Bush surprises journalists with song at dinner

[RamboLiberal]

Source: MSNBC/AP

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Bush surprised the white-tie audience of more than 600, including Supreme Court justices, Cabinet members and lawmakers, by appearing as the final act of the club's annual revue. To the tune of "Green Green Grass of Home," he sang about looking forward to his return to Texas.

"As I step down from the plane and there to meet me is my mama and my papa, down the lane I look and here comes Barney, heart of gold and breath like honey," the president warbled.

The audience was surprised by Bush's appearance and rose to applaud his attempt at singing.

"Yes, you're gonna miss me, the way you used to quiz me," he sang to the reporters. "It's good to touch the brown brown grass of home."

Bush has spoken at the Gridiron Club dinner before, but this was the first time he sang, donning a cowboy hat and joining the chorus to say farewell.


Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23541492/

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Hope there's film. Wish it was January 19th and this was his final swan song!

[stellanoir]

1. So now he's an advocate for global warming. . .?

As if we didn't know.

[lligrd]

2. I've Got One Thing To Say

:puke:

[sakabatou]

45. How many ears bled?

[superconnected]

3. Interesting they said an "attempt" at singing.

Either way, Love that he's singing goodbye. Beats anything else he's done the last 8 years.

[Solly Mack]

4. How sweet. Applauding the comic antics of a war criminal.

Sickeningly sweet.

[Supersedeas]

42. it's all just fun and games for the cocktail crowd in the Beltway

[snooper2]

44. Exactly...

ding ding...got to get invited to those swanky parties you know..

[Mithreal]

5. Crime pays

Can't see why he wouldn't sing. It will soon be all over for him and he can snuggle up with his family's millions and forget the nightmare he caused.

Bush sang while millions lost their homes, hundreds of thousands died, trillions of future dollars were wasted and the nation cried.

His legacy is death, despair, and destruction.

Why not sing and dance?

[RamboLiberal]

6. If you want to read more bad jokes

This is the first of all press reports, and a full Swamp there's-got-to-be-a-morning-after account from the supposedly "off-the-record," rollicking annual dinner of the Gridiron Club - President George W. Bush's last hurrah - in which the president, donning a tan cowboy hat with white-tie tuxedo, serenaded the full establishment press and govermental hierarchy of Washington on Saturday night with an off-tune but spot-on Texas-waltz rendition of "The Brown, Brown Grass of Home."

"Yes, you're all going to miss me, the way you used to quiz me," Bush sang, "but soon I'll touch the brown, brown grass of home."

Not only the president, but also most of his Cabinet and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff turned out for a dinner that ran well over four hours and featured Bush's fellow Texan, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, predicting this is going to be a great year for the Republicans, and why wouldn't it be - they "started outreach many, many months ago, in the airport men's room."

Barack Obama was not here - Gridiron President Carl Leubsdorf joked that he was too busy "memorizing Gov. Deval Patrick's inaugural address." But Sen. John Kerry and wife Teresa were. Bush sat at the head table, and Karl Rove, private citizen, sat near the stage on the other side of the hall.

They made a lot of fun of the presidential campaign underway.

http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/03/bushs_texas_farewellbrown_brow.html

[QUALAR]

7. COME ON JANUARY 19TH

He has thousands more to kill before he sleeps.

[frog92969]

8. The green, green grass of Paraguay ?

We should follow that SOB to the ends of the Earth if it comes to that!

Arrest the criminal!

[bdamomma]

35. if we don't follow him, someone else will, but then again

he will have his own blackwater protecting his a$$.

[frog92969]

40. We have ways

of getting around those little details when intelligence is allowed to be used.

[dhill926]

9. just fucking leave already.....n/t

[Adsos Letter]

10. !

This guy is about as out of touch with America as Hitler was in his bunker in 1945... :(

[woundedkarma]

11. A fool playing the fool...

What is up with this guy's desire to entertain people all of the sudden? If it were any other president, the country would be calling for psychiatric examinations and asking where is the dignity of the office of the President of the United States?

I can only think that he knows very well where he's going to end up come the end of his term, jail. Or at the very least, some sort of personal estate he's not allowed to leave. He obviously needs the vacation, that's for sure.

Lastly, he reminds me of my nephew, who, no matter how serious a situation, would also be out there tap dancing and singing. Believe me, my nephew is great but I would NOT want him in the white house.

[thunder rising]

12. That MF is going to be one well fed asshole. All he has to do is stand in one spot to collect dairy

and vegetable products. And this will never stop.

I am going to love the fact that he will no longer have 30 miles of "no-fly" around him. Crawford, here I come.

