Where is this "The President Gets amused while other people suffer"

[Sneaky Sailor]

Thing coming from? Is this new?

I have seen it a few times in the forum in the last week and now I heard a congressperson say it WRT our service members in Iraq.

[Initech]

1. Bush vetoes any bill that doesn't directly benefit him and his criminal buddies.

Stem cell research hurts them, S-CHIP hurts them, and so on. It's nothing new.

[SpiralHawk]

2. that's the republcion Homelander WAY

Selfish to the max

[Generator]

25. Yep indeedy children dying is one way for Bush to show them

he's still the decider and relevant. (That's his own damn words)

The dude is the biggest asshole I think I've ever seen.

[Kagemusha]

3. I think it's from the author of "The Bush Dyslexicon"

who would be Mark Crispin Miller.

[gatorboy]

4. So you're new to the planet!

Welcome. Try the salmon!

[gratuitous]

16. We also have great produce

I think it was Mark Crispin Miller who noticed the Bush gets all fumble-mouthed when he's trying to express himself in communitarian language (putting food on your family, is our children learning), but his diction is sharp as a bayonet when he's talking about killin' and blowin' stuff up real gud.

[SoCalDem]

60. and his down-home drawl disappears when he's talking about killing people

or rather..having OTHER people kill someone in his stead..

[SammyWinstonJack]

5. Maybe it's the gleam in his eyes and the accompanying smirk when he talks about

the pain his policies cause? :shrug: It does seem like he is slightly amused by the suffering of others, especially when it involves his decision making.

[AspenRose]

6. Barbara Bush: "This is working out well for them" (re: Katrina victims)

The whole family has that attitude x(

(FYI, John Dean's "Conservatives Without Conscience" is a good read too, as is "Bush On The Couch".)

[Greenpeach]

7. Last night on Olbermann...

Can't think of his name but a Washington correspondent?? Said when asked if perhaps bush might really be in accordance with the RW Fundamentalists as regards the End of Days and the Rapture, etc. "He (*) is always amused when questioned about that."

[Sneaky Sailor]

8. I am just wondering where the meme is coming from

for lack of a better term, it is something I have not heard said aloud until I heard a rep say somethign to the effect of U.S. Soldiers "getting thier heads blown of for his amusement." on the floor of the house.

[Mrs. Overall]

13. Gee Sneaky, since it seems to upset you to hear this cold "meme" about our president,

why don't you give us examples of his compassion?

[gatorboy]

14. Not very sneaky, is he?

Maybe too many trips off shore.

[Sneaky Sailor]

17. Gatorboy, you at UF?

Just checking...

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

29. I have difficulty understanding what he says

Looks like Sanskrit to me.

[Richard Steele]

38. I don't. He seems pretty CLEAR to me. nm

[Sneaky Sailor]

15. I am not a big fan of saying stuff like that

I would never accuse someone of getting thier rocks off watching another person die...thats all.

[Stephanie]

21. I'm going to treat your question as if it were sincere.

In his autobiography, Bush claimed that the pending execution of Karla Faye Tucker "felt like a huge piece of concrete...crushing me." But in an unguarded moment in 1999 while traveling during the presidential campaign, Bush revealed his true feelings to the journalist Tucker Carlson. Bush mentioned Karla Faye Tucker, who had been executed the previous year, and told Carlson that in the weeks immediately before the execution, Bianca Jagger and other protesters had come to Austin to plead for clemency for her. Carlson asked Bush if he had met with any of the petitioners and was surprised when Bush whipped around, stared at him, and snapped, "No, I didn't meet with any of them." Carlson, who until that moment had admired Bush, said that Bush's curt response made him feel as if he had just asked "the dumbest, most offensive question ever posed." Bush went on to tell him that he had also refused to meet Larry King when he came to Texas to interview Tucker but had watched the interview on television. King, Bush said, asked Tucker difficult questions, such as "What would you say to Governor Bush?"

What did Tucker answer? Carlson asked.

"Please," Bush whimpered, his lips pursed in mock desperation, "please, don't kill me."

Carlson was shocked.<4> He couldn't believe Bush's callousness and reasoned that his cruel mimicry of the woman whose death he had authorized must have been sparked by anger over Karla Faye Tucker's remarks during the King interviews. When King had asked her what she planned to ask Governor Bush, Karla Faye had said she thought that if Bush approved her execution, he would be succumbing to election-year pressure from pro–death penalty voters.

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/17670

[Vanje]

34. "Lucky me. I won the trifecta."

