Following the less than respectful response he received at the National’s home opener:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHUAsTrl4JI[/youtube]
President Bush announced his resignation with the following statement:
Normally, I start these things out by saying ‘My Fellow Americans’, not doing it
this time. If the polls are any indication, I don’t know who more than half of you
are anymore. I do know something terrible has happened, and that you’re really
not fellow Americans any longer.I’ll cut right to the chase here: I quit. Now before anyone gets all in lather about
me quitting to avoid impeachment, or to avoid prosecution, let me assure you:
There’s been no breaking of laws or impeachable offenses in this office.The reason I’m quitting is simple. I’m fed up with you people. I’m fed up because
you have no understanding of what’s really going on in the world. Or of what’s going
on in this once-great nation of ours. And the majority of you are too damned lazy
to do your homework and figure it out.Let’s start local. You’ve been sold a bill of goods by politicians and the news media.
Polls show that the majority of you think the economy is in the tank. And that’s
despite record numbers of homeowners, including record numbers of MINORITY
homeowners. And while we’re mentioning minorities, I’ll point out that minority
business ownership is at an all-time high. Our unemployment rate is as low as it
ever was during the Clinton administration. I’ve mentioned all those things before,
but it doesn’t sink in.Despite the shock to our economy of 9/11, the stock market has rebounded to record
levels and more Americans than ever are participating in these markets. Meanwhile,
all you can do is whine about gas prices, and most of you are too damn stupid to
realize that gas prices are high because there’s increased demand in other parts of
the world, and because a small handful of noisy idiots are more worried about polar
bears and beachfront property than your economic security.We face real threats in the world.
Don’t give me this ‘blood for oil’ crap. If I were trading blood for oil I would’ve already
seized Iraq ‘s oil fields and let the rest of the country go to hell. And don’t give me
this ‘Bush Lied; People Died’ crap either. If I were the liar you morons take me for, I
could’ve easily had chemical weapons planted in Iraq so they could be ‘discovered.’
Instead, I owned up to the fact that the intelligence was faulty.Let me remind you that the rest of the world thought Saddam had the goods, same
as me. Let me also remind you that regime change in Iraq was official U.S. policy
before I came into office. Clinton established that policy. Bet you didn’t know that,
did you?You idiots need to understand that we face a unique enemy. Back during the cold war,
there were two major competing political and economic models squaring off. We won
that war, but we did so because fundamentally, the Communists wanted to survive,
just as we do. We were simply able to out spend and out-tech them.That’s not the case this time. The soldiers of our new enemy don’t care if they survive.
In fact, they want to die. That’d be fine, as long as they weren’t also committed to
taking as many of you with them as they can. But they are. They want to kill you, and
the bastards are all over the globe. You should be grateful that they haven’t gotten
any more of us here in the United States since September 11. But you’re not. That’s
because you’ve got no idea how hard a small number of intelligence, military, law
enforcement, and homeland security people have worked to make sure of that. When
this whole mess started, I warned you that this would be a long and difficult fight. I’m
disappointed how many of you people think a long and difficult fight amounts to a
single season of ‘Survivor.’Instead, you’ve grown impatient. You’re incapable of seeing things through the long
lens of history, the way our enemies do. You think that wars should last a few months,
a few years, tops.Making matters worse, you actively support those who help the enemy. Every time
you buy the New York Times, every time you send a donation to a cut-and-run
Democrat’s political campaign, well, you might just as well FedEx a grenade launcher
to a Jihadist. It amounts to the same thing.In this day and age, it’s easy enough to find the truth. It’s all over the Internet, it
just isn’t on the pages of the New York Times or on NBC News. But even if it were,
I doubt you’d be any smarter. Most of you would rather watch American Idol.I could say more about your expectations that the government will always be there
to bail you out, even if you’re too stupid to leave a city that’s below sea level and
has a Cat 5 hurricane approaching.I could say more about your idiotic belief that government, not your own wallet, is
where the money comes from. But I’ve come to the conclusion that were I to do
so, it would sail right over your heads.So, I quit. I’m going back to Crawford. I’ve got an energy-efficient house down
there (Al Gore could only dream of) and the capability to be fully self-sufficient.
No one ever heard of Crawford before I got elected, and as soon as I’m done here
pretty much no one will ever hear of it again. Maybe I’ll be lucky enough to die of
old age before the last pillars of America fall.Oh, and by the way, Cheney’s quitting too.
That means Pelosi is your new President. You asked for it – you can have her. Watch
what she does carefully, because I still have a glimmer of hope that there are just
enough of you remaining who are smart enough to turn this thing around in 2008.So that’s it.
God bless what’s left of America. Some of you know what I mean. The rest of you
— kiss my ass!
I wish I could take credit for the letter but I can’t. In fact, I don’t know who wrote the letter as it was sent to me as a part of a never ending chainmail. If you know, please let me know as I’d like to provide appropriate credit.
After I heard the disrespect shown the President at the National’s game (this recording was pretty tame. I had heard a couple other’s where the booing was very dominant) I wouldn’t blame him a bit if he said “I quit.” With the vitriol and hate that he regularly gets, the fact that he hasn’t quit shows that he is a much better man than I. I would’ve said “stuff it” long ago.
