Bush Sr. Sobs During Speech...

[kpete]

Bush Sr. Sobs During Speech...
Associated Press | BRENDAN FARRINGTON | December 5, 2006 08:21 AM



Former President George H.W. Bush came here Monday to talk about leadership and opened his remarks with advice on working with rivals, being patient and building personal relationships.

He then broke down in tears mentioning his son, Gov. Jeb Bush, as an example of leadership and the way he handled losing the 1994 governor's race to popular incumbent Democrat Lawton Chiles. He vaguely referred to dirty tricks in the campaign.

http://articles.news.aol.com/news/_a/first-president-bush-sobs-while-talking/20061204194509990018

[patricia92243]

1. I think Poppy might be getting a little bit senile. n/t

[corkhead]

53. I hope he isn't too punch drunk to see his evil spawn is sent to prison

If I was responsible for the most vile simian on the planet, I would be crying too.

[Cleita]

57. I would like that to be a father and sons event including Jeb Bush.

Let's face it, what is going on today started with Reagan and Bush, Sr. in their administrations. Jeb Bush is one of the original members of the PNAC who brought us the Iraqi war and maybe one in Iran if * gets his way.

[smoogatz]

2. He's losing it.

He's starting to get that foxy, feral look that alzheimer's patients have.

[warrior1]

3. Your going to be crying

a bit more in the future you criminal

[OzarkDem]

4. Our local NBC affiliate ran this story this am

Ugh. Don't they realize it makes Bush look like a fool?

[yurbud]

43. if one tenth the dirty tricks they use are turned back on them, they cry. cowardly bullies

[Spider Jerusalem]

5. Emotional lability can be a sign of early-stage dementia.

This might mean Bush the Elder has Alzheimer's (which is a fate I'd not wish on anyone).

[jean]

23. I recall at least two other times where he teared up while complaining

that people were bashing his son (W). I thought he was just a crybaby, interesting to hear there is a dementia connection.

[blm]

6. My sons are great bipartisans even when 'dirty tricks' are used to defeat them. What a crock.

.

[yurbud]

bipartisan=obey my boys

[savemefromdumbya]

7. 'the chickens are coming home to roost'

he should be crying

[ecstatic]

8. WTF? Tears are reserved for when NOBLE, good hearted people are done wrong

Or fought hard to overcome some adversity. None of the Bushes deserve tears--not even from their own family members.

[Coventina]

9. That f****** asshole killed the whole planet. F**** him.

:mad:

No sympathy from me you monster.

[hippiechick]

10. Looks more like an evil cackle ...

... laughing on the inside about the dirty tricks he and his cronies have pioneered, no doubt.

I HATE that sick Bastard. :mad:

[MoonRiver]

11. The truth is that reprobate (dim)son has broken the man's heart.

I'm no fan of George Sr., but it must be horrible to be the father of that monster. Even though he was talking about Jeb, the tears were over the stress jr.'s reign of terror has insituted, and its disastrous effect on the family legacy. Ted Bundy's mother must have felt the same.

[Ganja Ninja]

25. Exactly! He's crying because he knows Jeb can't even think about running

for President. His big brother has so screwed up the country he may never be able to run.
:headbang:
(Just typing that makes me smile.)

[MoonRiver]

35. And that may be the one blessing in our 6 year nightmare.

Plus, I hope that none of his demon seed grandchildren will even think about political careers. If they do, the American people will set them straight at the polls.

[samfishX]

26. HA!~ Are you kidding?!

Some of the crimes that Poppy Bush has commited (or is STRONGLY suspected of commiting) actually DO make Bush seem like Jesus!

Hell, if anything G H.W. Bush is truly as proud as a parent can be for his son.

[tomp]

12. he has a lotta damn gall raising the issue of dirty tricks...

is this a performance, or is he really that crazy?

[blm]

50. It's a diversion because he knows eventually the truth about rigged elections will come out

more and more.

It's the 'they all do it" ploy that is often used by the guilty. The more Poppy chokes up the more you know he's acting.

[marions ghost]

94. he's really that crazy

or that narcissistic, or that delusional, or that f'ed up.
Whatever name you want to give to it...

Dirty tricks are only done TO the Bushies. They are NOT guilty of any dirty tricks themselves. In order to perpetrate what they do, they have to see themselves as fine, upstanding citzens. White collar criminals are almost always this way. They learn to live with lies and disassociation at a very young age.

Persecution complex is a feature of end-stage pathological Narcissism. When the jig is up, out come the crocodile tears.

