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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 08:09 PM
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Mrs. Bush Avoids Criticizing Husband's Speeches
Wed May 19, 2004
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In 1978 when George W. Bush was in an ultimately futile race for a congressional seat in Texas, the elder Mrs. Bush warned her daughter-in-law to "never criticize George's speeches."
She took the advice "until one night we were driving into our driveway and he said, 'Tell me the truth. How was my speech?' And I said, 'Well, it wasn't that good.' And with that he drove into ... the garage wall," she said.
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http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=EN1HSHWW3SPWWCRBAEOCFFA?type=politicsNews&storyID=5198437&pageNumber=1
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NMDemDist2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 08:11 PM
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1. i swear the man cannot walk and chew gum at the same time n/t
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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 08:33 PM
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8. Oh, I don't know: I have seen a snapshot of him chewing gum ...

(taken while he was working on his MBA).

Come to think of it, he was seated in the picture ...
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PartyPooper Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 10:15 PM
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17. Yes. And, how on earth did this idiot get into college and receive an MBA?
:dunce:
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crossroads Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 11:10 PM
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23. Daddy Warbuck$... maybe?
Hmmmmmm...
:eyes:
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PartyPooper Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 11:34 PM
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25. Yes, I was thinking the same thing. Thanks to Grand Pappy Prescott.
:eyes:
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rooboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 08:12 PM
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2. Her crime wasn't criticizing the speech...
her crime was telling him the truth. God knows the antichrist HATES that...
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 08:30 PM
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4. I bet that was the 1st time someone ever
told shrub the truth. i bet 41 just shakes his head and tries not to call him an idiot at family gatherings.
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amber dog democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 08:25 PM
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3. I bet there are lots of things she avoids thinking about.
Would not want to be her and tied to this con artist / thug.
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Shakespeare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 08:31 PM
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5. What that reveals about him should scare the living shit out of everyone.
Of course, we already knew that--but my GOD those are the actions of a true psychopath with major, major rage issues.
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yardwork Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 09:46 PM
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14. I see the same thing....the picture of an abuser.
She doesn't dare tell him anything critical or he will hit her or worse. That's the way I read this article. He's nice as long as she is the perfect wife. If he loses his temper and hits her, it's her fault because she did something wrong, she made him lose his temper.

That's the thinking of an abuser.
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PfcHammer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 10:24 PM
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19. So, one could say * abuses Pickles in addition to alcohol and cocaine.
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crossroads Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 11:17 PM
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24.  Shocking for a man to be sooo insecure...
Wonder if daddy Bush was an abuser too. I read they take after the male role model. Barbara sure looks *beat*. Hmmm
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tabasco Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-20-04 10:00 AM
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27. Nah, I'm thinkin' Babs is the one doing the beating.
I mean c'mon. Even Ahh-nuld wouldn't want to scrap with that battleax.
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Steven_S Donating Member (810 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 08:32 PM
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6. Just imagine what a different world it would be now if....
Pickles had said:

"To tell you the truth you sounded like a motherfucking retard, but other than that it was ok."

Duhbya would have done something that, well, maybe we wouldn't be in the mess we're in now. If only.

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bleedingheart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 08:32 PM
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7. they married after a very brief courtship and methinks that she
didn't know enough about him but that she was either truly in love or she was bribed by the family to marry him.

think about it... drunken drug addict George...with parents who wanted him to have a stable life and keep him out of trouble....and along comes this woman who he is basically married to within a few months...????? I bet there was a lot of money and loads of promises involved.
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vetwife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 08:47 PM
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9. Honey, there ain't that much money or promises in the world !
Talk about selling your soul to the devil.
What is that saying? Behind every good man is a woman....Maybe the sell out needs to question why her hubby is such a MISERABLE FAILURE ! Between she and Babs (Mother of Satan) the shrub was doomed. Keep taking those little blue pills darlin, and I am sure you think you wake up to the monkey you got and by 10:00 am convinced you are living with Tom Cruise...There ain't enough of those either.....blue pills.
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NMDemDist2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 08:52 PM
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10. and have you seen pics of Pickles and Babs together?
they look more related than the men do. I remember seeing a shot and thinking "What a cliche-Bush married his Mom"

those gals are the spitting image of each other
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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 09:23 PM
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11. Could "Mrs. (Shrub)" Criticize Shrub's Physical/Chemical Abuse? n/t
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Eye and Monkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 09:23 PM
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12. "at 5:30 a.m., he fetches coffee and they read the newspapers in bed"
from the cited article -

"BUSH READS NEWSPAPERS IN BED

Giving a glimpse of home life at the White House, Mrs. Bush said she and her husband get up at 5:30 a.m., he fetches coffee and they read the newspapers in bed. She said she is working out with a personal trainer, lifting weights and getting ``quite buff.''

REALITY - at 5:30, Pickles wakes and takes her first tranq of the day. Junior returns with coffee - for himself only - and settles in with the comics page - for 45-50 minutes. On a good day, Junior asks her to explain only two-four strips. After each explanation, he tells her that he understood it, he was testing her. Meanwhile, Pickles pretends to read the editorial page, and tells him all of the editorials support him.
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goclark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 09:41 PM
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13. That's the picture


She lies.
He lies.
They all lie.
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kskiska Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 10:53 PM
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20. …while alternately hacking and puffing on a cig
…the first of the day.
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maddezmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-20-04 07:27 AM
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26. that quote got me , too! so now "they" (she reads to W) read in bed
:puke: Your version is more likely to be the truth, and during the week W fetches his crayons to color in the comics.
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Malva Zebrina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-20-04 10:54 AM
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33. In one article I read, while the idiot was visiting in Kennebunkport on
one of his vacations. the schtick in the article was that junior delivered coffee to his parents while they were still in bed--reading the newspapers and if I recall, they all read the newspapers. It was supposedly a tradition. Now we see the same schtick here. I don't believe a word of it.
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nodehopper Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 09:55 PM
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15. She is a good Stepford wifey
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leesa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 10:10 PM
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16. Mrs Bush avoids engaging her brain at any time. "Keep the money
comin' Georgie, that's all I ask"
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goforit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 10:18 PM
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18. Ahhh ......So sweet and convenient she won't criticize a dictator.
Stay in your closet Laura........
You look better there.
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 10:56 PM
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21. Anger management problems, too?
I wouldn't be surprised if it was true.
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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 11:08 PM
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22. Probably some repressed anger on Laura's part ...

if she's telling stories like this on her political hubby as he faces a major campaign.
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rocktivity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-20-04 10:06 AM
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28. She couldn't figure that out for herself?
:shrug:
rocknation
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Tellurian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-20-04 10:08 AM
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29. Well, does she ever criticize his policies?
If she doesn't, than she is as guilty as he is..
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-20-04 10:12 AM
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30. The moral of the story: he never said "Tell me the truth" again.
Edited on Thu May-20-04 10:18 AM by Richardo
The End.
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booksenkatz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-20-04 10:24 AM
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31. Maybe Laura was his driver's ed teacher. nt
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johnnie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-20-04 10:37 AM
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32. Was it what she said..
...or the coke and whiskey floating thru his veins that day? And it wouldn't surprise me one bit if she didn't receive a backhand after her opinion because she was not with him, but against him.
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