One Gulp, And Bush Was Gone (Sidney Blumenthal)

The Guardian (UK) ^ | Thursday, November 25, 2004 | Sidney Blumenthal

[an amused spectator]

At the dedication of the Clinton library last week in Little Rock, Karl Rove and President Bush received separate tours of the dramatic building, a glistening silver, suspended boxcar filled with light and with a panoramic view of the Arkansas river. Flung across the river stands an old railroad bridge - and to Clinton watchers, bridges represent "the bridge to the 21st century", the former president's re-election slogan in 1996...[snip]

...Then, when the presidents were announced, Bush tried to push his way past Clinton at the library door to be first in line, against the already accepted protocol for the event, as though the walk to the platform was a contest for alpha male...[snip]

...According to two eyewitnesses, Rove had shown keen interest in everything he saw, and asked questions, including about costs, obviously thinking about a future George W Bush library and legacy. "You're not such a scary guy," joked his guide. "Yes, I am," Rove replied. Walking away, he muttered deliberately and loudly: "I change constitutions, I put churches in schools ..." Thus he identified himself as more than the ruthless campaign tactician; he was also the invisible hand of power, pervasive and expansive, designing to alter the fundamental American compact...[snip]

[leadhead]

But I think Clinton will try to do something international to bolster up his tarnished image.

He already did. Doncha remember the CUBAN cigar?

[Kozak]

I was hoping from the title old Syd had decided to take a swig of this:

[CFC__VRWC]

Upon entering the tent, Bush, according to an eyewitness, told an aide: "One gulp and we're out of here."

And if Bush had stuck around, Sid would be whining about how he wasn't really welcome there and was only trying to steal Clinton's spotlight.

[chronic_loser]

Walking away, he muttered deliberately and loudly: "I change constitutions, I put churches in schools ..."

I'd bet my house that's a lie.>>

I would take the bet. These people are so stupid, and take themselves so seriously, they don't even recognize when they are being mocked. Rove would have to add the phrase "and we roast babies in the White House basement and eat them" for these nimrods to realize they are the butt of a joke.

[hiho hiho]

"the dramatic building, a glistening silver, suspended boxcar filled with light and with a panoramic view of the Arkansas river. Flung across the river stands an old railroad bridge - and to Clinton watchers, bridges represent "the bridge to the 21st century",


A grand entrance, but it's still bridge to nowhere!

[an amused spectator]

The thing looks like a mobile home but, as always, Sid sounds like a schoolgirl with a crush on Billy.

Your mouth drops open when you read this piece. I was still trying to find coherence when the piece ended...

[an amused spectator]

Should we be talking about our betters this way? ;-)

[alnick]

If not made up most certainly sarcasm, given the "you're not so bad" comment.

Of course. Rove was just having a bit of fun with the 'rats.

[skinkinthegrass]

..Sid sounds like a schoolgirl with a crush on Billy.

...and Sid is struck w/$hrillary.

[RippleFire]

Sid peddles his tripe overseas...yawn

[oldironsides]

What do you expect from a member of the SDS? This egghead fibber was once and probably still is a memebr of the hate America gang. Students for a Democratic Society hung on to gain entry into the whitehouse on the coattails of Hillary R. Clinton.

[longtermmemmory]

Must not be able to get attention in the USA. Sid's presence/conection with UK papers may explain the eurowacko reactions.

The Clinton library is supposed to represent a bridge, a bridge to no-where.

Convenient how the library omits Clinton's disbarment for perjury.

[Gunrunner2]

Cool pic. . .a keeper fur sure

[bray]

The Bridge to Nowhere! Are these Losers ever going to get over it???

Pray for W and Our Troops

[EveningStar]

What a lying asswipe.

[WaterDragon]

Yeah, but when was Sid ever respectful of the truth? You can't take his descriptions as true without corroboration.

[bushfamfan]

I was not happy with that speech he gave for Clintoon at the library dedication but this is funny-'a submarine could take this place out', 'one gulp and we're out of here'.

[KidGlock]

Bush appeared distracted, and glanced repeatedly at his watch. When he stopped to gaze at the river, where secret service agents were stationed in boats, the guide said: "Usually, you might see some bass fishermen out there." Bush replied: "A submarine could take this place out."

More fiction from Sid Vicious.

[Humidston]

Na ne na na neener, we won Sidney. We won and you lo'oost, Loser!

Of course you have to act like a baby. Acting like a reasonable ADULT is an attribute you people just cannot grasp without crib notes.

(Thus, this remark is posted as if worded by a leftist.)

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Egad. Where is the gagging, projectile vomitous barf alert?

[Robert A. Cook, PE]

Nah.

Rowe, simply using sarcasm, exaggeration, and humor to good purpose.

(And a "elite, well-educated, super-smart, talented, ultra-educated liberal writer and commentator" from the blue states liberal media missing the entire point of the sarcasm and humor!)

[geopyg]

"One gulp and we're out of here."

I think Bush was just reading from some of the Oval Office exhibit.

[Robert A. Cook, PE]

Peres was Clinton's toady in Israel, right?

Elected after Clinton sent "Snake" Carville (and lots of money) over to manipulate the Israel election against the conservative?

[Libertarian Nationalist GOPr]

"'Am I the only one in America who likes both John Kerry and George Bush? Am I the only one who believes that both are great men, with different ideas...'

Who was it that sid this.....Bill Clinton?

Sorry, but I just couldn't watch it.

LNGOP'r

[weegee]

You could probably have heard the obscenities from inside if you had stood on Sid's sidewalk on November 3rd.

[weegee]

Sid peddles his tripe overseas...yawn

So did Lord Haw Haw and Axis Sally.

[Coldwater Creek]

I think that the sarcasm was quite clever.

[Paperdoll]

>this doesn'st sound like Bush<

My thoughts exactly.
And Blue-menthjol is not above gross exaggeration either.

[beckysueb]

Somehow this whole piece sounds very much like a big fat lie!

[beckysueb]

If she likes George Bush, she sure has a funny way of showing it.

[Taliesan]

Sidney Blumenthal lied for a living in the Clinton white house. He told outright fictions to the press on the courthouse steps at the grand jury.

Whatever he says somebody said needs confirmed by a credible source.

[beckysueb]

I think GWB has better things to do with his time than to pander to these morons. They were lucky he and his Dad showed up at this ridiculous affair and said such nice things about the Schlickmiester. They were the only class act of the whole show.

[ladyinred]

It was sarcasm!!!!

[beckysueb]

I don't think a person can mutter loudly. Muttering means talking under ones breath. You can't do it loudly. And this jerk claims hes a writer?

[beckysueb]

Its no wonder the Brits hate us.

[Ann Archy]

Sid could be gay....aren't MOST of the writers at Salon.com Gay? I can't name one that isn't....remember the "door licker"??

[EternalVigilance]

Clinton had a failed foreign policy in almost every way.

'Big carrot, no stick' is how I will forever describe it.

[EternalVigilance]

Peres was Clinton's toady in Israel, right? Elected after Clinton sent "Snake" Carville (and lots of money) over to manipulate the Israel election against the conservative?

As he did in several Euroweenie countries, for which we are still paying a steep price.

[Hot Tabasco]

suspended boxcar filled with light and with a panoramic view of the Arkansas river.

Damn, I thought the libary was a 2 story doublewide that had the first floor washed out by a drainage ditch flash flood.......

[Brian Allen]

<< .... Sid sounds like a schoolgirl with a crush on Billy.


.... and Sid is struck w/$hrillary. >>

Viscious is Stepalotinit's squeeze.

When he's not packing Brock's.

[Lancey Howard]

Hmmm.... It's curious that even a paper with the low "standards" of the Guardian would give a forum to a documented liar and wife-beater like Blumenthal.

[Michael.SF.]

Who was it that sid this.....Bill Clinton?

Sorry, I was not clear. It was Bill who made the statement.