I don't believe that Poppy suffers from Alzheimer's or dementia. However if things get worse for the Bushies, he might retreat into the appearance of a demented state, just to be left out of it.

[in_cog_ni_to]

13. Weep away asshole.

The 2 cretins you created have destroyed my country. I'd cry too.

[Bridget Burke]

14. Then he went home to Barb.....

Karma's a Bitch.

[Ishoutandscream2]

15. "Dirty tricks" Mr. Bush?

Does Lee Atwater ring a bell? Hypocrite!!!!

[Anthony Soprano]

21. Poppy 'n' Lee get down. Go Johnny Go, Go, Johnny B. Bush...

[Ishoutandscream2]

27. PFFTTT!! I actually get it!!

LOL

[hedgehog]

40. Proving that making inappropriate faces is a Bush genetic trait.

What is is with these people?

[deutsey]

16. Why is Poppy allowing this to mar his beautiful mind?

:eyes:

[marions ghost]

95. LOL...good question

some seepage appears to be occurring in the reflecting pool of Poppy's Beautiful Mind. It's hard keeping a lid on the septic tank right now. Maybe Babs can lead him back to that blissful place of no concern.

[Canuckistanian]

17. There's no crying in the BFEE!

You'd think the patriarch and ringleader would know better! A shocking display of weakness.

[WillParkinson]

18. Now come on, be fair...

He's crying because he's finally starting to realize exactly what kind of crap trickled down from the family tree.

[Lusted4]

19. WMD now there's a dirty trick you bastard. n/t

[acmejack]

20. He has a lot of gall speaking of dirty tricks.

Son of Preston, Father of W. The whole filthy family is based upon dirty tricks. If there is a hell, there is a VIP Suite reserved for you and your spawn.

[LynneSin]

22. Dirty tricks in the campaign? Did he cry about his kid did to McCain in SC in 2000?

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2004/03/21/the_anatomy_of_a_smear_campaign/

It didn't take much research to turn up a seemingly innocuous fact about the McCains: John and his wife, Cindy, have an adopted daughter named Bridget. Cindy found Bridget at Mother Theresa's orphanage in Bangladesh, brought her to the United States for medical treatment, and the family ultimately adopted her. Bridget has dark skin.

Anonymous opponents used "push polling" to suggest that McCain's Bangladeshi born daughter was his own, illegitimate black child. In push polling, a voter gets a call, ostensibly from a polling company, asking which candidate the voter supports. In this case, if the "pollster" determined that the person was a McCain supporter, he made statements designed to create doubt about the senator

[Ignacio Upton]

84. Ironic, because Bush Sr. SERVED under McCain's dad during WWII

n/t.

[1932]

24. Anyone have any idea to what he could be referring in '94 race?

[peekaloo]

28. being a well loved and respected figure is considered a "dirty trick"

to the Bu$hits, I suppose.

:shrug:

[elehhhhna]

32. Yes. Jeb LOST in '94, but GW won the Tx Gov. election. Now Jeb's out of work

and the effup GW is Prezzydent. Their family name is RUINED FOREVER. I'd cry, too, if I were Poppy.

[aquart]

29. I want to see Barbara crying.

It's just a personal goal.

[mondo joe]

31. Like water from a rock. Just as unlikely. NT

[Virginia Dare]

81. Not gonna happen...

this is the woman that went golfing the day her young child died of leukemia.

[marions ghost]

97. Barbara

will NEVER, ever cry in public. I doubt she would cry in private. She likely sneers at the pathetic "poor little me" crocodile tears of her husband...though she would offer comfort to him because that is her job, managing his emotional state. Barbara more embodies the long-suffering stoic ideal of 'Nobility.' Did Marie Antoinette ever cry? I don't think so.

[Botany]

30. and if Jeb, Harris, & Poppy's people had not fixed 2000 ......

.... these tears would not have been shed.

[MoonRiver]

36. Exactly. They propped up a known loser, and he's taken them all down.

Baby George should have been taught to face consequences when he was 2 years old. That never happened and now infant terrible has tantrumed across the world, leaving it devastated. What's not to cry about?

[Raster]

83. He's crying because they blew their wad backing the wrong horse.

[johnnie]

33. They chose the wrong one

I think they had Jeb and georgie in for the running and chose georgie to do it. Now he sees what a shit choice that was. Now all of the bush family are out of the running after how bad his number #1 son screwed up.

