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Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Politics Too Soon!

Posted by Paul Constant on Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 11:55 AM

Forgive George is a website where namby-pamby apologists can forgive George W. Bush for being one of the two worst presidents in the history of America. Here is what it looks like:

If you try to do a fill-in-the-blank one without forgiving George W. Bush, it asks, in soothing blue letters, "Are you sure you don't want to forgive George Bush?" And then when you click through without forgiving George W. Bush—because only a tool would forgive George W. Bush for what he has done to this country, to tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of innocents, to New Orleans, to the Constitution—you can read other people's forgiveness for things like:

I forgive
the asshole who cut me off on Peachtree St.

and

I forgive
my tiney miscreant penis..

and

I forgive
George Bush.

I forgive
Diane & James.

Oh, did Diane & James break your heart? How nice of you to forgive them! George W. Bush broke the fucking country!

In conclusion, I prefer So Long, Cowboy.

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Either Sam in Toronto forgave George bush over 20 times or my intertubes is broken.

Posted by Queen of Sleaze on December 23, 2008 at 12:06 PM

I'll forgive George Bush after they hang the prick.

Posted by Max Bell on December 23, 2008 at 12:07 PM

forgive is so... christian.

bush has made his karma. forgiveness cannot change that.

Posted by Max Solomon on December 23, 2008 at 12:12 PM

I'll never forgive anyone who voted for the guy, never mind the man himself.

Posted by rara avis on December 23, 2008 at 12:16 PM

Who was the other worst president? Harding?

Posted by Rachel on December 23, 2008 at 12:17 PM

We're the idiots that let him get elected two times, let him stay in office, declined to agitate more than once per season, failed to field and support candidates to beat him, and instead built a sense of community based on shared misery as though we were a bunch of inmates rather than a brigade of upright citizens. We relied on Obama to get tired enough of it to step up and plug into our wish to be brave for a change. That we rallied to him is not our doing, it is his. We are still just spectating. Where's the website to forgive each other?

Posted by tomasyalba on December 23, 2008 at 12:23 PM

@5, I think James Buchanan is worse than Harding. Polk and Pierce are also down there quite aways.

Posted by Cato the Younger Younger on December 23, 2008 at 12:26 PM

@5
I would guess James Buchanan. His actions essentially helped speed up the start of the civil war.

Posted by Urgutha Forka on December 23, 2008 at 12:27 PM

Damn Cato! Beat me by 1 minute.

Posted by Urgutha Forka on December 23, 2008 at 12:27 PM

There is and shall be no forgiveness. He did exactly what he set out to do and has never confessed or admitted to his mean spirited and incompetent leadership. Many people have died needlessley. Many people are suffering today from what he has done. He really stinks.

Posted by Vince on December 23, 2008 at 1:14 PM

Nixon?

Posted by td on December 23, 2008 at 1:55 PM

I have to say that Forgive Bush is a better website than you give it credit for, Paul. The second forgive I got was a man forgiving his testicles for being so hard to shave. Any site where that happens is awesome.

Posted by chris annon on December 23, 2008 at 2:31 PM

I forgive the Republicans who voted for Bush in 2000, but voted against him in 2004. All the other Republicans can go rot in hell.

Posted by yucca flower on December 23, 2008 at 4:05 PM

I will never be able to forgive the liberal losers who voted for either Al Gore or John Kerry...or hell...Bill Klinton.

History will be kind to President Bush one day.

He will be remembered as a great, or near great president.

Posted by Lord Basil on December 24, 2008 at 12:25 AM