I can see where the President is coming from. There are very few of us in the world that are always right. You "wrongies" are very irritating to us. I must admit though that one time I was wrong. I thought I had made a mistake but didn't. :)

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This is precisely what a dictator thinks.

He had total control over Congress - they have caved on EVERYTHING he wants (Forget his recent comments on 'Congress wanting to overspend' - HE is the overspender and has proven it with his emergency appropriations in Iraq) , has allowed the hijacking of Christianity, and his friends own the airwaves. In addition, no one is allowed to formally protest anything he says or does - and anyone who does is rounded up and jailed. His audiences are ALWAYS handpicked - which includes his infrequent press conferences.

There is nothing left to prove that this man is not honorable. There is nothing left to prove that this man is NOT a dictator except for him to absolutely abolish the other two branches of gov't. But... surprise!... he doesn't have to abolish them at all. He's already stacked the Justice branch and the Legislative branch licks his boots.

So, we have a dictatorship. And he is infallible.

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The US is not a Democracy. Jimmy Carter's International Election Supervision Commission could not oversee US elections even if Congress approved and invited them because the US is a two party SYSTEM run by Capitalism. "It's the economy stupid!" really means it is all about the money. CEO's make 365 times as much as the average US worker. The majority of CEO's and politicians had to sell their souls to get to the top. K street in Washington runs this country for the Capitalist Elite who think they run the world.
Bush only wishes he was a dictator because he knows he is nothing but a lackey for the Elite, his "Base" who only 'abase' US.
Now, if only they could get those non-Christians and the other 90% of humanity to join them on their Crusade to the un-holy lands and their Idiot-alogical quest for their holy grail, the Second Coming of ...
IM
Belteshazzar

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positively convinced he is seriously out of his flipping mind!!!!

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Someone give this man his bottle...cheney where are you?

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Not one mistake. Wow.
But I can't think of one thing he's done that is any good at all. Can you?

It's a serious question, folks.

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The advancement of liberty he sez? I'd say he must be on some kind of drug.

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It's hard to believe that Bush refers to other world leaders as dangerous. What does he think the rest of the world thinks of him? They think he's a nutcase and yes, dangerous. This man can start a war this afternoon. Suddenly I don't worry about Castro or Chavez. The most despised man in the world is our leader. And yes, he believes every word he says. Thanks, ANNA

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God, what an IDIOT! Would Pelosi, Reid and Hoyer grow a backbone and IMPEACH dubya and puppeteer Cheney's asses already. If they did there would be a Democratic super majority for the next several hundred years. WAKE UP THE DAMN BELTWAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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When he reached his 40th birthday, G.W. Bush claims that he found religion and became a "born-again"! If you have ever read about this phenomenon, then you know that such individuals truly believe that they now have "truth" on their side. Therefore, if they do or say something, it has to be true! Anyone who disagrees obviously has not reached the nirvana of true belief. That is really why George W. does not ever make mistakes! That is also why he and many of those who surround him are some of the most dangerous individuals to have occupied the Executive Branch. It also goes a long way to explain why despite laws to the contrarty, he truly believes that he can ignore them if he believes that they don't live up to his definition of what is "true." This is also why a deeply religious person can be scary. Those who have "Truth" on their side often stubbornly refuse to acknowledge that there can be reasoned arguments in opposition. In his mind there is no need to do so, because there can be no other answers.
George W. once proudly proclaimed that he was The Decider. What he has failed to acknowledge is that there are three main articles in the Constitution and that the Legislative Branch is described in Article 1 in great detail. In civics classes we are taught that the Legislative Branch "makes" the laws, the Executive Branch (Article 2)then "enforces" those laws, and finally the Judicial Branch (Article 3) gets to "interpret" those laws. This balance of power so intricately interwoven in the Constitution has slowly being eroded away by Bush and his commitment to "Truth." George W. cannot envision that he has ever made a mistake because in his mind he simply cannot fathom such a defect in his character.

