Former First Lady Barbara Bush Taken to Hospital for Tests

[Botany]

Source: Fox

HOUSTON -- It has been reported that Former First Lady Barbara Bush was taken to the emergency room at Methodist Hospital.

Several black unmarked cars escorted Barbara Bush, 83, and President George H.W. Bush to the hospital because she had been feeling ill for about a week.

Bush took several tests at the hospital as a precautionary measure, officials said. They have come back negative.

She is expected to be released later Tuesday to spend Thanksgiving with her family, officials said.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2008/11/25/lady-barbara... /

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[mitchum]

1. That old boozehound's liver was 190 proof

[hlthe2b]

6. You are on a roll, tonight....

Well, we know it can't be anything affecting her "beautiful mind."


'Hope she's ok. for multiple reasons.

[Wilms]

2. Be nice... n/t

[grasswire]

3. no comment (eom)

[bemildred]

"They came back negative."

Oh my God, does that means she is doomed?

[Muttocracy]

8. you're right, that is meaningless as written - negative for disease or negative for her? nt

[bemildred]

12. Well, Fox is a fountain of mindless drivel.

So I guess this is just business as usual. If they just said "She felt bad, but we have no idea why" it would at least make sense. I wish her good health and long life, for what it's worth.

[Botany]

will she get a cot in the Astrodome?

I am trying to be nice

[hlthe2b]

11. I'll be glad to set one up for her...

helpful... just trying to be helpful...

[Jamastiene]

64. It's routine for Republicans.

When they test for a heart, it usually does come back negative for them, because they don't have one.

[crim son]

4. Aging can suck.

I have nothing good to say about the woman, but I still hate to think about her suffering illness and inevitably, death. I hope she is okay.

[evlbstrd]

5. Tested for humanity?

[rosesaylavee]

14. Yes and the results were not a surprise.

[DJ13]

7. Im sure thats working very well for her there

[Mojambo]

9. She probably just needs to get her beautiful mind cleaned. n/t

[Muttocracy]

10. why emergency room - doesn't she have health insurance?! nt

[Olney Blue]

13. Hope she's OK.

[LeftyMom]

15. Hospital spokesman Dr. Julius Hibbert said "A routine soul smear tested positive for pure evil."

Further tests are underway to confirm presence of a previously undetected soul.

[Historic NY]

17. They found a soul?

[LeftyMom]

18. Probably a false positive. nt

[UpInArms]

16. be still my heart!

"Why should we hear about body bags and deaths and how many, what day it's going to happen, and how many this or what do you suppose? Oh, I mean, it's, not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?" - Barbara Bush (mother of GW Bush), 04/16/03

[dflprincess]

19. How nice that she can afford "test as a precautionary measure"

Except for preventative tests, my doctor usually has to back up ordering tests with a symptom or two. I wonder how long she sat in the emergency room before someone saw her.

[jrockford]

22. Must be nice, I agree nt

[tularetom]

20. You know she has more money than god so this is working out very well for her

[Hulk]

21. She'll be a lot happier sleeping in a hospital than in her own home...

...just like the people of New Orleans were so happy to spend their nights in the sports stadium after Katrina.

What an old battle ax.

[acmavm]

23. I thought the only things that could get to old Babs were things like

garlic, a crucifix, holy water, a wooden stake.

[natrat]

24. ma barker a little under the weather

[proud2BlibKansan]

25. Negative for what? No heart?

[tammywammy]

26. I wish her the best

I hope it's nothing serious.

[C_eh_N_eh_D_eh]

29. Me too.

I can't stand the woman myself, but severe illness isn't something I would wish on anyone.

[hlthe2b]

31. I'm trying...

If I could just get the images of those floating dead in NOLA post-Katrina-- set to the sound of her AstroDome comments-- out of my mind, it might be easier...

[tammywammy]

32. I will never wish ill on anyone

I don't care who they are.

[hlthe2b]

33. Not wishing ill on her does not equal forgetting

and I can not forget those poor people that were cast aside so willingly by her son, all the Republican ilck, and as a result of attitudes that she clearly shares.

I hope she recovers fully and lives a very long extended life. I hope she maintains her mental faculties so that she might develop some sense of contrition towards those she felt to be worthy of nothing more than her disdain.

[tammywammy]

34. I understand what you're saying. n/t

[Cronopio]

44. I wish Mrs. Bush and Her Beautiful Mind deserved your fine sentiment.

Instant karma is serious.

[Aviation Pro]

27. What?!? No obligatory Quaker Oats guy in this thread?!?

Ok, here it is:

[dflprincess]

28. I've always objected to that

The Quaker Oats guy has a face that seems to be kind and gentle.

[hlthe2b]

30. Plus, Quakers are pacifists...

Anyone think Babs is a pacifist?

[Mari333]

37. ..

