AP: Bush Compares a Guest to His Mother, but She Is Not Amused

[Snazzy]

Bush Compares a Guest to His Mother, but She Is Not Amused
The Associated Press
Published: Apr 6, 2004

EL DORADO, Ark. (AP) - President Bush has a penchant for dishing out good-natured insults, and usually the victim laughs along. But Sammie Briery didn't seem much amused when Bush fired one at her Tuesday.

Bush was wrapping up a town hall-style appearance at South Arkansas Community College when he let the jest fly. It was a mother joke, a blonde joke and an insult all in one.

"You and my mother go to the same hair-dye person," Bush said to Briery, whose blondish bob bore little resemblance to Barbara Bush's shock of white hair.

The audience in the gymnasium laughed, and Briery smiled, but replied firmly: "President Bush, I'm a natural blonde."

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http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGA757WJQSD.html

Edit: fix link

[Qanisqineq]

1. I saw that and I thought

how fucking rude!

[opihimoimoi]

2. The Swiss Cheese Brain Gone Wild...... this guy is a bundle of laughs

[The Zanti Regent]

58. Cary Grant is spinning in his grave....

At least HE had CLASS, while we're STUCK with THE ASS!

[pinto]

3. what a card!, Guess I'll vote for him. ....

NOT.

[northzax]

35. yes, I love having a leader

who puts the peasants in their place.

[dfong63]

4. urbane, mature, diplomatic, and utterly charming - no?

[psychopomp]

5. I've said stupid things like that before

but I was always drunk at the time.

What's Dumbya's excuse??

[koopie57]

7. his excuse is that

he is very stupid and thoughtless and ignorant and arrogant and did I meantion stupid?

[Hand]

55. Also drunk... nt

[thetone]

12. Drain Bamage

[Skittles]

26. that's the thing, psychopomp

all of us say stupid things from time to time and some of us do it a lot. But Dubya does it ALL THE TIME.

[psychopomp]

28. More evidence of his psychopathy

Adolf Guggenbuhl-Craig would probably call him a "compensated psychopath."


The Compensated Psychopath

Individuals approaching the psychopathic extreme are not totally wanting in morality, but they do sense a weakness, an awareness that something is missing, which frightens them. They also suspect that their love is not all it could or should be. In order to adapt they begin to compensate for these deficiencies by becoming morally rigid.

Since compensated psychopaths cannot depend upon eros, their egos work out a moral system which is fool-proof in any and every situation. The result, as paradoxical as it may seem, is usually a well-developed morality with an emphasis upon the ego's role but woefully lacking in love.

Compensated psychopaths have played significant parts in society and in history. The more psychopathic compensated psychopaths are - in other words the more they have to compensate - the more sinister they are. All the Nazi functionaries who administered the concentration camps and supervised the destruction of thousands and thousands of human beings; all of Stalin's subordinates who, during the time of the Soviet purges, directed the arrests and deaths of innumerable individuals; all of Mao's minions who so efficiently effected the disappearance of large portions of the Chinese population -certainly all of these people were compensated psychopaths.

[MaineDem]

31. That's scary in its accuracy!

I think you've really nailed the psychopath here.

[psychopomp]

32. G.-C. nailed it

Well-known and respected in his field. That excerpt is from The Emptied Soul.

[Skittles]

33. I have been exposed to Bush for ten years now

and one of the things I noticed about him was that he was both stupid and evil - a lethal combination. The man simply has no conscience whatsoever.

[number6]

53. he's always drunk

drunk on power ...

[NMDemDist2]

6. and we spend 2 days talking about the "B" word

here is sexism, ageism and just plain bad manners all in one sentence

"You and my mother go to the same hair-dye person,"

[drfemoe]

29. classism too of course

"hair-dye person" .. meaning a person required to complete a standardized training program, meet legal standards, and at least in our state, pass and maintain state licensing requirements? Isn't job training one of his new bunny trails? Let's encourage our unemployed Americans to become "hair-dye persons". Or "answer the drive up window persons". Or "protect our cities from fire persons". I imagine he has a "person" to do just about anything he can dream up.

All I can say is Lucky, Lovely, Laura. To be married to Mr. President!

[Bandit]

45. All I can say is Lucky, Lovely, Laura. ~ You mean "That Lump in the Bed"

That she may be, probably is when she is with Bush* but the words were not writen by whom she said. It was just another meaningless lie told to make all the Stepford wives feel good about "That Lump in the Bed" and her Romantic Husband.

[drfemoe]

64. I was being

absolutely facetious. Didn't realize I was quoting someone. I pity the whole lot.