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Poor 'W,' I don't know ALL about him (ENUFF THO ). Something happened to the poor man.Memory problems.Grandiose opinion of self. Denial. I know a terrific psychologist for poor "W." He has totally convinced me that ANY president MUST have a clean slate in the mental health department.Poor "W" is still in denial about his alcohol addiction. I don't know about everyone else, but 8 yrs. of "dry drunk" government has given me a hangover!!! Mary Basombrio

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In his mind he has never made a mistake! It's always someone else's fault. I don't have the words to describe how out of touch he is. One thing for sure, he is indeed the worst president in recorded history; not just in this country, but any country in the known world. Impeachment won't happen. We will be fortunate if we have any more elections at all. I could go on, but what the hell use would it be?

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I was thinking this morning about how, when the Palestinians elected Hamas, the U.S. and a lot of other countries slapped massive sanctions on them for their democratic choice.

How would it have been if, in 2004, a big chunk of the world had hit us with major sanctions (and maybe some saber-rattling for good measure) for W's reelection? What if, should Americans elect a president (either party) in 2008 who favors prolonging our occupation of Iraq, a big chunk of the world gave us the economic middle finger?

Just daydreaming. The U.S. has its fingers in everybody else's political pie, but we sure view our politics as our own damn business. Maybe it's time to call for some international sanctions, like Nelson Mandela and Aung San Suu Kyi did against their countries' regimes.

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...for years now. If he is wrong, then God, too, must be wrong.

How does a hapless, modern-day prophet reconcile such uncomfortable logic? Simple. Easy.

Denial.

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. . . is something the Bush family knows how to do. USA Today: "Bush's military file contained a second document that also asked for information on any arrests. Portions of that page, his enlistment application, are also blacked out."

History has indeed been kind to this boy so far.

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Mr. Bush is typical of a tragic type of person, that has a complete lack of confidence in himself, a problem which reaches its maxiumum intensity, when such a person is placed in circumstances where his abilities are put through the most extreme demands. Bush must feel, that if he acknowledges "any" mistakes, he'll be exposed for the pathetic loser he is; as a man who has made nothing but errors his entire life.

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How could a transparent clown like GW Bush make a mistake? He's never been a "decider" to begin with. This one is just another tinhorn puppet put into office by the usual corporate crime mob behind the curtain.

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He's presiding OVER error as the Unitary Executive and Decider. He's identical WITH error, and has not a whit of self-consciousness! How can Error make an error?

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why doe you keep on asking him to be intelligent when he is clearly incapable?

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Goodness will find the little boy. It always has. It will again. (Cormac McCarthy's "The Road")

Mark my words. Someday, in the not too distant future, there will be a series of arrests. Good men and women (none of them much rich) will conduct the interrogations. They will not resemble anything done by the White House press corps. The cowardice of the accused will be apparent in the film record. The crying and the urination will certify the shock in them that their world has been turned upside down so suddenly. How could their mighty Blackwater forces have been defeated by ragtag regular US military?

An eminently fair trial will follow and those proven guilty will be convicted. Impeachment! The spirit of Benito Mussolini laughs at your stinking impeachment. Il Duce knows what awaits this gang.

Dear reader many of you do not see clearly yet and you think this raving, at least fantastic. But some of you will live to see it happen. Enjoy!

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IMPEACH, IMPRISON, INDITE EXECUTE.

I am not in favor of capital punishment generally, but in the case of mass murderers I make an exception.

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The handwriting was on wall in 2004 after Abu Ghraib was revealed yet majority voted for Bush anyway. In 08 we will probably get choice between bad(Clinton) and worse (Giuliani.) I may have to stop reading alternet as I come away either depressed or angry or both.

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Bush is the Pharaoh, King of Denial.

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He didn't pull out in time.

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cant even speak clearly,stutters a lot,looking very hard for words to describe what he has accomplished, . A criminal jerk deserving harsh punishment for the kind of "liberty" he spread about. I repeat: A CRIMINAL JERK.

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The expectation that Bush or his Administration would genuinely admit to an error is a foolish one and takes time and energy away from more reasonable goals.

The near-insistence on apology, on admission of wrongdoing, seems more like something one would hear in a domestic squabble, and doesn't accomplish anything.

Harsh or not, we'll all be doing ourselves a favor if we get over our need to prove ourselves right and focus on what we can do with what we have, be it in the election or on smaller, more local terms.

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