Bush says Ken Lay was "a good guy"

[Cocoa]

http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/news/politics/14981741.htm

Bush says Lay was 'a good guy'

Associated Press

WASHINGTON - President Bush said Thursday he hopes Enron Corp. founder Kenneth Lay's "heart was right with the Lord" when he died before he could be sentenced on fraud and conspiracy charges.

Bush called Lay, who was a friend of the Bush family and a large donor to the president's campaign, "a good guy." He said he was shocked to hear both about the Enron scandal and Lay's death this week from a heart attack at age 64.

"I was really surprised," Bush said on CNN's "Larry King Live." "You know, my hope is that his heart was right with the Lord and
I feel real sorry for his wife. She's had a rough go and she's now here on earth to bear the burdens of losing her husband, a man she loved."

The president said he planned to write Linda Lay a letter expressing his condolences.

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[Deja Q]

1. Which Lord are we talking about?

Jesus sure as hell wouldn't condone Lay's actions! The Bible speaks for itself about, amongst other things, stealing.

Bush is just yankin' our chains.

And maybe the Lord saw unto Lay and took his heart away? In which case Bush would have a point.

[high density]

6. The Lord of Corporate Profits and Middle-Class fucking

It's the only one that seems to talk to these douchebags like Bush and Lay.

[saigon68]

42. The Voice tells them "THEY ARE CHOSEN BY GOD"

And the Wealth they have amassed is because the Lord is pleased with them.

Its like a circle where the dog chases his tail

[Born Free]

46. ever wonder if he is really dead?

tin foil hat response:

with all the money they have it would be easy to assume a new identity - and the bush coward could be right in that the man they burried was a good man...

[jahyarain]

68. he's not dead

"ken lay's" body is to be cremated.

http://money.cnn.com/2006/07/07/news/newsmakers/enron_lay.reut/index.htm?cnn=yes

all the money he was to repay stockholders and the fed now goes directly to his wife. now there is no 134 year sentence, hence, no threat of exposing the bigger criminals. Mariana or Cayman Islands would be my guess. if ken lay is dead, george bush was elected president.

[Seabiscuit]

12. Little Lord Pissypants has a Lord???

[0007]

87. The Money Lord

[Child_Of_Isis]

2. "heart was right with the Lord"

Evidently it wasn't.

[SammyBlue]

5. Yeah, but Chucklenuts, his soul is with satan now! HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!

[annabanana]

3. " a guy he could have a beer with" I'm sure...

back in the day...

[Endangered Specie]

23. yeah, if your 'beer' is $100+ wine or cognac, perhaps

[rodeodance]

37. and look him straight in the eye!

[maxsolomon]

67. LEAVE COGNAC OUT OF THIS!

this only costs $15/bottle!

[PegDAC]

84. Agreed!

That's my poison of choice, and I only get it on special occasions. In the interim, I get VSOP brandy.

[trotsky]

4. Oh sure, Mrs. Lay has "had a rough go."

What a fucking joke. Her husband stole lots of money, she lived the life of a queen because of it. It only came crashing down when the thievery was exposed - and we're supposed to feel SORRY for her? Puh-leeze. People who have to make the choice between food or medicine, now THEY are having "a rough go." Having to adjust to a life where you're not pulling in $100mil a year illegally, no, that will never be "a rough go."

[kurth]

11. Now she's gonna have to eke out a living - with the millions in annuities

and other untouchable investments the high-priced lawyers set up.

[trotsky]

18. How ever shall she manage?

Perhaps we should take up a collection.

Not that we should be surprised at what circumstances REALLY illicit an empathetic response from the current pResident.

[kestrel91316]

26. Yeah, the Christian thing to do would be to take up a collection for the

POOR WIDDER WOMAN, Linda Lay. Seein' as how she's going to be havin' such a rough time makin' ends meet and all............

[kenny blankenship]

7. just Simple Gratitude

If you had given me ONE MILLION DOLLARS, I'd feel fairly obliged to call you "a good guy" too.

[54anickel]

8. "...a contributor to Houston's civil society..." - Uhhh, yeah - right.

Soon as he got a favorable answer to "what's in it for me", he'd gladly open his checkbook. :eyes:

[vixengrl]

9. Really? Did he even know the guy?

Because I thought he said he didn't really know him, once. :sarcasm:

[jobycom]

14. Exactly. nt.

[samplegirl]

56. News reports

still he was just an acquaintance. Linda Lay
has had a rough go of it? How would Bush know?
She won't have a worry she will be able to keep
whatever her husband stole.

[tavalon]

66. Hey!

You're not supposed to remember that! :eyes:

Sadly, most of the sheeple wont.

[kurth]

10. Heck of a job, Kenny Boy

Conviction gone, $43M stays in the family, quick check-out.

[DoYouEverWonder]

54. It's too perfect

isn't it?