[Double T]

34. Every time I think about poppy's son, gwb, and ALL the damage that HIS son has done to our country..

and the world, all the troops that have been killed or maimed over HIS son's fraudulent 'war', the increased destruction of our environment by HIS son, all the people that have lost their decent paying jobs because of HIS son's pandering to the corporations, the obscene reallocation of wealth to the filthy rich by HIS son and ALL the g w bushco election fraud and dirty campaign tricks, I want to break down in tears TOO!

[spanone]

37. If those assholes were my kids, I'd cry non-stop throughout eternity.

[qanda]

38. Watching that display literally turned my stomach

What was he crying about? Not one real tear for people who are dying in a war that his own policies helped create and not to mention that his own evil spawn carried out. Give me a break!!!!!

[kpete]

48. THAT qanda

is WHY I posted this pathetic photo...

GIVE US ALL A BREAK BUSHIES!!!

[bridgit]

39. crocodile tears if ever there were any, nobody is that sappy...

:nopity:

[movie_girl99]

41. he cried on Larry King too

he was on with his daughter that just recently wrote a book...Doro is her name..I think.

[davekriss]

42. Crocodile tears

Awww poor liddle Jebby boy. The hardships this family has had to suffer!

[Phillycat]

44. This is the onset of senility.

Anyone who has spent any time with elderly people with senility or Alzheimer's knows how emotional they can be - at the drop of a hat, too.

[OzarkDem]

47. Sadly, it seems a concern

As someone else said further upthread, you wouldn't want to wish alzheimers or other dementia on anyone. But it sure seems something is up given he's done this numerous times lately.

[Virginia Dare]

82. I have to try very hard not to wish it on him....

and I'm not succeeding very well. In fact I'd like nothing better than for Poppy to end up like St. Ronny babbling like an idiot and pooping in his drawers. I doubt seriously that old Bar would be as devoted to him as Nancy was to Ronny though.

[sui generis]

45. gas X works just as well as more expensive prescription antiflatulants

really - that and stay away from onions, beans, and pepper varieties.

Yeah - he's on the verge of requiring medication . . . and therapy.

[RestoreGore]

46. Poetic Justice Is Wonderful To See

Even though they are selfish tears. Cry for all the SOULS YOU MURDERED.

[Javaman]

49. WTF???

What is wrong with this family? They are all independently dysfunctional.

Is he crying because his loser of a son is moving on to other criminal activities? or his he crying because he won't get free t-off times at the florida country club of choice? (now watch this shot).

This people are certifiably insane.

If he's not around the bend by now, he's on his way.

[Raster]

51. FIVE!!! Boo-fucking-hoo you fascist fossil. If not for you and your evil family

we would not be in one-tenth of the mess we are currently in. We did not want your first-born failure as POTUS, but no, you and your cronies foisted him and his neocon gang upon us and then shoved them down our throats. Not once, BUT TWICE! Cry, cry, cry.
:kick:FIVE!

[info being]

52. A father's shame

[bobbie]

54. At least he didn't barf on someone; that's progress

Old bastard.

[Raster]

55. ROFLMAO!

Thanks, needed that!

[onecent]

56. Looks to me like Jeb is crying also. n/t

[Beam Me Up]

58. Yeah, my old man broke down sobbing like that . . .

It was the occasion of his 88th birthday. He put his big paws on my shoulders, looked me right in the eyes with big tears rolling out of 'em and said, "SON, I JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW, YOU ARE THE BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT OF MY LIFE." And then he proceeded to completely loose it.

I told him later, "You know, dad, you had your chance the time you shot that tin can off my head."

Fathers and sons. What can I tell you.

[bunny planet]

59. we've been sobbing for the last six years your other son has had a strangle hold

on our country. Your consigliere James Baker helped make that possible. No sympathy here Poppy. Looks like Jr.'s wrecked the car again before Jebbie got a chance to drive it. Oh well.

[Raster]

65. Bingo!!! That's what the tears are for: favorite son Jebbie won't get to

"fulfill the legacy and cement the bush* dynasty in glorious history." Nope, not only will Florida election fraud-boy not get to live at 1600, the entire world now knows what a failure ol 'first born is and what genuinely evil bastards you all really are. The name bush* will forever be tainted. The WORST pResident in United States history, responsible for the worst political, military and social blunder EVER!!! Your name shall be synonomous with election fraud and crony politics. Cry, cry, cry. And as the digging gets deeper, maybe your WAR CRIMES and TREASONOUS ACTS will come to light, old man. Cry, cry, cry.

