Barbara Bush: "George W. doesn't watch the press. He'll call us & say 'I hear the TV, turn it off.'"

[Bluebear]

WASHINGTON (AP) — It hurts far more to hear criticism of your son than of your husband, President Bush's mother, former first lady Barbara Bush, said Friday during a wide-ranging discussion.

She was interviewed in front of an audience of nearly 300 by Allen Weinstein, Archivist of the United States, as part of the American Conversations series at the National Archives.

Here is some of what she said:

On the difference between being wife of President George H.W. Bush and mother of President George W. Bush: "It hurts much more if your son's president. My husband ... he's in agony half the time."

"You hear people say things that are untrue and unfair. It really hurts. George W. doesn't watch the press. He'll call us ... (and say) 'I hear the TV, turn it off.'"

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On Tony Blair: "I like Tony Blair very, very much, and I think he suffered a lot because of his support of the United Sates, but till this day he feels he did the right thing and I think he did too."
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On her son, President Bush: "I'm very, very proud of him and he's the most disciplined person I know. I got there yesterday afternoon, ... we had dinner with friends and then he went to bed early and he was up and gone by the time I got up at 8 o'clock."

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On former leaders in other countries: "We treat our former presidents much better than other countries. Half of them kill them. The other half put them in jail. ... It's astonishing to me, the British, the day of the election, they're out and they don't have help. They're just gone. ... We're so generous in our country."

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gxocfYDFyGrARL80ju1pBp0PWthgD8UD8LVG2

[Hardrada]

1. There should be a Babs Count Down Calendar too.

After Shrub is outta there, the whole clan should be relegated to obscurity unless of course they are standing trial for war crimes and treason aginst the Constitution.

[Maddy McCall]

2. No, Babs...

He's NOT disciplined...he just didn't want to see YOUR ugly ass.

[zabet]

3. No, he actually

thought she was there
at the breakfast table.
Turns out, he was talking
to the box of oatmeal.

:rofl:

[Maddy McCall]

4. Thought he took her with him to work, too.

But realized that it was only her photo on those green paper things in his wallet.

:D

[zabet]

8. ...

:spray:

[tabasco]

5. Mother harpy admits idiot son is a bubble boy.

Idiot Bush is only concerned with enriching the have-mores.

He is unconcerned with the average American and the world in which we live.

[WritersBlock]

6. Well, gee, Babs... it's just that your precious son is - and how can I put this mildly -

a WAR CRIMINAL!

[Diane R]

7. She thinks it 'hurts' to hear bad things about your son? Try burying one killed in a senseless war.

Babs is way too sheltered and entitled. The entire Bush family have blood on their hands. She doesn't have a clue about true emotional pain.

[izquierdista]

9. Nothing's changed in 50 years

Back then it was teachers in the background saying things that were true and accurate about the idiot she whelped.

Somebody please get that cow on the circular stairway.

[ixion]

10. you don't know the half of how much it hurts, babs...

it's hurt our country far more than it has hurt you.

[Contrary1]

11. Geez, another "decider".

"I just decided if everybody could read write and comprehend, so many our problems ... could be solved."

One doesn't need to be able to read or write to comprehend this:




Now, if she had just decided to teach her son to speak English...

Nah, it would have made no difference. Never mind.

[malaise]

12. Hey Babs

If you'd stop taking all those meds you might wake up and see that your beloved son is a war criminal - yeh Babs a fucking mass murderer. Now fugg off you fascist enabler. :puke:

[Solly Mack]

13. ...

Other countries - she says half either kill and the other half jail former Presidents (interesting in itself doncha think, that she would choose this point to make? - half go to jail...the mother of a war criminal and all that)


Operating on the assumption that 2 halves make a whole, BB has placed America outside the whole as different and better ...which is very telling of how she sees the rest of the world. I'm sure Canada, France, Germany, Italy, etc., will be glad to know they either kill or jail former leaders.

And while she also presents the Brits as not part of the 2 halves, she just can't imagine losing an election and having to vacate office without all the pomp and circumstance of royalty passing the crown. So even they are somehow less than America

[MiniMe]

14. Hey Babs, we are in Agony every day your son is President. 1/20/09 can't come soon enough

[Bluebear]

17. You said it.

[DeeDeeNY]

15. Oh yes he is "disciplined."

He goes to bed early. Wow. I wonder if he ate everything on his plate too.
I can't imagine why anyone would say anything bad about him! Oh, wait . . . .

:banghead:

[LizW]

16. What kind of asshole

calls someone on the phone and commands them to turn the tv off?

He's the damn king of everyone, isn't he?

[opihimoimoi]

18. Once more Babs reveals her Condescending Crappy Marie Antoinette Style

No wonder W Bush is Percy Wetmore of the Green Mile..spoiled and demanding...he is the ultimate Republican....

[Johonny]

19. It really hurts

Yes the truth hurts. It's unfair occasionally people talk about what is really happening in the country as oppose to the Bush family fantasy land.