Bush: "I've done more for human rights than any other President."

[Paragon]

Something Bush said to Ken Auletta (author of Backstory), as relayed to Bill Moyers on NOW.

Hmmm, can anybody out there think of a President who's done more for human rights?

:eyes:

[POed_Ex_Repub]

1. He said WHAT???

I bet he was trying hard not to laugh. :eyes:

[Paragon]

4. Actually, that's exactly what he said he was doing.

Watch this week's NOW - every piece is great this week, including an interview with Helen Thomas. Auletta's interview is last on the program.

[0007]

25. I viewed it last night

[coloradodem2005]

2. A list of Presidents that have done more for human rights than Bush.

The first 42 Presidents.


There you have it.

[Cat Atomic]

3. Now let's be fair.

The idiot can't read. How's he supposed to know about a bunch of old dead guys?

[neebob]

5. Exsqueeze me?

Maybe he meant he's done bad things for human rights. Or rights like the right to be greedy and lie like a mofo and use people and be an idiot and stuff.

[Kool Kitty]

8. You may have a point there.

The statement really wasn't specific. What an embarrassment W is.

[Eloriel]

36. Maybe he thinks he really did libarate the Iraqis -- ?

:shrug:

[Dover]

6. PHEW! Wow...if he actually believes that...we're in BIG BIG trouble

He is over the cuckoo's nest....into the land of the missing. :crazy:

[BackDoorMan]

13. We're in big trouble because people and the media believe and

continue to repeat Bush's lies like this, until they begin to believe it themselves and ignore the facts and do no research to see the facts for themselves...sheep!

As usual, Bush will say any bullshit lie and expects enough people to accept it as the truth. And the republican owned corporate media pimps his bullshit relentessly as gospel.

[megaplayboy]

7. Wrong preposition...

He meant to say, "I've done more TO human rights than any other President."

[Guaranteed]

19. LOL

:)

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

9. He HAS done a lot for human rights

There are a lot of human right legs and arms laying all over Iraq because of Bush*.

[LibertyorDeath]

10. The utter gall where to begin with this one.

It's now completely obvious that the man is totally delusional and believes his own lies (hype)

[neebob]

11. Remember Nixon talking to the portraits?

I'm wondering about Bush now.

[Aidoneus]

12. like that's an accomplishment?

merely along with the position he's in league with a rogue's gallery of destructive hypocrites.. he could sit on his ass and do nothing all day and the statement would be correct. That he thinks butchering thousands every couple years means "human rights" is just bizarre.

[Q3JR4]

14. What the h*ll ever...

**first part self-edited due to explicit language***

Whatever that man is smoking please give me some.

[Q3JR4]

15. If by

"doing more for human rights than any other president" he means that his policies have caused a larger disparity between the income brackets (more poor), a balloning deficit will probably cause Medicare and Social Security to be cut (creating even more poor),
bombing two innocent countries and then refusing to count the innocent bodies that got caught in the cross hairs, trying to knock back affirmative action for minorities, jumping on the band wagon to strip "human rights" from a group of people because of the sex of the individuals they decide to date, holding 300 people without access to lawyers, presiding over the administration that is responsible for the shredding of our constitutional rights, three words, "Free Speach zones," finally (but not limited to) proposing to spend billions of dollars on a new space race while thousands of the U.S. population goes hungry, then yes he has "done more for human rights than any other president."

Come this next election, we should all remind him of these accomplishments.

[Piperay]

16. Every

other President that came before him and that even includes the repukes have done more for human rights than the chimp.

[rman]

17. so he lies again, what else is new

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[gold_bug]

27. I'm sure he believes it

because not only is he the stupidest president ever, but you have to remember that for most of the Repubs DOWN IS UP.

[priller]

45. And the most deluded

Remember, he also thinks God appointed him to be President. He really does.

[Skidmore]

18. There is an issues ad just waiting to be made based on

this statement and his actions of last year and this year on MLKs observance, with many other events strung between.

