First Father: Tough Times on Sidelines

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This first family does not accept any responsibility for failures!

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/09/washington/09bushes.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin

August 9, 2007
First Father: Tough Times on Sidelines
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 — There are times in the life of George Herbert Walker Bush, the 41st president of the United States and father of the 43rd, that people, perfect strangers, come up to him and say the harshest things — words intended to comfort but words that wind up only causing pain.

“I love you, sir, but your son’s way off base here,” they might say, according to Ron Kaufman, a longtime adviser to Mr. Bush, who has witnessed any number of such encounters — perhaps at a political fund-raiser, or a restaurant dinner, a chance meeting on the streets of Houston or Kennebunkport, Me. They are, he says, just one way the presidency of the son has taken a toll on the father.

“It wears on his heart,” Mr. Kaufman said, “and his soul.”

These are distressing days for the Bush family patriarch, only the second former president in American history, after John Adams, to see his son take the White House. At 83, he finds it tough to watch his son get criticized from the sidelines; often, he likens himself to a Little League father whose kid is having a rough game. And like the proud and angry Little League dad who cannot help but yell at the umpire, sometimes he just cannot help getting involved.

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1. IMO - the game should be a lot rougher for that priveleged bastard son. eom

[rodeodance]

6. Poppy is an enabler----to use the psy word. Enablers end up perpetuating

a bad situation.

[sam sarrha]

2. george41 got his entire crew tortured to death because of cowardice, he sees his son as Psychopath

gleefully murdering hundreds of thousands and destroying millions of families lively hood in this country and in the middle east.. poor old George 41 cant speak publicly without breaking down and crying...

it has been reported that over 200 Innocent people have been tortured to death in Shrubs anti-Terra extreme rendition program.. what hasn't that fool F'd up.??!!!!!

[ClintonTyree]

3. I've yet to see.....

hundreds of thousands of people killed in a Little League game. His analogy is what I'd expect from the patriarch of the most dysfunctional and evil family in America. :eyes: Born serial killers, all. The best part of his son Georgie ended up as a brown stain on he and Babs's sheets. :puke:

[saracat]

4. What a pile of steaming poo! This is a WH story plan to get people to lay of Bush!

The criticism will kill Bush Sr.! Maybe, but it will be his son who kills him not criticism.

[peace frog]

5. To quote Severus Snape

"I. May. Vomit."