[Endangered Specie]

Dignity, thy name is not W

[ConcernedCanuk]

8. That link leads to a different story now, new link

.
.
.

and the REST of the conversation goes like this:
_______________________________________________________________

"Oh, yes," Bush agreed.

"I'm just a natural blonde," she repeated.

"I couldn't help myself, sorry," Bush shrugged.

With that, Bush moved quickly to end the session. He turned to Bob Watson, superintendent of the El Dorado Public Schools - who had opened the meeting by inadvertently insulting Bush.

"Governor - excuse me, President," Watson said.

Bush muttered, "How quickly they forget."

When Watson offered to shake Bush's hand, the president shot back: "Just don't hug me."

[Snazzy]

10. oops, fixed. n/t

[chelaque liberal]

15. Eww, gross....

People actually find him charming?

I, for one, can't wait to forget him, and this whole nightmare!

[drfemoe]

30. "I couldn't help myself, sorry," Bush shrugged.

Somehow I get the feeling that is a common phrase coming from him.
not my fault

[northzax]

36. sorry I invaded Iraq

I just couldn't help myself.

maybe that's what he'll say to the commission...

[yellowcanine]

43. Maybe if "Bar" had taught him some manners he would be able to "help"

himself. Just another example of the way those pubbies value personal responsibility.

[DustMolecule]

49. Was that a dig by Watson?

That the last official position * rightfully held was governor???

[fortyfeetunder]

9. Bet Mama is wishing for retroactive abortion

she is probably cringing at the crap he talks about.

[belle]

11. Are you kidding? He learned that shit from her.

[Dover]

13. Bush compares ALL women to his Mummy. Just look at Karen Hughes!

She's definitely a mummy surrogate.

Bush also has no sense of what's funny and what's inappropriate. Again....completely out of touch with people's feelings and his own.
Sign of a true sociopath.

[aquart]

14. Bush's jokes are NEVER good-natured.

They are always rude, insensitive, and cruel. Because that's what he thinks is funny.

[TXDemGal]

16. Also, when Bush dishes out insults

he NEVER has trouble putting a sentence together. Let us not forget the infamous "There's Adam Clymer, major league asshole from the New York Times" incident during campaign 2000.

[ultramega]

40. So. true, if it weren't for this instance we'd never know

our president's true personality.

What amazes me is the constant fawing over Bush and any puke president by the right. They just fall right in line behind whoever it it and fawn away. It reminds me of the line "every woman adores a fascist" from a Plath poem about her father.

In the republican party, there is only one man, Bush, and all the men and women around him are his bitches, down to the very last repub somewhere out in the mountains of Montana. The whole dynamic of that party is some weird S/M, B&D scene, with the whole party lusting after whoever happens to be playing "Daddy" at the moment.

[andino]

17. Did anyone else notice

Did anyone else notice how Bush slurred his speech? I mean more than usual.

I had an uncle that was a major alcoholic and Bush acted JUST like my uncle when he 'had a few'. Forgetting names, looking for people that wasn't there, and cracking rude jokes. Sounds just like my uncle. I'm willing to bet that Bush had a few before getting up on stage.

[TexasProgresive]

27. slurred speech

about a year ago I was napping on the couch with the TV on. I awoke to a Bush speech-I thought it was a nightmare - I thought at the time that he must have found the key to the WH liquor cabinet. He was slurring his words. These vacations to Crawford may be so they can dry him out.

[Neecy]

34. I f'sure noticed it

I saw a compilation of his bizarre performance in Arkansas yesterday on Countdown, and my first thought was, oh my god, he's smashed.

There our pResident was, spinnin' and grinnin', asking a tall man if anyone calls him "Stretch" and guffawing at his funny. He was all bunched up in his chair with his head a'bobbin throwing out insults to almost everyone on stage.

My amazement turned to fury that we had soldiers dying while he was up on stage chuckling and acting like a lunatic. This guy is fucking LOSING it. The whole country should be angry and terrified that a madman is in "charge" (and I use the term loosely).

[Dr Fate]

18. What a goofy fucker. n/t

n/t

[Piperay]

19. Chimp is a complete shit for brains

what a morAn!

[symbolman]

20. I found this little goodie on the shelves at the supermarket

full of yummie Bush Prions!

[eurolefty]

21. Presidential behaviour?

Nobody would like their children to behave like Mr. Bush.

[MaineDem]

22. He's truly insensitive

He has no compassion...no intelligence...no common sense.

