If Chimpy dropped dead of a heart attack today would he would be beatified by the media next week?

[NNN0LHI]

Would there be Repubs and Dems alike on our TVs for over a week straight telling us what a great guy he was?

What do you think?

I can just imagine hearing Tweety recalling his manly manliness right now. And telling us how misunderstood he was.

Don

[Virginia Dare]

1. Yes, and there would be people here at DU...

who would call for him to be respected and revered for the sake of his family.

[cali]

17. As someone who felt

that much of the dumping on Ford was completely over the top in the last week, I can state categorically that I would have no such feelings about bushco. Some of us can discern the difference between Ford and bushco, between criticism and absurd claims that Ford, for example, was a thug.

[Virginia Dare]

22. No, Ford wasn't a thug...

he just surrounded himself with them.

[nini]

26. kinda like some here did for Hussein

:eyes:


There's a difference between Ford and the BFEE though. Bush is much more deserving of being bashed to hell and back.

[uppityperson]

28. not respected or revered, but his death& body treated with respect for his family.

Respect him? No f*ing way. Treat the ceremony with respect for his family? Yes.

While I partied and celebrated also.

[Virginia Dare]

31. How do you party and celebrate about someone's death...

while also treating the ceremony with respect? Just curious? :shrug:

[uppityperson]

34. By seperating the Death from the Person.

I have partied at friends and families wakes and it is quite easy to do there, involves a mixture of feelings. Express feelings of sorrow, condolences, and telling happy stories about the person too (for my mother). Miss her and celebrate her death, her release from this world into the unknown.


For Mr.bush: Treat his Death outwardly respectfully and expressing condolences to those who like and/or will miss him while being happy inside he is dead. It is a set of mixed feelings, ambiguity perhaps? Trying to find the right words here. Treat the ceremony, the funeral, with respect. Then have a glass of wine and be glad he is no longer around to continue the bad things.

[Virginia Dare]

36. Well if it's a member of the Bush family we're talking about...

that would be really hard for me, because I can't think of one of them that I could have any sort of feeling of remorse, sympathy or respect for. I don't know that I would necessarily "celebrate" it, but I couldn't show respect, as none is deserved.

[uppityperson]

37. It is sort of a "sorry you are dead, haha" mixture that is hard to get right.

Respect is for those attending or who actually have positive feelings towards and are sorrowing. Manners are what we fall back on to be able to get along without killing each other. Edited to add perhaps some of it is "wish you had had a better life".

[bdamomma]

2. of course they would, they would pump him up to be the best

president ever, enough to make me :puke:

[Philosoraptor]

3. We must NEVER speak ill of the dead.

It will take more time to lionize bush, maybe 10 or 20 years after his carcass rots.

[tnlefty]

38. I just choked...

from laughing! Telling the truth shouldn't be "speaking ill of the dead", but I think it'll take longer than 10 or 20 years to put that much perfume on the Bush**turd.

[DesertRat]

4. Yes. n/t

[C_U_L8R]

5. It would be non-stop "megaphone moment"

:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[michaz]

6. But I am not sure that...

you would see that many citizens paying their respects as he laid in state.

[donco6]

7. Nothing could "beautify" Bush, but he would be beatified.

Spelling police, here. Sorry.

[DesertRat]

10. The mortician might beautify him a bit.

;)

[donco6]

12. He's really gotten haggard looking lately, no?

He's looking worse in photos than Bill O'Liely.

[DesertRat]

13. He looks much older than 60.

And he looks more like his mother every day.

[donco6]

15. Now THERE's a "GAAAAK" moment.

When you look in the mirror and find yourself thinking how much you look like your mama - and your mama is Babs!

[jmowreader]

20. By sewing on someone else's head, maybe

[NNN0LHI]

14. It made it past the spell checker and Google so its not my fault

:P

[donco6]

16. Ha!

Well, I'm so totally lapsed as a Catholic I'm going straight to hell, regardless of my spelling.

Let's blame it on Sister Rita Claire, my 3rd and 4th grade Catholic school teacher.

[O.M.B.inOhio]

8. Well, my concern would be with President Cheney.

[Ganja Ninja]

9. Would you expect anything less?

Fortunately I would miss most of the tear jerking because I would be too busy partying.

[malaise]

11. Just don't forget to tell me where the parties

will be :rofl: :rofl:

[BurtWorm]

18. Yes he would be.

I doubt it would catch on among the rest of us, though. There just isn't enough in the Bush boy canon to work with as far as hagiography goes.

[shaniqua6392]

19. I hope I live to find out.

A girl can only dream.

[LeftishBrit]

21. Don't know, but I hope he doesn't

Just think who would become president!!!!

[AZBlue]

23. No. But the GOP would make him their scapegoat for the last 6 years.

eom

[Danascot]

24. That would be the biggest favor

he could possibly do for the GOP and his base. He'll be a huge millstone around their necks forever.

It wouldn't surprise me if he weren't constantly looking over his shoulder like the Roman emperors (and Saddam for that matter) - afraid of his own party.

[ronnykmarshall]

25. There would be a "Good bye Daddy" thread.

That for sure.

[nini]

27. That thread was the worst freaking thing I have ever scene here

I couldn't believe it.

[ronnykmarshall]

29. and it will forever be mocked.

At least I'll TRY!

[Virginia Dare]

32. Link or synopsis? I missed it...n/t

[nini]

40. just because it's driving me crazy - it's SEEN not scene

doh!!!

[uppityperson]

35. found it, this one? #35 though is hysterical...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=3017045

#35: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=3017045#3017265

How about a stirring tribute to Pol Pot's hamster?
Who will replace his nibble bell?

[hfojvt]

30. they've already been doing it for six years

Why would his death change anything?

Apparently the M$M follows a strict "speak no evil of the brain-dead" code.

[Horse with no Name]

33. Quit channeling my fantasies...

:evilgrin:

[Buzz Clik]

39. kick....

I think really dumb threads should hang around forever.