Posted by
Charly Hornbrook in Florida on Sunday, October 25, 2009 10:23:26 AM
- If... George W. Bush had been the first President to need
- a TelePrompter installed to be able to get through
- a press conference, would you have laughed
- and said this is more proof of how inept he
- is on his own and is really controlled by smarter
- men behind the scenes?
-
- If... George W. Bush had
- spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to take
- Laura Bush to a play in NYC, would
- you have approved?
-
- If... George W. Bush had
- reduced your retirement plan's holdings of GM
- stock by 90% and given the unions a majority stake
- in GM, would you have approved?
-
- If... George W. Bush had
- made a joke at the expense of the
- Special Olympics, would you
- have approved?
-
- If... George W. Bush had given
- Gordon Brown a set of inexpensive and incorrectly
- formatted DVD's, when Gordon Brown had given him a
- thoughtful and historically significant gift, would
- you have approved?
-
- If... George W. Bush had given
- the Queen of England an iPod containing
- videos of his speeches, would you have thought
- this embarrassingly narcissistic and tacky?
-
- If... George W. Bush had bowed
- to the King of Saudi Arabia, would you have
- approved?
-
- If... George W. Bush had
- visited Austria and made reference to
- the non-existent "Austrian language," would
- you have brushed it off as a minor slip?
-
- If... George W. Bush had
- filled his cabinet and circle of advisers
- with people who cannot seem to keep current in their
- income taxes, would you have approved?
-
- If... George W. Bush had
- been so Spanish illiterate as to refer to
- "Cinco de Cuatro" in front of the Mexican
- ambassador when it was the 5th of
- May (Cinco de Mayo), and continued to flub it
- when he tried again, would you have winced
- in embarrassment?
-
- If... George W. Bush
- had misspelled the word "advice" would you
- have hammered him for it for years like Dan
- Quayle and potato as proof of what a
- dunce he is?
-
- If... George W. Bush had
- burned 9,000 gallons of jet fuel to go plant a
- single tree on Earth Day, would you have concluded
- he's a hypocrite?
-
- If... George W. Bush's administration
- had ok'd Air Force One
- flying low over millions of people
- followed by a jet fighter in downtown
- Manhattan causing widespread panic, would you have
- wondered whether they actually get
- what happened on 9-11?
-
- If... George W. Bush had
- failed to send relief aid to flood victims throughout
the
- Midwest with more people killed or made homeless than
- in New Orleans, would you want it made into a major
- ongoing political issue with claims of racism and
incompetence?
-
- If... George W. Bush had
- ordered the firing of the CEO of a
- major corporation, even though he had no constitutional
- authority to do so, would you
- have approved?
-
- If... George W Bush
- had proposed to double the national debt,
- which had taken more than two centuries to
- accumulate, in one year, would
- you have approved?
-
- If... George W. Bush had then
- proposed to double the debt again within 10
- years, would you have approved?
-
- So, tell me, what is it about Obama that makes him so
brilliant and impressive?
- Can't think of anything off the top of your head?
Well, don't worry.
- He's done all this in just 9 months -- so you have
another three years and three months to come up with an answer.
Kipling's If Poem