He has no idea what's funny and what's not. He's a sad excuse for a man, let alone a President!

I am truly embarrassed by him.

[rooboy]

23. The President of the United States of America. n/t

[ozymandius]

24. Did he also manage to call someone a pygmy? n/t

[hadrons]

25. welll, did he say she had a 'beautiful mind' like mommy too .....

[rman]

37. the king making a fool of himself

good.
he's such a likable man.

[yellowcanine]

38. There is no level of boorishness to which * will not stoop

It would be funny if it happened just once, now it is just annoying. How I wish that lady had added, "not that it is any of your business." or "Where I come from, gentlemen don't comment on a lady's use of hair coloring."

[HootieMcBoob]

39. Pull my finger!

I wouldn't be surprised to hear him ask somebody this before too long.

[wabeewoman]

41. Jon Stewart nailed him the other night.

He showed bush saying we weren't giving up in Iraq and then he gave this big shit-eating grin. And Stewart said this was not smile time but furrowed brow time. You had to see it to appreciate it but it was calling bush on his inappropriate smirking.

[yellowcanine]

42. It is a nervous smile, I also heard him do a nervous chuckle this morning

when he was talking about our soldiers dying because "these people just hate freedom" chuckle, chuckle.

[Cocoa]

44. this whole episode is absurd

this guy's behavior is just unexplainable.

"I couldn't help myself, sorry," Bush shrugged.

With that, Bush moved quickly to end the session. He turned to Bob Watson, superintendent of the El Dorado Public Schools - who had opened the meeting by inadvertently insulting Bush.

"Governor - excuse me, President," Watson said.

Bush muttered, "How quickly they forget."

When Watson offered to shake Bush's hand, the president shot back: "Just don't hug me."

[Turanga Leela]

46. Is * finally falling apart?

The 'hair-dye' comment, the 'Who are you talking to?' moment...are we seeing the beginning of the long-anticipated mental/emotional collapse?

[Blasphemer]

47. Clearly....

His "joke" didn't make a lick of sense. He's so completely off balance he can't even fake the "just a regular guy" so-called charm anymore.

[Lugnut]

48. "good-natured insults"

Huh? If one insults another how can it be "good-natured"?

insult

n 1: a rude expression intended to offend or hurt; "when a student made a stupid mistake he spared them no abuse"; "they yelled insults at the visiting team" 2: a deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of an affront; "turning his back on me was a deliberate insult" v : treat, mention, or speak to rudely; "He insulted her with his rude remarks"


Source: WordNet ® 1.6, © 1997 Princeton University

[catzies]

50. Has no one noticed another Bush lie? Bar doesn't DYE HER HAIR AT ALL

[PartyPooper]

54. Good catch!

You just jarred my memory. As I recall, Bab's hair turned white early on...after the death of her young daughter...50 or so years ago! Anyway, that's what I remember her or Poppy revealing in an interview a few years back.

[TexasBushwhacker]

56. Yup, before she was 30

It started turning white during Robin's fight with leukemia. Robin died when Barbara was only 28.

[PA Democrat]

51. He also referred to some guy as "slim"

at the same event. The whole clip depicted a man desperate to hold it together. His need to make demeaning remarks about other people is adolescent, and indicates a serious character fault.

[yellowcanine]

52. The word is "sophomoric"

Greek for "wise fool" - as in "towel snapping sophomoric fratboy"

[PartyPooper]

57. Junior recently told a Canadian, "Hey, you're a good looking guy!"

Remember that one?

Junior had just met this guy (a government aide)...and, apparently, he just didn't know what else to say.

[Minstrel Boy]

60. "You have a pretty face," repeated several times to

PM's aide Scott Reid.

[PartyPooper]

62. Yeah, that's it! Thanks for the clarification.

[Neshanic]

59. Bush at SeaWorld, throws herring to mother, confused with whale.

[Ravy]

65. PLEASE don't dis Barbara Bush...

she is beloved by millions of Americans.

As evidenced by her portrait being on the one dollar bill.

[fryguy]

61. Brain to smirk, brain to smirk

Open mouth, insert foot......

This guys about as funny as cancer, and subtle as a chainsaw.

[dryan]

63. Not surprised!

Maybe this is what passes at Exeter!!!

[Gingersnapsback]

66. Pretty face? Maybe he's gay and hasn't come out yet.

That would explain why we don't have any affairs to air. After all, he saw the "Putties's soul" when he looked in his eyes. He gives all the men affectionate nicknames. He'll like the guys in his next Big House if we can get him guilty as charged on 1 of 100's of possibilities.