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- JenniferInMO, on 01/07/2009, -23/+258This seems like a little issue, given all the issues we have, but it is yet ANOTHER spit in the face to the voters/taxpayers. The decision to snub the Obamas is not just mean spirited, but most likely will cost us millions for the security costs. And why, because Bush wanted to be mean-spirited. I am sick to death of ALL of Bush's abuse of his power and OUR tax dollars, but this just goes to show how he is willing to use our money to support his pettiness.
I would like to know just how much we spent on Bush's little pettiness this time. - gatherlight, on 01/07/2009, -21/+229Bush just continues to hit the nail deeper in his own coffin of "Worst President EVER"
- inactive, on 01/08/2009, -12/+140Give Bush a break. He's never had to live next door to a black man, and wasn't ready to give it a try quite yet.
- twoboyzzmommy, on 01/07/2009, -15/+137Bush is a weasel -- this is just more evidence.
- MiddleAmerica, on 01/07/2009, -15/+126
More disrespect of our democratic process from the Republicans.
Not to mention further bad taste, lies, & obstructionism from the right.
Zero class as usual.
Can you imagine the GOP's attack machine's response if a Democrat did that to an incoming President?
- Phylter, on 01/08/2009, -19/+114Christ, you MUST be desperate for a friend to invite John Howard to visit. He's an *****.
- martalli, on 01/08/2009, -13/+97***** to the end.
- mentallyinhell, on 01/08/2009, -13/+69What a childish way to act like a dick.
- jstohler, on 01/08/2009, -13/+68As Jon Stewart called it, "The last dick move of the Bush Administration."
- retzed, on 01/08/2009, -12/+62What's even more absurd than the Obama's getting shafted is that John Howard is getting awarded the Medal of Freedom! He locked up thousands of refugees in detention centres where most of them spent multiple years of their life in a Guantanamo-like environment. These are people who left all of their worldly possessions behind in war-torn nations so that one day their children may live a poverty-free life. Way to spread freedom Johnny!
- heystoopid, on 01/07/2009, -17/+67Let Howard stay there permanently , I doubt if very few of the voters down under in Oz , would want this tool brain back again , given the large unresolved expensive mess he left behind when the entire electorate give him the extra large size 20 foot in the posterior whilst saying enough is enough .
- ReasonWinsOut, on 01/08/2009, -13/+63What I can't figure out is why, when they realized there was a prior booking, did they not bump John Howard to the hotel Obama is in (right by the White House) and put the Obamas in Blair House?
Seems like a simple solution. - jstohler, on 01/08/2009, -7/+50I guess you missed the follow-up investigation that showed the Clinton people did no such thing. In fact, it was BushCo's first big lie -- the first of many, I might point out.
- novenator, on 01/08/2009, -18/+60You have to remember this is the same president that hijacked Clintons victory song and played it as his own after the 2000 election theft. The right wing is nothing more than vindictive, shallow, and vengeful. The Obama's are likely better off not moving into a bugged compound anyways.
- inactive, on 01/08/2009, -10/+50im amazed that the prime minister of australia gets a medal of freedom when they are in the works to censor the entire internet china style for their citizens. yeah that sounds like freedom. Censor the most free form of communication ever achieved by modern humans and get a medal of freedom. amazing.
- pintomp3, on 01/08/2009, -1/+41Seems like a pretty big place. Couldn't both of them have stayed there?
- nullcodes, on 01/08/2009, -9/+46I am not saying I disagree with the decision .. but I have to admit if Clinton did this to Bush the media and loonies like that horse-face man-hybrid ann coulter will be all over it like flies on ***** .. calling him unpatriotic etc. for displacing the president elect for a foreigner.
- jazino, on 01/08/2009, -3/+39They booked Howard after they turned the Obama's away.
So it is not just stupid, it is in fact disrespectful. - Anomaly100, on 01/08/2009, -5/+41But, you see, you are talking about decency. Bush and decency? nah!
- kingofinternet, on 01/08/2009, -16/+47the bush administration has been monumentally petty. pursuing personal grudges and partisan hackery while the country burned. not surprising.
also not surprising that that little bitch howard covered for bush.
***** off to texas, wyoming and wherever you came from you republican trash. - WibWobble, on 02/02/2009, -4/+29I'm sure it won't be the last.
