Frist really does not seem to understand that no one wants him to be president

[BurtWorm]

Unless he's making his home look like the White House because he knows that will never be his actual address.


http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/04/washington/04mansion.html?ei=5094&en=10da351b507ba245&hp=&ex=1162702800&partner=homepage&pagewanted=print

November 4, 2006
Looking Presidential at Home in Nashville, Whether He Runs or Not
By THEO EMERY

NASHVILLE, Nov. 3 — In the wealthy Whitland neighborhood here, political signs dot the manicured lawns, but neighbors typically maintain a polite distance, keeping their affairs private behind towering magnolia trees, hedgerows and stone walls.

Still, residents and passing motorists cannot help but peer behind the high green fence that screens renovations under way at 703 Bowling Avenue.

It is not just the sheer size of the project, which has turned the Georgian Revival house into one of the neighborhood’s largest. Nor is it simply the fact that it is the home of the retiring majority leader of the United States Senate, Bill Frist. After all, Senator Lamar Alexander and former Vice President Al Gore both live nearby.

What has neighbors talking is the fact that the family home of Senator Frist, who is often talked about as a potential 2008 Republican presidential candidate, has taken on a resemblance to the dwelling at another high-profile address: 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington.

The similarity is so striking that George S. Buchanan, 63, a Republican-leaning neighbor whose home is separated from Mr. Frist’s 4.3-acre property by a street, said, “I live right next door to the White House.”

[NanceGreggs]

1. Yeah, I think this is the substitute ...

... because the real deal ain't ever gonna happen. Maybe he'll install a tape-loop as a doorbell, which plays "Hail to the Chief" every time he walks through the door.

[Sydnie]

2. ROFL!!!

That's some funny shit Nance!

[bluedeminredstate]

3. I envision Mrs. Frist

making a gown out of the draperies...

[skipos]

4. .

[cadmium]

9. weird perspective.

I know people who knew Frist yrs ago and I have met him -- when he appeared relatively normal. He was considered pretty smart and a little full of himself but totally decent. Ambition and Washington does something to people and Frist should have stayed away. We have a thread on when we first knew Bush was evil. I wonder when Frist went bad. He wasn't always a wackjob.

[skipos]

11. The guy admits that he used to adopt pets from the pound and do medical

experiments on them until they died. Sounds like a whack job from day 1 to me.

[cadmium]

12. It does sound wacked out but

it wasn't that unusual in the day. In med school at the time students used to kill animals (usually a dog) in lab with a shot of potassium while watching EKG's.

[skipos]

14. Yes "in lab." Frist enjoyed doing it at his home, even though he didn't need to.

Even he described his actions as "heinous and dishonest" in his book.

[cadmium]

15. OK I didn't read the book

I am referring to people who knew him on a day to day work level and my own experience talking with him 12-13 yrs ago.

You must know that a lot of people determined to be surgeons in those days did similar things--when they were young and irresponsible.

[skipos]

17. My wife is a doctor, and she has never hurt anyone or anything more than she had to.

Frist wasn't required to go to the pound and pretend that he was adopting animals as pets. He didn't need to experiment on them and kill them in his own home. His school provided all the materials he needed to be come a doctor. He thinks it was sick and so do I.

[cadmium]

19. You can have the last word -- I didn't say it wasnt sick

I said it was a weird perspective that I had. Most doctors wouldn't but a lot of young surgeon-wannabees in those days did do wierd things like that.

[cadmium]

20. You can have the last word -- I didn't say it wasnt sick

I said it was a weird perspective that I had. Most doctors wouldn't but a lot of young surgeon-wannabees in those days did do wierd things like that.

[warrior1]

5. dream on

frist

[Goblinmonger]

6. You don't think he might be compensating for something

do you?

What an assclown Frist is. There is a lot he doesn't seem to understand.

[Bunny]

7. He's quite the pretentious douchebag, isn't he?

:eyes: Dream on, Doktor.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

8. Even in shrub loving North Texas where I am, the shrub lovers talk about Frist

with open disdain. They consider him a no-personality loser who will never be president.

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

10. Don't want him for President, but I'd love to see him run

Big piles of dirt and $candal$ waiting to be revealed...

[cadmium]

13. Me too. He would be an easy adversary. I am afraid they will run someone who can win.

[GoneOffShore]

16. Yeah, like McCain

[pbartch]

18. He appears to me to be PERPETUALLY DEPRESSED

I'm no shrink but I think he speaks with a flat afflect. I bet he is on drugs cuz he is depressed. Can he sue me because I said this??? I don't care, I'm poor. He wouldn't get any money of me.

[cadmium]

22. I'm guessing that he knows he sold his soul

and that is depressing---especially since he know he will have nothing to show for it except maybe indictments.

[Bluebear]

21. "Hello? Mid-Tennessee Rose Company? I wanna plant a garden...."

Truly pathetic.