The entire, sad, disgusting interview

I commented on Bush's "I gave up Golf for the war effort" (lie, of course) the other day, but until I watched this Olbermann special comment (H/t Mary, and no, don't watch it if you hate Olbermann. This isn't about him or his take.) I realized I hadn't read or seen the entire horrible interview. I can't watch the man speak, so I read the transcript instead, and it is enough to make your eyes bleed. The questions are horrible. "Who will win American idol?" Are you fucking kidding me? Not only who cares about American freakin Idol, but who the hell cares what this guy thinks about something like that?

And his answers to the questions are just horrible. Check out his passive voice on the intelligence leading into the war.

Bush: No, no, I was told by people that they had weapons of mass destruction — as were members of Congress, who voted for the resolution to get rid of Saddam Hussein. And of course, the political heat gets on and they start to run and try to hide from their votes.

Olbermann just about had an aneurism at that answer and he was right. Unbelievably stupid and crass. And passive. Everyone made mistakes but this guy. Other people are responsible, but he didn't make any errors. And now people are running from their votes?

But then again, Bush equates his own stubbornness with "principle."

And his response to Carter was even worse than I thought:

"Bush: Yes, well, what he ought to be saying is, is that America doesn't torture. If the implication there is that we do now, then he's wrong. And you bet we're going to protect ourselves by the use of military force. What he really is implying is — or some imply — you can be popular; if you want to be popular in the Middle East just go blame Israel for every problem. That will make you popular. "

Yes, Carter has blamed Israel for every problem. And of course we don't torture. Except when this person himself authorized it. Then it isn't torture, because we don't torture.

Worst. President. Ever. And it isn't even close any longer.

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And then he compared Obama to Nazi appeasers.

Matthew Yglesias
(May 15, 2008) - Bush: Munich, Munich Munich
(Foreign Policy):

"The standard point to make in response to this is still a true one -- we refer to this day to the 'lessons of Munich' and make a big deal out of Adolf Hitler because that was really unusual whereas to hawks it's always 1939, every foreigner we don't like is a new Hitler, and preventive war is always the only solution. Bush and McCain truly are the ideological descendants of the folks who urged Eisenhower to go for 'rollback' and who insisted that Ronald Reagan betrayed the true path when he sat down with Gorbachev for arms control talks.
Meanwhile, Bush continues to fundamentally misunderstand the purpose and nature of diplomacy. The idea of talks isn't that you marshall convincing arguments and beat your enemies back with force of words. The idea is that it's sometimes possible to achieve a reconciliation of partially divergent interests"

Truly a horrible leader.