Dec 5
Addressing state lawmakers Tuesday at a leadership forum held in the Florida state Capitol, former President George H.W. Bush broke down in tears as he praised his son Jeb for his tenure as Governor.
Dude. You’re crying over THE WRONG SON.
“I’m the emotional one,” Bush Sr. said later. “I don’t enjoy breaking up, but when you talk about somebody you love, when you get older, you do it more.” I forced myself to watch the video online, and am convinced that I am going to hell for laughing at an old man crying. But when something makes me uncomfortable, I laugh. It’s a defense mechanism. I practically peed my pants when I saw Bob Dole fall off that podium. In slow-mo. For the 260th time.
When asked about the future of the Bush Dynasty, the former president speculated that perhaps the twins will run for public office some day, calling Jenna and Barbara “full of life” and “not half as slutty as they used to be.”
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What a hack puff piece — you should disclose the Fox News source. Interesting description of Jeb as a loser due to “dirty tricks” — if it were a D Bush and his flaks would gin up Sore Loserman crap. I used to respect the old man as at least a person of principle, but GWB has ruined what good will the family had left.
http://www.burntorangereport.com
Jeb could have been president…if W hadn’t been president first. Bush family is done.
Very amusing…. Can’t understand what motivated the tears.
/it’s because he’s Jeb’s father
I wish Barbara had been president.
I appreciate the quote from 41 regarding his relationship with Clinton:
“It isn’t about politics, it’s about trying to do something bigger than ourselves, trying to help people who are devastated and need our support.”
Interesting juxtaposition with the Roveian philosophy dominating his party where it is ALL about politics and trying to do something bigger than themselves and help people isn’t even part of the freaking lexicon.
/Uh, oh. Cranky afternoon post.
Its Repeal Day…we should all be crying tears of joy into our legal beer or other beverage. C’mon, the 21st Amendment is a good thing.
Re: 5. treehugger
amen
41 had a moment of realization on the house floor in Tallahassee. 41’s crying over the downfall of his family dynasty. W was never supposed to be president–Jeb was.
Guess Karl Rove just told them no more of his spawn would win electoral office….
He’s still sad that Jeb married a Mexican chick with no powerwasing skills.
uh, powerwashing
http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/black-sheep/noelle-bush
I can’t believe you guys have given up on the Bush dynasty - there’s Noelle for example: (see the link in the website box for her introductory bio) There’s also “the little brown ones” as Grandpa Bush likes to call them.
America’s great families never run out of candidates.
“Then the duck says, ‘Put it on my bill!’ Get it? ‘Put it on my bill.’ That one always kills me.”
Re: 2. Cody
There is another.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_P_Bush
If there’s a snowballs chance in hell that a beaner or another Catholic gets elected President of the USA. This maybe the man.
Dam, the boy is even friends with Enriqui.
http://boboland-cronicas.us
Ah, bullshit.
Giving parental love a bad name. Crying because pendejo Jeb blew whatever future he had with the Schiavo circus.
Crrying some more because his daughter-in-law proved to be even a bigger pendehja than Jeb by flunking that most basic of Mexican skills - smuggling stuff into the country - and had to pay a sizerable fine to customs.
I have it on good authority that this caused my late aunt Catalina to twirl merrily in her grave. Cata, who a hoot in life, was a champ at smuggling her beloved little parrots into the land of the free. She would get the suckers drunk on soggy pieces of bolillos soaked in tequila, then she’d hide them in her voluminous skirts and sober them up when at home.
Mission accomplished.
Re: 14. Jesus B. Ochoa
If I ever have another daughter, I’m naming her Catalina.
Re: 14. Jesus B. Ochoa
That’s just too funny. Everyone needs an Aunt Catalina.
http://boboland-cronicas.us
She was something else, and she is long gone, having died of cancer in 1956, the year I graduated from college. I was her favorite nephew, and she sure lives in my memory.
Re: 17. Jesus B. Ochoa
I’m glad to see I’m not the only one around here with “historical perspective.” But I’m just on the on-ramp to geezer. 1956 was a damn good year! :)
the Bushes do not even deserve comment, and if another is ever elected, then once again. P.T. Barnum will have been proven right, again.