That Time Legally Owned Guns Were Confiscated When George W. Bush Was President
Republicans are waiting for Barack Obama to confiscate their guns. Any minute now, he’s going to pounce. Obama must be waiting until the day before he leaves office to grab all of your guns, and on the way out he’ll show you his middle gun grabbing finger.
The GOP has been sending emails seeking donations by selling “I miss W” T-shirts and mugs and yet, it was under George W. Bush that weapons were literally confiscated.
…that after a week of near anarchy in the city, no civilians in New Orleans will be allowed to carry pistols, shotguns, or other firearms of any kind. “Only law enforcement are allowed to have weapons,” he said.
That order apparently does not apply to the hundreds of security guards whom businesses and some wealthy individuals have hired to protect their property. The guards, who are civilians working for private security firms like Blackwater, are openly carrying M-16s and other assault rifles.
Mr. Compass said that he was aware of the private guards but that the police had no plans to make them give up their weapons.
New Orleans has turned into an armed camp, patrolled by thousands of local, state, and federal law enforcement officers, as well as National Guard troops and active-duty soldiers. While armed looters roamed unchecked last week, the city is now calm.
Imagine if this happened under Obama’s watch:
…private security forces already had boots on the ground. Some, like Blackwater (which has since redubbed itself Xe), were under federal contract, while a host of others answered to wealthy residents and businessmen who had departed well before Katrina and needed help protecting their property from the suffering masses left behind. According Jeremy Scahill’s reporting in The Nation, Blackwater set up an HQ in downtown New Orleans. Armed as they would be in Iraq, with automatic rifles, guns strapped to legs, and pockets overflowing with ammo, Blackwater contractors drove around in SUVs and unmarked cars with no license plates.
“When asked what authority they were operating under,” Scahill reported, “one guy said, ‘We’re on contract with the Department of Homeland Security.’ Then, pointing to one of his comrades, he said, ‘He was even deputized by the governor of the state of Louisiana. We can make arrests and use lethal force if we deem it necessary.’ The man then held up the gold Louisiana law enforcement badge he wore around his neck.”
It was just ten days after Katrina hit that the New York Times reported that police officers began confiscating weapons, including legally registered firearms, from civilians in preparation for a mass forced evacuation of the residents still living here.
But at that point, the city was calm with no signs of looting — although it was a problem previously. “New Orleans has turned into an armed camp, patrolled by thousands of local, state, and federal law enforcement officers, as well as National Guard troops and active-duty soldiers,” the Times reported.
School shootings weren’t an issue back then. Domestic terrorism paled in comparison to the present time. And yet, Republicans “Miss W.”
We can’t even have a civil conversation about background checks, gun control or even mention ‘gun violence.’ Or American’s ‘gun culture’ because if you do, you must want an all out ban on firearms.
Sure, it wasn’t Bush directly who confiscated legally owned firearms, but Blackwater was sent there by his administration. New Orleans became a police state. I didn’t hear him objecting while corpses rotted in the streets.
Please vote in November. Wait — I said that too nicely. Get off your sofas and get to the polls, dammit. Or do you “Miss W,” too?
Lest we forget, “Heck of a job, Brownie.”
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By: Anomaly100
Republicans_are_Evil October 31st, 2014 at 19:46
Obama doesn’t need to confiscate anyone’s guns. All Obama has to do is prosecute every right winger that has made treasonous or seditious comments online. Prosecute every right winger that has threated to kill him or anyone else. Convict them all of a felony, and then none of them will ever be allowed to own a firearm again. Problem solved.
Pistol-Packing AKA "Susie" October 31st, 2014 at 21:53
In other words, we should start with all the libs that wished Bush dead and had made comments. Sounds like a good place to start to me.
whatthe46 October 31st, 2014 at 22:21
you can start with all the conservative republicans whose sons, daughters, mothers and fathers that fought and died in a war that believed his lies. he’s a direct cause of their deaths. i’m sure they were calling for his head.
arc99 October 31st, 2014 at 22:43
so tired of this false equivalence.
you show me an example of a Democratic Congressman standing by saying nothing while someone makes explicit comments about killing President Bush. find such an incident and then you might have some semblance of a point.
but otherwise, your generic “all the libs” is meaningless hyperbole and certainly did not include sitting members of Congress.
some comment forum participant (who by the way represents only himself and not “all the libs”) talking about killing President Bush is hardly the same thing as a Republican Congressman responding with nothing more than a stupid grin when one of his supporters talks about executing the President of the United States.
no both sides do not do it.
http://www.newson6.com/story/24659153/oklahoma-womans-statement-on-obama-threat-or-free-speech
TULSA COUNTY, Oklahoma -The Oklahoma Democratic Party is calling on Tulsa Congressman Jim Bridenstine to apologize for not rebuking one of his supporters who called for the execution of President Obama at one of Bridenstein’s recent town hall meetings.
Larry Schmitt November 1st, 2014 at 07:49
As red as OK is, the OK Democratic Party could fit in an IHOP booth. So I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for that apology.
Pistol-Packing AKA "Susie" November 1st, 2014 at 09:54
I feel that History sometimes eludes people.
http://www.boycottliberalism.com/Liberals-Bashing-America-and-President-Bush.htm
http://www.zombietime.com/zomblog/?p=621
Republicans_are_Evil October 31st, 2014 at 23:05
Those on the left aren’t the one’s that are causing the problem with their guns. DUH.
rg9rts November 1st, 2014 at 05:34
There NEVER was the hatred and venom that characterizes the rightwing nuts and baggers vented towards Bush by the left.. The Iraqi’s threw shoes at him but that was a sign of affection
John Bodensteiner November 1st, 2014 at 01:46
Even though I hate it, what Obama is doing with those nut jobs is the right thing. If they started prosecuting them, it would turn them into national martyrs. Ignore them until they do something actionable.
Republicans_are_Evil October 31st, 2014 at 19:46
Obama doesn’t need to confiscate anyone’s guns. All Obama has to do is prosecute every right winger that has made treasonous or seditious comments online. Prosecute every right winger that has threated to kill him or anyone else. Convict them all of a felony, and then none of them will ever be allowed to own a firearm again. Problem solved.
Pistol-Packing AKA "Susie" October 31st, 2014 at 21:53
In other words, we should start with all the libs that wished Bush dead and had made comments. Sounds like a good place to start to me.
whatthe46 October 31st, 2014 at 22:21
you can start with all the conservative republicans whose sons, daughters, mothers and fathers that fought and died in a war that believed his lies. he’s a direct cause of their deaths. i’m sure they were calling for his head.
arc99 October 31st, 2014 at 22:43
so tired of this false equivalence.
you show me an example of a Democratic Congressman standing by saying nothing while someone makes explicit comments about killing President Bush. find such an incident and then you might have some semblance of a point.
but otherwise, your generic “all the libs” is meaningless hyperbole and certainly did not include sitting members of Congress.
some comment forum participant (who by the way represents only himself and not “all the libs”) talking about killing President Bush is hardly the same thing as a Republican Congressman responding with nothing more than a stupid grin when one of his supporters talks about executing the President of the United States.
no both sides do not do it.
http://www.newson6.com/story/24659153/oklahoma-womans-statement-on-obama-threat-or-free-speech
TULSA COUNTY, Oklahoma -The Oklahoma Democratic Party is calling on Tulsa Congressman Jim Bridenstine to apologize for not rebuking one of his supporters who called for the execution of President Obama at one of Bridenstein’s recent town hall meetings.
