Shrub to Goldstar mother: " Don't go selling it on eBay"

[UTUSN]

On Free Speech t.v. a couple of hours ago there was an "Iraq veterans for peace" rally, and a mother told about her few minutes of face time with Shrub. She's black and not only gave him a good verbal thrashing, but she asked for explanations about why the operation in which her son was killed went down the way it did. He said he didn't know. At the end of the meeting, "presidential coins" were passed to the families. When Shrub got to her again, he said to her, "Don't go selling it on eBay now."

She said that after this meeting, it was announced that Shub will not be meeting with families any more. And she said that she told Shrub she doesn't know anything about eBay but is willing to sell the damned thing to anybody who wants it.

What a despicable CLOWN Shrub is.

[karlrschneider]

1. Are the coins as counterfeit as the pretzeldent?

:eyes:

[liberaldemocrat7]

96. This presidential coin?

[NC_Nurse]

2. What an unbelievable asshole he is!

It's amazing the callousness he continues to show and how people just brush it off and act like he's a great guy.
:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[glitch]

74. Only his fellow assholes brush it off.

Something they should start thinking about but they can't cuz they're assholes.

[liberal N proud]

3. I want to see this bastard hauled out of the White House in handcuffs

maybe a straight jacket would do.

He is one sick ass.

[Nostradammit]

14. I'm thinking gurney

[MissMarple]

17. Restrained on a gurney.

He has to be losing it if he can't get through a meeting where not everyone thinks he actually walks on water. This is scary. No wonder the guy needs a Texas "vacation".

[Irreverend IX]

63. I can imagine the teeth-gnashing fits...

Bush's handlers must have after these incidents. "You said WHAT to the grieving mother? That's it, no Game Boy for a week!" So now they've withdrawn them even further into his bubble. He seems to be perpetually on the edge of some catastrophic breakdown, the last-straw incident when he slugs a reporter or screams obscenities on national television, but his puppetmasters are hell-bent on keeping him from crossing that line. Here's hoping they fail before 2008...

[Wednesdays]

93. Nah...

If he slugs a reporter or screams obscenities on national television, the pundits will be in overdrive telling us how poor * has been under such pressure lately, and how the reporter deserved it. And of course the sheeple will eat it up.

[calimary]

103. I'd pay to see that. I'd help with it. I'd like to help slap the cuffs on.

Or could I help drag him into the street? Maybe in New Orleans? Or ship him over to Haditha or Fallujah and do it there?

ASSHOLE. So he doesn't go to funerals. His version is "visits" with families in mourning. And now he's not even going to bother to do THAT?

ASSHOLE.

I wish I could IMPEACH the bastard MYSELF! I'm MORE than willing. EAGER, in fact.

[JAYJDF]

4. Just another shining example of a not so shining prez

This guy is a dick! Enough said.
I'd rather die of thurst than have him promise me some water, knowing he would never give me any.

[reprobate]

85. "This guy is a dick"? That's disrespectful to male genitals everywhere!

The man is a stupid, arrogant, drug addicted, treasonous war criminal.

He swore an oath to preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the United States of America, and then proceeded to do everything in his power to destroy it.

I find myself wasting time conjuring up fit punishments for him. My best so far, considering that he is now hated by about every nation in the world, is that he should be declared the new Man Without a Country.

Passed from one tramp steamer to another without ever setting foot on land again, he should spend the rest of his life at sea, his name never again mentioned in society.

[smokey nj]

5. Good for her!!!!!.......

I guess the chimp expected grieving parents to be overjoyed about meeting the scum bag responsible for the deaths of their children.

[rodeodance]

6. i suppose it was folksy mannerisms. What a jerk

[SmokingJacket]

9. If being an asshole is considered "folksy."

Thinking back to some of the people I went to high school with, I guess it is.

[WinkyDink]

34. It was the cruelty of the psychopath. A NORMAL person would not

FEEL LIKE CRACKING WISE to this bereaved mother, let alone even need to refrain from it.

[calico1]

7. What a piece of shit. n/t

[Donnachaidh]

8. what a despicable comment to make to her

Impeach this bastard!