While we're at it can we get rid of Disney's no-fly zone? It was given to them for patronage and it really interferes with travel around Florida.

[Aviation Pro]

20. Oh you mean you don't like.....

....going north of LEE, slipping under the Class B airspace and popping out of the other side as you head toward PIE or TPA? At five bucks a gallon for Avgas or Jet-A, neither do I.

[yy4me]

13. Such a man! He sings, he dances, he is whitty! Oh the joy---

Too bad the man is the worst President ever, an evil that hangs over the world like a veil.

If he was competent, we might think this was funny but since he is on the verge of insanity, is there any other conclusion as to his state of mind? The only word I can think of is "nuts"

[Amonester]

24. AND he searches WMDs under his chair!!

He also eats birthday cakes while thousands die because he lied to feed his buddies in the war machine and stole the money that was needed for the levees...

That's how much funny he is (to his laughing out loud sycophants) /grr

[LeftishBrit]

14. Interesting choice...

given that the song is actually about someone in prison awaiting execution!

Perhaps all the executions he approved in Texas are finally haunting his conscience. Or more likely he is just too thick to realize what the song is about!

[Frank Cannon]

16. That was my first thought

Given what the original song is actually about, he is either a master of irony or a totally clueless fuckwit.

[susu369]

19. Personally, I would go with

"totally clueless fuckwit"

[superconnected]

28. I din't know that! Thanks for pointing it out!

[Demeter]

29. And Heinlein Is Rolling In His Grave

He used that song in one of the most moving short stories science fiction ever knew.

[appleannie1]

39. I vote for the too thick to realize option.

[bitchkitty]

15. Dear lord in heaven, spare us all the spectacle

of Commander Bunnypants singing in cowboy boots.

In reality, though, I'd love to see it! If there is film, I hope Jon Stewart gets ahold of it! :)

on edit - while searching for it, I found this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_vv12NSSZ4

[TheCowsCameHome]

17. Too bad it wasn't the warden serving him his last meal

[tanyev]

18. And then the nice men in the white coats came to take him out of the room.

[Magleetis]

21. FUGWB

You are an evil killer.

[bif]

22. Fuck you George! You worthless piece of shit.

God he makes me sick to my stomach.

[Buns_of_Fire]

23. He sings! He dances! He wears a codpiece!

And he crawls on his belly like a reptile!

Forget "filling the ol' coffers" with speaking engagements -- this boy is ready for a lifetime engagement with Barnum & Bailey!

[CGowen]

25. Brown Grass For Brownshirts n/t

[HuffleClaw]

26. seriously?

what DRUGS was he on ?

[daleo]

27. He's drinking again

Time to re-stock the bomb shelter.

[dipsydoodle]

30. Did he sing

Just a Thong at Twilight ?

[poppysgal]

31. Nero fiddled while Rome Burned

http://youtube.com/watch?v=pPoESxxZCTg
or so they say... anyway for your musical pleasure here is a link for you.
:nopity:

[struggle4progress]

32. Durn! I wuz hopin he sang "If I only hadda brain"

[Frustratedlady]

33. Is it just me, or does the CIC seem awfully happy lately?

Suppose he knows something we don't? Maybe they adjusted his prescription? What is it? When he's this happy, I'm jittery.

[bdamomma]

34. he is really delusional and losing his mind.

what a POS he is.

[appleannie1]

36. sure way to ruin your appetite at dinner

[Starbucks Anarchist]

37. "Cocaine Blues" would be much more fitting.

[chelsea0011]

38. Very Nero-like this guy has become

[colorado_ufo]

41. How interesting.

The original song was about a criminal on death row on the way to his execution.

[gauguin57]

43. He sings, he tap dances, he does everything but run the country properly.

Is this guy happy to be leaving the presidency, or what?

Either that, or he's TOTALLY back on the sauce or the blow.

[twiceshy]

46. Meanwhile back at the ol' homestead...........

We are facing the worst credit crisis since 1987 or 1929.

Inflation is running out of control.

We blow $12 Billion a month in Iraq for nothing (at least where's the cheap oil?)

Heating oil and gasoline prices are the highest they have ever been.

Our infrastructure is in shambles.

We don't manufacture a damn thing in the good ol' USA anymore



PARTY ON GEORGE, YOU F'IN IDIOT. He makes "LIttle Boots" Caligula look like a a saint and public benefactor.

[Orsino]

47. Drunken fool.

He used to pretend to care about his dignity, and always wanted to look like he was presidentin'. Mister 19% probably does want to retire now.