11 Comments

1. bill bush  •  Mar 9, 2010 @10:35 am
   

   Doesn’t he know he’s supposed to put (Snark) at the end of something like that?

2. calling all toasters  •  Mar 9, 2010 @11:17 am
   

   You can backdate this post about 20 years, as far as I’m concerned.

3. Pat  •  Mar 9, 2010 @11:23 am
   

   I can now be the one to say I told you so, as millions suffer economically from what was wrought under “W”, that Stanley Fish is still an idiot…one who shouldn’t be teaching anyone anything.

   I have this little bottle opener that helps me to remiinisce about those idyllic Bush years each and every time I open a beer, maybe 2-6 times a week. The bottle cap completes a circuit causing one of four Bush quotes to play. I get one of these:

   – Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream

   – If this were a dictatorship, it’d be a heck of a lot easier, just as long as I’m the dictator.

   – Too many OB-GYNs aren’t able to practice their love with women all across this country.

   – And, you know, it’ll take time to restore chaos and order – order out of chaos. But we will.

   …and these were hardly head and shoulders above thousands more that could have been used. I am reminded almost daily of what a cognitively deficient and destructive idiot Bush was. The worst thing is that he ushered in a new bizzare era of magical thinking to the extent that people emulate his freedom not to be bothered by the facts.

4. biggerbox  •  Mar 9, 2010 @11:44 am
   

   Yes, he is an idiot, and he shows such reasoning skills. The entire basis for his “I was right” claim is what evidence? One billboard and a single Newsweek cover which he can reasonably be charged with misinterpreting. (I don’t think suggesting that it took years and a different man to ‘accomplish’ that misguided mission was a sign of nostalgia for Shrub, really. How could you?)

   Wow.

   Of course, there are a number of supportive comments on the piece, which I can only understand by remembering that there were, after all, millions of people who voted for McCain/Palin, and one cannot expect people as dumb as stumps to gain wisdom overnight. (Perhaps ever, but you never know.)

   But for the rest of the people on the planet, I think the answer to the question “Miss me yet?” is a resounding “Hell no!”

5. felicity  •  Mar 9, 2010 @2:27 pm
   

   Happy days. Eight years of Bush have led to unprecedented despair, economic chaos and a ruinous (wars.) Bush (Reagan and Gingrich) turned the world’s richest, freest country into a decaying, plutocratic, militarized rogue state.

   And I miss the time when I lay in bed with a raging flu because I got waited on hand and foot. Do I miss the flu or do I miss being waited on. Fish apparently wouldn’t know the difference.

6. Lynne  •  Mar 9, 2010 @2:29 pm
   

   Yes, well – and I can’t imagine what GWB is doing in Ireland right now.

7. maha  •  Mar 9, 2010 @3:32 pm
   

   I can’t imagine what GWB is doing in Ireland right now

   Pretending he doesn’t drink.

8. jugheadjack  •  Mar 9, 2010 @6:07 pm
   

   Mr Bush. Mr. Bush. Did you know that you single handidly created a holocaust in Iraq ? Hell you displaced over five million people from their homes and not only that, you have slaughtered over amillon people. How did you know which little country to choose? Bush: Aw shucks, i ve all ways been good at killing people

9. Swami  •  Mar 9, 2010 @6:08 pm
   

   Fish must be using Malkin journalism..say any stupid thing just to get a reaction from the public and then twist that reaction into a self validation of being perceived as a profound thinker.

   Bush is about the biggest asshole ever to hit the American political scene. He was an experiment in political marketing that went awry . A loser of the first order who had no business being the President of the United States.. A moron, a clown, an impostor, a dim witted little preppie who brought disgrace upon our nation.

   I hope he chokes on another pretzel sometime soon…and there is no way that either him or his history can ever be rehabilitated .

10. c u n d gulag  •  Mar 9, 2010 @7:37 pm
    

    jugheadjack,
    It may have been a holocaust for Iraq, but here in America, it was a
    “Hell-o’-a-cost!”

    Swami,
    You forgot to mention that there’s a lot of evidence out there that he’s gay. “Not that there’s anything wrong with that!”

11. erinyes  •  Mar 11, 2010 @8:10 pm
    

    Swami, you forgot Poland……………