[Rageneau]

13. Impeachment will no longer satisfy me.

This bastard belongs in a federal prison! And no one who is already IN a federal prison ever hurt America as much as this son-of-a-Bush did.

As a matter of fact, since it doesn't count as torture, this bastard deserves to be waterboarded, strung up and deprived of sleep for months at a time. He won't mind. Jesus doesn't.

[MissWaverly]

20. it would please me if they were all tried and then sentenced

to life in Alcatraz, that it was reopened just for them, their own personal "Camp Cupcake." Remember whether you like Martha Stewart or not; she went to jail for much less that what has
gone on in this administration.

[Seabiscuit]

61. I was thinking the same thing. Sentence Shrub and his neocons to

life without parole in Alcatraz, with metal grills for ceilings, then escort the tourists over the metal grills and let them spit, pee and defecate on their heads. Oh, and flush copies of fundie bibles down their toilets daily.

Periodically, let them out for some exercise: pile them up naked in pyramids and put hoods over their heads and attach their fingers to electical wires a la Abu Ghraib. Tourists can take pictures of themselves pointing at them a la Lindie Englund.

Karma can be a bitch, Georgie.

[MissWaverly]

72. well, that's what they probably deserve

but we would be merciful because we want a return to what is decent, but the no parole is a good
idea since many have died on the watch of this administration. If you add the deaths in Iraq,
Katrina, 9-11 together: I think it would be close to half a million people. And the Iraqi
War was started on a lie, and is being fought with the "whack-a-mole" strategy of military
campaign per John McCain.

[newspeak]

88. wait, you can't send them to Alacatraz

that's where the sunrise ceremonies are performed--how about Gitmo?

[Seabiscuit]

99. Gitmo will do just fine - or any secret CIA joint in Turkey, Syria, etc.

[calimary]

108. Kick. I know exactly how you feel. But it's a good start. Followed

by REMOVAL FROM OFFICE.

[calimary]

109. Truly. Kick. The "man" has no heart. Or soul.

n/t

[chat_noir]

10. We need a DU Research Forum* thread to capture these appalling statements

"Don't go selling it on eBay now." is way beyond a Bushism.

What would you title the thread?



* http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=358

[UTUSN]

16. Yet the testoster-ST0NED dudes ADORE him

Yesterday there was another photo op at the border. Shrub was surrounded by an audience of uniforms-----Border Patrol, National Guard, law enforcement, plus his own praetorian guard. You never SAW such homoerotic yukking-it-up, hand-and-back-slapping, and rib-poking, plus boisterous laughter from him and the boys, all while people are being blown to bits. It never fails to amaze me that military types are such wingnuts and ADORE him--this after he not only USED the Guard to escape Vietnam but then turned around and deserted from THAT in the bargain. It's all about TALKING MOVIE-TOUGH.

[Fridays Child]

83. The author of "Bush on the Couch," psychoanalyst Justin Frank, calls it...

...an "'anal/sadistic' indifference to others’ pain."

[Missy M]

11. I can't believe he said that to a woman whose son was killed..

the man is totally useless. There is nothing he can do right.

[QuestionAll...]

12. gawd Damn him!

I've never despised anything like I do that thing.

dont' go selling it on eBay!
what's this supposed to mean? that her son's life can somehow be turned into cash? that's all the fuck that matters to him, the bloody sociopathic stinking lieing predatory FUCK!.

[earth mom]

15. Sounds like * thought she was "lucky" to get a coin from him.

Like some fucking coin was going to make up for losing her son! Can * get any more evil?! :grr:

[never_get_over_it]

28. Well you know just like his mommy thought it was a step

up for those little black kids to be living in the Astro Dome or whatever that Dome was in Texas - the whole freaking Bush family belongs in a looney bin - they are freaking INSANE.

[tanyev]

33. He's lucky she didn't throw it back in his face.

What a condescending prick.

[WinkyDink]

35. That would have been awesome. You know he felt like Louis XIV

or something, with a perverse noblesse oblige.

