<p>I like his mom (grasping for straws). </p>
<p>2dsdad…many congrats to you and your wife.</p>
<p>President Bush will go down as one of the greatest leader since Winston Churchill and he’s married to a wonderful woman - however I cannot say the same about their daughters</p>
<p>Now perhaps they’ve matured a bit as I formed this opinion after (among other things) seeing their “I’m bored” performance at the First Inauguration, which was 6 years ago</p>
<p>Over pampered spoiled brats is a term that comes to mind</p>
<p>The Kennedy family could use some new recruits. I suggest they let Teddy adopt them</p>
<p>Very true, 2dsDad. Also, don’t forget the “starter marriages” and the high divorce rate. Laura Bush seems to be one classy lady - and there are few men who find that an attractive quality in a wife.</p>
<p>I might like to have a beer with George, since he is a down home folksy guy, but leaving him in charge of foreign policy has been akin to letting a bull loose in a china shop.</p>
<p>"I like his mom (grasping for straws). "</p>
<p>You’re kidding aren’t you? The woman who said about Katrina victims, “This is working very well for them.” ?</p>
<p>The one thing I like about GWB … his never-ending ability to make me laugh 
.</p>
<p>I like the way he has helped the wealthy amass even more wealth, distancing them by leaps and bounds from the unmentionable hordes who have to scramble every day just to find a way to pay for (what used to be considered) necessities – like food, clothing, shelter, and health care and education – oh, wait, skip the last two, they are luxuries. Really… those people are just TOO base to worry about.</p>
<p>And the middle class – what middle class?! One is either rich or poor, my dears.</p>
<p>One cannot blame the poor devil (Bush) really, he is only doing what he is COMFORTABLE with – and he DOES come across as extremely comfortable. Not to say he doesn’t have a higher calling – he does, many in fact, and they are all “up there”, on high, calling for more tax breaks and government contracts.</p>
<p>Itstoomuch (#19)–I was the most recent target of the mean-spirited sarcasm you referred to in post #19. No offense was taken on my part, particularly since the sender made no sense whatsoever in his supposedly “humorous” insult.</p>
<p>As always (at least since 2nd grade), I find the same to you but more of it rebuttal funnier than most witticisms, which would of course include Xiggis post (sorry Xigg, once someone drops the same to you but more of it bomb the intellectual landscape is leveled and not fit for even the most refined bon mot). </p>
<p>To wit:
…by god, that never gets old.</p>
<p>Aries, I like Laura Bush as well, even though I don’t like her husband. </p>
<p>Mathmom, Yes, I do like Barbara Bush, even though I am liberal and also think her son is not a good President. As far as the Katrina remarks…For one thing, I don’t judge a person’s entire life or personality on just one comment. I like to look at the overall picture and overall, I happen to like her. I also think there are times when a comment is taken out of context and/or not interpretted the way it was meant and then people run with it. When someone is in the public eye, like she is, they can say something without having given their wording a lot of prior thought and it can come out in ways not intended and possibly taken out of context, either way. then the news media will put it out there, analyze it, give it significance, and so on. Even if her comments WERE meant the way they have been interpretted, I feel she is NOT a political figure and her take on such issues do not warrant publication and public scrutiny. She was not elected. Yes, she is hugely in the public eye. Her politics are not what truly matters. </p>
<p>My opinion of both Barbara and Laura are more as people, wives, mothers, leaders in their areas of passion, etc. I haven’t examined either woman’s politics and don’t need to in order to like them as people. I like a lot of people who don’t agree with me on everything.</p>
<p>Nope, I can’t like Barabara Bush, I think she explains alot about what is wrong with her son. Remember the other famous quote?</p>
<p>“Why should we hear about body bags and deaths? It’s not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?” ICK.</p>
<p>from <a href=“http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/barbara.asp[/url]”>http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/barbara.asp</a></p>
<p>Dems foreign policy plan? </p>
<p>Oh “redeployment” nearby as Ms Pelosi suggests - to Saudi Arabia among other places. Oh geez Osama doesn’t approve </p>
<p>Oh I remember now the Dem plan, what Kerry said, basically more sucking-up to the French is important, along with more understanding why the terrorists hate us and want to kill every man, woman, and child in the United States</p>
<p>Feminizing United States foreign policy - now that is the answer, more hand holding and umderstanding the feelings of the oppressed Islamics - right that is really going to work. I am sure they will leave us alone then.</p>
<p>Let us all sing together:</p>
<p>“Kumbayah my Lord, kumbayah
Oh Lord, kumbayah”</p>
<p>Lord, Citation. I don’t like calling names, but you really deserve it. That is one ignorant, offensive post.</p>
<p>I like Laura Bush, too. The fact that she loved him and stuck by him is probably the best thing I know about Bush. I wonder how she gets along with Barbara, though. There could be a lot of smiling through gritted teeth on both sides.</p>
<p>I love the comments about “the adults being in charge” (repeating a Rove slogan from 2001) and “good leadership in the wake of 9/11”. They show that PR still has huge value, even in the face of massive evidence.</p>
<p>Farawayplaces, I know it doesn’t speak particularly well of my own moral standards, but I have to admit that that bad, bad part of me deep inside kind of likes the fact that Bush and his guys manipulate the goofy political evangelicals, smile and shmooze with the “leaders” of those groups, take their money, get their votes, and then laugh at them behind their backs. Like I said - it would be fun to have a couple of beers with the guy. Rove, too, I bet. Cheney? eh, maybe not.</p>
<p>I always find it endearing when little children mispronounce words like “psghetti”…</p>
<p>So, I guess I try to find it endearing when the pres says “nook-you-ler” instead of nuclear! </p>
<p>Does that count as something I like about dub-ya?</p>
<p>(actually, it’s like fingernails on a chalkboard to me!!)</p>
<p>I like his socks.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t like to have a beer with him, though; he might relapse.</p>
<p>I like the fact that he is Yale-educated, and hides it well.</p>
<p>Speaking of “offensive”</p>
<p>Here is something that actually is offensive: a person that cites part of a quote of ex-First Lady Barbara Bush and intentionally leaves out a good portion of the actual quote, no NOT merely a part of a quote as one might leave out the beginning or ending, but LEAVES OUT intervening sentences in the same quote - knowing full well the meaning of the quote (to any rational person) is very different - and then cites the quote as if the cite itself supports the quote - which of course it does not.</p>
<p>Here is the “quote” of Barbara Bush cited in Post #31 by the poster to explain
“what is wrong with her (Barbara’s) son.”</p>
<p>ALLEGED QUOTE</p>
<p>“Why should we hear about body bags and deaths? It’s not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?”</p>
<p>ACTUAL QUOTE</p>
<p>“I watch none. He [former President Bush] sits and listens and I read books, because I know perfectly well that, don’t take offense, that 90 percent of what I hear on television is supposition, when we’re talking about the news. And he’s not, not as understanding of my pettiness about that. But why should we hear about body bags, and deaths, and how many, what day it’s gonna happen, and how many this or what do you suppose? Or, I mean, it’s, it’s not relevant. So, why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that? And watch him suffer.”</p>
<p>It still is “offensive”</p>
<p>(actually, I think it’s worse in context than out. But I didn’t know she was so offended by Faux Nus.)</p>
<p>“But why should we hear about body bags, and deaths, and how many, what day it’s gonna happen, and how many this or what do you suppose?”</p>
<p>The Marie Antoinette Quote of the Day!</p>
<p>Mathmom apparently read only the first two lines of the Snopes explanation.</p>
<p>Reading the entire Snopes analysis shows what Mrs. Bush meant - she was dismissing media speculation about potential military action. It bothered her.</p>
<p>Obviously Mathmom was in a hurry - she clearly didn’t mean to imply Mrs. Bush was so callous as to dismiss the potential or impact to families for American soldiers to be hurt or killed in battle.</p>