Billy Graham Library Dedication - President George H.W. Bush wept

[partylessinOhio]

What's wrong with Poppy that he can't speak lately without breaking down in tears? I feel it is the burden his disgraced son has placed on him.

Watch him speak on You Tube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOZb80EXwfQ



Former President George H.W. Bush speaks during the dedication
for the Billy Graham Library in Charlotte, N.C.,
Thursday, May 31, 2007.

Former Presidents Carter, Clinton, Bush join hundreds for dedication of Billy Graham Library

By Rachel Zoll
ASSOCIATED PRESS

2:25 p.m. May 31, 2007

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Three former U.S. presidents joined together Thursday to praise evangelist Billy Graham and dedicate a new library in his honor, a $27-million complex that traces the preacher's rise from farm boy to America's pastor.
On a stage in view of a 40-foot glass cross that serves as the museum's front door, the frail preacher said he was embarrassed by the attention and there was "too much Billy Graham" in the exhibits.

A crowd of about 1,500 gathered for the outdoor event, in heat reaching near 90 degrees.

President George H.W. Bush sobbed as he spoke of how much the minister meant to him, calling Graham "a spiritual gift to all of us." Bush noted that the preacher had comforted four generations of the president's family; that includes President George W. Bush, who sent Graham a handwritten note last week. ...


http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/nation/20070531-1425-billygrahamlibrary.html

[MADem]

1. I think that is it, exactly. His son has disgraced him and his tear bag hangs low. NT

[Dulcinea]

33. That's my guess.

He probably wonders daily what went so wrong with his son.

[BlueStater]

2. He's been weepy a lot lately

He would have been better off being a mediocre, forgotten president. Instead, his family name has forever been shamed thanks to his idiot son.

[mzteris]

3. his age -

probably some degree of mental deterioration.

Personally, that's one thing I won't make fun of.

Much as I hated Reagan - I won't make fun of his Alzheimers. My dad died with it.

[whistle]

4. GHW Bush knows he is a fraud and can no longer conceal that from...

...anyone, so his guilt overwhelms him and he then has an emotional breakdown and weeps. It is perfectly natural for anyone who has even a smatering of conscience. Don't expect that little shit, King Baby Dubya, to show anything like that sociopath that he is!

[Hekate]

5. He's an old man now, and he's always been sentimental.Wish I could say it was Jr's effect...

...but it's hard to say with that family.

Now Babs -- I doubt that scary battleaxe has shed a tear in the last 50 years.

Hekate

[shain from kane]

9. Didn't she cry on the golf course or something?

Sorry, I got it wrong.

Rather than cry at a funeral, she played golf.

"The day after Robin Bush died of leekemia at the age of three, George H. W. Bush and Barbara Bush
played a round of golf. There was no funeral for Robin Bush and she was buried in New York--not
transported back to Texas where the Bush's lived at the time."

[ObamaNationYes]

18. As I said on another similar thread, leave Babs Bush alone

She must have done something right, or they would not have put her picture on the $100 bill!

[dflprincess]

19. He's an old man now and he's probably getting worried about

burning in hell for all eternity.

[Christa]

6. Rather weeps than vomit ;)

[MADem]

7. Or maybe his Episcopalian heart was humiliated because he was an opening act for Jeebus Disneyland

I mean, really, this shit (from the cite) is pretty damned hideous, and downright CHEESY--never mind the Hall of Presidents, you've got a frigging fake talking COW at this "museum"--it's just cretinous:

The cavernous lobby is meant to resemble a barn with scattered bales of hay and milk cans. The sounds of a cackling chicken and neighing horse are piped in. The first Bible verse Graham's mother taught him, John 3:16, “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,” is engraved onto a rafter.

To the right is a cow shed, where a display that has drawn the most curiosity stands. An animatronic black-and-white cow named Bessie says in a southern drawl that Graham has been “preaching the pure milk of God's word for 60 years.” Bessie tells kids to “get moo-ving” to learn more about the preacher.

Critics have dubbed the display the “Golden Calf” and say it cheapens Billy Graham's legacy. But Franklin Graham said it is meant as an appeal to children.

I don't see, frankly, how ANYTHING can cheapen that guy's legacy. It's already been cheapened, and he's a charlatan, a sleazebag, and a user who makes money off of the stupid, who need to hear someone ELSE tell them how to feel and what to think.

When he cheerfully traded incredibly offensive remarks with Richard Nixon, that pretty much ripped the cover off his bullshit. A schlocky memorial is more than he deserves.

http://www.gainesvillehumanists.org/graham-nixon.htm

[Benhurst]

10. Careful, MADem. You're likely to get flamed. You'd be surprised

how many on DU have been sucked in by that old charlatan, The Reverend Billy.

