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Category: Humor • Politics
Posted on: September 30, 2007 12:45 PM, by Orac
Here's another item I saw at the local Barnes & Noble last night. I almost bought this calendar, so amused was I by it. In retrospect, maybe I should have bought it.
I don't recall ever seeing a calendar like this before. Not for Bill Clinton, and not for Ronald Reagan. It's a testament to just how badly our current President has screwed up. It even includes a page for the first 20 days of 2009, right up to the very end.
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Well, a more accurate explanation is on how controversial our current leader is.
Posted by: Artistradio | September 30, 2007 1:28 PM
I wants it.
Posted by: Adrienne | September 30, 2007 1:41 PM
I remember similar things during Nixon's second term.
Posted by: John McKay | September 30, 2007 1:49 PM
The downside is that you have to look at Bush and read his stupidities the whole day....
Posted by: Clare | September 30, 2007 2:16 PM
After first reading "Yes, the end is near" as "Yes, the near is end", I actually thought that would have made a better title.
Posted by: daenku32 | September 30, 2007 2:32 PM
My wife actually bought this for me as a gift for my birthday... I got a good chuckle over it.
Posted by: cfeagans | September 30, 2007 3:00 PM
It's for sale over here in the UK as well, very tempted as a present for my Mum this Christmas
Posted by: Jane | September 30, 2007 3:27 PM
My sister got that for me for xmas last year, knowing what a passionate leftie I am. I was in a particularly humorless state of mind about the man and had to fake chuckle when I received it. I just wanted to vomit. It's grown on me over time and now I pull it out whenever I want to taunt my Republican co-workers.
Posted by: chines | September 30, 2007 3:41 PM
Yeah, I'd prefer a more positive one, without the focus on (and presence of) Bush himself.
I'd rather his exit be implied.
Posted by: Jon H | September 30, 2007 5:08 PM
They definitely had these for Clinton. My crazy uncle had one.
Posted by: JP | September 30, 2007 5:53 PM
I got one of these from my brother for christmas last year too. And I live in Australia.
Posted by: kate | September 30, 2007 11:01 PM
Obviously the result of somebody finally noticing that many of the more-money-than-sense crowd have such a fanatical hatred of our current president that they're suckers for anything that mocks him, whether it's deserved or not. And as everyone knows, it's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his/her/its money.
And it's pleasantly ironic that the calendar's entrepreneurial, capitalistic creator is getting rich off socialist sheep.
Posted by: wolfwalker | October 1, 2007 8:50 AM
There was a poll shortly after the election that asked if what the respondents wanted Bush to do. The response that won was 'to just be quiet and go away.'
Posted by: Prup aka Jim Benton | October 1, 2007 11:29 AM
>> I'd rather his exit be implied.
I'd rather it be trumpeted from on high, but hey, can't win 'em all, I guess.
I like this T-shirt, though...
Posted by: AtheistAcolyte | October 1, 2007 1:01 PM
$10 says the next prez is worse...
*sigh*
Posted by: factician | October 1, 2007 2:35 PM
wolfwalker is probably upset that 70% of Americans are socialists.
Posted by: daenku32 | October 1, 2007 2:43 PM
Why would anyone want pictures og GW on their calendar?
Is this some disease affecting USAians?
Posted by: Chris' Wills | October 1, 2007 3:00 PM
If they sold a Bush countdown calendar with the countdown and pictures of bikini models and daleks, instead of Bush pictures and quotes, they'd have a total hit.
Posted by: Jon H | October 2, 2007 10:43 AM
Orac:
We have this calendar in our office. The assistant has placed it so that I can see Bush from my desk as I look into the other office. It's horrifying. Really. Who wants to see Bush whenever they look up from their desk 50 times a day? August was particularly brutal -- long month -- giant Bush head staring at me. I need a vacation.
Posted by: Ange | October 2, 2007 12:33 PM