Bush camp carping over 'sharp elbows'

[BridgeTheGap]

(Sharp elbows? They deserve alot more than that! btg)
WASHINGTON — On the plane, no longer Air Force One but now Special Air Mission 28000, they talked about the speech. Former President George W. Bush was heading home to Texas with his inner circle, having just left the Capitol, where his successor first thanked him for his service and then proceeded to discredit it.

The Bush team had worked assiduously to make the transition smooth for the incoming President Barack Obama and stayed out of the way as he used the post-election period to take leadership of the economy even before being sworn in. And now, as far as some of them were concerned, the new president had used his inaugural lectern to give the back of the hand to a predecessor who had been nothing but gracious to him.

"There were a few sharp elbows that really rankled and I felt were not as magnanimous as the occasion called for," Karen Hughes, a longtime Bush confidant, said in an interview. "He really missed an opportunity to be as big as the occasion was and, frankly, as gracious as President Bush was as he left office."

Dan Bartlett, another top adviser, used similar language. "It was a missed opportunity to bring some of the president's loyal supporters into the fold," he said. Marc A. Thiessen, the chief White House speechwriter until this week, added: "It was an ungracious inaugural. It was pretty clear he was taking shots."

http://www.kentucky.com/216/story/668826.html

[grannie4peace]

1. fuck bush & bartlett too

[Auggie]

2. "He was taking shots..." They're lucky it wasn't with a cannon.

Denial to the end

[annabanana]

3. Anyone have any clues as to why we should listen to Hughes & Bartlett anymore?

. . .. .

[ixion]

4. to hell with Bush and his "loyal supporters"

they can all take a flying f**k at the moon, for all I care.

This is the same respect they've shown to me over the last eight years (and longer). So piss off, EX-pResident ass clown.

[w4rma]

5. Agreed. Loyal to Bush, not the nation. (nt)

[Sydnie]

13. What they failed to recognize was

ALL his loyal supporters were on that plane with him.

[BOSSHOG]

6. The gracious bush didn't go to one funeral of a soldier he had killed

ya fucking whining ass worthless pukes. And why the fuck would the Obama administration want to reach out to members of a crime family karen ya fucking scum?

[TreasonousBastard]

7. Remember all the bitching and whining about how Clinton...

trashed the White House? Mostly lies, and the few halfway true things were chickenshit anyway.

And how they immediately tried to overturn every "liberal" decision or order Clinton left. And ignored warnings about terrorist attacks. And more.... and more...

These pigs have nothing to say about Obama after they trashed the country and a large part of the rest of the world.

[TheCowsCameHome]

8. Fullback Hughes couldn't feel a sharp elbow with all her padding.

[Doctor_J]

9. "Made the transition smooth" by gutting regulations, passing more

signing statements, letting Israel slaughter Gaza residents, and taking a farewell tour where they passed the buck on every disaster over the last 8 years.

Stop posting right-wing talking points

[Botany]

10. Still lying

"The Bush team had worked assiduously to make the transition smooth for the incoming
President Barack Obama ..."

Just like bush & company were so nice about saying that "Blair House was all booked up,"
so Obama and his family could not stay there.

[Owl]

11. Cry-babies.

[NOW tense]

12. Lame is the word that comes to mind.

They act as if P.B.O. should thank them for the great opportunity. The opportunity to try and get the country back on track. They really set up lots of things to fix, because they failed so badly.

[liberal N proud]

14. So he did understand that rebuking Obama gave of his regime

GOOD.

[groovedaddy]

15. The whole time they were spinning this ass hole's legacy, he was signing execuvitve orders

that were undermining regulatory law. They deserve jail time, not sympathy!

[supernova]

16. Karen's got some nerve complaining about 'sharp elbows'

Who does she think she's kidding?

They did everything they possibly could to IGNORE many people of good will who told them to temper their actions. They didn't.

Delusional to the end.

[emulatorloo]

21. Yep, Karen Hughes is a nasty piece of work. Rove with lipstick. UGH n/t

[pipi_k]

17. This pisses me off for a different reason....

How long did we hear day in, day out, that we who didn't support the war "didn't support the troops"?

Why do we hate America? we were asked...

Why do we hate our troops? we were asked....


They put on a great show of "support" for our troops and then fucked them over time and time again.

And the worst..the very worst exhibition of gross nastiness came during the 2004 election when Republican fuckfaces showed up at the RNC wearing bandaids with purple hearts on them. They not only mocked John Kerry, they mocked every. single. serviceperson. who had ever been injured in battle.

"Gracious"???? They want "gracious"???? I didn't hear one goddamned word from George the AWOL Bastard in condemnation of that whole thing. Not one.

The Obamas were much more gracious to Bush than he deserved.


So fuck all those whiners to Hell and back, where I hope the devil sticks hot pokers into their asses for all eternity.

[Joanne98]

18. They think he should have "brought them into the fold" unreal!

[Cronopio]

19. "There were a few sharp elbows that really rankled ..."

Memories of the many cheap shots at Bill Clinton Hughes orchestrated on command comes to mind.

As usual, the sociopaths can dish it out and laugh, but are crybabies when they have to take it.

[pipi_k]

20. I came to the conclusion a long time ago that

they must be afflicted with some kind of Victim disorder.

Well, maybe not all of the people perpetrating this shit, because who knows what they really believe half the time...to most of them, it seems like spewing that crap is just a job.

but the people they're targeting...the ignorant...undereducated...mentally ill...they're not truly happy unless they feel they're being victimized or persecuted in some way.

I never realized how many truly sick minds there are in this country.

[Cronopio]

23. You might be right, but you might also be giving them too much credit for honesty.

I think they're playing the "victim disorder" card for sympathy rather than having on honest disorder.

It's my Occam's Razor: if its a Republican talking I just assume they're just selling a pretense.

[pipi_k]

29. If they play the victim card to get sympathy...

that would make them pretty sick, in my book.

That's kind of my point...only sick people put themselves in the position of being a Victim, whether they're lying or not...

;)

[Cronopio]

35. My point was that people who play the victim card aren't victims. They're trying to victimize.

And I agree, victimizers *are* sick people.

[Still Sensible]

22. What Bartlett doesn't understand is that

the small group of " the president's loyal supporters" are the last people President Obama wants or needs to bring "into the fold." In the first place, those loyal Bushies wouldn't come into the fold anyway and, secondly, those closed-minded, my-way-or-the-highway neocons are the problem and can bring nothing toward the solution.

The speech did for both the American and the International audience exactly what the President needed it to do... and the reaction around the world proves the point.

[boomerbust]

24. Conservatives as victims?

Go figure! Now go and pull yourselves up by your bootstraps and crawl back under that slimey rock you came from.

[paparush]

25. Where, oh where, was the large flock of Canada Geese?

[southernyankeebelle]

26. what nonsense

Wow, Obama missed the opportunity? Bush was the worse President ever. When he took office he wasn't so nice to the Clintons. Remember the speech? I will bring back honesty to the white house. What a liar. He got what he deserved. Obama said what it should have been said and he had to sit and listen.

[bemildred]

27. "Elections have consequences." nt

[unapatriciated]

28. "It was a missed opportunity to bring some of the president's loyal supporters into the fold,"

frankly, we don't wish to bring you into "the fold", we don't need anyone trying to destroy us from within.

[Enthusiast]

31. Ain't that the funkin' truth! nt

[HillWilliam]

30. As I said on another thread

You should have seen it the way I did. I have an HD projector that throws an 8' image, sharp as a tack on the wall. (It'll go to 25' but my living room isn't that big.) The one shot of * looked like his arse just bit a chunk out the seat cushion.

It was priceless.

* knew he couldn't cut up. He was wrestling mightily with his face; he knew every camera in the world was on his azz and billions of people were watching. He didn't have the mic and couldn't get hold of it. He knew he wouldn't have a mic the rest of the afternoon.

Oh, that last chopper ride must have been a piece of work. I bet they had to strap his narrow azz down to keep him from chewing the armrests off the seats.

Good.

Now the little monkey knows just how we've felt for the last eight years.

Gracious? I'm not feelin' it. Every time we've extended the 'cons an olive branch, they've snatched it out of our hands and beat us with it.

Fuck 'em.

The only thing I want to extend to them now is some arrest warrants. Maybe a baseball bat.

Graciousness? Not so much. They took our graciousness a long, long, long time ago and wiped their ample arses with it.

I'm fresh out. Now they get back what they've doled out.

[yellowcanine]

32. I for one, am happy that Karen Hugh was rankled. Rankle some more, Barack!

[Bluenorthwest]

33. "Nothing but gracious"

Is that the motto of the Hay Adams?

[Mulehead]

34. Waaaaaahhhhhhh!!!!

I hope the plane was met on the tarmac by the Waaaaaaaahhhhhh!!!!!mbulance with lots of purple band aids. What was BHO supposed to say, "Gee, thanks George, for doing such an excellent job. Why, thanks to you I can follow your example and take the next month off and hang out at Buddy Guy's!" As my dad used to say, "wait until I give you something to really cry about!" Like indictments for war crimes, for example.