But I couldn't agree with you more.

Oops. I might get flamed as well!

:rofl:

[bluerum]

11. Not by me - I agree 2000%. The lot of them are scam artists and flim flammers. eom

[MADem]

12. Eh, these are the internets, here--I'm used to it!!

Anyone who thinks that baaastid is a nice guy needs to listen to those eye-opening Nixon tapes. Of course, I always thought he was a bullshitter, and those tapes only confirmed my beliefs.

Stand behind the asbestos shield with me!! Or, as Bessie the Barn Cow might say, Mooooooooove out of range of the flamethrowers!!!

[Joe Bacon]

24. Don't get me started about Billy Graham Cracker!

Really, Billy Graham Cracker and his "brother in Jay Zuss" Whoreall Roberts blazed the trail for all the other crooks that came down the pike. I can still remember how old Graham Cracker was "puffed up" by that old fart William Randolph Hearst. I also remember when Billy started out and his crusades were segregated. of course, there are also those Jay-Zuss centered taped conversations with Tricky Dicky that showed what a sleazy bigot ol Blondie was. And, proving that rotten Fruit don't fall too far from the tree, you see Flaky Franky stealing millions of "faith-based" tax dollars to put in his own divinely-inspired "Samaritan's Purse", locked in his own separate Swiss Bank account.

I remember reading Plain Speaking when Truman just tore Billy Graham Cracker to pieces by saying "...he claims to be a friend of all the Presidents, but he was NO friend of Mine..." Truman then goes on to toss dozens of lightning bolts at the Blond Frankenstein.

Ol Graham Cracker paved the road for the liars that followed him, the Paul Crouches (paying off his gay lover), the Jim Bakers (Paying off their hookers), the Billy James Hargises (getting caught with young boys) the Peter Popoffs (and their "miracle" hearing aids that tune in on what Wifey is saying) the Robert Tiltons (Anything for the money), the Jimmy Swaggarts (Ah have syyyyynnnneeeeddddd aaaaa-gainst U) and all the way to Pastor Teddy (who got off when he put on his buddy's red white and blue thong), just an endless parade of phonies and liars.

Karl Marx was wrong about a lot of things, but he sure was right when he said that religion was the opiate of the masses. when it comes to a Sunday, I'd rather sleep till noon in my comfy bed than fall asleep in a pew bored by Republican bullshit propaganda. Really the only difference between Christians and Communists is just one word. Replace Marx with Jesus and you can't tell the difference between either group. They're both the same, craving total power and total subjugation.

[MADem]

28. I do agree that he's a total bullshitter. I also think you don't have to get up at the crack of

dawn, haul yourself off to a cold, cavernous building, sit next to sniffling, coughing, hacking (and miserable and resentful) people, listen to some asshole tell you how to live your life and hector you for doing things he thinks are wrong, and then, to add insult to injury, the baaastid has the balls to pass a plate and extort some MONEY outta ya! That's chutzpah!!!!!

If you really wanna think about the absolute wonder of some almighty power or force, think about the fact that some grace, be it natural, scientific or spiritual, gave humans the ability to BUILD comfy beds and homes, so that those of us who are lucky to be able to afford them can indeed, sleep till noon. Why, the very ACT of sleeping until noon is clearly WORSHIPFUL, in that context!!

So, what matter if we worship at the Cathedral of Tempur-Pedic, the Church of Aero-Bed, the Temple of Sealy Posture-pedic, or the Chapel of the Worn But Comfortable Couch, we each, in our own way, as we get our eight hours of Zzzzz's, finds a way to reach out and snore gratefully in the face of God!!!

Can I get an AMEN?

[Joe Bacon]

32. No

Because nothing has done more harm to more people than religion. Nothing.

[MADem]

35. Well, I'd say starvation, drought, the plague, and a lot of other things are right up there in .

terms of things that HARM people...I mean, really. The difference being that you don't choose those things.

And I'm not ready to paint ALL religious people as harmful. The ones who can't keep it to themselves often are, who crawl up your ass and try to tell you how to live and what to do, but the ones who do it for their own purposes, without pestering me or anyone else, I don't mind. It's no different than some dork who loves video games--so long as they don't play their video games while they are driving the bus I'm riding in, or while I'm sitting watching a movie I've paid eight bucks to see, or what have you, they can go ahead and do their own thing--just leave me out of it and don't bother me with it.

[nini]

8. He sounds like he's been having TIAs (mini strokes)

for a man his age that's not so unusual but his health is definitely slipping a bit.