[jobycom]

13. Okay, this after he publicly denied even knowing Ken Lay? What a media

we have, eh? If that had been Clinton, the headline would read "Clinton caught lying when he praised Ken Lay!" With Bush, it's just a touching moment for the media to use to show Bush's compassion and his deep religious conviction.

[MADem]

16. Thank you, that was MY first thought--hardly KNOW the guy, he said

Supported MAH OPPONENT, he said...what a load of crap, what a craven BSer that Monkey is!!!

[FredScuttle]

15. Can I dance on this fucker's grave yet?

I'm waiting for the high sign from DU's Politeness Polizia...

[NYC]

30. You have my permission.

Hilarious headline on today's NY Post.



NY Post front page, Thursday, July 6, 2006, Cheato Lay.

[grasswire]

31. is that real?

Or photoshopped?

[NYC]

33. It's real. I saw it on the street today.

When I came home, I looked for it online. I think it is hilarious. It is absolutely real.

The Post is known for flamboyant headlines.

[Mad_Dem_X]

57. LMAOPMP!

I abhor the Post, but even I have to admit, that's a great headline!:rofl:

[LibDemAlways]

17. Such bullshit, spewed for the benefit of

clueless rightwingers who believe the chimp's phony "I'm a Christian" scam. The only "Lord" he knows is the almighty dollar.

[Wabbajack]

19. could he have suicided?

[errorbells]

79. or was it just evildoer strategery? n/t

[bluestateguy]

20. I see a campaign ad....

IF the Democrats have the balls.

Oh, wait a minute, what am I thinking.

[NVMojo]

21. And Tony Blair thinks so too!!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2374384

[Alexodin]

22. Yes his heart was right with the lord, like Phelps.

Reading the reactions to Lay's death on the internet its clear that Lay was loved and adored in the same way as Fred Phelps, by just about everyone, rich, poor, republican, democrat. Its a bipartisan hate fest where Phelps and Lay are concerned. Praise the Lord. Except I have seen some misguided and factually incorrect support for Lay from the right....ugh.

[truthisfreedom]

24. why do i get the feeling that he was offed by some ex-cia operative

with an extract of castor beans, and that Mexico's election was rigged (we've never seen this many elections decided over so few votes.)

[saltpoint]

25. You know, the robberies, thuggery, murder, intimidation, and

countless other illegal activities aside, I think Al Capone was a hell of a great American.

[Gregorian]

27. Everyone is a good guy. However,

and I forget exactly where it is in the Bible, clearly it is stated that what one DOES is what defines one's goodness.

Sorry Bush. You are a loser.

[lovuian]

28. He has no regard for the millions and billions that man stole

for Bush...

[UpInArms]

29. Kenny Boy is keeping a seat for you by the fire, Dimson.

'cause you're both going to burn in hell for what you have done.

[Reckon]

32. Was Lay the victim of group think? hmmmm

I think * should be worrying about getting his own heart right.

[Donailin]

34. A good guy gave Bush a good birthday present.

He got "heart attacked." I don't buy it for a minute.

Now Bush can sleep at night and not worry about Lay singin' if he didn't get his pardon.

[chookie]

35. I have a quick question

Can His Chimperial Majesty pardon Kenny Boy posthumously?

[Demeter]

81. Dubya Doesn't Have To Lift a Finger

Since Lay never got to appeal, the court voids the conviction as a matter of fairness.

Sorry about that. Hope you hadn't just eaten.

[truthisfreedom]

36. a good guy. nice one, w... you just showed your corporate cards.

i guess you didn't think about what kind of message you're sending to his victims. i'm sure they love you for it. as well as the tens of thousands of investors that took huge baths on Enron because of Kenny-boy's "good guy"-ness.

[fearthem]

38. "takes one to know one"

[rumpel]

39. Wow, * 's memory is back.

It finally dawned on him that he actually knew him and his wife.

[confludemocrat]

40. There's a front page thread at DU implying similar "nuanced" views of Lay

based on superficial trivia about the criminal by a pilot of one of Lays luxury jets, filled with posts sniffing about how that was the one thread about Lay they would deign to read, the others rightly trashing the dead thief which these posters found distateful. Oh mercy me.

[Bridget Burke]

72. I didn't see the thread that way at all....

Ken Lay was NOT an inhuman monster.

He was a talented human who became a criminal & hurt many people--there's no excuse for that.

[Libby2]

41. barf fucking city

[racaulk]

61. ROFL! I second that!!! n/t

:rofl:

[pinniped]

43. Because of turd's buddy, they managed to install the Gropenator....

into California after Davis took all the blame for the power fiasco.

Obviously that POS is relieved now because that's one less pardon fuckface will have to issue.

[goforit]

44. The blatant arrogance and insult to Americans is unbelievable.

[kurth]

52. No time for a single GI funeral, but he'll write Lay's widow

to console the millionaire.

[Mad_Dem_X]

59. Exactly. n/t

[bdamomma]

75. those are bush's loyalists

[Radio_Lady]

82. Heavens to Murgatroid! The only thing I've seen him write is a note

to Condosqueeza about him having to go to the bathroom.

