Former Bush adviser Mark McKinnon was among the large crowd that flew to Texas Tuesday with George and Laura Bush on Air Force One, renamed Special Air Mission 28000. Blogging for the Daily Beast, McKinnon said Bush displayed “equanimity, grace and a generosity of spirit” as he moved about the cabin and that he believes Bush “feels a genuine warmth for President Obama” and wants him to succeed. On the flight home, McKinnon wrote, “There was a lot of talk of old days and old times. About how eight years had flown by. About how children had grown. There was no high-fiving or celebration. And no weeping or whining. Just a quiet and friendly exchange of hugs between longtime colleagues and friends who had traveled a lot of miles together and weathered a lot storms.” No mention of two awkward moments earlier in the day, as reported by the Washington Post: “When George Bush and Dick Cheney were announced for the final time as president and vice president, thousands on the Mall sang: ‘Na-na-na-na, na-na-na-na, hey hey hey, goodbye.’ When Bush’s helicopter took off from the Capitol’s East Front to take him to Andrews Air Force Base for his flight to Texas, shouts from the ground followed him: ‘Go home!’”
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This conduct by those who would want us to show respect to Obama.
Yep, we know the party.
I must have missed the part of the story that said the “na-na-na’s” and “Go home!’s” were officially sanctioned actions by ‘the party’ and carried out by people acting on behalf of ‘the party’.
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brian_nuevo
Posted January 21, 2009 at 12:45 pm | Permalink
I must have missed the part of the story that said the “na-na-na’s” and “Go home!’s” were officially sanctioned actions by ‘the party’ and carried out by people acting on behalf of ‘the party’.
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But they were your ‘pigs’ in our garden.
Take responsibility for your own.
“Regular
Posted January 21, 2009 at 12:49 pm | Permalink
But they were your ‘pigs’ in our garden.
Take responsibility for your own.”
As has been debated before, they are no more my ‘pigs’ or the ‘pigs’ of the Democratic party than klansmen are ‘pigs’ of the Baptist church.
You are obviously trying to use hyperbole and spurious relationships to paint the ‘them’ of the Obama party in a bad light compared to the ‘us’ of what ever you think you belong to.
Respect is earned. Bush gets none from me.
rude, and childish. also, not surprising..we have seen the exact same behavior here.
Like Obama has earned it? 24 hours in power? Party loyalty still reigns supreme.
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brian_nuevo
Posted January 21, 2009 at 1:00 pm | Permalink
“Regular
Posted January 21, 2009 at 12:49 pm | Permalink
But they were your ‘pigs’ in our garden.
Take responsibility for your own.”
As has been debated before, they are no more my ‘pigs’ or the ‘pigs’ of the Democratic party than klansmen are ‘pigs’ of the Baptist church.
You are obviously trying to use hyperbole and spurious relationships to paint the ‘them’ of the Obama party in a bad light compared to the ‘us’ of what ever you think you belong to.
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silk purse – sow’s ear…
deal with it
“rude, and childish”
Didn’t Obama address that in his speech?
Oh nevermind. Liberals weren’t really paying attention to the content. It was the delivery.
Man was that something or what!?!?!
“Good Heavens Smithers, they’re not afraid of me anymore!”
Obama hasn’t earned my disrepect, as of yet. Bush earned my disrespect when, given the opportunity to take the high road in international relations, he chose the low road used by all men of low mentality.
Like I said last night, Somewhere in Texas, a village got their idiot back!
It’s truly a wonder that serious injury was avoided from a blizard of shoes, would’ve been like that car commercial where shoes are raining from the sky.
Amway and Regular – speaking of pigs in a garden. You might want to speak to the fact Sarah Palin who called people ‘un-American’ and ‘not like us’ when she was whipping her supporters into a frenzy. There were many people in her crowd booing Obama and Biden but I didn’t see any tears flowing from your eyes then.
John McCain did, finally, tell his supporters that they did not need to be afraid of Obama. John McCain also told his supporters when he conceded to Obama to stop their booing. But did I ever see or hear Sarah Palin take that route with her jeering supporters?
So, if you want to talk about pigs in the garden – that garden also belongs on your side of fence!
