[jasonraymondson]

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$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')SHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. economy is in a slowdown but not headed into a recession, President George W. Bush said on Thursday after new data showed slow fourth-quarter growth and a bigger-than-expected jump in unemployment claims.

Bush, speaking at a White House news conference, also said he didn't think another economic stimulus package was necessary at the moment, adding "why don't we let stimulus package one have a chance to kick in."

"There is no question the economy has slowed down," Bush said. "I don't think we're headed into a recession,

[emersonbiggins]

"We're counting on a disastrous hurricane season to get our GDP back up!"

[killJOY]

The stock market dropped about 80 points after his speech.

I'm just saying.

[gnm]

While technically correct, In that it won't be a recession, I don't think the public would have reacted well to him following that with "because it is headed for a Greater Depression"

-G

[PenultimateManStanding]

GWB's voice alone could bring on a Recession. But I hear that he's very popular in Africa. I don't know, he's done a lot for them. You've got to give him credit for that at least. He's a complex and flawed individual with a very annoying voice. I may be complex and flawed too, but at least I have a soothing voice.

[jasonraymondson]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'G')WB's voice alone could bring on a Recession. But I hear that he's very popular in Africa. I don't know, he's done a lot for them. You've got to give him credit for that at least. He's a complex and flawed individual with a very annoying voice. I may be complex and flawed too, but at least I have a soothing voice.

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jasonraymondson', '
')Is complex and flawed, code for really fuc$ing stupid. Because if it isn't, I don't understand the words coming out of your fingers

[killJOY]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'Y')ou don't become President by being really f'ing stupid.

[gnm]

PMS, he can't even make a complete sentence or repeat common idioms...

I mean, if he's not a complete idiot he sure fakes it well.

-G

[PenultimateManStanding]

OK, you guys win, I give up. GWB is a cretin. I don't like the way he sounds anyway. Obama sounds pretty slick. Eloquence is to be desired in political figures. But he's gonna take away my guns, and I don't like that.

[TWilliam]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'O')K, you guys win, I give up. GWB is a cretin. I don't like the way he sounds anyway. Obama sounds pretty slick. Eloquence is to be desired in political figures. But he's gonna take away my guns, and I don't like that.

[killJOY]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Michael Parenti', '"')If we continue to see the Class Warriors as stupid, then that limits our critique of their policies....

"To see them as stupid is to elevate peripheral features of their personalities to central status....

"...{Bush's} linguistic deficiencies cause us to view his policies as products of his personal shortcomings. BUT HIS POLICIES ARE NOT ERRORS....

"Bush is a spin artist of any number of issues....

"...The stupidity defense was very opportunistically used...by the presidential power brokers [like Reagan]...they used stupidity as a way of distancing themselves from the skullduggery of policy initiatives....

"...Bush talked about the 'mistaken' intelligence leading to the Iraq war...if you believe that I have some ocean front property in Nebraska to sell you....

"A nefarious agenda masquerading as incompetence:

"KATRINA: RESOURCES WERE CONSISTENTLY WITHHELD...THERE WAS A WAR DONE AGAINST THAT COMMUNITY....

"The White House reactionaries are only too happy to show that government cannot be counted on....

"9/11: [foreign governments] repeatedly told Bush coterie specifics about the upcoming attacks....By doing nothing to thwart the attacks, we're they merely incompetent???"

[PenultimateManStanding]

That's politics in the 21st century. There's not much to be done about it.

[Flowerr]

He's not stupid.
He accomplished everything they wanted him to accomplish in 7 years.

[Plantagenet]

The dumbest SOBs alive are the gits who said the US is already in recession. They are clearly wrong....the new 4th quarter showed weak but positive growth in US GDP in still continuing.

[Plantagenet]

USA today published a survey of 50 leading economists today. About half say a recession is going to happen, and half don't think so.

USA today survey of economists

Either one half or the other half of the leading economists in the US are clearly also in competition for the title of "dumbest sob alive"

[jboogy]

George Bush is most assuredly not a stupid man, not by any conventional means of assessing intelligence. From what I've seen of him he appears to possess above average intelligence. His vocabulary is above average and his demeanor when relating to others indicates a shrewdness and slight arrogance that indicates he considers himself to be intellectually equal or superior to those he comes in contact with, it is rare to find this elitism in those where this elitism is not justified. Stupid people are not confident when surrounded by those that are their intellectual superior.