Oh, I guess there are about 1,000 signing agreements, but I don't get to see them.

[Dr Fate]

45. Yeah-except they ended up murdering him. n/t

n/t

[SoCalDem]

47. Those words would make some interesting ads this fall, in Texas

Lots of people lost lots of money because of that "good guy".. Republican values as far as the horizon...

[0007]

48. A good guy is a person that steals and lies and raises havoc

with other people's lives? People that trusted and believed in Ken Lay don't think that he was a good guy.

Only a frothing lunatic and a goddamn liar would make suck a statement. junior is one of the sickest motherfuckers I've ever seen in my seventy two years of living.

George W. Bush is in the same league as Jeffery Dahmer and Charles Manson and that rapist murderous soldier from Midland Texas named Green.

[kurth]

53. Criminals love criminals

[VolcanoJen]

70. That's exactly right

We shouldn't ever forget that.

[Joe Bacon]

49. "A good guy" steals 9 billion from Californians?

Then that "good guy" conspires with Riordan, Millken and Ah Nold to overthrow the legally-elected governor of California?

If there is a hell, Ken Lay is there.

[winston61]

50. There was a love letter to dead Kenny boy in

yesterday's Star Telegram. Made me want to puke. Of course the ST never falls short when it comes to kissing the asses of the wealthy. They just pucker right up and blow. No mention of the people that Lay robbed.

[MiniMe]

51. I thought * didn't know him, couldn't remember him, he meets a lot of peo

hypocrite.

[DoYouEverWonder]

55. Ken Lay's 'heart was right with the Lord'

but his brains and his dick belonged to Satan.

[hadrons]

58. any Bush voting Enron employees who got soaked ... enjoy!!!!

[William Seger]

60. "good guy" translated: "filthy rich, contributed to me"

Who cares how how many people had their lives ruined by his insatiable greed. The insatiably greedy are the true Republican base -- the "Lord" stuff is for the rubes.

[B3Nut]

62. Good grief

The man's moral compass is busticated to beat all hell...good guy my arse. Tell that to the families whose savings he ruined. But those are "little people"...Bush doesn't care about them one iota.

TP

[yellowcanine]

63. I thought he hardly knew him. Did he get a glimpse of his soul in one of

their "casual" encounters?

[JudyM]

64. If only he could feel such sympathy for the wives of dead soldiers. n/t

[kurth]

65. "Compassionate conservatism" in a nutshell

[samsingh]

69. i thought bush didn't know him?

bush was not a good friend to lay.

[mbee]

71. How outrageous! A person can steal all those person's

retirement savings and leave them high and dry and they're a good guy, but if a person steals a loaf of bread to feed their family they're a criminal and go to jail. The elite can commit crimes and get away with it, how shameful!

[Bridget Burke]

73. Why couldn't Bushie just make a more neutral statement?

Something like "at this time, I would like to express my sympathy to his family"?

Yeah, I know. Bush is incapable of making sense.

[Joe Chi Minh]

77. Adding, of course, "....as I do or the unfortunate victims of his

malfeasance."

[earth mom]

74. Once again, * proves he's an EVIL S.O.B.!

:grr: :grr: :grr:

[mvd]

76. Unbelievable - what else can you say

:grr:

[Tight_rope]

78. I hope * statement hits the hearts of Ken's victoms hard.

[daleo]

80. Well, he was a good guy for dying so conveniently

And not forcing Bush to make a decision about whether or not to pardon him. Truly, he was a goodfella.

[whistle]

83. Oh, well then it must be true....BUSHIT!!!

[Heywood J]

85. Am I the only one

reminded of his comments about Trent Lott's house, after Katrina?

The man's priorities are his own.

[Penndems]

86. This just proves to me that my maternal grandmother was right

when she said, "A snake knows another snake when it sees one."

;)

[fishwax]

88. "she's had a rough go"

yeah, i remember her on a tv interview after the enron scandal broke, complaining about her liquidity.

[young_at_heart]

89. Bush relates to Ken and Linda's lifestyle more than most people

Just before Enron's collapse they took a $200,000 cruise and at his trial he defended this by saying, "We had realized the American dream, and we were living a very expensive lifestyle....the type of lifestyle where it is difficult to turn off the spigot". I imagine Bush also feels entitled to a similar "lifestyle".

[DemonFighterLives]

90. For someone who didn't really know them

He shows a superior sense of compassion.
What a knucklehead! I'm sure Kenny boys wifey will be fine in her lap of luxury. She can probably replace the goofy bastard with someone better as well. These are have mores and dubby's base. I'm sure dubby or Jeb will get a truckload of cash for their part in ripping off California and Enron employees and the American people.
Maybe that is what he meant by good guy- code word for send some money my way>
:argh:

[savemefromdumbya]

91. good guy meaning fraudster?

takes a criminal to know a criminal?