Tony Snow on NBC News - interviewed about his cancer

He got choked up and teary eyed talking about his children.

Now I see him as human.

you were looking at HIM rather than the stuff the WH pumps through his mouth. You don't get to see that very often.

His job includes defending the Busholini Regime and lying. He knew that when he took the job.

my post was kind of tongue in cheek.

It is easier to dislike those that spout the right wing crap if I keep it strictly business.

He "knows" he will not live to see his children grown and it bothers him.. boo hoo.. millions like him have little or no assets and are disconsolate, broken in body and spirit..and yet they are not spreading lies daily to do harm to our country.

unwell. Has hi cancer gotten more aggressive or is he in remission?

I think he knows it is only a matter of time. He probably wants to go out on his feet.

Pity it wasn't going out working for a worthwhile cause.

I note they're using deputies more and more, which suggests he might be doing the chemo thing in an attempt to beat it back.

I'll bet the press corps knows and they're in a cone of silence over it.

I can't see past his ongoing defense of people who hve been responsible for so much death and destruction. What about the children of all the servicemen and women killed in bush's ego trip of a war. Does he get choked up talking about them? Not so much. What about the children we've killed in Iraq? Doubt if he even thinks about them. I find it very difficult to feel a great deal of empathy with him.

Tell ya what would impress me - if he got all emotional and started blubbering about how sorry he was for lying on behalf of the boy king.

He quickly brought me back to reality.

a human might realize that he's about to go and maybe stop lying for a living. Becoming a mouthpiece for a wannabe fascist regime MAY not be the best path to meet your maker.

A bad human. I find it more of a Dorian Gray thing. There are sad children of veterans and fallen soldiers too and Tony sheds no tears for them.

:shrug: And he was particularly good at faking sincerity.

Twice.

He is complicit in the deaths of thousands of innocent people..he is an enabler of an administration that has shredded the constitution and destroyed the Bill of Rights...

Fuck him.

What about the children of the people his boss has killed? Does he get choked up about that?

Fuck him twice.

Hoping for a medical miracle - for him and all others with cancer and other serious diseases.

:shrug:

:sarcasm:

you will not be known by your personal sorrows but rather by your actions in the world I inhabit. As in your sorry ass, middle age, I'm gonna die soon appeals to MY humanity mean NOTHING until you display it towards others. You have lived a life of preference beyond the dreams of my nieces and nephews and grandchildren several of whom have died under our current healthcare system. As a bitter old man without healthcare, I'll take my death where and however it comes, but I support true universal healthcare. You are a mouthpiece for an administration that doesn't. Your only surprise is that all the money and power you hang out with can't prevent your ass from the mortality you condemn my people to.I would never wish you the pain you deserve for denigrating the sufferings of others without access to medical care, but for you to die, however sweetly in the embrace of a medical communitty my people cannot access would be at least a nice irony...

But that doesn't excuse him for being a liar for some of the biggest war criminals this country has ever seen. This is apparently what he wants to be remembered for.

Even Lee Atwater, Rove's mentor, had a sudden change of conscious upon his deathbed. Sad.

"none of your damn business" response. Why can't we go back to that?

this knowledge :hug:

Because it is the courage and compassion that you are experiencing that make the difference- the ONLY difference that matters.

Hell, it's easy to hate the people who are complicit in doing things we despise. It takes a different kind of strength to look beyond our own anger (no matter how righteous that anger IS) and say "I feel sorry that person is suffering"- It takes guts to say 'mercy' when the majority calls for a lynching-



Unless we desire to destroy every person who is in "their" camp- unless we kill all who have done, are doing and will do things we disapprove of, those who stand in complete opposition to our own perspective, we are going to need to embrace the uncomfortable truth that we are all mere human beings- far more alike than we want to admit- and that we need to find a way to come to a place of peaceful co-existence.

I honor your feelings, and your post.

Attitudes like the one you have expressed, give me reason to have HOPE.

thank you-
wishing us all wisdom, and peace,
blu