Poppy breaks down slobbering again.

[MilesColtrane]

I'm looking for vid now.

There was a story on the ABC Evening News that showed the dedication of the new Billy Graham library in N. Carolina.
Jimma Carter, Bubba, and Poppy were all on hand to fete Jesus' Right Hand Pompadoured Man.

We were treated to about 7 seconds of video of Carter's and Clinton's speeches.

Then they showed GHB Bush start to speak and he just started blubbering uncontrolably.

Whatever meds he's on ain't working.

It must be tough, knowing that you were the most powerful man in the world at one point.
Now the inevitable gaping maw of the grave is approaching as the years go by and your legacy will be for one thing, and one thing only: The Worst President in the History of the United States was spawned from your loins.

Poor Poppy. His own mediocre reign will be soon forgotten, overshadowed by the swath of destruction in the wake of his idiot son's two terms.

[Kurovski]

1. Stop! You're breakin' my heart!

:rofl:

[cynatnite]

2. The man is just getting old...I think that's a lot of it...

plus everyone's so mean to his boy.

[Kurovski]

5. Now you've made me feel guilty.

I hereby promise to be 4% less mean to his l'il one.

[cynatnite]

7. I'm holding you to that...

you can't call him any names for the next five minutes. :rofl:

Good luck.

[Kurovski]

9. Just calibrating the time here...

hold on...

[Kurovski]

10. George Bush...

is a sour-pickle-peckered mother fucker.

Now prove me wrong.

[tavalon]

82. Wow, it's easy to guilt you!

I don't feel the least little bit of that emotion. Cold amusement is the best I can muster for that waste of protoplasm and his bastard offspring. I guess my compassion well has run dry on that topic.

[Kurovski]

85. Catholic upbringing.

Too empathetic.

Jesus messed with my head.

But give me two more years of this national horseshit and I'll hopefully have completely dispensed with such foolishness.

[tavalon]

92. Ah yes, the Catholic chipset

I got the Southern Baptist Chipset but it was installed too late in my development. It didn't take and it caused some conflict with my operating system. Eventually, I had it removed. Life is better without the IP conflicts.

[Nevernose]

95. I just shut the damned machine off.

These days I'm a Unitarian. When I feel like it, and I wake up in time. :)

Funny post, btw.

[tavalon]

97. I'm Pagan but if I lived closer to a UU church, I would go

Heck, I'll support any church that accepts Pagans, Athiests and Polyamorists, Oh My! :hi:

[Kurovski]

96. My chip was wonky.

Still is.

But there's no time to talk about my renegade family. Today is dear Poppy's day in the spotlight.

[MissWaverly]

105. too bad you didn't have a catholic upbringing

you had to put 1 token in the box to indicate that you wanted communion, the catholics had locked voting boxes before anybody,
and the concept that everybody had a choice was ingrained.

[emilyg]

15. You are right.

[Bucky]

32. Sure he's old (same age as Carter, but gets less exercise), but there's a reason for his crying

It's been recorded that he took his loss in 1992 much worse than most rejected presidents (Nixon, Hoover, and Carter all got over it and quickly bounced back--Hoover and Carter did some of their best public service after being president). I read in a couple of places how he felt vindicated personally by his son's "election" in 2000 (sure, we know it's a mirage, but the man was grasping for straws). In fact, from his conflicts with Noriega and Saddam we saw a lot of Poppy Bush's tendency to personalize conflicts--the need to personally best each of his opponents--and the tendency to derive emotional satisfaction from these conflicts.

Now, I'll give Bush pere credit where it's due. He ran his wars excellently. He cultivated partnerships, he maintained ties, he built his case for war on popular opinion and didn't quit trying when support for the war reached 51%, and he didn't drive all the way to Baghdad when the experts said it would destablizet the region. True, he fucked the Kurds pretty bad in the process, but this paragraph is about what he did right.

The problem is that what he did right has been entirely unraveled by his offshoot. Bush pere made realistic decisions because, for all his psychological hang ups, he's a reasonable man with a good sense of the limitations of American power. He worked to earn his millions, so he has a realistic sense of what consequences are. What he spawned is a spoiled brat who never earned dick in his life (and yet somehow has Dick in his life), a half-formed man who has no understanding of consequences or limitations or responsibility.

Poppy Bush sought emotional vindication, and has invested a lot of his overly sentimental sense of self worth, in an incompetent dry drunk who may not even be dry anymore. Poppy is a smart enough man; he knows the damage his kid is doing to not only his legacy, but to the country and to the world as well. Yes, he's an old guy who's starting to go soft in public forums. But he's an old guy with a damn good reason to go all blubbery.

Hell, I'm not emotionally invested in Dubya at all and he sure makes me want to cry!

[Tyrone Slothrop]

39. "He worked to earn his millions"?

Are you kidding?

His daddy, the ex-senator/war profiteer (you know, the one who traded with the Nazis?), was on the board of directors at Dresser/Brown Brothers Harriman and gave him his first job.

He's just as much of a rich spoiled brat POS as his son.

[anitar1]

101. Plus the fact that the Rev. Sun whatever Moon has helped

him immensely with money. Poppy lectures ect and supports the Rev. Moon, just as Foulwell did.The good Rev. Moon owns quite a few craven creatures. I do not feel one instant of empathy for poppy.

[eridani]

79. Carter is probably in better shape because of all that nail-pounding--

--for Habitat for Humanity.

[fooj]

99. He WORKED to EARN his millions? If STEALING is considered work...

Poppy doesn't GIVE A DAMN about "the damage his kid is doing...to the country" OR "to the world".

Fuck him and fuck his "reasons" for going all "blubbery". He's a fucking cancer. Period.

[WinkyDink]

38. He's LUCKY he's getting old---IYKWIM.

[blm]

124. Poppy has always used the sensitive soul mask while working to enslave the globe

and shape it to fit the New World Order plan set up by him and his cronies around the world.

[Bluebear]

3. La Petite Quartet of DU plays "My Heart Cries For You"

:nopity:
:nopity:
:nopity:
:nopity:

[Hawkeye-X]

4. Lots of medical probs

http://www.doctorzebra.com/prez/g41.htm

[Kurovski]

11. He's being treated by a veterinarian?

:shrug:

[oldgrowth]

17. Did Barbara bite him again ?

[Kurovski]

56. Check for her rabies tag

amidst her strand of pearls.

It's there somewhere.

[yurbud]

6. you would think he'd be happy junior is making him look good by comparison

[Kurovski]

13. You'd think he'd be happy with such a loving, tender and kind

wife to compensate for his loser son.

[yurbud]

14. and he can use her face to chop wood

[Kurovski]

18. It's the perfect life.

So what the hell does that bastard have to cry about?

[yurbud]

40. maybe he was thinking of the last time he had relations with her

[Kurovski]

42. Ah yes.

Tears of loss over passion gone by.

Geez, talk about yer "hard werk."

[yurbud]

58. that would be like sawing wood only a little drier.

[Kurovski]

77. What is it with you and wood?

:rofl:

[yurbud]

94. sorry, I look at Barb and I think of those trees in the Wizard of Oz

and variations thereof.

[Kurovski]

98. You're mean.

She looks perfectly fine to me. Just look at these recent photos...

[yurbud]

118. Jesus! what's that middle one, a dolphin's sphincter?

[Kurovski]

123. No.

It's Babs in the morning.

Just before she dons her people-suit.

[yurbud]

126. so she's really the brain bug from starship troopers PIC

That must be why Baby Bush bases his foreign policy on that movie--it reminds him of mom.

[Kurovski]

127. There's a striking resemblance, I must say.

But she's actually Mom in Futurama.



Here are the Bush boys she's so fond of slapping around:



And a pic of Mom sans her fat suit:



And here she is in her earthling disguise:


"I'm off to some charity BS for knocked-up teenaged sluts".

--We must never tell ANYONE that we know this, yurbud. Do you understand?

