George W. Bush on 9/11: "But the day ended on a relatively humorous note."

[elehhhhna]

George W. Bush on 9/11: "But the day ended on a relatively humorous note."
Ladies Home Journal:

Peggy Noonan (the interviewer): You were separated on September 11th. What was it like when you saw each other again?

Laura Bush: Well, we just hugged. I think there was a certain amount of security in being with each other than being apart.

George W. Bush: But the day ended on a relatively humorous note. The agents said, “you’ll be sleeping downstairs. Washington’s still a dangerous place.” And I said no, I can’t sleep down there, the bed didn’t look comfortable. I was really tired, Laura was tired, we like our own bed. We like our own routine. You know, kind of a nester. I knew I had to deal with the issue the next day and provide strength and comfort to the country, and so I needed rest in order to be mentally prepared. So I told the agent we’re going upstairs, and he reluctantly said okay. Laura wears contacts, and she was sound asleep. Barney was there. And the agent comes running up and says, “We’re under attack. We need you downstairs,” and so there we go. I’m in my running shorts and my T-shirt, and I’m barefooted. Got the dog in one hand, Laura had a cat, I’m holding Laura —

Laura Bush: I don’t have my contacts in , and I’m in my fuzzy house slippers —

George W. Bush: And this guy’s out of breath, and we’re heading straight down to the basement because there’s an incoming unidentified airplane, which is coming toward the White House. Then the guy says it’s a friendly airplane. And we hustle all the way back up stairs and go to bed.

Mrs. Bush: And we just lay there thinking about the way we must have looked.

Peggy Noonan (interviewer): So the day starts in tragedy and ends in Marx Brothers.

George W. Bush: That’s right — we got a laugh out of it.



NEVER FORGET THIS.

http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:pRBnvN8LyE0J:thismodernworld.com/date/2003/09/16/+bush+laugh+9/11+ladies+home+journal&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=5

[elehhhhna]

1. .

[undeterred]

2. Such deep thoughtful people.

:sarcasm:

[femrap]

43. That settles it...

he's not only brainless, he doesn't have a heart nor a soul.

And we're still paying for all of his administration's mistakes.

[muffin1]

3. What a DICK. Can you imagine if Obama said anything even close to that?

I read something similar to this on a site called "Dubyaspeak" years ago (it's a pretty funny site that basically captured every stupid thing Bush ever said). Anyway, in December 2001 (!!!), he said something like, "All in all, it's been a fabulous year" - only THREE MONTHS after the attacks.

:eyes:

[polmaven]

14. Covers *every* stupid thing

Bush ever said??? And you could lift it??? You must be pretty strong to be able to lift a book that size!

[muffin1]

18. Hahaha! No, it's a website. I actually found DU through a link there.

http://www.dubyaspeak.com/

I worked for a Republican from about 2003-2007 as an Office Manager. I found this site one day at lunch. It (and DU) kept me sane during a very stressful time! :)

[Terra Alta]

4. 9/11 didn't end on a humorous note for the victims and their families

Quite telling how Dumbya got a laugh out of it though. That man has NO conscience.

[nolabear]

5. That's just about the creepiest thing I've ever read.

Right. It's about you. Oh, how we laughed. ((((shudder))))

[muffin1]

7. Good god!

And the bed didn't look too comfortable??? We like our own routine???

:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

[0rganism]

6. hahaha that's so goddam funny... lulz!

oh wait, no it isn't. That's pathetic.

> George W. Bush: That’s right — we got a laugh out of it.

Yeah, W, I bet you did. Especially that little shit-eating laugh you do, "heh heh heh, gonna kill me some brown people now, you with? heh heh."

[Dennis Donovan]

8. I distinctly remember the night of 9/11/01, and the last thing that crossed my mind...

...was laughing.

[Diclotican]

32. Dennis Donovan

Dennis Donovan

I think I was still in shock, when I got to bed at september 11... And was in shock for most of a month or so... And I bet I was not laughing for a long time after that...

But I guess, when you are GWB, you can allways find a reason to laugh, even when the world are upside down... and a couple of thousands of your peopole is dead.. Not to say, a whole nation in shock.. (or a world in more or less shock to be presise..

Diclotican

[Old and In the Way]

9. That's how sociopaths roll.

Start a war based on lies of WMD? Make a joke out of it. Pay no attention to the hundreds of thousands who died based on your lives of the 5000 Americans who lost their lives. If there was justice in the world , Cheney and Bush would be begging for their miserable lives in front of a war crimes tribunal.

[MarianJack]

12. Looking under an end table saying...

..."those weapons of mass destruction have to be someplace".

Hilarious! :puke:

PEACE!

[cwydro]

10. Oh wow.

Nothing to say to that.

[MarianJack]

11. A Humorous note...

...while 3000+ Americans burned to death.

How heart warming. :puke:

PEACE!

[elehhhhna]

13. 3 recs? Bsuhfans abound here these days, huh?

[Ter]

16. The rec/unrec thing is highly misunderstood here

You are only supposed to unrec if you disagree with what the person who posted it is saying. In this case, he's just the messenger, so no unrec. Same thing with bad news stories, like hurricanes. You rec those, as they are newsworthy. Recing doesn't mean you agree with the story, or think it's good news.

[elehhhhna]

17. imo the unrec thing is a great way for freeps to downgrade relevent information

[Rhiannon12866]

22. I agree recs can be confusing. I don't just rec good stories, but also those I think are important.

:hi:

[NYC Liberal]

45. You also unrec if you don't think it's worthy of being on the "Greatest Page"

I've unrec'd posts that I agree with but didn't think should be on the Greatest Page.

