2003 George W. Bush interview about 9/11: "...we got a laugh out of it."

[elehhhhna]

(I will repost this on 9/11 every year until I die. Elena)


Noonan: You were separated on September 11th. What was it like when you saw each other again?

Mrs. Bush: Well, we just hugged. I think there was a certain amount of security in being with each other than being apart.

President Bush: But the day ended on a relatively humorous note. The agents said, "You'll be sleeping downstairs. Washington's still a dangerous place." And I said no, I can't sleep down there, the bed didn't look comfortable. I was really tired, Laura was tired, we like our own bed. We like our own routine. You know, kind of a nester. Like the way things are. I knew I had to deal with the issue the next day and provide strength and comfort to the country, and so I needed rest in order to be mentally prepared. So I told the agent we're going upstairs, and he reluctantly said okay. Laura wears contacts, and she was sound asleep. Barney was there. And the agent comes running up and says, "We're under attack. We need you downstairs," and so there we go. I'm in my running shorts and my T-shirt, and I'm barefooted. Got the dog in one hand, Laura had a cat, I'm holding Laura --

Mrs. Bush: I don't have my contacts in, and I'm in my fuzzy house slippers --

President Bush: And this guy's out of breath, and we're heading straight down to the basement because there's an incoming unidentified airplane, which is coming toward the White House. Then the guy says it's a friendly airplane. And we hustle all the way back upstairs and go to bed.

Mrs. Bush: And we just lay there thinking about the way we must have looked.

Noonan: So the day starts in tragedy and ends in Marx Brothers.

President Bush: That's right -- we got a laugh out of it.

From Ladies Home Journal
http://www.lhj.com/style/covers/george-w-bush-and-laura-bush/?page=6

[ellie]

1. Un-fucking-believable

I hate that asshole.

[elehhhhna]

2. Never forget.

that single interview contains the perfect distillation of that bastard

[sakabatou]

3. Fuckng sociopath.

[Chemisse]

4. I really don't think I laughed at all that day, for any reason

But that was just me.

I guess Bush was a little more carefree.

[rainbow4321]

11. Ditto...

It took what seemed like several weeks before I even wanted to go out and do something casual (see movie, out to eat, etc...). It just seemed so wrong. I didn't even care that the last several hours of my shift at work the day after got cancelled and I was sent home. Watching 24/7 coverage of the aftermath was where I wanted to be.
And to think asswipe chimpster was tucking himself into bed worried about a lumpy mattress and giggling.

[Maru Kitteh]

15. I didn't laugh for weeks. I didn't feel normal for more than a month.

[Arugula Latte]

17. My husband and I were recalling how sick we felt for days after ...

Walked around in a depressed haze, not really knowing what to do with ourselves.

[Ikonoklast]

5. No matter what ever happens, it's always about *him*.

Narcissist sociopath.

[Octafish]

6. 2001: ''A fabulous year for Laura and me.''

At the end of the year, Bush said 2001 turned out, all in all, pretty well:

"But all in all, it's been a fabulous year for Laura and me. We're so grateful to be living in this compound and I'm grateful to be working in this office. It's a joy to walk in here every morning, realizing that I'm the President of the greatest country on the face of the Earth.

LINK BUSTED, but for history, the original source was the White House:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/12/20011221-2.html

[Ilsa]

7. I couldn't sleep well for several days. All I felt was death around us.

I honestly felt like the nation was haunted by the unexpected deaths. I can't believe they found anything funny that day. What heartless people.

[felinetta]

8. Oh yeah, I have the original Ladies Home Journal article. I always wanted this on billboards across

the country.  I had an election party and one of the
"gifts" in the party bags, was this article.
I think this should have been read today. 

[orleans]

9. i remember that--what a disgusting, disgraceful asshole n/t

[rainbow4321]

10. "the bed didn't look comfortable"

"I knew I had to deal with the issue the next day"

What a fuckwad...guess it never crossed his (inherited) beautiful mind that thousands of family members probably didn't even go to bed that night (and many nights that would follow) because their loved one was MISSING under a pile of rumble.
But not chimpass..no, HE was worried about being UNCOMFORTABLE in his bed. I imagine if a national disaster ever happens on the current POTUS' watch HE wouldn't even THINK of heading to bed, HE'D be in a command center all night and then some.

[Stevenmarc]

20. Pickles knew he couldn't sleep downstairs because it was too close to the liquor cabinet

[Control-Z]

12. Who worries about

they way they look on a day like that? Who worries about the bed they get to sleep in? Who the fuck finds anything to giggle about?

I keep thinking that my anger and hatred for the man is subsiding, and then again I am reminded...and the anger and hatred actually grows.

[Mnemosyne]

13. Never forget... KnR Thanks elehhhhna. n/t

[gratuitous]

14. Noonan? Peggy Noonan? Yup!

Right down there between George's thighs, head bobbing madly.

[Rude Dog]

16. Well, thank you.

There's a disgusting image I won't be able to get out of my head, ever.

And I needed to sleep tonight, too.

[onethatcares]

18. Never forget, Never

never forget 9/11/01 and who was in charge of the country that day, never forget hurricane Katrina and who was in charge of the country that day,

Never forget how the person in charge of the country on those days acted,

[elehhhhna]

19. shameless a/m/ kick

[lunatica]

21. Actually that's the way Bush looked all day on that day

He sat there like the idiot he is holding My Pet Goat while gazing stupidly into middle air. He read a simpleton note to the public just before he took the Presidential airplane all over the country in his zig-zagging attempt to 'stay out of harms way'. Poor fella! Of course he was yearning for his bed and for the lump in it.

Actually, he always looks like the village idiot. That day was no different. No one can say he's inconsistent.

[Stephanie]

22. I was up all night, walking over to St. Vincents every hour or so

Where a crowd was waiting, hoping that some survivors would be brought to the hospital. Doctors and nurses outside the ER entrance with stretchers, waiting for hours. No survivors arrived.

[alphafemale]

23. I hope he gets a REALLY uncomfortable bed one day.

With a "roommate" that wants to slide him a fuzzy slipper.

[buzzycrumbhunger]

24. Kicking just for the hell of it

Hardly seems right it should only be paraded one day a year.