And the mass-murdering war criminal just adds insult to injury!
The whole world is a photo op, 'ey, Georgie, you grinning ignoramus?
"Bush says to give thanks by 'giving back'; Urges Americans to aid the needy, recognize service" by Roger Runningen/Bloomberg News November 20, 2007
How about signing some spending bills and ending the damn wars, asshole!??
CHARLES CITY, Va. - President Bush told Americans yesterday that they should commemorate the nation's Thanksgiving Day holiday by expressing gratitude to those who "serve in a cause larger than themselves" and by aiding the less fortunate.
While his tax cuts and war dollars are lavishly heaped upon the richers and the war contractors.
"As we count our many blessings, I encourage all Americans to show their thanks by giving back," Bush said at Berkeley Plantation in Charles City, Va., in the first Thanksgiving-themed speech of his presidency.
The president cited the opportunities available in the United States, extolled the gifts of freedom and democracy, and offered praise to farmers, teachers, soldiers, police officers, and others who contribute to the greater good.
The guy is fucking insulting!!
He gave particular attention to members of the armed forces, who are engaged in conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. To those who have lost a family member in those wars, Bush said, "We vow that their sacrifice will not be in vain."
Of course he paid particular attention to his damn wars.
So when we leaving, asshole?
Since the Civil War, the United States has celebrated the Thanksgiving holiday on the fourth Thursday in November. This year it falls on Nov. 22.
A horrible day for this country!
In 1963, a great man was gunned down in Dallas by the war-makers!
Many Americans regard the first Thanksgiving as the celebration of a successful harvest in Plymouth, Mass., in the autumn of 1621. The first official celebration actually occurred on Dec. 4, 1619, according to the White House. That's when Captain John Woodlief led 37 newly arrived English colonists to a grassy slope along the James River now known as Berkeley Plantation. He instructed them to drop to their knees and give thanks for a safe arrival to the New World.
Bush noted that the Plantation, between Richmond and Williamsburg, lays claim to having held Thanksgiving "before the Pilgrims even left port. As you can imagine, this version of events isn't popular up north."
What, they don't remember the slaughter and genocide of the Native Americans and the enslavement and transport of Africans as slave labor?
Berkeley, which is on the National Register of Historic Places, is a 1,000-acre estate that hosts a Thanksgiving festival annually. A 1726 Georgian-style mansion on the grounds is the birthplace of William Henry Harrison, the nation's ninth president, who gave a two-hour inaugural speech there on a cold, rainy day, caught pneumonia, and died a month later. The plantation is also the ancestral home of Benjamin Harrison, the 23d president.
"We remember that the settlers at Berkeley came to America with the hope of building a better life," Bush said. "And we remember that immigrants in every generation have followed in their footsteps."
Yeah, yeah, America has been great forever.
Man, am I sick of the arrogant exceptionalism.
Bush spoke to about 500 invited guests, including state and local officeholders and a future in-law, a former lieutenant governor of Virginia, John H. Hager.
He is the father of Henry Hager, who is engaged to Bush's daughter Jenna.
Pfffffttttt!
Before his speech, Bush met with volunteers at the Central Virginia Food Bank in Richmond, established in 1980 by local churches and charities concerned about the growing hunger and poverty in the 31 counties and five cities its serves.
And yet asshole is out there shoveling his happy horseshit!
At the one-story brick warehouse, the president helped load boxes of fresh oranges, potatoes, and macaroni and cheese for distribution to the needy. The organization serves about 101,000 per month, according to Faye Lohr, the food bank's chief executive officer.
"I thank you for what you are doing," Bush told Lohr.
Yeah, so he can spend more on war!
100,000 hungry people fed each month, huh?
The agency, with a budget of $20.8 million, distributed almost 13 million pounds of food last year, up 12 percent from the previous year. It serves children, the homeless, the elderly, the working poor, the disabled, battered women, the newly unemployed, victims of natural disasters, the mentally ill, and single-parent families, according to its website.
