Read the One-Percent Solution. It gives even more evidence that having a moron like Bush in the White House is an insult to the USA and the world.

Tom

Only the wholly naive could see either of these as "startling." Anyone who cares about anything competitive could make a statement like the first. And anyone with more than half a political brain could never have believed Bush took the 'WMD' claims seriously. Lieing to the public about the "enemy," its capabilities and real and potential behavior, has been standard fare for U.S. Presidents, cabinet officials and elected reps forever, and certainly in spades since WWII. Republicans and Democrats. For a good history of this in the military context see Carroll's House of War.

Does anyone really care if Bush curses every now and then?

Sure. Everyone right wing Christian should care. As a man who constantly portrays himself as a God-loving, born again, dare I say holier-than-thou man who says God tells him what to do it is simply unacceptable for him to have such outbursts.

For the rest of us it is just more proof that he is a hick with no moral core.

And to think, he kisses his mother with that mouth!

It matters because image doesn't match reality and people should be aware of reality.

True story: When George McGovern was running against Richard Nixon, he once got ticked off at some reporter and told him to "kiss my ass". The remark was overheard and widely reported.

My mother (a church-going, midwesterner) said she'd never vote for someone so foul-mouthed. Now, of course, that we've all heard the Nixon tapes, the irony is apparent, but at the time it was not widely known that Nixon was such a profane, paranoid, antt-Semitic SOB.

To me, it's not the profanity, it's the childish worldview--Bush's emotional and intellectual growth seemed to have been stopped dead at age 13 or so.

I am really convinced that Karl Rove took the movie 'Being There' as part of his blueprint!

The only part of this quote that offends me is the "I" in the "I am going to etc.". "I" isn't going to kick anyone's sorry mother***king ass. "I" was going to order others to do the ass kicking. My guess is "I" has never kicked anyone's ass. This is probably a comment he often used before grabbing his pom pons, picking up his megaphone, and taking the field before the big game.
He has spent a lifetime of "I am going to blah blah blah", when he really meant "my daddy is going to blah blah blah", so it was a natural phrasing for him.

I just like the way George's handlers polished this turd...

Ari Fleisher: "....The President has not reached any conclusions... At the appropriate time and in the President's judgment, he, of course, will. It's a solemn obligation on the President and he knows that."

I have to disagree with you somewhat here. While he likely never kicked someone's ass face to face in a fair fight, a former acquaintance described him as quite the cheap shot artist.

Which, of course, seems perfectly in keeping with his pampered mama's boy/wannabe tough guy personality.

Bush cheapshotting a guy twice in a basketball game is described in One Precent Solution.

Tom

The thoroughly modern fundamentalist Christian wingers believe in the "muscular" Jesus - the one who looses the fateful lightning of his terrible, swift sword, and who opened a can of whup-ass on the money changers and kicked their sorry, motherfucking asses all over the temple.

Not some of the blue hairs I've known! They'd drop like a sack of bricks if anyone spoke like that in front of them. Maybe a bunch of good ol' boys from Tex-ass like that whup-ass talk but your average, church-going, middle-American, blue-haired matron doesn't like that kind of nasty talk one bit.