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CatWoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-14-06 02:44 PM
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Bush attacked a blind man today for wearing shades????
This happened in the Rose Garden today.

Randi is playing the clip.

What a BASTARD!!!
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-14-06 02:46 PM
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1. Hee hee hee.
I wonder if this is the same blind guy he waved to a few years ago.
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-14-06 02:47 PM
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2. or the time he the prosthetic hand of an iraqi.
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MnFats Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-14-06 02:48 PM
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3. Ed Schultz had it, too. what an a*****.
Edited on Wed Jun-14-06 02:52 PM by MnFats
unbelievable.
NOT verbatim but..:
bush: "You going to ask a question in those shades?"
reporter: "Yes."
Bush: "for the viewers, there's no sun!" (har har)
reporter: "I guess that depends on your perspective.":


the guy is FUGGIN BLIND!
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Ganja Ninja Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-14-06 02:48 PM
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4. The man is just too stupid to be president.
Asking a blind man to remove his sunglasses.

The only consolation in all of this is we'll never have another president this dumb ever again once he's gone.
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-14-06 02:55 PM
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15. That's true..the part about
there will never be another resident of the wh who is as dumb as bush..it's mathematically impossible..so there.
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SammyWinstonJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-14-06 03:08 PM
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19. The man is too unsympathetic to be a member of the Human Race.
He's a self serving self absorbed self righteous(with no reason too be) a$$hole. He needs to be taken down a peg or two.
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LA lady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-14-06 02:48 PM
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5. Peter Wallsten
He already issued a statement about it.
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jedicord Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-14-06 02:50 PM
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7. Curious, what was his statement? n/t
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LA lady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-14-06 02:53 PM
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10. here
Wallsten said Bush’s comments did not offend him at all. “I never advertise it to him. I’ve never told him.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/06/14/bush-reporter-shades/
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jedicord Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-14-06 03:24 PM
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22. He never ADVERTISED it to him?
Of course he didn't tell him, when was the last time a reporter got the chance to have a one on one with Shrub discussing physical frailties?

So Shrub & Co. get another apology from the victim.

And, infortunately, his response was what I expected.
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smokey nj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-14-06 02:49 PM
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6. He also likes to comment on how citizens in wheelchairs seem...
comfortable. He's a tactless imbicile.
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BOSSHOG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-14-06 02:52 PM
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8. The liberal doctrine of infallibility
at work here. Obviously the blind man is using his handicap to ensure that the president cannot question his question. This man needs to be savaged by ann coulter. How dare he put the president in a position to look like a total fucking moron. And obviously his blindness prevents him from seeing that bush needs no help in looking like a total fucking moron.
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-14-06 02:53 PM
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11. Excellent!
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MnFats Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-14-06 03:09 PM
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20. your clarity of vision is stupendous!
nice work!
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myrna minx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-14-06 03:34 PM
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27. Perfect.
This was my first laugh of the day. Thanks. :hi:
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librechik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-14-06 04:07 PM
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32. That terrori--er, blind man was asymmetrically attacking our president
he needs to be rendered in an extraordinary manner.
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shain from kane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-14-06 02:52 PM
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9. Did the Secret Service take his cane? Wouldn't want there to be any
danger the * would have been caned for his stupidity over the last 5 years.
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uppityperson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-14-06 02:53 PM
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12. Mr.bush:"well, if he was blind, why did he need shades?"
"I mean, heh heh heh, if he was blindified, heh heh heh, he can't see, see, so why, uh, uh, would he, uh, heh heh heh, need them shades for?"

Mr.bush is an insensitive idiot.
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cali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-14-06 02:53 PM
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13. Whoa. I'm not sure the guy is blind.
Even if he is, bush's remark is just a boneheaded example of his faux bonhomie with reporters. I detest bush, but this is just silly.
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-14-06 02:55 PM
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14. It's been confirmed, he's legally blind.
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johnnie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-14-06 02:58 PM
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Yes, he is a bastard
But I just think this is more of an example of his idiotic side than the bastard side.
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lapfog_1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-14-06 02:58 PM
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16. I could actually forgive shrub for not knowing that the guy is blind..

But it was obvious that * was pissed that someone would show him such DISRESPECT to wear sunglasses to an outdoor event and not remove them before asking the chimperator a question. Such arrogance has been a hallmark of this mis-administration since * occupied the People's White House
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ginnyinWI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-14-06 03:02 PM
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17. It really shows what kind of person he really is.
He demands obedience from the underlings! Nobody should get away with such an affront!! (such an insecure little man.)

I guess blind journalists should hang big signs around their necks next time saying, "Blind". Of course then they'd be thrown out for having an opinion.
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jedicord Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-14-06 03:27 PM
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23. Yeah, and the guy in the wheelchair had the audacity
to not stand up.:eyes:
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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-14-06 03:06 PM
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18. If Clinton had done that it would have been BREAKING NEWS on all...
....networks two minutes after the incident.

But I think everyone knows that.

Don
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-14-06 03:16 PM
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21. Did you see where W claimed he was "raised in the desert"?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1426529

Q Is the tide turning in Iraq?

THE PRESIDENT: I think -- tide turning -- see, as I remember -- I was raised in the desert, but tides kind of -- it's easy to see a tide turn -- did I say those words?


......from Wednesday's Press Conference.
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lapfog_1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-14-06 03:28 PM
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24. Probably a left over "tape" playing in *'s head

you know, the one he uses to "relate" to the Arab experience. Freshly used in his little show boat visit to help "break the ice" with the brand new puppet, er... Prime Minister.
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paparush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-14-06 03:37 PM
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28. He meant to say he was raised in a 'dessert'
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Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-14-06 03:32 PM
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25. Yes
Evidently 'To Stupid For Prime Time' thought that if a reporter is talking to you wearing shades, then he is challenging your manhood. Never mind the fact that common sense tells you he is blind! Hello, body language? Bush lowers the bar everytime he appears in public.
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-14-06 03:33 PM
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26. Shock and Awe part II...a preemptive strike at the helpless media
Bullies always pick on guys that are the least able to fight back. Did Junior kick the guy, or just slap him around? I'll bet Bush is sorry...sorry that the guy wasn't a 90 year old blind grandma. Bush is feeling like the Commander in Chief again, since he's been in the Combat Zone kicking some serious ass!
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flamin lib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-14-06 03:42 PM
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29. VIDEO! I NEED VIDEO! nt
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-14-06 03:47 PM
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30. Bush and those pesky shades
http://www.crooksandliars.com/
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flamin lib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-14-06 04:05 PM
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31. Thanks! nt
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