Monday, January 12, 2009

George W. Bush's Final White House Press Conference



This is a 45-minute video, but I thought it would be helpful to post it here where everybody can find it when they have the time or inclination. I'm only a few minutes in and it's already incredibly surreal. This guy hasn't changed at all.

But for a good highlight, the following is Bush responding to a question about his MISTAKES:

5 comments:

James said...

This is like lifting a band aid slowly... like over 8 years.

*stepho* said...

ummm wow. just wow.

El Clyne said...

I feel like I'd totally forgotten what he was like, until just now. Take me back to not remembering ASAP.

Josh Xing said...

Memo
To: President Dubya
From: Michael Brown
Re: Katrina and what we should do now that it has stopped raining.

I would first like to remind you that you appointed me - a commissioner of horsey shows who was forced to resign from his horsey show post - to protect our nation from emergencies. Mr. President, we have two options. 1) Pull people from their roofs in a really bad-ass way with helicopters and shit and shove the displaced in a sports stadium built as sturdy as a ... I really want to say levy right now; OR 2) we can land Air Force One into the flood for a photo op. You can be all like, "Yippee ki yay!" with a cowboy hat and shooting a rifle. We can have you dive into the flood to something by Dee Snyder. You can teach black kids to swim and show them how to pull themselves up from their own bootstraps like you di... like your cook did. I highly advise against the second option because A) Air Force One cannot land on water; B)Security is out helping people from a river that is currently in their living rooms. (Note: We need to maximize security efforts to protect you because, come on, you're a pretty awful president); C) You can't help but laugh at poor people; D) Your wife will likely need you to cover-up another murder that week. I say we save a couple thousand folks from their roofs (again, obviously making it look really bad-ass). Then, cut about a billion dollars in literacy programs because poor, black people living in squalor on a wall Humpty Dumpty wouldn't sit on, which is the only barrier between them and our country's largest river has nothing to do with their level of education. PS: Can I quit now?

Sam Humphries said...

To think I had been feeling bad for him.