Disgusting Newsweek Article Painting Bush as Sympathetic

[utopian]

Sorry if this is a dupe, but I about puked on my keyboard reading this. They make him sound like he's the fucking pope or something.

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President Bush was wearing "a huge smile," but his eyes were red and he looked drained by the time he got to the last widow, Crystal Owen, a third-grade schoolteacher who had lost her husband in Iraq. "Tell me about Mike," he said immediately. "I don't want my husband's death to be in vain," she told him. The president apologized repeatedly for her husband's death. When Owen began to cry, Bush grabbed her hands. "Don't worry, don't worry," he said, though his choking voice suggested that he had worries of his own. The president and the widow hugged. "It felt like he could have been my dad," Owen recalled to NEWSWEEK. "It was like we were old friends. It almost makes me sad. In a way, I wish he weren't the president, just so I could talk to him all the time."

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8941525/site/newsweek/>

[LisaM]

1. In a way, I wish that he wasn't president also

so that Crystal Owen could talk to him all the time.

[wtmusic]

2. *'s apology isn't enough

He can join Ted Bundy in hell.

[Jim Sagle]

5. Aren't they twins?

[rwenos]

3. Must Be A Pubbie Gold Star Mother

'Cause Bushie said on Saturday he wouldn't see Cindy, because he "had to go on with his life."

Sickening. What a jerk.

[shaniqua6392]

4. I read this on msnbc.com

and I am cancelling my subscription. What a bunch of B.S. Lies!

[BootinUp]

6. How'd they get this story exactly?

just askin. I thought it said no press.

[autorank]

7. Civil war in the media.

Newsweek is owned by the Wash Post Co. The Post has not come over fully to going after Bush. They had some stuff on Plame then backed off. Now this. I'm really serious, whose running things at the Post? Get it straight PentaPost, are you with him or us?

[deadparrot]

8. So why can't he meet with Cindy?

Why is Cindy any different from Mrs. Owen?

[Warren DeMontague]

9. Whoa, dude! I TOTALLY wish he weren't president!

Wow. That's a weird coincidence.

[CatholicEdHead]

10. Is this fallout from that Newsweek flap

a few weeks ago? So Newsweek needs to do some butt-kissing?

[bluestateguy]

11. This is no surprise

People who spend a little too much time in Blue State America assume that all mothers of killed troops in Iraq are like Cindy Sheehan. There are just as many mothers who are the exact opposite of Cindy and seem willing to support the killing of more American troops in Iraq to make their sons' deaths "worthwhile".

[BootinUp]

15. That's true, but

its the portrayal of Bush I have a problem with.

[TheCowsCameHome]

12. Edit that title right now! It should read Pathetic, not symPathetic

Jeez, I hate typographical errors.

[The_Casual_Observer]

13. "Tell me about Mike," First lie. Bush has no idea who any of those people

He called the mothers "mom" at the gold star thing. Fuck newsweek for trying to resurrect the chimp.

[6000eliot]

14. In ALL ways, I wish he wasn't president!

Crank up the propaganda machine!

[JAbuchan08]

16. Sincere sorrow doesn't mean a whole lot when you won't back it up

with responsible policies.

You can hurt people and feel sorry for it yet continue hurting people. These emotions are qualified by the irresponsible actions he's taken.

[MetaTrope]

17. "President Bush is determined not to give in...

...to the demands of domestic terrorists", that's how I figure the MSM will end up spinning his cowardly retreat.

[SledDriver]

18. "...his eyes were red and he looked drained"

...hungover probably more like it.

phony