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What would you do if you were walking down the street one day, and Bush walked over to you, with tears in his eyes, threw his arms around you, sobbed, and then got down on his knees and began kissing your feet, begging for forgiveness, and said, "I shall hereby resign the Presidency for which I was popularly elected. God have mercy on my poor excuse for a soul. Please, I hope you can find it in your heart to forgive me."

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Wow, give me some time to think about THAT!

I would assume he was lying, and trying to get something from me in an underhanded manner.

Always trust your realpolitik sense

What would you do if you were walking down the street one day, and Bush walked over to you, with tears in his eyes, threw his arms around you, sobbed, and then got down on his knees and began kissing your feet, begging for forgiveness, and said, "I shall hereby resign the Presidency for which I was popularly elected. God have mercy on my poor excuse for a soul. Please, I hope you can find it in your heart to forgive me."

I would laugh until it hurt, then I would make him come and get drunk with me. (nothing like knocking someone off the wagon!!!)

I'd tell him " ensure the death of Justice Rehnquist, and you are forgiven"

I would laugh until it hurt, then I would make him come and get drunk with me. (nothing like knocking someone off the wagon!!!)
that would work too. besides, if anyone knows where to score some good coke, its gotta be dubya

I'd tell him " ensure the death of Justice Rehnquist, and you are forgiven"

And then, what if he kissed your feet, and said, "Anything. ANYTHING!!! Anything, for your forgiveness!"

I'd tell him " ensure the death of Justice Rehnquist, and you are forgiven"
He's one step ahead of you, he planted thyroid cancer in Rehnquist's pepperoni pizza.

What would you do if you were walking down the street one day, and Bush walked over to you, with tears in his eyes, threw his arms around you, sobbed, and then got down on his knees and began kissing your feet, begging for forgiveness, and said, "I shall hereby resign the Presidency for which I was popularly elected. God have mercy on my poor excuse for a soul. Please, I hope you can find it in your heart to forgive me."

It's 'bout damn time!

He's one step ahead of you, he planted thyroid cancer in Rehnquist's pepperoni pizza.
then I buy him a beer. Good Dubya.

What would you do if you were walking down the street one day, and Bush walked over to you, with tears in his eyes, threw his arms around you, sobbed, and then got down on his knees and began kissing your feet, begging for forgiveness, and said, "I shall hereby resign the Presidency for which I was popularly elected. God have mercy on my poor excuse for a soul. Please, I hope you can find it in your heart to forgive me."

I would pity him for finding it neccessary to aploplogise to some total stranger on the street. Why do you need the whole complex, impossible scenario? Why not just say 'what would you do if Bush apologised to the world and resigned?' which is marginally more likely.

I'd chop his head off and sell it on Ebay and become a world hero, having a worldwide holiday named after me and spontaneous festivities break out all over the globe (except in the US of course) and the pope would declare me holy.

What would you do if you were walking down the street one day, and Bush walked over to you, with tears in his eyes, threw his arms around you, sobbed, and then got down on his knees and began kissing your feet, begging for forgiveness, and said, "I shall hereby resign the Presidency for which I was popularly elected. God have mercy on my poor excuse for a soul. Please, I hope you can find it in your heart to forgive me."

I'd ask someone to take my photo...You know, smiling, thumbs up á la Abu ghraib.
Then I'd yell at him for leaving Cheney in charge.

I'd ask someone to take my photo...You know, smiling, thumbs up á la Abu ghraib.
Then I'd yell at him for leaving Cheney in charge.
ooh...he left Cheney in Charge...damn...Bad Dubya!

Ein Deutscher']I'd chop his head off and sell it on Ebay and become a world hero, having a worldwide holiday named after me and spontaneous festivities break out all over the globe (except in the US of course) and the pope would declare me holy.
The Catholic church abhors bloodshed. The Pope would send the spirits of 20 million aborted babies to bother you in your sleep.

The Catholic church abhors bloodshed. The Pope would send the spirits of 20 million aborted babies to bother you in your sleep.
For the greater good, this little sacrifice is ok. It's for god.

To answer the initial question, I'd tell him to stop telling me about it and actually do it.

Ein Deutscher']For the greater good, this little sacrifice is ok. It's for god.
God doesn't take blood sacrifices anymore.

God doesn't take blood sacrifices anymore.
In the case of satanist murderers in disguise as American presidents who go around massmurdering people, I think god would make an exception. And if not, I'll repent and be pardoned.

Immeadiately rush to the nearest svt studio, and make him say it on camera before he changed his mind.

It depends whether or not he really IS sorry, has realised exactly where he has gone wrong and will make the necessary steps to pull troops out of Iraq at this point, leave things be, ignore his plans to start pressuring Russia, Iran etc., and leave everything in good repair.

It's no use just saying "I'll resign." For example, I had a neighbour I didn't like, who then moved out - which was good, but they left all of their rubbish they weren't taking in the alleyway to rot and smell, and left the whole place in disrepair, which meant it took ages to get to any acceptable level and was almost as bad as them being there in the first place. Bush, like the neighbour should have, would have to clean up his mess as best he could.

