"You Know, I Used to be a Cheerleader."

By Robert Wilonsky Mon., Aug. 24 2009 at 6:07 PM

Categories: Sports

Maybe you heard: George W. Bush stopped by Mustangs football practice this morning, where he told the team to "win one for Yom Kippur." Thanks to the SMU media relations department for this end-of-the-day keeper.

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ummmmmm rape? what?
"Could someone please tell me why Bush said "Mission Accomplished," if years later we are still losing soldiers in Iraq and in Aghanistan?" Certainly. The mission was to occupy Iraq and topple the regime those objectives had been achieved, thus the SIGN that read Mission Accomplished. I wonder how many of the individuals that rail on Bush about the Iraq issue are familiar with operation FOX under the Clinton Administration? How many are familiar with the fact that Clinton wanted to hammer Iraq, but the whole Monica thing made that impossible. Any idea how many UN resolutions Iraq violated or how many times they violated the terms of the cease fire by firing at our planes in the no-fly-zones. See none of this matters because Bush said WMDs, no WMDs were found and that's it. You know Obama promised to close Gitmo and it is still open, he promised to pull out of Iraq and we are still there, he promised to get all Americans the option to be on the same Healthcare program as Congress and they never even tried to push for that particular reform. I'm not claiming that Bush43 was great and Obama sucks because we are too close to the issues to make an assessment of that nature. I just wish that people would remember that Bush was our president and Obama IS our president. Both deserve respect at least while in office, but if Bush haters felt OK with tearing down W the entire time he was in office then they shouldn't bitch about Obama haters following their lead. After all imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Yom Kippur... I love that. I hope he pronounced it to sound like GIPPER and not that KIP OR pro noun c ation. BTW - This is a real story right? If only Bush knew that he were quoting the most well known Liberal Activist in the name of Judaism. What was that guys name again.. ray.. ray something... oh yeah, Ray Gunn. What was Bush doing at SMU? Donating "The Pet Goat" to his legacy library? "In times of turmoil, I pray, this book will bring comfort to you, as it did me" PatentLawya says: "Newsflash people. Bush 43 is no longer the President." Yeah, follow the lead of CONServatives and mention Clinton's BJ again... darn liar that Clinton.
Don't you moronsd get it or can't you see the forest past the wheelless car propped on cinderblocks in front of your inmovable mobile home? Obama is our president OUR president if we are AMERICANS and believ e in the constitution. The man was left a mess by people who did not know a train tunnel from an asshole. They bragged and pounded their fat hollow chests like Limbaugh. The economy, our wars, our standing in the world was shit and not shinola. WE are coming back. My son tells me that they still put up signs on the streets of London quoting Bush's dumbest idiotic statements just to make post mortum fun of the fool. Could someone please tell me why Bush said "Mission Accomplished," if years later we are still losing soldiers in Iraq and in Aghanistan? hen Obama improves the economy and ends these stupid egoistic wars...will any republican praise him? No! Beacuse they don't live in America. They live in a parallel lala land whose lady gaga Pailin and fat drugdie Limbaugh run the mind of the mindless ditto heads.
He loves the Jews because half of them will be incinerated in the name of Jesus during the Rapture.
You're all missing the point! He saying he loves the Jews.
Once an imbicile, always an imbicile
You've gotta look at these polls to see what affects the Great American Herd, it's just a useful tool to understand fellow man. For instance, if you zoom in on Bush's numbers, they shot up briefly when Cheney shot a lawyer.
Seriously I saw BUSH at the poles last week at Baby Dolls. Cum to think of it, I was drinking a BUSH Beer
Bill, I agree that polls shouldn't be taken too seriously, I'm just not that pissed off about it -- it's not like those numbers, or people's reactions to those numbers, can be used to remove someone from office or force them to change their policies. Hell, if that were true, almost everyone in Congress would be in trouble, given their poll ratings. Anyway, let's say that Obama's numbers didn't start until February 19. The trend in the graph would basically be the same.
RoB, people USE it as a measurement of objectivity though. And if the public is foolish enough to think they can make a statement of approval that soon, they are probably foolish enough to believe the statistics of the poll at face value. I understand that people's opinion of him will sway with the times, but as I emphasized before: Less than a week? There's nothing, NOTHING, that was measured in that time that was a responsible criteria. In the end, the real measure of popularity is take on Election Day; that's the one that matters. But before you know it, we're going to start measuring a President's performance as what he did from the primaries up until he actually obtained office. (See how hyperbole is fun?) And what the hell is this obsession with my use of a word? Afraid I'm going to turn green and smash things? "Enrages" simply emphasizes a point: This garbage pisses me right off, enough so for me to make point of how ludicrous it is. Perhaps this isn't strong enough to justify "enrages" in your opinion? Should I go storm City Hall and scream like a jackass to really qualify?
Bill, I don't think anyone views it as any sort of objective index of job performance. It's just the response to the question, "do you approve of the job the President is doing?" That can be based on anything from "he just started but I know he's going to be the Best Prez Ever" to "he said something that pissed me off this week" to "the stock market went up 250 points" to "I just got fired." Even though it's very subjective, the changes do give you an idea of how the public (or at least a hopefully representative sample thereof) feels about the Prez, for whatever reason. I can see why you might think it's dumb, but if that enrages you, wow, I hope I don't accidentally cut you off in traffic.
