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russian33 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-01-04 09:30 AM
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Missy Johnson, victim of Bush's love
BUSH: You know, I think about Missy Johnson. She‘s a fantastic lady I met in Charlotte, North Carolina. She and her son Brian, they came to see me. Her husband PJ got killed. He‘d been in Afghanistan, went to Iraq.

You know, it‘s hard work to try to love her as best as I can, knowing full well that the decision I made caused her loved one to be in harm‘s way.



http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6146353/
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BlueEyedSon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-01-04 09:31 AM
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1. Thank god for the pharma companies and Viagra!
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martigras12 Donating Member (4 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-01-04 09:32 AM
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2. first the ob/gyn's now Missy Johnson
What's going on with this guy?? Any shrinks want to weigh in on the "love thing"?
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Mizmoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-01-04 09:34 AM
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5. He has no idea what love is
In his family, they don't love you unless you're out there crushing someone.

His whole life, love and affection for others is something you fake while you're using them.

His marriage is abnormal and formal.

He has a hard time talking about love because he never gave it or got it.

It's sad really.
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FlaIndie Donating Member (266 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-01-04 09:40 AM
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10. re
In his family, they don't love you unless you're out there crushing someone.

Or giving them a pap-smear, as his Ob/Gyn comment alluded to.
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funkybutt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-01-04 09:40 AM
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9. I was about to say the same thing!
He innappropriately places the word "love" in sentences. How could he have thought that was the right word in those instances!

BWAHAHAHAHAHAH
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CrowNotAngelGRL Donating Member (447 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-02-04 04:36 PM
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26. Maybe with the love thing
Bush missed the 70's and the hippies, so he's trying to make up for it? Heh.
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newyawker99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-02-04 08:12 PM
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33. Hi martigras12!!
Welcome to DU!! :toast:
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Texas_Dem Donating Member (584 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-01-04 09:32 AM
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3. Sad. Just plain sad.
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Gato Moteado Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-01-04 09:32 AM
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4. george bush's ministry of love
spooky
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CrowNotAngelGRL Donating Member (447 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-02-04 04:37 PM
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27. Since he loves country music
Edited on Sat Oct-02-04 04:38 PM by CrowNotAngelGRL
is he going to get Big & Rich (I do like them though) on his love tour? Heh heh.
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Fleshdancer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-01-04 09:35 AM
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6. celibacy never looked so good
Edited on Fri Oct-01-04 09:35 AM by GloriaSmith
I wish Bush* would stop insisting on American women getting unwanted love from him, doctors, or anyone else. Granted, it's consistant with his belief that we shouldn't have control over our own bodies, but geez, does he have to talk about it all the time?

:puke:
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CrowNotAngelGRL Donating Member (447 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-02-04 04:45 PM
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28. I agree
Maybe since women are supporting Kerry he's trying his best to look like women are more-so on his side then against him (good luck). :eyes:
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-01-04 09:38 AM
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7. James Jonesish!
"Here darlin have some Kool-Aid, me and Gawd loves ya!"
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Lavender Brown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-01-04 09:39 AM
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8. *Shudder*
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Sparkly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-01-04 09:41 AM
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11. That cracked me up!!
He must have meant "console."

I think when he's looking for a word he throws out "love."???
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SammyWinstonJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-01-04 09:51 AM
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15. I'm sure that's the word he was looking for
I came away with the impression that he really wasn't sincere about the woman's loss, rather he was just trying to convince Americans that he has compassion for those who have lost family and friends he has placed in harm's way. He came off very insincere, as he usually if not always, does.
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russian33 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-01-04 09:52 AM
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16. Did he attend her husband's funeral? Or any funeral for that matter?
This is all for show.
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SammyWinstonJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-01-04 10:09 AM
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18. Notice he said she and her son came to see him
Yes it's all for show. Bush* doesn't waste his beautiful mind thinking about those he has sent to die for his own political and financial gains.
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arewenotdemo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-02-04 05:51 PM
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31. Precisely
Still can't believe his mother said that. I'd pity the son of any woman that was that insensitive, but President "I Want Heads to Roll!" deserves none.
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Sparkly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-01-04 10:10 AM
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19. I couldn't agree more -- looked like a bad acting job to me
Phony as a $3 bill.
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Supersedeas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-02-04 09:31 PM
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35. Hard Work of laughing with Widows of sign the campaign loyalty oath
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skrunch Donating Member (939 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-01-04 03:51 PM
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24. But "console" has two syllables...
And he used up his quota of multi-syllabic words with "vociferously".
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HootieMcBoob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-01-04 09:43 AM
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12. "Ick"
That was my girlfriend's response right after * said that. :+
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Shopaholic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-01-04 09:44 AM
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13. I turned to my Mom and said--
Did he say what I just think he said? Someone needs to send this to Olbermann-he could do a montage with this and the OB-GYN comment.
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pansypoo53219 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-01-04 09:49 AM
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14. i wonder if it was the same love
Edited on Fri Oct-01-04 09:51 AM by pansypoo53219
that OB-GYN's practice. and no COMPASSION?!?
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MsTryska Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-01-04 09:56 AM
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17. You know.....
i saw this guy on the Al Franken show a few weeks back, talking about how dubya only seems to stumble and produce a bushism when he's trying to be sincere or empathetic.

