Does the Bush Administration have a foot fetish? Research finds...

[wakemewhenitsover]

1. The cowboy boots.

2. The Ferragamos and dominatrix shoes.

3. Karen Hughes likes to talk about how big her feet are. She joked on "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross that the only pumps she can find to fit her are the same ones transvestites wear.

4. From Wonkette: "In the 20 seconds before POTUS entered, Rumsfeld made note of Admiral G's footwear. 'Those are some white shoes.' VP and Myers smiled." http://www.wonkette.com/politics/pool-reports/wh-pool-report-biancas-identity-revealed-127060.php

5. Now this compelling New York Times lead story... "Her main client of late, President Bush, has described her fondly as 'a pit bull in size 6 shoes.'" http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/03/politics/politicsspecial1/03cnd-miers.html?hp&ex=1128398400&en=f010856a3c843a08&ei=5094&partner=homepage

[Demeter]

1. They Don't Want To Discuss The Weather

things (hurricanes, floods, etc) as they are, it's not a safe topic. Nor is Cheney's or Bush's health, so this is the new small talk (With apologies to George Bernard Shaw).

[wakemewhenitsover]

3. Exactly. Luntz probably wrote that "pit bull in size 6 shoes" thing.

It's too slick. It's a deliberate distraction. When someone has no judicial record, talk about their shoe size.

[unpossibles]

2. well...

they sure are familiar with the taste of their own shoes, that maybe they got to like it.

[wakemewhenitsover]

4. You mean because of "foot-in-mouth" tendancy?

[Demeter]

5. Thanks For the Laugh!

I needed a chuckle to go with the DeLay guffaws.

[wakemewhenitsover]

7. I like to laugh at their foibles but then I think about the poor people in

a New Orleans nursing home who would be alive if Gore or Kerry were president, and I cry.

[unpossibles]

13. I know

it sucks how these times can be so funny, yet so sad because it did not need to be this way were it not for closed-minded greed.

[MoJoWorkin]

6. They must all be Imelda Marcos wannabees

:rofl:

[wakemewhenitsover]

8. Especially Imelda Rice. Buying designer shoes while N.O. drowned.

[matt819]

9. And speaking of fetishes. . .

Okay, now. Don't flame me. But what is it with *'s seeming infatuation with presumably single, seemingly intelligent (if seriously flawed), and unattractive women?

[wakemewhenitsover]

12. Nanny surrogates?

[Jackpine Radical]

10. Just for the hell of it, a little information on fetishes...

There seems to be a strong correlation between a repressive or deeply religious home and the formation of fetishes, and this makes a certain intuitive sense. If a very small child internalizes from parental behavior that the genitals are very naughty, bad, dirty things, then when sexual feelings emerge (and they emerge in very young children - much younger than most repressive cultures wish to believe), the child will be forced to focus those feelings on non-naughty objects. Mother's stockings, or a pair of leather gloves.

[wakemewhenitsover]

11. Wow. I was joking, but all this talk about Bush's cowboy boots creeped me

out over the years, and this makes it make sense.