How do you think W is feeling right now?

[TheCoxwain]

Poll question: How do you think W is feeling right now?

Now that President Obama is in thick of things .. and that Bush is getting a crash course on how 'it is to be done' ... Which of the following might best describe the mood of ex-president?

[BOSSHOG]

1. Go Ask Alice!

[YOY]

14. Alice? Who the fuck is Alice?

n/t

[BOSSHOG]

17. Hello My Friend, we must be from different generations

Alice is featured in Jefferson Airplanes classic drug song White Rabbit. Lyrics attached:

http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/White-Rabbit-lyrics-Jefferson-Airplane/7109AE560A05F54748256BF40008120A

[Brother Buzz]

28. Grace Slick was a neighbor of mine years ago before the Water District burned her house down

Now she lives over in Tiburon minus her "Surrealistic Pillow" gold album and tons of priceless memorabilia from a magical era that was lost in the fire.

[rufus dog]

50. Sorry for her loss - I truly am

but there has to be some type of Karmic retribution for "We built this City"

[Jennicut]

60. LMAO. I so remember this song. Child of the 80's? It was on MTV all the time.

Not her best music.

[Jennicut]

61. delete dupe

[YOY]

35. Actually I was making a bad reference to this song!

Sorry for any misunderstandings...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsrfovOPcjk

As for Jefferson Airplane I never forget what the Doormouse said

"FEED YOUR HEAD!!!"

"FEED YOUR HEAD!!!"

"FEED YOUR HEAD!!!"

[BOSSHOG]

36. Hey YOY

no misunderstandings My Friend! I love your posts and love you too teammate!! My reference was rather obscure, but when the subject is post presidency bush my eyes get glossy.

[YOY]

37. Thanks BH... nice to hear such a compliment. This place keeps me sane.

I post too much here sometimes and get on folks nerves though on slow workdays...but if you'd ask the few DUers who know me in real life I'm actually pretty boring.

But shame on you thinking this Gen. Xer didn't know who Jefferson Airplane was!

Cheers! :toast:

[Dervill Crow]

40. I didn't know anyone else knew that song!

:hi:

[YOY]

42. Been to Europe lately?

Europeans love to get drunk and sing it!

[Politicalboi]

29. I think she'll know

And there was a movie with William Shatner and Andy Griffith named Go ask Alice. It's pretty good movie.

[donheld]

53. Can't

She's no longer 10 feet tall.

[polichick]

2. Not sure he feels.

[Betty]

3. I imagine he's stone cold passed out

after yet another bender.

[flakey_foont]

10. I think so too

he is probably 4 sheets to the wind most days.....

[Political Heretic]

4. Probably pretty good seeing that this administration is continuing his policies

:shrug:

Sorry I just read that the administration is appealing the detainee verdict. No excuse for that. None.

:cry:

[TheCoxwain]

8. ouch!

that is pretty harsh dude !!!

[mix]

65. I agree. He probably feels great!

Obama has his back on too many issues.

[El Supremo]

5. Comfortably numb.

[Politicalboi]

31. Comfortably Dumb

Which is what he's always been.

[sui generis]

6. poop in his hand

trying to figure out where to fling it. I'm going with hot and messy to answer the OP's question.

I was ticked off that he moved to Dallas, but relieved now that I'm trying to move the family to Austin so we can get our weird on.

[grannie4peace]

7. hope he feels like shit!!!

[DevonRex]

9. Drunk.

[muntrv]

11. Other: Chimpy doesn't give a shit about anything.

[Graybeard]

27. Right on. Doesn't give a shit now, didn't give a shit then.

He was there to read the little blue cards and he even looked annoyed when he had to do that.

[pleah]

12. He feels nothing. He still thinks he can talk to Gawd.

:crazy:

If he actually felt anything, he would have turned himself in as a war criminal by now.

[Sanity Claws]

13. feeling the top of another beer can

looking for the fliptop to open it.

[YOY]

15. Who knows what goes on in that man's mind?

A man who should never have gotten to where he did but was posed to be there anyways...

[rateyes]

16. Other.

Whatever a psychopath feels...that's what W feels all the time.

[DKRC]

18. No pain

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HyyDHyAwI6k/SKLw8wWyR7I/AAAAAAAACRQ/8zvu3y6KHoc/s400/bush+drunk.jpg

[no_hypocrisy]

19. Doesn't have a care in the world.

Doesn't care about a person or a thing. Best time of his life without a worry.

[Bleacher Creature]

32. Unfortunately, you probably are spot on.

If he had even a shred of empathy in the first place, this wouldn't even be a question.

