I would have pasted the link here but reading this here would pack a punch

Bush Resignation Hailed by World Leaders
by Greg Palast

The surprise resignation of the forty-third President of the United States, George W. Bush, on the second anniversary of the terrorist attack on America, was hailed by chiefs of state throughout the world. Mr. Bush announced that after, "two years of bloodshed, economic devastation, and spreading fear in America and abroad," he saw no choice but to accept that, "I have held a title which I did not win, and for which I have proven unqualified."

The text of the former President's September 11 address to the nation follows:

"My fellow Americans:

I come to you tonight with a heavy heart. Two years ago today, thousands of innocent Americans were murdered by terrorist maniacs.

In the script I've been handed, I'm now supposed to tell you that America is safer today, and that the world is kinder and nicer and happier, because of I'm such a brilliant general in the War on Terror.

But who are we kidding? Yesterday, Osama released his new hit video. The terrorists are having a picnic ever since I turned over our foreign policy to Saudi Arabia and Exxon-Mobil.

And here's the point in my speech where my handlers would have me tell you about how I've been praying hard, making it sound like I just got off the phone with the Lord. I don't know about you, but I find it pretty darn offensive, downright blasphemous, to drag the Lord's name into every cheap campaign speech and chest-pounding war threat. Osama says he talks to God too. Let's leave Him out of the politics from now on, OK?

Look, in my speech this past Sunday, I used the word "democracy" about 11 times when talking about Iraq. It's democracy Florida-style, I suppose. Except we're not fixing the vote this time. We aren't letting these people vote at all. "Iraqis aren't prepared for democracy." That's what Dick Cheney and Saddam Hussein told me.

So we're blowing 100 billion bucks we don't have to colonize a country we don't want. Rummy tries to explain it to me each morning -- oil this and oil that -- but I just don't see it. And one of our kids dying there every day - where are their parents, anyway? My dad didn't let that happen - he got me out of the service. Didn't I look neat in that fly-boy suit?

And, let me tell you, I just looked at our nation's piggy bank. Uh-oh.

When I arrived, the last guy left me $4 trillion and said, "Be careful with all that cash in this neighborhood." Well, I have to level with you, America: it's all gone. The cupboard's bare and this year alone we blew half a trillion more dollars than we have in our bank account. Man, I can't believe I went through all that dough stone sober.

And what did we get for it? A Fatherland Security Department that's trying to read the labels on everyone's underpants. Think about it, all this Total Information Awareness KGB stuff: two years ago Americans were the victims - but my government has made Americans the suspects. I don't know about you, but this guy Ashcroft scares the bejeezus out of me.

And today I'm told that over nine million Americans are out of work. That's not so bad: I haven't done much work in my lifetime either. But my mama explained to me that not everyone's daddy can lend them an oil well to tide them over.

It's like I can't get anything right. The lights are going out in Ohio and the North Pole is melting. I don't get it. I appointed all those regulators that Ken Lay told me to, and I got rid of all the rules that got in the way of patriotic Polluter-Americans .. and what's the upshot? America the Beautiful is looking like she's had a pretty rough night. Won't be long before the whole country smells like Houston.

And now the stock market's floating face down in the swimming pool -- despite everything I've done for those guys on Wall Street. Even my plan to give every millionaire an extra million seems to have backfired. Greenspam says I've created "business risk." Says I spook investors. But when I asked Greenspam for a solution, all he did was hand me a bag of pretzels.

Hey, I can take a hint. OK, I'm over my head on this one. I look back over these last years, and what have I got to show you for it: two years of bloodshed, economic devastation, and spreading fear in America and abroad.

When I ran for this office, I said the issue was, "character." And just look at the characters around me. I've gotten all their resignations today. And while I've got some character left, here's my own good-bye note too. Let's face it: I have held a title which I did not win, and for which I have proven unqualified. You know it. And I know it.

It's at this point in the speech where I'm supposed to say, "And may God bless America." God better, because Dick Cheney won't. Don't panic: I'm not turning over this sacred office to Mr. Contracts-R-Us.

Instead, I've petitioned the United States Supreme Court to pick a President for us. Those guys picked the last one, why not the next one?

And so, my fellow Americans, you can take this job and .."

