Educate me.Why doesn't Mr.bush simply meet with Cindy for 1 hour?

[uppityperson]

I really truly don't understand why he won't.

I heard his drivel on the news tonight(smirk smirk makes me want to slap him) about "this is america and I respect her right to her opinion, I've heard this same opinion from other people and we're not going to withdraw from Iraq blah blah blah blah blah" but he NEVER said anything about just meeting with her.

I can understand that he won't change his Iraq position, but still, why the hell doesn't he simply meet with her like she is asking? Just meet with her.

Besides his basic evil controlling arrogance I mean. Anyone?

[DoYouEverWonder]

1. 5 minutes is all it would take

but Dimson is too impotent.

[cheezus]

2. it would legitimize her opinion

but if she sits out there for weeks the media attention would be greater. if he COULD handle it, I'm sure they'd just rather get it over with.

[xxqqqzme]

3. he's a chicken-shit

chicken hawk 'n he's scared of Mothers. (If I had a mother like his, I'd B scared as well.)

[wtmusic]

4. Because he has no answers to her questions

and he's afraid. He would be out of control of the situation.

[Mr_Spock]

5. He will meet with her or deal with the major consequences

of being labeled as an uncaring twit for all time. He MUST meet with her.

[jurassicpork]

6. Because it would give her cause credibility...

...give him the appearance of weakness. Bush is a chickenshit first and a chickenhawk second.

JP
http://jurassicpork.blogspot.com

[Mr_Spock]

10. That's OK, she'll get credibility x2 if he doens't meet with her

He's playing a very dangerous game of chicken with the future of our nation - and I don't think it's funny.

[leftchick]

7. because he does not care what she thinks

and he is a fuck head.

[havocmom]

8. Cuz he is the CIC!

Coward In Crawford!

Seriously, he would have to answer questions and he can't do that. He would have to be polite and he can't do that. He would have to appear concerned and humane and he can't do that. He would have to act like he thinks the common folk have any relevance, and he can't do that.

He won't meet with he because he knows his limits and knows she has him so outclassed there is no way in hell he could bluff his way through a real discussion with her. He's a fucking fraud and he knows it.

[Catshrink]

22. He is incapable of empathy and that makes him a sociopath.

[havocmom]

27. And indicates the likelihood that Babs drank like a fish when she carried

him, and wasn't real helpful after he was born.

[Catshrink]

32. That too.

The whole lot of Bush Brats is like that -- no empathy, criminal, etc.

[izzybeans]

9. It's unexplainable...I'm sure there are millions of rationalizations

or excuses, but nothing that is really worth "educating" anyone over. That's why we are left with words like coward, because we have no other words with which to describe it. Cowardly, is about as far as I want to take this.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

11. OTHER than the fact that he's an Oedipal War Mongering Coward P.O.S.?

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&u=/ap/20050812/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_64

"I sympathize with Mrs. Sheehan," Bush said. "She feels strongly about her position. She has every right in the world to say what she believes. This is America. She has a right to her position. And I've thought long and hard about her position. I've heard her position from others, which is, `Get out of Iraq now.'"

"And it would be a mistake for the security of this country and the ability to lay the foundations for peace in the long run if we were to do so," the president said.

[uppityperson]

21. Exactly.Since he gave this speech today, why not just meet with her?

I mean, he can just meet with her. He doesn't have to hug her, or change his foreign policy, but JUST MEET WITH HER. All I can come up with is his overwhelming arrogance. I know the longer it goes on, the more stupid and arrogant he looks and the more people might understand how arrogant her actually is. But why don't they see it.

I must be simple minded. If your hand, which is in the flame of a candle, hurts, simply take your hand out.

[Olney Blue]

12. If he met with Cindy, over 1800 additional mothers

might want to talk to him too.

That would be hard work.

[jazzjunkysue]

42. Lol!!!!!

:yourock:

[gulliver]

13. He has nothing to say. He would be abjectly humiliated.

You might as well ask why Dracula doesn't sunbathe. A sad, angry lady asking tough questions and looking for any sign of real character? Terrifying to Bush... He's right to be afraid of her.

[Imagevision]

14. If you had to make an educated guess? what would it be??

Bush is behind the 8-ball - needs a pleasant out, an amiable solution except he's dillusional with that train of thought! because he had the chance and had to look like mighty mouse to the neocons and now they're all off playing golf and Bushie is stuck in Crawford on vacation.