- inactive, on 01/08/2009, -2/+2714 guest rooms in Blair House, but not a lick of space for the Obama's. Yeah, something else must have happened.
- BigTonyT, on 01/08/2009, -6/+31Folks, for those of you unaware, "Blair House" is a complex. We're talking 70,000 square feet, 19 bedrooms, 30 bathrooms, 114 total rooms. For more on the house --> http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0 ...
One has to wonder why the Obama's couldn't have stayed there given how large that facility is. One more classless decision from the Bush/Cheney administration. - bitterbug, on 01/08/2009, -3/+28President Hitler of course.
- ebolaworld, on 01/08/2009, -5/+30Our nightmare is almost over.
- pickleprince, on 01/08/2009, -5/+30The trashing of the White House by the leaving Clinton administration is a well-debunked myth.
Look it up...I've even linked to evidence exposing this lie in another digg article. - Craigbob1, on 01/08/2009, -19/+42The thing I like most is that despite the obvious snub, Obama has been a gentleman about it. Or at least if he has complained at all, I haven't seen it reported in the news which means he has kept it to himself. Knowing Obama's style though, I'll bet he probably just took it graciously, showing again the sort of steadiness and good judgment that got him elected...even though I still think Ron Paul should've got it! ;-)
- weeFred, on 01/08/2009, -3/+25They probably are, although probably briefly with his staffers
"should we let the Obamas stay in Blair House?"
"Nah ***** him, invite that Austrian guy instead"
Even if he didn't make this decision, he was behind the appointing of the ***** who did. - gernblansted, on 01/08/2009, -2/+24GAO investigated and determined this was manufactured nonsense.
If Clinton had actually trashed the White House, where are the pictures? This would have been a week long special on Fox News, and pictures and interviews would be everywhere. After I first heard of this, I waited for the special reports, the pictures, the first hand experiences. Instead, we got the GAO investigation's report stating this was all bogus.
People will believe anything as long as it's spoon fed to them with the right spoon.
The trashing of the country by Clinton's replacement, though, is unfortunately very real. But some close to Bush made a tremendous amount of profit. I guess that was the point. - ReasonWinsOut, on 01/09/2009, -0/+22Not only is he not used to living next to a black man, he's not used to living in a neighborhood that even allows them.
Bush's new post-presidential home is in the upscale Preston Hollow area of Dallas. Until the year 2000, the neighborhood association's covenant said only white people could live there—unless they were servants.
http://cbs11tv.com/local/bush.new.house.2.880810.h ... - DooM, on 01/08/2009, -3/+25@Kinsey: He's a FORMER foreign official who doesn't have the same security needs that the President-Elect does.
- weeFred, on 01/08/2009, -1/+22I was being Bush you retard, it was part of the joke.
/check your humour some time. - BillDoor, on 01/08/2009, -5/+25Too right. Keep him, he'll need all 119 rooms and 35 bathrooms for his ego.
- Anomaly100, on 01/08/2009, -13/+32When Obama went to the White House recently, and he and Bush went into his office to talk for a bit, I just couldn't imagine it. I wanted to be a fly on the wall so badly! There is no way this moron could play nice for a minute. Not a second. It's obviously not in him. Now what is in him, is cold water running right through his veins. He can't even pretend to be nice. Now, Obama probably won't be fazed by this. He'll just get over it and carry on with the important issues, like the country. Too bad Bush didn't think of that.
- noeffortatall, on 01/08/2009, -6/+25Read the article. It says he wasn't asked until after Obama had asked. Fail.
- DooM, on 01/08/2009, -4/+22@Me040: You should try reading - you'll be surprised what you can learn:
Last week it was revealed that a formal review by the General Accounting Office, Congress' investigative agency, "had found no damage to the offices of the White House's East or West Wings or EOB" and that Bush's own representatives had reported "there is no record of damage that may have been deliberately caused by the employees of the Clinton administration."
While cautious GSA staffers won't issue a blanket exoneration of the Clinton team, Bernard Ungar, the agency's director of physical infrastructure, told Salon the media clearly exaggerated the extent of the damage. According to the terse GSA statement that formed the basis of Ungar's conclusion, "the condition of the real property was consistent with what we would expect to encounter when tenants vacate office space after an extended occupancy."