[Supersedeas]

102. maybe * Freepas' will pay $$ for that instead of actually sacrificing any

thing

[SeattleGirl]

18. That is absolutely despicable.

Tell me Bush isn't racist. Bet he didn't say anything like that to the WHITE mothers there. Fucking asshole. :banghead:

[dogday]

19. Should of told shrub that even e-bay doesn't sell shit

this bad... I would not put it in a happy meal... Good thing he is not meeting with the families anymore, the stupid idiot just offends these mourning parents all the more...

[Disturbed]

21. It was his idea of a little joke.

Busholini thinks he is a comedian. He is a Silverspoon Sociopath that lives in a bubble of privilege.

[Canuckistanian]

22. Sociopath? More like Psychopath

Absolute inability to sympathize or empathize with any other person. To him, death is meaningless if it happens to anyone else.

He needs to be locked up.

[kestrel91316]

26. Joking around with grieving families. What CLASS that man has!!!!!!!!

[WinkyDink]

36. He has NO, repeat NO, human emotions. A funeral or a barbecue:

all events are the same to him, so therefore he can BE the same everywhere---a PSYCHOPATH.

And as Der Fuhrer, Bush no longer has to even pretend to mimic appropriate affect.

He is NOT NORMAL.

[dogday]

32. He is the joke

that's the thing... He is a walking, talking joke.....

[proud patriot]

23. still he dumbfounds me

when I think he sunk as low as one could sink ...

[grasswire]

24. a coin for the life of her son??

Does it have a likeness of George W. on it??

[kestrel91316]

27. I bet it has on it W dressed as Caligula.

[Olney Blue]

25. He won't be meeting with families anymore?

Probably not unless the gold star families are pre-screened.

[blogslut]

47. Pause/Rewind

Bush won't be meeting with families anymore? Do we have confirmation on that? That's a little bit of bite that people ought to know.

[Olney Blue]

49. Good question blogslut- it was attributed to the mom in the article.

We need to find out whether this is really true. It wouldn't surprise me, but
my God, he already refuses to go to funerals- what else will he avoid because
it's "too hard"?

[blogslut]

51. I've been Googling like mad

and haven't found anything yet. If anybody finds confirmation that Bush officially stopped meeting with the familes of soldiers killed in Iraq - I will totally pimp that meme.

[Olney Blue]

52. I doubt there would be an "official" announcement, don't you?

But I will keep my eyes open too for any info on this.

[blogslut]

54. Sadly, yes

I imagine an official announcement would be practically invisible. Just the same, the question is also worth pursuing ;)

[JHB]

94. Somebody has to be tracking his official schedule, even after the fact...

...when its no longer a "security concern". If he stops receiving visits from gold star families, it should become obvious after a few weeks or months.

[UTUSN]

53. LINK to Free Speech.org - not link specifically to the statement

Sorry, wish I had thought of the Free Speech schedule before this. It re-ran at 7 P.M. (EST?). I don't see any more airings Sunday, Monday...

The program I saw was "Another Media IS Possible #02". Perhaps contacting Atlanta Independent Media Center?


*******QUOTE*******

http://www.freespeech.org/schedule/index.php?date=20060805

12:00pm Another Media IS Possible #02



7:00pm

Another Media IS Possible is the television series of the Atlanta Independent Media Center.

********UNQUOTE*******

[blogslut]

55. thanks

:)

[sandnsea]

29. He is such a dick

I've known some drunks in my day, I've even known some who have killed people in bar fights and done some pretty horrific stuff. I've known one true sociopath who would sell his mother's soul for a buck. But I can't think of any one of these people who are so callous, or even just so stupid, as to make this kind of condescending remark to a grieving mother. He's just a dick and that's all there is to it.

[lies and propaganda]

30. what a fuck.

sickening.

[Joe Fields]

31. despicable. If only my wish would come true. I dare not say it!

[Justice Is Comin]

37. I look for a bold flashing headline on my screen

every day when I turn it on too. Every damn day.

[DesertRat]

38. His cold, cruel behavior doesn't surprise me.

But what does surprise me is that he actually talked to a mother at a peace rally.

[speedoo]

40. He did not speak to her at the peace rally.

She spoke about her meeting with him at a peace rally. The stupid fucker would never have a fraction of the courage to go anywhere that he is not protected, much less to a peace rally.

[Vidar]

39. What an ass! 30 pieces of silver is the traditional payment, but he

doesn't read.