[SammyWinstonJack]

45. Everyone mistreats his son? No one understand that his son is a good man?

:sarcasm: :eyes: :puke: How much has his wealth increased since his little brat has been pResident, I wonder.

[Kurovski]

47. But remember, their is no greater wealth

than the love of family. And as Bab's often tells Poppy, "There is nothing better for thee, than me".

We've been told by Poppy's little junior mint that history will reveal what a great pretzeldent he was. Thank God history is so nonchalant about reality, huh?

[SammyWinstonJack]

48. LOL! "little junior mint". Priceless!

:evilgrin: :rofl:

[Kurovski]

50. And here I thought the Quaker Oats reference would be the killer.

:shrug: :hi:

[SammyWinstonJack]

63. Well that ranks right up there!

:evilgrin:

[Madspirit]

72. "little junior mint"

You really ought to win something for that. It's truly great.
Lee

[Kurovski]

78. My bags are packed

for an all-expense paid trip to Gitmo.

[Kurovski]

128. I'm turning myself in to the grammar police,

"their" should be "there".

[yurbud]

8. Reporter should ask baby bush: "Does it bother you that your dad will be remembered as an average

or better president while you will go down in history as the undisputed worst without even a distant second?"

[Staph]

12. MSNBC has the video

at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18954810/

Launch the video -- Poppy speaks at about the 30 second mark, and loses it in about ten seconds. I almost feel sorry for the man.

Almost.

[tularetom]

21. Silly old fart - BTW check out Billy's barn in that video

Big friggin cross on the end of it.

[symbolman]

24. They cut him off

claimed he "sobbed" near the end.. you can tell he was Blubbering WAY more than they give credit for, more media propaganda, the old fart is SENILE. Shit, they had him on the Halycon (sp?) when he was in office, and as one person put it, "Bush was seeing Giant Methodist Spiders everywhere.."

These people are CRACKED, the whole lot of them.. the Madness of King George, but at least HIS nuttiness had a reason, these suckers are JUST PLAIN MEAN..

If only there was such a thing as a "retroactive abortion", he could make the world a safer place.

Couldn't you have just had another BEER that Night Old man? Maybe Cried in Babs arms instead of inseminating her that fateful evening? I think the wrong kid died early in that family.. when they lost the daughter, and immediately went out on the town. Sicko perverts the whole bunch of them, all the way back to the Nazi DEALER.

[opihimoimoi]

25. I saw the clip....the ole guy was a blubbering, lowered his head and the sobs///clip

they cut the damn thing....

Well, in my book, he never was Stable....who could be married to babbles??? and look at their spawn...all evil pigs...oops. sorry Porky....

Lose a kid and then go play golf....sicko fuckers....

[Kurovski]

43. Maybe he'll start unburdening his conscience?

He can start with that day in Dallas a few decades back.

[kath]

121. Yeah, let's hear more about Nov 22, 1963 - he's probably the only person in the whole country over

the age of 5 that day who says he can't remember where he was when he heard that JFK had been shot.
And, oh yeah, he was "out of the loop" with Iran-Contra.

Lying scumbag sonuvabitch.

[Major Hogwash]

16. His breaking down in public all the time is beginning to make him look like he is senile.

Bush senior turns 83 on June 12th and I think his handlers should start limiting his public speaking engagements.

Nothing is as pathetic as a senile, old man breaking down while talking in public.
When Reagan was that old they stopped letting him make public appearences.

[sam sarrha]

19. the closer you get to your death the more the ghosts of your past start to haunt you

this is going to be like the scene from Ghost when the black things drag him down to hell, and he knows it is coming

[nebenaube]

107. you know it true! n/t

[WritersBlock]

46. My Dad turns 84 today, and he's far from senile. Of course, his conscience is in a lot better shape

than 41's, too, and I think that has everything to do with it. :toast:

[Kurovski]

52. Happy birthday to dad!

And a toast to (mostly) clean-living. :toast:

Edit: I love how you capitalized the "D" in dad. :-)

[diane in sf]

20. Probably feeling guilty for all the terrible things he's done to the whole world. eom

[mwb970]

28. He bears the burden of vile offspring.

My God, look at the pathetic position Poppy's in. He's old. His single term as president is forgotten. His wife is a hag. His children are failures and criminals, with the worst one responsible for daily treasonous attacks on America. He has done nothing to control any of them.