[DianaForRussFeingold]

13. I think you hit the nail on the head! It's the burden his disgraced son has placed on him.

:nopity: Unfortunately, It is the burden his disgraced son has placed on all of us. :cry:

[tularetom]

14. The blubbering old fool - WTF has he got goin for him

First of all he has spawned the lowest piece a shit in the history of US presidents and he now realizes everyone knows it.
Second he believes in the afterlife and knows where he's goin after all the shit he's pulled
and worst of all
When he wakes up every morning and rolls over, think for a minute about what he sees.

We'd all blubber too.

[Colobo]

23. So it is his fault that W is a human piece of crap?

W is what he is because he has chosen too. GHWB did NOTHING in his presidency that can be considered truly "evil" like his son or his boss Reagan did.

[disndat]

15. I doubt very much

that he cares that Bush jr has been a disgrace to the family. It is all an act. GHWB loves the money Bush jr is shoveling into the family coffers too much, or he would have tried to stop the horrible things jr has been doing. Don't forget he is part of the military industrial empire, aka, The Carlyle Group its main purpose is to sell military supplies. He could be suffering John Boehner's alcoholic crying problem.

[Parche]

16. BOO EFFIN HOO

I am tired of the Bush family of thugs :mad: :mad:

[Disturbed]

17. Will Poppy cry at the Rev. Moon event, as well?

Rev. Moon is extending his rag of a "news" paper to one of the SA countries. I forgot which one. Poppy will be speaking at that event. I read that he is getting paid thousands for that speech.

[illinoisprogressive]

20. this man has a broken heart. he mourns for his country and feels

responsible for what his son has done to it. What anyone thinks of HW, you all know he respected the country and it's laws and the constitution. To see his son doing what he is is tearing him up. the guilt and the sadness is too much.
maybe that is why he hangs out with Clinton. Same age but, Clinton has respect for these things and is more accepting of hw than his own son who treats him like dirt.

[Colobo]

22. Exactly; some people over here hate Bush so much that

they can't distinguish his family from him, or even other Republicans for him. Gerald Ford, GHWB, Nixon, Eisenhower, Goldwater... those guys were not "evil" as W is. Maybe ideologically wrong, yes, but evil, nah.

[MADem]

30. AGGGH!!! See my post below.

Just because the guy acted wimpy and said things like "Wouldn't be prudent..." doesn't make him a living saint. The full legacy of Poppy is in the CIA archives, and one day our grandchildren might learn the full extent of his Machiavellian machinations.

I suspect he's every bit as awful as his kid, only he was BETTER at it than his moronic son.

[durtee librul]

34. I agree and think he has a LOT of blood on his hands

that we will never know about....including the grassy knoll.

[MADem]

29. He should feel responsible. He could have stopped it. His lust for power by association

overrode his good sense. He KNEW his kid was an impulsive n'er do well at best, and a megalomaniacal dunce at worst.

And for this, we should pity the bastard?

He respected the country and it's laws, eh? The jury's not in with that verdict. I find it highly "coincidental" that he had something to say when JFK bought it, and was dining with the father of the guy who shot Reagan--but all that really, is still in the realm of speculation because we frankly know nothing conclusive about that.

But we do know he was with the CIA for a long, long time, before he became Director. So he had to know a little something about this, and that. Are you forgetting the whole "out of the loop" bullshit? That completely strains credulity. How about Operation Just Cause? Funny how you can turn on TV and watch all sorts of prison interviews with this murderer and that, but no one--no one--ever got to talk to Manuel Noriega? Were they afraid of what Cara Piña might say? Ya know, Noriega is supposed to be released from prison this year--in September, so they say. Wonder if he'll make it, or if he'll be too "stroked out" to say or remember anything??? And funny how the Panamanians, who said once upon a time that they wanted to sentence him to death if he ever got out, now want to let him live out his remaining days in freedom if he's extradited back home. Something's fishy with all that. It just seems awfully funny to me that he was such a close pal of the US, and Poppy, there, who turned a blind eye to his drug dealing and worse, so long as he danced the way we liked it.

Daddy does NOT have clean hands. Then again, neither did HIS daddy. The apples never fall too far from the tree....

[dflprincess]

36. "he respected the country and it's laws and the constitution." HUH?

Can you say Iran-contra?

[Colobo]

21. GHWB is not really a bad person. He was a mediocre president

but he was not even close of being the evil idiot his son is.

[Honeycombe8]

25. "He wept."

Seriously, though...Poppy's always crying. He's an emotional man.

[Fire Walk With Me]

26. Oops, got it wrong. Delete.

Edited because I got it wrong.

[slater71]

27. Did anyone tell him Graham didn`t die?

[otohara]

31. You Never Read About Babs Crying

she probably wants to slap Poppy up-side the head when he sheds a few tears.

[Hersheygirl]

37. He deserves to cry.

"A spritual gift to all of us." Baloney. I bet * sent him a note, one written for him by his speech writers.

[mitchum]

38. Once a wimp; always a wimp