Bush wants to be liked for "having actually done something that's measurable"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

"Everybody wants to be liked," Bush said at Monday's forum when influential pastor Rick Warren chatted with him about the AIDS effort. "But being liked because you've actually done something constructive that's measurable is the best way to try to be liked."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/01/bush-uses-final-50-days-i_n_147561.html

MEASURABLE:

http://icasualties.org/oif/

U.S. Military Deaths: 4207

[Warren Stupidity]

1. Too bad they never bothered to count the Iraqis.

That was a much more impressive number.

[Solly Mack]

2. Torture is measurable

wounds...maiming...scars...death...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. Oh, he will be remembered, all right...

All his numbers point to his failures...

:puke:

[Sarah Ibarruri]

4. Is it okay to call him President Shithead? nt

[Warren Stupidity]

6. How about: 'That fucking asshole is still in office?'

[Sarah Ibarruri]

10. That's it! Thank you , my friend, for thinking of a far more accurate way to put it! nt

[Veritas_et_Aequitas]

12. Why not?

My 93 year old grandmother has been calling him that since 2002.

[BrklynLiberal]

5. The man is totally delusional. I think he should be committed..immediately.

[mike_c]

7. killed almost as many Iraqis as Bill Clinton, maybe more....

Measure that.

[aquart]

14. Ah, the "Clinton is evil" meme.

Bet it makes you feel all clever.

[mike_c]

15. I note that you can't deny it....

At least not without lying.

Lesley Stahl on U.S. sanctions against Iraq: We have heard that a half million children have died. I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?

Secretary of State Madeleine Albright: I think this is a very hard choice, but the price--we think the price is worth it.

Note that the "price"-- 560,000 dead Iraqi children and by most estimates as many adults, nearly a million Iraqi civilians-- was "worth it" in 1997. The question today is whether or not Dubya managed to out kill the Big Dawg in Iraq. It's a close call. Bill might still be the champ.

[Vickers]

8. How many times has he fallen off of bikes, Segways, sofas, etc?

:shrug:

That's one way to measure him, and I bet it's a damned impressive number.

[hobbit709]

9. He exceeded the "measurable" limits

of total incompetent assholishness years ago. He is now in Terra Incognita when it comes to measurements.

[MichiganVote]

11. Thanks for another lesson in humility you worthless sack of shit.

[hlthe2b]

13. Will he just disappear... permanently?

THAT would be a measurable benefit to 300 million Americans--not to mention the rest of the world.