What one quote, photo, video, etc. defines Bush for you?

[arcadian]

For me, it was the mocking of Carla Faye Tucker. That told me that this is one of the most selfish evil men I have ever seen in my life. That and the "have/have mores you are my base" footage.

[Uncle Joe]

1. Contrasting your post re: Carla Faye Tucker and Bush's answer during a 2000 debate as to

who was the most influential person in his life and he stated without blinking Jesus Christ, this told me all I needed to know about Bush's regard to truth and compassion.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

2. "All in all, it's been a great year for Laura and me."

[hlthe2b]

29. :"FABULOUS" year, don't you remember...

Seems everything was "FABULOUS" with him for a while until one of his more homophobic aids probably told him to knock it off.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

58. You could be right. I googled it and got several "great"s so I copied and pasted.

I heard some other repub say 'fabulous' the other day and recalled bush's fab fad.

[hobbit709]

3. "There must be limits to free speech"

Said by him when he was governor.

[Dulcinea]

4. Boy George in the flight suit.

"Mission Accomplished." What a phony crock of crap!

[EmilyAnne]

5. "So what?" Said with a shrug. nt

[DinahMoeHum]

6. The expression on Bush's face during 9/11 in that Florida classroom.

He looked like a deer in the headlights, like he was completely out of his depth, like he didn't know what the fuck to do.

I remember arguing with my brother about Bush vs Gore way back in 2000 and I said words that still haunt me - that my biggest fear was that Bush as a president would fail all of us as a nation in a time of crisis. Unfortunately, I was proven right.

:evilfrown:

[Spazito]

7. I found his inability to acknowledge even ONE mistake he had made...

when asked about it to be very definitive of what kind of person he was.

[TankLV]

8. Something about being a dictator "only if I'm the DICTATOR..."

[malaise]

40. That's mine

and the second is the absent from Katrina photo

[csziggy]

48. "If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator."

George Walker Bush
— Washington, D.C., Dec. 19, 2000

Other things had made me dislike him, but that cinched my belief that he was going to be dangerous to our country, especially with his little, "Heh, heh" afterwards.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNo0_klKzis

[XemaSab]

9. Looking for the WMD's as a "joke"

:banghead:

[stillcool]

15. that was mine too...

and admitting his base is the "haves and have mores". He really flaunted his disregard for the American people..except those of his own ilk. What a group they must be when they're away from public eyes.

[omega minimo]

10. "sometimes heheh ya gotta CATAPULT THE PROPAGANDA heh hehe hhe heh heh"

[Arctic Dave]

11. The photo of b*sh dressed in his CIC costume serving fake food to

the men and women in Iraq.
That photo sums up how phony and full shit he was, is and always will be.

[omega minimo]

12. fake food to photoshopped faces

[ColbertWatcher]

31. ...

[Arctic Dave]

35. That one. Barf!

[tabbycat31]

46. there's 2 turkeys in that picture

according to my 85 year old grandfather.

[mix]

61. vile n/t

[damntexdem]

13. Mission Accomplished -- while Dubya played dressup.

He thought his evil had triumphed -- or at least wanted Americans to believe it.

[DJ13]

14. ........

[indepat]

34. You are either with us or a'gin us: this is junior's salute to all in the latter category, to wit,

to all who do not give 100% support to his every initiative, action, or agenda, lock, stock, and barrel, no exceptions. :P

[GoCubsGo]

39. Yup.

That photo sums up everything mentioned on this thread.

[closeupready]

55. Yeah, seriously. Who past the age of 16 even does that?

A spoiled brat who never grew up.

[B o d i]

16. "I call upon all nations to do everything they can to stop terror. Thank You. Now watch this drive."

[omega minimo]

18. Top 10 for sure.

[Tarc]

17. "...when the final history is written on Iraq, it'll look just like a comma..."

:grr:

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

19. going aWol

[ColbertWatcher]

20. This one.

[mix]

22. +1

[Elidor]

44. That's the one

If there's an icon for the last eight years, that's it right there.

[sinkingfeeling]

21. "You're either with us or against us"

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

23. "Bring it on!" and "Smoke 'em out." The comic book president.

[OnyxCollie]

24. "Money trumps peace, sometimes."

-George W. Bush, February 14, 2007.

[mix]

25. wrong door, wrong everything

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

49. Gotta be that one or his other great China moment:

stumbling in a hammered stupor down the stairs of the Olympic stadium with Pickles and Barbara pretending they couldn't see him. The utterly cretinous expression, the (probably) drunken clumsiness. Those capture so perfectly the complete ignorant, shit-eating essence of the Chimp who was Selected Pretzeldent.

[spoony]

56. That's it for me

And you summed it up perfectly.

[PA Democrat]

26. "I'm a war president. I make decisions here in the Oval Office

in foreign policy matters with war on my mind."

George Bush waged war not just against foreign countries, but against all of us as well.

[ramblin_dave]

27. "I was sitting outside the classroom waiting to go in,

and I saw an airplane hit the tower - the TV was obviously on - and I used to fly myself, and I said, 'There's one terrible pilot'. And I said, 'It must have been a horrible accident'."

[hlthe2b]

28. That and how much easier it would be if US was a dictatorship...

(as long as HE were dictator, of course). Like the Carla Faye Tucker episode, Bush's* true beliefs had a way of coming out--frequently.

[mudesi]

30. THIS VIDEO, RIGHT HERE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKX6luiMINQ

[Gidney N Cloyd]

32. Don't forget the shoes!

[bbgrunt]

33. when he wiped his glasses on the clothes

of a producer--in front of the camera--of the Letterman show, I knew we were in for some serious shit. That was his defining minute fore me.

[indepat]

36. The two images that come to mind are one of a child said to have blown up frogs and the other of

a man known to have ordered people blown up or tortured. :P

[Warpy]

37. Booker School, 9/11/01

The look on his face as he turns back to that stupid book.

It was utterly blank.

[alsame]

38. During the 2000 campaign, a reporter asked him if he knew

the names of the leaders of some other countries. He didn't, of course, and he snapped at the reporter, something like "No, I don't know - do YOU?"

Right then I knew he was an idiot who was going to be used as the puppet by a cabal behind the scenes.

And it was so indicative of his personality - ignorance and arrogance.

[madamesilverspurs]

41. Florida 2000, before SCOTUS installed him...

"Jeb promised me!"

[Botany]

42. He never won election

[Individualist]

43. "Lucky Me. I hit the trifecta."

[spanone]

45. this picture says it all ....his compassion, his kindness, his humility...

[acmavm]

57. THERE IT IS. That picture says everything about this vapid, ignorant,

petty, selfish, ignorant, narcissistic little 'man'. If you have to use words, they would fill a book. But you see that picture and YOU KNOW!

[blogslut]

47. ...

[Mari333]

50. WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS DINNER. NO WMD'S HAHAHAHA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKX6luiMINQ

THIS WAS WHEN I LOST IT.

[steelmania75]

51. This quote sums it up for me:

"There's an old saying in Tennessee-I know it's in Texas-probably in Tennessee-that says: Fool me once, shame on......shame on you, fool me-you can't get fooled again"

Priceless!

[closeupready]

52. The 'have/have mores' quote is also one of mine. Also,

the photo of him with the Queen, and he looks like a 53-year-old spoiled brat and she's standing there, basically ignoring him. I don't have a link to it, but someone here posted it a couple years ago.

[derby378]

53. From his MEET THE PRESS interview with Tim Russert: "I don't testify"

That told me all I needed to know about Bush's hubris and arrogance, no matter how hard he tried to hide it behind a mask of folksiness.

[sutz12]

54. Good choices all....but...

I'm kinda fond of this one.

[Sewsojm]

59. Playing guitar,

While millions of Americans lost their homes or lives in the devastation wrought by hurricane Katrina, Bush not only goes about business as usual, he plays the guitar.

[Alexander]

66. He isn't even playing the guitar correctly.

That would be an open "G" chord, but his fingers are on the wrong frets. They're a half-step too high.

And the guy behind him looks afraid that Chimpy is going to drop the damn thing. Not to mention the lizard tongue look that the background gives him.

[X_Digger]

60. 'It's just a goddamned piece of paper' -- re Constitution

May be apocryphal, but I can see him saying that.

[onethatcares]

62. the one where he couldn't open the door,

summed up his entire time in office.

I'll never think of him being in charge of our country, I don't care what name you want to make up for the role they made him play. he is nothing.

[tabasco]

63. "Now watch this drive."

[Uzybone]

64. This one, several minutes after "America is under attack"

[Fozzledick]

65. "Who cares what you think?"

Sums up his attitude toward democracy, other people, and reality in general.

[Alexander]

67. Bush Sr. smiling right after 9/11 while Jr. looks scared shitless.

[lpbk2713]

68. That night time pic of Shit-for-Brains in NOLA.

He flew down there just for a photo-op. They ran electric power in to the block where his handlers had mics and cameras set up. He said a few words of pure bullshit and then hauled ass out of there. AF-1 wasn't even off the ground when they killed all the power they ran in to that part of NOLA just for his bullshit session. No doubt in my mind that asshole will go down in the books as the worst President ever.