Here, Mr. Bush's words became unintelligible. As usual.

http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0911-13.htm

Wait.. he resigned? This isn't a joke?

*stares in stunned silence* That's... so cool. *does happy dance*

Yeah . . . 'common dreams' . . .

This is retarded.

Originally posted by Guru
Let's face it: I have held a title which I did not win, and for which I have proven unqualified. You know it. And I know it.

Instead, I've petitioned the United States Supreme Court to pick a President for us. Those guys picked the last one, why not the next one?

I could care less if people want to call Bush names, criticize him, say hes a unqualified, whatever. But I am so amazingly tired of these morons who don't understand how our system works saying that he "stole" the election. The guy that wrote this article is a political writer and he doesn't even understand how the Electoral College works? No matter what you think of the guy, he won plain and simple. Gore tried to steal the election even though he KNEW he lost. Yet no one discusses that.

(Just FYI, I did not vote for Bush OR Gore, and I am unbiased about the whole subject. I only tell it how I see it.)

The Electoral College should be abolished!! It isn't usefull any longer. We should only use the peoples votes and nothing more.

yeah man think it is a joke.
if he actually goning to resign,than wht is he going to do with that $87billion war funds or what ever

Ericfost,

No matter what you think of the guy, he won plain and simple. Gore tried to steal the election even though he KNEW he lost. Yet no one discusses that.Your facts seem even more ill-informed than your opinions.

He won because the Supreme Court had a majority of republican judges and the voting system in the alleged most advanced democratic country in the world was antiquated and farcical. Even the Russians offered to help.

IMO

Anyone who can't figure out a ballot shouldn't be allowed to vote in the first place. Voting shouldn't be made easier, it should be made much more difficult.

~Raithere

"Anyone who can't figure out a ballot shouldn't be allowed to vote in the first place. Voting shouldn't be made easier, it should be made much more difficult. ~Raithere"



...in order to be selective of what sort of group? the literate?


Education/literacy does not always go hand on hand with justice.

Originally posted by storni
Education/literacy does not always go hand on hand with justice. No, it goes hand in hand with making smarter choices.

whatever the degree of literacy of the voting population...not even the more educated will know wether their choice will be good...despite being apparently smarter

an education beyond literacy is a concept i should have determined earlier...how about values, how aboutintegrity?

Values based on what? A close minded, uneducated, incorrect view on the world? Judgements on issues you don't really understand?

Originally posted by storni
whatever the degree of literacy of the voting population...not even the more educated will know wether their choice will be good...despite being apparently smarter

an education beyond literacy is a concept i should have determined earlier...how about values, how aboutintegrity?Values are fine but they are secondary to comprehension. If one does not understand an issue ones values and integrity are irrelevant. Is this not the very accusation that was so humorously addressed in the article?

Let me put a fine point on this: I met a person who was in college when the Berlin Wall was torn down. (This may have less relevance to those of you who are younger but the Soviet Union, Communism, and the Cold War was integral to international politics when I was growing up.) This person had no idea what the Berlin Wall was or what its fall signified. How can someone so ignorant of these facts have had any relevant opinion regarding the Soviet Union, Germany, or related U.S. foreign policy?

~Raithere

Raithere,

Anyone who can't figure out a ballot shouldn't be allowed to vote in the first place. Voting shouldn't be made easier, it should be made much more difficult.I believe the original idea of the Electoral College was that only a group of well informed intellectuals would be able to vote. The originators never intended that the vast ignorant masses would be allowed to vote directly.

It would perhaps make more sense if potential voters had to pass an exam before they were allowed to vote.

You wouldn't vote for a racist dim-witted back-water hick that doesn't know the first thing about foreign policy, budgeting money or issues of national concern for president (assuming you didn't vote for Bush, that is ;)), would you?
Why would you want that same person to have a say in who is going to be president?

I am all for education and testing of the masses as a requirement for voting.

But I have not figured out how it could be done impartially.
There was good reason for pulling the test for voters.

Originally posted by Cris
I believe the original idea of the Electoral College was that only a group of well informed intellectuals would be able to vote.It was also intended to stabilize the government from the capricious whim of popular opinion.

It would perhaps make more sense if potential voters had to pass an exam before they were allowed to vote.And an even tougher one for the potential candidates. Most of whom I wouldn't trust to govern a playground.