President Bush is said to have joked about 9/11 to his Budget
Director shortly thereafter, saying, "Lucky me, I won the trifecta."
And he continued to tell this "joke" numerous times at Republican
fundraisers. What President Bush was talking about was that he had
promised that the government would not borrow money from the huge
Social Security Trust Fund. Then shortly before 9/11 he changed his
tine on that, that he would only raid the Social Security Trust Fund in
the event of war, recession, or a national emergency. Hence the joke
that all three of those conditions were satisfied with 9/11. Shortly
before 9/11 the Republicans were at the point where they would either
have had to roll back one of their huge tax cuts for the wealthy or
begin tapping the Social Security Trust Fund.

[swimboy]

87. His remarks to David Letterman about his open-heart surgery

brought me to a full stop. It was during the 2000 campaign, DL was recently back from a serious hiatus for a heart problem and Bush said something about "cutting your chest open and fixin' yer heart" and whether or not he would sew him back up.

Does anybody else remember this? The audience was stunned. Bush obviously thought it was a great joke and I was left thinking, that's it. This stonehearted idiot is unelectable.

If anybody can find that footage, I wish we could get it back in circulation.

[nadinbrzezinski]

90. Give the history of the Presnit

and the fact that he did laught at a dead row prisoner pleading

I'm sure you cannot imagine it (you're healthy) but our Presnit can...

I hate to say it, but we have a man who'd agree with Stalin

One dead is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic

[NewJeffCT]

20. Let's see

1) Abu Graib
2) Gitmo
3) Blackwater
4) Ignoring the genocide in Darfur
5) Allowing Israel a much freer hand in dealing not so gently with the Palestinians.


I mean, our country had a great moral highground througout our history dating to the days of George Washington all the way through the Cold War where we didn't torture prisoners and treated them well. We were the good guys. Sure, we weren't perfect, but we were far better morally than the Soviets, China, the Nazis, the imperial Japanese, etc.

In just a few short years, George Bush has pissed all that away in ordering torture and allowing things like Abu Graib to happen on his watch.

[Mrs. Overall]

22. He also made horrible jokes about the woman whose death sentence in Texas he wouldn't overturn.

[NewJeffCT]

30. Karla Faye Tucker

I forgot that one - he mocked her in front of RW talking head Tucker Carlson saying "Oh please don't kill me." in a high pitched, feminine voice. Even Tucker was disgusted.

[Mrs. Overall]

31. Yes, I had forgotten her name. Stephanie in post #21 has more of the story.

[NewJeffCT]

32. And don't forget his encounter with just elected Sen. Jim Webb

Webb's son had just escaped a roadside bomb a few days earlier and Bush went up to Webb in a mocking tone and asked "how's your boy?"

Webb tried to be nice and said, "I'd like to get them out of Iraq."

Bush sharply replied, "That's not what I asked you, how's your boy?"

It's pretty clear from the exchange that Bush was threatening Webb and his son in a Mafia-esque manner...

[Sneaky Sailor]

33. Good one

Thanx

[AspenRose]

23. Even at press conferences he's given, he's said some pretty damning things

Remember the blind reporter with the sunglasses?

It takes someone pretty heartless to say "Money trumps peace, sometimes. Heh heh heh."

[leftchick]

26. World War III Is Going To Be Hilarious

here you go. The fuckhead laughs at all tragedies, death and destruction....

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/world-war-iii-is-going-to_b_68914.html

Your president giggled and grinned while discussing World War III today.

"But this -- we got a leader in Iran who has announced that he wants to destroy Israel. So I've told people that if you're interested in avoiding World War III , it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing them from have the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon."

Hahahaha! Yeah! Zinger! That's funny shit. For the record, here's his expression while saying the words "World War Three":

2007-10-17-worldwarthreehehehe.jpg

To the rest of the known world, however, World War III a scary thing. It's just below abortion and above rape on the list of the all time unfunniest topics.

[Robbien]

9. Bush has to win. Less money going to anyone other than the rich

is a win in his book. Always has been. Always will be. It is a given.

And everyone has always known that Bush gets very gleeful when he wins.

[Javaman]

10. Why do you ask? nt

[Sneaky Sailor]

18. Curious

Thats all,I like tracking trends and soundbites as they travel around the political landscape.

This one seems pretty bold, just wondering if it started here...

[acmavm]

27. If it walks like a duck and it talks like a duck...

[Stephanie]

62. OMFG

You must really think we are stupid.

