She has a mean streak. I never understood the "America's Grandma" meme.

Simple answer: It's because she had white hair.

That was the same thing that caused the media to swoon over Henry Hyde on the impeachment committee: They called him an elder statesman type, when anyone who had been paying attention knew he was the worst kind of partisan hack.

It hypnotizes the children.

I remember that episode! Melvin Belli.

"Quick, we need to cast someone to play a galactic energy being who murders families on a distant space colony!"

(Exhales. Puts down bong.) "Relax, man. Let me get my dad's attorney on the phone. I think he's free this afternoon."

Barbara Bush has said many nasty things during her husband's career. I was not a fan. However, she's chosen to die and the media is giving her due. Nothing really wrong with that.

different way to respond.

just an ordinary citizen who got fucked by Bush. Most of us did.

You know, I voted for Hillary, but she and Bill used to think The Donald was cool too.

who should be rotting in jail for his crimes, along with cheney.

Trump being one of them.

I mean Dubya's daughter. She seems to be OK.

As far as Barb the Elder, I don't know. Ask not for whom the bell tolls, and all that. She has made some ugly comments about people beneath her station. That has made a lot of people angry.

I think the Bush girls are pretty nice from what I know of them.

I don't think they reflect a lot of the values that their father's political party currently espouses.

This is still here...

That's the best thing I can say about her.

I have not seen that but sign me up!

That's the next best thing I can write about her.

Peace, Tipperary.

Who can forget the warm little chuckle when the beast said

"Almost everyone I’ve talked to says, ‘We’re going to move to Houston.’ What I’m hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality.

And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this, this is working very well for them.

Yes beast the poor were very happy to live in the filthy astrosome. They hardly noticed the feces overflowing the toilets

I don't wish pain and suffering on ANYONE. That said, I don't forget.

...just what they needed most, I'm sure!

and I came down to see if I could help." That's what a human being says.

lack of empathy toward other humans, all of which was fully on public display during Katrina. I could mention other incidents, like Al Franken's experience on an airplane with her, but why bother. She was NOT a quality person.

I am exercising that which I learned as a child, got nuttin nice to say, say nuttin.

but we'll let this one slide....

one of his testicles pops out and is caught on camera.

Asked about it later he said "Well, sometimes you feel like a nut"

Apparently, not all of us.

but does your sentiment in your post mean you never say "nuttin" about our current pResident?

respect for him if he gets sick, so you are right.

She did not show compassion or respect for those dying right in front of our eyes during Katrina. Men, women and children. Her conduct was appalling and we should NOT forget for the sake of fucking etiquette or manners!

mother of our magnificent Cecile Planned Parenthood Richards. Now, that lady deserved to be mourned. She was something.

Said about Geraldine Ferraro in 1984.

Old Babs is the Livia Soprano of the Bush Crime Family.

Barbara Bush was a mean, nasty, vicious snake, did everyone just disremember the evil things she said?

She was the embodiment of a cruel and uncaring Marie Antoinette when she toured the Houston Astrodome to look down her nose at the hundreds of poor people who had been evacuated from the Gulf Coast states following Hurricane Katrina.


Barbara Bush transcript:
"Almost everyone I've talked to said we're going to move to Houston. What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas. (Said with concern.) Everybody is so overwhelmed by all the hospitality. And so many of the peoples in the arena here, you know, they're underprivileged anyway, so this--this (she chuckles slightly) is working very well for them."


Barbara Bush commenting on her son, President George W. Bush's decision to block the media from showing flag-draped coffins of U. S. soldiers killed in Iraq:
"Why should we hear about body bags and death? I mean, it's not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?"



This woman was a terrible human being and I can't say that her approaching demise has changed her lifetime of cold-blooded, dispassionate heartlessness.

But, she will soon get her life scorecard. I am not a Christian, but I do believe our conduct toward other beings is watched and scored, if I may use such a term. That is why I believe all rightwing evangelicals are going to get their reward the moment they die, and they won't be pleased.

She would have withered away into obscurity if she had been excoriated and denounced with even half the censure and condemnation that HRC received, but in death she's going to get a makeover and be extolled as the latest Republican saint.

I trully believe that, not in a Christian sense, but as a deist. She has been really cruel to the less fortunate a lot, karma will be hers.

It's called "karma," which translates as "action." Good, kindly actions tend to produce good, happy results. Bad actions tend to produce bad results of suffering.

In context, it was about the media frenzy prior to war where there was breathless reporting about how many casualties can we expect and other speculation. She was saying she wasn't going to join in the media frenzy speculation. *shrug*

Because being cruel and sanctimonious is what sets us apart from the other side, or something,

as arrogant and disdainful.

shortly before the commencement of the invasion of Iraq:

‘Why should we hear about body bags and deaths? It’s not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?’

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/barbara-bush-beautiful-mind/

the history of Barbara Bush. I use the term "white-washing" with pun intended. Many folks are being so very careful not to mention her racist & elitist comments about the poor who were crowded into the Astrodome after Katrina. Barbara Bush is dying, so why bring up the past?

Why not bring up the past? It is as much a part of her legacy as any kindness she has done.

We can already see 'selective memory' at work in the retelling of the history of our country in regards to the wholesale slaughter & slavery of Native Americans, and African Americans. And if we continue to look the other way we are in danger of allowing this assault on truth to stand.

I don't care if they are Democrats or Republicans or who they were in history. I am sick to death of racist Neo-Cons escaping the consequences of their words or actions just because they may be leaving this Earth.

or reflection.

So, I'm going to try and be a better person and not pay attention to the circus that will form after her death.

I forget who said that. I'm not going to look it up. But the quote was very close to that.

And it didn't surprise me. She looks the part of the hateful Republican woman. Unfortunately my aunt befriended a couple of similar women a couple of years ago and has been brainwashed to fear and hate anyone who doesn't resemble her or think like her.

I often quote him about her. Funny as hell.

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after Mrs. Quayle ridiculed a Bush dinner guest who revealed he was a Democrat. That was during the Bush I presidency.

That's the one good thing I remember about her.

Her family members have had many precious moments with her, so I do have some sympathy for them all.

She has always been an entitled asshole.

They seemed very close to their grandmother, and my heart goes out to them. No matter what we think of Mrs. Bush, they experienced her in an entirely different situation.

No doubt her husband won't be far behind, now.

I don't give two shits what Jenna and Barbara think of Quaker Oats.

It's like with Meghan McCain. I find her to be a thoroughly unlikeable individual but having lost my father to a brain tumor, I can still feel empathy towards what she is going through. But, that's just how I function.

But I have no compassion or empathy to outright despicable people. The entire Bush clan is disgusting.

I lost my sister, mom and aunt in a 6 month period. That might explain my over-sensitivity to the grief of others, since I feel like I'll never heal my own.

With helping those suffering from aids.

So may she be reincarnated as a ravenous flea on tRumps ample ass.



Only 2018 - 2020

that Mrs Bush made a really mean-spirited comment about Hillary. At the time, I thought Mrs Bush was a mean ol' dragon

Can we show some grace?

What an embarrassment it is for this place.

...c'mon, be a little nice... she's done.

doesn't make her a decent person either.

But, I feel empathy for the people who love her and will feel her loss even if I don't particularly think some of those people are very good people either.

And she’s not even dead yet.

DU is at its worst at these times. Each poster trying to outdo the last in ugly comments.

Seriously, some of these comments are sickening. No amount of the nastiness they show to us will ever make me act like them. Never. Ever.

Trashing thread.

too much power. She's no different than any of the other 10%'ers. Why not just let her go?

had posts like these been written about my beloved when he was dying.

May Barbara Bush's remaining time on earth be peaceful and may she be comforted by the presence of her family.

She isn't trump or Cheney or someone truly evil like them.

2nd thing is that comment about poor people at the Astrodome, so "they're used to it"

Are we supposed to pretend people were not horrible just because they're mortal?

Every day on DU I see people telling tRump to "have another bucket of KFC/2nd scoop" etc., are they all going to speak kindly of Hair Furor if and when he drops dead?

Very telling, scathing. If you read the article, read the entire piece.

https://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/1992/08/williams199208

It does humanize her, or at least make her more human at that point, when the piece was written apparently in the summer of 1992. Since then she seems to have been more the caustic, mean Barbara, than the nice one.

Thanks for the link. Marjorie was a great writer.

Nothing like undercutting our own values.

life is absolutely misplaced. That strikes me as true for all of the Bushes frankly.

any more.