[Aviation Pro]

43. Yer kidding me....

...that's not photoshopped?

[Whoa_Nelly]

35. The doctors are sorry to say, Mrs. Bush did not pass the IQ test.

But, they did determine she has been brain dead for years.

[Mira]

36. All have to say about this with very clenched teeth is that I am glad for Barbara Bush that

she or anybody around her had to never give a thought to if she can afford the GD ambulance ride or the tests in the hospital.

Now my teeth, which need work from previous clenching, hurt.

[codjh9]

38. It's hard to feel a lot of sympathy after what she said re: the Katrina victims who were in the

Astrodome - yes, the Astrodome, not the Superdome... after many had fled from La. to Tx. I forget what the quote was, and I'm not going to look it up right now, but it was almost like 'let 'em eat cake'. So I made up a joke: 'If we didn't know Bush was a son of a bitch before, now we do'.

[Baby Snooks]

42. That was the "Kodak" moment for a lot of people...

"And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this--this (she chuckles slightly) is working very well for them."

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_di...

You have to wonder if in a "humorous" moment she told Ronald Reagan that catsup was a vegetable. She claimed the comment was taken out of context but quite a few who had worked with her in the literacy community never felt the same about her afterwards. I had actually respected both of them until that moment. All the nice things, it seems, that they did were just ruses to divert attention from all the not-so-nice things.

[Jamastiene]

65. She said they were better off after Katrina.

Also, she said that she didn't watch the news about the Iraq War, because she didn't want to "waste" her "beautiful mind" on thoughts of body bags and dead bodies, from the war. That is one vile disgusting selfish hateful old woman.

[last1standing]

39. I was always told "If you have nothing good to say, then say nothing."

Nothing.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

47. That bit of wisdom has been lost on most DUers. Welcome to New Freeperville.

[Lost4words]

53. You may now kiss the feat of our glorious leaders!

thanks for dumping all into one pot, thats classic freeperville fire boy!

no room for humor in your tidy little polite world, no room for anger against those who destroyed so many lives. the BFEE had no problem despairing traditional American values but you suggest we take some kind of high road. Sorry but Babs Bush is a despicable human and I am being kind by using the word human.

take you greater than thou elsewhere!

8643

[Lost4words]

54. Then no one learns anything, OUT EVIL

Thats exactly what our democratic congress has been doing for 8 years, didnt work so well did it?

I'll not sing praise for unscrupulous traitors.

8643

[last1standing]

66. Perhaps my post was a bit too subtle for some readers.

I won't explain the joke as that is a fool's errand, but maybe you can go back and read it in with a different perspective.

[Politicalboi]

40. Don't bring her to the White House

Just in case we don't need the ghost of Barbara hanging around.

[hunter]

41. Praise God! She's not pregnant.

[Kookaburra]

51. HA!

Good one Hunter.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

45. I'm sure the visit to the hospital is working very well for her.

"And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this--this (she chuckles slightly) is working very well for them."

[Submariner]

46. Stay well and don't croak yet Babs

We want you to see your son going to the Hague and that his legacy drags your whole family into a cesspool of shit forever. Certainly no offspring of your's will EVER occupy the White House again. So stay well and watch the upcoming investigations of your traitorous son.

[truthisfreedom]

48. Stop, people, seriously. Stop.

Nature takes care of us. Just stop.

[Lost4words]

55. Did you ever call for them to stop, did it do any good?

8643

[Dr.Phool]

49. I hope she's not pregnant again.

The world would not survive another one of her offspring.

[NOW tense]

50. So many of the people in the hospital, you know, are sick

so this is working very well for her.

[TheCowsCameHome]

52. Oh, please - tell me it's not another baby................

Poppy didn't plant another one, did he?

[OnionPatch]

56. Baaaa......why worry your beautiful mind with this?

[Eurobabe]

57. Don't poison my beautiful mind with such posts. n/t

[clspector]

58. They tested,

but never found her heart.

[Javaman]

59. I wonder if they asked her for her insurance card before they did anything to her...

must be nice to be queen bitch.

[bikebloke]

60. Is a retroactive miscarriage possible?

Then junior would just disappear... Yeah, eight years too late.

[yurbud]

62. I thought you meant Bar herself

[yurbud]

61. I thought she was great in Little Shop of Horrors as the store owner

[customerserviceguy]

63. I'm just going to wish her well

and not sound like the freeptards did when Sen. Kennedy's illness was announced.

Just from a practical standpoint, do any of you really want some tear-jerker Bush family funeral just as Chimpy is leaving with his tail between his legs?

[olddad56]

67. She was never president, yet he picture is on the dollar bill. What is up with that.

[classysassy]

68. A season of thanks and joy

Lets wish her well,she will be held accountable for her misdeeds.

[BearSquirrel2]

69. Darn I was hoping ...

I was hoping for the old "pulse" test.