Barack Obama’s from Kenya?

Leave it up to your ole lady to spill the beans!

Who doesn’t hate George W. Bush?

While visiting Haiti earlier this week, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton shook hands with several Haitians in Port Au Prince. George after shaking a 5-year-olds hand, wiped it on Bill’s shirt.

Presidential Reunion

Presidential Reunion Starring Fred Armisen, Maya Rudolph, Dana Carvey, Will Ferrell, Darrell Hammond, Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd and Jim Carrey. Directed by Ron Howard!

Bill Clinton & George W. Bush’s HAITI PSA!

Former Presidents Clinton and Bush cut a public service announcement today for the Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund:

8 Years ago today …

9/11 Worst day in American History! Never forget.

Steers, queers and jeers: No welcome mat for George W.

George W. Bush’s first 100 days back in Texas have provided at least one surprise: The state’s GOP shuns him.

The Texas GOP provided the gubernatorial platform, much of the money, and more than 10 percent of the electoral votes that George W. Bush needed to get to the White House and stay there for two terms. But the 43rd president’s first 100 days back in Texas are proving that the onetime favorite son is about as popular as swine flu. The state’s Republican politicians and candidates, who just a few years ago eagerly latched onto his electoral coattails, are staying away in droves.

“There’s no reason for anyone at this point to embrace the former president,” says a top Texas GOP consultant. “People have their own battles to fight. Why would they want to go back and try to defend torture or anything else?” He described the attitude of Republican politicians on the end of the Bush presidency as one of relief. The political environment for the Texas GOP is “toxic,” he says, before adding with specificity: “it was toxic because of Bush.”

I almost feel sorry for the guy. He really didn’t know any better. But if all these cowardly, self-serving leeches, who are now running away from the former president, didn’t support him and kiss his ass to begin with, we wouldn’t be in this mess. Or at the very least it would be a different mess.–BEREZ

Bush Library: A contradiction in terms?

George W. Bush often has said that historians will vindicate his presidency. And since he left office, he’s moving fast to give them the tools. Longtime financial backers of the 43rd president have raised more than $100 million for a presidential library at Southern Methodist University in Dallas that will house his official papers, sources close to Bush told TIME. Much of the money was collected in the 100 days or so since Bush left the White House, a pace much faster than that of his recent predecessors. At least so far, none of it has come from overseas, the sources said.

 

$1,000,000,000 for the Presidential Library of a President who doesn’t read?! I’m not sure that many comic books and issues of Mad magazine are even in print!–BEREZ

Bush administration Interrogation Techniques Unique

(CNN) — Senior Bush administration officials authorized aggressive interrogation techniques — including forced nudity and waterboarding — on suspected terrorists, despite concerns from military psychologists and attorneys, according to a Senate report released Tuesday.

“The fact is that senior officials in the United States government solicited information on how to use aggressive techniques, redefined the law to create the appearance of their legality, and authorized their use against detainees,” said the report, which reveals new details about prisoner treatment at U.S. military prisons in Cuba, Afghanistan and Iraq.

“Those efforts damaged our ability to collect accurate intelligence that could save lives, strengthened the hand of our enemies and compromised our moral authority,” the report said.

The full report on the Senate Armed Services Committee investigation was declassified Tuesday by the Defense Department, less than a week after the Obama administration released several Bush-era memos detailing the use of such techniques.

“In my judgment, the report represents a condemnation of both the Bush administration’s interrogation policies and of senior administration officials who attempted to shift the blame for abuse … to low-ranking soldiers,” Sen. Carl Levin, D-Michigan, chairman of the Senate committee, said Tuesday.

“Claims, such as that made by former Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz that detainee abuses could be chalked up to the unauthorized acts of a ‘few bad apples,’ were simply false.”

Is anyone surprised Bushy authorized these interrogation techniques.. Forced Nudity and Waterboarding? Sounds like a party at G. W.’s  summer house. -JOSE BIDEN

Back in Texas, a simpler life; nothing left to f*ck up

The new couple at 10141 Daria Place accepted an invitation to a neighborhood dinner party last month. The guest list totaled eight. The main dish was chicken potpie. George and Laura Bush left their cul-de-sac in the back of a dark sedan, exited through a Secret Service checkpoint and rode down streets bordered by lawn signs adorned with gigantic W’s to welcome them home.

The presidency that is remembered on Daria Place bears little resemblance to the one that most of the country continues to blame for its problems. Bush left Washington on Jan. 20 with two-thirds of Americans disapproving of his job performance — one of the worst ratings ever for an outgoing U.S. president. In his return to private life, he has maintained tranquility by adhering to a basic philosophy:

He lives squarely in the remaining 33 percent.

Evidently our former president’s delusions weren’t just a by-product of living at 1600 Pennsylvania. Bush left office with a full two-thirds of Americans disapproving of the job he had done.  Or as he likes to say, “I have a 100% approval rating among 33% of the country!” Wasn’t it that kind of math that destroyed the global economy? I’m just sayin’–BEREZ

U.S. loses long battle with common sense

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration said Wednesday it will participate directly in group talks with Iran over its suspect nuclear program, marking another shift from former President George W. Bush’s policy.

State Department spokesman Robert Wood said the United States would be at the table “from now on” when senior diplomats from the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and Germany meet with Iranian officials to discuss the nuclear issue. The Bush administration had generally shunned such meetings.

Wood said the decision was conveyed to representatives of Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia by the third-ranking U.S. diplomat William Burns at a Wednesday meeting in London. That group, known as the “P5+1,” announced earlier that it would invite Iran to attend a new session aimed at breaking a deadlock in the talks.

“The U.S. remains committed to the P5+1 process, what is different is that the U.S. will join P5+1 discussions with Iran from now on,” Wood told reporters, adding that Washington was hopeful Iran would attend.

“If Iran accepts, we hope this will be the occasion to seriously engage Iran on how to break the logjam of recent years and work in a cooperative manner to resolve the outstanding international concerns about its nuclear program,” he said. “Any breakthrough will be the result of the collective efforts of all the parties, including Iran.”

“If Iran accepts the invitation we look forward to that direct engagement,” Wood said.

Well it’s about time. Seeing as though in about 25 years you’ll be able to buy highly enriched, weapons-grade uranium at your local 7-11, it’s a good thing we are going to once again dust off our diplomatic corps and start acting like grown-ups. Especially when you consider who owns all the 7-11s. Yeah… it’s like that.-BEREZ