Bush to write letter of condolence to Ken Lay's widow?!?! WTF?

[Roland99]

http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/news/politics/14981741.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp

The Propagandist asshole can write a letter of condolence to her but can't muster the moral fortitude to show his face at the funeral of men and women who he has sent off to their deaths??


:mad: :mad: :mad:

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. Or to speak with a mother of one of the fallen, even when she's outside

his door for a few months?

And the fuckbag had the balls to say "I don't know Ken Lay".

[cantstandbush]

22. But no letter to Cindy Sheehan or even a reply of remorse. Just hate.

That shows you where his true heart is. With only the rich. Even rich crooks.

[bluestateguy]

2. Linda Lay deserves no respect and no compassion

I will treat Ken Lay's widow with the same respect that conservatives have shown for Cindy Sheehan.

[jobycom]

3. Ken Lay gave his campaign thousands of dollars, what did those families

ever give him except the lives of their children?

[lectrobyte]

5. Yes, Lay was his biggest contributor. Also gave him use of the

corporate jet for the 2000 campaign.

[Bucky]

10. Goddammit, they gave their lives to this country, not for Bush.

Sorry, but you hit a nerve. Bush threw their asses on the line for his own purposes. I hate the way peoples' love for their country and all that it's stood for is being twisted and minipulated by these jillionaire bastards for their own purposes. Please quit feeding that meme that Bush deserves any personal loyalty from the military. He's the president; he's supposed to support them, not the other way around.

[jobycom]

12. Fair point. Not exactly what I said, but you stated your view so well

that I won't quibble. :) Certainly I agree with you.

[WCGreen]

4. But he didn't know him....

Remember how he lied when it came out about Lay....

I think he said...

"I did not have fundraising relationships with that man...."

[Art_from_Ark]

6. Yeah, and there was also

"Hey, I didn't know it was Kenny Boy's-- er, Mr. Lay's-- private jet. Honest."

[WCGreen]

7. And no one calls him on this shit.....

[NYC]

9. I think the families of the dead soldiers

will notice that he didn't write letters of condolence to them.

[DianaForRussFeingold]

11. George W. Bush's $100,000 Club

"The $550,025 that the Enron Corp. gave Bush over the years makes it his No. 1 career patron, according to the Center for Public Integrity. “Virtually every … aspect of Enron’s operations is overseen by the federal government,” a ’96 Dallas Morning News story noted. Not surprisingly, this global natural gas giant and its top executive are big political contributors who keep revolving doors whirling. Lay hired President Bush’s cabinet members James Baker and Robert Mosbacher as they left office. After President Bush’s ’93 Gulf War victory tour of Kuwait, Baker and other members of his entourage stayed on to hustle Enron contracts. The Clinton administration also threatened to cut Mozambique’s aid in ’95 if the world’s poorest country awarded a pipeline contract to a different company. Enron got Bush to contact Texas’ congressional delegation in ’97 to promote a corporate welfare program in which U.S. taxpayers finance political risk insurance for the foreign operations of corporations such as Enron. Enron plants around Houston—which surpassed LA for the title to the nation’s worst air—are “grandfathered” air polluters that exploit a loophole in state law to avoid installing modern pollution-control technologies. Earlier this year the Houston Astros inaugurated their new Enron Field, which was financed with $180 million in public tax dollars and $100 million from Enron. In return, Enron landed tax breaks and a $200 million contract to power the stadium. Topping Enron’s political wish list in Texas was deregulation of the state’s electrical markets. Bush signed this dream into law in ’99." http://www.tpj.org/pioneers/kenneth_lay.html Before being indicted Ken Lay
Chairman/CEO
Sold 1.8 million shares for more than $101.3 million, Nice guy hah?

[brokensymmetry]

8. Maybe it's one of the few decent things * has ever done.

Look - Ken Lay is dead. A jury decided he
was a criminal, so there's no disagreement
there. But - HE IS DEAD. Do we really
need to flog the corpse?

And yes, it looks as if his wife may
wind up keeping some assets. Yes, they're
ill gotten gains. But, tinfoil theories
aside, she probably does mourn her husband's
death.

We're progressives. I'd like to think we
have a little more compassion than non-progressives.
And even though the Lays may be repugnant (in every
sense), it seems to me that Ken Lay's death ought
to be enough. Do we have to howl for blood? Who
does that sound like? Do we really want to sound
like that?

So if the pResident wants to write a letter, let
him. Maybe even * can do something good, hard as
it is to believe.

Flame me if you must.

[DianaForRussFeingold]

13. Maybe you are right! May he rest in peace! I feel for his family,sorry!

OK,But do you agree they are fair game? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4115.htm Suicidal Coincidences
Unrelated Bush scandals with amazing similarities; http://www.hereinreality.com/suicide.html

[brokensymmetry]

15. Good links.

And taking back the Congress and the White House is
too important to let * off the hook.

After all, compassion can only extend so far... :evilgrin:

[Erika]

18. How about the workers he robbed of their pensions?

Ken Lay had the good life. You defend him leading the good life at the cost to workers earning a decent income and pension? Go ahead.

[brokensymmetry]

21. Defending? No. Not at all.

He was a criminal - per the jury in a fair trial.

From all I've heard, he deserved to be convicted.

But - he's dead. As I said earlier, I see no
reason for so much foaming at the mouth as people
seek to flog the corpse.

If someone wishes to jump up and down, get red in
the face, and scream about the injustice of it all...
well, I guess that's their right. But who gets
hurt by it? Not Ken Lay, I think.

[Marr]

14. C'mon now, Ken was a fellow corporistocrat. Those soldiers were just

serfs.

[Vidar]

16. Lives don't count, dollars do.

[Warren DeMontague]

17. "Tell him I say hi, have some mai tais for me-

and don't forget the sunblock!"




:hi:

[neebob]

19. Well, ya know, he doesn't go to the funerals because

then you have to decide "which ones do you go to and which ones do you don't go to" - or so he said in the tiny snippet of the Larry King interview that I happened to catch, and it might have been "which ones to don't go to." I can't remember if it was before or after he called Saddam a weapon.

Anyway. What an asshole.

[leftofthedial]

20. the worst piece of excrement ever to foul our air

waste of skin

60 years ago, when Babs crapped him out, she should have flushed.