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You are here: Home / Elections / Election 2008 / George Bush’s Third Term

George Bush’s Third Term

by John Cole|  June 9, 20086:28 pm| 51 Comments

This post is in: Election 2008, Republican Stupidity

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He really is running for it:

Via Oliver.

*** Update ***

Reminds me of this.

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  1. 1.

    Tiparillo

    June 9, 2008 at 6:31 pm

    But did he look into Putin’s eyes to get a sense of his soul?

  2. 2.

    Jay B.

    June 9, 2008 at 6:33 pm

    Well, to be fair Tiparillo, once he matches a set of eyes with the country they lead he rarely forgets it. But sometimes he gets a bit confused.

  3. 3.

    Leo

    June 9, 2008 at 6:39 pm

    I don’t think he’s running for Bush’s third term. His views are much more aligned with Cheney than Bush.

  4. 4.

    laneman

    June 9, 2008 at 6:43 pm

    so ….. what’s with the jacket?

    sorry, you’re a fossil, not a bomber. I am tired of the faux symbolism of nothing.

    lex sigh

  5. 5.

    Leo

    June 9, 2008 at 6:43 pm

    Although, I will admit, his apparent level of competence is more Bush than Cheney.

  6. 6.

    Tiparillo

    June 9, 2008 at 6:44 pm

    Hey Jay give Senator Magoo a break – everyone is always getting Angela Merkel confused with Vladimir Putin

  7. 7.

    Tiparillo

    June 9, 2008 at 6:47 pm

    Laneman – I thought that was a Members Only jacket for moment

  8. 8.

    lampwick

    June 9, 2008 at 6:47 pm

    Wait til McCain tries to give Putin a backrub.

  9. 9.

    Louise

    June 9, 2008 at 6:47 pm

    So who got the backrub?

  10. 10.

    John S.

    June 9, 2008 at 6:49 pm

    everyone is always getting Angela Merkel confused with Vladimir Putin

    Not Bush. I don’t think he’s ever tried to rub Vladimir’s shoulders…

  11. 11.

    patroclus

    June 9, 2008 at 6:49 pm

    I don’t understand how McCain confusing Russia and Germany (and their respective leaders) is going to help us accomplish the crucial mission of delivering bottled hot water to dehydrated babies…

  12. 12.

    Tsulagi

    June 9, 2008 at 6:52 pm

    “President Putin of Germany”? This guy’s Alzheimers is speeding up; I’m not sure he’s going to last until November.

    Or was he thinking of continuing the Bush tradition of unsolicited neck rubs of German chancellors and Putin came to mind as his fave? His way of getting in touch with the base?

  13. 13.

    Rosali

    June 9, 2008 at 6:52 pm

    I guess they’ll have to rethink their ad campaign that says that Obama is gaffe-prone.

  14. 14.

    Glocksman

    June 9, 2008 at 6:56 pm

    His way of getting in touch with the base?

    That’d be the same base ‘Wide Stance’ Larry Craig appeals to? :)

  15. 15.

    Third Eye Open

    June 9, 2008 at 6:57 pm

    For some reason…I expected him to burst into an acapella version of Neil Diamond’s, “Heartlight”

    “I just made a friend
    A friend is someone you need
    But now that he had to go away
    I still feel the words that he might say

    Turn on your heartlight
    Let it shine wherever you go
    Let it make a happy glow
    For all the world to see
    Turn on your heartlight
    In the middle of a young boy’s dream
    Don’t wake me up too soon
    Gonna take a ride across the moon
    You and me”

  16. 16.

    sivapith

    June 9, 2008 at 6:58 pm

    Merkel go the backrub.

  17. 17.

    Jon H

    June 9, 2008 at 6:58 pm

    “Wait til McCain tries to give Putin a backrub.”

    Putin demands a happy ending.

  18. 18.

    moeman

    June 9, 2008 at 7:00 pm

    What about Poland!?

  19. 19.

    mark

    June 9, 2008 at 7:06 pm

    What’s with the bomber jacket? Does he get the chills a lot?

  20. 20.

    Balakirev

    June 9, 2008 at 7:23 pm

    I’m glad to see that McCain has found an enemy so insidious it can only be attacked through time travel.

  21. 21.

    Tsulagi

    June 9, 2008 at 7:26 pm

    Also another little point, “President” isn’t the correct title anymore for Putin. He’s now Prime Minister Putin. Under the new Russian constitution he couldn’t have a third consecutive presidential term so he had the new president make him prime minister and assumed that office last month.

    So not only did he get the country wrong, he got the position wrong. Or the wrong name for the current Russian president. Cue feeble McCain voice from last Tuesday: “That’s not experience you can believe in.”