Larry Schmitt November 1st, 2014 at 07:49
As red as OK is, the OK Democratic Party could fit in an IHOP booth. So I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for that apology.
Pistol-Packing AKA "Susie" November 1st, 2014 at 09:54
I feel that History sometimes eludes people.
http://www.boycottliberalism.com/Liberals-Bashing-America-and-President-Bush.htm
http://www.zombietime.com/zomblog/?p=621
Republicans_are_Evil October 31st, 2014 at 23:05
Those on the left aren’t the one’s that are causing the problem with their guns. DUH.
rg9rts November 1st, 2014 at 05:34
There NEVER was the hatred and venom that characterizes the rightwing nuts and baggers vented towards Bush by the left.. The Iraqi’s threw shoes at him but that was a sign of affection
John Bodensteiner November 1st, 2014 at 01:46
Even though I hate it, what Obama is doing with those nut jobs is the right thing. If they started prosecuting them, it would turn them into national martyrs. Ignore them until they do something actionable.
M D Reese October 31st, 2014 at 19:55
What cracks me up is that when these open carry/cold-dead-fingers types get stopped for something or another, it’s usually discovered that they had already lost their legal right to bear arms. Of COURSE the NRA does not want universal background checks–it would cut into sales.
ExPFCWintergreen October 31st, 2014 at 19:58
Yeah, it’s funny how these Second Amendment Absolutist, Walter Mitty types — who always imagine they’ll be the Good Guy With A Gun℠ foiling an Evil-Doer in the Nick Of Time — sincerely seem to believe the National Rifle Association has the slightest interest in them. The NRA is transparently a business lobby, and the reason it’s so successful is that it has duped these yardbirds into believing that what’s good for Remington, Glock, H&K, et al., is by definition good for them. Poor bastards.
M D Reese November 1st, 2014 at 16:55
“It’s all about the Benjamins”
http://www.businessinsider.com/gun-industry-funds-nra-2013-1
ExPFCWintergreen October 31st, 2014 at 19:55
Guns don’t kill people. Gun OWNERS kill people.
KB723 October 31st, 2014 at 20:14
‘Hired’ gun owners???
M D Reese October 31st, 2014 at 19:55
What cracks me up is that when these open carry/cold-dead-fingers types get stopped for something or another, it’s usually discovered that they had already lost their legal right to bear arms. Of COURSE the NRA does not want universal background checks–it would cut into sales.
ExPFCWintergreen October 31st, 2014 at 19:58
Yeah, it’s funny how these Second Amendment Absolutist, Walter Mitty types — who always imagine they’ll be the Good Guy With A Gun℠ foiling an Evil-Doer in the Nick Of Time — sincerely seem to believe the National Rifle Association has the slightest interest in them. The NRA is transparently a business lobby, and the reason it’s so successful is that it has duped these yardbirds into believing that what’s good for Remington, Glock, H&K, et al., is by definition good for them. Poor bastards.
M D Reese November 1st, 2014 at 16:55
“It’s all about the Benjamins”
http://www.businessinsider.com/gun-industry-funds-nra-2013-1
ExPFCWintergreen October 31st, 2014 at 19:55
Guns don’t kill people. Gun OWNERS kill people.
KB723 October 31st, 2014 at 20:14
‘Hired’ gun owners???
StoneyCurtisll October 31st, 2014 at 19:58
Excellent article from Anomaly100…
StoneyCurtisll October 31st, 2014 at 19:58
Excellent article from Anomaly100…
KABoink_after_wingnut_hacker October 31st, 2014 at 20:04
Well now, this is a story you won’t see on Fox!
KABoink_after_wingnut_hacker October 31st, 2014 at 20:04
Well now, this is a story you won’t see on Fox!
tracey marie October 31st, 2014 at 20:27
Let’s see, forced evacuations, confiscated guns, and a the mother of the President saying…”these people are better off they they were before Katrina in their own homes” referencing the dome that had raw sewage pouring out of the sinks and toilets.
whatthe46 October 31st, 2014 at 21:21
stupid didn’t fall far from the tree that’s for certain. when she said that, believe it or not, i wasn’t suprised. now we know where they (her sons) get their ignorance from.
rg9rts November 1st, 2014 at 05:30
Genes…Now Jeb “the Useless” wants to be POTUS
tracey marie October 31st, 2014 at 20:27
Let’s see, forced evacuations, confiscated guns, and a the mother of the President saying…”these people are better off they they were before Katrina in their own homes” referencing the dome that had raw sewage pouring out of the sinks and toilets.
whatthe46 October 31st, 2014 at 21:21
stupid didn’t fall far from the tree that’s for certain. when she said that, believe it or not, i wasn’t suprised. now we know where they (her sons) get their ignorance from.
rg9rts November 1st, 2014 at 05:30
Genes…Now Jeb “the Useless” wants to be POTUS
Pistol-Packing AKA "Susie" October 31st, 2014 at 20:45
Now Hold On one Minute…… Lets not forget, that since this happened, laws have been passed to never let it happen again. This was a crime against the constitution and to peoples rights. If we are going to go back and talk about history, then lets go to the aftermath that was a tragedy. And will never be allowed to repeat itself again.
AND TO THIS DAY !!! Most of those homeowners have never received their firearms back. And I can guarantee you, after this life event, no citizen is going to willing allow this to happen again. Sorry, but lets call a spade a spade on this.
tracey marie October 31st, 2014 at 20:47
yeah, bush and the gop think it’s fine as long as a black guy is not making the decisions. damn the constituion when you are white, pre-emptive war, torture, gun confiscation all good for white Presidents.
Pistol-Packing AKA "Susie" October 31st, 2014 at 21:49
So Sorry there Blue Waffle. No the GOP did not think this was alright, hence the reason why the laws were passed to never let this happen again. They recognized the mistake that was made and corrected it.
whatthe46 October 31st, 2014 at 21:52
apparently they did think it was alright.
Pistol-Packing AKA "Susie" October 31st, 2014 at 21:54
No, go back and study this. The decision was not made by the elected officials to sanction this.
Anomaly 100 October 31st, 2014 at 22:02
Blackwater was sanctioned by the Bush administration. Specifically, Homeland Security.
It was a well orchestrated police state.
Pistol-Packing AKA "Susie" October 31st, 2014 at 22:07
Yes, Blackwater was sanctioned to go in. Read the post I just posted.
rg9rts November 1st, 2014 at 05:29
Never to happen again….it was something like that that Chamberlain said.
Anomaly 100 October 31st, 2014 at 21:20
Except Republicans “Miss W” or did you miss that part of the post?
Pistol-Packing AKA "Susie" October 31st, 2014 at 21:51
yeah Missed that. Just went back and read it. Have to admit, I dont get it though.
Anomaly 100 October 31st, 2014 at 22:01
I don’t get it either, but that was the point of the post. I remember by Conservative mom saying, “I didn’t just vote for him once. I voted for him TWICE!”
