"Heck yeah, I'm OK with this. How about you, Doc?" *'s reply while shown graphic video of surgery

[Kadie]

Bush upbeat as he heads on the road
By Steve Holland
11 minutes ago


CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee (Reuters) - Under fire in Washington over Iraq, President George W. Bush headed South on Wednesday to push his health care proposals and sounded like a man glad to be out of the U.S. capital.

"I'm tired of the politics just like you're tired of the politics," Bush told a health care round-table discussion, saying he wanted to work with lawmakers to find "common ground on common-sense ideas to solve common problems."

Bush's short visit to Chattanooga, a scenic city on the bank of the Tennessee River, had its lighter moments, showing a remarkably loose president even as he faces an uproar in Congress over his deployment of 21,500 more U.S. troops to Iraq.

At Erlanger Hospital, when Bush was shown graphic videotape of surgery being performed by a doctor operating robotic arms, Dr. Donald Chamberlain asked Bush if he was feeling queasy from seeing the blood.

"Are you OK with this?" the doctor asked.

"Heck yeah, I'm OK with this. How about you, Doc?" was Bush's reply.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070221/pl_nm/bush_trip_dc_1

[gratuitous]

1. Bush likes it when other people bleed

Heck yeah!

[Ilsa]

2. When Bush has a nightmare with gruesome body parts and

blood and death and horror, he wakes up refreshed and says he had the best dreams.

[Kadie]

10. I wonder what the doctor thought of his response.

'heck yeah'?

:scared:

[LSparkle]

13. He could just as easily have said, "bring it on, Doc"

What a fucking sadist ...

[Ilsa]

22. As a nurse, I generally haven't had problems with graphic

surgery, etc. It is usually smells that bother me, like the smell from cauterizing or other stuff like that. Bush wouldn't have been able to smell anything to set him off if he was separated from the operating theater by glass.

[Irreverend IX]

3. ...a remarkably loose president even as he faces an uproar in Congress...

Or, in other words, he doesn't give a shit.

[jgraz]

4. It probably made him hungry

[Kadie]

8. Next stop, Porker's bbq

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=260548&mesg_id=260548

[Deep13]

5. "common ground on common-sense ideas to solve common problems."

Yeah, that's pretty much what he is doing. That's why he quickly approved of both the Sept. 11 committee and the ISG recommendations.

[MindPilot]

6. I wish journalists would drop the war metaphors especially when referring to an AWOL coward

Bush was not "under fire". Never has been, never will be. He was perhaps "facing criticism" or "being questioned" but he was most certainly not "under fire."

[Rabrrrrrr]

7. Agreed. And the term "under fire" also has a subtle hint of being unneccessary.

"Being criticized" might suggest that the criticism is warranted. Being "under fire" implies that the complainers are just attacking with no merit.

Liberal media my ass.

[Fovea]

9. Under fire--'Never has been, never will be'

I don't have a lot of hope left.
Let me at least day dream a little about this.

Imagine George W. Bush spending a day with the press treating him like Clinton in 98. The very thought makes me feel better.

[Kadie]

12. He would probably have a complete breakdown.

Imagine George W. Bush spending a day with the press treating him like Clinton in 98. The very thought makes me feel better.


He can't handle anyone pushing him.

[JuniperLea]

11. I hope no embarrassing bulges transpired... n/t

[Swamp Rat]

14. "Hell yeah! Let me scoop out his brain!"

"Gimme that surgical spoon, Doc!"

[jollyreaper2112]

15. ugh

I have an incredibly well-defined sense of reality. You show me a movie like Braveheart or even Passion of the Mel and I'll shrug and say "nasty special effects, dude." But show me the surgery shows on Discovery Channel and I'll ask you to show me the door. That stuff makes me want to hurl. The difference between movies and surgery shows? The shows are real! Doesn't matter that the doctors are trying to help people and Freddy Krueger is trying to mutilate them, Freddy's not the one to make me lose my lunch.

That "heck yah" attitude reminds me of some older kids on my street growing up. (them being older would be probably 12, I was a couple years younger at the time.) They skinned a live snake. I didn't run home at the time because I didn't want to lose face but damn, I bet those kids grew up into good little Republicans, just like Bush.

[MindPilot]

17. Interesting; I'm exactly the opposite.

For the most part the movie gore doesn't bother me much, but there are those times I have to close my eyes and think of something else.

The real thing? That's science, man! I'm way too fascinated for revulsion to even cross my mind.

The thing that really bothers me about this incident is that Bush is trying to be a big manly man watching a film. Put his ass in a front-line combat hospital or even a big-city trauma center and I'll bet he wouldn't be nearly as gutsy.

The Coward in Chief makes a smart-ass remark to a doctor, and it's news. Fuck.

[Truthseeker013]

16. "Heck yeah, I'm OK with this. How about you, Doc?" *'s reply while shown graphic video of surgery

His unprinted following comment- "Rummy had better stuff on reels."

[PA Democrat]

18. Health care costs showed largest single month increase in

I believe 15 years (0.8% in a single month).

That's what makes me feel queasy.

[WI_DEM]

19. C'mon what a question to ask a blood sucker!

[WinkyDink]

20. I wonder what Bush thinks are our "common problems"---besides himself.

[tom_paine]

21. When he is unscripted, his psychopathy shines through

I wonder if he has personally murdered anyone. While he is a coward, I can see him sneaking up on someone from behind to do the job.

In any case, he has the murders of nearly 1,000,000 total Americans, Iraqis, Afghanis, and more than a few political opponents, to his name.

With more to come.