she should've run against Ann Richards imo
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 00:31 (six years ago) link
come on, her beautiful mind quote was her masterpiece.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 00:32 (six years ago) link
OMG, Shakey, I always thought the your RIP reactions were a little ghoulish, but this thread is a masterclass in comic timing.
― Dethloaf LLC (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 00:38 (six years ago) link
map otm, these are all horrible people
they are the death cult personified
― sleeve, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 01:05 (six years ago) link
I have no strong reason to dislike her, as far as I know, thought I was a bit too young to care about her one way or the other at the time (most of my memories of her are actually Simpsons and Naked Gun parodies). The MSNBC pundits using her death to pine nostalgically for the Republican party of her husband's era earlier this evening is straight up nauseating, but that's not her fault.
― Dangleballs and the Ballerina (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 01:21 (six years ago) link
So sad to hear the news, she was so young. I couldn't stand her father, but she and her twin always seemed all right.
― pplains, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 01:24 (six years ago) link
The MSNBC pundits using her death to pine nostalgically for the Republican party of her husband's era earlier this evening is straight up nauseating
get ready -- it's only a taste
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 01:25 (six years ago) link
xplol
― Dan S, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 01:26 (six years ago) link
Was the astrodome thing legitimately racist or just a faux pas though I listened to NPR’s obituary for her and she seemed like a nice enough woman
― F# A# (∞), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 01:32 (six years ago) link
This bit, which I also remember at the time, is mitigated somewhat by context:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/barbara-bush-beautiful-mind/
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 01:33 (six years ago) link
shakey!!!!!
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 01:34 (six years ago) link
Shakey: some action.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 01:37 (six years ago) link
what a delightful first post
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 01:47 (six years ago) link
“If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities” - Barbara Bush
― the late great, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 01:50 (six years ago) link
in seventeen years on this msg board i have never seen anyone type anything so eloquent or edifying
enjoy piling on the dead lady u monsters
― the late great, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 01:51 (six years ago) link
I'm grateful the GOP embraced Barbara Bush's humanist spirit in the last thirty years.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 01:53 (six years ago) link
I never knew about Robin Bush until this evening. :(
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 02:01 (six years ago) link
XpSo you’re blaming the GOP on Mrs Bush
― F# A# (∞), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 02:03 (six years ago) link
No, I'm blaming the death of irony on you.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 02:08 (six years ago) link
Happily married to evil and raised evil, can't say that a good quote means much.
― louise ck (milo z), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 02:12 (six years ago) link
“evil”
― the late great, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 02:12 (six years ago) link
you people ever get tired of name calling and moralizing on the internet? go out and do some community service or something?
― the late great, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 02:13 (six years ago) link
You got me with those scare quotes, damn.
― louise ck (milo z), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 02:15 (six years ago) link
yeah well i bet you’ve done some wicked awesome good deeds and i bet you would’ve done a totally better job as head of the cia
― the late great, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 02:17 (six years ago) link
whatever makes you feel better about talking shit about the dead lady
I would have definitely done a better job as the head of the CIA. "Feel better" implies that I find any reason to feel bad about shit-talking Babs. Fuck her. Fuck Nancy, fuck Laura, fuck Melania, fuck all the Republican enablers.
― louise ck (milo z), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 02:20 (six years ago) link
phew wow well that was helpful
― the late great, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 02:21 (six years ago) link
I know what’ll make the world a better place! the bile of a thousand shit talking ilxors!!
― the late great, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 02:22 (six years ago) link
As opposed to whining about that bile.
― louise ck (milo z), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 02:25 (six years ago) link
hm makes u think
― the late great, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 02:26 (six years ago) link
There's probably like 28 ilxors in total anymore.
― Evan, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 02:27 (six years ago) link
yet everyone founded an I-hate-Babs punk band.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 02:28 (six years ago) link
I wishhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W07LABM57Fs
― louise ck (milo z), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 02:29 (six years ago) link
milo how dare u besmirch HW's 357-day stewardship of the CIA and the sterling reputation it had accumulated by 1976.
― Millennial Whoop, wanna fight about it? (Phil D.), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 02:36 (six years ago) link
hmmm that’s not really what it’s about but ok
― the late great, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 02:38 (six years ago) link
Calling first ladies enablers is a bit much.
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 02:38 (six years ago) link
dudes
save it for the RIP George H.W. Bush thread.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 02:38 (six years ago) link
Bile is a renewable resource.
― louise ck (milo z), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 02:40 (six years ago) link
Her work for literacy seems to have been helpful.
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 02:46 (six years ago) link
I have to say I don't have particularly bad feelings about her. She at least acknowledged the devastation of AIDS, which the Reagans were unwilling to do
― Dan S, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 03:18 (six years ago) link
Houstonians with good memories might remember chortling a little at Bar when, a few weeks after the Astrodome quote, she was complaining at the inconvenience she endured when Poppy called short a Kennebunkport getaway to watch the Astros in the World Series from behind home plate.
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 03:36 (six years ago) link
i usu go for p*mps
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 03:39 (six years ago) link
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, April 17, 2018 7:08 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
oh i understood your irony
you think too highly of yourself if you think your basic comments can go over people's heads
my comment on the other hand you misinterpreted for whatever reason
― F# A# (∞), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 04:10 (six years ago) link
Who is Barbara Bush
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 04:51 (six years ago) link
your mom
― map, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 04:52 (six years ago) link
Between George HW, Jeb and George W, the Bush family has been responsible for a vast number of actions that have killed or harmed untold numbers of people, so if the wife of one and mother of the other two is seen as somewhat complicit in those actions, it is not strange.
She was a tireless defender of all three of them. That fact will be the larger part of her legacy to the world than making an inspiring statement that may have been ghostwritten for her by staff, or her work for literacy, which was chosen mainly to be non-controversial and to reflect well on her husband's career. Most of what we know about Mrs. Bush was filtered through a carefully constructed media image. I imagine she was generally loved by those whom she loved, but I don't trust her public image one bit.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 05:13 (six years ago) link
otm
Reminder that saying nothing is often the best option. https://t.co/c5obBy1xio— Ali Abunimah (@AliAbunimah) April 18, 2018
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 08:12 (six years ago) link
"The MSNBC pundits using her death to pine nostalgically for the Republican party of her husband's era earlier this evening is straight up nauseating"
maybe but I'd probably give the fucking republican party of that era a bouquet of roses if they came to prominence again over whatever the republican party is now.
― akm, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 09:12 (six years ago) link
see? they won!
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 10:16 (six years ago) link
I imagine she was generally loved by those whom she loved, but I don't trust her public image one bit.
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, April 17, 2018 10:13 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
https://www.npr.org/2018/04/18/603475998/former-first-lady-barbara-bush-dies-at-92
KING: Cokie, you knew Barbara Bush. You spent some time interviewing her over the years. What was she like?ROBERTS: Well, she was exactly as she comes across to the public.
ROBERTS: Well, she was exactly as she comes across to the public.
― F# A# (∞), Saturday, 21 April 2018 03:53 (six years ago) link
Thank you. Now we should go back and investigate whether Florence Harding, Grace Coolidge, Lou Hoover, or Bess Truman were equally honored by flags at half-staff at their deaths.
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 21 April 2018 04:06 (six years ago) link
Right...
― flappy bird, Saturday, 21 April 2018 04:08 (six years ago) link
Cokie's mind is certainly that of a Beltway tool
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 21 April 2018 04:23 (six years ago) link
I love cokes
― F# A# (∞), Saturday, 21 April 2018 04:39 (six years ago) link
KING: Cokie, you knew Barbara Bush. You spent some time interviewing her over the years. What was she like?
COKIE: Well, perhaps this may sound a bit misplaced, saying it to an audience of several million people about a recently deceased public figure who's being buried today with much pomp,ceremony and inflated eulogies, a moment when I am expected by convention to say something admiring or reverent, or at the very least non-committal, but really, the woman was something of a bitch. No, really, it's true, so why hide it? {her mic goes dead}
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 21 April 2018 05:43 (six years ago) link
that's the worst cokie impression i've ever read
― F# A# (∞), Saturday, 21 April 2018 18:05 (six years ago) link
you're right. she did a pitch perfect impression of herself being a media commentator in your link.
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 21 April 2018 18:13 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/VcG1tZ2.png
― pplains, Saturday, 21 April 2018 19:22 (six years ago) link
when Michael Jackson released the "Black and White" video, my friends and I imagined Barbara Bush as part of the closing morphing montage, going IT'S BLACK IT'S WHITE YEAH YEAH YEAH
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 21 April 2018 19:27 (six years ago) link
Invited to Barbara Bush’s funeral was the owner of her favorite pizza restaurant...he and his wife sat next to me.She wanted to include people who were a part of her life and she loved their restaurant. It was not all big names but all very important people to her.— Greta Van Susteren (@greta) April 21, 2018
― j., Sunday, 22 April 2018 00:35 (six years ago) link
Aw that's nice I'm sure the Comet Pizza owners were touched
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 22 April 2018 01:56 (six years ago) link
Wishing bad thoughts to a dead person is the epitome of bad shit. Do you want to add to the shiftiness of the world ? Keep being negative then.
― after party for the apocalypse (Ross), Sunday, 22 April 2018 02:24 (six years ago) link
Shitiness **
Barbara Bush was a person. Now she is dead. But while alive she was very close to the pinnacle of public power, where decisions made by her husband and her children affected many millions, if not billions of people. If it was OK to point out her shortcomings during her life, her dying does not excuse or dismiss those shortcomings. I don't think her flaws or wrongs were so massive as to justify glee upon her death, but painting her in false colors does no one any good.
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 22 April 2018 02:49 (six years ago) link
Joking aside, that pizza story remind me of something I did like about Bar & HW, which is that were always pretty supportive of local Houston businesses (albeit ones of a certain stripe, natch--no taco stands for them) and many arts organizations (albeit ones of...).
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 22 April 2018 03:09 (six years ago) link
powerful: they have chosen to be buried alive with the coffin and guard her unto eternity https://t.co/2H12rjhvYG— BAKOON (@BAKKOOONN) April 21, 2018
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 22 April 2018 15:21 (six years ago) link
you’re just jealous
― the late great, Sunday, 22 April 2018 15:52 (six years ago) link
A storied tradition which humankind has allowed to lapse for too many thousands of years.
― Across the You Never Her (Old Lunch), Sunday, 22 April 2018 15:59 (six years ago) link