Want to bet he pronounced it "came-us?"
Al-bert Came-us.
I would have thought that No Exit by Sartre would have been a little more apropos.
How Kafkaesque.
Yeah, but he's come a long way since My Pet Goat.
Yeah, but he's come a long way since My Pet Goat.
he's moved onto the books without the pictures.
They want to imply the idiot is an intellectual because he managed to properly read Albert Camus said that 'freedom is a long-distance race.' ? How friggin' smart do you have to be to read a quote that a speechwriter wrote down on the paper in front of you?
He's what, fifty eight- sixty fucking years old and he's just getting around to reading "The Stranger". I can see that if he's just some ignorant yokel...... Oh, yeah. Never mind.
Wow. It looks like there's been a mistake.
OK, enough is fucking enough.
And like tomorrow I'm sure the drunk chimp will offer his refinements to General Relativity.
Jesus fucking christ. Is there ANY LIMIT to the brazen and craven cynical BULLSHIT of this ENDLESS BULLSHIT MACHINE.
Despite all my ranting verbiage, I'm speechless. Camus? CAMUS? And BUSH?
What the fuck true artists are these assholes beyond desecrating with their lie machine in propping up this shallow bizarre horrific braindead mass murdering little prick. Even Goebbels could not have imagined such brazenness.
The Plague is what chimpy needs to be locked in a cell in the hague with, as he awaits execution in the name of all decent people of the world
*can't stand any more*
I'd bet large sums of money it was the readers digest abridged version....
How friggin' smart do you have to be to read a quote that a speechwriter wrote down on the paper in front of you?
That's only the tip of the iceberg.
Camus's character, while sounding resolute and tireless about pursuing freedom, making it seem daunting and thankless, but the mark of a true human being, is really prattling on about freedom, intimidating people with it, using it for purposes of self-interest - but does not at all believe in it. The grand-sounding phrase about freedom being a "long-distance race" is just another piece of flimflam.
I bet he enjoyed having Condi and Laura reading him his bedtime story.
Of course it was quick. There weren't any pretty pictures to look at.
The irony of the main character killing an Arab (sic - nod to the Cure) for no good reason is just a little much.
I would have thought The Plague would have been more appropriate.
What? Not "The Minotaur?" It's much shorter. And it has Arabs in it, too!
The price you pay for bearing the burden of your own freedom is accepting the responsibility for your actions. Life has meaning only to the extent that you do something that is meaningful, to yourself or to others, with it. I'm sure there are many Israelis who consider killing Arabs time well spent. But they lack the commitment of suicide bombers.
What would Camus make of the fact that his name is now used chiefly to sell a popular but very pricey brand of cognac?
OT: watertiger, have you considered responding to this challenge?
I think your style would go over huge. Please, consider it.
Soon he will be dancing to The Cure and hostin raves at the "ranch" in Crawford.
Possibly George will learn to take an existential view of the killing of Arabs. Perhaps he can learn to lose his sense of guilt over senseless Arab deaths.
Oh, nevermind...
At lease we can hope that "each successive shot [is] another loud, fateful rap on the door of [his] undoing."
Scott~ fingers crossed.
I'd bet large sums of money it was the readers digest abridged version....
I'd bet large sums of money that it's an out-and-out lie, that he hasn't read a page from it. And I would give odds.
I find the idea of someone with Bush's academic and emotional immaturity reading existentialism while wielding the levers of the most powerful position in the world... chilling. There is every reason to expect the experience to further cripple his wisdoming.
Big deal. So he "read" The Stranger. It doesn't mean he UNDERSTOOD a single word of it. If some member of the press corps had the stones to ask Bush about the book at the next press conference, I'd bet anything we'd get Bush's usual deer in the headlights look.
What on earth makes anyone believe that GWB reads any books at all. Just because he makes a short quote doesn't mean that HE read the book. The WH puts out a list of books that they say GWB is reading,why do you(collective) believe it, because the WH says it doesn't make it true. Here you have a prez who has said many times in the past that he doesn't read books(and he was proud of that), he never reads the position papers his staff prepares(why does he have a staff, if he never looks at what they give him?) He only wants bullet point briefings. He reads speeches that other people write for him, and the MSM praises his knowledge. Why, why does anyone believe that he reads these books? A short baseball book I might believe, but anything else, just slick PR and spin from the repigs. Now if they said it was his wife who was reading these books, that I might believe, but him. No way. Remember that despite all the briefing material provided him, one month before the start of the Iraq war he had no idea what Suni & Shia ment, he really thought that they were muslim, and had no idea what Islam was. And you think that he reads, the bush spin machine scores again
wow! He read a book! I'm amazed!
