Best laugh I've had all day!

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Mrs. Bush, Rice: Bush presidency not a failure
By JESSE J. HOLLAND – 2 hours ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — The two most influential women in President George W. Bush's White House — first lady Laura Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice — are strongly defending the president's legacy against critics who are calling his administration one of the worst in history.

"I know it's not, and so I don't really feel like I need to respond to people that view it that way," Mrs. Bush said in an interview that aired Sunday. "I think history will judge and we'll see later."

Rice took a similar view in a separate interview, saying that claims that the Bush administration has been one of the worst ever are "ridiculous."

"I think generations pretty soon are going to start to thank this president for what he's done. This generation will," Rice said.

"Because I think the fact that we have really made foreign assistance not just an issue of giving humanitarian aid or giving money to poor people, but really insisting on good governance and fighting corruption," she said. "I think the fact that this president has laid the groundwork for a Palestinian state, being the first president, as a matter of policy, to say that there should be one, and now, I think, laying the foundation that's going to lead to that Palestinian state — I can go on and on."


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[ColbertWatcher]

1. I don't know who ssaid it first, but ...

... someone pointed out that whenever the Bush "men" get in trouble, they trot the "women" out in front of the media.

[Mabus]

12. Yeah, who can forget the time Poppy brought his momma out

in front of the cameras to try to circumvent questions about Jennifer Fitzgerald? Heck, iirc, Poppy brought out every Bush he could find - kids and grandkids - to hide behind and avoid embarrassing questions about his girlfriend.

[TahitiNut]

2. "laying the foundation that's going to lead to that Palestinian state"

Since when does a pile of corpses make a 'foundation' for anything?

:puke:

[aquart]

9. Most places, actually.

[Faygo Kid]

3. If I were you, Condi, I would worry about a war crimes trial.

Because you are a war criminal.

"Mushroom cloud" indeed.

[CTyankee]

4. Well, that's pathetic. I guess that's the ONLY thing they can say at this point to cover their a's.

Still, what a waste of breath. Just leave. Get out while you have a shred of your former self worth, if you've got even that at this point.

We are SO done with you, don't you get it? Shut up and slink off into ignominy!

[HysteryDiagnosis]

5. but really insisting on good governance and fighting corruption

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article641795.ece

Democrats probe billions lost to Baghdad's corruption

http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2007/09/us_embassy_in_baghdad_sees_wid.html

US Embassy in Baghdad Sees Widespread Iraqi Corruption

http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/66789/four_years_and_billions_of_dollars_later,_baghdad_still_has_intermittent_electricity/

Four Years and Billions of Dollars Later, Baghdad Still has Intermittent Electricity

[DJ13]

6. They make such a cute threesome

[trof]

7. "Yep, we did a really good job. Really!"

"Honest. Bush is just the best. Really. Why are you looking at me that way? What?"
:eyes:

[Ilsa]

8. "...giving humanitarian aid or giving money to poor people..." -- EXCEPT

when it comes to taking care of the citizens of the United States. According to the GOP and the Bush Admin, food, shelter, access to healthcare, aren't American necessities. And they worked hard to make it get worse.

[sam sarrha]

10. as the jews bomb the shit out of the Palestinians, and are massed at the boarder to finish the rest

off.. who are under to siege, starved, constantly harassed while corralled by 40 foot concrete walls great F'n legacy.

what can you expect from a wet brain alcoholic psychotic narcississy..

we really got off really easy with just a terrible economic depression.. considering what he was really capable of

[CTyankee]

20. oh, those jews, those jews. Can you not think of a provocation that might cause this?

Just wondering here...

[Tangerine LaBamba]

11. This is an SNL skit,

right?

RIGHT?????????????????

[rurallib]

17. or maybe onion news?

[kentuck]

13. Perhaps a better question might have been..?

"Who do you think was a worse President??"

If they say Jimmy Carter, they would leave little doubt but that they are full of shit.

[surrealAmerican]

14. Rice sounds like she's just making this up as she goes.

She must be smart enough to know none of it is true. How does that phrase go again? - "You have a right to your own opinions, but not your own facts."

[hootinholler]

15. Best line in the article:

Rice noted that while Germany was reunified in 1990, the work that made it possible was done in the 1940s, "when things didn't look quite so rosy." So historians who are now making judgments about the Bush administration and its Middle East policies aren't very good historians, Rice said.

:rofl:

Yeah, if we hadn't divided Germany with the USSR in the 40's, there never would have been a reunifiction.

So, * is setting the stage for good things to happen in 2050? What, the return of Saladin?

-Hoot

[samplegirl]

16. Yeah sometime aroung 2040

:rofl:

[jmowreader]

18. I'm going to join the Bush ladies in defending our president against this slander

I'm sorry. I don't know, nor care, where this notion that Bush's administration is "one of the worst in history" came from, because it's not. It is THE worst administration in history. It's worse than the Caligula administration.

The notion that George Bush might be even one iota less corrupt than Idi Amin simply must be stopped. It's not true and you know it.

[Swamp Rat]

19. They deserve medals too.