  22. 22.

    Conservatively Liberal

    June 9, 2008 at 7:38 pm

    That’d be the same base ‘Wide Stance’ Larry Craig appeals to?

    Of course! McCain wants those people on his side because a base with a wide stance is harder to knock over. Plus the wide stance makes you look strong and manly, but most importantly it says ‘Show me your hand, and I will show you mine’.

    What’s with the bomber jacket?

    McCain vaguely remembers flying a plane, and a bomber jacket is associated with flying. Close enough for government work.

    Or was he thinking of continuing the Bush tradition of unsolicited neck rubs of German chancellors and Putin came to mind as his fave? His way of getting in touch with the base?

    Well, if the ‘wide stance’ fails to impress, you have to be ready to be a ‘hands on’ kind of guy.

  23. 23.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    June 9, 2008 at 7:41 pm

    What’s with the bomber jacket?

    What’s with the lousy camera angle preventing me from swooning over his codpiece?

  24. 24.

    Joyce

    June 9, 2008 at 7:42 pm

    I wonder if he knows his previous statements are contradicting his campaign commercial?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBobsMD7DBM

  25. 25.

    Conservatively Liberal

    June 9, 2008 at 7:43 pm

    What’s with the lousy camera angle preventing me from swooning over his codpiece?

    Chris Matthews requested that. Commenting admiringly about the ‘onions’ on a guy is his job.

    /retch

  26. 26.

    Dennis - SGMM

    June 9, 2008 at 7:53 pm

    He meant to say, “Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany.”

  27. 27.

    ThymeZone

    June 9, 2008 at 7:53 pm

    Worst.Candidate.Ever.

    This guy is just a giant disappointment machine.

  28. 28.

    Dennis - SGMM

    June 9, 2008 at 7:54 pm

    And give him a break; he just couldn’t remember the name of the current Tsar of all the Russias.

  29. 29.

    eric

    June 9, 2008 at 8:03 pm

    Have any of you guys gone back to taylormarsh since Clinton dropped? It’s positively heartwarming over there. There’s still some dead-enders (knock on wood) in the comments but I actually don’t feel like killing people when I visit anymore.

    Goddamn, Obama’s gonna wreck it in November.

  30. 30.

    GSD

    June 9, 2008 at 8:11 pm

    It’s like that song, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Lichtenstein.

    -GSD

  31. 31.

    demimondian

    June 9, 2008 at 8:23 pm

    Goddamn it, GSD, John McCain didn’t sing that. Somebody else with the same name, voice, and appearance did.

  32. 32.

    croatoan

    June 9, 2008 at 8:29 pm

    Colonel Tigh?

  33. 33.

    Mike35

    June 9, 2008 at 8:31 pm

    Ok, I’ll pull the threadjack and point us all to CSPAN where Kucinich is on article 18 of 35 in his articles of impeachment of Dubya.

  34. 34.

    asl

    June 9, 2008 at 8:31 pm

    Since John banned ageist remarks, I find these blooper clips as refreshing as a cold mist on a 100-degree day.

  35. 35.

    passerby

    June 9, 2008 at 8:37 pm

    McCain continues these ridiculous gaffes. Lindsey Graham came out and said “absolutely” Mccain policies will be the same as Bush (counter to what McCain said). The poles still indicate that a hefty percentage will STILL vote McCain despite his campaign being a JOKE.

    I gotta believe this disaster is intentional.

    What is the GOP up to? Who will they nominate at the convention? Is this a psychological operation to determine the loyalty of their electorate?

    All I got is guesses. But, I am sure about one thing, this wreck of a campaign is no accident.

    T

  36. 36.

    Third Eye Open

    June 9, 2008 at 8:48 pm

    RawStory has the link to the first ten minutes of Kucinich bringing articles of impeachment against Bush/Cheney.

    I can’t figure out whether this helps the Obama campaign, or risks sucking the oxygen from the nascent General election.

    Either way, I appreciate his bollocks and I will reward him with money and scooby snacks

  37. 37.

    Third Eye Open

    June 9, 2008 at 8:49 pm

    Mike35,

    Sorry boss, your thread didn’t show up while I was typing, carry on.

  38. 38.

    Warren Terra

    June 9, 2008 at 8:50 pm

    This is off topic, but I have to mention that, as I consider Balloon Juice to be pretty much a go-to site for Political Snark and the Political Snarkable, it’s just a crying shame that there isn’t more mention here of Mary Grabar’s column. To prove my point, here’s the first passage Hilzoy, of Obsidian Wings, chooses to highlight:

    Obama’s advance troops have already taken over our college campuses, have bound and gagged our conservative professors, have ravished our virgins, have pillaged our stores of wisdom, and have ensconced themselves in the thrones of power in deans’, presidents’ and department heads’ offices

  39. 39.

    wasabi gasp

    June 9, 2008 at 8:51 pm

    War. Hero.