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csi
Posted January 21, 2009 at 1:39 pm | Permalink
Amway and Regular – speaking of pigs in a garden. You might want to speak to the fact Sarah Palin who called people ‘un-American’ and ‘not like us’ when she was whipping her supporters into a frenzy. There were many people in her crowd booing Obama and Biden but I didn’t see any tears flowing from your eyes then.
John McCain did, finally, tell his supporters that they did not need to be afraid of Obama. John McCain also told his supporters when he conceded to Obama to stop their booing. But did I ever see or hear Sarah Palin take that route with her jeering supporters?
So, if you want to talk about pigs in the garden – that garden also belongs on your side of fence!
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Ah, but there is a difference. That was the rhetoric of a political campaign. Stuff happens.
The inauguration was a solemn event of the peaceful passage of power from one President to the next.
Being interrupted by a classless group of two-legged swine with their tasteless outburst was not appropriate for the occasions.
Low life swine they are and shall ever be…
“John McCain also told his supporters when he conceded to Obama to stop their booing.”
They were booing McCain’s parting comments during a McCain speech. Where was Obama? Not there.
Obama has not been booed or jeered in person at an official event and I doubt he ever will be no matter how his administration turns out.
This is an official historic inauguration where peoople are supposed to act like adults. That means treating people with respect even if you disagree with their ideas. That is the American tradition during a Presidential Inauguration and the best act that Obama supporters should’ve followed if they expect the same for their candidate in 4 to 8 years.
When Bush goes by, everybody wave your shoe at him.
Bush flies into the sunset, and the air feels a little fresher, colors look a little sharper, and the future of the country looks a little brighter
“The inauguration was a solemn event of the peaceful passage of power from one President to the next.”
For who? For you?
Who cares con.
It was the collected and raised voice of a people thoroughly disgusted with a despicable man and his friends. It MAY have been the first time bush was really made aware of just how hated he is. He might have done better to be so informed earlier on.
The people of Crawford aren’t as crazy about Dubya as some seem to believe.
Booing and na-na-ing is childish, but there will always be those on both sides of the political spectrum who stoop to it.
Dubya was not a great president. He either is or played the part of a fool. I neither hate him nor love him. I pity him.
It’s time to move on. Those who want this country to heal will live in the present and look to the future, not wallow in the past. Those who don’t will drag us down. You each can decide which you want to be.
Know what I remember?
I remember a gang of thugs traveling hundreds of miles to intimidate a recount of votes.
I also remember the same minded folk standing outside of the Naval Observatory screaming for Al Gore to “get out of Dick Cheney’s house!”
I’m not gonna worry too much about bruised sensibilities or complaints about civility from the rat bast— cons. I ENJOY their pain.
Repugs holding up Holder’s nomination because they fear he will implement the rule of law, and the law of the land.
But a week will buy them nothing, justice will eventually be dispersed.
“Repugs holding up Holder’s nomination because they fear he will implement the rule of law, and the law of the land.”
On the contrary. Because his history is just the opposite.
They stated on the cable news, it’s being held up because they fear prosecutions of officials who carried out torture, and because Holder being able to distinguish torture, they are fearful.
Bush should’ve done a pre-emptive pardon. Now the chips will fall where they may.
Our long national nightmare is over. Gerald Ford
Bush was worse than any flashback.
It’s hard to hold bush accountable, bush is what he is, I hold those who put him into power accountable.
Mega dittos, GrateDave and BluJ.
They sowed it and now they get to reap it.
Bush having to listen to a spontaneous and unscripted singing of “Na na na nah” should be the least of this war criminal’s worries . . .
BushCheneyRumsfailed might want hold off travelling to Germany–where they take war crimes very seriously–in the near future . . . like for the rest of their lives . . .
RFL opines, “Obama has not been booed or jeered in person at an official event and I doubt he ever will be no matter how his administration turns out.”
Maybe that’s because Obama didn’t embroil the US in an illegal and immoral war unnecessarily killing tens of thousands . . .
And that’s just for starters . . .
Capn,
You’ll have to include Harry Truman, and Lyndon Johnson for their part in leading the country into war in the Korea and Vietnam respectively. All waged in the similiar manner as the war in Iraq.
They, like Bush, were Presidents who were forced to make decisions which they felt was for the betterment of the world. They were not greeted by booing partisan Republicans in America during their lifetime.
It would mean taking off your Democratic blinders to grant that booing Pres Bush during Obama’s Inaugural was of poor taste and a bad precedent for future inaugurals.
Here’s what you didn’t see on TV when George Worstpresident Ever was inaugurated in 2001:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAp6YAPtC2c
eggings, protest signs, people throwing themselves in front of the motorcade
And so the President of the Mightiest Nation on Earth had to cower in fear from his own people.
It would be “hand-picked” audiences from here on out . . . until Jan 20, 2009 when George the Craven couldn’t run and hide from the People any more.
Will Obama get rid of the ‘Free Speech Zones’, too?
Ha ha, I think it’s funny and sad at the same time. It’s funny because Bushco deserves nothing but ire, but then again he should get a little slack because, of course, he is just a man who made a few mistakes. And it’s sad because the same cretins that will want respect for their President will get zero (they or their bankster bitzsch).
You will get a daily dose of a$$hole truth news about said bankster-bitzsch. Everyday you will see more news that the bankster-bitzsch media will not show you.
It’s only just begun.
Enjoy.
RFL–
Dude, you’re exactly right.
We dare not criticize our Commander-in-Chief during a time of war!
So . . . by your own rules, you and your fellow CONs don’t get to criticize Obama.
Enjoy the next eight years, my friend.
In the immortal words of a Victorian matron on how the proper wife can endure her husband’s need for sex, she advises the young bride to “just lie back and think of England.”
Just lie back and think of Bush, RFL.
Good times. Good times.
CapnAmerica
Posted January 21, 2009 at 4:46 pm | Permalink
RFL–
Dude, you’re exactly right.
We dare not criticize our Commander-in-Chief during a time of war!
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Never stopped you and your trained monkeys from doing it.
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CapnAmerica
Posted January 21, 2009 at 4:29 pm | Permalink
Here’s what you didn’t see on TV when George Worstpresident Ever was inaugurated in 2001:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAp6YAPtC2c
eggings, protest signs, people throwing themselves in front of the motorcade
And so the President of the Mightiest Nation on Earth had to cower in fear from his own people.
It would be “hand-picked” audiences from here on out . . . until Jan 20, 2009 when George the Craven couldn’t run and hide from the People any more.
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Umm… Just a reminder here. President Bush’s term was up. He served his full eight years. He beat the libs in general elections. Twice.
The CapnAmerica types that showed disrespect deserve our disdain. And they got it.
Thanks for writing in Pleeferese, Pleef.
That way nobody will bother to try to figure out what can’t be figured out.
Five words for you, outlander:
You lost. Get over it.
RFL…
When you wrote to capn about:
“It would mean taking off your Democratic blinders…”
surely you jest. capn is as much of an extremist nut job as rush–just on the other side, but just as blind to the reality which actually is somewhere between his view and rush’s. but, they are both blinded by their partisan hatreds…
sad, isn’t it?
From now on until the ending of the world, this song will be forever associated with George W. Bush’s failed presidency–
He’ll never love you, the way that I love
Cause if he did, he wouldn’t make you cry.
He may be thrilling, but my love baby is willing
I want to see you kiss him, kiss him
GOODBYE!
Na na na nah
Na na na nah
Hey hey
GOODBYE!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwnqqj5Q1BU&feature=related
Pleeferese for ya:
I Hope® you have a year full of hard times Capn’ Crotch. I hope it’s full of beautiful Change®. I Hope® that the Change® in your world is full of disaster and misery. And I Hope® that Obaaama proves himself to be the disaster that thinking people know He will and leaves your sorry behind out in the cold…er…Change®.
With love and Hope®,
Pleef
Nothing sad about it, RLF.
I’m freaking ecstatic!
I’m sitting here listening to the original version of Steam singing that song and laughing my a$$ off at the CONs who are desperately trying to make a silk purse out of their horse’s a$$ of a former pResident.
My advice to you, RFL– Lie back and think of England . . .
