REALLY DUMB SH*T

During a G8 luncheon, a PRIVATE moment between President Bush and Tony Blair was caught on an open microphone.

Read the transcript here.

This comment from Bush is drawing international attention and the subject of great scrutiny today.

Bush said:

"You see, the ... thing is what they need to do is to get Syria, to get Hezbollah to stop doing this shit and it's over."

OOOOOOOOOOOOOH!

That Bush and his cowboy mouth!

I agree with the President. Hezbollah has to stop doing this shit. Yes, that has to happen to achieve peace in the Middle East. Anyone disagree?

What I find amusing, and also annoying, is the libs' reaction to Bush's phraseology.

A sampling--

Martin Lewis uses a humorous approach in his take, but he throws in some very low blows at Bush.

The video of George W. Bush talking with Tony Blair at the G8 summit lunch is horrific and sets a terrible example for our kids. Not for his use of the word "shit". Having heard Bush use the word "asshole" on an open mike during the 2000 election campaign when speaking to Cheney (himself a notable F-bomber) - no one is really surprised to discover that this "deeply religious" man is actually coarse and profane in private.

(Only the very stupid have actually believed that he is a man of devout faith. Claiming to have been "born again" was simply the veneer devised to explain away his 40 years as a wastrel...)

No - I am disgusted that he would speak while chewing food - and that he chews with his mouth wide open.

Calling Bush out for talking with food in his mouth is sort of funny. The attacks on his faith are not.

Saying "shit" is supposed to indicate that Bush is not really a believer?

Stupid, really stupid.

Caroline Daniel was aghast at the "coarse exchange" between Bush and Blair. She thinks Bush's word choice reveals his lack of sophistication and "diplomatic ambiguity."

President George W. Bush was doing his best this week to be the new, collaborative man, flattering other Group of Eight leaders as he collected 60th birthday presents, and appeared to accept the trade-offs of multilateral diplomacy.

Yet it was the off-mike exchange with his closest ally, Tony Blair, the British prime minister, at Monday's G8 summit that confirmed the caricature of Mr Bush: a man who could sum up the solution to the Middle East conflict as: all they "need to do is get Syria to get Hizbollah to stop doing this shit and it's over".

...Mr Bush remains the gung-ho leader, with a black and white view of the world, clearly dividing it into enemies and friends.

For him the root cause of the crisis remains Hizbollah and Syria, as self-evident villains.

...And in spite of Mr Bush's recognition of the need to reach out to allies, the Blair exchange underlined his frustration at the slowness of diplomacy, with a candid remark.

Daniel stretches a simple choice of words into proof that Bush has a dangerous black and white view of the world.

Her deep, intellectual analysis is a joke!

It really is!

Deutsche Presse-Agentur was shocked by Bush's language.

US President George W. Bush was caught swearing at the Islamist extremist group Hezbollah during the G8 Summit here Monday when he did not realise a microphone was turned on.

Speaking to British Prime Minister Tony Blair before lunch, Bush cursed Hezbollah, which has been firing rockets into Israel from southern Lebanon, provoking massive Israeli air strikes on the country.

Bush was "caught swearing."

How silly!

Reuters, the news agency that refuses to call a terrorist a terrorist, relished the opportunity to report on Bush's "salty language."

Aljazeera ran its own exposé.

Neither immediately realised a microphone was transmitting their candid thoughts on that and other issues on the summit's official television network.

Bush, chomping on a piece of bread and calling for a diet Coke, said: "I think Condi (Condoleezza Rice, the secretary of state) is going to go (to the Middle East) pretty soon."

Sounds like Aljazeera buys into the Cindy Sheehan and Russ Feingold imagery of President Bush as King George, a privileged royal stuffing his face and snapping his fingers for a servant to bring him a Diet Coke.

One more analysis, and one of the most offensive:

Arianna Huffington writes that "President Bush's already depressing world tour hit a new low today with his 'oops, is thing on?' conversation with Tony Blair."

I haven't heard dialogue this addle-brained since Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle. But these aren't a pair of stoned out slackers looking to score some burgers. These are the leader of the free world and his faithful British sidekick, trying to keep the conflict in the Middle East from kickstarting World War III.

Yes, on one level, it's great comedy -- as funny as anything SNL or The Onion could come up with. "Yo, Blair!"? Bush's kindergarten insight that "Russia's big and so is China". The dripping with sarcasm frat-boy banter:

Bush: Thanks for the sweater; it was awfully thoughtful of you. I know you picked it out yourself.

Blair: Oh, absolutely!

What was next, the two of them high-fiving and yelling "Psyche!"?

But on another level, the conversation was the most dispiriting exchange I could imagine hearing at a moment like this.

Has there ever been a more feeble statement by a U.S. president than "See, the irony is what they really need to do is get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this shit and it's over"?

Churchill it ain't.

Indeed, it says all you need to know about how this president's disastrous mismanagement of foreign policy has undermined America's standing in the world.

The Middle East is teetering on the brink, and the President of the United States is reduced to sitting on the sidelines, helplessly ruminating on what "they" need to do to try and broker a settlement.

What would Huffington prefer?

Would she like the Dems' hollow to nonexistent plans for appeasing terrorists?

Would John Kerry's empty, incoherent ramblings make her happy?

Churchill he ain't.

Neville Chamberlain, yes. Churchill, no.

Bottom line: I don't have a problem with what Bush said. I have a problem with all the ridiculous criticism Bush is receiving for his remark.

Let me rework some of Huffington's words--

Has there ever been a more feeble attempt by the American Left to attack the President of the United States, while the Middle East is teetering on the brink?