So Long, Sucker…

Posted on 01/15/2009 at 8:18 pm by Bob Cesca

…And take your No Attacks Mythology with you. From President Bush’s farewell address:

“There is legitimate debate about many of these decisions, but there can be little debate about the results. America has gone more than seven years without another terrorist attack on our soil.”

President Clinton went more than seven years without a second 1993 WTC attack, and he did it without invading and occupying Iraq; he did it without torture; he did it without illegally spying on American citizens and the rest of it.

Is it an accomplishment if every president is able to boast the same thing: no 9/11 style attacks? I was half-expecting President Bush to praise the fact that he went seven years without a leprechaun chopping down the Washington Monument with a fork, or how we went seven years without robots strangling us in our sleep. Good job!

There’s one difference, though. Only one president allowed a 9/11 style attack on his watch: President George W. Bush. That’s not an accomplishment. It’s a catastrophic failure.

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  • jane from The Hague
  • http://www.sigzone.blogspot.com MG

    “or how we went seven years without robots strangling us in our sleep.”Ah… another plug for Old Glory’s robot insurance.You’re shameless, Cesca.

  • jane from The Hague

    Yeah, Cesca. Shameless, and bored, and anonymous, and pathetic, Cesca.

  • honorfirst

    Only 6 more sleeps…sigh…just knowing that moron is leaving office is like getting a belated Christmas gift!Oh yeah, loved the visual of a leprechaun, the Washington Monument and the fork, Cesna!

  • http://nanotyrnns.blogspot.com/ Nanotyrannus

    How many times is he going to take to the podium to toot his own retarded horn?He knows what’s being said. He knows that history may be still debatin’ Number One, but that they have already pretty much decided how Forty-Three turned out. This routine of changing the media script with a few press conferences and talking points may have worked early on, but he’s not aware that they don’t work anymore.He might not believe his presidency was a failure, but he knows everyone else thinks so, and he’s panicking at the prospect that he can’t write his own epitaph.Fucking whiner.

  • http://www.osborneink.com Matt Osborne

    Dear George:”Reading makes a country great.”

  • 11907281

    Hi everyone, I am new here and I just found this place from Bob’s article on huffpo. I’m a registered Canadian offender, but I have served my debt to society though interpretive dance. I know they all say they were innocent but I was, my parent showed me ID saying they were legal but later in life I realized if I really was an American why is my toilet made of ice and why is my house semi-spherical? I’ve been working in call centre’s since 1999 helping Americans connect to the intertubes (Larry Craig was always calling because he forgot how to clear his history and cache) and learning a lot about the average americans brain, which is similar to the Canadian brain minus the Molsen and THC that slows it down like spyware. That said, I always wonder why the amerithrax is not considered another terrorist attack? Is it because it was domestic or because it was not Muslims? I’m really not a conspiracy kinda guy but did anyone else scratch their heads when they pinned it on a dead guy who couldn’t defend himself like Hatfill had to? I look forward to your gracious welcome and humas dip recipes.Nate

  • JG

    this BS is so aggravating–as Bill Maher says, you could attribute it to always wearing a green shirt on Tuesday.What does concern me is the MSM has gobbled this up–if there is some incident or attack, they (and the right) will go after Obama–terrorism is an a-symmetric tactic. Bush had nothing to do with the fact there have been no attacks–if anything, he should be BLAMED for the next attack for pouring gasoline on the situation and breeding hatred towards the U.S.and where the FUCK is Bin Laden. If a Dem had been President, Fixed News would have “Days Bin Laden Has Been Free” ticker on their lower third.

  • http://www.11907281.org 11907281

    Hi everyone, I am new here and I just found this place from Bob’s article on huffpo. I’m a registered Canadian offender, but I have served my debt to society though interpretive dance. I know they all say they were innocent but I was, my parents showed me ID saying they were legal Americans but later in life I realized if I really was an American why is my toilet made of ice and why is my house semi-spherical? I’ve been working in call centre’s since 1999 helping Americans connect to the intertubes (Larry Craig was always calling because he forgot how to clear his history and cache) and learning a lot about the average Americans brain, which is similar to the Canadian brain minus the Molsen and THC that slows it down like spyware. That said, I always wonder why the amerithrax is not considered another terrorist attack? Is it because it was domestic or because it was not Muslims? I’m really not a conspiracy kinda guy but did anyone else scratch their heads when they pinned it on a dead guy who couldn’t defend himself like Hatfill had to? I look forward to your gracious welcome and humas dip recipes.- Nate

  • nverlib

    More hate and nothing constructive from the liberals. Only name calling with little substance. We shall see how great Obama’s decision making is over the next 4 years. His is a very pretty speaker telling people what they want to hear. Yet, he has a great weakness of not acting on the most simplest of ethical matters such as his relationship with Reverend Wright. At least Bush has a spine.

  • EL Mystico

    Really all I heard was blah blah post hoc, ergo propter hoc, blah blah. We haven’t been attacked, therefore no matter what I did it was okay! This is the last of him spending all day on television telling us that he doesn’t care what we think, right?

  • Myhero

    nverlib: If by spine you mean he did everything Cheney and Rove told him to do,..then yes I guess Bush has a spine.

  • wabewawa

    Whoa, Nate, quite the entrance. IMO, you’ve got the style of one of the seasoned regulars already (something I can hardly even attempt to emulate but just sigh and wish for … the “style” or knack or whatever you want to call it, i.e.).Are you on Facebook? I hope Carlos doesn’t think it amiss of me to divulge this info to a first-time poster, but I’m going for it:http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=106858360022Or, if that doesn’t work once you’re logged into FB, then just search for the GDAB Cescans group.

  • jasperjava

    « More hate and nothing constructive from the liberals. »The Presidency, a nearly filibuster-proof Senate, a huge House majority, I’d say that’s pretty constructive.As for the “hate” part, I used to feel guilty about hating Dubya. I was brought up to believe that you shouldn’t hate anybody. But then I decided that it’s OK to hate war criminals who are responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocent people.« Yet, he has a great weakness of not acting on the most simplest of ethical matters such as his relationship with Reverend Wright. »Wow. How long are you going to bring up that tired old bit of wankery? Don’t you realize how it makes you look? Your obvious discomfort with outspoken black people is duly noted.« At least Bush has a spine. »A coward who deserted his post in the National Guard, who avoided combat in Vietnam, who never did an honest day’s work in his life, who spent about a third of his “presidency” on vacation. I suppose that breaking his oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution means that he has a spine? It makes him an oathbreaker and a criminal.

  • jasperjava

    « More hate and nothing constructive from the liberals. »The Presidency, a nearly filibuster-proof Senate, a huge House majority, I’d say that’s pretty constructive.As for the “hate” part, I used to feel guilty about hating Dubya. I was brought up to believe that you shouldn’t hate anybody. But then I decided that it’s OK to hate war criminals who are responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocent people.« Yet, he has a great weakness of not acting on the most simplest of ethical matters such as his relationship with Reverend Wright. »Wow. How long are you going to bring up that tired old bit of wankery? Don’t you realize how it makes you look? Your obvious discomfort with outspoken black people is duly noted.« At least Bush has a spine. »A coward who deserted his post in the National Guard, who avoided combat in Vietnam, who never did an honest day’s work in his life, who spent about a third of his “presidency” on vacation. I suppose that breaking his oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution means that he has a spine? It makes him an oathbreaker and a criminal.

  • http://nanotyrnns.blogspot.com/ Nanotyrannus

    nvrlib, weren’t you ‘lib4ever’ or something yesterday?Anyways. I’ve already asked a web-code geek friend of mine to write a nifty bid of code that will neatly remove your blather before it displays on my browser.It’ll be like you’re not even there, ’cause you won’t be!

  • wabewawa

    Yep, Nano, looks like the troll thing is being more “honest” in terms of its ever-changing monikers now, going from the ironic/sarcastic/just plain supposedly tricksterish? lib4ever to nverlib along the way now.

  • nverlib

    So, there are two non-liberals that have entered the sacred grounds of a liberal let’s trash all things conservative blog. Sorry, I am not lib4ever. I just stumbled onto this site and noticed all the crap flying around about Bush and just wanted to put in a little crap of my own. Judging from the comments about my comment I think you are bothered more by my statement. Geez, one of you is having a friend write code to block comments on a blog. You only hear what you want to hear. You poor thing.

  • Mike from Boston

    “At least Bush had a spine”.

    Chris Matthews said on Olbermanns show tonight something to the effect that Bush is like a Hermit Crab who just came along and found, then wore a shell that he came across and liked because it looked cool to him. Dick Cheney gave him this shell where there was NEVER a spine, my friend.

  • wabewawa

    >>So, there are two non-liberals that have entered the sacred grounds of a liberal let’s trash all things conservative blog.You missed “bill” and “frank” and “payYourWay,” et al., Sybil. And your “Bye Now”s are apparently meaningless.

  • http://nanotyrnns.blogspot.com/ Nanotyrannus

    No, nvrlib, I just won’t hear you anymore. I still will hear Stranahan and his “My Little Pony” optimism, which I often disagree with.You? Nope. I won’t hear you anymore. I gotta get that geek more pixie-sticks and Mt Dew. He’s taking way too long.

