Your 83 year old Mom has unexpected abdominal surgery, and

[SoCalDem]

you go to Camp David for your regular Thanksgiving Dinner/mini-vacation?

and you're president & have a big ole airplane at your disposal?

What kind of son is that?

[wryter2000]

1. The woman in question

Went golfing the day her young daughter died. The whole family is sick.

[bahrbearian]

3. Good Point

and the son ate cake and strumded a guitar while New Orleans drowned.

[Bucky]

9. The son is a sick bastard, but I won't judge how a mom deals with the trauma of

losing a child. She may not be the best mom in the world, but we can't really know what was going on behind the veil of her behavior the day her daughter died & it's inappropriate to guess. The day my grandfather died my dad coped with his grief by painting his garage. Maybe you'd call that glib & insensitive, but that's how my father coped. There are just some moments of private tragedy & grief that we're not entitled to judge.

[babylonsister]

2. The one who gave her an ulcer in the first place?

I agree. Pretty despicable behavior coming from a son, unless she told him to stay away.

[sarge43]

4. Big Bar makes Medea look like June Cleaver. n/t

[Lerkfish]

5. did you maybe mean Medusa?

that's more like what I think of her.


as an aside, doing a google search for medusa ends up with an alarming amount of erotic imagery for some reason.

[EFerrari]

13. Medusa had snakey hair. Medea reportedly killed her kids.

I think that is patriarchal propaganda. :P

[Lerkfish]

15. ah...wasn't familiar with Medea, so googled her

I see now what was meant by the comparison.

but for me, just looking at Babs is enough to turn anyone to stone.

[EFerrari]

16. No kidding!

:)

[sarge43]

18. Either would do.

Erotic imagery: A divine woman with classic phallic symbols (snakes) for hair and could kill, ie make men impotent with a glance. That would excite some imaginations.

[Cleita]

19. Medea is good. She killed all her children by Jason because he had left her

for another woman.

[TahitiNut]

6. I wouldn't want to be around that "operation" either.

[HereSince1628]

7. The kind that knows Mom always loved Jeb best? n/t

[shireen]

8. his presence at the hospital could be too disruptive

With secret service swarming around, security would be very tight. Patients and their families don't need that. Good on him for staying away.

[Robbien]

11. Never stopped him before

He holds up traffic in disaster areas all the time. He's just gotta get that photo op.

But, yes, that probably was the reason the family might have told him to stay away. I'm pretty sure it wasn't his idea.

[KitchenWitch]

10. The entire family are sociopathic

[Ilsa]

12. W* must have heard Nixon say, "Now there's a woman who

knows how to hate," about his mother and accepted it as gospel about her true nature.

[Turbineguy]

14. Let them

eat shit!

[City Lights]

17. Why should he waste his beautiful mind on his mother's perforated ulcer when

there's a turkey dinner to be eaten?

He's his mother's son through and through. Both are rotten to the core.

He didn't bother with Jenna when she had an emergency appendectomy either. He let Laura visit her.

[Fla Dem]

20. Contrast that with Obama leaving his campaign to see his dying grandmother. Says it all

about the kind of men they are.