~Raithere

Originally posted by one_raven
You wouldn't vote for a racist dim-witted back-water hick that doesn't know the first thing about foreign policy, budgeting money or issues of national concern for president Are you referring to the last two Republican Presidents or the last two Democratic Presidents?

Oh wait... that's all of them. :eek:

~Raithere

*edited for spelling

wow, i almost thought that was true for the first sentence or so. Then i realized it was too good to be true, and bush could never realize anything like that.

Interesting link (http://www.fec.gov/pages/ecmenu2.htm) about the electoral college, how it works and its history.

Originally posted by Raithere
Are you referring to the last two Republican Presidents or the last two Democratic Presidents?

Oh wait... that's all of them. :eek:

Hey!
Carter was not a racist!

That's about all I can say about that comment.

Sad, huh?

Originally posted by Raithere

Originally posted by one_raven
You wouldn't vote for a racist dim-witted back-water hick that doesn't know the first thing about foreign policy, budgeting money or issues of national concern for president

Are you referring to the last two Republican Presidents or the last two Democratic Presidents?

Oh wait... that's all of them.


Clinton was a Rhodes Scholar. Can you say that for yourself?

Originally posted by Redoubtable
Clinton was a Rhodes Scholar.Okay, so he was a well educated racist dim-witted back-water hick that doesn't know the first thing about foreign policy, budgeting money or issues of national concern for president. I'll also quickly mention that there is some suggestion that his scholarship was due to political favoritism rather than his strictly earning it.

Can you say that for yourself?Nope. Nor have I been blown by Monica in the oval office and then start a little mini-war to distract people from my mistake. Nor have I cheated people out of their money with a real-estate scam. Nor did I help burst the economic market by cut-cut-cutting away government spending in important business sectors. Of course it wouldn't have made much sense for me to apply for the Rhodes as when I was in school I was looking towards a career in IT and not politics.

Don't get on me about Clinton, he's the same kind of asshole we've had in office for the last I don't know how long. He's a politician; he's in the game for power, himself, and nobody else. He'll charm, cheat, lie, steal, backstab, blow you, bend you over and fuck you if it'll get him ahead. If you trust any of them, you're a fool.

~Raithere

(edited to correct a typo)

None of that is relevant, Raithere.

You called him "dim-witted," or at least agreed to it.

He was a Rhodes Scholar; that's about far from being "dim-witted" as nuclear fusion is from the steam engine.

Further calumny on your part is not going to make him any less intelligent a man, regardless of your strong conviction that he was a dastardly demagogue and what not.

I don't trust him. I don't trust any of them. Washington is a swamp that traded its malaria for politics.
Still, you should never ridicule someone without good reason.


I'm sory if you feel that I've been condesending.

Originally posted by Redoubtable
He was a Rhodes Scholar; that's about far from being "dim-witted" as nuclear fusion is from the steam engine.

Further calumny on your part is not going to make him any less intelligent a man, regardless of your strong conviction that he was a dastardly demagogue and what not.Actually, I do agree. Neither were Carter or Bush 1 idiots. As to the most recent one... well at least he was intelligent enough to admit he wasn't the brightest person in the world but he'd try to surround himself with good advisors. I had to give him a couple of points for that even if I wouldn't have chosen the same advisors. Perhaps that's what we really need; a stupid president with brilliant advisors.

Mostly I was having a bit of fun there. But I do find it disturbing that they were all from deep-south rural states and seemed to have rather narrow and terribly biased perspectives on the world.

In the end though it comes down to a very simple principle for me; anyone who wants power so badly that they will do the things necessary to become President should never, ever, be given the job. The one who runs screaming... that is the guy I want.

I don't trust him. I don't trust any of them. Washington is a swamp that traded its malaria for politics.Politics: a greek word comprised of poly, meaning many, and tics, meaning blood-sucking creatures. (stolen from I don't know who)

Still, you should never ridicule someone without good reason.Not even for fun?

I'm sory if you feel that I've been condesending.Not at all, I'm having fun. I hope you are too.

~Raithere

One can only hope he will resign and give satirists their jobs back. Lets face it, theyve been out of work because he's so comical you can just put some cnn footage and call it a show.