bLogodaedaly: George W. Bush

David Colquhoun addresses the problem of intellectual dishonesty and fuzzy illogic in a Guardian Unlimited article entitled the age of endarkenment.

The past 30 years or so have been an age of endarkenment. It has been a period in which truth ceased to matter very much, and dogma and irrationality became once more respectable.

Colquhoun is author of the Improbable Science blog in which he expands upon his exposition of the reasons that we should be concerned about the "New Credulity.":

This matters when people delude themselves into believing that we could be endangered at 45 minutes' notice by non-existent weapons of mass destruction. . .
It matters when people are deluded into thinking that they will be rewarded in paradise for killing themselves and others. It matters when bishops attribute floods to a deity whose evident vengefulness and malevolence leave one reeling. And it matters when science teachers start to believe that the Earth was created 6,000 years ago.

In nations that value education and intellectuals, politicians who live down to the "average guy" image are not elected to the most powerful executive positions. As the world has recognized with disdain, Giorgio, purchased Ivy League degree or not, would not have appealed to voters in nations that respect merit. More particularly, Giorgio would not have appealed a second time to voters who were able to detect executive deceptions.

"Crawford Texas - A tragic flood has destroyed the personal library of President George W. Bush. The flood began in the presidential bathroom where the books were kept. Both books have been lost. A presidential spokesman said the president was devastated, as he had almost finished coloring the second one.

The White House tried to call FEMA. but there was no answer." found here."

"Religious bigots love Dubaya because he tells them that God gives him directions. This of course, is quite plausible since Dubaya clearly is not getting any good advice."
¬ salient in The Latest Discrimination

"I've got God's shoulder to cry on. And I cry a lot. I do a lot of crying in this job. I'll bet I've shed more tears than you can count, as president." --George W. Bush, as quoted by author Robert Draper in Dead Certain

[If justice were served, imo, he'd be crying more as an impeached ex-president convicted for war crimes.]

"I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for my predecessors as well."

[Your predecessors are probably rolling in their graves, you twerp]

"The same folks that are bombing innocent people in Iraq were the ones who attacked us in America on September the 11th." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., July 12, 2007

[What? They didn't go to Paradise or they did go to Paradise but Allah sent them back as Iraqi insurgents?]

"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities inour air and water that are doing it."

[No wonder the US is the world leader in denial of anthropogenic global warming. Or, expressed in a presidential euphemism, (anthropogenic) climate change.]

"More than two decades later, it is hard to imagine the Revolutionary War coming out any other way." --George W. Bush, Martinsburg, W. Va., July 4, 2007

[Goh-lee, they had another Revolutionary War twenty years ago and I missed it?]

"Amnesty means that you've got to pay a price for having been here illegally, and this bill does that." --George W. Bush, on the immigration reform bill, Washington, D.C., June 26, 2007

[OK, by this reasoning let's 'pardon' Dubaya for his war crimes.]

"There's a lot of blowhards in the political process, you know, a lot of hot-air artists, people who have got something fancy to say." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., May 17, 2007

[Better a blowhard than a moronic flatulant, I always say.]

"I heard somebody say, 'Where's (Nelson) Mandela?' Well, Mandela's dead. Because Saddam killed all the Mandelas." --George W. Bush, on the former South African president, who is still very much alive, Washington, D.C., Sept. 20, 2007 (in Bushisms)

"You know, I guess I'm like any other political figure: Everybody wants to be loved." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., July 12, 2007

[Which fits the definition of delusional unless he was actually whining that he is not loved.]

There are some more Bushisms at the base of an amusing post about the inhumanity of Professional Christians here.

Speaking of Bushisms, how many Presidents have actually inspire the invention of a special term? Ever heard of Clintonisms? No. Ever heard of Adamsisms? No. Ever heard of Reganisms? No.

I won't go on. I hope that Bullsh is appropriately proud of his legacy of hilarious inanities.

As though the above sampling from 2007 is not enough, here are more:

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