[Political Tiger]

Hungover. n/t

[Political Tiger]

20. DUPE n/t

[omega minimo]

21. Medicated

[lame54]

22. Where's "Drunk out of his gourd "?

[Iggo]

23. Suicidal, I hope. (n/t)

[PBS Poll-435]

24. Oblivious

Probably chasing the (synthetic) dragon.

[GentryDixon]

25. Doesn't give a diddley damn..

[mnhtnbb]

26. Bush is probably not very happy that he's no longer the center of attention.

If he hasn't started drinking heavily yet, he will soon.

[JayMusgrove]

30. Where is the choice for ...

stoned out of his crazy head?

He's not around, he's either drunk or stoned, no one wants to see him, and he never shows up anywhere or does anything.

This guy is breathing my air, I resent that.

[RoadRage]

33. Feeling? It's tough to feel a whole lot when you're that high.... NT

[Kaleva]

34. I selected "confident".

Not because of what I wish he was feeling right now but what I think he himself believes.

[rasputin1952]

38. Psychopaths are generally incapable of a "normal" emotional

constitution. bush is a psychopath, he is essentially soulless. He justifies his terrible presidency in his own mind, and will surround hinself with people who will agree with him. He is doomed to go down in history as the worst president this country has known, and he just does not care.

[Uncle Joe]

39. Contented at having completed a job well done.

His oligarch/corporate masters are most proud of him having transferred such a huge amount of the people's resources and nation's treasure toward the very wealthiest, and to think he got away with it by acting more ignorant than he is.

"The Mentalist" had an episode where the murderer; an avid Moby Dick reader pretended to be mentally challenged as a means of camouflage, I believe to a large degree this is true of Bush.

Bush and the corporate media used his "stupidity" as a shield, first during the 2000 debates, when his errors, mistakes and lies where overlooked or forgiven, after all he wasn't supposed to be a good debater capable of expressing an intelligent thought in a coherent manner, therefore he didn't have to. The corporate media set expectations so low for him, all he had to do was step over the bar lying on the ground without tripping. I believe this same pattern occurred throughout his administration, by playing stupid, he wasn't held to account for his corrupt and nefarious policies.

I do believe Bush was an incompetent pRresident, but that's taking the definition of President as a leader looking out for the welfare of the nation as a whole. Bush was clearly competent in screwing the vast majority of the American People over for a few mega-wealthy co-horts and contributors.

Even if he never becomes popular, I believe he will always be well treated by them, after all they're his base and that's all he ever cared about.

[Kaleva]

41. His opponents lowered the bar for him

All the stories of him being stupid, a drunk, a wife beater, a coke addict and a cowardly deserter did not come from his supporters. They came from the opposition which lowered most everyone's expectations of him to such a point he could get away with almost anything. In the debates against Gore, all he had to do was not wet his pants and stare at the bright lights in order to surpass expectations.

[Uncle Joe]

67. I don't recall

Al Gore ever lowering the bar against Bush, I do recall continuous corporate media punditry propaganda either lowering the bar for Bush or lowering the bar as to what was important in considering the candidates for the job of the Presidency.

This is where that "Who would you rather have a beer with?" frame came from.

There are many people, I would enjoy having a beer with, that by the same token would horrify me, should they come to the most powerful job in the land.

Of all those things you mentioned, I don't recall the corporate media covering any of those allegations in depth except for a DUI charge against Bush just a few days prior to the 2000 election date. I also believe the "Who would you rather have a beer with?" frame to some degree neutralized the impact of that last minute disclosure.

All the trivial B.S. leveled against Gore by the corporate media whether it was "earth tones", or a debate hinged on someone having heard a sigh, the ludicrous corporate media promoted slander/libel that he actually claimed to have invented the Internet, etc. etc. while they simultaneously ignored Gore's extremely substantive arguments, qualifications and legislative leadership in opening up the Internet were used as a means to lower the bar of the Presidency's import to the nation.

The same corporate media which lowered the Bush and Presidency bar would go on to lower the bar for waging war against Iraq by covering the run up with the jaundiced, critical eye of a Will Ferrell/Cheri Oteri cheerleader tandem skit.

[Kaleva]

70. The stories about Bush were on the internet

I was a member of the Washington Post On Politics forum ( I may still be altough I haven't been there in years) and also posted on the Yahoo message boards. The stories about Bush which I mentioned were quite common on those forums.

[Uncle Joe]

73. But prior to 2000,

the corporate media was the predominant form of information for the American People, and in that role, they lowered the bar as to what was expected from Bush and what the office of the Presidency required. The corporate media had a higher obligation to informing the American People as to the state of reality with at least some level of integrity.

Although I've been a news hound since the late 70s, being in the military, I felt an acute need to know the truth as my life depended on it. My method was reading up to three newspapers a day, catching every network prime time news program and some cable news for a time, plus PBS, to a large extent I lived for the news but I'm relatively new to the Internet. I also knew different outlets would have different takes on reality and believed I needed to catch it from a variety of angles to filter out a greater understanding of the truth.

Even just living on corporate media information scraps, I noticed too many contradictions in their traditional hard reporting buried in the back pages, while many of these same publications and "news" programs totally ignored those same buried truths which had already been revealed by them when it came to punditry, opinion and editorial pages. The greater truth I learned was that the corporate media was to a large extent inbred, to the point of being rigid in their thought and analysis, fearful of bucking the status quo, and working in spite of superficial political differences toward the same corporate supremest agenda.

The lowering of the Presidency Bar and by extension the qualifications required of Bush was obviously corporate media promoted propaganda, regardless of opposition charges on a still nascent Internet.

[Undercurrent]

43. .

"How do you think W is feeling right now?"

Do lizards have feelings?

[madmom]

44. insignificant..I hope

[mwei924]

45. Probably the same as usual-- confused.

[Sancho]

46. He's drunk by now...

:toast: :toast:

[saltpoint]

47. I have a feeling he spends a lot of evenings drunker than a boiled owl,

to appropriate Joyce's famous line.

[rufus dog]

48. Other - Hung Over

[Doctor_J]

49. Drunk, stoned, and can barely remember that he was president

[LibDemAlways]

54. I was about to post "too shitfaced to care," but you

beat me to it.

[uponit7771]

51. Other: Convinced that Obama can do no better than him (inaugaration eye rolling) and praying....

...in the back of his mind that he doesn't.

Yes, I beleive he's that selfish

[windbreeze]

52. Seen the latest scandal sheet??

according to The Globe...he is suicidal...he lives in Crawford, Laura lives in Dallas...and he calls Condi at all times of the night for help..saying he needs her...now is any of it true??? Well, I don't know, but I don't hear anyone denying it out loud...wb

[TankLV]

55. Other: I COULD FUCKING CARE LESS...

he should be dead already - or at least in PRISON...

[ailsagirl]

56. No offense, Coxwain, but I don't give a damn

I wish he and Cheney and Rove wouldn't even be featured in the news.
Unfortunately the media give them coverage and I think that's wrong.
I can't believe those crooks hijacked our country for so long and
caused so much misery and destruction. Then walked away with impunity.
Rest assured those psychotics will go down in history as the WORST
administration this country has ever seen.

[Orsino]

57. Feeling no pain.

Now he doesn't even have to pretend to care about the country or the world. He can drink himself blind, and count his loot.

[LynnTheDem]

58. W? "Feeling"???

That's his biggest problem; he doesn't have any feelings.

Gotta have a conscience for that.

[Ganja Ninja]

59. At this time of the morning he's probably hungover.

[harun]

62. Other: Still thinking he had to govern the way he did but deep down knowing

there is a chance he'll be put on trial for his crimes.

[GoCubsGo]

63. Other...

Don't know. Don't care--other than that I hope he is feeling miserable.

[bdamomma]

64. who cares how he feels, he is free.

[Jamastiene]

66. The fucker is too damn proud of himself to acknowledge

that he fucked up the whole damn world and destroyed what was left of America to boot. He's too willfully ignorant to even acknowledge that he ever did anything wrong. Satan had better shore up his minions. When W gets down there, he'll just start an occupation/war and take over. W makes Satan look downright cuddly. There is no spot in Hell low enough or hot enough for that fucking bastard.

[JSK]

68. I couldn't care less n/t

[Rosa Luxemburg]

69. like a deflated balloon

[kernelfarmer]

71. Other - Who gives a flying fuck? (nt)

[Proud Liberal Dem]

72. Other: Does he FEEL anything at all?

Well, maybe he does moreso than Cheney- who simply has no soul- but I would bet that in order to maintain his mental and emotional equilibrium/sanity he will need to find some way to remain in a perpetual state of MASSIVE denial about his eight years as (P)resident and all of the things history will ultimately hold him responsible for. It may be so bad for him that he may not even be able to acknowledge that he WAS (P)resident for eight years. Republicans are nothing if not the masters of historical revisionism- although I'm not sure how they will ever "rehabilitate" GWB but then again, I'm not a Republican so I wouldn't know. :eyes:

[Yukari Yakumo]

74. Clueless... Wondering why Dicky or Karl hasn't called {nt}

[Marrah_G]

75. I honestly think he is relieved.

[Dulcinea]

76. Other.

But it's a toss-up between "Who cares?" and "Hung over."