Bush campaigner urges low-paid workers to take a Prozac

[Bluebear]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A campaign worker for President Bush said on Thursday American workers unhappy with low-quality jobs should find new ones -- or pop a Prozac to make themselves feel better.

"Why don't they get new jobs if they're unhappy -- or go on Prozac?" said Susan Sheybani, an assistant to Bush campaign spokesman Terry Holt.

<snip>

When told the Prozac comment had been overheard, Sheybani said: "Oh, I was just kidding.".....

Nearly 1.1 million jobs have been lost since Bush took office in January 200

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040729/pl_nm/campaign_jobs_dc_1

[qanda]

1. She was only kidding when she knew somebody heard her

You can't say stuff like that unless it's in your heart to say it. What did she really mean to say, "Those poor people I hope they find a better job." I don't think so!

[Warpy]

34. Bullpoop on her "joke"

This is GOP mean spiritedness in action, exactly along the lines of the ignorant "Let them eat cake" statement from Marie Antoinette.

Just as the starving peasants didn't have the ability to choose an alternative to bread, the idiotic Bush policies regaring a hands-off attitude to price gouging pharmaceutical companies mean that the average person can't afford a doctor to prescribe Prozac and the Prozac, itself.

This is just another illustration of why these assholes have to be marched back into obscurity. We don't want their kind of country. They have to GO.

[The_Gopher]

53. Here's the full scoop from Google on our Prozac Princess

http://yourlogohere.blogspot.com/2004_07_01_yourlogohere_archive.html#109114280157715695

Here is everything that I could find on our compassionate conservative.

[Donkeyboy75]

2. If a Dem said this, it would be all over the news.

But it's par for the course for the heartless Repukes, so it ain't news.

:grr:

[senseandsensibility]

15. The mediawhores

will not cover this, but the Kerry campaign should be. This is the perfect talking point for them. C'mon, Terry McAuliff! Let's hear about this!

[Salviati]

44. Exactly...

think of how much milage can you get out of this comment:

-the crappy economy
-skyrocketing prescrition drug costs
-the health insurance crisis
-general republican cluelessness about the lives of real people

[tridim]

3. They have no clue

about how the real world works. Gawd I hate them.

[skygazer]

4. Compassionate conservatism at its finest

I'm sure many would take Prozac if they could afford it. Unfortunately, many of these people have no health coverage at their low-paying jobs and can't afford to pay the premiums on their own. They don't qualify for state assistance because they make so much money... You gotta love these morons.

[rumguy]

5. For just once I'd like to see our party hang a comment like this around

the necks of the pigs...

[Walt Starr]

6. Rate it a 5 folks!

This one will play well in Peoria.

[Bluebear]

47. Keep rating!

[Bluebear]

7. I'm sure whoever manufactures Prozac is in *'s pocket

No wonder they are touting it.

[Bertha Venation]

8. Or: "Silly f*ggot, get over yourself -- oh, come on, I was just kidding"

Or:

"Jew bastard . . ."
"Lazy n*gger . . ."
"Raghead . . ."
"Dirty spic . . ."

They all say the same thing, don't they? "I'm sorry your face got in the way when my fist flew toward it."

Your hateful attitude came through loud and clear, Ms Sheybani. We know what you Bush supporters are all about: Divison. Intolerance. Hatred.

[WVRevy]

21. Forward it.

Forward this article to every television news agency you can find an address for. It may not do a TON of good, but if they get a lot of response they may actually make some comment about it (though I'm not holding my breath on that.)

[Bluebear]

30. Welcome to DU WV, glad to have you

[MountainLaurel]

55. Welcome Revy!

:hi:

Where you from in the Mountain State? I grew up in the greater Fairmont area.

[Bluebear]

32. "Don't be so sensitive, queerbait! Can't you take a joke?"

You hit the nail on the head.

[MisterP]

9. Meese-style jerkishness mixed with corporate boosterism

in one fell swoop!

[dogman]

10. Then thy can flunk their workplace drug test

and not show up as unemployed.

[truthspeaker]

11. How will they pay for it without health insurance?

Dipshit.

[WI_DEM]

12. more examples of "compassionate conservatism"

right up there with "holding down the Detroit vote."

[rucky]

13. Ask Dr. Sheybani, family therapist:

"Dr. Sheybani, I recenly lost my son in Iraq and I am deeply saddened."

Sheybani: "Get over it. Screw your wife and make another kid... or pop some prozac and get happy again.

"Dr. Sheybani, I don't think -"

Sheybani: I'm just kiddin' ya, Bob. You just need a little Sheybani humor in your life! Heh-heh.

[Solly Mack]

14. Make them zombies and they'll never know how bad they are being screwed

drug them into a false sense of security...typical Bush.

[seabeyond]

16. forget prozac with all side effects and cost, legalize pot

and just take a hit or two...........and feel better

oh ya not allowed, not phamicutical drug company

[Walt Starr]

19. Where's the profit in that

[nini]

17. Impossible since they don't have health insurance to be able to afford it

what a witch... they have no clue what it's like to struggle.

