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Tuesday, April 24, 2007 12:00 AM

"Dearly beloved Bushes"

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Thursday, April 26, 2007 01:48 PM

I DON'T THINK SO

I've seen Larry kiss butt before, but this is an all time new low. He CERTAINLY knows the general mood of this country, minus the 28ers. GIVE IT A BREAK LARRY. That's the most ridiculous statement I've heard since the State of the Union address.

NOT BLOODY LIKELY.

We are crying for a breath of fresh American air SANS ANY BU$HS!!!

IMPEACH

INVESTIGATE

INDICT

IMPRISON

siri

Tuesday, April 24, 2007 02:43 PM

Everything is relative

It is only because the current Bush is the worst presidency in our nation's history, surpassing James Buchanan, that anyone could think that the former President Bush and his blueblood wife are "dearly beloved."

Tuesday, April 24, 2007 12:24 PM

Larry King is right!

At least to those of us who worship at the alter of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Where would they get their material from if we had an administration that was, you know, competent?

Harry Reid?

Tuesday, April 24, 2007 09:51 AM

King for a Day, Schmuck for a Lifetime

In defense of Mr.King (and playing devil's advocate) put yourselves in his shoes. Responding to "Bush fatigue" not as a frustrated liberal eager to take any Bush to task, but as a corporate-employee who can't alienate viewers and give the Bill O'Reilly's out there more ammo.

Of course, like you, I would have MY own response to such a comment, but I'm not looking to keep my interview job at CNN. And if I did, I probably wouldn't expect Bush Sr. or any Republican for that matter, on my show.

Tuesday, April 24, 2007 09:22 AM

Completely out of touch... the Bushes are criminals

The recent movie "The Queen" really hit a nerve when it demonstrated how out of touch the rich, ruling class can be with the feelings of the common people.

American media has become just like the british monarchy. They decide for us how we think and what we feel and tell us so. Mainstreem media has no real journalists left, accept for maybe a few people on 60 mintes that haven't reitred or died just yet. It was never once in our interest to put this family of criminals into power. It was in the interest of the elite, and mainstreem media answers to the elite. Mainstreem media thinks we are all stupid American Idol watchers, who want nothing more than to obey obey obey.

Even Keith Obelman turned out to be just another hack taking a position for no other reason than to get ratings, only to follow-up with the lates B Spears/P Hilton/A N Smith non-news garbage. No one in America without books or a computer is informed. The media sucks. Larry King sucks. This country sucks.

Tuesday, April 24, 2007 09:03 AM

RealName

Me? Multiple citizenship and watch the fleet burn from afar when the time comes.

Right, so you're a self-described coward that runs when the going gets tough. Good to know.

Tuesday, April 24, 2007 08:10 AM

scratch my back...

...this was really a very revealing moment, if we just look at it carefully. It's an un-camouflaged moment. We see the people who run the country protecting themselves.

And if you think Larry King doesn't help run the country, you are mistaken. He has millions of viewers who believe everything he says. Just just as every mainstream media figure does. These people are proxies, by design, for the people who actually run the country and make the big money.

HW Bush? I'm not sure I'll ever understand him. I suppose that if you look at him, and his family, like, say, the Sopranos, it all makes a kind of sense. Loyalty above all else. Loyalty to family, to clan. It is the most primitive kind of socialization. If you look at our government over the last six years as a single American clan raiding the Federal cookie jar, suddenly, everything fits.

This has been a nightmare time for our country. I wish there were going to be some way to bring the Bushes, father and son, and Cheney, and Rove, and Wolfowitz, and Addington, and Rumsfeld, and all the rest of them, to some kind of justice. But there will be no justice. Think about that. All these criminals--criminals, proven--will go off to their fat sinecures and secure sites and never answer for anything they've done.

The Bush interregnum has revealed just what kind of society we are: a society of bandits, without principle, without scruple, without conscience.

Tuesday, April 24, 2007 08:04 AM

Nita Martin...

that was a very good letter. Summed up my sentiments exactly.

Tuesday, April 24, 2007 07:38 AM

"Dearly beloved Bushes"

Sounds like something you would call them during a EULOGY. And that's what this is. Because even as Larry King trowels the cosmetic layer over their cold, dead faces, the legacy of contempt for human decency, democracy, fairness, justice, etc. etc. is still going to be the Bush legacy.

The only thing good about the "W" years is the certainty that we will never again have a Bush in the White House. And eventually, when Larry King's pandering crap has seen it's last gasp... we won't even have to watch them posturing on television, trying to grind the tarnish off the family name.

I would feel sorry for GHWB except for a vivid memory from the 2004 campaign trail. We were in Cincinatti, and GHWB was addressing a local group at the same time. We delivered a letter requesting his intervention in the misguided direction of his son's presidency. Our answer: his comments reported in the local paper were "please help my boy get re-elected." No reason...just "help my boy". He asked for it, we got it. I wonder if he sleeps at night. I'm guessing...not. Although I'm pretty certain Barbara (of the beautiful mind) is snoring away obliviously, secure in the knowledge that all those homeless folks and body bags are conveniently out of her sight.

Tuesday, April 24, 2007 07:36 AM

What he means is that

There's neither any reason to have to run the 'country' anymore nor is there anything not nailed down left to steal. It's an empty husk run by retards and rednecks fighting over who gets to kill the gays. Of course most of you blame the Jews for everything, so have fun with that. Me? Multiple citizenship and watch the fleet burn from afar when the time comes.

Tuesday, April 24, 2007 07:34 AM

If we could go back in time

Besided the instant urge to vomit reading that passage brought, my other thought was that if we could all go back in time knowing what we know now about Bush43's character, intelligence and ability to lead (or total lack thereof), he would still be roaming his ranch in Texas.

Never again.

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