Sweet JEEBUS, the new Newsweek cover makes Bush look like the biggest loser on two legs.

[Human Torch]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15674912/site/newsweek/

The Prodigal Returns

By Jon Meacham
Newsweek

Nov. 20, 2006 issue - George Herbert Walker Bush is a proud father; tears easily come to his eyes when he thinks of his children, all of them, and there is gracious deference in his tone when he talks about the son he calls, with emphasis, "The President." He is not given to boasting about or bragging on his family; he still hears his mother's voice warning him to avoid "the Great I Am," but several times over the past few years the 41st president has mentioned to visitors that the 43rd president has read the Bible in its entirety—not once, the father says, but twice, sticking two fingers in the air. If so, then the incumbent may recall the Song of Moses: "Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations; ask thy father, and he will show thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee."

Ask thy father, and he will show thee: advice that, at long last, George W. Bush seems to be taking. Last week the president lost both houses of Congress and 16 more Americans died in Iraq, bringing the U.S. death toll to 2,844, with little discernible progress in sight. The war there has now lasted 44 months, the amount of time that elapsed between Pearl Harbor and VJ Day.

In a conference room filled with commemorative shotguns in his Houston offices last Wednesday, the father settled in to watch his son's post-election press conference on TV. Lunching on pizza, Bush Senior listened as George W. Bush said the loss of Congress was a "thumping," promised to "work with" a commission on Iraq chaired by James A. Baker III and Lee Hamilton, and announced that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was resigning. Within two hours the president was in the Oval Office with Rumsfeld and his replacement: Robert M. Gates, Bush Senior's CIA director and the president of Texas A&M University, the home of Bush 41's presidential library.

In Houston the phones started ringing, and Bush 41 staffers were pulled away from their pizza. Reporters were calling and e-mailing: would 41 talk about 43's shake-up? The answer was no, though two perfunctory statements were issued (one for the College Station Eagle and one, as the former president put it, "for everybody else"). Still, the reality spoke for itself. Dad's team was back—a remarkable course correction in the political life of the son and, quite possibly, in the life of the nation.



Supporting Cast: Bush 41's national-security team, in 1991. From far left, Scowcroft, Gates, Cheney, Quayle, Baker, Bush and Powell.

[williesgirl]

1. Son's an insane, criminal joke - Dad's just a criminal - recommended

[kenny blankenship]

2. That's disturbing! W looks like a growth jutting out of 41's pants

[ChoralScholar]

6. That's all he ever was to begin with.

[here_is_to_hope]

22. *wiping screen* Ha! n/t

[Poll_Blind]

27. LOL! What a little prick! n/t

PB

[Laelth]

32. LOL

Noted. :rofl:

:dem:

-Laelth

[la la]

36. Remember the old

'freak shows' at circuses? When the 'freak' had a dead 'twin' jutting out of him?

:sarcasm:

( I know this it totally wrong, but that picture reminded me of back in the day at the circus)

[MethuenProgressive]

3. GHW looks positively Presidential compared to Shrub,,,

GW was never supposed to win, Jeb was the one they wanted to be Pres.

[wryter2000]

4. Oh, no, they di-in't

:rofl:

[Lone_Star_Dem]

8. They did! They did!

:rofl:

Go out and buy one, I hear they're the "in" gift for all those nasty republicans on your xmas shopping list. :D

[bluestateguy]

5. I tried to warn people about this: having a president with no foreign policy experience

And after 6 years George W. Bush still has no foreign policy experience. He lacks gravitas, and is not what you would call a heavyweight.

[okoboji]

16. yep

but remember what Georgie said about his foreign policy experience during the first campaign?? He compared Texas to a small country therefor he had experience ... or some such blather .... it really doesn't matter the religious wing nuts wanted him in.

if I recall, George had only traveled outside the US once, before he was ever selected. That should have raised red flags then.

[bluestateguy]

19. Oh, and he'd have advisers who would help him

I think next time I'd rather just have a micro manager and a detail obsessed president instead.

[fooj]

7. The petulant piss-ant isn't going to like this...

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[ChoralScholar]

9. Can James Baker & Co. save the son's presidency?

Well, since they couldn't save daddy's either, I'd say no.

[Downtown Hound]

10. I never thought I'd be glad to see that day

that the elder Bush took charge once again.

[Johnyawl]

13. W's legacy: He made America miss Nixon AND his dad

[Bicoastal]

11. Time magazine's cover for tomorrow...

..is a bit more disappointing.

[LTR]

14. Talk about a boring cover

I'm not impressed with either cover this week.

[Mojorabbit]

35. Are there two covers? eom

[BrotherBuzz]

38. I don't know about Time, but Newsweek has different editions, and...

Newsweek scrubbed the cover of its United States edition for October 2, 2006. The cover of its international editions, aimed at Europe and other world regions, has maintained the original title of the story, "Losing Afghanistan." The new cover for the United States edition features photographer Annie Leibovitz and is titled "My Life in Pictures." We offer the European edition cover and story here.





http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092506R.shtml

"Why should we hear about body bags and deaths? It's not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?" - Barbara Bush

[KyndCulture]

12. Positively humiliating.

I LOVE it!!!!

[Fridays Child]

15. Yes!

:rofl:

[HockeyMom]

17. His "other" father gave bad advice, so

maybe it's time to consult his real father????

[Mabus]

28. or a psychiatrist

'cuz either God was lying to him or those aren't real voices he's been talking to. :rofl:

[LittleClarkie]

18. Junior is somewhere downing another whiskey.

Gads, he looks like Mini Me there. That's gotta burn.

[tridim]

20. Their other choice would be to have Poppy doing Babs in a bed..

With Idiotboy sitting at their feet crying, "But Mommy, I got Saddam! Waaaahhhhhh.."

But maybe that would be a bit much for the customers in line at the grocery store. :D

[iamjoy]

21. They Look Like Brothers

Not father and son.

6 years as President has aged Dubya much more than 8 years as VP & 4 years as President aged his father

[Mabus]

23. It doesn't look like Junior is wearing a tie

Guess momma/Laura/Condi didn't dress him that morning. :rofl:

Dad has to clean up another of Junior's messes. Too many people got fooled and send a boy in to do a man's job.

[ellenfl]

24. "several times over the past few years

the 41st president has mentioned to visitors that the 43rd president has read the Bible in its entirety—not once, the father says, but twice"

apparently sonny's comprehension of what he reads is not too good.

ellen fl

[BeachBuckeye]

25. Oh my GOD!!!

This has to be the worst humiliation any public figure has ever suffered. That is, if Jr. is smart enough to understand what this means.

[Mabus]

29. He's too busy trying to remember when that picture was taken

Bwhahahahahahaha.

[nickyt]

30. Tony Snow tomorrow: "B*sh doesn't absorb humiliating magazine covers"

[MikeNearMcChord]

34. I was thinking the same thing,

Does this means that whenever Vlad Putin or the President of China wants a dialog, they go to George H.W. Bush? F*** I would resign in shame alone if that was me.

[Human Torch]

40. He's probably too busy reading Camus and "some Shakespeares..."

:evilgrin:

[Cass]

26. This situation with Pop coming in to save the day has got to be an embarrassment for Junior.

I am still surprised anyone would have thought him a good candidate for President in the first place. He didn't seem particularly qualified for this job - poor foreign policy understanding, failed business history, and lots of complaints about Texas under his leadership. His candidacy never made much sense to me.

Look how tall Quayle looks in the 2nd photo. I don't remember him being so tall.

[goclark]

31. Poppy looks just like that photo in Dallas in the Support Cast

picture.


This "Cast" is as crooked as the last crew.

Poppy has always been in the middle.

When they realized one failed policy didn't work, they had to bring in this worn out team.

[Eurobabe]

33. Now we know why Bush 41 wasn't re-elected, all a bunch of retreads

and retards!!

[Marrak]

37. Poppy can't sleep...

KICK!:grr:

[ChiciB1]

39. That's One Book That Won't Come To THIS House!!

Two BUSHIES??? YUUUUK, & PUKE!!!

[elehhhhna]

41. IMO the fatcs are much more sinister than Newsweek says...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2694674

[Human Torch]

42. Newsweek just rubbed some salt in the wound:

:rofl:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032542/site/newsweek/?rf=autorefresh

[nicknameless]

43. GHWB is reduced to tears just thinking about his criminal offspring?

Yeah, those BFEE scum are sooo modest and self-effacing – not to mention big fans of the Bible.
They seem to have made it their lives’ work to break all of the commandments.

So bring on daddy’s team of lesser criminals to save the day? What a smarmy crock.

[NNadir]

44. Nothing can save junior's Presidency.

It is certain now to go down in history as the worst ever.

[lady lib]

45. If you get the chance, look at the Nov 13 cover of The New Yorker.

It shows * in a store full of BROKEN items. The owner is pointing and, I guess, saying, "You broke everything here, you fix everything."

* is pointing to himself and it looks like he might be saying, " I have to fix this?

[laugle]

46. Good for newsweek!! The shame and humiliation the

idiot has brought to his family will insure that no other Bush gets elected again.......i.e. Jeb, et al!!

[Vinca]

47. Uh . . . he IS the biggest loser on two legs. nt

[mw]

48. Pop owed Jr a bare-assed, over-the-knee spanking years ago

Had Jr. gotten a few bare-assed spankings when he deserved them, it would have saved soldiers' lives in Iraq today, among other things.

[suegeo]

49. This almost makes Poppy look good

From what little I've read of the article, this piece almost makes Poppy look good. When in fact, he's the uber schmuck.