(he was probably mouthing the words the whole time)
Bush didn't quote Camus. His speechwriter quoted Camus, and Bush simply read that line on the teleprompter.
Think he understood it any more than he does Global Warming, the Social Security problems, the Middle East, or the current status of the U.S. ground forces?
You'll know an ant is crawling across his teleprompter when he reads an extra comma into the normal four-word sentences of his speech.
Oh, look. Bush "reads" a book, and it makes news. You know, I bet he really identifies with Meursault, who feels no remorse for killing an Arab.
Yep. I read that there Camus book. Didn't make much sense to me, but I guess you can't expect a killer whale to make a lot of sense. It's just amazing that he was able to write it at all. It must be hard to write with flippers, especially under water. I bet a lot of the pages just fall apart as he's writing.
Phredd,
Hey, nice! I'll definitely look into it!
What do you bet he read it after hearing Beinart call Islam an "existentialist threat?"
"What does that mean? Jenna, look that up on the internets for me."
Does anyone really think Bush read this?
Whoever wrote the 2:20 post (I know it wasn't the real GWB - not enough misspellings) - nice touch about the killer whale. Still chuckling.
In my heart, I know he called him Canoe. I just know it.
Regards,
shark babe:
would that be "Plague in the Hague", an introduction to existentialism by Dr. Seuss?
Good God! Are we supposed to give him extra points for doing something now there is no excuse for his not having done 40 years ago?
There are limits of the extent to which one can continue to accommodate the standard of low expectations.
The man is the waste of an opposable thumb. Almost any chimp could have made better use of it and the pampered life of opportunity bestowed on this bit of rich white trash.
Again I say, "Save America. Spay the Twins." The spread of this gene pool spells disaster.
This is one strange news item. If Tony's miracle objective is to make this president appear more worldly, he hasn't got a hope in hell of it working. The emperor has had no brain for too long.
(And does anybody believe Bush is interested in the writings of any French intellectual?)
Maybe this has to do with the shit he's going to have to eat now that the announcement's been made that the 15,000 member peacekeeping force going to Lebanon is largely French.
I didn't read the book till I was a senior. Of course that was in French class. I never did read L'Etranger in English.
"I would have thought that No Exit by Sartre would have been a little more apropos."
Heh. La Peste, je pense.
I hope little boots isn't too worn out from moving his lips the whole way through the book.
The next Bush press conference should be epic. I can just imagine Helen and the rest of the regulars quizzing him on Chimpy's XLNT Adventure w/ "Came-us."
Read? He can't. He listened to the CD version.
Hell, in high shchool I had to read it in it's original French.
But here is yet more evidence that he reads without comprehension, if you believe that he reads at all, which I absolutely do NOT: http://tinyurl.com/ptl2m
How embarrassing....but then that is what this cabal hood ornament (Chimpy-in-the-flesh) is all about: embarrassing himself and his country with every utterance, but too ignorant and stupid to have any awareness of it.
The emperor has not clothes indeed.
Impressive. The Stranger. An epic. One Sunday afternoon when I was about 15 and stranded at my grandparents' house for a few hours, I read that book. I guess I made pretty quick work of it as well.
Bush reading Camus? About as believable as Cheetah quoting Shakespeare from memory. Who believes this bushit? I could accept the sequel to My Pet Goat, sure, but The Idiot Preznit and his minions cannot convince me this retard even reads let alone Camus.
now, now, let's not discourage him. I would like to suggest the third book GWB should read is called "FUBAR - Americas Right-wing Nightmare" by Sam Seder.
"Well, I finished it, and the title is totally wrong -- nobody got strangled."
Where is Laura Bush ?
Don't see her around much anymore.
Is she on vacation too.
I would've recommended he read "The Guns of August" by Barbara Tuchman. There's a book no person should be allowed into the presidency without reading first. Let's make it a rule from here on out.
Also on the must-read list: "The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power" by Daniel Yergin.
It took him 10 days because he lost at least a half hour each day watching "Blues Clues"
And he still can't figure out which one is Joe and which one is Steve.
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