She couldn’t believe it.
rg9rts November 1st, 2014 at 05:28
As the body twisted slowly in the wind(another gopee saying)
mmaynard119 October 31st, 2014 at 21:34
you seem nice………..
rg9rts November 1st, 2014 at 05:27
Helps keep the accidental shooting rate down to only murderous mayhem
Pistol-Packing AKA "Susie" October 31st, 2014 at 20:45
Now Hold On one Minute…… Lets not forget, that since this happened, laws have been passed to never let it happen again. This was a crime against the constitution and to peoples rights. If we are going to go back and talk about history, then lets go to the aftermath that was a tragedy. And will never be allowed to repeat itself again.
AND TO THIS DAY !!! Most of those homeowners have never received their firearms back. And I can guarantee you, after this life event, no citizen is going to willing allow this to happen again. Sorry, but lets call a spade a spade on this.
tracey marie October 31st, 2014 at 20:47
yeah, bush and the gop think it’s fine as long as a black guy is not making the decisions. damn the constituion when you are white, pre-emptive war, torture, gun confiscation all good for white Presidents.
Pistol-Packing AKA "Susie" October 31st, 2014 at 21:49
So Sorry there Blue Waffle. No the GOP did not think this was alright, hence the reason why the laws were passed to never let this happen again. They recognized the mistake that was made and corrected it.
whatthe46 October 31st, 2014 at 21:52
apparently they did think it was alright.
Pistol-Packing AKA "Susie" October 31st, 2014 at 21:54
No, go back and study this. The decision was not made by the elected officials to sanction this.
Anomaly 100 October 31st, 2014 at 22:02
Blackwater was sanctioned by the Bush administration. Specifically, Homeland Security.
It was a well orchestrated police state.
Pistol-Packing AKA "Susie" October 31st, 2014 at 22:07
Yes, Blackwater was sanctioned to go in. Read the post I just posted.
rg9rts November 1st, 2014 at 05:29
Never to happen again….it was something like that that Chamberlain said.
Anomaly 100 October 31st, 2014 at 21:20
Except Republicans “Miss W” or did you miss that part of the post?
I’m from New Orleans. My Conservative family went through hell during Katrina. My brother has voted 3rd party ever since.
Pistol-Packing AKA "Susie" October 31st, 2014 at 21:51
yeah Missed that. Just went back and read it. Have to admit, I dont get it though.
Anomaly 100 October 31st, 2014 at 22:01
I don’t get it either, but that was the point of the post. I remember by Conservative mom saying, “I didn’t just vote for him once. I voted for him TWICE!”
She couldn’t believe it.
rg9rts November 1st, 2014 at 05:28
As the body twisted slowly in the wind(another gopee saying)
mmaynard119 October 31st, 2014 at 21:34
you seem nice………..
rg9rts November 1st, 2014 at 05:27
Helps keep the accidental shooting rate down to only murderous mayhem
Pistol-Packing AKA "Susie" October 31st, 2014 at 22:04
Ummmmmm Anomaly 100. I am trying not to be disrespectful in this post. But in all seriousness. Lets take a closer look at this. It was not Bush or anybody in the GOP that ordered the confiscation of weapons. But instead it was a Democratic police Commissioner appointed by then Mayor Ray Naegin.
Edwin P. Compass, III is a former Chief of Police of the New Orleans Police Department.
He resigned as Chief of Police on September 27, 2005.[1]
Compass, who earlier said he was organizing a tribunal to handle the
cases of 249 officers who left their posts without permission during Hurricane Katrina[2], did not give any reason for his resignation. Compass’s resignation followed a few days after an emergency injunction was handed down, prohibiting him “from confiscating lawfully-possessed firearms from citizens … “[3] His actions subsequently led to the passage of the Disaster Recovery Personal Protection Act.
Compass has been widely criticized for not cracking down on corruption in the New Orleans Police Department.
Compass has declared that he was actually forced to resign his post.[4]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Compass
arc99 October 31st, 2014 at 22:15
exactly the kind of reasoned review of the facts that would never happen for President Obama.
If something similar happened right now, the blogosphere and talk radio would use the same strategy as they did for “you did not build that”, or “what difference does it make” which is to take a small bit of information, completely out of context and spin a completely false narrative around it. For heavens sakes they are blaming the President for Ebola and accusing him of wanting to infect the country.
Anomaly’s post simply highlights the unhinged hysteria that is the rule rather than the exception for critics of the President. It’s like the stark difference between the aftermath of 9/11/2001 where we were told it was not time to point fingers. We needed to come together as Americans.
But after 9/11/2012 it was investigations, resignations, impeachment and BENGHAZI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
True the White House in 2005 had nothing to do with what happened in New Orleans. But in 2014, the critics care little whether the President has any control over what they are criticizing him for.
Pistol-Packing AKA "Susie" November 1st, 2014 at 10:00
I think you forget so easily how anything Bush did was attacked by the left. Don’t think for a moment it was any different for the 8 years that Bush was president…
For the record, I am not a fan of Bush, but want to point out the hypocrisy. And what is happening now, is the result of the evolution of hate towards the other side. Personally, I think we need many more viable parties here in the US. The ruling of just two parties does not allow for many compromises.
Larry Schmitt November 1st, 2014 at 10:06
Yes, the liberals attacked what Bush did, but with Obama it’s worse, because there is a racial element, and liberals didn’t twist history to blame Bush for things that happened before he arrived. I don’t recall people threatening, or suggesting the assassination of Bush the way they do with Obama. Again, that’s the racial aspect, which multiplies the hatred. With Bush, a lot of people thought he was just incompetent.
Dwendt44 November 1st, 2014 at 12:48
How many attacks were there on Laura Bush? She killed a guy when she was in college and did drugs, and no one mentioned it. No one attacked her children mercilessly. How many times did someone ask about Bush’s birth certificate or demand his college grades?
Or claim he wasn’t really a christian? Those are very personal attacks and are a whole different level than criticizing his policies and actions.
arc99 November 1st, 2014 at 10:34
I am not forgetting anything. It is you who demonstrates a problem with memory. It was most certainly different. I provided a specific example of the hypocrisy which is 100% owned by the right.
Or perhaps you can provide an example where in the aftermath of 9/11/2012, we have a Republican telling us it is not time to point fingers. Or perhaps you can provide an example of the left demanding President Bush’s birth certificate, or condemning the lunch menu at his daughters’ school.
There is nothing inherently limiting in the two party system which prevents compromise. Republicans and Democrats compromised for decades until the TeaParty came along.
the right wing owns the hate and hostility that permeates our political discourse. We have demands for birth certificates, accusations of being unAmerican and lying about his religion, and attacks on the President’s wife and daughters. We have US Congressmen (Republican) standing by and saying nothing when a constituent speaks of executing the President. We have the Ted Nugents and Larry Klaymans of the world who have the ears of some of the most senior people in the Republican party.
None of that happened with President Bush and your refusal to recognize that fact and insist on propagating the “both sides do it” fairy tale is as far as I am concerned, a big part of the problem. No both sides do not do it.
And the absence of any factual reference to support your claim tends to confirm that. Show me just one Democratic member of Congress who smiled and smirked when someone talked about killing President Bush. Show me just one prominent leftist activist talking about a military coup.
You are entitled to your opinion that “both sides do it” even when there is not a shred of factual information to support your claim.
Pistol-Packing AKA "Susie" November 1st, 2014 at 11:45
I am sorry, but you and I are not going to come close to seeing eye to eye on this matter. You are wrong on so many levels when it comes to who owns the hate. But you are entitled to your opinion.
the right wing owns the hate and hostility that permeates our political discourse. We have demands for birth certificates, accusations of being unAmerican and lying about his religion, and attacks on the President’s wife and daughters. We have US Congressmen (Republican) standing by and saying nothing when a constituent speaks of executing the President. We have the Ted Nugents and Larry Klaymans of the world who have the ears of some of the most senior people in the Republican party.
Your Joking Right ???
As far as a congressman not reprimanding a constituent for saying something about executing the president. Yeah, I can agree with you onthat. Like him or not, there is no call for that. As far as the Ted Nugents and larry Klaymans ?? Who cares?? You dont think your politicians have theirs???
Have you heard anything that the left said about Sarah Palin?? And how she was completely demonized, ridiculed, and even hoped that she died?? I am not a fan of hers, but it was everywhere. Especially amongst the hollywood elitist.
Better yet, just read the comments on these boards. So PLEASSSSSSEEEEEEE dont think for a moment, that this matter does not go both ways. And if you think it is owned by one side, I highly suggest you take your head of the sand.
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http://youtu.be/pl_HGEXq_aM
veggiedude November 1st, 2014 at 20:51
“I think you forget so easily how anything Bush did was attacked by the left.”
Nothing wrong in that – its what democracy is all about. Where it goes wrong is when they just fragrantly make up stuff that has no truth. This is what the right has been doing all the time against Obama. Birth certificate nonsense? He’s a muslim?? He wants to take away guns??? And all the misinformation on Obamacare has been proven wrong too. Attack him with facts, not fiction, then maybe a dialogue can occur.
Anomaly 100 October 31st, 2014 at 22:27
Here’s the difference. I’ve blasted Blanco, blasted the hell out of Nagin in a couple of posts while doing the happy dance while he was found guilty. But the GOP misses George W. Bush, yet he did little for his country.
Even though the gun confiscation in N.O. was not his responsibility, it happened under his watch. Blackwater was instructed to invade New Orleans by his administration.
But, Obama’s comin’ for your guns. There were no school shootings then. There were no Sovereign citizens. Bu…but Obama….
rg9rts November 1st, 2014 at 05:26
Did little??? Surely you jest???? 2 not 1 but 2 useless wars…5700+ dead soldiers…Trillions wasted… an economy down the tubes…(Can still by a Chevy..Thanks O) 9%+ enemployment . housing industry and banks collapsing and on and on and on
Spirit of America November 1st, 2014 at 05:44
“Even though the gun confiscation in N.O. was not his responsibility, it happened under his watch”
I debated asking this since I saw this post cause I wasn’t sure how to word it correctly w/out seeming to be leading the answer.
Do you really believe that sentence and its meaning in general, or just specifically in this case only?
Anomaly 100 November 1st, 2014 at 14:44
I’m just giving Republicans who blame Obama for everything something to think about. That’s all.
I followed their lead.
Spirit of America November 1st, 2014 at 16:44
rgr that, thanks for the reply!
(why did the word ‘feisty’ just come to mind….)
:)
veggiedude November 1st, 2014 at 20:46
It was even in a state with a Republican governor. That makes it a double whammy.
NunyaBusiness November 4th, 2014 at 11:07
The governor of Louisiana during hurricane Katrina was a Democrat. The mayor of New Orleans was a Democrat. The police chief of New Orleans was a Democrat. The governor refused to make an evacuation New Orleans. The mayor did the same until it was too late for a city of that size to effectively evacuate. There were hundreds of Orleans Parish school buses that could have been ordered to assist in the evacuation but were not.
Also the Democrat governor refused to ask for federal assistance until 2 days after Katrina hit which significantly delayed relief efforts.
joemac33703 November 2nd, 2014 at 16:22
You got to be F***ing kidding me…On September 1, 2005 following Hurricane Katrina, Blackwater dispatched a rescue team and helicopter, free of charge, to support relief operations. Following that, it was reported that the company also acted as law enforcement in the disaster stricken areas, such as securing neighborhoods and “confronting criminals”. God forbid law abiding citizens should confront criminals, after all over 200 cops deserted after the hurricane….
Anomaly 100 November 2nd, 2014 at 17:03
The coalition of dirtbags that are now no longer called Blackwater, took over the city after guns were confiscated, then they were actually deputized by officials in charge, while riding around in SUVs without license plated. They had the authority to use lethal force.
That same force was used upon civilians in Baghdad. They killed 17 and injured 20. Since their infamous mass execution of civilians, they had to change the name of the company to Xe.
There’s that tyranny your party claims is in America under the Obama administration. Different guy in charge though. You’re way off mark.
Pistol-Packing AKA "Susie" October 31st, 2014 at 22:04
Ummmmmm Anomaly 100. I am trying not to be disrespectful in this post. But in all seriousness. Lets take a closer look at this. It was not Bush or anybody in the GOP that ordered the confiscation of weapons. But instead it was a Democratic police Commissioner appointed by then Mayor Ray Naegin.
Edwin P. Compass, III is a former Chief of Police of the New Orleans Police Department.
He resigned as Chief of Police on September 27, 2005.[1]
Compass, who earlier said he was organizing a tribunal to handle the
cases of 249 officers who left their posts without permission during Hurricane Katrina[2], did not give any reason for his resignation. Compass’s resignation followed a few days after an emergency injunction was handed down, prohibiting him “from confiscating lawfully-possessed firearms from citizens … “[3] His actions subsequently led to the passage of the Disaster Recovery Personal Protection Act.
Compass has been widely criticized for not cracking down on corruption in the New Orleans Police Department.
Compass has declared that he was actually forced to resign his post.[4]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Compass
arc99 October 31st, 2014 at 22:15
exactly the kind of reasoned review of the facts that would never happen for President Obama.
If something similar happened right now, the blogosphere and talk radio would use the same strategy as they did for “you did not build that”, or “what difference does it make” which is to take a small bit of information, completely out of context and spin a completely false narrative around it. For heavens sakes they are blaming the President for Ebola and accusing him of wanting to infect the country.
Anomaly’s post simply highlights the unhinged hysteria that is the rule rather than the exception for critics of the President. It’s like the stark difference between the aftermath of 9/11/2001 where we were told it was not time to point fingers. We needed to come together as Americans.
But after 9/11/2012 it was investigations, resignations, impeachment and BENGHAZI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
True the White House in 2005 had nothing to do with what happened in New Orleans. But in 2014, the critics care little whether the President has any control over what they are criticizing him for. Perhaps your objections to the way this story was presented might give you some insight into the lying crap that those of us who support the President have been putting up with for almost 6 years.
Pistol-Packing AKA "Susie" November 1st, 2014 at 10:00
I think you forget so easily how anything Bush did was attacked by the left. Don’t think for a moment it was any different for the 8 years that Bush was president…
For the record, I am not a fan of Bush, but want to point out the hypocrisy. And what is happening now, is the result of the evolution of hate towards the other side. Personally, I think we need many more viable parties here in the US. The ruling of just two parties does not allow for many compromises.