[orleans]

91. "bush on the couch"

tells about the fucker's childhood as he stuck firecrackers up the butts of frogs--FOR HIS AMUSEMENT

and then there's the story about maggie...i forget her last name--the woman/george bush/pregnant/abortion/ so he had to have her suicided

on edit: you didn't really believe that crap about "compassionate conservatives" did you?

second edit: "no weapons of mass destruction over here....nope...no weapons under there" HAHAHAHAHA! laughs his ugly fucking "base"

[Richard Steele]

11. It comes from the AMUSEMENT he feels when other people SUFFER.

[NewJeffCT]

12. The Daily Show had a great skit on that a while back

To summarize without being 100% accurate -basically Stewart was saying that there comes a time for every president where he has to deny what has become "conventional wisdom"...

First, with Richard Nixon saying, "I'm not a crook" when everybody knew he was a crook.

Then, with Bill Clinton saying, "I did not have sex with that woman," when everybody knew he had...

And, now with George W. Bush - cut to video of Bush saying, "nobody likes to see innocent people die."

[Cha]

19. Definitive bushit!

"And, now with George W. Bush - cut to video of Bush saying, "nobody likes to see innocent people die."

bushit laughs in the face of humanity. Since, he couldn't join the human race he feels pleasure in doing his best to annihilate it.

[LSK]

24. ummm, how else do you explain his policies for the past 6 years?

:shrug:

[Didereaux]

28. for christs sake heres the link...............

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/world-war-iii-is-going-to_b_68914.html

lazy asses!

[Disturbed]

36. Busholini is a Silver Spoon Sociopath.

When he met with a few Gold Star Mothers he was handing out Pres. coins. He told one Mother, as he handed her the coin, "Now don't put this on E-Bay." That is his notion of a little joke to a Mother who's son died in Iraq. Too bad that she didn't trow that coin on the ground and walk away.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

35. Over the years...

many of us have noticed something very odd during Bush speeches -- when he talks about something like torture, capital punishment, or other violence done against people, he has this nasty tendancy to actually SMILE when he talks about it.

It's very unnerving to watch and leaves one with the impression he takes a certain amount of glee in what he's talking about.

[Sneaky Sailor]

39. Or he is inadvertenly trying to

cover up his distaste for the topic with a smirk...

Also basic psychology...just pointing that out...


I AM NOT SAYING THIS IS THE CASE, DONT FLAME ME PLEASE....

[Mrs. Overall]

41. Yeah, I am using some "basic psychology" figuring out why you are here on DU.

You give yourself away the more you defend him.

[Sneaky Sailor]

43. How the hell am I defending president Bush

because I will not call him names and engage in the childish ass crap that goes on here sometimes...

I also do not engage in active criticism of the commander-in-chief because I am an active duty service member and am not in a position to do that.

[Mrs. Overall]

46. This isn't about childish name calling--this thread is full of appalling examples of

his inappropriate behavior, behavior not befitting a president.

This board is about criticism of the commander in chief and his policies.

By the way, I respect that you are an active duty service member and I thank you for your service.

[Sneaky Sailor]

51. I think that accusing the President of taking pleasure in servicemember's deaths

is a bit much, thats just MHO

[Mrs. Overall]

53. Since you are a service member, I can understand that. Can I ask you

why you are on DU? Are you a Democrat? What '08 candidate best addresses military issues, in your opinion?

[Sneaky Sailor]

55. Well I was holding out for Wes Clark or Gore

But I honestly think I would trust Hillary on FP and taking care of our wages, supply and veterans issues. I did not much care for some of her husbands policies (I know some of it was the Rebublican Congress as well). I dont know if I can trust Obama with my career if you know what I mean.

And yes I am a Democrat my first vote was cast for Grahm in 98', then Gore in '00 :)

[Mrs. Overall]

58. Thanks for your honest response. I, too, have been holding out for Gore

and still am hanging on to the illusion he might run. I do hope the Dem. candidate will address military issues, especially benefits. Like most here, I would like him/her to get us out of Iraq.

[leftchick]

52. I think you are the only one here who calls him "president"

:eyes:

[Sneaky Sailor]

56. Read my post about getting involved in Name calling BS.

I dont think using all of the names around here are particularly clever or funny, I think it makes this place look alot like FR IMHO.

[Stephanie]

63. And no doubt you are in a good position to judge!

Sneaky Sneaky Sneaky Sneaky Sneaky. Are you having fun yet?

