Book reveals Bush's bouts of crying, ghostly visions

[Anarcho-Socialist]

WASHINGTON • George W. Bush, the U.S. President, is prone to bouts of crying caused by the stress of his job and claims to have seen ghosts emerge from the Lincoln Bedroom in the White House, according to a new book on his presidency.

In a series of remarkably candid admissions by a sitting president, Mr. Bush confides to author John Draper he has been "sustained by the discipline of the faithful experience" during the most difficult days of his presidency.

(snip)

The book casts Mr. Bush as disengaged - almost uninterested - as Hurricane Katrina approached the Gulf Coast on Aug. 28, 2005. On the day before the hurricane struck New Orleans, he spent a day riding his mountain bike and swimming on his ranch in Crawford, Tex. By the time he joined an emergency video conference about Katrina, he was so "gassed" by his physical exertion he did not ask any questions about the federal government's preparedness, the book says.

(snip)

After exercising in a White House gym one evening, he told a friend he froze in his steps while approaching the Lincoln Bedroom. Mr. Bush insists "he saw ghosts - coming out of the wall," according to the friend.

More: http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=07a5d5cb-70f1-4c3f-9822-55c624a48bee&k=0

This from a few months ago, but an interesting article. I wonder if it's from years of drug abuse, mixed with access bottomless money that we have the nutcase in the White House we see before us.

[Der Blaue Engel]

1. Maybe the ghosts are trying to tell him something

Like "GETTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT OUTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!"

[sakabatou]

56. Or...

YOUR A WAAAAANKEEERRRRRRR....

[terisan]

2. Ghosts from the Lincoln bedroom may be gas still escaping from when Rush slept there.

[Vilis Veritas]

3. What's wrong with that?

Everytime I think about his legacy I have a bout of crying and see ghosts...

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

31. They are his own ghosts. You can only digest denial for so long.

Your crimes GET YOU, eventually.

[Kikosexy2]

54. There's no crying...

in baseball!!..oops, I mean politics...It's amazing how a super-rich knucklehead could buy his way into the presidency and really cannot handle the job...even more amazing is the American dunderheads who voted for this drug-laden drunk and huckster...is America really that stupid?...

[Eurobabe]

4. Nothing like a bottle of Jack plus Atavan chaser

[Tommy_Carcetti]

5. Well I'm glad Bush went swimming--recreationally--the day before Katrina

:sarcasm:

Sure beats swimming to save one's own life, as so many did in NO after Katrina.

[Virginia Dare]

19. Well he deserved a little R&R after his tough schedule that week..

[Stephanie]

30. The first photo is from the day after Katrina hit, while NOLA was drowning

The second is from the day Katrina landed. I hope one day he is prosecuted for dereliction of duty.

[Virginia Dare]

45. I guess I should have said in preparation for his tough schedule

that week. I agree. Here is the smoking gun that he sat by and did nothing while disaster loomed.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

48. Giving photo ops while a great American city is destroyed

They rebuilt Trent Lott's house, and that was probably the extent of his compassion for the victims of Katrina. :eyes:

[meegbear]

6. "Discussing his past battles with alcohol ...

he says he would never be able to make decision on war if he was still drinking."

Dammit Lloyd, where were you?

[Algorem]

7. Rubber room his ass,stat!

[peacetalksforall]

8. I can't believe they would let him say this stuff. If I can take a guess that Pat Robertson

does believe in ghosts. Therefore, many Christian followers would also not believe in ghosts? Ghosts are supposed to be S U P E R N A T U R A L aren't they? They are only for Halloween?

We may never understand that pathetic person who smirks or fakes it when confronted with other people's problems. If he is crying it is because he has figured out what his legacy is going to be in spite of the promises made to him by his handlers, especially Cheney when Cheney knew he was going to be President, but needed a puppet that he could handle, one that devotees would defend in the name of a religious deity.

[sakabatou]

9. Dr. Cox, what would you say to *?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=A_DQpZippWc

[Orsino]

10. If ghosts could frighten him...

...he'd have ended his wars himself, years ago.

[moggie]

11. Ruh-roh!

I'll bet those weren't real ghosts. It's Old Man Cheney doing it with mirrors and a projector.

[Virginia Dare]

17. Sounds like a job for...

[DS1]

24. When Reid, Pelosi, Plame, and Edwards showed up in the Mystery Machine

he had to find a way to keep those meddlin kids out.

[book_worm]

12. He was "gassed" alright, but not by physical exertion.

[Supersedeas]

49. priorities?

[LeftishBrit]

13. Sounds like a naturally weak brain, made worse by alcohol and drugs

And this is the most powerful person in the world. I usually have words for things, but this time, words truly fail me!

[undeterred]

14. Were the Lincoln bedroom ghosts friends of the Clintons?

I'm just askin'. :shrug:

[Forrest Greene]

15. If I Were A Ghost In The White House

...I'd haunt that cowardly little crackhead 'til he soiled his frilly nylon panties.

[Virginia Dare]

16. Certifiably nuts and hasn't gained a clue in seven years..

"Exercise helps. And I think prayer helps," he says. "I wouldn't be President if I kept drinking. You can get sloppy, can't make decisions. It clouds your reason, absolutely."

His reason could be even more clouded? I shudder to think. Hey newsflash chimpy mcsparkplug you wouldn't be president if your daddy hadn't bought it for you, just like everything else you've "accomplished" in your life.

So he thinks he's going to "replenish the old coffers" on the "lecture circuit" like Poppy and Clinton. He's assuming people are actually going to pay to listen to his incoherent tripe? There is no depth to is delusion.

He was "gassed" from his excercise session so didn't ask any questions about Katrina preparations. Or maybe it was the Joe Weeder he drank afterwards? :eyes:

[bdamomma]

18. ghosts?? what a sick SOB, why didn't those ghosts take him away then.

[Sequoia]

21. Actually, there have been many reports of Lincoln's Ghost.

But many...wonder who they could be? Maybe his two children who died while in the White House. What a tragic 4 years for all of those Lincolns.

[Ilsa]

22. I have heard of ghosts in the Lincoln bedroom as well.

It is a shame that there aren't any ghosts to intervene in the way he conducts the business of the nation. I don't have a problem with this part of the story. It is the rest of his crying spells and lack of passion or interest in the needs of others that haunts me. He's a sick puppy.

[Virginia Dare]

23. The Lincolns held seances in the White House..

in an attempt to contact their dead sons. There are also reportedly many other ghosts rummaging around the White House, Presidential and otherwise, including Andrew Jackson and Dolly Madison.

There is also a spectral black cat that reportedly shows up on the eve of disaster. Just before the crash of 1929 was one event that I seem to recall hearing about.

[Sequoia]

26. Wonder if Socks ever saw the black cat.

[eShirl]

34. inauguration day eve, January 2001

[Virginia Dare]

36. That would certainly qualify...n/t

[Sequoia]

40. THAT'S IT !!

[DCKit]

59. Socks was a Clinton cat, he'd a boinked it. n/t

[ThoughtCriminal]

20. Pink elephants on parade!

What'll I do? What'll I do?

[lumberjack_jeff]

33. I was thinking the same thing. n/t

[lpbk2713]

25. Cheap booze will do that to you.

[NNN0LHI]

27. Those were the ghosts of Iraqis he slaughtered with Shock and Awe

They will never stop chasing him.

Don

[RamboLiberal]

38. He saw the ghosts in the WH during his father's term

I read the story in the book. He was staying at the WH during 41's term. Bush saw the ghosts coming back from the gym.

I hope the ghosts are still haunting him and will haunt him for life.

[Virginia Dare]

44. It was just Poppy and Bar after their "massage" session...

that would scare the living crap out of anybody.

[Warren DeMontague]

28. Alcohol withdrawls can cause some pretty serious hallucinations. nt

[mod mom]

29. Maybe he'd prefer to be deemed crazy than to be found guilty of war crimes.

[Lisa]

32. Wow. He can't even be original when he's crying for help. Remember this inbox joke?

One night, George W. Bush is tossing restlessly in his White House bed. He
awakens to see George Washington standing by him. Bush asks him, "George,
what's the best thing I can do to help the country?"

"Set an honest and honorable example, just as I did," Washington advises,
and then fades away.

The next night, Bush is astir again, and sees the ghost of Thomas
Jefferson moving through the darkened bedroom. Bush calls out, "Tom,
please! What is the best thing I can do to help the country?"

"Respect the Constitution, as I did." Jefferson advises, and dims from sight.

The third night sleep is still not in the cards for Bush. He awakens to
see the ghost of FDR hovering over his bed. Bush whispers, "Franklin, what
is the best thing I can do to help the country?"

"Help the less fortunate, just as I did," FDR replies and fades into the
mist.

Bush isn't sleeping well the fourth night when he sees another figure
moving in the shadows. It is the ghost of Abraham Lincoln. Bush pleads,
"Abe, what is the best thing I can do right now to help the country?"

Lincoln replies, "Go see a play."

http://www.iflipflop.com/2005/09/other-than-that-how-was-play-mrs.html

[lumberjack_jeff]

35. Oooo... I am the ghost of shitty presidents past....

... thanks for releasing me from my curse so I can join Mrs Hoover in the afterlife. Oooo!

[librechik]

37. Ghost Hunters! To The White House!

what a great episode that would be...

[SalmonChantedEvening]

39. "Ah see smart people. meh hehheh"

"An' they skeer me, like the way that Kar'n Hyooze duz." :scared:

[focusfan]

41. i think everyone knows he's in insane

maybe having flashbacks of his drug days.

[conspirator]

42. As long as there arent any UFOs involved, nothing to worry about nt

[Anarcho-Socialist]

46. If this article was about President Clinton

the news media would have just run-and-run with it.

[baldguy]

43. Delirium tremens

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delirium_tremens

[BlueIris]

47. Woah. Someone needs his Ambien Rx revoked.

[Vickers]

50. I hope the staff has him carrying a Nerf football and not the nuclear football.

Sorry...nukular football.

[peekaloo]

51. that ghost was just Pickles in her nightie

:scared:

[InvisibleTouch]

52. If the ghost of Abraham Lincoln is still lingering around...

...then he must be thoroughly disgusted with the current squatter in the White House. Can you just picture that confrontation?

Of course, the more likely and less fun explanation is that it's just the booze talking.

[lovuian]

53. Johnson was haunted by ghosts in the Whitehouse

and now Bush

it seems he is having sleepless nights
I wonder why?
Iraq

[Liberal In Texas]

58. So was Nixon, according to some reports. n/t

[Ganja Ninja]

55. Talking with God and seeing ghosts?

Who needs booze and crack when you're this fucked up to begin with?

[krabigirl]

57. Guess he had some bad acid.

[earth mom]

60. Can you say nutty as a fruitcake?

:crazy:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

61. Lincoln just wants to offer Dumbyass some theater tickets...

Nothing to get upset about.