Notable quotable

Bush on Kyoto, on his way out the door 5

“I listened, I’ve told people, ‘Yes, you can try to be popular.’ In certain quarters in Europe, you can be popular by blaming every Middle Eastern problem on Israel. Or you can be popular by joining the International Criminal Court. I guess I could have been popular by accepting Kyoto, which I felt was a flawed treaty, and proposed something different and more constructive.”

—President George W. Bush at his final press conference

Katharine Wroth is a senior editor at Grist.

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  1. Sean Casten's avatar

    Sean Casten Posted 12:05 pm
    12 Jan 2009

    A parting malapropismI could have been popular by accepting Kyoto, which I felt was a flawed treaty, and proposed something different and more constructive
    And?
  2. Trebuchet Posted 12:21 pm
    12 Jan 2009

    another bushismeven when he's trying to insult something, he makes no sense.
    8 days left.
  3. Pompey Road Posted 12:44 pm
    12 Jan 2009

    Also a flawed EPA:I guess Georges midnight reg changes to EPA and the clean water act was because they were flawed also.
    Allowing coal corporations to destroy the Appalachian Mountains excuse me improve the appalachian mountains. Evidently he sees a mountain and a valley and a fresh water stream as flawed in their natural state.
    He feels the need to flatten them, fill them up level and cover them up.
    His legacy will live on in Appalachia, well not exactly live! Dead mountains, dead valleys, dead streams or as George calls them new and improved clean coal projects.

    The eons of time and nature was good to us down here. It was not until we become civilized that destroying our habitat become fathomable or fashionable.
  4. stevenearlsalmony Posted 7:49 pm
    12 Jan 2009

    A haiku..............

    ........   Truth was his doormat.
       The 'liberated' threw dirty soles
                  at his head.
  5. naught101 Posted 8:51 pm
    12 Jan 2009

    Bush think people want change?I like the fact that Bush thinks joining kyoto would be popular. Sometimes it doesn't feel like that's true, but considering the human ideology-shields he has around him, it's nice to know that more than 50% is getting through...

    check out http://www.envirowiki.info, the knowledge database for environmentalists and activists.

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