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I couldn't do his job
Okay, the President is an idiot. I'm not going to argue that point. I don't think anyone on my friends' list would either. And even though I consider myself fairly smart, I don't think I do could do Bush's job.
This has nothing to do with what I perceive as my ability to run a country, prosecute a war, or buddy up to the oil industry. It's because I wouldn't take the job very seriously.
I mean, calling up the Premier of China and ordering take-out? Yeah, I can't see that going over very well, except on the comedy circuit. And if I wasn't harrassing Wen Jiabao over that mu shu pork that hasn't arrived yet, I'd be laying into him verbally over the failure of communism. "Listen Wen, we've got this city here in the States, called Berkeley. They've been communist for just as long as you, and they've really been trying it. And you know, those Californians... smart as a whip. Crazy as a shithouse rat, half the time, but smart. And if they can't get it to work... well, I'm just saying..."
This has nothing to do with what I perceive as my ability to run a country, prosecute a war, or buddy up to the oil industry. It's because I wouldn't take the job very seriously.
I mean, calling up the Premier of China and ordering take-out? Yeah, I can't see that going over very well, except on the comedy circuit. And if I wasn't harrassing Wen Jiabao over that mu shu pork that hasn't arrived yet, I'd be laying into him verbally over the failure of communism. "Listen Wen, we've got this city here in the States, called Berkeley. They've been communist for just as long as you, and they've really been trying it. And you know, those Californians... smart as a whip. Crazy as a shithouse rat, half the time, but smart. And if they can't get it to work... well, I'm just saying..."
duh...
I would, actually...
Went to a good college, got good marks...
He has poor verbal skills, I admit, but he's not stupid.
During the last election, people were always saying "Kerry is so much smarter" and I had to keep reminding them that he and Bush went to the same college, and Bush got better grades...
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However... he doesn't write his own speeches. At some point, someone is writing these things for him, and they have the option of at least trying to make him look like less of a dumbass. So, either they are playing to his strengths... err... weaknesses at verbal communication, or he is ad-libbing his speeches.
Regardless, my point was that as poor a President as he is, I would suspect that he hasn't crank-called other heads of state... which, well, I would. (Actually, there's always the possibility that he's crank-called Tony Blair...)
well...
And he needs to stop taking freaking question...
And I think he does adlib a good deal...
Also... I, personally, would crank call the head guy in France with "Pardon me... do you have any Grey Pupon?" (or however you spell it)... or "You people eat SNAIL? Nature's booger??" and "Seriously, what the hell is with you people and Jerry Lewis?"
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Sweden would get daily requests for the bikini team to come give me backrubs.
Germany... Germany would immediately become the best ally of the U.S., but only during October, when the entire Congress would be required to dress in lederhosen and drink copious amounts of German beer (not the weak-ass yellow piss-water we have here)
Japan would get a weekly notice about radioactive monsters rising off their coast. Might even get mentioned in the State of the Union address.
On a more serious note, China would get told to back the fuck off of Taiwan and get the fuck out of Tibet.
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First time France or Canada refused to send us a murderer because we have the death penalty, and will ONLY send them back if we promise to NOT seek the death sentence, would be "I'm sending two planes... One has Federal Marshals... Either you put that person on the first one so we can try them in court and let the Proscecuters decide on Capital Punishment, or I use the Millitary in the second plane - oh, did I mention that the second plane would be every SEAL we have, cause it will - and we take the guy by force, and then egg your house to boot..."
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Early in 2001, there was a rumor that went around the party. According to rumor, the FIRST thing GW did upon sitting in the President's chair in the Oval Office, he picked up the International phone, got a hold of the Russian Prime minister (maybe Putin, I don't remember who it was at the time) and, in character voice, told the PM that he had a "Death Ray Laser", and that he would destroy the world if Putin did not hand over "One MILLION Dollars!".
Sorry, but honestly, that is sort of endearing to me. I still belong to Hojo's "Nationalist" party, though.
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"My fellow Americans. I'm pleased to announce that I've signed legislation outlawing the Soviet Union. We begin bombing in five minutes." –joking during a mike check before his Saturday radio broadcast
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His reply was "Best performance of my career..."
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The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'
The government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
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