Might want to recheck that RoB, the earliest poll on Bush listed is February 19th. So he got more than just a week of time. Secondly, you seem to misunderstand why this "enrages" me. This is as idiotic as Preseason college football polls. The metric for measuring whether or not Bush or Obama sucked or did well as President just doesn't exist for less than a week's work. Why bother measuring this in the first place other than to have some dumb numbers later on? I suppose people like self-gratifying themselves like this, but frankly it just confirms how damn dumb politics are getting. If this poll were about whether or not you like the candidate, then sure...it makes sense. As a job rating measurement, though, it's stupid.
Less than a week in office and people already know how well the President is doing? Of course they didn't know how well he was doing -- that's why the graphs start out high and then go down as the "new car smell" goes away. It's not like this practice is something that only started with Obama. Were you "enraged" when they ran polls on Bush after his first week?
Looking at when that poll starts just enrages me. Less than a week in office and people already know how well the President is doing? That's stupidity at its finest.
Interesting poll report, if in fact polls matter much... http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/obama_bush_job_approval_ratings.html
6 months = failure? Man, the President has a harder time pleasing people than most Division I football coaches. I'm starting to think Lewis Black had a point when he said that the country just needs a leader willing to get a blowjob once in a while.
Oh c'mon. If they don't direct their anger at Bush, they'll have to think about what a failure Obama has become in only six months, and that's just cruel to make them face reality like that.
Newsflash people. Bush 43 is no longer the President. Direct your anger elsewhere. I hear that Glen Beck makes a nice target.
'Quit throwing the WAC schedule in my face! It's just a goddamn piece of paper!
@Grumpy Demo former AG Albo Gonzo is teaching polysci at Tech...in a course that will ostensibly focus on contemporary issues in the executive branch can't make that shit up
Note to everyone - don't try trolling for keyword "Bush" while at work. Just FYI.
I blame Bush for everything, including this thread.
"I can feel it in my bones, fellas. This season is going to be a cake walk. You will be greeted as liberators. Trust me."
The catharsis continues. next week, Cheney!
"3rd String Linebacker says: So who's this guy?" 2nd String Guard: I think he won the Vietnam War of somethin'. My older brother says when he was at UT he used to get shit-faced with his daughter. She's a awesome party-er.
Yea! A third rate president speaks to a second rate football team. He must be having as much trouble finding work as his former AG Albert Gonzales. Don't you think the most inspirational part of the W's speech was when explained how Jeezu told he it was OK to torturer the evil doers?
BUSH
Nice sermon Jesus. But you're wasting your breath. "Christians" never really listen to you or follow your examples anyway.
JESUS, stay classy
one of them fo sho'
Best thread ever?
That "win one for Yom Kippur" was sarcasm, right? 'Cause it's a totally believable quote from that dude.
Similar to what I posted over on the Jim and Sandra's love affair thread, you could title a thread simply "Bush" and nothing else, and the crazies will filter in to rant idiotic about Bush. I swear, do some people have nothing at all to do all day but troll websites looking for keys words, such as "Bush" so they can start their crazy rants about nothing in particular?
Since the Woodstock anniversary? Where ya been OP?
Has anyone noticed that things in the commentsphere have been a bit weird following the Woodstock anniversary?
And the Lord said thy bacon will sizzle as the fat turns to liquid and Religion shall drink the grease and forever live in a Bush. He will loosen his buttcheeks long enough to allow Stan Ridgeway and Lou Dobbs to chuckle monkey him into XTC. Oh, says the bacon sizzle, napalm, inbalm, it'a all calm up my buttcheeks. Now go ye forward with my love grease up your booo tocks and spread my C-man among the Bushes. The young and the dumb, and the old and the gilded.
"this coach won in Hawaii, I'm sure he can be successful in this country"
Aww, don't delete it - any comment that includes gems like "to fucking dumb to know better and to full of myself" and "rape and mame" (an off-Broadway version, I assume) needs to be preserved for posterity.
What happens when you try to delete a comment from Jesus? Oh, and RoB, this one's for you: http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2007/04/yup_i_was_a_cheerleader_damned.php
So who's this guy?
When I tried to access the infamous Wilonsky-as-cheerleader photo, it was blocked by our IT department's content filter, which classified it as "pornography." I never thought I'd see the day when I would thank the content filter for protecting me. We now return you to our regularly scheduled Bush-hating, already in progress.
Hey watch me destroy this school like I did the United States of America. I did so much to improve the quality of life in the USA. Just ask those fellas coming home in body bags what I did for them. Ask the kids, the parents, the spouses. Look at all the jobs I created for Black Water and Halliburton, so they could go rape and mame teenagers in Iraq. Think about the hundreds of billions that I wasted because I'm to fucking dumb to know better and to full of myself to ask for help. Look how I am wasting the taxpayers money now by forcing you to pay for my safety, while at the same time putting the entire city at risk for the massive war crimes I have committed. See my bubble, that is sponsored by the good people of Dallas who allow me to live here and can convince me they love me. Forgive me Lord, for I have sinned, against humanity for oil.