Bush: Addicted to Empty Rhetoric (Arianna Huffington)

[Up2Late]

Bush: Addicted to Empty Rhetoric

Arianna Huffington
Thu Feb 2, 7:52 PM ET

There is nothing more infuriating than hearing something you passionately believe in -- and indeed have been advocating for years -- cynically co-opted by someone who clearly doesn't mean it. That's why the smoke started pouring out of my ears Tuesday night when President Bush announced: "America is addicted to oil, which is often imported from unstable parts of the world."

How much the president didn't mean anything by his bold statement became crystal clear the day after the State of the Union when his own Energy Secretary, Samuel Bodman, said that the president's call "to make our dependence on Middle Eastern oil a thing of the past" should not be taken literally. Trust me, Sam, I didn't.

Hearing this presidential diagnosis from an oilman starting the sixth year of an administration that has unwaveringly turned the White House into a veritable full-service fueling station for Big Oil -- allowing oil refinery merger after oil refinery merger, doling out billions in tax breaks to energy interests, deriding conservation, and steadfastly refusing to increase fuel-efficiency standards for cars -- was like hearing the makers of the "Girls Gone Wild" videos denounce the coarsening of our culture.

I also wondered if I and my cofounders in the Detroit Project -- Lawrence Bender, Laurie David, and Ari Emanuel -- should ask the White House for a royalty check. Three years ago, we produced a series of TV ads urging American consumers to connect the dots between the cars we drive, our addiction to oil, and our national security.

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[sam sarrha]

1. you NEED TO GO TO this >>LINK

just Google....'renana brooks and Bush'

you will get articles about his "EMPTY SPEECH" which is a psychological term in reference to wife beaters.. and abusers.

the blue link in my signature is by an authority on alcohol and drug addiction ... which is why i am always calling him a Wet Brain Alcoholic Drug Addict.. it actually is true and explains a lot of his problems and problems he causes us in the process of being brain damaged..

[madrchsod]

2. which would explain

his inability to speak coherently when he is surprised by a question he either doesn`t understand or wishes not to think about. he is deteriorating faster than reagan did in the same point in time in their presidencies

[Up2Late]

3. Yes, what that author wrote is very similar to a book from 2003...

...which is called "Bush on the Couch." Last year, as part of his July speech that marks the anniversary of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro read large sections of that book to his audience. His speeches tend to go at least 1-2 hours, so he has time to read things like this.

I saw it on CSPAN, but a transcript of his speech (translated to english) is at this link:

<http://english.pravda.ru/world/20/91/368/13573_Castro.html>

If you were to print the full article, the part about "Bush on the Couch" begins near the bottom of page two, but the previous pages all lead up to it, as he tell of all the crazy statements * made toward Cuba.

[opihimoimoi]

4. Lolo as a LOON