Poppy has failed his country. Big time.

[bowens43]

22. the entire family is unstable. nt

[Philosoraptor]

23. Those bush men are mighty weepy alright.

[malaise]

26. Cry me a fugging river n/t

[EFerrari]

27. The prospect of shortly roasting in hell must be overwhelming. n/t

[Ganja Ninja]

29. Why can't this guy just crawl into a bottle like his kid and

suppress all his guilt and regrets. The blubbering is getting old.

[Bridget Burke]

30. "inevitable gaping Maw"?

I'd cry too.

[SammyWinstonJack]

36. She should wear a scarf.

:puke:

[pink-o]

66. The one and only time I'd recommend a Burka!

[Silence Dogood]

70. The lost daughter of the Clampitts-

Babs Clam-pitt.

[xultar]

31. he's the father of the man that has ruined a superpower and effed up the world.

The guy better be cryin...and beggin for forgiveness.

[charlie]

33. That would make him cry?

I'd find it easier to believe it's because his bunions hurt.

[peekaloo]

34. His New World Order was hijacked by his Short Order Crook of a son.

Boo hoo.

[Octafish]

35. Head of America's Gestapo Crying?

There's good reason.

[Swamp Rat]

37. Tears made of acid

:hi:

[Kurovski]

49. Maybe it's his hormones?

It's becoming clearer by the decade that men are unfit for jobs like the presidency.

[Binka]

108. My Inner Bitch Needs A Day Out K Most Men Aren't Fit To Take Out The Trash

Jesus I really dislike the Y chromosome these days darling.

[Kurovski]

111. HEY BABY!!!

It's so GD farckin' good to see you! :hug: :bounce: :D :hug:

It's understandable, but heal up from the time served with that sick shitbag and a sweet hot number is bound to come your way.
It's a sad state of affairs, but I'd vet the next one's past.

How are the kids? We were very glad to hear that Ben was staying stateside.

[Binka]

112. I'm At The Library Honey

Me and Missy P have been riding the poor train! LOL! I should get a computer set up in my home next week, then we can really chat. Love you!!

[Kurovski]

115. All your DU pals will be looking forward to that computer installation.

Love to you and the kids. :loveya:

[fooj]

100. He's SCARED shitless.

When the American people find out what these f*cking monsters have done to our country...well...

Poppy knows things aren't going as planned.

Tick, tick, tick...

[Binka]

109. Hi Fooj

My favorite DUers are all over this thread!:loveya:

[fooj]

116. Hey lady!

:pals:

It's great to hear from you! How's Ben? And the little one? Can't wait for you to get that puter up and running so we can chat more often! :hi:

[WI_DEM]

41. Poppy can't help it--he understands how everybody hates the chimp and that the families name is mud

[Ganja Ninja]

44. Crying?!! There's no crying in world domination.

:nopity:

[pitohui]

51. he's old and has been using drugs for many, many years

that was a pretty heavy drug he was on that made him puke on the japanese prime minister back in the day

that shit catches up to you

no pity here, frankly

i realize he must suffer some terrible guilt, maybe not for his kid, but apparently for his terrible response to hurricane andrew, and he is working that out trying to help today's storm and disaster victims, so i'll give him some cred for trying to work out that karma

more than that, i can't do, the man was evil and stupid as president, and the son is child of the father

[Hubert Flottz]

53. He's sad because he has been too wimpy all his life to tame the

shrew.

[Kurovski]

54. He just might be in for a spanking.

The thought sickens me, but there it is.

[nolabels]

55. Just goes to show how most of the dysfunctional BFEE really is in the long run.

Poppy's failed presidency being eclipsed by a magnitude of ten by his own son must be making him think :shrug:

[truth2power]

57. Pathological crying....

I did some digging because something was nagging at me about this. It seems that so-called "pathological crying" (and/or laughing) are symptomatic of various Organic Brain Disorders i.e. stroke, tumors, various types of dementias.

For some reason, every article I accessed, you had to pay to read, so I couldn't get any detail.

All kidding aside, :silly: I think the old guy is suffering from some sort of physiological process.

[ljm2002]

64. It's a known symptom of strokes...

...but the way I heard it described was not "pathological crying" but rather, the inability to control one's emotional expressions. It can be quite revealing as to what a person's real feelings are. Therefore it would be interesting to track the specific events that have triggered GHWB's crying fits.

In any case, goodness knows he's got enough to cry about. As do the rest of us.

[truth2power]

104. You're right. I googled something like "crying" + "brain syndrome" and

all the links that came up had to do with "pathological crying". I hadn't heard that term, either.

I'm still looking for an article I can read without having to subscribe to some online medical journal or something.


edit> That would be "googled", not "goggled". More coffee...

[in_cog_ni_to]

59. BOO FUCKING HOO! He's blubbering because he knows his psycho son has DESTROYED this country and

it's all his fault. Had he kept that evil penis in his pants...the psycho would never have been born. Fucker.

[kimmerspixelated]

60. Or, maybe

Someone finally found out he was the one responsible for what happened Nov.23, 1963. And he knows he's going to be nailed for it, even in his old age.

[BootinUp]

61. This post is killin me lol. n/t

[Grandrose]

62. Brilliant post!

Thanks for laugh out loud and does coffee hurt your keyboard!!!:spray: :rofl: :kick:

[ObamaNationYes]

65. You Guys, Quit Picking on Barbara Bush

She must have done something right...else why would they put her picture on the $100 Bill?!

[pink-o]

69. Hey!

Apologise to Ben Franklin right now!


:rofl:

[ObamaNationYes]

71. Yes, I apologize, and Zidzi must apologize to the Quaker Oats Dude nt

[Cha]

67. I would too if I spawned the devil

with the quaker oats dude.

[Tatiana]

68. Why so few recs? This post and the replies are awesome! n/t

[Virginia Dare]

73. Poppy's in the midst of a nervous breakdown..

and who could blame him? :shrug: He's got an idiot son who's destroying the world and Babs the dragonlady has probably been whomping him daily ever since the video of him squeezing Terry Hatcher's ass hit the internest.

[Kurovski]

83. Another sign of senility perhaps?

I must fight the guilt I'm feeling over lampooning a miserable old thief's growing decline.

[Binka]

110. NO Guilt K MORE Lampooning Stat! n/t

[Kurovski]

113. Another possibility as to why George senior is crying

might be because sticking one's finger too far up the proboscis can irritate the tear ducts.

Like son, like father? :shrug:

[The Backlash Cometh]

74. Lots of daddies are crying all over this country and in Iraq.

Lots more will cry before the wayward son ends his reign.

[dailykoff]

75. Thanks to idiot son all those TOP SECRETs and skeletons

in the closet Poppy thought he'd take to grave cuz he's such a smart little operative are gonna be public knowledge real soon.

Boo hoo ya psychopathic murderering traitor. :mad:

[libodem]

76. He's still boo hooin'

that George has botched Jeb's chance to continue the Plutocratic Legacy of Bushdoom. They are hiding, Jeb, in the bunker under Washington, to keep him from making any public mistakes before trotting him out as the front runner. What a group of miscreants that Republic tribe has got. Divorced, Senile, fanatic, rag-tag losers. Rove is busy at the D.C. Movie Production Company developing campaign propaganda on everybody. Something for every occasion. Jeb will be featured as the only human being alive that can keep that war rolling and the Military Industrial Complex pulsating Trillions for Cheney. We can't just waste all the resources we have pumped into Iraq, all those lives won't matter if we don't keep throwing more in after them.

[Kurovski]

81. Yep.

They should've run the lesser ass-clown first.

[lpbk2713]

80. His conscience must be bothering him in his twilight years.

He may be feeling badly for what evil his loins have brought upon the earth.