[susu369]

41. Karma - PLEASE visit as soon as possible

[Nikki Stone 1]

42. Can we sell Junior on Ebay? Maybe a two for one: Junior and a

grilled cheese sandwich with the Virgin Mary on it.

[Cleita]

44. Oh, I can see it now.

Let me see. For sale, broken down world leader, to the highest bidder. The bids start at 2 cents. It's not known whether he can be repaired or not. Sale is final. No returns allowed or refunds will be made.

[Nikki Stone 1]

48. You know, there's always someone who will buy a used wad of gum

We could always throw in free shipping.

[Lisa]

97. don't forget to add -- no reserve! (if he isn't banned as "offensive")

I could not in good conscience say that he really is worth any amount to me, so setting an appropriate reserve price would not be possible. And it would be flattering him to start the bidding at even $0.01!


Though after checking eBay's prohibited list, I can see that listing Georgie might run into some problems.

http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/items-ov.html

I can see several categories which might disqualify him.
Embargoed Goods and Prohibited Countries
Encouraging Illegal Activity
Hazardous, Restricted, and Perishable Items
Misleading Titles
Offensive Material
Replica and Counterfeit Items

[eppur_se_muova]

43. UN. FU@#ING. BELIEVABLE. Didn't anyone EVER tell him that not everything

is a joke? That there are times when it's appropriate to show some modicum, however miniscule, of decorum? This women is getting a memento which will forever remind her that she lost her son to Bu**sh**'s unnecessary war, and all the $#!+head can do is crack a joke. It's like he knows she can't do anything about it and is just rubbing it in her face. He is utterly devoid of class, or empathy, or character.

" it was announced that Shub will not be meeting with families any more." I would add, IT'S FOR THEIR OWN GOOD.

[opihimoimoi]

45. The French in 1770/s knew what to do.....with assholes like that....

Marie said "let them eat cake........"


later....much later.....they lopped off her noggin.....

Bush is in the same aristocrat realm.....damnnn

[Jacobin]

46. The sorriest, Most Racist, Arrogant, Fucking Statement

I have ever heard in my entire life.

Bar none.

Fucking media. He knows he can say anything and get away with it.

What a fucking asshole

[The Count]

50. Like the time he signed the kid's pic of her father lost at 911:

"when you'll find your father, tell him you met ME"
Just when you think he can't get any lower.

[Octafish]

56. Totally evil and vile thing to say to a grieving mother...

I didn't think George Walker Bush could be any lower.

He has to be sick to think he's so important.

SATANIC KAKISTOCRAT

[UTUSN]

58. Hey, Oct, I paid tribute to you HERE:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1826248

:hi:

[Octafish]

92. Wow, UTUSN!

Thank you, UTUSN. I am honored.



There's nothing like the truth to sink the BFEE.

DIM SOCIOPATHIC WARMONKEY

[calimary]

105. Look at that face - it's the face of someone who's going to HELL when he

dies.

But first, hopefully, the HAGUE.

Maybe he briefly mistook her for one of the live frogs he stuffed firecrackers into, so he could throw them up in the air and watch them explode.

Sick fuck he is.

THAT, ladies and gentlemen of the DU, is, alas, our face to the world. No wonder they hate us so much.

[LuckyLib]

57. It's a given that * has the brain power of a flea. But given the

repeated episodes where all appropriate behavior is lost and his mouth engages in completely outrageous wise-ass or disconnected comments, isn't there a condition that exhibits this kind of behavior as a symptom??? Anybody in neuropsychiatry or related fields? When the part of the brain that registers context, appropriate responses, empathy, etc., simply doesn't function most of the time and thoughtless and insensitive comments are made? I'm curious.

[Hekate]

68. There's a book called "Bush on the Couch" that should answer your question

Over the years at DU I've read a number of threads by DUers who are medical and mental health professionals as well as many 12-steppers -- all trying to delineate the walking pathology that is our president. All agree he is a dry drunk, many point out symptoms of organic brain damage. Family pathology plays a part as well.

Beyond that, you can look up Bush on the Couch.

Hekate

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President (2004) by Dr Justin Frank, psychoanalyst and professor of psychiatry at George Washington University Medical School.

