Slog - Comments on This Is What Delusional Looks Like http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/this_is_what_delusio Right-wing blogger John Hinderacker (known as "Assrocket” on liberal blogs) managed to finagle himself a tour of the Oval Office with President Bush the other day. Here's some of what he had to say about it: It was an absolutely riveting experience. It was the best I've ever seen him. Not only that; it may have been the best I've ever seen any politician. If I summarized what he said, it would all sound familiar: the difficult times we live in; the threat from Islamic fascism--the phrase drew an enthusiastic round of applause--the universal yearning for freedom; the need to... Copyright 2007 Thu, 24 Aug 2006 16:11:34 -0800 Wed, 13 Sep 2006 13:02:57 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Proud Gay Republican You got your tag lines mixed up. "The most trusted name in news" is the Fox news channel, not CNN.

]]> Proud Gay Republican http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/this_is_what_delusio#c450839 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/this_is_what_delusio#c450839 Politics Thu, 24 Aug 2006 16:28:36 -0800 Comment by BRADLEY STEINBACHER I'm pretty sure I'm right, and that Fox's is "The Most Watched Name In News."

]]> BRADLEY STEINBACHER http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/this_is_what_delusio#c450844 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/this_is_what_delusio#c450844 Politics Thu, 24 Aug 2006 16:31:53 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle yeah, but Fox is busy being held hostage, so CNN gets to say it.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/this_is_what_delusio#c450848 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/this_is_what_delusio#c450848 Politics Thu, 24 Aug 2006 16:36:44 -0800 Comment by Goldy the Geek; Zorba the Greek Assrocket is an (ass)rocket scientist & genius compared to left-wing blogger David Goldstein (known as 'assesass.org' on blogs with sense & sensibility).

]]> Goldy the Geek; Zorba the Greek http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/this_is_what_delusio#c450857 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/this_is_what_delusio#c450857 Politics Thu, 24 Aug 2006 16:46:15 -0800 Comment by Fnarf Are his lips chapped yet?

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/this_is_what_delusio#c450890 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/this_is_what_delusio#c450890 Politics Thu, 24 Aug 2006 17:19:00 -0800 Comment by Proud Gay Republican Yep. I stand corrected. Bradley's right. It's CNN's tag.

GWB has his faults. But he is smart. You can't be a total idiot and win two terms as governor and as president. History will be more kind to him. Sort of like we are with Harry Truman today.

And why does the liberal left ridicule him for reading Camus? Can't we acknowledge that he has some intellectual curiousity?

Bush bashing is getting so boring.

]]> Proud Gay Republican http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/this_is_what_delusio#c450896 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/this_is_what_delusio#c450896 Politics Thu, 24 Aug 2006 17:28:12 -0800 Comment by Golob Even with a big stretch, I don't think anyone could honestly consider GWB "smart" given his apparent total lack of curiosity or work ethic. Every time he has "accomplished" something, it has been on the back of his family connections.

And don't soil Truman's name like that. Bush is more like a half-assed Woodrow Wilson; potentially well meaning, but totally inept when it comes to executing his lofty goals.

]]> Golob http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/this_is_what_delusio#c450906 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/this_is_what_delusio#c450906 Politics Thu, 24 Aug 2006 17:40:33 -0800 Comment by john man anyone that can use the words 'islamic fascism' without irony scares the shit out of me.

I don't even believe the president uses those words together without chuckling to himself.

]]> john http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/this_is_what_delusio#c451030 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/this_is_what_delusio#c451030 Politics Thu, 24 Aug 2006 22:41:09 -0800 Comment by fixo For me, the question whether Bush has any intellectual depth is answered by asking anyone whether, if his or her father were, in order, a US Congressman, CIA Director, UN Ambassador, Ambassador to China, Vice President, and President (no doubt I screwed up the order), he or she would travel outside of the US all of once IN HIS LIFE before becoming Governor of Texas, and then to some Mexican border party town.

This is a profoundly closed and inert mind. The kind of mind that would be baffled by, say, the relationship between Sunnis and Shiites, on the one hand, and Muslims, on the other. Why there's still a debate about this with only 879 days to go is a mystery to me. Somebody really ought to ask him some questions about Camus. Somebody ought to ask him if he knows how Iraq came to be a country in the first place.

As for Assrocket's, "A man of extraordinary vision and brilliance approaching to [sic] genius," I can only think that Peggy Noonan can go away happily now, knowing she has a worthy successor.

]]> fixo http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/this_is_what_delusio#c451034 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/this_is_what_delusio#c451034 Politics Thu, 24 Aug 2006 22:51:19 -0800 Comment by Mike in MO PGR: WIN two terms? I don't know about his terms as governor, but he most certainly did not "win" two terms as president.

The only thing boring here are the ostriches that STILL defend this colossal failure.

BTW -search "failure" on Google and see what comes up.

]]> Mike in MO http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/this_is_what_delusio#c451116 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/this_is_what_delusio#c451116 Politics Fri, 25 Aug 2006 05:42:46 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle I did search failure, all I got was Mike McGavick and some links to DUIs in your 30s ...

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/this_is_what_delusio#c451201 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/this_is_what_delusio#c451201 Politics Fri, 25 Aug 2006 09:46:59 -0800 Comment by Mike in MO Will> really? Yesterday, the first hit that came up was (surprise!) GWB. You didn't see that coming, did you?

"they" must have done something about it...

]]> Mike in MO http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/this_is_what_delusio#c451216 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/this_is_what_delusio#c451216 Politics Fri, 25 Aug 2006 09:59:04 -0800 Comment by Republicans are dumb Republicans are idiots. They cause global warming, oppression of women, racism, and all the wars in the world. Just because Bush graduated from Yale, doesn't mean he's not a Red State dumbass.


Urbane Seattle types are more educated, more cultured, and superior to the Red State types that sorround us.

]]> Republicans are dumb http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/this_is_what_delusio#c451232 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/this_is_what_delusio#c451232 Politics Fri, 25 Aug 2006 10:15:17 -0800 Comment by Proud Gay Republican I don't particuarly like GWB, but I want him to leave office with a stable Iraq, his tax cuts made permanent, and Congress taking up Social Security reform.

Yes, he won two terms. Just as Rutheford B. Hayes lost the popular vote and won the electoral to become president.

Republicans cause global warming? Then why is a large percentage of the greenhouse gases coming from India and China?

Republicans cause all the wars in the world? Opression of women? (You mean like Condi Rice?) Seattle superior to red states?

Peoples arguments fall apart fast when they use those absurd wildly extrapolated generalizations.

]]> Proud Gay Republican http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/this_is_what_delusio#c451533 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/this_is_what_delusio#c451533 Politics Fri, 25 Aug 2006 16:36:35 -0800 Comment by phoj sqbwtunj pncfomhr tlxv vtnzldm xrhatesdm rpau nltvs vwtjcnir

]]> phoj sqbwtunj http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/this_is_what_delusio#c462234 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/this_is_what_delusio#c462234 Politics Wed, 13 Sep 2006 13:02:57 -0800