Former president Bush undergoes hip replacement at Mayo Clinic

[arcos]

Former president Bush undergoes hip replacement at Mayo Clinic

ROCHESTER, Minn. Former President George Bush was in physical therapy at the Mayo Clinic today after hip replacement surgery.
A Mayo Clinic spokesman says the surgery to replace Bush's right hip yesterday was a success.

The 82-year-old former president is expected to be released yet this week.

Bush had his left hip replaced at the Mayo Clinic in 2000. Former first lady Barbara Bush also had successful hip replacement surgery there in 1997.

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[kimmerspixelated]

1. I could f---ng care less!

[Botany]

2. So H.W. Bush is now hip?

[Catherine Vincent]

8. Well, it was his right hip. So no, he's not hip. :)

Seriously, I hope he gets well soon.

[flordehinojos]

15. i love your graphic ... and by the way i was part of those times!

you know, peace flowers, VW buses with flowers drawn in them ... all of that... i think your graphic is great!

[Botany]

17. I was in the mid to late 70s

We had a friend w/ long hair and beard and a V.W. van w/ "buzz wagon"
painted on the side ..... he kept complaining that "fucking pigs" were always
hassling him ..... the pot leaf didn't help either.

:rofl:

[flordehinojos]

21. like the song says ...

"those were the days" !

[orleans]

3. initial reaction: damn. (i'm horrible lately, i know)

second reaction: thank god because i couldn't stand to go through another fucking week of "mourning" a republican has-been

why did he need hip surgery? did that old battle-axe knock him out of bed in one of her drunken stupors?

[Dr.Phool]

12. His head was stuck so far up his ass

They had to remove his hip so he could breath.

[jamesinca]

29. I thought you were going to say

His head was so far up his ass, it popped his hip out of socket.

[orleans]

30. (smile.) n/t

[Auggie]

4. I'll bet it was free, too. I can barely afford a doctor's visit.

[olaus]

5. I

wish him well in his recovery.

[Cobalt-60]

6. Timing is everything

What a coincidence.
Poppy Bush accidentally selected the opening day of the new congress to chisel a little news focus.
Normal Republicon procedure is for the politician in trouble - Junior Bush in this case- to run for the hospital they way Poppy and Ronnie did before him.

[maxsolomon]

7. are federal offices closed?

its an ELECTED president after all.

[DoYouEverWonder]

9. I didn't know cyborgs

needed replacement parts.

[Pab Sungenis]

10. Ick. Hip replacement is serious stuff.

Hope he heals well.

[Hekate]

27. Much less complicated than knee replacement though. nt

[Wickerman]

11. Damn, I thought the air was particularly foul around here today n/t

[shain from kane]

13. Parachute jumping in old age will do that.

[flordehinojos]

14. i wonder if he pays for services at any of these hospitals he usually checks in for one service

or another. back shortly after he lost the presidency to bill clinton, he was in the miami area, who knows for what nefarious goings-on when he broke his arm and was taken to jackson-memorial hospital, the county hospital as well as the um teaching hospital, to have his arm repaired there.

did he ever pay for his bill there? did they ever bill him or his insurance? or, just because he is a bush does he get a free pass like the one the propaganda media gives him and his sons all of the time?

[Virginia Dare]

16. He was having a difficult time getting around and looked like

he was in pain during the funeral. That explains it.

[shain from kane]

22. He realized halfway through that he had moved up a slot. Probably leaped over Pres. Carter.

[Qutzupalotl]

24. And heavy meds might explain the weird reference to killing JFK.

That and a guilty conscience.

[Virginia Dare]

32. And the instances of breaking down in tears of late...n/t

[dflprincess]

33. They did a great bit on Stephanie Miller this morning

it was suppose to be Poppy speaking to his doctor before his surgery assuring him that no matter what he might say while under anesthesia, Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.

[Roland99]

18. Did they insert a conscience at the same time?

[stansnark]

19. what - he owed somebody ten dollars ?

[mitchum]

20. Get well soo-...ah fuck that!

[teenagebambam]

23. While on the table, doctors discovered

that his heart was two sizes too small.

[truthisfreedom]

25. "You know, junior, you're making the same mistake in Iraq that I made with your mother... I didn't

pull out fast enough."

[krispos42]

34. (snort, spray ham and cheese) Oh, that's a good one! lmao! n/t

[Hekate]

26. How special that he can afford that operation and follow-up treatment. nt

[llmart]

28. I'll file this under............

who gives a shit?

[TankLV]

31. You mean they finally pried Clinton from his butt hole?!

After all, the two HAVE been to creepy chummy for my tastes...

[Lars39]

35. I wish him a full and speedy recovery,

while hoping he has a really loose tongue while under the heavy-duty pain killers. :)

[sofa king]

36. They'd better not let his parasite get loose.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsihsZE6mCA

[Javaman]

37. Patient: Mr Gumby! My brain hurts!!!

Mr. Gumby: I'm afraid it will have to come out!!