Bush and his grief---are the "lacerates" flowing down his cheeks?

[Crankie Avalon]

When his younger sister died, his mother made the family go golfing the next day and forbade any further mention of her. Or else something very similar to that--in any event, it was George W.'s first lesson with how to handle grief.

Years later, when asked to write a school assignment about "an emotional experience," he recounted his sister's death and how, "The lacerates flowed down my cheeks." In the midst of recounting his sincere and spontaneous grief, he took the trouble to look up in a thesaurus and then employ what he thought to be an artful synonym for "tears."

Now, of course, he has informed us again of his latest grief, the one he feels for all the soldiers he has sent to their doom for any number of the "noble causes" he has shifted back and forth from to justify his adventure in Iraq.



Many here have weighed in on whether or not this man has a capacity to feel grief. Do we really doubt that, as sincerely as they flowed then, those lacerates continue to flow now?

[shaniqua6392]

1. He has no heart.

I think any time he looks even remotely sad, it is forced and fake. He is probably pinching himself somewhere on his body just to take that incessant smirk off his monkey face. Just my opinion.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

3. The tin man, the scarecrow, and the lion all rolled in to one.

No heart. no brain. no courage.

[Inland]

2. Maybe "lacrymates"? Who knows, it was all BS. nt

[Brotherjohn]

4. He looked up "tears" (thinking "drops") & got a word for "tears"...

... as in "rips". Same spelling, different pronunciation (I wonder during which year at Yale he made that mistake?).

Ahh, the Cliffs Notes president. Too bad he reads PNAC's Cliffs Notes.

[Inland]

6. Oh, well, that's just fucking stupid.

I overestimated the man again.

[Crankie Avalon]

5. No, it was "lacerates"...

...I read it in the Kitty Kelley book.

He looked up the word "tears." Not realizing it was both a noun and a verb, he used a synonym for "tears" the verb (tears, rips, lacerates, etc.).

[City Lights]

11. It's mentioned in this Guardian article too:

His mother had drilled it into him that it was wrong when writing to repeat words already used. Having employed "tears" once in the essay, he sought a substitute from a thesaurus she had given him and wrote "the lacerates ran down my cheeks". The essay received a fail grade, accompanied by derogatory comments such as "disgraceful".

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1033904,00.html

[AlCzervik]

7. He's just like his mommy and i can't "Worry my beautiful mind" about that.

[Call me Deacon Blues]

8. Maybe it's a little over the top . . .

But I think that this is the face of evil.

[corker]

9. thats one scarey photo

[speedoo]

10. Un-freakin-believable.

Is there no end to the evidence of this cretin's stupidity?

[City Lights]

12. And they never bothered to tell ** that Robin was going to die.

He knew she was sick, but they never bothered preparing him for his sister's coming death. I know people deal with these types of issues in different ways, but I think it's very strange that they let ** continue to think Robin was going to get better. The whole family is fvcked up, IMO.

[peekaloo]

13. LOL

oh my....:rofl:

He's smarter than Kerry ya know!

[tibbiit]

14. I am always captivated by his little baked bean teeth

When they appear in his pictures. (which is not often)

As a longtime worker in the dental profession his teeth give me the creeps!

If one uses their teeth to "bite into a subject... any subject", to "chew the information to digest it" (etc tooth/food metaphors)then little rotten teeth are just a representation of how well he utilzes information which comes into his orbit for his assimilation.
tib

[peekaloo]

15. aka "shit eating grin"

literally.

:hi:

[tibbiit]

16. right on lol

So true, I shall add this to my teeth metaphor list!
tib