[bvar22]

60. I would be crying too if

I were getting close to meeting my Maker (Poppy claims to be a Christian).
Old Poppy is going to have to answer some hard questions when he arrives at The Gates.
Poppy won't have to answer for his offspring. He will have to answer for himself.


*"Why did you kill so many of MY children?"

[Straight Shooter]

61. Cry me a river. Hell, go for it, cry me an effing' HURRICANE KATRINA.

:nopity:

[JHB]

62. If you'd raised better kids you wouldn't be crying now!

And after launching the spin-machine to take down Bill Clinton, ya got no business complainin' about "dirty tricks", Poppy!

If you're all choked up about the past, why don't you take some more potshots at Kitty Dukakis, just for old time's sake? That should cheer you right up!
:argh:

[Catherine Vincent]

63. I'd hate to see how he would react if President Clinton was his son.

Those weren't dirty tricks used on him, it was down right disgusting. Thank God he persevered.

[Beam Me Up]

64. CROCODILE TEARS (the derivation):

Q: From Gareth Cook: “When I used the phrase crocodile tears recently I was asked to provide a derivation. My dictionary is not very enlightening; can you help?”

A: To weep crocodile tears is to pretend a sorrow that one doesn’t in fact feel, to create a hypocritical show of emotion. The idea comes from the ancient belief that crocodiles weep while luring or devouring their prey.

This story seems to have been taken up by medieval French and English writers and that’s where we get it from. For example, in 1565 Sir John Hawkins wrote: “In this river we saw many Crocodils .. His nature is ever when he would have his prey, to cry and sob like a Christian body, to provoke them to come to him, and then he snatcheth at them”.

The first example known in English seems to be in a travel book of about 1400, The Voyage and Travail of Sir John Mandeville (I’ve modernised the spelling somewhat): “In many places of Inde are many crocodiles—that is, a manner of long serpent. These serpents slay men and they eat them weeping”. One version of the story says that the beast weeps over the head after having eaten the body, not from repentance but from frustrated gluttony: the head is simply too bony to be worth consuming.

The story was taken up by Edmund Spenser in The Fairie Queen and then by Shakespeare. Having such authorities on its side made it almost inevitable that the reference would stay in the language. For example, in the story of how the elephant got his trunk in the Just So Stories, by Rudyard Kipling: “ ‘Come hither, Little One,’ said the Crocodile, ‘for I am the Crocodile,’ and he wept crocodile-tears to show it was quite true”.

My naturalist friends tell me that crocodiles can’t cry, because they have no tear ducts—they would be useless in an animal that spends so much time in the water. The eyes can produce secretions to moisten the lids if the animal is out of the water for a while, but these are hardly tears. I am told, though, by people well versed in crocodilian biology that the glands that moisten the eyes are so close to the animal’s throat that the effort of swallowing forces moisture from them, so giving the impression of tears.

From: http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-cro1.htm

[bloom]

69. Interesting

"weep while luring or devouring their prey"

That seems to sum it up. Manipulation.

[RiverStone]

66. Cry for the thousands of lives that your son...

Has tragically and wastefully caused to end with his criminal war of agression in Iraq.

I can relate to a father crying over his kids accomplishments; but giving the current state of affairs, poppy should realize that people have far bigger fish to fry.

[Sapphire Blue]

67. And Jeb came over to comfort his father; I can't imagine jr doing that.

Or even considering doing that. I can't imagine jr doing anything other than smirking about it.

Sr. alluded to dirty tricks? Did their dirty tricks go awry in that campaign? Where was rove when they needed him.

[Little Wing]

68. No, he just remembered who he has to wake up to each morning

[terip64]

70. I think he realizes his legacy is doomed...n/t

[Raster]

71. One of the VERY FIRST ACTIONS of bush*2 was to seal the presidential papers

of ronnie the raygun, bush*1 and clinton. National security, don'cha know...

Poppy can see the legacy going up in flames and his own complicity in high crimes and misdemeanors becoming public knowledge.

[HootieMcBoob]

72. Give me a damn break with these assholes

:puke:

[ima_sinnic]

73. are there any tears for the hundreds of thousands of people

(perhaps millions) whose lives have been lost, ruined, or made extremely painful/lonely/scarey/poor/violent because of the lies, greed, plunder rape and mayhem of you and your disgusting a-hole offspring?

I didn't think so!

CRY, asshole, and if there is justice in this world you will REALLY HAVE SOMETHING TO CRY ABOUT.

what a fucking PIG.

[WI_DEM]

74. dirty tricks? they are the kings of dirty tricks and stealing elections!!

[AspenRose]

75. Oh, cry me an F'n River, Mr. "Willie Horton"

:nuke:

:mad:

[Fovea]

76. You are the only man who cannot remember where he was

on 11/22/63.

Go ahead and keep crying. I will never have sympathy for you.

[WinkyDink]

86. And Tricky Dick. Well, he's dead, but still....

[Lugnut]

77. Aw geez

I could find sympathy for him if his tears were for all the lives his family destroyed. Since they aren't he can go feck himself.

[goforit]

78. Oh please! Maffia Don only concerned with his own.

[FlaGranny]

79. Dirty tricks - that must

have something to do with Jeb's associations with crime figures being exposed. It is a very dirty trick to tell the truth about bushes.

[Virginia Dare]

80. Well, well Poppy is finally starting to crack...

whatsamatta Poppy, is the stress getting to you?...:nopity:

Rot in HELL you evil bastard, and take your evil spawn with you.

[nicknameless]

85. Feh. Jimmy Swaggart tears.

Did he actually make water come out of his eyes? Can reptiles do that?

Don't suppose he happened to shed any tears over the 600,000 dead in Iraq, the thousands of dead American troops, the thousands dead in NY on 9/11, the thousands dead in New Orleans, etc., etc., et-fucking-cetera.

[and-justice-for-all]

87. I would cry too...

..If I knew one of my sons will be tried and convicted of crimes against humanity in the near future.

I am sure Barbra and Shrub Sr. is popping Paxil and Zanex like candy out of a Peez dispenser.

[Raine]

88. Drunk and or demented

he was totally out of control. I didn't know whether to :rofl: or :puke:

[symbolman]

89. Be sure to read the article

and Yeah, it looks like the old FUCKHEAD IS getting senile, and losing touch with reality. Told so many lies that he doesn't even have a tenuous grasp anymore.

Barb and Jenna are CALMING DOWN and doing well? Uh.. that's why the Embassy told them to get the fuck out of South America?

Like his retardo chimpy son he doesn't READ a newspaper? Guess you don't need to when you just make shit up all the time.

If you notice over the years these guys can CRY AT WILL. Check it out, google all the bullshit crying sessions from Bushies. It's a SWITCH that some Psychopaths have - "Ooops, time to FOOL the RUBES now, so I can get what I want.."

WEAK. There ARE times to cry, and it's healthy, but these people are FAR from healthy and sane. They are filled with LIES and HATRED for anything that ISN'T THEM.

I'd like to deport them all to MARS and let them WEEP until they've terraformed it, and FIGHT all they want, as long as they kill each OTHER.

White Trash Pieces of SHIT with Money. Culturally and Intellectually Retarded.

[B Calm]

90. Republicans are whiny ass crybabies!

[bklyncowgirl]

91. Bush Senior is mourning the demise of his dynasty

Maybe I'm just getting soft but I can see where this must be tearing Bush senior apart. No doubt, when George became president Poppy had visions of becoming the father of not one but two Presidents of the United States.

Jeb was always the good boy. George was in constant trouble growing up (and beyond). Poppy had to use his influence to shield him from the consequences of his actions--in retrospect that was a really bad idea.

Jeb was the dutiful son and George the reprobate but it was George who grabbed the biggest prize of all. Now despite Poppy's best efforts, George has made a mess of his presidency. Thanks to him the name Bush will go down in a very special place in history. Moreover Jeb, who has not disgraced the family, will now never, ever, become president.

It's going to be an interesting Christmas at Kennebunkport this year.

[xchrom]

92. puh-leez, motherfucker -- hope, just hope

that investigations don't give you something to REALLY cry about.

[orpupilofnature57]

93. Trickie Dick got all emotional when his house came crashing

DOWN

[moondust]

96. Boo-de-hoo-hoo-hoo.

Sissy.

[Deja Q]

98. How many freepers call another a 'wimp' when they shed tears?

Besides, anyone who works to give special treatment for corporations means the workers are their rivals.

[HughBeaumont]

99. The Grand Cyclops and his Kligrapp.

Pieces of human garbage.

WHO CRIES FOR THE WIDOWS? WHO CRIES FOR THE FAMILIES OF THE SOLDIERS YOU BUTCHERED IN YOUR OILFEST DESTINY BLOODBATHS?

[dancingme]

100. Don't Cry For Me, George Bush Senior

The truth is, I never liked you
All through your Contra days
Chimpy's wild existence
The Bushies never kept a promise
Please keep your distance