As soon as he started talking about Missy Johnson, i knew it was coming, and sure enough.....


what was even scarier was that after uhhhh...loving her, they prayed and cried, and laughed about her husband's death.
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gauguin57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-01-04 10:12 AM
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20. Well, remember how, early in his presidency, he said,
"I'm a LOVIN' GUY!" ... I think it was right after 9/11.

Well, there you go. He warned us.
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Supersedeas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-01-04 10:14 AM
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21. hard work to try to love--hard work--hard work--hard work
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MallRat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-01-04 10:15 AM
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22. Why hasn't more been made of this?
This is a mindboggling gaffe. Should we pounce on this?

"President Bush: He'll love war widows as best as he can."

-MR
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arewenotdemo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-02-04 06:00 PM
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32. Well, that's one way to get rid of the husband(s)
all the while creating more and more war widows to "love".

Gotta be hard work.
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JoFerret Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-01-04 01:53 PM
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23. Army Staff Sgt. Paul Johnson of Calumet
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MagickMuffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-01-04 04:07 PM
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25. He broke the rules,
you are not suppose to mention people by name.

He then proceeds to violate that very person by insulting her with "You know it‘s hard work to try to love her as best as I can, knowing full well that the decision I made caused her loved one to be in harm‘s way."

Harm's way what the hell are you talking about, he was killed. If only he had been harmed perhaps he would have been able to provide his wife with the love you so desperately think that you can provide her. I would bet all my possessions that she would prefer his love to yours!!!

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CrowNotAngelGRL Donating Member (447 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-02-04 04:54 PM
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29. Why isn't anybody
talking about Bush breaking the rules? You know sure well if it was Kerry they would be all over him! Nobody is over Bush. Didn't his people make up the rules too? :spank: Bad Bush.
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Disturbed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-02-04 05:02 PM
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30. " it‘s hard work to try to love her as best as I can."
Edited on Sat Oct-02-04 05:03 PM by Disturbed
It seems that there is a truth here. He said that it is hard work to try to love her as best as he can. Hard work for him because he has no love and as best as he can because he has nothing to offer. While at first the statement sounded like nonesense it does ring true to this Sociopath's personality.
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gardenista Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-02-04 09:40 PM
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36. Actually, I think the rule was that no one in the audience could be
mentioned by name.

But Bush broke the rules in other ways, by interrupting and asking for inappropriate rebuttals in which he just repeated himself. He was trying to run down the clock to give Kerry less time.
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Carolinian Donating Member (861 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-02-04 09:12 PM
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34. What does that mean? That he has a hard time facing her after sending
her husband to get killed? If so, that is a stupid and sick way to say it. It would be even harder work IF he went to even one fallen soldier's funeral or IF he visited the wounded in Walter Reed or IF he visited the troops in Iraq and Afganistan or IF he hadn't totally screwed up everything he ever touched! How can anyone in the military support Bush?
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SammyWinstonJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-02-04 09:46 PM
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37. Reading the quote just doesn't do justice to the way he said it
You know, trying to sound sincere like he really gave a shit. Like he felt compassion for the woman's and her son's loss. It came across insincere and phony. bush* should cut out the BS that he gives a rat's ass about anyone but rich assholes like himself. :grr: I really hate bush* Insincere POS!
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Sugarbleus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-02-04 10:16 PM
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38. He can't say Died, Dead, Death...
Afterall, his family didn't teach that to him. His sister dies and the parents go golfing afterwards. 'Oh, let's not dwell on death and such ugly things....' :crazy:

He can't stand death, he doesn't understand death. He doesn't want to see death.

He sent Missy's husband to DIE! 'Love her as best he can'???? He doesn't know how to comfort ANYONE...he wasn't taught that. His own mother doesn't want to see pictures of returning coffins as it will mess up her "lovely mind".. What a DYSFUNCTIONAL BUNCH OF NEANDERTHALS!
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