Larry Schmitt November 1st, 2014 at 10:06
Yes, the liberals attacked what Bush did, but with Obama it’s worse, because there is a racial element, and liberals didn’t twist history to blame Bush for things that happened before he arrived. I don’t recall people threatening, or suggesting the assassination of Bush the way they do with Obama. Again, that’s the racial aspect, which multiplies the hatred. With Bush, a lot of people thought he was just incompetent.
Dwendt44 November 1st, 2014 at 12:48
How many attacks were there on Laura Bush? She killed a guy when she was in college and did drugs, and no one mentioned it. No one attacked her children mercilessly. How many times did someone ask about Bush’s birth certificate or demand his college grades?
Or claim he wasn’t really a christian? Those are very personal attacks and are a whole different level than criticizing his policies and actions.
arc99 November 1st, 2014 at 10:34
I am not forgetting anything. It is you who demonstrates a problem with memory. It was most certainly different. I provided a specific example of the hypocrisy which is 100% owned by the right.
Or perhaps you can provide an example where in the aftermath of 9/11/2012, we have a Republican telling us it is not time to point fingers. Or perhaps you can provide an example of the left demanding President Bush’s birth certificate, or condemning the lunch menu at his daughters’ school.
There is nothing inherently limiting in the two party system which prevents compromise. Republicans and Democrats compromised for decades until the TeaParty came along.
the right wing owns the hate and hostility that permeates our political discourse. We have demands for birth certificates, accusations of being unAmerican and lying about his religion, and attacks on the President’s wife and daughters. We have US Congressmen (Republican) standing by and saying nothing when a constituent speaks of executing the President. We have the Ted Nugents and Larry Klaymans of the world who have the ears of some of the most senior people in the Republican party.
None of that happened with President Bush and your refusal to recognize that fact and insist on propagating the “both sides do it” fairy tale is as far as I am concerned, a big part of the problem. No both sides do not do it.
And the absence of any factual reference to support your claim tends to confirm that. Show me just one Democratic member of Congress who smiled and smirked when someone talked about killing President Bush. Show me just one prominent leftist activist talking about a military coup.
You are entitled to your opinion that “both sides do it” even when there is not a shred of factual information to support your claim.
EDIT:
nothing like this happened to President Bush with Congress.
so enough of the “both sides do it ” bullsh*t please.
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/09/joe.wilson/
Rep. Wilson shouts, ‘You lie’ to Obama during speech
Pistol-Packing November 1st, 2014 at 11:45
I am sorry, but you and I are not going to come close to seeing eye to eye on this matter. You are wrong on so many levels when it comes to who owns the hate. But you are entitled to your opinion.
the right wing owns the hate and hostility that permeates our political discourse. We have demands for birth certificates, accusations of being unAmerican and lying about his religion, and attacks on the President’s wife and daughters. We have US Congressmen (Republican) standing by and saying nothing when a constituent speaks of executing the President. We have the Ted Nugents and Larry Klaymans of the world who have the ears of some of the most senior people in the Republican party.
Your Joking Right ???
As far as a congressman not reprimanding a constituent for saying something about executing the president. Yeah, I can agree with you onthat. Like him or not, there is no call for that. As far as the Ted Nugents and larry Klaymans ?? Who cares?? You dont think your politicians have theirs???
Have you heard anything that the left said about Sarah Palin?? And how she was completely demonized, ridiculed, and even hoped that she died?? I am not a fan of hers, but it was everywhere. Especially amongst the hollywood elitist.
Better yet, just read the comments on these boards. So PLEASSSSSSEEEEEEE dont think for a moment, that this matter does not go both ways. And if you think it is owned by one side, I highly suggest you take your head of the sand.
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http://youtu.be/pl_HGEXq_aM
Pistol-Packing November 1st, 2014 at 11:46
“President Bush is a liar,”
Harry Reid
“Iraq is George Bush’s Vietnam,”
Ted Kennedy
“That the invasion of Iraq was a war crime.”
Noam Chomsky
“George Bush doesn’t care about black people.”
Kanye West
“What did Bush do on 9/11? He ran away and hid.”
George Clooney
“Let’s save the human race, let’s finish off the U.S. empire.”
Hugo Chavez – Venezuelan Dictator
“Guns don’t kill people, Americans kill people.”
Michael Moore
“Those who want to go directly to hell can follow capitalism,”
Hugo Chavez – Venezuelan Dictator
“Bush is an incompetent leader. In fact, he’s not a leader,”
Nancy Pelosi- Democrat Speaker of the House
“It is a disgrace. This administration (Bush) is a disgrace.”
Rosie O’Donnell
“I don’t think that (U.S. President) George Bush…is a man of honor,”
Harry Belafonte
“I mean, I’m afraid of terrorists, but I’m more afraid of the Patriot Act.”
Margaret Cho
“We have a culture of corruption, we have cronyism, we have incompetence,”
Hillary Clinton
“There’s nothing you could point to in the Bush Administration with pride,”
Janeane Garofalo
“As we have learned in the past weeks, we cannot trust George W. Bush,”
Barbra Steisand
“We need to change our ethic and aspire to be more Canadian-like,”
Michael Moore
“What Bush intends to do with Iraq is unconstitutional, immoral and illegal,”
Jessica Lange
George Bush is responsible for killing tens of thousands of innocent people.”
Cindy Sheehan
“[George W. Bush is] a half-wit President who was not legally elected”.
Moby
“Bush’s war on terrorism has turned Americans “from victims to perpetrator,”
George Soros
“The Devil (Bush) is right at home. The Devil, the Devil himself, is right in the house.”
Hugo Chavez – Venezuelan Dictator
“Bush stole the elections and since then we have all been suffering the consequences.”
Jessica Lange
“We need a different president right away, I think…. I think we should impeach this one.”
Linda Ronstadt
“How could such a destructive man (Bush) be so popular with the American people?”
Barbra Streisand
“It’s time to impeach the president (Bush) and get a man in there to get us out of this mess.”
Bruce Springsteen
“I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet.”
Hugo Chavez – Venezuelan Dictator
“I don’t like Bush,” she said. “I don’t trust him. I don’t like his record. He’s stupid. He’s lazy.”
Cher
“In the 19 months since 9-11, we have seen our democracy compromised by fear and hatred,”
Tim Robbins
“George W. Bush is evil. He is a terrorist. He is evil. He is arrogant. And he is out of control.”
Julianne Malveaux – USA Today columnist
“George W Bush is like a bad comic working the crowd, a moron, if you’ll pardon the expression,”
Martin Sheen
George W. Bush and his principal officials are the greatest threat to world peace, to human rights,”
Ramsey Clark- U.S. Attorney General for Democrat President Lyndon B. Johnson & defense attorney for Saddam Hussein
“It is preposterous for the administration to pretend that the war in Iraq has made America safer,”
Ted Kennedy
“The grand destroyer of the world, and the greatest threat … is represented by U.S. imperialism.”
Hugo Chavez – Venezuelan Dictator
“The American attitude is that we believe we have a right to just go in and bomb another country.”
Michael Moore
“Just so you know, we’re ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas,”
Natalie Maines
“He’s embarrassing… He’s not my president. He will never be my president”
Julia Roberts
“What the United States has been doing for the past year is bombing innocent civilians…”
Viggo Mortensen
“I’ll do everything that I can possibly do, short of selling my children,” to beat Bush.”
