HOW PERFUNCTORY WAS THAT!!??!?

[PCIntern]

Anyone else see * pay respects?

[displacedtexan]

1. I missed it.

?

[buycitgo]

2. YEAH.......

what was that magician move he did on the casket?

ever seen that before

what religion was THAT?

[upperleftedge]

11. Bush has real issues with death.

I read that he never got over his sister's death and that he is always like that. Just another manifestation of his strange mental state. Sometimes I almost pity him because he needs professional help and can't ask for it.
He's one sick puppy.

[Ms. Clio]

48. Yes, I've read that too

His parents also allegedly acted in somewhat bizarre fashion, when she died.

There was a good article in The Guardian about it.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1033904,00.html

[htuttle]

13. Mammonism

Small, but very, very old, sect.

[eleny]

33. Just doing his bit...

to wipe off the cum stains.

[Castilleja]

42. Maybe he was absorbing the last of the

Reagan Power? :shrug:

[demnan]

3. Very

big phoney bowing of heads and a perfunctory smoothing of the flag. Absolutely no feeling whatsoever.

[PCIntern]

4. It was easy to miss...

he wasn't there for 15 seconds and then...the wipe on the flag...

[Cronus Protagonist]

5. Did he clean his glasses on it?

Just wondering....


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[burythehatchet]

6. What?????

He picked his nose and wiped it on the flag??

[buycitgo]

9. that's it.......he was going to wipe his glasses, but

he forgot them

maybe he left them on the Letterman set

thanks!

[dxbiker]

7. I believe after bush

walked by the casket, it then lifted 3 feet in the air, a stream of light flowed evenly threw the halls following bush

[The empressof all]

8. I blinked and missed it-

Then again he probably couldn't hold it together for very long so made a quick exit.

Then again we know that flag draped coffins give him the willies!

[displacedtexan]

10. Sounds creepy.

Didn't someone prep him?

[jmowreader]

23. There's not that much Thorazine in the world

And they sure as hell don't want to hit him with Phencyclidine--Bush on Jack Daniel's is bad enough, can you imagine him after three shermans?

[Hepburn]

12. That was weird!

Maybe he was still loaded??? He sure looked that way at his little press conference. Thinking he was bellying up to the bar and not sure where he really was???

LOL, Chris Matthews just called GWB - George WILSON Bush!

[daveskilt]

18. chris matthews shall not be trifled with your "facts" and "details" nt

[leesa]

51. More like George Warfarin Bush

[Tellurian]

14. Bush smirked with his head bowed...smoothed the flag, Laura did "zero" nt

[Stew225]

19. These posts are classic

It's been a hell of a day but I've been lol'ing. Plus, I've been laughing out loud, too. Sometimes just reading DU posts is theraputic. Especially when it pokes fun at Shrubby. He's not really the leader of the free world, is he? If he is, it shouldn't be free. Frankly, my dear, it isn't. But I do give a damn, Scarlet and Gray.

[DeepModem Mom]

26. As soon as W left the Rotunda, my phone rang...

and it was one of my daughters, who was also watching CNN, calling from across the continent, laughing -- and we both just laughed, wordlessly, for two or three minutes straight. I don't even know what was so funny, nor did she. We did recall the contrast in manner and stature when Gorbachev appeared earlier today, not to speak of Mrs. Thatcher last night (after three strokes!). My daughter always says W reminds her of the kid who's called on in class, and hasn't done the reading --

[arwalden]

54. Excellent Comparison! He "Reads" Speeches As If It Were A Book Report...

written by his mother the night before the book report was due... and as though it's the first time he had ever bothered to even take a look at the work someone else did FOR him. He's just that lazy and ill-informed and un-interested.

The way he approached the casket and the way he wiped off the flag reminded me of (again) a nervous child whose mother had just instructed and scolded him to "Georgie, you go up there and bow your head and then touch the flag to show respect. What will people think? Do as you're told, now." -- "Aw, gee, ma... do I hafta?" -- "Yes, now git!"

His actions were nothing more than those one would expect from a little boy who had been shamed by his mommy into going through the mechanical (and emotionless) actions... doing literally what his mommy had told him to do... but resenting it and doing it QUICKLY so as to minimize the duration of the punishment and having to comply with authority.

Then, when he's completed his perfunctory act... he swiftly turns around and glances up to his mommy in the distance with a smirk on his face that seems to convey the man-child message of "There! Happy now! I did it! Just like you said! I didn't mean it, but I did it because you told me to!"

Folks, the man is an idiot man-child.

-- Allen

[PCIntern]

15. Unbelievable...

if Clinton had done that, he'd be pilloried for not respecting the memory of Saint Ronald. This guy acts like your doc after he checks your prostate and makes sure your butt is back together and leaves.

[buycitgo]

16. good point and...........

they smeared Kerry for spending like a MINUTE over the casket in Simi Valley

what do they have to say about weaselworm's performance?

[soup]

17. A blink and miss it moment if ever there was one.

No, amend that, more like 15 seconds.

run in
whisper something quick to Laura (3 seconds)
bow head (10 seconds)
wipe hand across flag (2 seconds)
run out.

[July]

32. I used my Dish Tivo-type tapiing -- ten seconds

for everything from the point when they were standing before the casket. Wow. Now, dinner.

[soup]

34. Thanks, July. I believe it.

Was giving *him the benefit of the doubt saying 15 seconds. Just how weird was that?!

Long enough to get the 'somber' photo. and *he's gone. pffft ... think he'll leave that easily next January?

[Lex]

50. WHY was he smoothing out the flag on the coffin?!

He didn't touch the flag on Reagan's coffin in a loving or introspective manner as Gorby did.

He can't even PRETEND to be reflective. At least Reagan could act.