Short interesting article here by Dr Frank.
http://hnn.us/articles/7106.html

If one of my patients frequently said one thing and did another,
I would want to know why. If I found that he often used words
that hid their true meaning, and affected a persona that obscured
the nature of his actions, I would grow more concerned. If he
presented an inflexible worldview characterized by an oversimplified
distinction between right and wrong, good and evil, allies and enemies,
I would question his ability to grasp reality. And if his actions
revealed an unacknowledged--even sadistic--indifference to human
suffering, wrapped in pious claims of compassion, I would worry
about the safety of the people whose lives he touched.
<snip> Drinkers turn to alcohol to suppress anxiety.
The untreated alcoholic who has simply stopped drinking treats
anxiety as an enemy, and with good reason: He is often more
challenged by anxiety because he has lost his time-tested means
of numbing its sting. .... Bush manages his anxiety through his
inflexible daily routines--the famously short meetings, sacrosanct
exercise schedule, daily Bible readings, and limited office hours.
All public appearances are controlled and staged--even the ones
that appear to be spontaneous. They have to be.
But when routines fail, denial kicks in as the treatment of choice
to manage the potential development of internal chaos. The habit of
placing blame and denying responsibility is so prevalent in... Bush's personal history that it is apparently triggered by even the mildest threat....
<snip>

[LuckyLib]

82. Thanks, Hekate, I'll check that book out. Sounds like we have

ourselves a tangle of pathology in the White House.

[Fierce]

59. A presidential coin?

Betcha he thought it was legal tender.

[TaleWgnDg]

60. My kid was killed in Bush's Iraq War and all I get from Bush is . . .

.



a "presidential coin" together
w/ Bush's terse "Don't go selling it on eBay now." ?!?!?!

.

[klook]

62. What a card that Bush is!

This one, to be exact:

[nam78_two]

64. I miss Clinton/I miss Gore/nt

[Rex]

65. Awww...little pissant wants to be a general.

To bad he can't hold water. I bet Bush pisses himself on a daily basis. Loser.

[WI_DEM]

66. Bush is a total asshole. Does Tweety and the other "pundits" still

think everybody wants to sit down and have a beer with this overgrown frat boy?

[DemonFighterLives]

67. Such a fine example of a Christian

I suppose he believed the Welfare mothers line from Saint Ronnie. Don't go takin your Cadillac down to e-bay.
What a dork! This is right up there with his mimicking of Karla Fay Tucker= "Don't kill me," he said with his lip all twisted up.

There is nothing nice about a joker like this. She should have made him eat his damn gold trinket.
:argh:

[JI7]

69. just another example of what a disgusting fuckwad he is

cold heartless hateful piece of shit.

[NMMNG]

70. WTF?

Don't they realize the "presidential coins" are for moronic freepers to keep in special cases and take out to masturbate over, not to give to people who just expressed their disdain for Dimson and his moronic actions?

What's next, giving grieving Iraqis a copy of the Bible?

[freedomburn]

71. If this shiny piece of metal won't assuage your pain over the death...

...of your son, then perhaps my glib and insulting statement will.

Oh and I don't know any details on why your son died. They don't tell me anything unless I screw up, then they tell me I can't meet with people anymore.

[NMMNG]

95. He is a real piece of work

He doesn't deserve to be picking up peoples' trash let alone be President.

[goclark]

73. Go my Sister ~ you go ,go, go! nt

[HysteryDiagnosis]

75. Adolescent. n/t

[Benhurst]

76. Poor Bush. So many dead soldiers and so little time. NT

[ananda]

77. Bush says:

Gawd, can't get a good photo op from anybody anymore.

Screw em.

[Fridays Child]

78. "Don't go selling this on eBay???" He is pathologically disconnected...

...from reality. That's the only explanation for such a bizarrely callous remark to a grieving mother.

[BeachBuckeye]

79. Names? Confirmation? I'd love to get her on my show!

If you have any info on the ID of this woman please PM me.

[Heidi]

81. I'm going to write to FreespeechTV to ask if a video is online

and to make a small contribution.

