Barbara Bush threatens critics with death - on CNN

[better2know]

Barbara Bush on the Larry King show:

http://www.cnn.tv/TRANSCRIPTS/0310/22/lkl.00.html

-about 20% down the page-

BUSH: Well, first of all, you have to watch the father of the president suffer. And it hurts when your children are criticized. It hurts a lot.

KING: He takes it badly?

BUSH: He and I both do. He -- he curses, and I grit my teeth.

But, no, he really -- he knows that's the name of the game. But it gets pretty ugly.

KING: But was it harder for you...

BUSH: Much.

KING: ...when he -- when the current president is criticized than when the husband was criticized?

BUSH: Right.

KING: How do you explain it -- motherly?

BUSH: Motherly. And fatherly. I mean, that's just a normal reaction.

But the same would be true if something happened that was difficult for Jeb or for Doro or Neil or Marvin. And you can criticize me, but don't criticize my children and don't criticize my daughters-in-law and don't criticize my husband, or you're dead.

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Yikes.

[private_ryan]

1. come on now

you take that literally?

[bluestateguy]

2. Another example of the Right threatening us with violence

[Emboldened Chimp]

3. Usually when someone says "you're dead"

they don't mean it literally. They really mean "you're toast." However, this IS the BFEE we're talking about, so who knows?

:shrug:

[truthisfreedom]

important, but probably not LBN.

i wondered about this revealing statement when it first aired. is she saying what she seems to be saying?

[VolcanoJen]

4. Not LBN.. locking

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