Like Father, Like Son? No, Says A Former President

[oldhat]

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/26/politics/trail/26TRAIL-BUSH.html?ex=1086235200&en=5a39bf9f3172857a&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE

The world's leading authority on running for re-election as president after a war with Iraq said today that he believes President Bush will do just fine in November.

"I feel very confident," former President George H. W. Bush told Matt Lauer in an interview on the NBC News program "Today." "And you know what? American elections are decided on the economy. And my problem was the economy was good but I couldn't get people to understand that. This economy is strong. In my view, it's going to be stronger in the fall. But even without that, I think the country is looking for a strong leader. They've got one, and they're going to want him to serve more."

The taped interview was aired in advance of the former president's 80th birthday next month and showed he takes criticism of his son to heart. "It's pretty hurtful, I mean, when you see all these books," he said. "It's all anti-Bush. It's all anti-family. It just burns you up. But I don't feel inclined to respond."

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Repeat after me: KISS OF DEATH!

[bluestateguy]

1. After a war?

No, the war is still going on, and is more deadly than ever.

[thebigidea]

2. Well, I'm glad Bush is getting burned up and hurt

Sick bastard deserves it.

[Auntie Bush]

5. Like father...like son.

What the hell happened to him? :shrug:
Looks like he just got interrigated by those 6 or 8 men!

[Blasphemer]

9. It's just part of the pact with the devil...

What's a few skin lesions when total world domination is your goal?

[sallydallas124]

10. What in the bloody hell

is up with the skin lesions??? Does he have some disease I'm not aware of?

How come his lesions look like a more severe version of his son's pretzel and bike wounds?

In regards to his remarks, what a simpleton. Does he possibly wonder why there are so many anti-Bush books out right now? Maybe he could educate himself about the pulse of the nation? Naw, the authors are just big meanies.

[stuckinlucky]

23. The skin lesions are a common side effect...

...of the antibiotic cipro. Both Bush and Bush, Jr. were put on it after 9/11 to guard against anthrax infection.

[Eye and Monkey]

25. Also side effects of falling down.

Perhaps also of dropping approval ratings. Though I'm not sure of the precise biological mechanism at work.

[icymist]

33. LOL. You would have thought he'd learn about falling down

during his drinking years! The guy defies the laws of the Constitution and now he wants to defy the Laws Of Gravity! HA!

[Eye and Monkey]

52. I believe he had a solid gentleman's C in the course, Falling Down 101.

I believe that Junior also received a solid C in Harvard Bidnez School in the course, Driving Companies and Economies into the Ground 601.

[Name removed]

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[seemslikeadream]

28. You do not belong here

go away

[Piperay]

29. You're all mixed up

it's the repukes who are holding their convention in New York, not the Democrats. The repukes wanted to hold it there so they could capitalize on all the dead from 9-11, they are so evil. :evilfrown:

"Reptilian" yeah, another name for the repukelicans but kind of insulting to retiles. I have a tortoise and even though it is cold-blooded it has heart and intelligence, something the repukes don't have. :-(

[stuckinlucky]

30. Even though you've already been ejected, I'd like to respond...

I don't think of myself as a conspiracy monger. In fact, in the aftermath of 9/11 with the anthrax getting delivered to (Democratic) Senatorial offices and the like, I'd think that putting the current P(r)esident (even-though illigetimately elected) and ex-Presidents on the anti-biotic would be a natural precaution. What I don't like is a natural precaution getting explained away with something as idiotic as "choking on a pretzel".

[Tellurian]

22. Look at The Evil in this man's Eyes..

:scared:

[Massacure]

3. Wow! Bush actually said something right!

"But even without that, I think the country is looking for a strong leader. They've got one, and they're going to want him to serve more."

Us Americans are defiantly looking forward to getting strong leadership with President Kerry. :D

[4_Legs_Good]

17. I have to admit, Bush Sr. is right! I want George Jr. to serve too

We all do want a strong leader, and we want Geroge Jr. to serve more.

We want a strong leader in John Kerry
We want George Jr. to serve more time in prison for his crimes against the nation and the world.

easy as pie.

david

[Just Me]

4. Wish I could post my thoughts,...but, I can't. n/t

[Auntie Bush]

6. Knock, knock....Asscroft here! Come with me. I can read minds!

[yellowcanine]

7. Someone tell me why I should care what Poppy says about Shrub and why NBC

thinks any of us care?

[Eye and Monkey]

26. I'd only care if Poppy repeated "Read my lips, no New Texans."

[dave29]

8. I'm not inclined to respond

but here I am anyway, responding

[KoKo]

11. Yeah Right! That Asshole brought in James Baker to save his floundering

campaign. He had already vomited on the the Japanese PM and was in big trouble...so his darling boy (evil spawn) is reapeting the Karma in his own fashion..but unless Kissinger/Baker and their other old bats from hell, who never die, can pull another one his toady, imbicile of a son is going out the door just like that old puppet did.

[Disturbed]

12. The Bush Crime Family

"Those that prey together stay together."

W reminds me of Frado, the son that got shot and dumped out of the roaboat in Godfather 1.

[KoKo]

13. OMG...Bush IS like Fredo in the Godfather Movies! Totally.....Maybe

we could put together the whole cast of characters. YUCK!

[demigoddess]

47. there is such a thing as group karma

groups of people that were together before come back together and suffer similar fates and similar karmas. Boy can we see that here

[Tellurian]

14. I wonder if GHWBush is going to vist his brother in prison?

Hopefully, Babs beautiful mind can handle visiting an American prison.

[crossroads]

15. Bushes prey together!

:kick:

[Amerpie]

16. Classic

"I'm sorry people keep catching us."