[Sneaky Sailor]

64. I dont knoe how about you come out and make your accusation

Instead of trying to be cute.

[Puglover]

81. Nah not so sneaky at all.

Pretty fucking obvious if you ask me. You have never seen them before then they're suddenly everywhere in every flamey thread. I've seen 100's of them come and go.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

83. Sadly, that's not it.

I've spent 6+ years watching this guy. :puke: His love of bullying and putting people down with cruel/crude humor, his extreme machismo, his very thin skin, his taking delight in shoving firecrackers up frogs asses to blow them up -- those are the types of activites/attributes that point to a person who grows up to do very bad things. :(

There are several excellent pieces evaluating Bush by various mental health experts that are floating around on the Net -- you should really check them out. His acting innapropriately (the giggling, smirking, etc.) when discussing things such as torture, death, and other violence really indicate someone who has some serious issues.

[Vanje]

37. "Laura and I are having our best year ever" GWB Dec 5, 2001

Barbara walters interview.

The ruins of the twin towers were still smouldering.

[MiniMe]

66. Add to that *'s story about the "funny" thing that happened the night of 9/11

Not an exact quote, but something about them being woken up and hurried down to a bunker in the WH because of a supposed incoming plane, and it turned out to be false alarm. George thought it was funny that they were running around he WH in their jammies.

:puke:

[Octafish]

72. George W. Bush on 9/11: 'But the day ended on a relatively humorous note.'

One of the most hard-hearted phrases ever uttered.

After thousands of innocent people were murdered -- due to his criminal negligence, at best, treason, most likely -- the satanic turd observed:

Ladies Home Journal:

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

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

George W. 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. 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 —

Laura Bush: I don’t have my contacts in , and I’m in my fuzzy house slippers —

George W. 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 up stairs and go to bed.

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

Peggy Noonan (interviewer): So the day starts in tragedy and ends in Marx Brothers.

George W. Bush: That’s right — we got a laugh out of it.

SOURCE (via DUers elehhhhna and merh):

http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/20060601_bush_sept_11_relatively_humorous



George Walker Bush is an evil, evil bastard.

[MiniMe]

76. Thanks, I didn't have time to dig up the exact story when I posted

It was just one of the many things that burned my britches.

[Octafish]

78. There is one lower than Bush.

[Vanje]

82. Hey Sneaky Sailor!

Are you getting it yet?

[Vanje]

75. Hysterical! Knee-slappin funny

New York City smells of the fresh corpses of her citizens, and Laura and George are frolicking around the mansion in their PeeJays!

Its Lucky Trifecta day!

Their best year ever.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Sneaky Sailor,Are you still listening?
Is your question answered to your satisfaction?

[Sneaky Sailor]

88. It is, sorry I was working,

I could not answer right away, I will do better next time.

[Vinca]

40. I seem to remember the idiot on his hands and knees in the oval office

laughing and looking for WMD's. And wasn't he laughing and teeing off just before ordering bombs on Baghdad?

[AuntPatsy]

42. That alone is worth condemning him for, how can you make fun of a war where so many are dying?

[Disturbed]

49. The skit about the WMDs was disgusting.

Wasn't the point of it to laugh in the face of Americans who believed the lie?
All the death, maiming & suffering for this lie was funny? Many in the Corp. Media did laugh. Who was the joke on?

[SammyWinstonJack]

68. I think the point was to laugh in the face of Americans who DIDN'T believe the lie.

It was a typical IN YOUR FACE! bu$h moment. He does it all the time.

And to sneakysailor, I'll call him all the names I want! He demonstrates the great disdain he has for anyone who dares to criticize his horrific policies that case death and destruction, pain and suffering in this Country and around the World.

He's a sick, sick man and a poor excuse for a human being. You may not be able to criticize him, but you certainly don't have to defend him, do you?

[AspenRose]

45. GMTA Vinca!

eom

[AspenRose]

44. "No Weapons of Mass Destruction under here...."

Yeah, going to war under false pretenses is something to joke about.....:sarcasm:

[defendandprotect]

47. We need more Intentional reverse propaganda . . . like ....

the response to "partial birth abortion" as "partial truth abortion" . . .

I like THIS . . .

"The President Gets amused while other people suffer"

[defendandprotect]

50. Bush announces he represents the "HAVE's and HAVE MORE's" . . .. !!!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

48. How about the "joke" he made at the press corpse dinner a couple of years ago,

looking under his desk for the missing WMDs. "Nope, not here! Heh, heh, heh." And when he was visiting seriously injured soldiers in the hospital and "joked" to them about how he got injured, too, got scratched up while out clearing brush.

Fucking A-hole is about as sensitive as a toilet seat.

[DemGa]

61. Yes, this is a good example of the psychopath in chief.....nt

[SammyWinstonJack]

70. How about the on the eve of his announcing "shock and awe" when he pumped his fist in the air and

said, IT FEELS GOOD knowing that he was about to unleash death and destruction on innocent people who had nothing too do with septembertheeleventh. :grr:

[uncle ray]

85. and another one for SS to ignore:

"One of them, Elaine Johnson, recounted a meeting that she had with President Bush in which he gave her a presidential coin and told her and five other families: "Don’t go sell it on eBay.”"

classy thing to say to the mother of a dead soldier.

i hope your mother never has the opportunity to indulge in *'s humor.

[Sneaky Sailor]

86. I am ignoring nothing...

I apreciate your concern for my mother, bet she has already passed on...

[otohara]

54. It Makes Him Relevant

how twisted is that?

[alfredo]

57. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. bush is a momma's boy, so

when you read the below quote you will see what I mean.

"Why should we hear about body bags and deaths? It's not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?" -- Barbara Bush commenting on her son's war in Iraq.

[in_cog_ni_to]

59. It's just sad that you even have to ask this question. The man in Al Gore's White House is a

psychotic murderer. He couldn't care less about other people's kids being murdered in his illegal occupation and you can damn well bet he's enjoying every minute of it.

[OzarkDem]

65. He's a very sick person

This thread already has numerous examples of his callous disregard for the lives of those in the military fighting for his illegal and unnecessary war.

It makes no sense to condemn people for pointing that out. If we don't, we'll only end up with more presidents like him.

[CJCRANE]

67. "Bring it on!"

"I'm a War President".

etc.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

69. Is it new? Bush joked about a woman who was put to death in Texas. He is soulless. eom

[bunkerbuster1]

80. Tucker Carlson was shocked at his heartlessness.

Tucker.

I've never liked the guy, but I always appreciated that story he'd published, because it always gives me hope that there are limits to what conservatives will tolerate in a leader. Tucker fell back into line, but you can tell when you read that piece that he was genuinely disturbed.

In the weeks before the execution, Bush says, a number of protesters came to Austin to demand clemency for Karla Faye Tucker. "Did you meet with any of them?" I ask. Bush whips around and stares at me. "No, I didn't meet with any of them", he snaps, as though I've just asked the dumbest, most offensive question ever posed. "I didn't meet with Larry King either when he came down for it. I watched his interview with Tucker, though. He asked her real difficult questions like, 'What would you say to Governor Bush?'" "What was her answer?" I wonder. "'Please,'" Bush whimpers, his lips pursed in mock desperation, "'don't kill me.'" I must look shocked — ridiculing the pleas of a condemned prisoner who has since been executed seems odd and cruel — because he immediately stops smirking.

[raccoon]

71. As a youth, he indulged in such pastoral pastimes as stuffing firecrackers down bullfrogs' mouths

and watching them blow up.

How Norman Rockwellian! :sarcasm:

[NewJeffCT]

73. And, this one is not quite heartless, but it does show a lack of class...

When he was asked by a Hartford Courant reporter about what he spoke with his father about, George W. Bush's response was the one word, "Pussy."


http://www.alternet.org/story/10989/

[devilgrrl]

74. Oh, I'm so sorry. Are we being too harsh to your beloved?

:cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry:

[MiniMe]

77. Not to mention the quip about Carla Fay Tucker

She appealed her death sentence, and Bush jokes "Don't kill me, don't kill me", and fails to grant a pardon. If he fails to grant a pardon, his business (although I disagree with it), but don't make a joke about it.

If fact, the man executed a record number of people as the governor of Texas. No mercy, except for Scooter who might have actually told the truth and ratted him out.

[bunkerbuster1]

79. Does "Those Weapons of Mass Destruction gotta be somewhere!" ring a bell?

To be fair, none other than Al Franken found that acceptably dark humor, on a certain level.

But most thought the idea of a President joking in a public skit about searching for WMD when soldiers were DYING in Iraq was disgusting.

[Oilwellian]

84. Perhaps this video will help

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKX6luiMINQ

[librechik]

89. I guess you've never watched a televised press conference

when he smiles, grins and mugs every time death and chaos is mentioned. He relishes it.