-May 23, 2001
http://archive.salon.com/politics/feature/2001/05/ ... - useraccess, on 01/08/2009, -3/+21They did it on purpose...DUH!
- cquinnd, on 01/08/2009, -7/+24>>Howard was booked first so he gets it,
If the story is credible, Howard was either ready to leave before, or might have been
willing to leave if asked. It would have been bad form perhaps to ask, but the administration played it as if that was not even an option.
>> its not that big of a freaking deal im sure
It is not standard precedent for a President-elect to request to stay on the grounds during a transistion period, but there is no real reason it could not be argued as a good idea to hlep get the incoming administration off to a good start.
>> Obama can afford to stay in a hotel for a few weeks.
Obama isn't paying for it, we are. Even if he is paying for the stay, we pay extra for security, transportation and other official needs.
>> Bsh can do whatevre the hell he wants with it first.
Bush is still a representative of the people, you would think he wants to do something that would help save taxpayer money and trouble, and that might make him look like the good guy in the process. - martalli, on 01/08/2009, -6/+22You know, Bush's administration has been so incompetent that I wonder if they didn't just make a mistake and then try to cover their story instead of letting Obama in the Blair House.
- swrostmore, on 01/08/2009, -10/+26Our shenanigans are cheeky and fun. Your shenanigans are cruel and tragic.
- supremebeing18, on 01/08/2009, -3/+19Like?
- inactive, on 01/08/2009, -1/+17@morgino I don't think I speak your language. You're talking about purchasing the press? You're making up a past/future presidential hybrid named 'Obama Bush'? What happened? What's going on?
- rebotfc, on 01/08/2009, -2/+17To be fair it is the former prime minister. ( Who is also a douche)
- zuiquan, on 01/08/2009, -10/+25More evidence of the petty douchebagginess pervading just about everything Bush's administration orchestrates. Way to be a stand up guy W.
- FXNGLAS, on 01/08/2009, -10/+24I hope Bush quickly deceases after his time in office is up. It kills me to know that my tax dollars still have to pay for the security of his well being even after he's gone.
- rsh28630, on 01/08/2009, -4/+17Within 100 years, history will universally acknowledge George W Bush to be a tool and a fool. Dick Cheney was the real power in the White House. George W was barely coherent. The damage done in the last eight years is profound. It is actually quite possible America will never recover.
- Anomaly100, on 01/09/2009, -2/+15Politics aside, he didn't have the common courtesy to allow our new President-elect and his family "guest" privileges at The Blair House.
- bizen, on 01/09/2009, -2/+15My mom always told me that actions speak louder than words.
- PsychoBrat, on 01/08/2009, -1/+14I'm not sure I can believe that Howard was simply led along regarding the war -- the man's as cunning as a rat (with which he also arguably shares many other qualities), and quite likely had access to more accurate intelligence, which he would have chosen to ignore, just as did the Bush administration.
- bkemper, on 01/09/2009, -2/+14The Worst President in History?
"Calamitous presidents, faced with enormous difficulties -- Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, Hoover and now Bush -- have divided the nation, governed erratically and left the nation worse off. In each case, different factors contributed to the failure: disastrous domestic policies, foreign-policy blunders and military setbacks, executive misconduct, crises of credibility and public trust. Bush, however, is one of the rarities in presidential history: He has not only stumbled badly in every one of these key areas, he has also displayed a weakness common among the greatest presidential failures -- an unswerving adherence to a simplistic ideology that abjures deviation from dogma as heresy, thus preventing any pragmatic adjustment to changing realities. "
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/profile/story/996 ...
HNN Poll: 61% of Historians Rate the Bush Presidency Worst
"Asked to rank the presidency of George W. Bush in comparison to those of the other 41 American presidents, more than 61 percent of the historians concluded that the current presidency is the worst in the nation’s history. Another 35 percent of the historians surveyed rated the Bush presidency in the 31st to 41st category... At least two of those who ranked the current president in the 31-41 ranking made it clear that they placed him next-to-last, with only James Buchanan, in their view, being worse. “He is easily one of the 10-worst of all time and—if the magnitude of the challenges and opportunities matter—then probably in the bottom five, alongside Buchanan, Johnson, Fillmore, and Pierce,” wrote another historian."
http://hnn.us/articles/48916.html -
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