[Guaranteed]

20. Two words: COGNITIVE DISSONANCE.

:crazy:

[dbt]

23. Two more words:

Horse shit.

:hippie:
dbt
WWWGD
(What Would Wavy Gravy Do?)

[onecitizen]

21. POTUS is crazy.......

truly, the guy is flip city.

[Lost4words]

22. He has trampeled more human rights than any other fake pres.

[baldguy]

24. He's right

After all, you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone. Right?

[are_we_united_yet]

26. Say What?!?!?!?!!

GRRRR!!!

He said what?!?!?! Maybe he meant he did more to erode human rights than any other President. Maybe he meant he has done more to polarize this country than any other President. Maybe he meant he has done more to alienate this country from its allies than other President. Maybe he meant he's spent more than any other President. Vacationed more. Lied more. Been more arrogant.

Those are much more accurate statements.

[jmowreader]

28. Well, he's right

If you look at the kind of "president" he is, and then look at the other "presidents" in his class (homicidal maniacs who were installed by the ruling junta), he really has done more for human rights than any of those other guys.

Certainly he's been a more tireless defender of the right to free speech than Pol Pot or Idi Amin--after all, his goon squad drags people behind the wall before shooting them, unlike guys like the president of China during Tiananmen Square, who just had 'em shot right in front of all of their friends.

And he's been a more tireless defender of the right to protest than Augusto Pinochet. Bush's goon squad only uses water cannons. Pinochet's used field artillery.

And who can forget his never-ceasing defense of the right to keep and bear arms? No other president in his class has ever kowtowed to the gun nuts the way Bush has--in fact, they're one of his most faithful contingencies. Alberto Fujimori sent his goon squads around to police up the guns; Bush encourages gun ownership so long as you're white, rich and contribute heavily to the Republican Party. This won't work to his detriment, since his goon squad is the most heavily-armed in history.

If you're comparing Bush to the other 42 presidents the United States has had, stop. There is no comparison. Those guys were all legally elected.

[Deja Q]

29. Uh-huh. And I've given more money to the repubicans than he has.

:eyes:

The apostate* is utterly delusional.

[kodi]

30. his comment was made right before he made his horse a general?

bush is certifiably nuts.

[salinen]

31. Nobody here understood chimp.

What he means by, "I've done more for human rights than any other president" is that he has done more for humans that are Right Wingers. Duh!

[FlaGranny]

32. Well, I hate to say this, but

from his perspective - maybe. What are human rights to a neocon? Think about it. I would sum up his perspective as "the rights of neocons and fundies." He's done a whole lot for THEM. The rest of us and the world don't really count. So, yes, I can believe he was serious.

[Hubert Flottz]

33. Drunk Again?

Has to be!

[Mari333]

34. and Im the King of SIAM

Lies and the Lying Liars who tell them..

[brook]

35. Well...

we've never had Free Speech zones before, have we?

The putz is bonkers.

[RBHam]

37. You all misheard...

He said he's done more for "Human Fights" than any other President...

[Generic Other]

38. Are you sure he didn't say humans on the right?

You know how he mangles his syntax.

[KansDem]

43. Or maybe he meant to say...

"screwing rights"
"human fights"
????? :shrug:

[PVnRT]

39. 2+2=5

What an idiot.

[F-5]

40. WHAT???

Bush has done more for human rights than any other President???? Bullshit. He hasn't done a damn bit of any good with human rights. In fact, he's taken away a lot of human rights.

Why did this quote have to come out before MLK Day????

Makes me sick and pissed. :puke: :grr:

[Cleita]

41. We know he's a liar.

I hope he isn't starting to believe his fantasies.

[Astarho]

42. Which is true, but

usually when people talk about doing things for human rights they mean beneficial things!

[Bridget Burke]

44. He's definitely helped enrollment in the ACLU!

Although much of the credit goes to his guy, Ashcroft.

Oops, time to renew. Thanks for the reminder, Junie!