Let him explain the Saudi connections.... Michael Moore's new movie is going to cement the Bush family as the most hated in American history.

[Elidor]

18. "This economy is strong"

He really has his finger on America's pulse, this one. It's that "vision thing" all over again.

"My problem was the economy was good but I couldn't get people to understand that." Unbelievable.

[UTUSN]

19. So "H.W. Clueless" Is Talking? n/t

[GoddessOfGuinness]

20. "This economy is strong"?

Tell that to the guys who are working in Home Depot now after 3 years of unemployment.

[Art_from_Ark]

55. But the economy IS strong...

...for people who are profiteering off the war

[Ann Arbor Dem]

21. Delusional old idiot

"And my problem was the economy was good but I couldn't get people to understand that."

Maybe he couldn't get people to "understand" it because they were too smart to be fooled.

"This economy is strong. In my view, it's going to be stronger in the fall."

What parallel universe is he in? I lost my job not long ago and when I filed for unemployment I was told that there might be a 4-8 week wait before my claim would be processed. Apparently there huge backlog of claims they were trying to work through. Fortunately it only took about three weeks.


"But even without that, I think the country is looking for a strong leader."

He is right about us wanting a strong leader...and it certainly isn't the chimp!

[The_Casual_Observer]

24. It appears that this "man" has lost his mind and his health

Good.

George Herbert Walker Bush, I hope its a slow and painful one.

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[saigon68]

37. Welcome to DU blackmen

That's quite a first post you have there.

Kind of puts your whole agenda into perspective in 16 words.

BTW is there more than one of you?

[The_Casual_Observer]

39. The sick fuck liberal stands tall with these big words

George Herbert Walker Bush looks sick & thats real good.

[Democat]

32. He thought he would win, he thinks his boy will win - wrong on both counts

He is an expert at losing.

[Name removed]

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[General Discontent]

35. No, not really....

After a long day of smashing imperialism, folks around here can use a good laugh. Carry on...... :freak:


DWolfman

[TheWatcher]

36. Awfully tough sitting behind your Keyboard aren't you?

[texas is the reason]

41. look ma, i caught a freeper! can i keep him?..

can i keep him? he's sooooo adorable. i can get him to sit and beg and roll over just by talking like sean hannity! roll over! good boy. now support your idiot president!gooood boooyyy!! now blame clinton!!(woof, woof!) good boy!! uncle rove has got a nice milkbone for such a good boy(tail wagging-arff!arrf!)!!

[icymist]

38. Come on people, don't feed the trolls!

n/t

[hyphenate]

40. You're right

I just report them. :)

[robbedvoter]

42. Who cares what he thinks? W has a higher authority to ask advice

Do you think they wear their numbers on their underwear too?

[Cocoa]

43. the economy was NOT strong in '92

it stayed weak several years into Clinton's presidency.

There's a myth out there that the economy was strong but the people didn't realize it yet. BullSHIT!

[union_maid]

54. Neither one thinks a strong economy requires good jobs

You're absolutely right. I recall very well looking for a job in early '94. I ended up taking a pretty bad one because there simply were not a lot of jobs out there. If I'd been trying to support a family or even just myself I couldn't have done it.

Someone who was on CNN yesterday said that jobs are not a lagging economic indicator, but rather jobs ARE the economy. That's the best and simplest way I've ever heard to speak reality to this mumbo-jumbo about the economy and job creation. Neither Bush understands that. Both are equally out of touch with the vast majority of humanity about the need to make a living.

[a_random_joel]

44. One word immediately comes to mind...

WIMP!

Quit your whining you spineless wimp.

[Fovea]

45. It's all anti-family

So was the Kefauver commission...

[tom_paine]

46. Bet all that Auschwitz money Granddaddy Prescott socked away

isn't hurtful, is it, Friend of Tyrants and Enemy of the Founding Fathers?

[Malva Zebrina]

48. I think we should insist that the twins be rendered infertile so as that

these despicable Bush genes containing inate stupidity and less than average intelligence go no further.

I am partially convinced that one of them is being primed to be the inheritor of the Bush family dynasty. I am surprised that one of them was not named Georgia, or Georgette .

[llmart]

49. "I feel very confident"

Yeah, and you did also in 1992 but YOU LOST and the country won big time with two terms of President Clinton. So get over it you evil bastard and crawl back under the rock you and Babs came out from. Oh, and take your blithering idiot of a son with you so we don't have to look at him or listen to him ever again.

[jean]

50. He referred to Clinton/Gore as 'those two bozos/clowns' back then

[llmart]

53. Hey, I remember that!

Up until that point I actually thought he was sort of a decent person, but when I heard him say that, my opinion of him went into the toilet. It was at the point where he was showing his desperation because he was going to lose.

[jean]

56. Don't forget, dubya played an integral role in his daddy's campaign

Ha - his brilliant hand can been seen in it's early stages planning and crafting his father's re-election - just another in his lifetime of failures.

What kills me about the Bush family is how aloof and elitist their demeanor is. How can they know what the hell is going on when they hold themselves above the world and don't interact with or respond to it? (GHW Bush said he doesn't respond to the criticism and Barbara said she doesn't bother her beautiful mind with news coverage of our war dead)

Bush (Sr)'s comment about his admin and the economy being in good shape but people just didn't know about it - how out of touch is that? It's even more confusing because he was a top CIA guy - surely he had to engage in the real world at that time? You'd think he would have developed a habit of examining real time issues by having realistic, hands-on interaction. I guess not.

[Endangered Specie]

51. Shoot, at least H.W. won his war.

[DaveSZ]

57. Bwahahah

I liked the part when he said, "Gampy."

:+