[mitchum]

84. Fuck him...pity he didn't drown in his goddamn tears

[Kurovski]

86. I see you've already come up with a boffo opening for his eulogy.

DU will be interesting to visit whence the creeping inevitable embraces George the Elder.

[mitchum]

87. And I look forward to a little "moisturizing" myself after the burial

[Kurovski]

88. Do it with Jim Beam,

his son's favorite boyfriend. That way you can honor both Poppy and his illustrious son's untreated alcoholism that so led a great nation to its very own broken-gutter bottom.

Now I'm crying.

[mitchum]

106. I'll be "kidney filtering" that Jim Beam before visiting Poppy's grave

[BrklynLiberal]

89. Boo-f**kin'-Hoo...

He's getting the Ronald Reagan disease. I hope he and his entire family suffer interminably..and that it is visited upon all his sons as well.

[Pryderi]

90. I wonder if Poppy still reads the CIA reports. I wonder what his friends say to him in private.

[Kurovski]

91. My understanding is that he does read them. (nt)

[Lugnut]

93. I hope Poppy lives forever.....

And his guilt, assuming he suffers any, eats him up for the rest of his days.

[Pace]

102. The Bushes always seem to not fit in, don't they?

As the Brits would say "tainted too much with the common touch". It seems to me, a monied family like the Bushes. packing up and moving to Texas post their inability to carry on the Prescott legacy in Connecticut, just leads me to believe that George Sr. didn't see himself competing in a level playing field in Connecticut. Also, if you look at Sr's career, he wasn't home much, which left Barbara to raise the kids. In fact, Barbara Bush completely disconnected herself from her own family in Scarsdale, the Pierce's, once she became a Bush. Even her own mother wasn't at her wedding. I read Barbara's autobiography years ago, and came to the conclusion, that "BG" "before george" there wasn't much she wished to recall.

In fact, her commentary on her days in New Haven, while he attended Yale, really highlights how polarized and isolated this family truly is. I am not surprised at George Sr's blubbering at this memorial, nor am I surprised at Grahamn's comments concerning this library. This is clearly a case of Franklin Grahamn, acting as a CEO, capitalizing on the assets that name brings. If humility were the real driver behind Grahamn's life long work, then this library pretty much destroys any of that, right?

Seems to me, there is a level of sincerity in Grahamn's lifeworks; whether you agree with it or not, pretty much doesn't matter. But Bush's emotional outburst just points to one thing; fear, all men are mortal and must face a creator at some point. Those could have been tears of fear, more than heartfelt emotion for Grahamn; If I were George Senior, and allowed my eldest to grow up like a wild weed, moreover, make him responsible for healing a mother's heart after the burial of child, I'd cry too.

George W Bush is a victim of his environment; and unfortunate for the rest of the Bush clan, there doesn't seem be any epiphanies coming their way in the near term future.

[KG]

103. he knows he's going to hell when he dies.

[BornagainDUer]

114. It reminds me of Lady Macbeth when she wanders around in a nightmare

with memories of the nefarious deeds she instigated. "Out, out, foul spot" she cries about blood on her hands.

She had her husband kill King Duncan to then place himself on the thrown. Did Poppy play the same role as Lady Macbeth in the assasination attempt on Reagan? Is October Surprise and the string of murders of those who sought to expose it creeping into his feeble mind?



What a sensation a deathbed confession would be.

[Vinca]

117. That darn Republican Blubbering Disease. nt

[dogday]

119. Those are tears of Joy, Pure Joy

After all, this war has been a gold mine for his companies and his friend's companies... If anything those are tears of joy as he counts his millions in his bank account....

[onecent]

120. I saw that. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. Not sure he has it

all together anymore.

[VOX]

122. Emotional responses can be amplified by strokes or dementia onset...

Not being a Bush apologist in any way, I'm just sayin'.

Years ago, my mom suffered a stroke that put her emotions right on the surface, and that included lots of crying at even modest stimuli.

[The Count]

125. Stop picking on his boy!