I'm Traveling Through Europe This Week And Seen Many A Political Cartoon....

[global1]

depicting *41 spanking *43 or saving *43.

I'm wondering how this is going over with *43. I mean with this guy's ego - he's got to be taking that kind of criticism hard. How is it affecting him? How will it affect him?

We know he's the macho type and he still has his finger on the button - so to speak. How will his reaction to 'his daddy bailing him out on Iraq' affect him and ultimately us?

By the way - the Europeans really don't like * at all. They are really nasty in the local papers and newscasts. BBC has been especially hard on *. Just an observation.

[Sweet Freedom]

1. He probably has no clue

I imagine that his posse is keeping this from him, like they do everything else.

[primative1]

6. Deja Vu (not the movie)

I am hearing everyone applauding Bush the Elder and I am thinking to myself; ***.
Your statement about being shielded from reality is exactly Bush the Elders legacy.
For those who remember, back then it was the economy stupid.
We were in the middle of one LONG and nasty recesion and he had the gaul to admit during the campaign that he actually did not know.
Umm ...

[Evergreen Emerald]

2. Lucky you!

How are Americans received over there?

[Buzz Clik]

3. It's a classic father/son relationship -- played out on an international stage.

The son of a successful father madly trying to get his father's approval, and never getting it. Getting lectured well into adulthood about his drunk driving. Getting set up in business after business, only to have them fail. And now this.

[calimary]

11. Oedipus Wrecks, methinks.

What's happening to george? Well, now he's got tabloid stories climbing his ass about his hitting the bottle again, and laura drawing up divorce papers as a last resort to shake some sense into him. Whether it's true or not (and SOMETIMES, I found as a reporter during some really heavy celeb controversies that the Enquirer, at least, was frequently spot-on), it's further evidence of his public deterioration. You can't live that long as a wastrel and not have it catch up with you eventually. The only really sad part is that WE all have to live with it, and the consequences will likely reverberate through several generations to come.

[hlthe2b]

4. Let us know if any Europeans you meet....

want to adopt an American progressive... I will work (for Sanity)...LOL


Re: Bush*, I am sure one of his WH wives or "mothers" is keeping up his delusion of being the "big man" in power and stroking his wounded ego...:eyes:

[acmavm]

5. Seen any of the pictures of the petulant mean-spirited corrupt

monster this week? You can see the bitterness in his face. His mental state, while never really what you would call stable, is really going through some really big changes (none of them good). Especially if they took the guys away who were always around telling him how important (the Decider) and strong he is. If they neutered KKKarl and Unca Dick, I bet he's probably about ready to pop his top.

[KKKarl is an idiot]

7. People in other

countries do not like Bush at all. They consider him arrogant. Clinton was more welcome in those nations.

[calimary]

12. And Clinton STILL IS more welcome in those nations.

He's referred to, all the time, as "a rock star." george's handlers have to pay people, search them, run background checks and make them sign loyalty oaths, and even then they don't dare let him out in public in any ol' setting. On the other hand, all Clinton has to do is step outside - ANYWHERE, and he's a sensation. That, there is some rawther sweet revenge. They'll never react to YOU that way, george.

[LeftishBrit]

13. Totally agree!

We consider Bush arrogant, a warmonger and an idiot. Clinton was far more respected, and whatever people thought of him, at least he was considered to be intelligent.

[jobycom]

8. Bush has always had a strong Oedipal complex over his father.

He's molded much of his life around trying to prove he was as good as daddy, or trying to best daddy. He tried to beat him in business, and failed. He got in a fist fight with Daddy as a young man, and lost. He tried to beat him by getting Hussein, and then by getting re-*elected, and though he sort of succeeded, now it's all gone south. Having to have Daddy, who himself was a complete failure as both president and father, bail him out once again... why, it's probably enough to drive the poor boy to drinking... again.

As for Bush Boy being a better Daddy than Bush Daddy... Word is, the twins don't want him around, and that's why he doesn't go to their trials and graduations and such. You wonder what kind of things W did to drive them away, considering by his own admission he was drunk until he was forty. And by all honest accounts, he's been drunk a lot since then.

[sallyseven]

9. What the hell is the matter with bush I?

Didn't he know that bush II was an idiot? Didn't he know what was going to happen? Where was he when bush sacrificed 2800 young men and wounded 15,000. He is a big jerk and so are some of the people he assembled to get bush II out of trouble. He let him get elected, because why? If my son was a cruel dry drunk with a drug problem I would not have let him go out and try to destroy the world. I blame him and barbara for allowing this to go on. He had enough power to stop it. I would have put his lights out rather than see what a mess he made.

[jobycom]

10. Bush Daddy is smarter than Sonnie, but not really a better person

Bush Daddy lied to get us into the first Iraq invasion, and by some accounts lied to get Hussein to invade Kuwait in the first place. The media historians have re-written that atrocity to make it look acceptable, but the people were less supportive of that invasion, Congress was harder to convince of it, and Bush had to lie to get people to support it, claiming such things as that Hussein was massing troops on the border of Saudi Arabia and that Iraqis were killing babies in Kuwait and stealing their incubators (every war has claims on both sides the other guys are killing babies). Bush Daddy's handling of the war wasn't any better, either, except that he got out when he had achieved his goal, rather than getting sucked into an occupation he knew he couldn't win. Bush Daddy bombed refugee bunkers and civilian buildings on rumors that Hussein was in them, too, killing many civilians on an off chance that Hussein was there. He's a bloody monster, too.

Daddy also put Dick Cheney in charge of W, and surrounded W with all his old buddies. His old buddies shut Poppy out, though, and Poppy was reduced to going to England and making speeches cautioning his son against "a rush to war." Still, I don't think Junior did anything Poppy really disagreed with. Poppy just didn't like the way he did it.

Poppy was as corrupt and as bloody as Junior, he was just smarter and could politic better. He was still a complete failure as president.

[Quantess]

14. W is probably unaware. He's proud of the fact he doesn't read newspapers.

His handlers shield him from the real world, and criticism from us unworthy peasants. That's what keeps his arrogance alive.