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markscottmusic.com
12/01/08

In reply to Bush: "I Did Not Sell My Soul"
This will be one of my least pithy posts, but I just have to say it...

I hate this man with every fiber of my being. I can't actually think of any words to accurately express what a horrible, horrible person I think he is. He is clearly the worst president we've every had and if there was any justice, he and other members of his administration would be facing war crimes trials on January 21. Good ridence, you moron.
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Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate
12/01/08

@markscottmusic.com: I heard this story about how he farts in the limo to annoy his wife (they're not allowed to roll down the windows). This I found funny in a 2nd grade kind of way, until I realized he's been farting in the limo we all share for eight years now, and laughing while we writhe.
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Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate
11/30/08

In reply to Bush: "I Did Not Sell My Soul"
Can't you photoshop a golden fiddle onto the wall behind him?
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unclevanya
11/30/08

In reply to Bush: "I Did Not Sell My Soul"
Thanks to the recent election circus, I can now sum up the entire George W. Bush era in three words:

Joe the President.
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MrInBetween
11/29/08

In reply to Bush: "I Did Not Sell My Soul"
OK, so while our President insisted that Cheney and Turd Blossom tell him what was "in the papers" every morning, he was "in the Bible" and relying on "people's prayers." That's all the future historians will need to know.
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Xylo
11/29/08

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It doesn't matter what your values are, George. What matters is, a group of sinister heavy-hitters felt your dry-drunk personality would be malleable enough to do their bidding: [www.pbs.org]

You didn't "surround yourself with good people"; they picked you because you fit their purpose.
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Baroness
11/29/08

In reply to Bush: "I Did Not Sell My Soul"
See how the big baby still wants congratulations? Sociopath.

He wants accolades for not selling his soul, but there's a hundred thousand souls who might still prefer to be in their bodies, among the living. What about those souls?
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BxgrlJeri
11/29/08

In reply to Bush: "I Did Not Sell My Soul"
He didn't sell his soul. Cheney shot it in the face.
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SharonTaint
11/29/08

In reply to Bush: "I Did Not Sell My Soul"
selling your soul would also imply that you got something KICKASS in return, so in essence he's right.
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American Dreamer, Again, Some More
11/29/08

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i am going to be so sad to see president bush leave office

he was so underappreciated.

i am hoping he opts for becoming a senior statemen like carter or clinton and travels the world spreading american goodwill to the less fortunate
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MissNormaDesmond
11/29/08

@The King of the Puppy Bears: I know, because really he was just another American Dreamer.
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gobblegirl
11/29/08

@The King of the Puppy Bears: Bush spreading American goodwill? Why start now?
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bjonston
11/29/08

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"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."

-Bertrand Russell
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Claire Buoyant
11/29/08

@bjonston: The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

-George Bernard Shaw
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bjonston
11/29/08

@Claire Buoyant: I've never been a big fan of such a reductive line of analysis.
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Pope John Peeps II
11/29/08

@Claire Buoyant: Shaw would be the first one to say that "progress" is a neutral word, and implies no good or evil. Bush indeed made "progress". He "progressed" the world one step closer to satan.
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saintjim
11/29/08

@bjonston: "The best lack all conviction, while the worst are filled with passionate intensity."

Russell was apparently quoting Yeats. Very badly.
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SaraRueful
11/29/08

@Claire Buoyant: My brother hasn't worked in over a year and doesn't really try, as long as his friends buy his drinks and his cigs and he can get a sympathy dinner out of our mother once in a while. He doesn't want to "conform" like everyone else, he wants the perfect job for him. He won't work for less than $10 an hour (in West Virginia, without a college degree -- and, oh, they can't really care if he's a little late every day) because he doesn't want to conform.

Currently he is living in a house without heat or water. In November. Yay progress!
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Claire Buoyant
11/29/08

@SaraRueful: You've misread my comment. I was replying to the Russell quote with one from Shaw that is sympathetic to an opposing sentiment to show that quotes from Famous Dead People can be found to support any standpoint, and repeating them isn't terribly useful in demonstrating the rightness of one's own views.

By virtue of their brevity, such pithy statements tend to leave out nuance and context; real life, however, is complex and messy and can rarely be reduced to such simplistic and absolutist interpretations. I think you've demonstrated that well with your brother's story.
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SaraRueful
11/29/08

@Claire Buoyant: Yeah, that, and I'm kind of lazy. And I'm half-drunk. Sorry!
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bjonston
11/29/08

@saintjim: Or he was paraphrasing him. Very well.
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PandoraSpocks
11/29/08

In reply to Bush: "I Did Not Sell My Soul"
This interview should not have been done, not right now or at all. It just reiterates the case against her brother. I do not believe Bush is evil, I just think he was not up to the job and lacked any "intellectual curiosity" as General Powell suggested.
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Pope John Peeps II
11/29/08

In reply to Bush: "I Did Not Sell My Soul"
I came to Washington with a set of values, and I'm leaving with the same set of values. And I darn sure wasn't going to sacrifice those values

Technically, this doesn't mean anything if that set of values is "lying, corruption, incompetence, boobery, warmongering, flatulence and man tits."
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Meg
11/29/08

In reply to Bush: "I Did Not Sell My Soul"
I knew I'd seen him in the Bible! At least now I understand why he said he didn't sell his soul. I mean, come on, why sell it to yourself?
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Private Hangnail
11/29/08

@Meg: Isn't that part of a credit-default swap?
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Meg
11/29/08

@Private Hangnail: Haha, yes! He really made out on that one, as there are quite a few people who are both soulless and soleless.
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Private Hangnail
11/29/08

In reply to Bush: "I Did Not Sell My Soul"
Also, if he's been effected by people's prayers, why doesn't he have a raging case of face herpes?
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MissNormaDesmond
11/29/08

@Private Hangnail: Wait, he doesn't?
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Sproing
11/29/08

@Private Hangnail: He got those on the way into office.

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Private Hangnail
11/29/08

In reply to Bush: "I Did Not Sell My Soul"
No, I don't believe he sold his soul. He sold the rest of our souls, but that's not any significant matter.
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