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08 March 2008

Christ, what an asshole. →[More:]Sorry to muck up a Saturday with politics, but I find this simply dumbfounding.

post by: mudpuppie at: 15:37 | 15 comments

God, I know. He's a fucking monster.

posted by scody 08 March | 15:41

"Asshole" is not exactly the word I was thinking about when I read this story this morning.

posted by deadcowdan 08 March | 16:02

Fucking hell.

posted by CitrusFreak12 08 March | 16:02

I find it very, very sad. What a horrible shame.

posted by LoriFLA 08 March | 16:12

It's absolutely awful. I read it this morning and told my husband and we both started laughing. That kind of hollow, bitter laughter that comes with knowing that the person leading your country is a complete, utter, moronic wanker.

posted by gaspode 08 March | 16:17

I find it unconscionable that Congress can't easily override this veto. It should be a slam dunk.

Waterboarding is torture. I am ashamed to be a citizen of a country where this is legal. It is two thousand fucking eight* and this is even open for debate? Of course evolution and natural selection is also a matter of debate.

* that is how I write the date on my checks.

posted by birdherder 08 March | 16:37

Sounds like time for everyone to call their congresspeople and demand justice!

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 08 March | 17:05

Ironic/prescient that the next post is "We are so screwed."

posted by desjardins 08 March | 17:46

Yeah, I thought maybe it was a double.

posted by mudpuppie 08 March | 20:11

I think that he watches *24* way more than he pays attention to the real world. He sees Jack Bauer saving the world by getting crucial info out of terrorists at the last possible moment, via torture, and gets it confused with how the world really operates.

I think that we can have a vigorous defense and make it miserable on people who want to hurt us (the USA) without resorting to torture.

posted by danf 08 March | 20:13

I think that he watches *24* way more than he pays attention to the real world.

Absolutely. When reporters asked him last week what he thought about the fact that gas was likely to top $4 this summer, he replied that that was the first he'd heard of it. When asked for his solution, he said it was to make his tax cuts permanent.

The words don't exist to adequately describe his idiocy, nor the idiocy of his supporters in the face of the ever-mounting evidence of his total and complete incompetence.

posted by scody 08 March | 20:33

It's unspeakable.

At least the world knows that the next US president (whoever he/she is) will not be a pro-torture incompetent.

posted by Claudia_SF 08 March | 23:22

Is there nothing that will get through this guy's impenetrably thick head. I am so tired of hearing this guy talk as if he knows what the hell he's talking about. Just go away, you sick, retarded fuck.

posted by hadjiboy 09 March | 00:04

It's already fucking illegal, and has been for decades. Does no one remember that basic fact?

posted by trondant 09 March | 00:16

At least the world knows that the next US president (whoever he/she is) will not be a pro-torture incompetent.

So, McCain's definitely not going to win then? Cuz he folded on torture already.

posted by Lentrohamsanin 09 March | 08:55

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