  • SillyGit

    Howdy Nate – I love Canada.How is the getting rid of George W. Harper going?I’ll answer your rather outstanding question. We have had 2 terrorist attacks since 9/11 that ‘George the Incompetent’™ making three the total number of terrorist attacks that he failed to protect us from.9/11 was the first although I lean towards considering his inaugeration as the first.The anthrax attack was the second.The D.C. sniper was the third.I guess that since the 2nd and 3rd were domestic terrorists that somehow they don’t count. Kind of fucks up the propaganda that he kept us safe if you count them. He’s gotten used to lying to us and getting away with it so no reason to stop now.I don’t believe for a moment the either Ivers or Hatfill had anything to do with the anthrax attacks. Conspiracy Theorists say it was the Bushies themselves that did it to get the Patriot Act passed and to have an excuse to invade Iraq (which is what PNAC wanted anyway).I don’t know what to think other than it was our anthrax from Ft. Detrick, not Iraq’s as the Bushies leaked to ABC in October 2001 in order to rush into the invasion before anyone discovered that it was our own bioweapon. Ivers had the stuff because he makes vaccines for potential bioweapon attacks. His colleagues refuse to believe he was involved with mailing it to anyone.D.C. snipers were homegrown wingnuts.Hope this helps.Now to address the wingnuttery of nverlib

    Yet, he has a great weakness of not acting on the most simplest of ethical matters such as his relationship with Reverend Wright.

    I shouldn’t reply to this but I shall anyway.First, Obama has already said multiple times that he does not agree with everything that comes out of Rev. Wright’s mouth. What do you want from him? You think he should have Wright shot? WTF will make you happy?I think that Obama, like me, respects the man’s freedom of speech. Apparently the Reich Wing only believes in freedom of speech when the speaker says things they agree with.I think that Obama, like me, respects the man’s right to criticize his country since he is a highly decorated Vietnam veteran. He has way more than earned the right. You should look at his bio sometime. It’s at Wikipedia. It’s very impressive.NEWSFLASH – The founding fathers put the first amendment into the bill of rights precisely so that citizens, any citizen, including but not limited to Rev. Wright can criticize this country and/or its government. Only a fascist piece of crap would want to abridge that freedom.I listened to the entire sermon not just the carefully cherry-picked sound-bites that were used during the campaign. I thought it was an excellent sermon and the Rev. Wright made his points well. I agreed with him. I’ve seen the same bullshit that he has.YMMV

  • ceu

    >>The first President to bomb Iraq. Bill Clinton.Bzzzz…wrong, but thanks for playing. The US bombed Iraq during the Gulf War – perhaps you’ve heard of it??

  • ceu

    Perhaps if he hadn’t invaded a sovereign nation which had nothing to do with the murder of all those people (sidenote – not all were American citizens) and then authorized what are clearly war crimes, history would have been kinder. PERHAPS if he’d acted on the daily briefings those people wouldn’t have died that day…Personally, I want him prosecuted for doing unspeakable things in my name and for failing to keep his oath to “preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States”. I want him hauled off to prison to live out the rest of his sorry life in ignominy, with his so-called legacy consigned to the dung heap of history.That’s how I feel about those who trash my country….

  • Myhero

    >>I find it’s the left that’s been trashing my country ever since Howard Dean began his smear campaign during the 2004 election.If you truly believe that I actually feel sorry for you. You apparently watch entirely too much Fox news.Here’s a thought, try thinking for yourself, take a honest look at whats happened the last eight years, look at both sides of the arguments then look up the facts. While its true this blog is left, I think you’ll find most of us are independent thinkers who don’t always agree.If you change your mind we’ll welcome you.I may disagree with what you’re saying now, but I defend to the death your right to say whatever you want. Can you say the same about the right wing? Think about it.

  • snr_chris

    Good god Bob, it’s as if you suggest we all shouldn’t be mortally afraid of vicious robuts stangling us in our sleep. It is a tremendous accomplishment that such horrors have been prevented for the last eight years.

  • http://www.windonwater.net/index.php?topic=178.msg857#msg857 QueenTiye

    lib4ever – you’re wrong. Some of us haven’t forgotten the long search for weapons, the cat and mouse games with inspections, etc. And no one has forgotten that Kerry and Clinton voted to authorize President Bush’s actions. That doesn’t mean that there aren’t legitimate criticisms of Bush’s presidency, and highly reasonable concerns for his and others use of fear-tactics to scare a nation into a war that has just about sunk us economically, while leaving the war we were already conducting, unfinished.QT

  • The Minx

    I WILL defend your right to tell me that I’m wrong to the death.Will you do that for me?Can we state our thoughts, theories & conclusions with respect for each other & what the first amendment means to us?Without namecalling?

  • cminri

    Ignore it and it will go away.

  • nverlib

    sillygit: Who said anything about abridging the first amendment? My statement has nothing to do with impeding freedom of speech. You begin with name calling and attempting to make my statement something that you wanted to hear. Sometimes I wonder if liberals even listen to themselves.Also, You might want to read Wikipedia’s bio on the reverend, there is nothing about being highly decorated. A thank you letter from an Admiral is not a decoration, it’s just a thank you letter.