This guys sounds like a third grader.
Do you know anyone who would have a conversation like this with their
neighbor, let alone a business associate, let alone a world leader? Who's
proud to know that Russia is big and so is China?

Can anyone now credibly claim that Bush is secretly working on a master
plan behind the scenes and that he's just playing cowboy for the cameras? I
hope the master plan doesn't involve figuring out how long it takes to get
to China.

If someone is this ignorant, they're usually embarrassed and try not to
talk much. But this guy is so dumb he has no idea how dumb he is. This
sounds like a conversation you might have with a child, a mentally
challenged child. Johnny, do you know how big Russia is? How about China?

This would all be unfortunate if George was your dentist, or worse yet,
your accountant. But he is the leader of the free world. This man makes
life or death decisions every day. If you say you're not scared about that,
you're lying.

Would you let him do the books for your business? Would you trust your
company in his hands for eight years? (No matter how Republican you are,
you know you just said no to that question.) Would you trust him to be your
kids' guidance counselor and take his advice seriously? If your kids were
in the Army and he was their field commander, would you feel good about
putting their lives in his hands?

Come on, no one is crazy enough to say yes to that. Yet, he has all of our
lives in his hands. The emperor has no clothes. The emperor has no clothes.
It's about time someone in the mainstream media said it.

In the old empires, there would be a lot of marriages between the royal
families. And from time to time, these inter-family marriages would produce
a mentally challenged son who would inherit the throne. This would set the
empire back for hundreds of years. I'm not saying anything, I'm just
saying. Russia is big and so is China.

The Democrats for a long time have felt embarrassed about pointing out the
obvious. The emperor has no brain. This is what I can't understand about
the Democrats, they're always playing patty cakes while the Republicans are
ripping their face off. John Kerry should have stood at the lectern during
the debates and pointed to George Bush and said, "The leader of this
country has to be the best and the brightest. If any of you think that he
is the best and the brightest America has to offer, go ahead and vote for
him!"

The theory is that people would be turned off by that. The theory assumes
that people are also idiots and they love their cohorts. That is simply not
true. Everyone understands that they have a friend they'd like to go
fishing with and a friend they can trust to look after their affairs - and
they're not necessarily the same guy. And that your fishing buddy might not
be a great choice for President of the United States of America.

Kerry should have embarrassed Bush, made people feel sorry for him. It
would have hurt in the short run and given him a temporary downward blip in
the numbers, but in the end, when people went into that voting booth, they
would have felt pity for Bush - in that scenario, Kerry wins easily. Nobody
votes for someone they pity.

Unfortunately, right now we are in the position of being pitied by the rest
of the world. We have third grader for a President. And worse yet, the Vice
President has him convinced he is the second coming of Winston Churchill.
Scared yet?


WORST.  PRESIDENT.  EVER.
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