obama laughs that rush should have kidney failure

I must be missing something here because i can't believe that the entire thread boils down to 'MAN LAUGHS AT JOKE - BYSTANDERS SHOCKED'.

I can only imagine the uproar when these same people discover, to their absolute horror, that Barack Obama has, systematically and deliberately, been demeaning the very office of President of the United States of America by excreting malodorous human waste products from his own bottom on an almost daily basis.

For shame.
 
Grind said:
rush never said he wanted our country to fail, he said he wanted obama to fail. Which is perfectly reasonable.
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Well it does make sense that Rush would want Obama to fail since Rush has failed in his goal to make America a right wing oligarchy in which us peons are enslaved so as to protect the political liberties of the righteous few.
 
Yurt said:
Obama laughs at Rush "Oxycontin" jab

Wanda Sykes isn't killing but she's getting some laughs -- and Obama was yukking it up until Sykes muttered the word "abstinence" and "Palin" in the same joke.
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The same person who gloats over the bankruptcy of an American company, a real thing and not just words, is offended by words about a total buffoon who says more negative in a week than most say in a lifetime. You tools need to look up hypocrite and hypocrisy as it should be tattooed on your farhead.
 
ib1yysguy said:
Bush literally mocked and made jokes at someone being put to death at his authority in Texas. You didn't raise an eyebrow then.

You, sir, are a tool.
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you're such a dummy...i am not even aware of this so-called joke...

you might want to get some facts before you spout lies and make up phony stuff about people :pke:

more of using rush or bush to justify obama's behavior...:rolleyes:
 
Yurt said:
yeah, its great to have a president that laughs at the potential death of one our citizens...

he is thug and so are you watermark
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Since rush doesn't have kidney failure no "potential death" is imminent.

The dinner takes the form of a "roast". Obama and his administration were skewered also.

This is much ado about nothing.
 
Yurt said:
you're such a dummy...i am not even aware of this so-called joke...

you might want to get some facts before you spout lies and make up phony stuff about people :pke:

more of using rush or bush to justify obama's behavior...:rolleyes:
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Karla Faye Tucker

In pondering the relationship between governors and the prisoners over whom they have power of life and death, I find myself remembering the single worst thing I ever heard about President Bush. It was something Bush, then governor of Texas, said to a reporter during his first presidential campaign. The reporter in question was Tucker Carlson—hardly a hostile figure—and Carlson reported it in Talk magazine in 1999. It was about Karla Faye Tucker, a convicted murderer whose execution Bush, as governor, had refused to stay. Here is what Carlson wrote (as quoted in National Review, another source hardly known to be hostile toward Republicans):

In the week before [Karla Faye Tucker's] execution, Bush says, Bianca Jagger and a number of other protesters came to Austin to demand clemency for Tucker. "Did you meet with any of them?" I ask.

Bush whips around and stares at me. "No, I didn't meet with any of them," he snaps, as though I've just asked the dumbest, most offensive question ever posed. "I didn't meet with Larry King either when he came down for it. I watched his interview with [Tucker], though. He asked her real difficult questions, like 'What would you say to Governor Bush?' "

"What was her answer?" I wonder.

"Please," Bush whimpers, his lips pursed in mock desperation, "don't kill me."

http://www.slate.com/id/2131451/
 
One notable fact missing in that story from Slate is that the Governor of Texas cannot stay an execution except once for only 30 days for a judicial review from judges that are not appointed by his office, and that the execution in question had gone through that judicial review. There was nothing more the Governor could have done, even if it had been somehow an opponent of the death penalty.
 
Damocles said:
One notable fact missing in that story from Slate is that the Governor of Texas cannot stay an execution except once for only 30 days for a judicial review from judges that are not appointed by his office, and that the execution in question had gone through that judicial review. There was nothing more the Governor could have done, even if it had been somehow an opponent of the death penalty.
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What does that have to do with the price of tea in China? It's about bu$h's mockery, not his duty as governor.
 
charver said:
I must be missing something here because i can't believe that the entire thread boils down to 'MAN LAUGHS AT JOKE - BYSTANDERS SHOCKED'.

I can only imagine the uproar when these same people discover, to their absolute horror, that Barack Obama has, systematically and deliberately, been demeaning the very office of President of the United States of America by excreting malodorous human waste products from his own bottom on an almost daily basis.

For shame.
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Lol... it is quite the shocker... laughing at a joke that is at the expense of a political rival... OMG!!! OMG!!! OMG!!!
 
christiefan915 said:
What does that have to do with the price of tea in China? It's about bu$h's mockery, not his duty as governor.
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It has much to do with the tone and rhetoric and points to bias on the part of the interviewer. Asking a person "What would you say to the Governor" in that case is worthless, it's like asking what she would say to any bystander.

She needed to speak to the people who had the choice to stay or continue with the execution, the Judges that reviewed the case and decided there was merit to the sentencing.

This showed a lack of either education on Larry's part (don't believe that) or an attempt to make an emotional strike on what they viewed as a political opponent from behind a pretense of ignorance to what the Governor could have done, or what he had done.

While I am an opponent of the death penalty, reality tends to sneak into my thoughts on occasion. I tend to realize that having the power to stay the execution is important in actually making the point he attempted to make. Bush, or any Governor in Texas for a very long time has never stayed an execution, because he/she never could.

Instead of pointing out the reality of power that Bush had, Slate continues the pretense of ignorance to attempt to make a political point to extend their own bias in the matter. You in your ignorance repeat that Bush "refused" to stay the execution. I merely point out that no matter what Bush thought of the matter he could not have changed the outcome in any way.
 
Damocles said:
It has much to do with the tone and rhetoric and points to bias on the part of the interviewer. Asking a person "What would you say to the Governor" in that case is worthless, it's like asking what she would say to any bystander.


She needed to speak to the people who had the choice to stay or continue with the execution, the Judges that reviewed the case and decided there was merit to the sentencing.

This showed a lack of either education on Larry's part (don't believe that) or an attempt to make an emotional strike on what they viewed as a political opponent from behind a pretense of ignorance to what the Governor could have done, or what he had done.

While I am an opponent of the death penalty, reality tends to sneak into my thoughts on occasion. I tend to realize that having the power to stay the execution is important in actually making the point he attempted to make. Bush, or any Governor in Texas for a very long time has never stayed an execution, because he/she never could.

Instead of pointing out the reality of power that Bush had, Slate continues the pretense of ignorance to attempt to make a political point to extend their own bias in the matter. You in your ignorance repeat that Bush "refused" to stay the execution. I merely point out that no matter what Bush thought of the matter he could not have changed the outcome in any way.
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I believe you've lost track of the thread. The article I posted was in response to the posters' comments: "Bush literally mocked and made jokes at someone being put to death at his authority in Texas."

Followed by the response: "you're such a dummy...i am not even aware of this so-called joke... you might want to get some facts before you spout lies and make up phony stuff about people"

The point is that bu$h did indeed mock a death penalty case in a crass, immature, unprofessional manner. There was no lie or phony stuff about bu$h's mockery, whether or not you agree with the way the question was asked, or how much info Slate published. For some reason you've taken my rebuttal to the poster's comments far beyond anything I intended by posting it, which was to show that the poster was wrong about "phony stuff". Your comment about "ignorance" is the usual RW response of shooting the messenger, and simply shows a knee-jerk combativeness to anything critical posted about bu$h.
 
christiefan915 said:
I believe you've lost track of the thread. The article I posted was in response to the posters' comments: "Bush literally mocked and made jokes at someone being put to death at his authority in Texas."

Followed by the response: "you're such a dummy...i am not even aware of this so-called joke... you might want to get some facts before you spout lies and make up phony stuff about people"

The point is that bu$h did indeed mock a death penalty case in a crass, immature, unprofessional manner. There was no lie or phony stuff about bu$h's mockery, whether or not you agree with the way the question was asked, or how much info Slate published. For some reason you've taken my rebuttal to the poster's comments far beyond anything I intended by posting it, which was to show that the poster was wrong about "phony stuff". Your comment about "ignorance" is the usual RW response of shooting the messenger, and simply shows a knee-jerk combativeness to anything critical posted about bu$h.
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And my point wasn't to discredit that, but to educate people about the power that he wielded.

If you note, I pointed out what interested me about the story, not about your post.

The fact that not only did Larry King ask her a question that proved he was either ignorant (don't believe he was) or was promoting political bias, but that Slate continued to promote it, keeping their readers in ignorance, then you again promoted it saying that he had "refused" to grant what he could not grant.

Now that you have given me your answer to that

Now my point is that while you see that he was crass, I see the continued and purposeful spreading of ignorance in order to create a perception of something as "worse". Everybody laughs at crass jokes on occasion, or sometimes they even make them. Bowling jokes come to mind.

Why must you continue to keep people in ignorance in order to attempt to make this point? There is no need. Either you were ignorant and learned something today, or you were perpetuating something you thought would help your "cause". Instead of correcting the implication of his first "rejection" you perpetuate it to make his perceived "joke" even "worse". It is a play at emotional politics that people who pay attention should be above, and if you are here posting it is somewhat assumed that you pay attention. It is the reason we have a "divide" among Americans.

I find it always sad when people continue to promote an ignorant position along with something that could actually be a point, because it takes away from any significant advantage you could have had. It shouldn't be ignored that he hadn't the power to change her fate. Stressing how he had "refused" to grant what he couldn't grant, then made the joke definitely changes the perception of the joke.

And being critical of Bush has nothing really to do with this. You will note that I am uncritical of Obama for laughing at Rush's supposed "Kidney Failure".
 
ib1yysguy said:
Bush literally mocked and made jokes at someone being put to death at his authority in Texas. You didn't raise an eyebrow then.

You, sir, are a tool.
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hey retard, are you able to tell the difference between a convicted murderer and a talk show host?
 
karla faye tucker was a murderous bitch who got what the people of Texas thought she should have. That Bush cracked a remark at her pitiful attempts for clemency simple because she was a woman is of little consequence.

There is a HUGE difference between mocking some killer bitchs whine to spare her pitiful life and laughing at a joke for someone to die for opposing political ideology.

Any that can't see THAT difference, well they should probably have their kidneys fail as well.
 
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