At least he has a friend in buckwheat Rice!

[blue sky at night]

15. I firmly belief that he is just incapable of doing the....

right thing. He always makes the wrong decision, he cannot feel in his heart or mind what is the right thing to do in any situation. All of his nominees and cabinet officers are perfect examples. He has a defective personality and needs to seek help.

[rateyes]

16. I agree with all of the above...

but, do have to say that if Bush meets with her...he invites more of the same down the road. The less of this kind of stuff the better, politically, for him.

He hopes that after his vacation, this will all die out...just a blip on the radar screen. It is up to us to make sure that doesn't happen....we need to support Cindy in dogging his every step---she goes where he goes....IMHO.

[dave502d]

17. Because she knows the truth and so dose he,the war was about a lie.n/t

[Incitatus]

18. Simple

Because her questions won't be scripted.

[jazzjunkysue]

43. Can I hear an Amen???

:yourock:

[LSK]

19. Downing Street Minutes

He wants to avoid them like the plague.

[Tom Kitten]

20. I think it is because he is afraid to.

She wants to ask him a simple question that he does not want to answer. It would a most uncomfortable thing for him to do, we've all seen how testy he gets when somebody actually gets up the nerve to question him on something.
So he tells his handlers to deal with it, and now we see the familiar slime tactics oozing out...They're trying to rally their ever-shrinking base and it is fascinating to watch...

[Liberal In Texas]

23. This is a real PR disaster for the Admin...If he meets with her he'll look

weak and it would open the door to other mothers or relatives to demand answers as well.
If he doesn't, he looks like the uncaring dolt that he is, holed up in his compound afraid to come out. They're trying to head that image off with him jetting all over the country signing bills and staging that weird press conf. surrounded by his henchmen.

A real man would have met with her first day and taken his licks to get her off the front page. But they're all idiots. Cheating and lying in this situation isn't going to help them, and that's what they know how to do best.

[uppityperson]

33. I noticed he's been busy jetting all over. Thought it odd.

I think the problem I have is that since I am a rational person (or at least consider myself one), I expect him to be also. My husband gets on my case for expecting sociopaths, oops I mean the irrational, to be rational.

[Liberal In Texas]

37. It also helps with that "working vacation" illusion they like to tout.

I don't think this was *'s decision. Rove or somebody planned the strategy about what to do with Cindy. Somebody wrongly thought that if they ignored her she would be forgotten after a day or two.

If he had invited her in on day 1 for a private, not taped, talk there would have been a little in the press and then probably forgotten. They could have invited the astronauts over for a BBQ or something and that would have been that.

Now it's too late. This thing has put them in a real bind.

Even the RW hate-radio morans are spinning like crazy.

[EST]

24. Fundamental rules in bfee

Never, ever, ever admit to having any doubts about the revealed truth of your convictions, there's no way you may be smarter tomorrow than today.
Never even consider the opinions of anyone outside your immediate cheer leading circle.
Smearing anyone with a differing opinion is not only smart politics, but highly ethical as long as it can be blamed on someone else.
God was, after all, made in your image and smiles in benevolent admiration on all your wonderful work to save the world, since it's his will you are where you are.

There are more, but you get the picture.

[gizmo1979]

25. If he meets one

he'll have to meet them all.That's alot of ass chewing.

[Stephanie]

26. His Fatal Flaw: He Can Never Admit That He Is Wrong

To meet with her would be to acknowledge that he was wrong not to meet with her in the first place. He won't do it. It's his Achilles heel and it will be his downfall - refusal to admit a mistake. Let alone a lie.

[JerseygirlCT]

28. Because he's stubborn, er um, resolute. nt

[marions ghost]

29. she represents everything

he does not want to face about this war. And he knows very well that she represents countless other military families and objectors to the war. Better to marginalize her.

Someone else said in another thread that in Bushworld, the more he does NOT pay any attention to her the stronger he appears to his base. So he actually gets a surge of support the longer he keeps her at bay. Also he figures if he stonewalls, she'll just fade away. The usual 'us vs them' mentality. Big misunderestimation.

In the mentality of this type of power abuser, there is no diplomacy, no compromise position. There is no guilt.

[jazzjunkysue]

45. Ding, ding, ding: We have a winner! You win the prize.

Very true. He knows deep down that he was a greedy bastard, and his rich republican cronies and neocons help him forget it. But this woman and her followers will just plain hurt too much. That's why he sounded really bad on mic: He really knows he's evil and she already left him more incoherant than usual.

[pitohui]

30. cuz he be on vacation?

as far as i know, that's his only excuse, the dude lives his life kicking back

[Imalittleteapot]

31. They are afraid that if they grant Cindy time

they will open Pandora's box to many more angry citizens demanding time with *---- like the not giving into terrorist's demands philosophy.

:shrug:

[Stirk]

34. Because his unconscious self will not allow

evidence of his own wrongdoing to be acknowledged by his conscious self. Sheehan isn't some hand-picked supporter. She isn't even under any social pressure to avoid criticising him. In fact, she openly *blames* him. He's responsible for her loss, and she'll tell him so.

He probably has a whole list of fake "reasons" for not meeting with her- and I'll bet he almost believes they're true. Not quite, but almost.

Remember when Bush was asked to name his worst mistake, and he couldn't even think of *one*? I tell you, he is incapable of acknowledging his own faults. He cannot do it.

[Imagevision]

35. Bush cannot answer Cindy's questions plus she's smarter then he is

you know Bush, he can't give a speech without a script or the 3 teleprompters at the back of the room!

[Iris]

36. I hope he doesn't

I hope he keeps refusing until there's a mass crowd in front of his ranch and his entire vacation is ruined and he looks like the coward he is.

[uppityperson]

41. I know and agree. More people will see him as he is.

Sometimes I think I have gone to far in my negative opinion of him, then I realize I haven't that he really is this arrogant or cowardly or stupid or evil or whatever. I hope it goes on for a while and more people can see him for what he is. Cindy is prepared to wait, so can I. I just don't get why he doesn't just do it.

[jazzjunkysue]

48. True. His ace in the hole was his texas cowboy image. She's blown that

right out of the water. Good for her. While he lets these people sweat to death, and a journalist shill die in jail, he's riding his bike.

She's ruining his fun, and I couldn't be happier.

[Dem2theMax]

38. Because she's keeping all the 'other' news off the front pages.

Notice how no one around here (let alone anywhere else) is talking about Rove, Plame, Roberts, DSM, you name it? It's all Cindy, 24/7.

She is a gold mine for * and company and they will milk this for all it's worth. He doesn't care one iota about soldiers dying. All he cares about is money, money, money and what it takes to get away with what he and his evil cabal have been doing for the past 4 1/2 years.
His moran base will hear the crap that comes out of his mouth and THEY WILL BELIEVE. :puke: He can do no wrong in their eyes :puke: and he isn't concerned about the rest of us.

I'd bet * and company are hoping that Cindy stays put in front of the ranch for *'s entire vacation. Rove who?

[DesEtoiles]

39. Because he is an arrogant little prick

[Booster]

40. Because he's vain and can't cope when people disagree with

him. If he were on a couch, I'm sure he could in time be considered "certifiable". And he's a true coward who can't control his swarminess - he'd lose it.

[all.of.me]

44. because he is exactly what she said about him after she met him in 2004

he is blank, shallow, cold, uncaring, not compassionate, and totally out of touch with reality. obviously his puppeteers are, too......

[PatriotGames]

46. Because he's bitch. Plain and simple. He knows he'll get owned.

[SammyWinstonJack]

47. Arrogance, control freak, thinks he's always right, won't admit

he's made any mistakes, thinks he's above us all, a flat out coward? Take your pick! All the above describes bush**.

[Cleita]

49. He doesn't feel he has to. He has no interest in being nice

to us little people. No one will touch him and his position, he thinks. He's a sociopath through and through and is surrounded by sociopaths. Why do you think they can be around each other all the time? Normal people would be brought to tears.

[jmowreader]

50. Because she would wring his little monkey neck...

after kicking his ass so hard his nuts would hang out of his nose...

and the Secret Service would help.

[jazzjunkysue]

51. Nobody's gonna make him do his real job: Take care of america.

It's been a feeding frenzy from the get-go, and no one, including the parents of dead soldiers are gonna stop him. He's got a man-date, remember?

This will cost the GOP lots of votes next time, as did Shaivo. They obviously profit off other's loss.