[terrya]

18. Is there any way AAR can get this story?

I'd love to get this on Air America.

[Bluebear]

43. I wonder how to forward it to them?

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

20. Kick this.

[pschoeb]

22. Sun King assistant Susan Shaybani says "Let them eat cake"

since low quality jobs rarely have health coverage, how are they going to pay for the prozac?

[rumguy]

23. If this is her (pic) she's young

and was no doubt picked by Holt so he could have a fawning young good-lookin' "personal assistant" - hahahahahahaha.....Holt has always struck me as a scumbag kind of guy...

http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/db/archivedarticles.asp?ID=2160&date=11/29/2000

[Cocoa]

24. the neocons should take a viagra

as long as we're writing prescriptions.

[Bluebear]

45. shdoom BAH!

[ashling]

25. Problem is, they've just been kidding since 2000

Its time for serious leaders!

Hope is on the Way !

[senseandsensibility]

26. OMG!

Read the article! It's worse than I thought. When I just read the headline, I thought this was some campaign volunteer, maybe a teen-ager of something. But it's someone with an official position! She's an assistant to Terry Holt! These people are disgusting. :puke:

[proud patriot]

27. I rated it and sent it out

I mean that takes an arrogance to say something
like that , I will never understand it.

[Bluebear]

59. Never made front page today but thanks

[Bluebear]

28. But you can't order it from Canada, sorry!

nt

[Literate Tar Heel]

29. Brave New World -- Huxley

"Benighted fool!" shouted the man from The Fordian Science Monitor, "why don't you take soma?"
"Get away!" The Savage shook his fist.

The other retreated a few steps then turned round again. "Evil's an unreality if you take a couple of grammes."

"Kohakwa iyathtokyai!" The tone was menacingly derisive.

"Pain's a delusion."

"Oh, is it?" said the Savage and, picking up a thick hazel switch, strode forward.

The man from The Fordian Science Monitor made a dash for his helicopter."

[ET Awful]

31. Let them eat cake . . . . .

That's why the Bushites hate the French so much . . . they know that in France they would've gotten the guillotine for their treatment of the poor. :)

[SunDrop23]

33. Nearly 1.1 million jobs have been lost since Bush took office

1.1 MILLION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Logansquare]

35. Googled her--she used to work for Dick Armey

That explains a lot right there.

[ClassWarrior]

36. TELL EVERYONE YOU KNOW - THIS IS THE BUSH* POLICY ON JOBS

:kick: for an excellent meme...

Oh, and rate it a "5" at Yahoo.

[unfrigginreal]

37. Typical 'compassionate conservative'...

nothing new here.

[markses]

38. And how are they supposed to AFFORD a prescription drug?!?

D'oh! The plan makes no sense, you lying fucking CRIMINAL!

Yes, I know she was just being "Republi-funny" (har har, poor dumb poor folks and they're complaining!), but it's contradictory even within its own register. She should, of course, be fired immediately. Instead of losing her job, however, she will "take responsibility," which, as we all know, when applied to republicans, means nothing happens at all.

[Bluebear]

39. Maybe she'll need time "with her family"

[elehhhhna]

41. "Let 'em Eat Prozac"? Sure! Works for GW! Better up his dosage by 11/2

[LuminousX]

40. Wasn't Whoopi's comment about Bush a joke also?

[Bluebear]

42. Good catch, Luminous

[Bluebear]

46. Evening kick :)

[Canuckistanian]

48. Susan can find out herself

She'll be unemployed in November, too.

[Hubert Flottz]

49. I'm sending your story to Robert Byrd, so he can spread the.......

good news to the unemployed in West Virginia! And the word IS, "Don't worry, be happy, on Prozac"!

[MountainLaurel]

56. I'm sure they'll be glad to hear

Though they may have to drive a few counties over to find a mental health practitioner, and get a second mortgage on the house to cover the meds they'll go through as they try to find a dose that works.

Sometimes I'd like to take a baseball bat to all these compassionate conservatives. Jeesh!

:grr:

[lectrobyte]

50. Is that a "Let them eat cake" moment I hear rumbling in the distance?

Or is it just an oldies station playing "No Compassion" by the Talking Heads? Either way, I'm sick of these people!

[JohnKleeb]

51. yeah its so easy to get a new job

when the jobs are being lost in their areas. What a sick thing to say.

[Bluebear]

52. Night shift kick

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

54. An excellent response to the story on Yahoo..

Another Bush screw up
by: Send me a message! bush_oh_so_almighty 07/29/04 07:29 pm
Msg: 146 of 146

Maybe she should've told them to shove it, then the media would pay attention.

[Cogito ergo doleo]

57. Great. Now I know what to do...

and if I can't afford the meds, I'll just whack myself over the head with a 2x4 every 4 hours.

[onecitizen]

58. They probably would........

IF THEY COULD AFFORD IT!! sheeeeeshhh:mad: