LBJ's Anguish - Bush's No Empathy - Check these photos

[RamboLiberal]

President Lyndon B. Johnson listens to tape sent by Captain Charles Robb from Vietnam. 07/31/1968


The woman in the hospital bed is Sgt. Carla Best, 659th Maintenance Company. She's from Virginia Beach. Her leg was paralyzed in Baghdad by a roadside bomb. She's going to lose it, but she doesn't know that yet. That's her mother on the left. The grinning visitor giving her the "you go get 'em, tiger" fist pump isn't riddled by self-doubt. Well, not riddled like shrapnel riddles.

He holds the same office Lyndon Johnson did, but it seems to give him a lot more job satisfaction. He has daughters about Sgt. Best's age. Their legs work.

If the man in the picture is feeling an iota of empathy for the woman he's crippled, he's certainly not getting all mushy about it. It's not making him wonder if he's ever made a mistake.

Whatever it is he is feeling, it is not remorse.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-kelly/hannibal-rising-_b_35995.html

I wonder if we will ever see photos from the Bush WH like we did of the anguish shown by thinking/feeling presidents - I sincerely doubt it.

[dchill]

1. What good would empathy do...

a (man) whose main purpose is to bring about Armageddon? And on the side, make profits for his (Arab) oil buddies and (Halliburton) contractor buddies? Empathy might cause doubt, and I doubt he would permit or admit that. Empathy is for surrender monkeys.

[thereismore]

2. Those GI's and teddy bears in the background make the scene bizarre.

Well, they and the mo-fo.

[RamboLiberal]

3. Actually those GI's are the Women's Airforce Service Pilots (WASP)

from WWII in that picture in the background in front of a B-17 bomber they ferried. Heckuva story on their own and I would guess something put up to cheer up this young female soldier.

[sweetpotato]

4. This one' s almost too easy...

LBJ was anguished because we were losing the war in Viet Nam.

* is all upbeat because we are winning the war in Iraq.

You'd think we'd all get that by now. :sarcasm: