I am so SICK of hearing about Pretentious George the Psychopath...(rant)

...and HIS Thanksgiving dinner. The little pissant ought to have been sent to work in a soup kitchen for a day and forced to eat what is being served there instead of US having to pay for the beady-eyed little monkey's fancy-dancy dinner.

And they've gone on and on about the HUGE Christmas tree WE have paid for to be specially shipped to Laura so THEY can have a nice Christmas.

WHY doesn't that money go to help some poor folks INSTEAD of to an arrogant psychopath bent on destroying this country?

Yes, I KNOW - EVERY PRESIDENT (even the Dem ones) gets this stuff paid for by us - the taxpayers.

I say DO AWAY WITH IT ALL - and make it a TRADITION that the President on these major holidays DOES WITHOUT and gives instead the money that would have spent to the downtrodden and poor.

THAT is the moral thing to do. In fact, THAT is what these holidays are about, aren't they?

AND make them live on Social Security and the same med benefits and retirement the REST of us have to.

BETCHA some things would get fixed REALLY FAST in this country if these government hotshots had to eat their own dog food.

Ugh! (disgusted)

In his own mind.

sure gets a lot of tv air time. Him and that boring, useless woman he claims as his wife.

and we know the world is safe because of it.

It is dispicable how Congress grants themselves a pass on all the laws they pass. They are not under Social Security and they certainly don't pay for their own health care! The President and Congress should all be under the same laws we are!

Origins: This piece has been circulating on the Internet since April 2000. So much of it is outdated, inaccurate, or misleading, it's difficult to know where to begin.

* It is not true that Congressmen do not pay into the Social Security fund. Since 1984 they have paid into the fund just as most everyone else does. (A few odd exceptions to the Social Security program still exist, both inside and outside of government, but not for members of Congress.)

* It was true prior to 1984 that Congressmen did not pay into the Social Security fund because they participated in a separate program for civil servants (the Civil Service Retirement System, or CSRS), but that program was closed to government employees hired after 1983:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/taxes/pensions.asp

They have other taxpayer-provided bennies to rely on - WE PAY for their healthcare for life (is that not true? What ARE their taxpayer-provided bennies that they get and we don't?).

They should have to live on the same retirement income (SS ONLY) and with the same (inadequate/nonexistent) healthcare as the rest of us. The system us 'peasants' have to live with would then be fixed so fast it would be head-spinning - if the people who devised and supported it had to live on and with it themselves.

And NO President ought to be indulging itself with the best and brightest for holidays while others in his/her country starve and do without - particularly when those very holidays pretend to promote a morality which would encourage just the opposite behavior. To do so is pretentious, disingenuous, and abjectly narcissistic.

Just my .02

What are the bennies congress, the senate, and presidents and vps get for life which are taxpayer-provided? I believe they are quite substantial, no?

I'll alter my rant and adjust my ire.... Thank you for the info.

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I was torn between laughter and horror ... he really did seem to believe that people adore him this much.

he said that the American people want him to rest and take care of himself. Some upstart journalist asked him why he was playing golf while things were getting so bad in Iraq. Bush was quite sincere when he said that. It was back in 2003 or so.

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Harry Truman washed his own underwear and socks by hand each night, because he thought it improper to have another person do such things for you.

Today, Truman is considered a great president. But not so when he was actually in the WH. Back then, the same right-wing major media that hounded Clinton and Carter (and Roosevelt) mercilessly pounded Harry from every direction. They did all they could to drive down his popularity and install their own boy as Prez.

But Truman's honesty and modesty were easily apparent to people when they could see him in person. The press wouldn't help him do that, so he did it himself. And won.

It's easy to win when, like Truman, you're in the right and willing to fight.

Pelosi, et al, are in the right, but scared to fight.

...heck if you believe the whole story, people even crucified J. Christ.

OK - PEOPLE (some of them anyway) are damn stupid.

I think of that whenever I see George W. Bush strutting around. Imperial presidency, indeed. (I was delighted to read in a Rolling Stone report that Al Gore, during the 2000 campaign, kept his stuff in a backpack ... though the press would probably have flipped out if he'd ever toted it around in front of them.)

That's interesting to hear about Harry S. Another DUer commented that he had the privilege of seeing President Truman strolling around his hometown, after he'd left office -- he was always well-dressed, without being flashy. As you say, he knew how to make a impression. (Bush has nice clothes, but going around with his jacket rumpled or his fly open kind of ruins it ...)

But what truly irritates me is when Bush bullies or humiliates people whom he perceives as being inferior to him (aides, reporters, and even some foreign dignitaries). For the record, I'm Canadian, and the Americans I met when I was growing up (my parents' friends and co-workers) would never have been so rude or crass. I am actually grateful that almost all of them have passed away, because they would have been horrified. (My elderly "Uncle Aaron" is just about the last one left, and he is a lifelong old-school Republican who saw Bush for what he is, and refused to vote for him. Twice.)

...the word for GWB (well and all Repubes really): Pretentious

Well that's ONE of them anyway. Others that often come to mind for me are hypocritical, narcissistic, psychopathic, arrogant...that party is like the typical abusive husband/spouse/boyfriend. And so are their leaders - except on top of that, they're even worse criminals.

You are so correct! :applause: