Helen Thomas: Bush Should Listen To His Father

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By Helen Thomas
Thursday, 01 March 2007

WASHINGTON -- President Bush has told his sensitive father, former President George H.W. Bush, not to pay any attention to the news, especially all those painful Bush-bashing reports.

"I understand how difficult (it is for someone) who loves somebody to see them out in the political process and to kind of endure the criticism," Bush said, adding this advice to his father: "Look, don't pay attention to it. I'm doing fine."

The president has said he doesn't read newspapers and has relied on his staff to keep him up to date on the news. But apparently that was in the past. His spokesman Tony Snow insists that Bush now reads the papers.

The protective relationship between the two Bushes has long been a point of speculation and their defensiveness is understandable. Bush described his dad in the interview as his "role model" and added: "I am who I am because of him."

But he also has said he listens to a "higher father" and it is quite clear the hard-edged neo conservatives who designed the disastrous attack on Iraq and still dominate his administration continue to have his ear, starting with Vice President Dick Cheney, the most ardent hawk in the Bush hierarchy.

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[MasonJar]

1. "I am what I am because of him." What a heavy albatross to put

around anyone's neck.

[TahitiNut]

2. The Bush family crest must be a yellow stripe surrounded by ostrich feathers.

What a disgusting puddle in the gene pool. :puke:

[Javaman]

3. Actually I think she's on to something...

If the message that moron* should listen to his dad more, I think it would lead to a quicker melt down of moron* and finally we can get rid of him on that.

[SusanaMontana41]

4. There are so many people Junior should listen to

beginning with the voters.