Pleef–
Dude, that’s some serious mojo you’re throwing around there.
Since what goes around, comes around, I wouldn’t be saying $hit like that.
For my part, Pleef, I don’t even know you, and what little I know, I don’t much care about. But, I have nothing but best wishes for you and yours.
If I hated CONs because of their ideological positions, I’d be no better than you people.
“So people get ready For the train to Jordan
Faith is the key Open the doors and board ‘em
There’s hope for all those who love the most.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQqTxK7VhSk
Adios, dude. Don’t go quail huntin’ with Cheney.
It doesn’t matter to me what the Bush haters say. They will always be on the side of trash talk. As for me, I really will miss George Bush, his decency,
his strength in the face of radical socialists, his heartfelt sympathies toward the victims of Katrina and toward the family members who lost a loved one killed in Iraq. If you people really understood the threats from the middle east, you would not be attacking Geo. Bush for standing strong against their plans for world domination.
They want to destroy America and Israel. What would you have us do? You are childish Democrats and those of us who study history feel pity for you.
“You lost. Get over it.”
While we’re at it, Bush is gone gone gone.
Now what will you do? He is yesterdays news.
All this yakking about a dude who is gone…
“If I hated CONs because of their ideological positions, I’d be no better than you people.” –capn
SNORT!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA….
capn has proven over and over again he DOES hate people because of their ideological positions.
What a loony…he has completely lost it…
It all doesn’t matter in the end. We will have a good time at the Anchor on Friday!
See ya’ll there!
rfl: Actually the right did boo Truman, blamed him for loosing China, and it was JFK who got America into Viet Nam, Johnson just inherited a mess but the Demcorats booed him anyway, whereas Ike had the smarts to know Viet Nam was a French problem. Do we think maybe Ike had some first hand, damn good experiences with strategic as well as tactical thinking in waging war, something his sucessors did not? He accepted the US should never get into a war on the Asian mainland, et.,etc., etc.
Captain,
I’m pretty well prepared for any Karma that comes back upon me. I’ve done my share of good and bad and will earn whatever comes my way.
Same with you.
The Captain of Contempt wishes to ridicule everyone, then explain virtue?
Oh come now, silly.
Have a jolly good time, weighing down America at The Anchor.
j/k…just thought it was pretty clever.
sursum,
Ike sent the first troops to Vietnam.
Bush’s flight into the sunset
or;
Where’s the flock of kamikaze geese when you need them?
“fleettwood” mourns –
“… Bush is gone gone gone.
Now what will you do? He is yesterdays news.
All this yakking about a dude who is gone…”
If it weren’t for the consequences of his pResidency he’d be inconsequential.
Mere footsteps in the water.
If we could have gotten rid of bush and the results of his abysmal presidency it would be easy to put him in the past! Forgetting him is something none of us should do! We must remember and must be sure a bush never happens again!
They want to destroy America and Israel. What would you have us do?
Wow, Joelle. I remember that same warning except then it was Godless Communists that were going to take over the world.
Turns out the old Soviet Union couldn’t even take over Chechnya . . .
What do you people do without enemies to hate?
Here’s a sign of change!
We can turn away from hating the French for being against Freedom Fries and eating Surrender Monkey Onion Soup. We can now go back to hating the French because they’re silly!
http://tinyurl.com/9h6klf
I had to read this several times to be sure it wasn’t from The (American) Onion.
But near as I can tell, it’s real.
Sursum,
Kennedy may have left Johnson with a bad situation regarding Vietnam, but Johnson with the Gulf of Tonkin incident (which may have been cooked up by the CIA) turned supporting our treaty obligation into a full-blown war.
“The emperor has no clothes.” Solemn moments and respectful send-offs are reserved for those that whose words and deeds have garnered such moments. Bush, the man, has earned neither. If such moments are for the “title” or “position” of President, then let it too become a dignified place worthy of respect.
Bush, the man, is the author or untold numbers of American deaths from ignorance, incompetence, and misguided policies. The “position” of President was used to unleash political character assassinations and directives/orders resulting in damage to civil liberties, environmental destruction, and maintenance of the “status quo” throughout many third world nations. These events have rightfully earned the disrespect of the American people.