    S’all good.

    And besides, this is really a failure of Lieberman.

  40. 40.

    jake

    June 9, 2008 at 8:57 pm

    Get the hook, hit the gong, pour pennies in the Straight Talk Express’ radiator. Just. Make. It. Stop!

    Rosali Says:

    I guess they’ll have to rethink their ad campaign that says that Obama is gaffe-prone.

    No, no, no, no, no. Only Democrats make gaffes (when they aren’t making blatantly anti-American/troop/Christian/family/democracy statements).

    Republicans are always “misheard,” or “misunderstood” by the dim-witted proletariat. Of course the poor dears are often the victims of Democrats and the liberal MSM who take their comments out of context or quibble about syntax. Hey, for all we know John McCane was talking about the future (you know, the world in 2013) when Putin will be the President of Germany.

    Seriously, if I thought the McCrankster was just an old guy who’s wits were starting to wander I’d feel a little sorry for him. But he’s a GOPer and none of those assholes could locate their dicks with a map, because they don’t need to find their dicks. They’ve got Joe Lieberman to do that for him.

  41. 41.

    jake

    June 9, 2008 at 8:58 pm

    Get the hook, hit the gong, pour pennies in the Straight Talk Express’ radiator. Just. Make. It. Stop!

    Rosali Says:

    I guess they’ll have to rethink their ad campaign that says that Obama is gaffe-prone.

    No, no, no, no, no. Only Democrats make gaffes (when they aren’t making blatantly anti-American/troop/Christian/family/democracy statements).

    Republicans are always “misheard,” or “misunderstood” by the dim-witted proletariat. Of course the poor dears are often the victims of Democrats and the liberal MSM who take their comments out of context or quibble about syntax. Hey, for all we know John McCane was talking about the future (you know, the world in 2013) when Putin will be the President of Germany.

    Seriously, if I thought the McCrankster was just an old guy who’s wits were starting to wander I’d feel a little sorry for him. But he’s a GOPer and none of those assholes could locate their dicks with a map, because they don’t need to find their dicks.

    They’ve got Joe Lieberman to do that for them.

  42. 42.

    cleek

    June 9, 2008 at 9:00 pm

    Obama’s advance troops have already taken over our college campuses, have bound and gagged our conservative professors, have ravished our virgins,

    i went to sign up, but they were all out of virgins. so i thought i’d take one of the pre-enjoyed units. nope, all out of them, too. fuck. this speaks volumes about his readiness to take office, IMO. if he can’t supply virgins for all who want one, how is going to provide health care?

    i’ll still support Obama, but he owes me, big.

  43. 43.

    laneman

    June 9, 2008 at 9:18 pm

    I’m forced to reiterate my previous comment – lex sigh – McSame isn’t even a joke anymore, if he ever was, it’s pathetic. Oh, kinda like shrub in 2000 and 2004.

  44. 44.

    Jon H

    June 9, 2008 at 9:34 pm

    What’s with the lousy camera angle preventing me from swooning over his codpiece?

    That’s not a codpiece, his depends are bunching.

  45. 45.

    Duros Hussein 62

    June 9, 2008 at 9:37 pm

    He meant to say, “Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany.”

    Who he met personally.

  46. 46.

    ThatLeftTurnInABQ

    June 9, 2008 at 9:48 pm

    i went to sign up, but they were all out

    Well then you’re obviously not one of the advanced troops. You need to practice ensconcing until you get better at it.

    What I want to know is, how did the Obavant-guard overlook the liquor cabinet?

    Did somebody hide the keys inside a hollow bust of Edmund Burke? Maybe Sully would know.

    Conservative professors usually have some damn fine scotch, and I heard you can find cognac and cigars in the Deans’ office, or at least that is what Bill Buckley told me back in the day.

  47. 47.

    Jon H

    June 9, 2008 at 10:01 pm

    Again, I must insist that someone should set up a stand outside the GOP convention selling purple heart band-aids.

    It’d be an awesome sting. Some GOP fools would buy and wear them, in memory of the great larfs they had mocking John Kerry. But it could be made to look REALLY BAD for the GOP this time around.

  48. 48.

    The Other Steve

    June 9, 2008 at 10:34 pm

    Google “songbird mccain”

  49. 49.

    abiodun

    June 10, 2008 at 11:19 am

    He needs the jacket, it is cold indoors! You tend to lose temperature control with age.

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