Jessica Lange
“This President invaded a sovereign nation in defiance of the UN. He is basically a war criminal.”
Rosie O’Donnell
“I’d like to see our troops dispersed through the world only at the directive of the United Nations.”
John Kerry
“In the last six and a half years we have seen a dangerous experiment in extremism in the White House.”
Hillary Clinton
“He is supposed to be America’s president, but he’s not my president, I didn’t vote for him,”
Carlos Santana
How depressing, corrupt, unlawful and tragically absurd the administration’s world view actually is…
John Cusack
“I’d say if you live in the United States of America and you vote for George Bush, you’ve lost your mind.”
John Edwards
“And I think the president hijacked 9/11 and used it to go to war with Iraq, in a way that was very divisive.”
Al Franken
I mean, I think, Iraqis, I think, feel that if we drove smaller cars, maybe we wouldn’t have to kill them for their oil.”
Bill Maher
“I am more patriotic than this president we have, who I consider a traitor of human and American principles.”
Sean Penn
“Bush is a tyrant and if he gathers around him black tyrants, they all have to be treated as they are being treated,”
Harry Belafonte
“He (Bush) is the enemy of thoughtfulness. I wasn’t raised in George Bush’s America, and I wouldn’t be comfortable in it.”
Richard Dreyfus
“No president in America’s history has done more damage to our country and our security than George W. Bush.”
Ted Kennedy
“I’ve been an advocate for peace my whole life. But one of the main purveyors of violence in this world is this country,”
Danny Glover
“The Bush administration has advocated the most destructive policies I?ve seen in the more than three decades.”
Robert Redford
“Bush wasn’t elected, he was selected— selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines,”
Alec Baldwin
“President Bush’s contempt for human rights and civil liberties is unprecedented in the American Presidency.”
Ramsey Clark- U.S. Attorney General for Democrat President Lyndon B. Johnson & defense attorney for Saddam Hussein
“I predict to you that this administration will go down in history as one of the worst that has ever governed our country.”
Hillary Clinton
“This week President Bush implemented a military tribunal … which will make it easier for us to execute (people).”
Danny Glover
“His agenda is different from ours. His agenda is basically about benefits of rich, greedy, ignorant people.”
Carlos Santana
“But I also know that Saddam poses no imminent and direct threat to the United States, or to his neighbors.”
Barack Obama
“If these men (Bush Administration) are not impeached and thrown in jail, we truly are approaching the end of days.”
John Cusack
“You, Misters Bush and Cheney; you, Ms. Rice, are villainously and criminally obscene people, obscene human beings..”
Sean Penn
“I think the Abu Ghraib prison scandal really exposes some of the key lies that we’ve been telling ourselves about terrorism.”
Bill Maher
“We will take to the streets right now. We will delegitimize Bush, discredit him, do whatever it takes, but never accept him,”
Jesse Jackson
“There has never been an administration, I don’t believe, in our history more intent upon consolidating and abusing power to further their own agenda,”
Hillary Clinton
“I HATE BUSH. I despise him and his entire administration — not only because of its international policy, but also the national,”
Jessica Lange
“I have been absolutely amazed, even shocked, at the combination of arrogance and incompetence that marks this particular administration,”
Hillary Clinton
“The imperialist, genocidal, fascist attitude of the U.S. president has no limits. I think Hitler would be like a suckling baby next to George W. Bush,”
Hugo Chavez – Venezuelan Dictator
Iraq is a war on terrorism, and terrorists don’t deserve the Geneva Convention because it’s a completely unique way of fighting. Well, that’s ridiculous.”
Bill Maher
“This President invaded a sovereign nation in defiance of the UN. He is basically a war criminal. Honestly. He should be tried at The Hague.”
Rosie O’Donnell
“It is now clear to the world that the Bush Administration ignored or twisted the facts, lied and misled the country into war.”
Jesse Jackson
“Those who want to go directly to hell can follow capitalism… and those of us who want to build heaven here on earth will follow socialism.”
Hugo Chavez – Venezuelan Dictator
“One of the main purveyors of violence in this world has been this country, whether it’s been against Nicaragua, Vietnam or wherever,”
Danny Glover
“Since when is offensive language a reason for being unpopular? I find the language of George W much more offensive.”
Madonna
“The Bush administration asserted a new doctrine that suggests a uniquely American right to use force wherever and whenever we decide it’s appropriate.
John Edwards
“I feel that George Bush’s actions are desecrating the America that I grew up in and believed in. He is making us an imperialist government.
Ed Asner
“I have never felt more strongly in any other election because I cannot imagine what our country would look like under four more years of a Bush administration,”
Hillary Clinton
“I think the actions of the president are, in my opinion, the most vile and hateful words ever spoken by a sitting president. I am stunned, and I’m horrified,”
Rosie O’Donnell
“We stand a chance of getting a president who has probably killed more people before he gets into office than any president in the history of the United States.”
Susan Sarandon
“Our current administration needs to be tried, hung and shot,” the singer boldly stated. “We need to treat them like the war criminals they are.”
Rage Against the Machine
“I think George Bush is such an embarrassment to America in the way that he doesn’t take the rest of the world into consideration.”
Gwyneth Paltrow
“Climate change is more remote than terror but a more profound threat to the future of the children and the grandchildren and the great-grandchildren I hope all of you have.”
Bill Clinton
“While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors, he is a moral coward,”
Al Gore
“I don’t want add fuel to the fire, but I don’t know what it’s going to take for people to really wake up and understand that they (the Bush Administration) are liars and they are murderers.”
Joy Behar
“Bush is an incompetent leader. In fact, he’s not a leader…. He’s a person who has no judgment, no experience and no knowledge of the subjects that he has to decide upon.”
Nancy Pelosi- Democrat Speaker of the House
“President Bush is pushing the wrong buttons when he says, ‘Those who are not with us, are against us,… This is an imperialist vision in which the U.S. leads and the rest of the world follows.”
George Soros
“I would think that if you understood what Communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees, that we would someday become communists.”
Jane Fonda
“In two short years, George W. Bush has taught us what the ‘W’ stands for — wrong. Wrong for our children, wrong for our parents, wrong for our values. Wrong, wrong, wrong for America.”
John Edwards
“This is the pattern and the record of the Bush administration [on] Iraq, jobs, Medicare, schools, issue after issue — mislead, deceive, make up the needed facts, smear the character of any critics,”
Ted Kennedy
“And the idea is–in that comparison–is that the United States is like the good guys in our movie against the bad guys in our movie and I think the opposite is true unfortunately.”
Viggo Mortensen
“The reason that the World Trade Center got hit is because there are a lot of people living in abject poverty out there who don’t have any hope for a better life….I think they [the 19 hijackers] were brave at the very least.”
Ted Turner
“Shortly after 9/11, particularly because as we’re talking about the Iraq War, that became a substitute for I think true patriotism, which is speaking out on issues that are of importance to our national security, I decided I won’t wear that pin on my chest.”
Barack Obama
“One could say that Osama bin Laden and these non-nation-state fighters with religious purpose are very similar to those kind of atypical revolutionaries that helped to cast off the British crown.”
Marcy Kaptur- Democratic Representative Ohio
“If the American people fail to impeach George Bush and his principal officials for his war of aggression, the world can only see the American people as either powerless, or supportive of it.”
