Rick's Cafe Americain

So, Karol, do you think you can come up with a justification for the President surreptitiously wiping his glasses off on the sweater of a constituent??

I don’t know what Ferrari would think, but I rate this movie .

Thanks to Heaneyland for the link

I found the cinematography to be a little rough, thus my initial feeling was only **** stars.

However, upon reflection, I have to wonder whether this short has an intellectual dishonesty similar to a Beautiful Mind (which I thought was great, until I read the book and realized the movie made half the shit up).  It is very possible that the producer told George to do that (i.e., Bush says “someone help me, my glasses are fogged,” busy producer says “just use my oversized, ugly sweater [that I leave on the set and hasn’t been washed in 7 months] honey.”

Has Ms. Pope been interviewed?  Has she spoken out?  Rick, you owe it to your faithful reader(s?) to find these things out.

I wipe my sunglasses on my boyfriend’s shirt all the time.  Bush can wipe his glasses on me anytime.  (I understand, Kerry sucks and the left has already used up all their best material-ie, Bush as chimp etc.)

So you think that Bush is having an affair with the producer?

I notice that Karol never answered Rick’s question from his earlier post ... http://www.rickblaine.com/index/P250/

Karol, I understand you are certainly not a leftist and presumably are quite conservative.  But what is it about Bush that is so wonderful?

I’ll admit that my initial dislike of Bush was because (1) I thought he’d be a tool for the far right and (2) I’d really rather have a more intelligent person as President.  But after everything that has gone on (and been revealed lately) there are serious questions, regardless of political affiliation, about his judgment and fitness to serve as President.  What is it about BUSH that is good (other than him simply being a Republican)?

Karol, does your boyfriend repeatedly lie to you?  Does he do whatever his friends tell him to do, regardless of what you might want or need? Does he make a mess of your home?  Does he remove the water filter from your sink and turn off your air filter?  Does he keep taking money from your wallet to spend on cockfights?  Has he been tossing your cats into the neighbor’s yard as a “pre-emptive strike” against the pit bulls that live there?  Does he refuse to open up?  When you do try to have a serious conversation, does he insist on having his buddy there?  Is he still friendly with the ex-girlfriend who tried to burn down your apartment?  Is he a recovering alcoholic who constantly pretends to be a “jock” when in fact was a bench warmer for the JV team (when he showed up for games)?  If so, I can understand why you support Bush, but you should really dump both of them.

Soooo funny.  First of all, who knew that the Rick Blaine site was talking to me.  I clicked over from Clarified to discover a post to me and then I learn, via Ferrari’s comments, that there were previous questions.

I like Bush for a lot of reasons.  First, and to me most importantly, I see the war on terror in the same way that he does.  I think the war in Iraq was a good thing.  I think strong support for Israel is a good thing.  I like that he’s scary.  I like that he’s determined to bring democracy to the Middle East.  He may fail, but then we all have.  To leave that cesspool untouched is to ask for a million more 9/11s and to expect that it’s all over for us as soon as one of those countries gets a nuke.

I like low taxes.  I wish he would cut spending but I would bet that a Democrat in the office would spend as much as he did, if not more.  The Democrats aren’t exactly known as the party that cuts spending.

I have my issues with Bush.  I hate the prescription drugs plan, his insane immigration policy, the gay marriage constitutional amendment but compared to terrorism, these are minor things.  We can’t argue about new entitlement programs for the richest segment of the population if we’re all dead.

Further, my problems with Bush, sans the amendment one, are problems I would have with any Democratic president.  I think liberals live in fantasyland where they think about how they’d like things to be without ever figuring out if its possible.  That’s why I’m a conservative.  I considered the right to be much more grounded.

As for Rick’s comment, as usual, you make very little sense.  Cat tossing?  Cock fighting?  Watch out for those walls, sometimes they just sneak up on ya.

Goddammit I am so sick of people proceeding fromt he assumption that the only way to “clean up that cesspool” was to invade Iraq.  FUCKING SAUDIA ARABIA, PEOPLE!!! No one is safer now than they were before the invasion of Iraq, except Saddam and Osama.

Um, the Democrats aren’t exactly known as the party that will spend $100 billion on a needless and poorly executed war, either.  Let’s assume for the moment (and I think it is an erroneous assumption) that a Democrat—hell, let’s say a more independent Republican—would have spent as much as this administration has.  I am as sure as one can be of anything that it would have been better spent.  When you are 60 and the US is begging China for economic protection, I want you to tell me how much you love Bush.

I don’t know if it was a Freudian typo or not, but “considered” says it all.  This is not about Republican/Democrat (or shouldn’t be).  It’s about an administration that is making INCREDIBLY bad decisions that will have long-lasting and devastating effects on all of us.

By the way, the cat-tossing and cock fighting are “metaphors“.

Karol (I actually though Kashei was a much cooler name), fine, you like the war in Iraq.  When we invaded (based on the info we were told), it was a close call, but of course those were not the reasons.  The real reasons, which Bush hid b/c he knew would be unpopular, are (1) to unseat a dictator (with a little revenge for daddy); (2) to bring democracy to the Middle East; (3) to combat (how is not clear) terrorism and (4) because a higher calling told Bush to; and (5) an amorphous belief it would make things safer and more stable.

Now, I assume you agree with most of those things, but even so, doesn’t it bother you that Bush wasn’t honest enough to be forthright about those reasons.

Further, here is why I disagree with those reasons.

(1) A great a noble idea.  Problem is that (a) there are lots of dictators and Saddam is not the worst, why Iraq?, (b) one nation going around doing regime change and “nation” building is scary, if it is done, it should be a coalition effort and LEADERSHIP is building that coalition (FYI - England does not a coalition make); (c) it will create a huge economic drain on the U.S.

(2) Easier said than done, as this experience has shown.  Why is invading a country the best way to bring democracy to it?  Certain institutions usually need to be in place for a democracy to work and be practical, many of those were lacking and they are not so easy to impose.  And it will create a huge economic drain on the U.S.

(3) Invading a muslim country would appear to create more terrorists, not less.  No evidence that Iraq was solidly behind any substantial anti-U.S. terrorism.  AND troops and $$ was diverted from Afghanistan, which is where the terrorists (and some guy named Osama) are.  And it will create a huge economic drain on the U.S.

(4) Ummm....that is just fucking scary.  I mean really scary.  Also the same motivation (if a different god) as Muslim extremists—at least the intellectually honest ones.  Religion and politics don’t mix well, having a President who mixes them more than, perhaps, any President in history—not a good thing.  And it will create a huge economic drain on the U.S.

(5) I thought it would destabilize the region.  However, I never thought it would be this bad.  Bush, et al, apparently believed we would be hailed as heroes ... the naivete of this view alone (read any history books, pay any attention to the Middle East) should disqualify Bush from being President.  And it will create a huge economic drain on the U.S.

Will someone please wake up and notice the fact that the U.S. is no longer the unquestioned economic super power.  Our education is subpar.  HIGH TECH jobs are being exported.  Other, leaner nations, are spending essentially no money on war and much more money on educating their populace for the high tech future.  I am not saying we get rid of our military, or even decrease (pre-Iraq war) spending.  But going around the world trying to impose our ideals is a damn good way to drain away Americans hard earned money (and lives).  But, of course, we should also cut taxes at the same time.

No offense folks, but this footage is ancient.  If anyone thinks making it an issue now will affect the upcoming election in any way, the election is already sown up . . . and not for the Democrats. 

Oh, darn.  I thought for sure Ugarte’s post was going to get Bush impeached.

Karol said: “I wish he would cut spending but I would bet that a Democrat in the office would spend as much as he did, if not more.”

So...that would be why we had a balanced budget under Clinton, and now have crazy-ass deficits under W?

Silly Francis.  Bushies are immune to logic. Try garlic.