He is calculating and a realist, don't be fooled for a second thinking these are his disastrous policies that are exploding in our faces. He is compliant and accomodating with a strong sense of self preservation and an ingratiaiting need to enrich his associates and himself. He has performed just as his "friends" knew he would. The only example of unexpected failure has been the Iraq war, and this failure pleases many of his "friends", defense corporations would I'm sure, deem the Iraqi experiment a resounding success. Some count the inability to privatise S.S. a failure, and it is, but I believe had the Iraqi adventure gone well he may have been able to push S.S. reform through, so I lump the two of them together.

He once said at a banquet when looking at his audience , " I see all the have's and have more's are here, some call you the elite, I call you my base", he got a lot of laughs, but it wasn't a joke. Outside of the racist, rabid fundamentalist, sister-f*cking contingent that form the bulk of his, (too stupid to know what's good for them), base, the wealthy are the part of his support base that know what's going on and are the beneficiaries of his policies. They are the bundlers that pay the big bucks and are invited into the white house to write policy and legislation that benefit their businesses. These people have, up 'til now, considered his term a resounding success, the rich have gotten much richer since he's been in office, this is a fact supported by all measures and indicators.

It does appear however that the severity of the economic meltdown we're seeing may not have been foreseen by many of the PTB. I think there's abundant evidence that the policies regarding de-regulation of the banking, mortgage industries has let one nasty mutterfuckin' genie out of a bottle that has brawny hairy arms crossed over his chest and is nodding his head at everyone. This genie does not have pert, juicy titties and a tight, round ass encased in sheer pink satin......ummmm, I gotta go.

[jasonraymondson]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jboogy', 'G')eorge Bush is most assuredly not a stupid man, not by any conventional means of assessing intelligence. From what I've seen of him he appears to possess above average intelligence. His vocabulary is above average and his demeanor when relating to others indicates a shrewdness and slight arrogance that indicates he considers himself to be intellectually equal or superior to those he comes in contact with, it is rare to find this elitism in those where this elitism is not justified. Stupid people are not confident when surrounded by those that are their intellectual superior.

He is calculating and a realist, don't be fooled for a second thinking these are his disastrous policies that are exploding in our faces. He is compliant and accomodating with a strong sense of self preservation and an ingratiaiting need to enrich his associates and himself. He has performed just as his "friends" knew he would. The only example of unexpected failure has been the Iraq war, and this failure pleases many of his "friends", defense corporations would I'm sure, deem the Iraqi experiment a resounding success. Some count the inability to privatise S.S. a failure, and it is, but I believe had the Iraqi adventure gone well he may have been able to push S.S. reform through, so I lump the two of them together.

He once said at a banquet when looking at his audience , " I see all the have's and have more's are here, some call you the elite, I call you my base", he got a lot of laughs, but it wasn't a joke. Outside of the racist, rabid fundamentalist, sister-f*cking contingent that form the bulk of his, (too stupid to know what's good for them), base, the wealthy are the part of his support base that know what's going on and are the beneficiaries of his policies. They are the bundlers that pay the big bucks and are invited into the white house to write policy and legislation that benefit their businesses. These people have, up 'til now, considered his term a resounding success, the rich have gotten much richer since he's been in office, this is a fact supported by all measures and indicators.

It does appear however that the severity of the economic meltdown we're seeing may not have been foreseen by many of the PTB. I think there's abundant evidence that the policies regarding de-regulation of the banking, mortgage industries has let one nasty mutterfuckin' genie out of a bottle that has brawny hairy arms crossed over his chest and is nodding his head at everyone. This genie does not have pert, juicy titties and a tight, round ass encased in sheer pink satin......ummmm, I gotta go.

[eastbay]

Bush II is nowhere near as stupid as he sounds.

Obama's no where near as smart as he sounds.

Hillary's just plain brilliant.

[FourOfSwords]

Jboogy, nice take on the Prez. and what's going down. I pretty much feel you've nailed it. Except for your last sentence on the genie...for some strange reason I get a visual of Satan in the South Park movie with Saddam Hussein as his gay lover...ack!
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