A Reporter's View On Our Disrespect Of President George W. Bush's Presidency

 

Same as it ever was...

"I would like to apologize for referring to George W. Bush as a "deserter." What I meant to say is that George W. Bush is a deserter, an election thief, a drunk driver, a WMD liar and a functional illiterate."
Michael Moore

"Bush's actions remind me of Herman Goering's quote during the Nuremberg Trials, where he stated: '...it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship.'"  
Barbra Streisand

This President invaded a sovereign nation in defiance of the UN. He is basically a war criminal. Honestly. He should be tried at The Hague.
Rosie O'donnell 

"While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors, he is a moral coward,"
Al Gore

"George W. Bush is evil. He is a terrorist. He is evil. He is arrogant. And he is out of control."
Julianne Malveaux - USA Today columnist
 

“I despise him [President George W. Bush]. I despise his administration and everyObama’sthing they stand for....To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man’s leadership....There has to be a movement now to really oppose what he is proposing because it’s unconstitutional, it’s immoral and basically illegal....It is an embarrassing time to be an American. It really is. It’s humiliating.”
Jessica Lange 

"As we have learned in the past weeks, we cannot trust George W. Bush,"
Barbra Streisand

"George W Bush is like aObama’s bad comic working the crowd, a moron, if you'll pardon the expression,"
Martin Sheen

"Just so you know, we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas,"
Natalie Maines- Dixie Chicks

"There's nothing you could point to in the Bush Administration with pride, Nothing. There is no way any rational, reasonable person can say that the Bush Administration has been good for America."
Janeane Garofalo 

"I am more patriotic than this president we have, who I consider a traitor of human and American principles.”
Sean Penn

"In two short years, George W. Bush has taught us what the 'W' stands for -- wrong. Wrong for our children, wrong for our parents, wrong for our values. Wrong, wrong, wrong for America."
John Edwards

"We stand a chance of getting a president who has probably killed more people before he gets into office than any president in the history of the United States."
Susan Sarandon 

"Bush wasn't elected, he was selected— selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines,"
Alec Baldwin
 

"he sounds more like a gang leader in South-Central L.A. than one that is trying to institute a policy of democracy and reconstruction in the world."
Al Sharpton

"President Bush is pushing the wrong buttons when he says, 'Those who are not with us, are against us,' " Soros said. "This is an imperialist vision in which the U.S. leads and the rest of the world follows."
George Soros

"shout a little louder if you want the president impeached."
Bruce Springsteen 

"This is a racist and imperialist war. The warmongers who stole the White House (you call them "hawks", but I would never disparage such a fine bird) have hijacked a nation's grief and turned it into a perpetual war on any non-white country they choose to describe as terrorist."
Woody Harrelson 

"I'm both pro-Kerry and anti-Bush. More anti-Bush."
Howard Stern

"To start with, anti-Castro groups were vital in implementing the dirty business of the butterfly ballots ensuring Bush's victory at the 2000 elections,"
Oliver Stone

"The difference between Martin Sheen and George W. Bush is Martin Sheen is actually convincing when he acts like he's president."
Paul Begala

“Who gave George Bush the duty to free people around the world?”
Mike Wallace

"George Bush doesn't care about black people,"
Kanye West

"We all need to take a deep breath and think about being a Bush daughter and having that cross to bear. I'd go out and have a couple of drinks too,"
Julia Roberts

"The war on terrorism is terrorism."
Woody Harrelson

This was about oil. It wasn’t about human rights. It’s not about human rights....It is the Bush/Cheney cartel’s fault....Team Bush is more radically corrupt than Richard Nixon ever tried to be....It is, in fact, a conspiracy of the 43rd Reich.”
Janeane Garofalo 

"I think George Bush is such an embarrassment to America in the way that he doesn't take the rest of the world into consideration."
Gwyneth Paltrow

"He is supposed to be America's president, but he's not my president, I didn't vote for him,"
Carlos Santana

"I never saw a clearer choice in my life," Baldwin said, describing the Bush administration as being "good at only two things: the economy — and by that I mean stimulating the Dow, stimulating corporate profits and the Dow — and waging war. And they basically screwed up both of them, or they're in the process of screwing up both of them."
Alec Baldwin 

"This week President Bush implemented a military tribunal ... which will make it easier for us to execute (people)."
Danny Glover

"It's your money, says President Bush when he promotes tax cuts. I disagree with his tax policy but admire his spin."
Bill Clinton

“Bush stole the elections and since then we have all been suffering the consequences,”
Jessica Lange
 
"I wasn't raised in George Bush's America, and I wouldn't be comfortable in it."
Richard Dreyfuss

“Bush says you’re either with us or against us. I don’t know who ‘us’ is. I say to Mr. Bush—this is what democracy looks like. We will not give our daughters and sons for a war for oil.”
Susan Sarandon

President Bush is "a dull and rigid man ... whose philosophy is a jumble of badly sutured body parts trying to walk," who is running for president on a platform of tragedy.
Garrison Keillor
 
The world would be completely different today had Bush not stolen the elections from Gore. Bush is only adding more fuel to the fire. He is a slave and the puppet of the large weapons and oil companies which put him into office."
Oliver Stone

"I never made that statement, but you can tell Gov. Bush to rest assured that I'm not going to leave the country because we have to get him out of office and we have to get his brother out of office in 2004. We're not resting until we get that done."
Alec Baldwin 

President George Bush “is just dim,"
George Clooney

"I don't think that (U.S. President) George Bush...is a man of honor,"
Harry Belafonte 

 "What did Bush do on 9/11? He ran away and hid.
George Clooney

"[If] a black is a tyrant, he is first and foremost a tyrant, then he incidentally is black. Bush is a tyrant and if he gathers around him black tyrants, they all have to be treated as they are being treated," he added
Harry Belafonte

"I don't like Bush," she said. "I don't trust him. I don't like his record. He's stupid. He's lazy."
Cher 

"We live in a time with ficticious election results that elect fictious presidents. We live in a time when we have a man sending us to war for fictious reasons. We are against this war Mr. Bush. Shame on you. Shame on you!"
Michael Moore

"This guy is as bright as an egg-timer,"
Chevy Chase

"The America we believe in can't survive another four years of George Bush"
Moby

Reagan was a B-movie actor, but at least he had the ability to touch certain emotional notes. Bush is just utterly incapable of it."
Ed Norton

"There are people dying and (the U.S. government is) not putting the boats in the water. I think that's criminal negligence. I don't think anybody ever anticipated the criminal negligence of the Bush administration in this situation."
Sean Penn

“Being a man, I’ve got to say that we’ve got this guy in the White House who thinks he is a man, you know, who projects himself as a man because he has a certain masculinity, and he’s a good old boy, and he used to drink, and he knows how to shoot a gun and how to drive a pickup truck, et cetera, like that. That’s not the definition of a man, God dammit!”
Ed Harris