Ramsey Clark- U.S. Attorney General for Democrat President Lyndon B. Johnson & defense attorney for Saddam Hussein
“First and foremost is the idea that we’re going to kill a lot innocent people, that’s what we’re going to do. That’s what we did before and it’s what we’re going to do again. And, the truth is….”
George Clooney
“Sept. 11 “wasn’t just Bin Laden. Bin Laden didn’t come from the abstract. He came from somewhere, and if you look where … you’ll see America’s hand of villainy.”
Harry Belafonte
“President Bush is “a dull and rigid man … whose philosophy is a jumble of badly sutured body parts trying to walk,” who is running for president on a platform of tragedy.”
Garrison Keillor
“The needless blood on your hands, and therefore, on our own, is drowning the freedom, the security, and the dream that America might have been, once healed of and awakened by, the tragedy of September 11, 2001.”
Sean Penn
“He’s (Osama bin Laden) been out in these countries for decades, building schools, building roads, building infrastructure, building day-care facilities, building health-care facilities, and these people are extremely grateful. We haven’t done that.”
Patty Murray- Democratic Senator Washington
“We live in a time with ficticious election results that elect fictious presidents. We live in a time when we have a man sending us to war for fictious reasons. We are against this war Mr. Bush. Shame on you. Shame on you!”
Michael Moore
“What did this administration know and when did it know it, about the events of September 11th? Who else knew, and why did they not warn the innocent people of New York who were needlessly murdered? What do they have to hide?”
Cynthia McKinney- Democrat Congresswoman
“The administration … decided to launch this invasion virtually alone and before the U.N. inspections were completed – with no real urgency, no evidence that there were any weapons of mass destruction there,”
Bill Clinton
“The people around Bush are deeply committed to dismantling the achievements of popular struggle through the past century no matter what the cost to the general population.”
Noam Chomsky
“No matter what the greatest tyrant in the world, the greatest terrorist in the world, George W. Bush says, we’re here to tell you: Not hundreds, not thousands, but millions of the American people … support your revolution,”
Harry Belafonte
“There’s basically two principles that define the Bush administration policies: stuff the pockets of your rich friends with dollars and increase your control over the world. Almost everything follows from that.”
Noam Chomsky
”We, the United States of America, are culpable in committing so many acts of terror and bloodshed that we had better get a clue about the culture of violence in which we have been active participants.”
Michael Moore
“President Bush insists he decides what is right. He threatens North Korea, Cuba, Syria, Sudan, Venezuela, and most critically at the moment, Iran.”
Ramsey Clark- U.S. Attorney General for Democrat President Lyndon B. Johnson & defense attorney for Saddam Hussein
“The ACLU is determined to hold the Bush administration responsible not just for torture and abuse of detainees, but for the many other abuses of power that are taking place in the name of fighting terrorism.”
Anthony Romero- Executive Director of the ACLU
“The fact of the matter is that there is no War on Terror. It’s a minor consideration. So invading Iraq and taking control of the world’s energy resources was way more important than the threat of terror.”
Noam Chomsky
“Yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, from this rostrum, the president of the United States, the gentleman to whom I refer as the Devil, came here, talking as if he owned the world. Truly. As the owner of the world.”
Hugo Chavez – Venezuelan Dictator
“We give an infinitesimal amount of our money to people around the world. I think what people around the world would say is it would take so little for this rich country to help and alleviate so much misery and even that is too much for them. We’re oblivious to suffering.”
Bill Maher
“Our paradigm now seems to be: something terrible happened to us on September 11, and that gives us the right to interpret all future events in a way that everyone else in the world must agree with us. And if they don’t, they can go straight to hell.”
Bill Clinton
“I would like to apologize for referring to George W. Bush as a “deserter.” What I meant to say is that George W. Bush is a deserter, an election thief, a drunk driver, a WMD liar and a functional illiterate.”
Michael Moore
“On the morning of September 11, 2001, a few more chickens along with some half-million dead Iraqi children came home to roost in a very big way at the twin towers of New York’s World Trade Center.”
Ward Churchill
“Bush’s actions remind me of Herman Goering’s quote during the Nuremberg Trials, where he stated: ‘…it’s always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it’s a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship.'”
Barbra Streisand
“This is a racist and imperialist war. The warmongers who stole the White House (you call them “hawks”, but I would never disparage such a fine bird) have hijacked a nation’s grief and turned it into a perpetual war on any non-white country they choose to describe as terrorist.”
Woody Harrelson
“I worry that some people are entertained by the idea of this war. They don’t know anything about the Iraqis, but they’re angry and frustrated in their own lives. It’s like Germany, before Hitler took over. The economy was bad and people felt kicked around. They looked for a scapegoat. Now we’ve got a new bunch of Hitlers.”
Linda Ronstadt
“I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge. It is criminal to put our servicemen and women in harm’s way and to put the lives of so many civilians on the line for the misguided frustrations of the Bush administration.
Dave Matthews
“The lie that brought us into war was that Iraq was a threat to us. Well, now it is a threat. Now it is a terrorist hotbed. The fiction is now reality. And now we have to deal with it. It was an attempt at a corporate takeover. This was about oil. It wasn’t about human rights. It’s not about human rights.”
Janeane Garofalo
“You are a coward (George Bush) , a killer, a [perpetrator of] genocide, an alcoholic, a drunk, a liar, an immoral person, Mr Danger. You are the worst, Mr Danger. The worst of this planet… A psychologically sick man, I know it.”
Hugo Chavez – Venezuelan Dictator
“He betrayed this country!… He played on our fears! He took America on an ill-conceived foreign adventure dangerous to our troops, an adventure pre-ordained and planned before 9/11 ever took place!”
Al Gore
“You, Misters Bush and Cheney; you, Ms. Rice, are villainously and criminally obscene people, obscene human beings, incompetent even to fulfill your own self-serving agenda, while tragically neglectful and destructive of ours and our country’s.”
Sean Penn
“Braided Scoundrel-in-Chief, George Junior, lacking even the sense to be careful what he wished for, has teamed up with a gaggle of fundamentalist Christian clerics like Billy Graham to proclaim a “New Crusade” called “Infinite Justice” aimed at “ridding the world of evil.”
Ward Churchill
“I HATE BUSH. I despise him and his entire administration — not only because of its international policy, but also the national……It makes me feel ashamed to come from the United States — it is humiliating…. Bush stole the elections and since then we have all been suffering the consequences,”
Jessica Lange
“Being a man, I’ve got to say that we’ve got this guy in the White House who thinks he is a man, you know, who projects himself as a man because he has a certain masculinity, and he’s a good old boy, and he used to drink, and he knows how to shoot a gun and how to drive a pickup truck, et cetera, like that. That’s not the definition of a man, God dammit!”
Ed Harris
“I believe that the president’s leadership in the actions taken in Iraq demonstrate an incompetence in terms of knowledge, judgment and experience in making the decisions that would have been necessary to truly accomplish the mission without the deaths to our troops and the cost to our taxpayers.”
Nancy Pelosi- Democrat Speaker of the House
“He’s [John Kerry] running against the worst President in the history of the United States! [audience applause] And that’s not hyperbole. That’s not hyperbole. The environment, the demonization of gays, the repression of black voters, the favoritism of Halliburton, this unending war….We can’t consume everybody’s life with this fear when we’ve been attacked twice in twenty years.”