Here's their contact page: http://www.freespeech.org/html/contact.shtml

:kick:

[UTUSN]

84. Atlanta Independent Media Center - I've Googled & their links are dead

I've tried Googling the Atlanta Idependent Media Center, but the links to them are dead. I haven't checked the Free Speech calendar beyond Monday for any more re-runs. Probably the lady was identified when she was introduced at the rally. All I can say is you might contact Free Speech t.v. or the Atlanta Independent Media Center. That's all I've got. No idea when the episode was dated. Sounds like a series, so it might be fairly current.


Post #53 (from the DU thread):
Sorry, wish I had thought of the Free Speech schedule before this. It re-ran at 7 P.M. (EST?) (Saturday, 8-5). I don't see any more airings Sunday, Monday...

The program I saw was "Another Media IS Possible #02". Perhaps contacting Atlanta Independent Media Center?


*******QUOTE*******
http://www.freespeech.org/schedule/index.php?date=20060...

12:00pm Another Media IS Possible #02

7:00pm

Another Media IS Possible is the television series of the Atlanta Independent Media Center.

********UNQUOTE*******

[stubtoe]

80. What a pompous ass.

and THAT's a description I usually reserve for the likes of Limbaugh. Oh wait ...

[Quantess]

86. Is there a link to this article?

I'd like to read it, if there is.

[UTUSN]

90. No link. It's a summary of what I saw on FSTV. See o.p. & posts #53 & 84nt

[proud2BlibKansan]

87. What a dickhead

How the hell can anyone NOT see what an ass he is??

[gulliver]

89. Can we get this on CBS? This kind of story that resonates.

Not to denigrate "Free Speech TV," but a blatant example of flip disrespect to a Gold Star Mother needs to be on CBS. "Don't go selling it on eBay now." Bush should be asked about it at his next news conference.

[guinivere]

91. Oh! I don't even have the words.

(insert long string of expletives here) !

[Lisa]

98. guess he couldn't resist showing off his knowledge of the "internets"

After all, it's all about him, isn't it! Cindy Sheehan observed that he treats these gatherings as if they are festive parties, so I have to say that I wouldn't be surprised if he actually did utter this quip.

[lpbk2713]

100. What a contemptible idiot. It would only take a rethuglican to do this.

Every time I hear about him pulling some stunt like this I think to myself 'he won't ever be able to top this one'. But I'll be damned if he doesn't just come up with one that surprises me anyway. Please wake me when it's January 2009.

[RamboLiberal]

101. Here's one of Shrub giving a coin to a wounded soldier

Wonder if he made the EBay Crack? I wish this poor mother had made this public immediately after it happened.


President George W. Bush places a Presidential coin into the hand of Specialist Jeremy Lee as the Dallas soldier's mother, Garla Grubbs, right, and sister, Dana Lee, look on Friday, July 1, 2005. The moment came during the President's visit to the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, where Specialist Lee is recovering from wounds suffered while serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom. White House photo by Eric Draper

[Disturbed]

104. I am pleased that this is still on the board.

Topics disappear quickly here but this one has maintained interest. It should stay for a few days because it shows what an Asshole Busholin really is. He has no concept that his little joke is truely offensive. He is a Sociopath and this typifies that.

[calimary]

107. Well, then, let me help by kicking it.

What a damnable, contemptible, sadistic cretin. WHO ON EARTH with even a semi-clear mind and conscience could see this asshole as a "good Christian man"? Is this the kind of thing a "good Christian man" says to a bereaved mother - whose son's death HE caused?

"Don't go selling it in Ebay now"????? What? Like YOU sold your soul to the frickin' DEVIL, george? Then again, everything is in some way or other merely about buying and selling with him, isn't it. It's just bidniss.


:grr:

[warrens]

106. Another vicious, nasty, petulant comment from the Punk

And what a punk he is.

[Raine]

110. chimp can't help himself

from saying asinine comments he's an IDIOT with 'foot in mouth disease'.:silly: x(

[Flying Dream Blues]

111. There are no words. This makes me angry, but even more,

it makes me sad that we have all been subjected to this vile creature as our "leader," while being told by people who ought to know better that he's a great man. I'm just so sad that we are still here in this hell.
:cry: