First Laura Bush, now Poppy

[suegeo]

Last night, they rolled out Laura on NBC news to stand by her man.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1309098

Now, ole Poppy is out berating the meanies who are picking on his boy. When is Babs gonna pop up?

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=4704789§ion=news

Emotional Elder Bush Attacks Son's Critics
Tue Mar 30, 2004 06:20 PM ET

SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) - An emotional former President George H.W. Bush on Tuesday defended his son's Iraq war and lashed out at White House critics.
It is "deeply offensive and contemptible" to hear "elites and intellectuals on the campaign trail" dismiss progress in Iraq since last year's overthrow of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, the elder Bush said in a speech to the National Petrochemical and Refiners Association annual convention.

"There is something ignorant in the way they dismiss the overthrow of a brutal dictator and the sowing of the seeds of basic human freedom in that troubled part of the world," he said.

The former president appeared to fight back tears as he complained about media coverage of the younger Bush that he called "something short of fair and balanced."

ON EDIT:
It's been awhile since I've read this story from the Columbia Journalism Review, but I seem to recall that Poppy Bush was a major supporter of the evil dictator Saddam back when.

http://www.cjr.org/archives.asp?url=/93/2/iraqgate.asp

PS -- The arrogance (or is the better word hubris?) of these dipshits knows no bounds.

[Imperialism Inc.]

1. "in speech to the National Petrochemical and Refiners Association annual"

hilarious.

[louis-t]

2. Poppy was just doing a commercial for

faux news. To make him cry they had to hit him in the nuts several times.

[arikara]

17. What an image that is

thanks, I needed a good laugh

[Vickers]

3. Wait...intellectuals are BAD now?

Holy shit, this really is the USSR.

[Timefortruth]

4. Man, I'm getting all choked up just thinking about how

unfair I've been re the Chimp. Poppy has helped me to see the light. Saddam bad. War good. Saddam bad. War good.

[Submariner]

5. Hey ole Poppy...You wanna see tears

try out the spectrum of *this* side of the economy with your mental-midget son at the helm. AWOL little pissant!

[hang a left]

6. OMG Satan himself.

Bet that scumbag never shed a tear in his life. That must have been some acting job. Somebody call oscar.

[FarLeftRage]

7. That wuss poppy

is a f***ing criminal just like his son, the f***ing a**h*** is!!

And the media coverage not being "fair and balanced"????

WTF planet is he living on???

[scottcsmith]

8. Boo friggin' hoo

Poppie must live in a dream world as the press essentially has left Bush alone. Bush (junior) can do no wrong in the eyes of the "elite" media. Whether it's the leak of Valarie Plame's name to Robert Novak, to the bad intelligence that led us to war in Iraq, the media basically has given Bush a pass. Bill Clinton, on the other hand, was scrutinized intently by the media almost from day one.

[kera]

14. read my lips, he would love to see the media never ever

report any negative news on his son,

I am myself surprised that they do , imagine media never report on Iraq quagmire, nothing on Clarke book, nothing on palm nothing even on job loss and so on, Pravda or Brejnev TV like, what would be the situation ? so even if the media are government mouthpiece , unwillingly contribute somehow to open some not very tied yes,

[FlemingsGhost]

9. ROTFLMAO... Oh, man!

You ain't seen nuthin' yet, Poppy.

"Get Over It"...

[Mari333]

10. Oh send his FUCKING SON TO IRAQ ON THE FRONT LINES

that his fucking son sent mine to. Then we can fucking TALK about needing something to BOOHOO about
what a piece of shit.

[Sandpiper]

11. Sowing the seeds of basic human freedom?

Are you shittin' me?

sowing of the seeds of basic human freedom in that troubled part of the world,"

So, invading a country, slaughtering thousands of its citizens, installing an unelected body of US sycophants to draft a constitution, and planning to establish permanent US military bases there is "sowing the seeds of basic human freedom?"


Poppy, thanks for reminding me why the voters threw you out in '92: cause you're a fucking moron! :grr:

And it looks like the apple didn't fall far from the tree.

[Malva Zebrina]

12. How old is Bush?

and his mommy and daddy still have to come out to fight his battles?

They cannot bail him out on this one. He is just too stupid and
they cannot admit that they bred such a stupid son. Imagine a president not having the class and the dignity to go before a commission investigation the worst attack on American ever, and it happened on his watch, going to testify to a commission, with his vice president, Cheney, holding his hand?

Imagine how he must be scared to death to face the questions alone? The big cowboy, the big bully, the big "bring em on" bloviator is scared to go before a commission, a bipartisan commission without Cheney at his side.

now he knows his intellectual limitations when in order to ever go before a commission, he needs someone, as has been his lazy habit all of his life, to bail him out--AGAIN He should start taking to the drink again because he has faced his total failures and incomptency, his dependancy on others smarter than he, his inability to speak comprehensively and the embarrassing situation where his dumbassed, dullard of a wife has to fend for him.

I think he will start taking to the drink again.

[webtrainer]

15. Somebody should call * out on his Ma and Pa having . . .

to help boy blunder

My goodness, Franken tomorrow has a wealth of material to work off of!

[Sandpiper]

16. Even at age 57

Bush is still too crass and dimwitted to speak on his own behalf.

[havocmom]

13. Not sowing the seeds of basic freedom when we lock Iraqi newspapers

Tell Poppy he needs some Metamucil

If shrub has such tender feelings, he should hang up his spurs and head toward the bunk house. Too bad the Bush family can only feel their own pain and are incapable of any empathy for what others are going through.

Poppy: A BIG dose of Metamucil

[MI Cherie]

18. It is "deeply offensive and contemptible" to hear ...

...them pandering for the sympathy vote.


:nopity: