[Rhodes22-list] Politics - Bush's Resignation Speech

[Brad Haslett]

A fellow list member sent me the attached "speech" that first came out
a couple of years ago and has been revised and updated.  It is funny
in a perverted way.  Conversations at my dinner table can get very
heated very quickly because what some people talk of as theory, has
been lived as fact by certain members of our household. The latest
"hot button" is the "we need to share the wealth" statement made by a
junior Senator a few days ago.  You may recall my father-in-law
recently passed away.  His family's and his wife's family's wealth was
in fact "shared" in the 50's. This is not theory but is indeed fact
and the reasoning behind that "sharing" sounds eerily familiar. The
recent videos posted of children singing the praises of a "Dear
Leader" and para-military groups marching in lockstep praising a "Dear
Leader" is not a theory in our household.  As a young child, my wife
would be awakened by a siren and run out into the street to praise
"Dear Leader".  Sometimes her mother would allow her to continue
sleeping but would remind her to acknowledge her presence at the rally
the next day at school. Fan also belonged to a para-military group and
did compulsory service. This is not theory, these are just facts.

My brother and I just celebrated our third anniversary as partners in
our company we started after Katrina.  He and my son lived in a camper
on the beach for the first several months until we moved to a
neighborhood flooded by the storm surge.  Directly across the street
from us was a house with a spray painted sign in huge letters,
"WHERE'S FEMA?"  If your house floods, you have to immediately tear
out all the carpet, remove as much wet drywall as possible, and let it
air out for a few weeks.  The house can be rebuilt.  We eventually got
the contract to tear this house down which was owned by an elderly
lady.  Her extended family came to watch our work.  Roughly four able
bodied adults and a half-dozen or so teenage grandchildren who lived
in the area came to watch.  It took less than an hour for one man with
a large machine to destroy grandma's house.  The same crowd who
watched grandma's house disappear, could have put forth some effort
and saved it with a day's worth of work.  They were there in time,
they left the proof by painting the "WHERE'S FEMA?" sign. More
recently, our next door neighbor to our business moved.  She had five
nephews show to help her move.  Every single one of them were drawing
SS disability.  My brother offered one of them a job.  "I'd need to be
paid in cash, I don't want to jeopardize my disability".  We hear that
a lot. This is not theory, this is fact.

Now comes a Senator who wants to "steal from the rich and give to the
poor" but he can't help his own brother or make good on his personal
promises to fund his namesake school in Kenya.  Indeed, the world has
gone mad.

Brad

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The speech George W. Bush just might give:

Normally, I start these things out by saying 'My Fellow Americans.'
Not doing it this time. If the polls are any indication, I don't know
who more than half of you are anymore. I do know something terrible
has happened, and that you're really not fellow Americans any longer.

I'll cut right to the chase here: I quit. Now before anyone gets all
in a lather about me quitting to avoid impeachment, or to avoid
prosecution or something, let me assure you: There's been no breaking
of laws or impeachable offenses in this office.

The reason I'm quitting is simple. I'm fed up with you people. I'm fed
up because you have no understanding of what's really going on in the
world. Or of what's going on in this once-great nation of ours. And
the majority of you are too damned lazy to do your homework and figure
it out.

Let's start local. You've been sold a bill of goods by politicians and
the news media.

Meanwhile, all you can do is whine about gas prices, and most of you
are too damn stupid to realize that gas prices are high because
there's increased demand in other parts of the world, and because a
small handful of noisy idiots are more worried about polar bears and
beachfront property than your economic security.

We face real threats in the world. Don't give me this 'blood for oil'
thing.. If I were trading blood for oil I would've already seized Iraq
's oil fields and let the rest of the country go to hell.

And don't give me this 'Bush Lied...People Died' crap either. If I
were the liar you morons take me for, I could've easily had chemical
weapons planted in Iraq so they could be 'discovered.' Instead, I
owned up to the fact that the intelligence was faulty.

Let me remind you that the rest of the world thought Saddam had the
goods, same as me. Let me also remind you that regime change in Iraq
was official US policy before I came into office. Some guy named '
Clinton ' established that policy. Bet you didn't know that, did you?

Now some of you morons want to be led by a junior senator with no
understanding of foreign policy or economics, and this nitwit says we
should attack Pakistan , a nuclear ally. And then he wants to go to
Iran and make peace with a terrorist who says he's going to destroy
us.

While he's doing that, he wants to give Iraq to al Qaeda, Afghanistan
to the Taliban, Israel to the Palestinians, and your money to the IRS
so the government can give welfare to illegal aliens, who he will make
into citizens, so they can vote to re-elect him. He also thinks it's
okay for Iran to have nuclear weapons, and we should stop our foreign
aid to Israel

Did you sleep through high school?

You idiots need to understand that we face a unique enemy. Back during
the cold war, there were two major competing political and economic
model s squaring off. We won that war, but we did so because
fundamentally, the Communists wanted to survive, just as we do. We
were simply able to outspend and out-tech them.

That's not the case this time. The soldiers of our new enemy don't
care if they survive. In fact, they want to die. That'd be fine, as
long as they weren't also committed to taking as many of you with them
as they can. But they are.

They want to kill you, and the bastards are all over the globe.You
should be grateful that they haven't gotten any more of us here in the
United States since September 11. But you're not. That's because
you've got no idea how hard a small number of intelligence, military,
law enforcement, and homeland security people have worked to make sure
of that.

When this whole mess started, I warned you that this would be a long
and difficult fight.. I'm disappointed how many of you people think a
long and difficult fight amounts to a single season of 'Survivor.'

Instead, you've grown impatient. You're incapable of seeing things
through the long lens of history, the way our enemies do. You think
that wars should last a few months, a few years, tops.

Making matters worse, you actively support those who help the enemy.
Every time you buy the New York Times, every time you send a donation
to a cut-and-run Democrat's political campaign, well, dang it, you
might just as well FedEx a grenade launcher to a Jihadist. It amounts
to the same thing.In this day and age.

It's easy enough to find the truth. It's all over the Internet. It
just isn't on the pages of the New York Times, USA Today, or on NBC
News. But even if it were, I doubt you 'd be any smarter. Most of you
would rather watch American Idol or Dancing with Stars.

I could say more about your expectations that the government will
always be there to bail you out, even if you're too stupid to leave a
city that 's below sea level and has a hurricane approaching. I could
say more about your insane belief that government, not your own
wallet, is where the money comes from.

But I've come to the conclusion that were I to do so, it would sail
right over your heads.

So I quit. I'm going back to Crawford. I've got an energy-efficient
house down there (Al Gore could only dream) and the capability to be
fully self-sufficient for years. No one ever heard of Crawford before
I got elected, and as soon as I'm done here pretty much no one will
ever hear of it again. Maybe I'll be lucky enough to die of old age
before the last pillars of America fall.

Oh, and by the way, Cheney's quitting too. That means Pelosi is your
new President. You asked for it. Watch what she does carefully,
because I still have a glimmer of hope that there are just enough of
you remaining who are smart enough to turn this thing around in
2008.So that's it.

God bless what's left of America .Some of you know what I mean. The
rest of you, kiss off.

PS - You might want to start learning Farsi, and buy a Koran.