Bush to Americans: 'Serve a cause larger than yourself.' (Official Inaugural Thread)

[Winston]

Originally posted by notyoueither
Let's hope the actor they hired can keep it up.

Originally posted by notyoueither
I'm not at all cynical. Nope, not me.

Perhaps he was given some of Ronald Reagan's left behind coughing syrup, or something.

He should've taken more than half a teaspoon of it though.

[notyoueither]

Whose posts followed whose, pepe?

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by notyoueither


I collect scorn. It's a hobby of mine. I have scorn from the left, scorn form the right. It's a beautiful collection.

I love hot buttered pop scorn, and have a collection of particularly attractive scorn dollies.

[Evil Knevil]

Serious Question:

How did the Chief Justice fare? I heard he's on his last legs, was he alright on the day?

Next person to say own goal, I'll hunt them down and **** them up.

[Winston]

Rehnquist only came on the podium a few minutes before the swearing in, and left shortly thereafter. Don't really know if that's part of the protocol, I don't think it is. He had a single Marine escort and walked with a cane, but managed to smile to some of the guests as he entered.

He conducted the short swearing in flawlessly, still with authority in his voice, but overall he seemed very fragile.

I personally thought Rehnquist's attendance one of the most moving parts of the ceremony. He made it, but you knew it was his last time. But then I'm a bit odd you know.

[alva]

Some interesting 'world press' comments on the speech.

The democracy President Bush's administration is promising is a bloody one. It has, up to now, claimed the lives of 100,000 martyrs, with the same number being wounded. It has turned the country into a failed one, where chaos and booby-trapped cars prevail... As long as the US policies continue as they are at the moment, then all the American talk about democracy and liberties will remain ink on paper.

Pan-Arab Al-Quds Al-Arabi

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4194221.stm

[Arrian]

No mention, of course, of the folks who set the car bombs and whatnot. Fair and Balanced, just like Fox.

-Arrian

[GePap]

I love to see Bush loves freedom-the freedom to make ou voice heard, throught a double line of cops in riot gear and whatnot.

Like Stewart said on the Daily Show, liberty and freedom, offer not valid in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan (could have also said Egypt, Tunisia, Kuwait, whatever).

The moral question of the day is who can trully expand freedom. The uS has the might, but sadly, not the moral fiber to do so. You can't really expand freedom if you have a BRAND of freedom you espouse. In the end, freedom is about choosing your own way- which makes freedom through foreign invasion by one specific state then carrying out an occupation a teneous tool at best, given that the very notion of an Occupation is the denial of freedom for a certain amount of time.

[RGBVideo]

Can't we have even a single Bush-thread without the mandatory nazi-comparisons?

Make the choice to serve in a cause larger than your wants, larger than yourself - and in your days you will add not just to the wealth of our country, but to its character

Spoken like a true rich draft-dodging yankee cokehead... Oh wait, he can't be one, he wears a cowboy hat, remember? It proves that he cares for middle-class, is a southerner, and has already done his part in helping the country against it's enemies.

Amazing how easy it is to ask everyone else to do something you've never done, isn't it?

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by VJ
Spoken like a true rich draft-dodging yankee cokehead...

Was Kennedy a cokehead?

[chequita guevara]

Bush is a Yankee.

[RGBVideo]

I'm talking about Bush's speech, the one posted in the first post of this thread.

What are you talking about?

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by VJ
What are you talking about?

His speech remonded me of Kennedy's "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country".

And since Kennedy was a rich Yankee (who I could imagine to be a draft dodger)...

[RGBVideo]

Kennedy was an aircraft pilot in WWII IIRC. Bush posed in an army suit on an aircraft carrier in the middle of an Ocean. Once.

[Sava]

If anyone still believes in the nonsense about "the liberal media", then you should have watched CNN's coverage of the inauguration. Utter propaganda and Bush-ass-licking.