[Kingofalldems]

15. K and R to counter the secret unreccers

[Blasphemer]

19. I've always HATED this story

And it's really disturbing to me that they insisted on telling it.

[elehhhhna]

20. i will post it here every year until i die

[Aerows]

21. As sensitive as mocking the fact that they found no WMDs

at that dinner party, and Barbara Bush saying that Hurricane Katrina victims had things "work out well for them."

These are people that are so accustomed to privilege, wealth and power that they don't care what they say or how insensitive it sounds. Just about every time there has been a war crime committed or something very shady done in our nation, a Bush has had a direct hand in it.

I mean, seriously Barbara Bush: "What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them."

[polly7]

39. I think they're a family of psychopaths. I really do. nt.

[elehhhhna]

46. He never had to experience the shock and horror that we, the people,felt

because he'd been informed that something big was coming and he'd been assured that it would result in his crappy, failing prezzydency being transformed into a quasi-dictator job. He cosigned 911 b/c it gave him such HUGE benefits.

[jimlup]

23. Criminal Frat Boy Coward!

:puke:

[opihimoimoi]

24. The Most Egotist trait there is....MEISM

[tilsammans]

25. Yeah, very funny, Georgie Boy

:grr:

[trusty elf]

26. Mrs. Bush: And we just lay there thinking

about the way we must have looked.

:puke:

[chillspike]

27. So they were laughing by the end of that day?

Interesting.

[WinkyDink]

29. HE IS A MURDEROUS PSYCHOPATH. If Bush were Middle-Class, he'd be Bundy.

[elehhhhna]

35. or Manson

keeps his own hands clean, lets the help do the dirtywork

[WinkyDink]

28. "All in all, 2011 was a fabulous year for Laura and me." Interview, December, 2001.

[Bluebear]

31. Just came in to post that

Fabulous.

[Tennessee Gal]

30. This just about the worst thing I have ever read about that idiot.

The lack of empathy and disregard for the reality of the situation of this nation on that fateful day in both of them is just astonishing. This story combined with the fact that he told us to "go shopping" to return normalcy to our lives certainly clarifies why this nation is in the sad economic state it is currently in.

Had he had one iota of common sense he would have asked for national sacrifice when he got us into 2 wars. Instead he gave two large tax cuts to the wealthiest among us.

[rasputin1952]

33. bush was hiding out in Nebraska the night of 9-11 and for about a

week after that. He was in a bunker, trying to figure out what he was doing. They flew to NE instead of DC or NYC...where I would have gone if I were in his shoes. He took the cowards way out, in fact, I can recall distinctly calling him a coward as I was living in NE at the time and directly compared him to Hitler in Berlin April 1945.

This had to be after they returned to DC after the hide out near Omaha, (if it happened at all).

I also find it interesting that for the first time in his life he found the need, "...to be mentally prepared." I bet that revelation really shocked the hell of the dolt.

[tetedur]

34. Bush went home and went to sleep. That says volumes right there.

I stayed up watching in disbelief what was happening on the TV.

But George Bush's heroic duty was to "provide strength and comfort to the country, and so I needed rest in order to be mentally prepared."

And the media made this man into a "hero" of 9/11?

It was also a joke about the WMDs "that gotta be somewhere." Who cares that people lost their lives looking for that pack of lies?

Political fiction bullshit rules.

[newspeak]

36. so, how many times publicly

did he say he hit the trifecta after 9/11? He also stated publicly that the terrorists find ways to harm the american people and so do we. Anyone remember that one? Then there's the joke about looking under the desk for WMDs. Some joke, when thousands have died so his war profiteering friends could make a killing on us.

I think his accidental rhetoric was more of telling the truth what he and his administration had planned for the american people and this country.

Here's some other brilliant quotes: 03/15/2000-"I don't care what the polls say (about economics) I don't. I'm doing what I think what's wrong."
"I know how hard it is to put food on your family." 10/19/2000-"My opponent keeps saying I give too much tax relief to the top one per cent, but he hadn't heard my latest proposal. The bottom 99 per cent will do well when they get to split Dick Cheney's stock options." 4/11/2000-"We will promote individual choice. We will rely on private insurance."

Mark Crispin Miller has written a couple of books on "Bushisms"--some quotes are rather creepy and it's amazing what Little Boots and his band of greedy supporters find humorous. I think some are unconscionable sociopaths to the core.

[Rex]

37. Well of course it did you fucking loser!

YOU YOU YOU! GWB jacks off in front of a mirror!

[polly7]

38. I can imagine the chuckles ...... how nice they were able wind down so quickly. nt.

[tblue37]

40. Because he thinks everything is always all about HIM. nt

[BootinUp]

41. They should really just keep this shit to themselves

Nice to know they have something to laugh about from that day /sarcasm

[cilla4progress]

42. My family's 9-1-1 remembrance

We watched Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9-1-1 together last night. Our daughter is 18. All I could think is what a horrible, twisted country we were / are in that time. I'm sorry. I want to be "patriotic," and I love my country the way you love a distempered dog.

Michael Moore, on the other hand, is a great American patriot. Keep telling the truth Michael - no matter how hurtful and ugly. It's the only thing that will set us free!

[DRoseDARs]

44. No, George. Humorous was you choking on a pretzel, tragedy was that you survived.

God what a shit stain. I hope your eventual death is painful and messy. Lord knows that for all your crimes, you won't see a day in front of a tribunal or have a date with the gallows.