Comments on: Oedipus Wrecks http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/15/oedipus-wrecks/ Firedoglake weblog Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:04:34 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Sharoney http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/15/oedipus-wrecks/#comment-1277114 Sharoney Sat, 16 Feb 2008 21:08:18 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/15/oedipus-wrecks/#comment-1277114 <p>This is still incredibly creepy, jussumbody, no matter which way you slice it. Either way, he refuses to behave with any semblance of dignity, even toward members of his own family.</p> This is still incredibly creepy, jussumbody, no matter which way you slice it. Either way, he refuses to behave with any semblance of dignity, even toward members of his own family.

]]> By: jussumbody http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/15/oedipus-wrecks/#comment-1276675 jussumbody Sat, 16 Feb 2008 16:09:50 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/15/oedipus-wrecks/#comment-1276675 <p>I am second to no one in my hatred of all things Bush, but I think this was kind of funny. He was obviously *joking*, folks! It was mock reverence. He and Barbara have had a famously contentious relationship.</p> <p>Do we find him sick for his supposed reverence or his disrespect? Call me a misogynist if you will, but if my mother was a bitch like that, I’d make fun of her, too. What am I saying, “if”? My mother *is* a stoopid Republican bitch too, and I do that shit all the time.</p> I am second to no one in my hatred of all things Bush, but I think this was kind of funny. He was obviously *joking*, folks! It was mock reverence. He and Barbara have had a famously contentious relationship.

Do we find him sick for his supposed reverence or his disrespect? Call me a misogynist if you will, but if my mother was a bitch like that, I’d make fun of her, too. What am I saying, “if”? My mother *is* a stoopid Republican bitch too, and I do that shit all the time.

]]> By: Propagandee http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/15/oedipus-wrecks/#comment-1276204 Propagandee Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:56:05 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/15/oedipus-wrecks/#comment-1276204 <p>Is this the portrait that Junior is referring to?</p> <p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whore_of_Babylon" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whore_of_Babylon</a></p> Is this the portrait that Junior is referring to?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whore_of_Babylon

]]> By: bystander http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/15/oedipus-wrecks/#comment-1276149 bystander Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:21:54 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/15/oedipus-wrecks/#comment-1276149 <p>Also from Frei via <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2008/02/15/BL2008021502107_5.html?hpid=opinionsbox1" rel="nofollow">Froomkin</a>:<br /> </p><blockquote>“In fact, Mr Bush seems blissfully undaunted by his abysmal opinion poll ratings at home and abroad.</blockquote> <p>“He feels uncowed by the oceanic gulf between his rhetoric about unity and such and the rather vexing reality on the ground.” </p> <p>I’ve know quite a few psychotics who were also this divorced from reality, but they were determined to be a <em>danger to self, danger to others, or gravely disabled.</em></p> Also from Frei via Froomkin:

“In fact, Mr Bush seems blissfully undaunted by his abysmal opinion poll ratings at home and abroad.

“He feels uncowed by the oceanic gulf between his rhetoric about unity and such and the rather vexing reality on the ground.”

I’ve know quite a few psychotics who were also this divorced from reality, but they were determined to be a danger to self, danger to others, or gravely disabled.

]]> By: Prairie Sunshine http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/15/oedipus-wrecks/#comment-1275744 Prairie Sunshine Fri, 15 Feb 2008 22:40:20 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/15/oedipus-wrecks/#comment-1275744 <p>Dr. Helen, well, maybe. But what about Dr. Phil….nah, too self-promoting. He’d go along with the gig.</p> <p>Aha, I’ve got it. Dr. Sue Johansen. Maybe next time she comes south of the border to visit Letterman’s show, she can make a housecall at the White House.</p> Dr. Helen, well, maybe. But what about Dr. Phil….nah, too self-promoting. He’d go along with the gig.

Aha, I’ve got it. Dr. Sue Johansen. Maybe next time she comes south of the border to visit Letterman’s show, she can make a housecall at the White House.

]]> By: wagonjak http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/15/oedipus-wrecks/#comment-1275742 wagonjak Fri, 15 Feb 2008 22:40:08 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/15/oedipus-wrecks/#comment-1275742 <p>Scene: poor Georgie is wandering the halls of the White House late at night after his normal bedtime in his camo flannies clutching a bottle of Bourbon which he hits on frequently…stopping before a portrait of Barbara Bush he whines:</p> <p>“Mommy, mommy, MOMMY….please help me mom…I’ve screwed up the Iraq War, this country’s going down the tubes, most of the world hates me…I’m really scared mom…ya think dad and his powerful buddies can help me again like they did with all the rest of my screw-ups?”</p> <p>Tears course down his cheeks, and he finally falls to the floor, and vomits into the carpeting…</p> <p>Camera pulls back with Bushie wallowing in spilled Bourbon and his own vomit…</p> Scene: poor Georgie is wandering the halls of the White House late at night after his normal bedtime in his camo flannies clutching a bottle of Bourbon which he hits on frequently…stopping before a portrait of Barbara Bush he whines:

“Mommy, mommy, MOMMY….please help me mom…I’ve screwed up the Iraq War, this country’s going down the tubes, most of the world hates me…I’m really scared mom…ya think dad and his powerful buddies can help me again like they did with all the rest of my screw-ups?”

Tears course down his cheeks, and he finally falls to the floor, and vomits into the carpeting…

Camera pulls back with Bushie wallowing in spilled Bourbon and his own vomit…

]]> By: LS http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/15/oedipus-wrecks/#comment-1275722 LS Fri, 15 Feb 2008 22:27:57 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/15/oedipus-wrecks/#comment-1275722 <p>Yeah…you expect him to say…”I’ll prove to them that there are terrorists”…</p> <p>Look in the mirror W.</p> Yeah…you expect him to say…”I’ll prove to them that there are terrorists”…

Look in the mirror W.

]]> By: Maddy http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/15/oedipus-wrecks/#comment-1275716 Maddy Fri, 15 Feb 2008 22:23:04 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/15/oedipus-wrecks/#comment-1275716 <p>or his pasty ass from a bucket of grapes.</p> or his pasty ass from a bucket of grapes.

]]> By: oldgold http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/15/oedipus-wrecks/#comment-1275715 oldgold Fri, 15 Feb 2008 22:20:50 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/15/oedipus-wrecks/#comment-1275715 <p>Does she still have her gig with Quaker Oats?</p> Does she still have her gig with Quaker Oats?

]]> By: punaise http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/15/oedipus-wrecks/#comment-1275714 punaise Fri, 15 Feb 2008 22:20:23 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/15/oedipus-wrecks/#comment-1275714 <p>isn’t she already Empress of Paraguay or something?</p> isn’t she already Empress of Paraguay or something?

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