Like, EVERYBODY?
WTF kind of shit society is asshole spewing about, anyway?
Donations came from schools, churches, individuals, and food companies such as Perdue Farms, Supervalu Inc., Wal-Mart Stores, ConAgra Foundation, Kellogg Co., and Procter & Gamble Co., among others.
Bush, in an annual tradition, today will pardon a Thanksgiving Day turkey in the Rose Garden at the White House before he and Laura Bush leave for Camp David to spend the long holiday weekend.
They return to the White House on Sunday."
Yup, nothing about his crap policies contributing to this disaster!
This guy is a fucking god-damn failure, and I have had it with him!
"In Thanksgiving Speech, Bush Urges Americans to Give Back" by SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
CHARLES CITY, Va., Nov. 19 — In a reflective mood as he looks toward his final year in office, President Bush delivered his first official Thanksgiving speech Monday, urging Americans to “show their thanks by giving back” and to remember that “our nation’s greatest strength is the decency and compassion of our people.”
Too bad you don't have any, asshole!
For seven years, Mr. Bush has commemorated Thanksgiving with the presidential tradition of pardoning a turkey, a 60-year tradition that he planned to continue Tuesday in the Rose Garden. But this year, the White House hoped to show a more contemplative side of Mr. Bush, who, his aides say, has been struck by the goodness of the many ordinary Americans he meets during his travels.
You mean, those his security screens and allows him to here?
We all know how much this guy likes hearing differing opinions.
So Monday, the president visited a food bank in Richmond, Va., and then traveled here, to Berkeley Plantation on the banks of the James River. It claims to be the home of the nation’s “first official Thanksgiving,” two years before the Pilgrims’ harvest celebration in Massachusetts.
On Dec. 4, 1619, a band of English settlers arrived at the plantation and, upon reviewing orders that the day of their arrival should be “yearly and perpetually kept holy as a day of Thanksgiving to Almighty God,” dropped to their knees in prayer.
After recounting the Berkeley story, Mr. Bush ticked off the reasons Americans had to be thankful, including “farmers and ranchers who provide us with abundant food,” “entrepreneurs who create new jobs” and “devoted teachers who prepare our children for the opportunities of tomorrow.” He also spoke about the times that “America has fallen short” of its ideals, noting that “for many years, slaves were held against their will here at Berkeley and other plantations — and their bondage is a shameful chapter in our nation’s history.”
This from a guy who supports renditions, torturing, secret prisons, endless confinement, kangaroo courts and a full-blown dictatorship.
Meanwhile, vets roam our streets homeless and hungry, and this guy is gushing?
COMPLETELY OUT-OF-TOUCH and INSANE, Bush is!!!!
Mr. Bush went on to praise “Americans who serve a cause larger than themselves,” not only the military but also people like Liviu Librescu, the Virginia Tech professor who died this spring blocking a gunman from entering his classroom, and Jeremy Hernandez, who broke open the back door of a school bus to lead children to safety in August when the Minneapolis bridge they were traveling on collapsed.
He is disgusting! I'd rather he say nothing!
It was a call to action, in a sense, from a president whose first instinct after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks was to ask the public for “continued participation and confidence in the American economy,” a request that has been widely interpreted as advice to go shopping.
Aye, aye, asshole! That's why I cut back.
By contrast, Mr. Bush on Monday asked Americans to consider the “many ways to spread hope this holiday: volunteer in a shelter, mentor a child, help an elderly neighbor, say thanks to one who wears the nation’s uniform.”
Yeah, say thanks to America;s killers for fighting your god-forsaken, abominable wars!
I'll thank the vets who got busted protesting your monstrosities, asshole!
I THANK THEM for STANDING AGAINST YOU, Anti-Christ!
Hope you choke to death on a turkey bone! Don't drink so much!
Here is the serious, contemplative Bush.