What would you do if you were walking down the street one day, and Bush walked over to you, with tears in his eyes, threw his arms around you, sobbed, and then got down on his knees and began kissing your feet, begging for forgiveness, and said, "I shall hereby resign the Presidency for which I was popularly elected. God have mercy on my poor excuse for a soul. Please, I hope you can find it in your heart to forgive me."

"You're lying, George, but feel free to prove me wrong on this."

Granted I realise that most of the replies are jokes ( very funny most of them also), I decided to react to thuis question seriously.
now, I can't recall ever agreeing on any of Bush's policies (the patriot act? seriously, for a country that constantly goes on about freedom and liberty most Americans accepted that without question).
However, he is a person, a life. A concious being who is worthy of respect (not for his policies, just I think every human (within reason) is worthy of some respect.)
I think Bush genuinely believes that what he is doing is right. Now, if he said he was sorry, then I presume he's seen the error of his ways, so then, yeah, I suppose i'd forgive him, but he would still have to make up for his wrongs.
(like maybe giving Palistine back and pretty much ending most of U.S foreign policy).
So any, rant........over.

I'd tell him " ensure the death of Justice Rehnquist, and you are forgiven"

What a waste. He's as good as dead as it is. Ask for the head of Antonin.

Granted I realise that most of the replies are jokes ( very funny most of them also), I decided to react to thuis question seriously.
now, I can't recall ever agreeing on any of Bush's policies (the patriot act? seriously, for a country that constantly goes on about freedom and liberty most Americans accepted that without question).
However, he is a person, a life. A concious being who is worthy of respect (not for his policies, just I think every human (within reason) is worthy of some respect.)
I think Bush genuinely believes that what he is doing is right. Now, if he said he was sorry, then I presume he's seen the error of his ways, so then, yeah, I suppose i'd forgive him, but he would still have to make up for his wrongs.
(like maybe giving Palistine back and pretty much ending most of U.S foreign policy). So any, rant........over.

Ooh, I like your first post. Very reasonable. Yes, I too would forgive him but make him work to undo whatever damage he had done earlier in life.

Perhaps the most agreeable way for him to do this is to be non-political. Rather than insisting my way is "right" and his was "wrong"; I'd simply ask him to work with those displaced by his actions, working with those innocent victims of warfare, orphans the injured, people across the world. I'd ask him to be the next Florence Nightengale/Mother...er..."Father" Teresa.

Do good work for the most downtrodden and helpless of humanity for 20 years, then come back and I will consider almost anyone forgiven.

Bob, as always, has the answer. You put him up in front of a camera and let him tell it to the world:

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Bob, as always, has the answer. You put him up in front of a camera and let him tell it to the world:

http://angryflower.com/smarti.gif
Now that would be something to celebrate over :)

He's one step ahead of you, he planted thyroid cancer in Rehnquist's pepperoni pizza.

Thyroid cancer is not serious. My mother had it, it required surgery, and now she is a little bit more tired, but nothing her pep pills cant fix! But seriously, if you are to get a cancer, you will want that one.

What would you do if you were walking down the street one day, and Bush walked over to you, with tears in his eyes, threw his arms around you, sobbed, and then got down on his knees and began kissing your feet, begging for forgiveness, and said, "I shall hereby resign the Presidency for which I was popularly elected. God have mercy on my poor excuse for a soul. Please, I hope you can find it in your heart to forgive me."

I'm an American... But I love a setup like this :D

Well... where to begin... I'd have to see him:
1: stop the BS in Iraq. Stop being so overconfident and deal with the situation
2: lay off the "Homeland Security" BS AKA "Alien and Sedition act of the 21st century"/"1984 act of 2001" :rolleyes:
3: learn to pronounce "Putin", "Nuclear", etc
4: Admit that "Compassionate Conservatism" is essentially Liberalism
5: Lay off teh uber-right wing religion thing, it's not very becoming
6: figure out that alliances are a good thing usually, and pissing off teh UN is not a good way to keep national soverignty. I mean, in NS, would you have done the same thing W did?
7: recognize that GOP=/=GOD and UBL=/=Sadam, no matter how hard you try re-arranging the letters :headbang:

Now, please don't flame me as a Democrat, as my political compass is
L/R: 0
Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.25
and Democrats are too economicly authoritarian for me anyway.

Long live the Social Revolution, may it come quickly and bonk people who stand in our way in the heads with inflatable squeeky-hammers

Know what I'd say to him? I'd tell him to stay in office, and to do everything within his power to fix the mess that he left behind.

Then I'd forgive him.

Unless with can forgive those who have harmed us the most, we will never attain that precious ideal set out by one Jesus of Nazareth, almost 2000 years ago.

Release him naked into the wild, where he could join a tribe of wild chimpanzees. And if he tried to be in charge there as well, then I'd shoot him.

What would you do if you were walking down the street one day, and Bush walked over to you, with tears in his eyes, threw his arms around you, sobbed, and then got down on his knees and began kissing your feet, begging for forgiveness, and said, "I shall hereby resign the Presidency for which I was popularly elected. God have mercy on my poor excuse for a soul. Please, I hope you can find it in your heart to forgive me."

I'd say "Never mind Dubbya, other than Iraq (and possibly Florida) you've been a pretty good president. Go grab some beer and a few joints and I'll fire up the BBQ."