Richard Belzer
“Our country is founded on a sham: our forefathers were slave-owning rich white guys who wanted it their way. So when I see the American flag, I go, ‘Oh my God, you’re insulting me.’ That you can have a gay parade on Christopher Street in New York, with naked men and women on a float cheering, ‘We’re here, we’re queer!’ — that’s what makes my heart swell. Not the flag, but a gay naked man or woman burning the flag. I get choked up with pride.”
Janeane Garofalo
“Unless you are willing to accept torture as part of a normal American political lexicon, unless you are willing to accept that leaving the Geneva Convention is fine and dandy, if you accept the expansion of wiretapping as business as usual, the only way to express this now is to embrace the difficult and perhaps embarrassing process of impeachment.”
Richard Dreyfus
“I believe that the president’s leadership in the actions taken in Iraq demonstrate an incompetence in terms of knowledge, judgment and experience in making the decisions that would have been necessary to truly accomplish the mission without the deaths to our troops and the cost to our taxpayers.”
Nancy Pelosi- Democrat Speaker of the House
“George W. Bush’s Ten Commandments: Thou shalt not steal…votes. (big applause) Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s…country. (big applause) Thou shalt not kill…for oil. (big applause) Thou shalt not take grammar…in vain. (big applause) I mean, whatever fu–ing happened to separation of church and state? I mean, you can’t like, impose your god on my god. God has many names. God is God, God is Jehovah, God is Allah, God is Buddah, God is Beyonce.”
Margaret Cho
“I despise him [President George W. Bush]. I despise his administration and everything they stand for….To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man’s leadership….There has to be a movement now to really oppose what he is proposing because it’s unconstitutional, it’s immoral and basically illegal….It is an embarrassing time to be an American. It really is. It’s humiliating.”
Jessica Lange
“President Bush’s contempt for human rights and civil liberties is unprecedented in the American Presidency. He is not only above international law, he is above the Bill of Rights. He can arrest and detain people worldwide, including U.S. citizens, as enemy combatants. He condones torture. He wiretaps U.S. citizens and foreigners alike without court approval. Proclamations concerning his Presidential powers by his Attorneys General, Ashcroft and Gonzales, have stunned the international community. Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo now symbolize U.S. regard for human dignity. Yet George Bush proclaims himself the champion of freedom and democracy!”
Ramsey Clark- U.S. Attorney General for Democrat President Lyndon B. Johnson & defense attorney for Saddam Hussein
“They told the stories at times they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam in addition to the normal ravage of war, and the normal and very particular ravaging which is done by the applied bombing power of this country.”
John Kerry
Dwendt44 November 1st, 2014 at 12:44
That list gets a lot shorter when you remove those that are merely stating facts and those of ‘Hugo Chavez – Venezuelan Dictator” as his quips are irrelevant.
veggiedude November 1st, 2014 at 20:51
“I think you forget so easily how anything Bush did was attacked by the left.”
Nothing wrong in that – its what democracy is all about. Where it goes wrong is when they just fragrantly make up stuff that has no truth. This is what the right has been doing all the time against Obama. Birth certificate nonsense? He’s a muslim?? He wants to take away guns??? And all the misinformation on Obamacare has been proven wrong too. Attack him with facts, not fiction, then maybe a dialogue can occur.
Anomaly 100 October 31st, 2014 at 22:27
Here’s the difference. I’ve blasted Blanco, blasted the hell out of Nagin in a couple of posts while doing the happy dance while he was found guilty. But the GOP misses George W. Bush, yet he did little for his country.
Even though the gun confiscation in N.O. was not his responsibility, it happened under his watch. Blackwater was instructed to invade New Orleans by his administration.
But, Obama’s comin’ for your guns. There were no school shootings then. There were no Sovereign citizens. No threats.
Bu.but..but Obama….
Arc99 is absolutely correct in his comment.
rg9rts November 1st, 2014 at 05:26
Did little??? Surely you jest???? 2 not 1 but 2 useless wars…5700+ dead soldiers…Trillions wasted… an economy down the tubes…(Can still by a Chevy..Thanks O) 9%+ enemployment . housing industry and banks collapsing and on and on and on
Spirit of America November 1st, 2014 at 05:44
“Even though the gun confiscation in N.O. was not his responsibility, it happened under his watch”
I debated asking this since I saw this post cause I wasn’t sure how to word it correctly w/out seeming to be leading the answer.
Do you really believe that sentence and its meaning in general, or just specifically in this case only?
PS- enjoyed the totality of the post btw, just that this part for me stuck out.
Anomaly 100 November 1st, 2014 at 14:44
I’m just giving Republicans who blame Obama for everything something to think about. That’s all.
I followed their lead.
Spirit of America November 1st, 2014 at 16:44
rgr that, thanks for the reply!
(why did the word ‘feisty’ just come to mind….)
:)
veggiedude November 1st, 2014 at 20:46
It was even in a state with a Republican governor. That makes it a double whammy.
NunyaBusiness✓ᵀᴿᵁᴹᴾ November 4th, 2014 at 12:07
The governor of Louisiana during hurricane Katrina was a Democrat. The mayor of New Orleans was a Democrat. The police chief of New Orleans was a Democrat. The governor refused to make an evacuation New Orleans. The mayor did the same until it was too late for a city of that size to effectively evacuate. There were hundreds of Orleans Parish school buses that could have been ordered to assist in the evacuation but were not.
Also the Democrat governor refused to ask for federal assistance until 2 days after Katrina hit which significantly delayed relief efforts.
joemac33703 November 2nd, 2014 at 17:22
You got to be F***ing kidding me…On September 1, 2005 following Hurricane Katrina, Blackwater dispatched a rescue team and helicopter, free of charge, to support relief operations. Following that, it was reported that the company also acted as law enforcement in the disaster stricken areas, such as securing neighborhoods and “confronting criminals”. God forbid law abiding citizens should confront criminals, after all over 200 cops deserted after the hurricane….
Anomaly 100 November 2nd, 2014 at 18:03
The coalition of dirtbags that are now no longer called Blackwater, took over the city after guns were confiscated, then they were actually deputized by officials in charge, while riding around in SUVs without license plated. They had the authority to use lethal force.
That same force was used upon civilians in Baghdad. They killed 17 and injured 20. Since their infamous mass execution of civilians, they had to change the name of the company to Xe.
There’s that tyranny your party claims is in America under the Obama administration. Different guy in charge though. You’re way off mark.
tracey marie October 31st, 2014 at 22:12
the goptp will furiously cut/paste, spam and deflect and blame trhe dems for the bush administration and everything they did wrong…see below
tracey marie October 31st, 2014 at 22:12
the goptp will furiously cut/paste, spam and deflect and blame trhe dems for the bush administration and everything they did wrong…see below
tracey marie October 31st, 2014 at 22:19
reagan signed the munford bill into law. There were no restrictions for open carry until the black panthers carried guns openly and patrolled their neighborhoods after cops killed another black man.
tracey marie October 31st, 2014 at 22:19
reagan signed the munford bill into law. There were no restrictions for open carry until the black panthers carried guns openly and patrolled their neighborhoods after cops killed another black man.