Rove must've told him to touch the flag on Reagan's coffin, so Dipshit runs both hands over it and smooths out a wrinkle or something.

Surreal.

[Cocoa]

20. Peter Jennings's description

"short and to the point."

I'll say.

[elf]

21. When he left the plane down the stairs

he was walking slow, stopped, grabbed the reeling again and then went on, he looked what you call drunk, but I think it's much more like a total worn out syndrome. He might barely keep everything together.
He must be somehow on the brink!!!!

[Sugarbleus]

22. That's what I think too...

He's been on the go and he's freaked out about scandals. Probably right near "Edge City" at this point.

I'm poor, but I wouldn't want to be in that dude's shoes for any amount of money! Yikes...

[elf]

24. See it like this

if you look into the mirror in the morning, you can say Hi, nice to meet you!



:hi:

When he meets himself in the mirror, what can he say???:freak:

[TrustingDog]

28. No Kidding, Sugarbleus...

He is under Tremendous pressure from all directions and I expect him to pop any day...
I just pray he's not in the red button room when his gaskets blow...

That guy makes my flesh creep, but I need the exercise anyway.

[Sugarbleus]

40. Ha! ...'needed the exercise....'

STAND BACK.........HE'S GONNA BLOWWWWWWWW!!

I did hear in DU a couple days ago something about another cabinet member maybe electing to throw his body over the "button" just in case.

[Arugula Latte]

30. I want to see him start speaking in tongues

at one of his practically non-existant "press conferences."

On the other hand, the media whores will declare it another masterful performance. :eyes:

[DoYouEverWonder]

37. What time is he supposed to give the eulogy tomorrow?

I'm praying for total meltdown.

[maryallen]

41. Absolutely!

He was holding on for dear life to Laura coming down the steps. I swear to god I didn't think he was going to make it.

[PCIntern]

25. I've seen some weird stuff in my life

but this is up there with Nixon's wave as he entered the helicopter on the WH lawn on that glorious day when they fired the shit heard round the world.

[Malva Zebrina]

27. It is so disgusting

It is so disgusting--these two phonies are very poor actors. It is so disgusting--they, the both of them are whores. There are at least a dozen of these disgusting photos on the Yahoo slideshow

It is simply and plainly in bad taste and is disgusting.

What the hell does he think he is doing and what the hell is she thinking as he does this mumbo jumbo on the casket. The fool was trying to upstage Nancy--ugh, these two are really despicable, trailer trash.

They are shallow and they are cheap-they are only concerned about themself and Laura looks like a hag on her way to hagdom only because she is so compliant and without any substance at all-they are,the both of them, so stupid and lacking in grace that they consent to looking disgusting, thinking they are behaving "presidential"

They are disgusting.

[Hotdiggitydog]

45. He was probably mouthing...

what was going on in his mind....

Counting 1....2....3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 one-thousand.

Ok, Looked like I was praying long enough....C'mon Pickles, lets get out of here.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

53. Um could they HAVE

more tan in a bottle on their faces? (Chucklenuts and Pickles, I mean.)

Seriously, they have fake bake stuff on, both of 'em. Ick. They are the color of an old man's scrotum (no offense to any old men!).

[northofdenali]

29. He got stoned and he missed it..................... n/t

:evilgrin:

[shraby]

31. He's trying to draw

strength from Raygun.

[Cocoa]

35. photo

[mopaul]

46. .

[brook]

36. Somebody just...

oughta leave a plugged-in iron on the casket. What's with smoothing out the flag? Is it cheap polyester from China?

[grasswire]

38. the only people I've seen who showed...

....any real feelings at all were Margaret Thatcher, Peggy Noonan (sappy) and Marilyn Quayle, who inexplicably started crying. That surprised me.

[DoYouEverWonder]

39. W's pissed because

now the media has a picture of him with a flag draped coffin. He was trying to avoid that at all costs.

[Gin]

43. remember in "Ghost" when Swayze entered whoppie's body to

connect with Demi one more time..???

Well... shrub was just trying to get that going for himself...and.. become the "great communicator" tomorrow for the eulogy.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

44. FratBoy had to take a wicked beer-piss.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

47. I am now completely convinced that shrub is a wash

he will NOT be reselected in November, barring some nasty dirty voting tricks.

Why do I say that? Well. Here we have the state funeral of an ex-President who served two terms. We have the current.....ahem.....presidentorsomething at his casket.

And his performance is so freaking WEIRD, so SURREAL, so....otherworldly, that people are CALLING EACH OTHER AND JUST LAUGHING.

Think about that for a second.

I used to get angry every time I saw him. Now I simply laugh. I laugh and laugh and laugh. He has become a caricature of himself, if he ever was himself.

And I mean, I had REPUBLICAN friends calling me and snickering into the phone and asking me what the hell that was about.

He is so going down.

DISCLAIMER: This does not mean in any way I slack up on working to get Kerry and other Dems elected. Thatisall.

[sampsonblk]

49. Black folks crack me up

I saw a brutha on TV going to see Ol' rotting Ronnie. The reporter asked him why he had come. He said well I studied poli sci as an undergrad, and he was my professor's favorite president.

That is so rich, I can't explain. If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. So instead of saying he hates the guy, he mentions that he knew someone who liked him. That is classic. I even learned something on that one. The reporter didn't appear to catch his point. But it was great.

[cmayer]

52. Jekyll and Hyde

An earlier thread today talked about how "up" * was and why was that anyway? Something really bad must be coming down.

Now it seems like he's falling apart.

I haven't been watching TV this week (except for Jon Stewart)and don't intend to.

But I wonder who'll show up tomorrow.

[Heddi]

55. Please Elaborate for those of us who are at work

and who have no access to television :)

thanks