Tuesday, February 01, 2011
How can anybody saddled with George W. Bush's genetic material be this intelligent and compassionate?
I always liked Laura Bush and thought she did pretty good job with her girls.
Just goes to show that not ALL of the children of ignorant right wing nuts turn out to be under educated morons relying on their parents name to open doors for them instead of making their own way in the world.
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Good thing Caroline Kennedy's last name wasn't Smith huh?
ReplyDeleteYou're such a hypocrit
Dos Mercede have a "Hollywood" name yet ?
ReplyDeleteGryphen,
ReplyDeleteGeorge Bush and President Obama did NOT use their children to force their agenda on the country. They taught them about public service and respect and to be their own individual person.
Sarah Palin Uses her children as shields, props and does not allow them to be who they want to be. She is a control freak and NEEDS them for her own agenda.
Yes, we can give credit to Laura for this. She was a Dem. when she started dating W, don't know if she ever changed her registration.
ReplyDeleteOT. LMAO. It appears that Sarah won't be the only one appearing in the NE. It appears Speaker Boner was schtooping a paper lobbyist while hundreds of paper employees in this state lost their jobs!!! LOVE IT!
ReplyDeleteFrom Americablog.com
Will Boehner’s be the shortest Speakership ever?
The New York Times passed on the story (if there ever was one; Page 6 of the New York Post isn’t known as the beginning and end of truth), but evidently Boehner hasn’t been successful in making the story go away. I was recently contacted by a reporter from the National Enquirer, and now I have confirmation that their story will hit the newsstands on Thursday.
Wonder how well Boehner’s zero-tolerance pledge regarding corruption will hold up when it comes out that several hundred paper-making jobs were lost in his district and he refused to do anything about it at the same time he was sleeping with a lobbyist for the printing industry that was very happy to get their cheap paper from China.
Gotta give it to Lyons though! She’s one hell of a lobbyist!
The only problem with that ad is the script when she says "New Yorkers believe in marriage equality", implying that ALL New Yorkers do.
ReplyDeleteWhich I very much doubt they do.
I think it detracts from the message of the ad.
Gryphen, as long as the comments are moderated, WHY do we have to put up with trolls? It would be so much more pleasant if we didn't have to put up with the Paliban! Wish they'd stay at the C of P and share their joy!! Also, do you have any way of disabling the "Anonymous" choice for posting? It'd be great if everyone had an identity.
ReplyDeleteRemember, she's only half a Bush. The smart part is her mom.
ReplyDeleteThe Bush children were well taken care of during their father's years in the spotlight. They weren't dragged from pillar to post to prop up a sagging public persona. At least their father used the appropriate people for that job.
TNbluedot@5.21p - I respectfully disagree with your idea that trolls shouldn't be allowed to post here.
ReplyDeleteAs long as Gryphen can stomach their nonsense, I'd like to see what the "other side" is thinking. (If they think, actually).
Having the posters all have handles - now that's something I can get behind. But I don't like only posting "favorable" comments - that's too much like "Conservatives4Palin".
I think that it's a generational thing. Kids seem to be a little bit more tolerant and a little more color blind that the older generation. Of course there are exceptions (those 30/40 year old somethings that write stuff for Sarah).
ReplyDeleteYou assume hat most of the millenial generation believes in marriage equality. This is untrue. There's a huge chunk of well to do 20 somethings who are successful bankers, lawyers, and whatever who think legalizing gay marriage would devastate the country. Not that they find gays repulsive, but there are more of these types than one would think.
ReplyDeleteI am proud of Barbara though, as well as cindy m and meghan. I also think with more time john mccain will support it eventually. W did
Laura Bush, G.H. Bust and Barbara Bush (the mother) were all pro-choice at one time or another, so it's not so surprising for young Barbara to be a bit more progressive than her father.
ReplyDeleteI remember that Laura got into trouble and wasn't seen much and certainly not heard from for several months shortly after Dubya was sworn-in because she made some pro-choice comments. I hope the family supports Barbara the Younger's views.
Glad to see one of Laura's daughters coming out for gay-marriage.
Just read an update where some spokesman is saying essentially that the reason young Barbara is for marriage equality is that she surrounded herself with gay friend as college and in her first job in the design industry.
I hope they mean that she finally figured out gay people are just like everyone else and deserve the same rights as everyone else.
W could give a rats ass about gay marriage. Doubt he even/ever thinks about it. He was told how to think by his handlers and that is what he did. If it was popular within his group to think otherwise he would have. The man is not able to form an independent thought for himself, he was a puppet,just like Regan. Thankfully his daughter had her mom to teach her a few things. Glad this is making the rounds. Great slap in the face to the repugs.
ReplyDeleteI don't think anyone is guilty of not living their own life. Life is about using your experiences to help others. All bristol is doing is telling people there is wisdom in waiting to have a baby. She has to live everyday with her actions and knowing she should have listened to her parents. But alas all teenagers are stupid until a big lesson is learned.
ReplyDeleteI think each palin kid has shown themselves to have a mind of their own.
I know plenty of non-right wing, non-nutjobs,
ReplyDeletewho are compassionate and intelligent, and
don't support same-sex marriage. I also know
some who ARE right wing nutjobs, and they
are neither compassionate nor intelligent, and
they are all for it, because they are either
gay themselves, or they have children who are.
I've noticed this tolerance with my nieces and nephews, they're 24 - 39.
ReplyDeleteThey seem to be color, religion, and sexual orientation blind.
I think we've been seeing this same thing in Egypt. The younger ones demanding non-violent change.
Live and let live. The Internet has made us all family.
I, for one, am delighted. I pray it continues.
Also, too, (h/t $arah) hopefully the old order is in the beginnings of falling away.
If I were religious, I'd think Jesus would be applauding.
Well, i know everyone's trying to be positive, and although i really don't have a lot ot say about Barbara Bush, I WILL point out this: she's thirty years old. I guess better late than never, but it's so safe now. The winds are blowing for gay rights now. Where was she five or six years ago? PERFECTLY old enough to make a statement then. I was never impressed with any of them, Laura Bush as little as anybody. Barbara Bush Jr probably more than any of them though.
ReplyDeleteI do agree that the Bushes were better parents than the Palins. The Bushes were old money WASP with all the "class" that usually comes with this status. (At least overtly.)The Palins were a notch above trailer park trash and the lack of breeding and values shows in their children.
phoebes @5:26 - Totally agree with knowing what they're thinking - IF and when they ever do that. ;) I'm just tired of the snark. Seems like they wait for a new post and see who can be first with a snarky, stupid comment and maybe who can post the most.
ReplyDeleteWhen folks post on here that Bristol is a nice girl that made a mistake, I want to feel for her but I can't. I have seen the mean, and it is not becoming. It's a toss up between which is the worst - the mean directed to the teacher or the gay bashing profanity laden Facebook rant. If she were my daughter I would not be worried about the pregnancy, the mean would be my shame.
ReplyDeleteJust finished reading a book about Pres. Geo H W Bush and Geo Bush. FAMILY OF SECRETS. It was interesting and profoundly disturbing. The author, Russ Baker has a website you can visit. www.familyofsecrets.com
ReplyDeleteSaw this on Gawker and Wonkette and a few other news accumulation sites a few days ago, but still, it's a good thing that the younger generation, regardless of their parentage, is moving forward.
ReplyDeleteAnon @ 6:17pm "The Palins were a notch above trailer park trash and the lack of breeding and values shows in their children."
ReplyDeleteIs there a typo in this sentence? Shouldn't it read: "The Palins were a notch BELOW trailer park trash . . . "
ottokatz said...
ReplyDeleteYes, we can give credit to Laura for this. She was a Dem. when she started dating W, don't know if she ever changed her registration.
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Did you know Hillary was a Republican before she became a Dem?
Both parties have their ideals, it's the far left and the faraway righters that are extreme.
OT -
ReplyDeleteGryphen - Would you please tell us if this week's NE will have another episode in the Todd sex saga?
The difference between Barbara Bush, Jr. and Bristol Palin is glaring: Barbara and her sister come from more money than the Palins could ever imagine. Yet, the Bush twins still went to college and carved out their own lives (even if it was paid for with a trust fund). Jenna teaches and wrote a book. Barbara works in New York.
ReplyDeleteAnd, what do Sarah Palin's children do? Track sits at home doing what exactly? Bristol has an out-of-wedlock child and goes on DWTS. Willow was alleged to have vandalized a house. Piper wears makeup and bumpits. This is a seriously dysfunctional family.
Bristol should be enrolled in a college somewhere and use her money to pay for child care. Instead, she's doing a radio gig (what does she have to say?) and gives 10 minutes speeches about something she hypocritically knows nothing: abstinence.
I hope Sadie realizes even a classy shoot will impact employment opportunities, and her associations with her brother won't help either.
ReplyDeleteHigh road ladies and gentlemen. It may be hard to navigate but it's always worth it
Bristol didnt bash gays. Willow did. And how would you react if someone put a WGE sign in their yard? I'm guessing most people who love their mother would react strongly. She could've been worse. I probably would have been. I worked with a director once who found out I supported W in the first election and called me a "rich little white girl republican". I said things that would make Julia Roberts's ears bleed because to assume all republicans are rich, spoiled, corrupt and/or evil is the most ridiculous things I've ever heard. My father is a blue collar, 24/7 worker who worked his ass off to send me to a private school so I could avoid teen pregnancy central, all the while skimming on extras for himself and my mother. They justifiably hate tax increases because the govt has no right to raise them due to irresponsibility on their part. They hate the idea of welfare and that bullshit because they worked their way out of holes MANY times without no assistance. PEople in this country are so accustomed to having govt take care of them that they think it should be mandatory, that everyone should WANT to give more. Well guess what, most people give to charity on their own. So fuck you all for your stupid, ignorant liberal, tax raising, republican hating bullshit "principles".
ReplyDeleteSorry. that was from an earlier argument I had today.
I dont hate you. I hate how people too easily take sides in the US, when we're all working together.
It's Packers vs whoever
It's bristol vs sadie
its sarah vs obama
its gryphen vs patrick
when you blindly pit one against another, you only display stupidity.
No one knows Bristol. No one knows SAdie. no one knows sarah. no one knows obama. no one knows gryphen. no one knows patrick. We only know ourselves. Leave everyone else be.
No one's right and no ones wrong. we're all human. live and let live. the truest statement there is
4:38 I so agree with you. There is no way that Bristol or any of the Toad and Sarah Palin kids would say anything that wasn't in compliance with Sarah's opinion. Sarah keeps Toad in place too - no wonder he sought the comfort of those gals reported in NE.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations to the Bush and McCain daughters.
Anon @ 7:34--
ReplyDelete"Without no assistance"?
How's that private school education workin' out for ya?
Why are we comparing people. Of course Bristol and the Bush twins aren't alike. Thats crazy to think they should be just because they're daughters of politicians. Bristol's trying to help girls not make the same mistakes she did. Thats all she's doing. She's pretty blunt in saying "there is wisdom in waiting for kids". She obviously has much regret over her past decisions and straight up says, "i wish I would have had someone SHOW me all this when I got pregnant."
ReplyDeleteWhy does everyone freely criticize before getting to know someone? That goes for Levi and Sadie too. Everyone's young and dumb once. Bristol's story is hers to tell. Sadie's story is hers to tell. No one else knows anything.
Living too far Right or Left is dangerous, as it blinds you.
to 9:46, Sorry for my typo. I was that pissed writing that. However, it's nice you're immature enough to judge me. I feel fortunate I'm 25 and I make 6 figures in an industry I love when a lot of people are scraping by working at Taco Bell.
ReplyDelete"Bristol SHOULD be enrolled"
ReplyDeleteHmmm, last I heard, Bristol was living BRISTOLS life not yours.
It would be best if the word SHOULD were outlawed. We'd create fewer cookie cutter lives and more people would follow their gut instincts. In my opinion, too many people become lawyers (for example) because their parents were lawyers. Dude, live your own life.
Hillary CLinton's still a republican at heart and she really needs to stop living a lie and come out against Obama. You know her and Bill want to. They're too intelligent to go along with this bullshit
ReplyDelete@6:02-
ReplyDelete"I don't think anyone is guilty of not living their own life. Life is about using your experiences to help others. All bristol is doing is telling people there is wisdom in waiting to have a baby. She has to live everyday with her actions and knowing she should have listened to her parents. But alas all teenagers are stupid until a big lesson is learned. "
Good grief, how can you peddle such stuff? Bristol has no clue what a regular American girl might go through by getting pregnant, but for Bristol it has been a wonderful experience in every way.
Be nice. The Palin kids are decent people who love and defend their family. Yes they've said things most teenagers say. So does Sadie for example and you all fervently defend her. People love the Palins. If they were really awful, they'd have no friends. They have plenty of good friends.
ReplyDeleteThings get better.
ReplyDeleteBristol: "i wish I would have had someone SHOW me all this when I got pregnant."
ReplyDelete...like a mother, perhaps?
They picked the right name when they chose hers. She has a mind of her own and is confident to use it, just like Grandma.
ReplyDeleteGosh, Gryphen! You mean people are, well, PEOPLE?
ReplyDeleteFor a guy who claims all sorts of enlightenment, it always amazes me how you always resort to sweeping generalities when dealing with anyone you perceive might think differently than you.
Everyone is more than you see. Everyone.
[Anonymous said... 4:38 PM
ReplyDeleteGeorge Bush and President Obama did NOT use their children to force their agenda on the country. They taught them about public service and respect and to be their own individual person.]
You obviously never saw the photos of the Bush girls carousing and involved in a drunken brawl on the floor of a nightclub, or passed out naked on a picknick table full of empty booze bottles and drink glasses or sticking their tongues out at crowds of people lining the street as they were driven by.
And mama Laura, often quoted, "Ma pashun is teachin." NEVER TAUGHT.
She was only a school librarian.
Some people outgrow and rise above their idiot/a-hole stage, some don't.
Now Gryphen, we all know that Laura Bush (the killer) is the mother of the "Bush girls", but whatever gave you the idea that "Bush The Idiot" is their BIRTH father??? ;O)
" Anonymous said...
ReplyDeleteNow Gryphen, we all know that Laura Bush (the killer) is the mother of the "Bush girls", but whatever gave you the idea that "Bush The Idiot" is their BIRTH father??? ;O)
7:34 AM"
Poor Jenna looks just like him. The other one, I
don't know who she looks like. Twins can have
different fathers, and they don't look anything alike.
Palins kids are way better looking than the Bush
twins. The Obama girls are very pretty, and
I think they'll be DDG as women.