Bush Said He Wanted To LEASH HIS DAUGHTERS!!!

[Beetwasher]

Hello???

I say this in every letter I've been writing.

[TheWebHead]

1. he's been inspired by Lynndie England

[Fozzledick]

3. I think maybe it's the other way around!

[aquart]

6. This is a moment for Photoshop.

Put Bush where Lynndie is, Jenna and Barbara.......oh, this is the moment for real skill.

[realisticphish]

14. send for mopaul! nt

[Oddman]

26. Love the idea!

[Hubert Flottz]

29. Is that real?

Mission Accomplished!

[IHaveADream]

31. Mission Accomplished! LOL!!!!

[Beetwasher]

46. PERFECT!

LOL!!!

[HughBeaumont]

50. HAAA!

Fucking pigs. That whole family needs to be either locked up or in detox.

[tedzbear]

13. Bush had an Abu Ghraib moment...

...I caught it too. It was the closest they got to mentioning that terrible Iraq fiasco.

[AnIndependentTexan]

2. Get the sound bite

Have them send it to every women voter out there. I don't think they will find the leashing his daughters joke very funny.

[The_Casual_Observer]

10. Why not? * figured she was up for grabs!

[SoCalDemocrat]

4. Also wanted to love the woman who'se husband died in Iraq

Also wanted to love the woman who'se husband died in Iraq

[Cronus Protagonist]

5. You noticed that too?

http://bushspeaks.com/home.asp?did=183

[geek tragedy]

7. Am I the only one who finds the idea of the Bush girls wearing leashes

something that Larry Flynt would think up?

[aquart]

8. This isn't sex. George thinks of them as bitches.

[geek tragedy]

9. The two aren't mutually exclusive.

Damn, what what Freud say?

[Beetwasher]

11. Think Deeper

It's deep man, too friggin deep for me to want to consider I think...But it's these "off the cuff" remarks that really give you the insight...

[geek tragedy]

15. Oh yuck.

That's so Jerry Springer.

[progdonkey]

16. my unqualified psychological opinion

Bush's Freudian slip regarding "leashing" his daughters does point to a deeper psychological issue. Bush has a deep hatred of his parents--his mother because she was distant and never instructed him how to grieve over his sister's death (further stunting his emotional and intellectual growth); his father because of the long shadow of achievement he cast on Bush's life.

Now, in his daughters you have a merging of these two hatreds. That his daughters are women invokes the hatred of "Mother" in him; that they are both intelligent--if frequently drunk--college graduates invokes his hatred of being outshined by family members.

It's quite obvious that the use of a leash is one of control and domination. By fantasizing about keeping his daughters on a leash, he is fantasizing about controlling and dominating these icons which represent his greatest anxieties.


Of course, I could just be tired, drunk, and full of shit.... :evilgrin:


(Regardless of the psychology, in can't be denied that it's frighteningly stupid for someone under investigation for abuse which involved keeping people on leashes to joke about... keeping people on leashes.)

[Beetwasher]

18. Spot On Analysis

I concur!

I will add that Kerry's response was also quite good! Something like ""I've learned not to do that."!"

As Al Franken would say, the leash comment was Bush "joking on the square".

And you know what? Ther's no reason your analysis can't be correct AND Bush was ALSO drunk, tired and full of shit! ;-)

[annabanana]

19. What Kerry said was

"I've learned not to do that."

[Beetwasher]

20. Thanks! Changed

n/t

[Sparkly]

21. THAT was superb

He took it as a moment to appear collegial, smiling in a nice Dad-to-Dad way but still called him "Mr. President," it was brilliant.

[Scairp]

34. You almost got it

It's "kidding on the square", actually.

[StlMo]

12. That is fucked up.

Really, it's wrong to put leashes on people (even the Margarita unit).

[andino]

17. Come on...

You have seen those girls... You think it would be the first time that they would be on a leash???

[Hubert Flottz]

25. LMAO!

My theory on Bush's Relativity: Since the girls have started to travel in the Holy GW Bush Dog and Pony revue, someone has been getting into Junior's booze stash on AF1! At first he prolly thought it was "Vlad-i-meer" or Brother KKKarl, but then the stash on the tour bus got raided too, after the twins signed on! I guess tying them up would be one way of having a drink around, when he gets his ass kicked on coast to coast prime time TV, by Honest John Kerry!

[Phillycat]

22. Can someone give me the context?

I must have missed that part.

[Phillycat]

28. Come on, help me out here!

[Beetwasher]

33. It Was An Off The Cuff Sort of Exchange

Bush was talking about their daughters and thanked Kerry's daughters and mumbled something about wanting to put or keep his daughters on a leash and Kerry said he learned not to do that.

[Phillycat]

35. Good lord.

He's so clueless, he doesn't even realize what a sexist he is.

Thanks for the explanation!

[Nevernose]

36. It was in the inroductory statements

And when kerry had that comeback, I knew the debate was a lock.

[HughBeaumont]

23. This simply SCREAMS for a photoshop.

[IHaveADream]

30. Oddman did one for you

[tnlefty]

24. Thanks for clarifying. I thought he said noose. While neither is good, for

some strange reason I feel somewhat relieved.

[Claire Beth]

27. he knows they are dogs

[sistersofmercy]

32. It's a very common country saying.

You may consider it in poor taste but it is a common saying. It really isn't something to make an issue of.

[mac56]

37. I disagree.

I could give a rat's ass (a city saying) whether it's a common country saying or not. The imagery is unmistakeable. A thoughtful, empathetic statesman would have never made that reference. So naturally * did.

[sistersofmercy]

40. I'm just saying it will only be an issue to those of us who recognize

this and his supporters will dismiss it as making an issue of a nonissue. I agree it was in poor taste.

[chelaque liberal]

42. Country saying or not, it was disrespectful of his daughters.

I have a very hard time whenever I hear a parent put his or her child down in public.

[Malva Zebrina]

38. W stands for women--wants to put them on leashes nt

[cindyw]

39. Kerry always says something that makes me see that he understands women.

When Bush said that, and it was funny, Kerry responded that he had learned a long time ago not to do that. Now that tells me that he understands women. Once we are over 18 we are our own women. This isn't the first time either. I first became interested in Kerry over a year ago when Russert asked him on MTP if he was the richest senator and he said he was not. Russert said, but your wife has money and Kerry said, "That is my wife's money". Then when Russert asked if he was going to use that money for his campaign and he said again that it was his wife's money to spend and not his.

[Phillycat]

41. OT: What a beautiful picture!

God, those are nice people, you can just tell from their faces.

[chelaque liberal]

48. Sorry, I don't think a joke at other people's expense is funny.

It said a lot about Bush, about how he feels about other people. A lot of people think racist jokes are funny too

I agree about the rest of your statement, though. I think the way Kerry handled it showed integrity. He didn't just laugh and make himself complicit in degrading the daughters.

[cindyw]

51. I don't think you can compare what I said to laughing at racist jokes.

That goes a little too far.

[Radio-Active]

43. it's clear...

Bush is reaching out to the all-important S&M / Incestuous vote.

[tnlefty]

47. LOL! and welcome

hahahaha

[tomfodw]

44. He meant to say...

...he wanted to LEASE his daughters.

Not that I would f*ck either of them with Cheney's d*ck...

[elehhhhna]

45. Spoken like a real Moolah...

[ArnoldLayne]

49. Sounds kind of perverted

I mean his own daughters come on now that is an awful thing for a Christian to say about your own children. :crazy: