I just had a horrid thought about Bush, Sr.

[Cleita]

What if he dies while Dumbya is still in office? Will we be subjected to a hideous White House funeral at our expense, with the Prez as a grieving family member?

:puke:

[babylonsister]

1. It couldn't be any worse than Reagan's. That was WAY overboard. nt

[Cleita]

2. That was the image I had. How much worse will it be while

Bush is still in office.

[liveoaktx]

6. I've been reading some Iran/Contra books and it's even MORE

disgusting to think of the circus that Reagan had for a solid week. He was a CRIMINAL.

[Cleita]

21. What I find even more disgusting is that Ollie North,

who is also nothing but a criminal and traitor, has become a celebrity of sorts. He should be in prison.

[liveoaktx]

24. I haven't gotten to the end of the book yet so I don't understand

how this happened, but have been reading how the public seemed to eat up North as a hero even though he broke the law. How'd that happen? Was the media complicit? At the time I wasn't paying much attention, but I remember thinking he was a crook.

[Cleita]

29. They actually televised the hearings.

He had this really pretty secretary, Fawn Hall, so everyone was agag about her. This is what I remember that she testified that when they got caught, the documents they couldn't shred she stuck in her panty hose and smuggled them out of the building before the feds could come in and confiscate the files.

It was some time ago and it was such a convoluted deal involving Nicaragua and smuggling drugs to fund buying weapons and involvement with Iran. He was also accused of using govt. money to put improvements on his private residence. Basically, he was a money launderer. If some drug dealer got caught doing the same he would be cooling his heels in Leavenworth to this day.

[FloridaPat]

33. His trial was on TV and he made a great showing. People loved

him for his honesty and patriotism.

[FatDave]

48. Yeah, I remember how he honestly invoked the 5th ammendment

about a thousand times.

[FloridaPat]

66. But he did leave the cat out of the bag - he talked about how Reagan

had a group that was suppose to come up with a list of incidents that would justify suspending the Constitution. The govt immediately jumped up to the judge in protest and told the judge North wasn't suppose to reference that at all. The judge called it quits for the day and everyone went into a private room to discuss if it could be talked about. Bet * has that list.

[bobbieinok]

64. not sure abt trial...BUT his congressional testimony WAS televised

he wore his marine uniform (was he still a marine then???)....and he stood there looking oooo soooo young and clean cut and american......and he solemnly swore he was just following his president's orders and protecting his president

it was truly horrendously sickening

[anitar1]

42. Yes, old bobble head was a criminal. And so is Poppy.

I was visiting in Riverside, Ca when Nixio's funereal was held. We heard the planes taking off at March AFB, to do a flyover at the ceremony.Watched all of the assorted criminals lined up to pay homage to that evil one.

[otohara]

3. He's Only 82 - For A Republican, That's Young

they live to be old, old farts. Liberal types die young, mean republican's into their 90's.

[babylonsister]

9. He's only 82! That sounds lucky to me! LOL!

I just turned 50, had breast cancer at 27, my mom died at 63, so anything better sounds grea!

[Cleita]

20. I wonder who the Dr. Frankenstein is who keeps

renewing their body parts?

[JI7]

35. i agree, he will live at least past 90 , Helms is still alive also

and of course Strom Thurmond lived to be a 100

[NJCher]

41. It's because they're happier

Republicans are happier than Dems, don't you know? :)




Cher

[FatDave]

49. "Only the good..." (nt)

[MarmiteVarmint]

38. LOL

Your former President Carter will be happy to know, at the age of what? 82, that he could still be considered a young chap . . .

[Rocknrule]

60. Well, they say only the good die young

:shrug:

[w13rd0]

4. Junior...

...is probably praying for such an event. He's "exhausted" after all...

[Yollam]

5. If that happens, look at the bright side...

...at least Bush Sr. will be dead.

[Cleita]

7. Can you imagine Babs and her beautiful mind as

a grieving black widow?

[Yollam]

10. Hehe - statistics say that when a spouse dies...

...the other spouse usually isn't far behind.

Good riddance to two filthy, mean corrupt, elitist assholes.

Unfortunately, their progeny will be with us for decades to come...

[Erika]

14. Yes, with their beautiful minds they have doomed this

country. They send our kids off to die and refuse to gove their deaths a second thought.

[NJCher]

44. not even a FIRST thought!

Babs said she her beautiful mind shouldn't be troubled hearing about them! I remember it well--saw it with my own eyes! :scared:






Cher

[Frustratedlady]

26. You are referring to.........

spider, I assume by your comment, "a grieving black widow?" With all that money, she'll definitely be the merry widow.

[Cleita]

31. I was being sarcastic.

She'll have to put up an act of grieving for the ceremonies with a straight face, but I'm sure she will get over it very quickly.

[msgadget]

8. I doubt it

He served only one term, raised taxes and started this mess with Sadaam. While Reagan's funeral was a marathon of 'O' how great he was' there was also consideral press about what really happened. It'd be more likely a private affair with much about the president's grieving.

Hey, let's not even think about it. No matter how much I dislike a person it's unseemly to wonder what'll happen if their dad dies.

[Erika]

12. W's dad told him to keep away from converting the ME

W is the one who disrespected his father's advice.

The grieving, will be the grieving of the death of the middle class, under W.

[msgadget]

59. Good point, Erika n/t

[FatDave]

50. "consideral press about what really happened"

What channel were you watching? All I saw was people creaming themselves over what a great and noble leader Reagan was. :puke:

[msgadget]

58. LOL! Gee, maybe it was all a dream, a fantasy that I heard and read

disparaging remarks about him but I swear I did on - I think - C-Span and certainly there was plenty in the left-leaning blogosphere. :shrug: In any event, that's the way I *WANT* to remember it! :)

[Imagevision]

11. Bush Sr. had Woodward clear up the "Deep Throat" scenario because

Woodward said he would expose who DeepThroat was after his death - enter that substitute flunky to take credit for it while Sr. Bush was deepthroat from the get go!

Google Deep Throat George H.W. Bush -- Sr. got screwed by Nixon so Sr. exposed him.

[goclark]

27. We are on the same page

and Bush Sr. 's name starts with a D, add eep and Throat.

BINGO, the real Deep Throat.

[flordehinojos]

13. the bushes do not grieve. they go out to play golf.

[Erika]

16. or T ball for the kids

Gravitas is something they don't do. Don't worry. Be happy.

[shanti]

36. grieving is for the peons

to the silver spoon crowd.

[Mind_your_head]

37. I have had this little one in my thoughts for quite a while now......

A little beauty, isn't she? Robin Bush



on edit: I don't know how to make this image larger (and I've viewed it much larger). Also, this is the ONLY image I can find of this little bush-person online. I'm really intrigued by it though. She looks so sweet, and not the least bit sick at this point.

[flordehinojos]

43. i can't see robin bush too well in this picture.

maybe she was already showing her soon to become another LITTLE ANGEL karma.

[Cleita]

46. Could it be she was taken young because she seems so sweet.

Maybe God didn't want her growing up in that evil family.

[hedgehog]

51. I've often wondered if her cancer was associated with the oil fields

Pollution controls then weren't what they are today and she must have been exposed to some pretty hefty petrochemicals living in Midland. It would be ironic if she was the sacrificial lamb for the Bush family fortunes.

[Cleita]

55. Anything could be possible.

Although I grew up in a copper mining town that was pretty polluted, I'm still around and in relatively good health. But, my mother did die of bone marrow cancer, also related to blood like leukemia.

[hedgehog]

57. These cancers don't strike everybody, but they do strike the susceptible

What happens is that in a given population, you might expect to see 3 cases and all of a sudden you see 6 or 7. In really bad situations, you might see a lot more. It's hard to say which particular cases were tied to exposure to local carcinogens, but it is possible to say that there are x number of extra cases that shouldn't have happened.

[ronnykmarshall]

54. Here's a better pic.

[Imagevision]

15. I wonder how the war President would then lead?? go back to Crawford?

[Cleita]

17. Maybe that would be a good time for Cindy Sheehan to

show up again.

You can run but you can't hide.

[Betty]

18. don't worry, only the good die young

these evil bastards will live forever. Unfortunately.

[Betty]

19. don't worry, only the good die young

these evil bastards will live forever. Unfortunately.

[Erika]

22. The planet will be doomed if pollution is not reversed in 10 years

The GOP bushbots will suffer death with the rest of us, knowing their votes for a conservative globalist "brought it on"

[koopie57]

23. what if Babs buys the farm?

imagine how horrid that would be

[Cleita]

25. Being that she's not an ex-President we won't have to be

subjected to that, I hope. Have any First Ladies had a WH funeral after they left the WH?

[msatty99]

28. All you people mentioning BABS even in relation to her dying

are really bringing me down...

I cannot think of that woman without a
major episode of depression and rage ensues

[IntravenousDemilo]

30. Oh, thank god. I thought it was gonna be something involving nudity. n/m

[aden_nak]

32. I just had a worse thought. He could run again.

[leftofthedial]

34. it would almost be worth it just for one of that evil clan to die

[rooboy]

39. I think Babs' eulogy would be FANTASTIC...

"Considering my husband was a profiteering, incontinent embarrassment who only served one term and raised idiot sons, this has all worked out very well for him..."

[NJCher]

45. You win the First Belly Laugh of the Day Award for that one

OMG. Love it.

Nice turn of a phrase.




Cher

[anitar1]

40. I would throw a bell ringing party to send him off

to hell.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

47. I've often said...

that if Sr. dies while Jr. is in office, we will see a full-blown mental breakdown of Jr. His daddy issues are huge and unresolved -- his death would trigger an internal process for Jr. for which he is completely unprepared/unfit.

It would NOT be pretty.

[July]

52. Yes, it will be hideous, and in part it will be hideous because

Mr. Inappropriate (Bush, Jr.) will not be able to hide his glee at "besting" the old man for once by outliving him.

[Hubert Flottz]

53. No doubt!

They will have to hire people to cry!

[Initech]

56. Oh gag, as if Reagan's funeral was bad enough...

I mean for five days that was all the news media was talking about. Forget the fact that there's a war going on, Saint Reagan just died!

[dogday]

61. Let's just hope it won't be another week long event

with soldiers carrying his casket across America... That was a little too much for me....

[Cleita]

62. If Bush, Jr. is still the sitting President, you can be sure it will

be two weeks or more long. They will milk it for all the propaganda worth that they can, eulogizing the old corpse as some kind of superman saint.

[smirkymonkey]

63. What? That he's still alive?

Even worse, that Babs is still alive too.

Or are they? It's hard to tell.

[Minnesota Libra]

65. Along the lines of the Reagan spectacle? Let's hope not. nt

[Jim Warren]

67. maybe cheney will invite him hunting, who knows???? n/t