Why Big George Broke Down Over Medium George?

[kentuck]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thomas-de-zengotita/why-big-george-broke-down_b_35643.html

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Down in Florida today, in case you missed it, Bush #I broke into tears while talking about his elder son Jeb's stoicism in the face of an election defeat--back in 1994.

Why break down and cry about that little piece of ancient history? Perhaps this is a clue: his moment of cracking came as he said that the "true measure of a man" is how you handle "victory and defeat."

Well, obviously, he wasn't really talking about Jeb. It was all about W.

Little George is hopeless, and always has been--and Big George knows it, and always has, and so has the whole family. Medium George may be nothing special, but he is a grown-up and, most important, he displays that wire-jaw air of moderated self-possession that is the very definition of Wasp manhood in the privileged precincts wherein the Bush tribe dwells.

Jeb was always the heir apparent. He was supposed to be The One.

Little George, on the other hand, was a profound embarrassment to the Bush clan, drunk or sober, oozing and leaking uncontrollable emotions, in triumph and defeat, ever since he earned his mother's lasting scorn throwing his tennis racket to the ground after flubbing shots on country club courts back when you had to wear whites to play that urgent (but discretely so) pong-ponging game with those who bore so effortlessly the grace of timeless class.

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[majorjohn]

1. One Bush is no different than another

They're two faces of the same coin.

[madokie]

13. Yes its a coin where you get the head on one side and the ass on the other

[marmar]

2. Because it's a family full of freaks....

:freak: :freak: :freak: :freak:

[IChing]

4. Sick family and their development and caring of the most unfortunate

The differences in how he treats the "bright" one vs the "dim" one shows that this family has got some major issues. Dimson wanted to fight his dad one night after coming home drunk. Brightson wanted to please his daddy growing up and asked for advice.

The mother, what can we say about her?

"But why should we hear about body bags, and deaths, and how many, what day it's gonna happen, and how many this or what do you suppose? Or, I mean, it's, it's not relevant. So, why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that"

The story is there.

[TahitiNut]

3. It's an overwhelming attitude of entitlement - self-denial unknown.

These are people for whom the tragedies of others are as nothing. They can watch ten million people lose the chance for meaningful work, but deny them their "rightful" election or re-election and they throw a tantrum. Bush41's melodrama was nothing but a tantrum of someone who's too old to engage in the kicking and screaming from a prone postion. He's 'learned' how to throw a tantrum vertically and call it compassion. Bush41 couldn't even get the word "defeat" out of his craw ... thinking back, no doubt, to however many days he spent screaming about being beaten by Clinton.

They just don't see the world the way 98% of the rest see it. To them, it's a world of sycophants, entitlements, servants, compliant employees, and untold wealth extracted from the blood, sweat, and tears of others.

It was an abysal display of self-gratification and self-service ... foreign to sane people.

[Demobrat]

5. The man needs something to really cry about.

A grandchild dead in Iraq, for instance. Even that wouldn't begin to attone for the misery this evil man and his spawn have caused in the world. May the whole family rot. Preferably before they die.

[Bluerthanblue]

6. good article Kentuck- big George isn't as foolish as * , and karma

is comin full circle.
He can't pretend anymore- and can't avoid knowing that his offspring has done more harm to this world than any other president in the history of this nation.

I believe in a twisted kind of way, this was as close as he might be able to come to apologizing for what * has done- and to 'dis'-ing him. * is as arrogant and snide to his father and brother as he is to everyone- Don't think I'm justifying 41- I'm NOT- but even he knew not to pull Saddam out of power- he didn't come out in support of this "Iraq" war as I recall- but maybe I'm wrong-

I'd be so disapointed and ashamed if * were my son- and the weight and responsibility of my 'role' in his existance and actions would be a yoke heavier than I could carry I believe.

What I heard in his words, and body language was "god, how i wish george had had the sense to have accepted his loss in 2000 without all the arm-twisting and manipulation- I didn't think it would have gotten this far out of control- what have i unleashed?"

I think it's very possible he sees reality, and the future, and it ain't bright-

[kentuck]

15. I do think he was crying for George - not Jeb.

I agree with you. He sees the damage done.

[Dulcinea]

16. I bet he wonders every day where he went wrong.

This is just the first time we've ever seen him cry in public over how badly he & Babs screwed up with Boy George.

[Stardust]

7. Maybe he was remembering his own loss...

[Sydnie]

8. I said that yesterday myself

If you listen to the speech he was trying to make, and note the times that he broke down and the words he was trying to get out when he did, there is no way that anyone could think that he was talking about anyone other than blivet**. As for the defeat portion of the speech, I think he was revisiting the comment he made before the election about not being able to conceive of the problems that blivet** would have to endure should they be defeated in the midterms.

He knows what's coming ... and he knows junior deserves every bit of it ... just as he knew Nixon was getting what he deserved as well.

[Canuckistanian]

9. Maybe he knows something's coming after him, too

After all, Cheney and Rummy were from the old Reagan/Bush eras. Maybe if the coming investigations lead into those dark corners, Poppy might be dragged in himself.

[brook]

11. I believe

you've seen the truth. At least, that's my gut impression. He knows his dynasty is dead. And every dirty deed he's done to create it is liable to be exposed. It's the end of life as he knows it. "Bush" has become a pejorative...no more comparisons with the Adamses.

[Rageneau]

12. Senators, VPs, Reps, CIA Chiefs, Prezes, Govs, -- all gone now.

The BFEE has had more influece and held more high offices than any other family in American history. And they made zillions while doing so.

But now it's all over. After Smirk, no one will ever vote for a Bush again.

Poor Jeb is the one who really suffers.

But he won't suffer enough. NONE of the Bushes will EVER suffer enough!

[BlueIris]

14. Well, maybe they won't suffer enough in the corporeal world.

But in my humble opinion, as one who believes in an afterlife, when they get to said afterlife...it's not going to be very much fun for them. A friend of mine has predicted that they'll get reincarnated as amoebas.

[raysr]

10. Maybe all this disappointment

in W will prove to be too much for the head of the BFEE. We can hope, can't we?