Hats off to the man, who is STILL doing his job, regardless of what the idiot Americans think.
Posted on 07/23/2007 11:09:43 AM PDT by Kellis91789
PRESIDENT BUSH'S RESIGNATION SPEECH
Normally, I start these things out by saying "My Fellow Americans." I'm not doing it this time. If the polls are any indication, I don't know who more than half of you are anymore. I do know something terrible has happened, and that you're really not fellow Americans any longer.
I'll cut right to the chase here: I quit. Now before anyone gets all in a lather about me quitting to avoid impeachment, or to avoid prosecution or something, let me assure you: there's been no breaking of laws or impeachable offenses in this office. The reason I'm quitting is simple. I'm fed up with you people. I'm fed up because you have no understanding of what's really going on in the world. Or of what's going on in this once-great nation of ours. And the majority of you are too damned lazy to do your homework and figure it out.
Let's start local. You've been sold a bill of goods by politicians and the news media. Polls show that the majority of you think the economy is in the tank. And that's despite record numbers of homeowners including record numbers of MINORITY homeowners. And while we're mentioning minorities, I'll point out that minority business ownership is at an all-time high. Our unemployment rate is as low as it ever was during the Clinton Administration. I've mentioned all those things before, but it doesn't seem to have sunk in.
Despite the shock to our economy of 9/11, the stock market has rebounded to record levels and more Americans than ever are participating in these markets. Meanwhile, all you can do is whine about gas prices, and most of you are too damn stupid to realize that gas prices are high because there's increased demand in other parts of the world, and because a small handful of noisy idiots are more worried about polar bears and beachfront property than your economic security.
We face real threats in the world. Don't give me this "blood for oil" thing. If I was trading blood for oil I would've already seized Iraq 's oil fields and let the rest of the country go to hell. And don't give me this 'Bush Lied People Died' crap either. If I was the liar you morons take me for, I could've easily had chemical weapons planted in Iraq so they could be 'discovered.' Instead, I owned up to the fact that the intelligence was faulty. Let me remind you that the rest of the world thought Saddam had the goods, same as me. Let me also remind you that regime change in Iraq was official US policy before I came into office. Some guy named ' Clinton ' established that policy. Bet you didn't know that, did you?
You idiots need to understand that we face a unique enemy. Back during the cold war, there were two major competing political and economic models squaring off. We won that war, but we did so because fundamentally, the Communists wanted to survive, just as we do. We were simply able to outspend and out-tech them. That's not the case this time. The soldiers of our new enemy don't care if they survive. In fact, they want to die. That'd be fine, as long as they weren't also committed to taking as many of you with them as they can. But they are. They want to kill you. And the bastards are all over the globe. You should be grateful that they haven't gotten any more of us here in the United States since September 11. But you're not. That's because you've got no idea how hard a small number of intelligence, military, law enforcement and homeland security people have worked to make sure of that. When this whole mess started, I warned you that this would be a long and difficult fight. I'm disappointed how many of you people think a long and difficult fight amounts to a single season of 'Survivor'.
Instead, you've grown impatient. You're incapable of seeing things through the long lens of history, the way our enemies do. You think that wars should last a few months, a few years, tops.
Making matters worse, you actively support those who help the enemy. Every time you buy the New York Times, every time you send a donation to a cut-and-run Democrat's political campaign, well, damn it, you might just as well Fedex a grenade launcher to a Jihadist. It amounts to the same thing.
In this day and age, it's easy enough to find the truth. It's all over the Internet. It just isn't on the pages of the New York Times or on NBC News. But even if it were, I doubt you'd be any smarter. Most of you would rather watch American Idol. I could say more about your expectations that the Government will always be there to bail you out, even if you're too stupid to leave a city that's below sea level and has a hurricane approaching. I could say more about your insane belief that government, not your own wallet, is where the money comes from. But I've come to the conclusion that were I to do so, it would sail right over your heads.
So I quit. I'm going back to Crawford. I've got an energy-efficient house down there (Al Gore could only dream) and the capability to be fully self-sufficient. No one ever heard of Crawford before I got elected, and as soon as I'm done here pretty much no one will ever hear of it again. Maybe I'll be lucky enough to die of old age before the last pillars of America fall.
Oh, and by the way, Cheney's quitting too. That means Pelosi is your new President. You asked for it. Watch what she does carefully, because I still have a glimmer of hope that there're just enough of you remaining who are smart enough to turn this thing around in 2008.
So that's it. God bless what's left of America . Some of you know what I mean.
Old, but good.
Is there a text of General Pace’s speech upon assuming full authority as Commander-in-Chief?
Brilliant!
Someone’s gotta send this to GWB.
Magnificent!!!!!
The Left think they run this country. They think they can say anything. They think that anyone disagrees with them has violated some notion of civilized debate. I wonder where they got these crazy ideas?
The type of speech you have here is pretty good. It would be nice to begin a presidency with that kind of speech, rather than end one with it.
Bush isn’t a quitter. He’s not a communicator, but he’s not a quitter.
If it all weren’t so true, it would be funny! Great post.
Author has completely skipped over the setion where he explains why he leaves the borders open for the very people we’re fighting to saunter across and attack us again, not to mention allowing illegals to come in and burgle, rape, murder our citizenry at their convenience...
Even the follow up posts prove the point.
Bush has done an outstanding job as President. The polls are simply proof positive of the propaganda culture we live in.
Conservative Christian Republicans are evil and must be stopped.
That is the media line and it will not change.
Thank you President Bush for your excellent service and please excuse the ignorance of those who do not support you.
The more I look at America today, the more I think that I have live too long. My country has been a dismal disappointment to me ever since World War II ended. I sometimes wonder what we fought for.
My speech would be much shorter, “Screw you guys, I’m going home.”
Ain't that the truth...TV wars with surrender ceremonies.
Classic. Never had seen this before. Thanks for posting, FRiend.
HEAR! HEAR!
This was written before the uproar about immigration.
ping
“My speech would be much shorter, “Screw you guys, I’m going home.” ‘
Excellent! Cartman for President!!!
Ignorance, eh? Lots of folks supported Bush and the WOT despite Bush's pro-illegal immigration agenda.
But our opposition to Bush over his shamnesty bill was hardly based on ignorance. To the contrary - it was informed opposition.
I simply believe we should impugn the motives of the border bots in precisely the same moral terms that the President’s motives have been impugned.
What could possibly be wrong with that?
If President Bush is a traitor surpassing Clinton, then why not use the same rhetorical judgment schemes to judge the border bots?
Maybe the border enforcement community is a conspiracy to never increase enforcement? Under the guise of increasing border security they gut every increase by denouncing it as shamnesty?
Why not exploit the political frailty of our system that makes it impossible for any legislative idea to pass in an ideal form toward the end of denouncing the border enforcement community as completely without a moral compass. I really rather like the idea and watching articles be posted which do this very thing to a fine US President leads me to believe that the border bots would be gracious recipients of the very same treatment.
Anything short of the immediate deportation of 20 million illegals is shamnesty.
From this premise we can denounce everything Bush does. We can even suggest that illegal immigration is a tragedy which exceeds 911. Why not? Why not go crazy?
Oh Well. Can we have a President that will enforce our borders now?
Gee, maybe because Bush was selling a bogus package whereas his opponents had damn good reason to question his motives, given his lack of strong enforcement until he wanted shamnesty?
Your a sicko!!!
So true.
Where’s the FENCE Mr. President, indeed you should resign ...
why not. he bill and his dad can go hit the links. everyday you have to wake up with gut feelings, terror alerts, old videos of bin laden (hes dead) the north american union, on and on and on.
carter wanted us to think our country was going to he**. reagan gave us blue skies and hope. bush has gone back to the gloom and doom days of jimmy. think about it.
he has 18 months to make it right.
That’s what I like. A man who stays focused! (Especially when he’s working on my teeth! :) ) This globalist president’s signing of the NAU was not addressed either, the open borders a blatant symptom of the ultimate goal of one world government.
How Hillary! was successfully pre-empted from being the first female president.
Bush, So I guess the whole plan of putting illegal aliens ahead of Americans and calling millions of your supporters opposed to that insanity disparaging names didn't work out, eh?
bump
Sorry Dubya, allow me to direct your attention to the SPPA which you entered America into with out the consent of the American people or our representatives.
See you at the signing! The resignation, right?
He’s in over his head, fer sure. Let Dick do it.
Great post!
I wouldn't mind giving Dick a chance for the next 18 months.
Dick had his chance this weekend while W was under for the colonoscopy.
He blew it !
No attack on Iran, no mass deportation of illegals, no recinding of the SPPA, no carpet bombing of the Pakistan-Afganistan border, no seizure of all Venezuelan assets.
Dick had HOURS to accomplish something, and instead did NOTHING !
/s off
That might have saved him from Conservatives turning on him — provided he hadn’t stabbed us in the back on immigration — but I doubt it would have reduced the Left’s stridency.
Maybe they have been encouraged by his attempts to placate them, but it’s been “Bush’s Fault !” pretty much since 2000 without let-up.
Fred Thompson talks this way NOW in his essays, but it remains to be seen if he’ll continue such frankness through his entire campaign and into the Whitehouse. Duncan Hunter is a bit more polite, and that may have something to do with the fact that he is a declared candidate and has appeared in televised debates while Fred hasn’t.
Including Mexico. And you've made it a real easy walk for them. ;)
What do you mean, “illegals raping and murdering us citizens?” Statistics from the census bureau and other agencies show that immigrants, illegal or otherwise, are much less likely to commit violent crimes. The young men who immigrate here to make an honest living have much lower incarceration rates than us natives. So stop this fearmongering, and support our president’s guest worker program! We Republicans are really scaring away the Latin voters with this kind of tasteless rhetoric.
There’s Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics. Should we tell the families of those who’ve ben raped or murdered by illegals that’s it’s ok, because most illegal immigrants are less likely to commit a crime? Sure, most people are hard working decent minded people who have no criminal tendencies, legally here or not. But along the border there have been many instances of assaults and murders where the criminal then disappeared back into Mexico. And if you think those here are going to “Vote Republican”, you must be smoking some of that illegally imported tobacco from south of the border.
How many illegals did the census bureau contact in 2000, amigo?
Great speech. Too bad most of the people this is directed at are too arrogantly stupid to realize this applies to them.
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