Bush gets emotional during tribute to himself.
Bush gets emotional during tribute to himself.
Today, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert warmly welcomed President Bush during his visit to the country. “He is a great leader, a great friend, a source of inspiration,” Olmert said of Bush in a speech. Reuters notes that during the speech, Bush “appeared to well up with emotion.” Dan Froomkin writes:
Could it be that despite the outward signs of confidence, all the criticism being heaped upon President Bush is getting to him? It’s sheer speculation, of course, but how do you explain why the president, welcomed to Israel with adulation, started to cry while being praised by a fellow world leader who expressed seemingly sincere admiration.
Watch it:
“Bush has cried many times during his presidency — when he’s met with the families of dead soldiers, after 9/11, at disaster scenes. But this was different. In this case, it seems his tears were for himself,” Froomkin adds.
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Well yes if the tears are for him…him and boehner so easily cry except for real issues.
May 15th, 2008 at 5:35 pmQueue Sally Fields Oscar video clip.
May 15th, 2008 at 5:36 pmI bet he shed one tear for each golf outing missed over the last seven years.
May 15th, 2008 at 5:40 pmPathetic little weasel. I’d like to give him something to cry about…
May 15th, 2008 at 5:41 pm“He is a great leader, a great friend, a source of inspiration,”
Hmmmm…could it be that he cried because deep down somewhere in his arrogant, sociopathic, egotistical, selfish, imbecilic being there is a part of him that knows he is none of those things that Olmert stated.
May 15th, 2008 at 5:43 pmEhud Olmert is wrong. Bush is not a great leader. He might be a great friend but not a great leader.
May 15th, 2008 at 5:45 pmIs there any chance they will keep him? I am sure there is some brush somewhere he could clear.
May 15th, 2008 at 5:46 pmBush has been a source of inspiration. Millions within this country have been inspired to register democratic and to end this madness.
May 15th, 2008 at 5:46 pmWith all the tears cried over the dead from the ME wars, GWB could shed a few in that direction. How about publicly, over the coffins coming home? Not a good idea politically, I guess, so tough luck, Gold Star families.
Bab’s boy only knows how to cry for himself.
May 15th, 2008 at 5:47 pmtears of a clown
May 15th, 2008 at 5:47 pmhe’ll turn your smile upside down
“He is a great leader, a great friend, a source of inspiration,”
He was crying from laughter, knowing that he will escape unscathed from all the crimes he has committed.
May 15th, 2008 at 5:48 pmActually the tears weren’t for himself. Bush and Ehud Olmert were engaged in a fart contest, and the blue cloud simply overwhelmed him.
May 15th, 2008 at 5:50 pmmaybe it was the splitting headache from being hungover.
May 15th, 2008 at 5:51 pmCoincidentally, Ehud Olmert is Yiddish for George Bush.
May 15th, 2008 at 5:51 pmWhen future Attorney General John Edwards is about to release the indictments against Bush, Bush will have to flee to Israel to avoid prosecution for his war crimes.
May 15th, 2008 at 5:52 pmI always assumed the gas from Bush would be green.
May 15th, 2008 at 5:52 pm“Bush gets emotional during tribute to himself.” Tears from a clown, indeed. Bush is in the running with Boner Boy (Boehner) with the Crocodile Tears award. While Cry baby-in-chief is all broken up in tears of himself, this country is being bankrupted and troops are dying and wounded in a war on false pretenses.
May 15th, 2008 at 5:54 pmAdditional lighting rods were added to the building prior to the event to protect the building against the numerous lighting strikes that occurred during the ceremony…
May 15th, 2008 at 5:54 pmBush … do America a favor and stay in Israel, or anywhere but here at home. Send for fellow moron Joey Lieberman to join you wherever that might be, too … as-in, forever.
May 15th, 2008 at 5:54 pmgummitch at #2 I was thinking the same thing. “you like me, you really, like me.” They like USA money you fool.
May 15th, 2008 at 5:54 pmThat’s how much Israel cares about the US. He praises the man at the helm of this floundering empire a great leader. Well EFF you Olmert. How about giving a shit for the people back here who have lost everything so your people can feel “safe”.
May 15th, 2008 at 5:56 pmOk, Israel one country for US as long as the check arrives, and how many others are we buying ?
May 15th, 2008 at 6:00 pmMany alcoholics get maudlin and weepy for themselves
May 15th, 2008 at 6:01 pmWhen the booze starts to wear off and the thinking starts, even Bush knows he has taken this country back at least 10-20 years. In his quietest moments, he knows what he has done. He knows he has been a tool for the criminal element of the right side. They chose someone smarter than him - Cheney - to make sure he didn’t screw up their plan for world domination. They played to his vanity and his lack of self confidence - typical for a recovering alcoholic. I am almost certain he knows he has been duped. Why cry now?
May 15th, 2008 at 6:02 pmWe are all crying here george , millions of wives , husbands mothers and fathers , brothers and sisters ,sons and daughters , are all grieving because of neoconservativism and zionism gaining asendency under your tenure as president .
May 15th, 2008 at 6:02 pmWhen the fascists start weeping, watch out. Nothing good can come of it. Somebody’s gonna get hurt…Are Bombin’ Johnnie’s eyes moist? If so, watch out, Iran…
May 15th, 2008 at 6:03 pmGreat. A couple of criminals throw themselves a mutual admiration soiree.
Big flarking whoop.
May 15th, 2008 at 6:04 pmbush will need alot of alcohol when he is sitting on his ranch and perhaps stray thoughts come up of all the killing and ruinination of a beautiful country he caused.
May 15th, 2008 at 6:05 pmScratch #28 - those are feelings of a human being.
May 15th, 2008 at 6:08 pmDon’t cry, George.
Just press L, R, L, R, X(2), Y(2) to return to the game.
Next time, make sure you jump right on top of the turtle.
May 15th, 2008 at 6:12 pm@ #24, StratRat plays the bathos card, but I ain’t buyin’ it.
Bush was always a willing tool. He loved it. There is no tragic hero who was as great an ass-hole, was so unadmireable, so mean as aWol George…the weak are not ‘tragic.’
A strutting, simpering, smirking, swaggering pseudo-simian who had swallowed the program whole. You give him credit for decency of which there is utterly no evidence anywhere.
He has done splendidly the low tasks he was installed to do: as much as possible, to attack, diminish, reduce, undermine and/or subvert EVERY and ANY instrument or institution of democratic self-sovereignty as he could ever touch in 8 years. He’s not done yet. Jan 20 is inauguration day; it wouldn’t surprise me if he (they) struck Iran on the 18th.
May 15th, 2008 at 6:16 pmToday, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert warmly welcomed President Bush during his visit to the country. “He is a great leader, a great friend, a source of inspiration,” Olmert said of Bush in a speech.
Was this really an episode for Candid Camera or Jackass IV - The Movie ?
May 15th, 2008 at 6:19 pmWhat if President Bush spelled the END of the Republican Party?
Would we appreciate his special gifts then? Still….4000 brave American’s in Iraq..plus the 3000 innocent New Yorkers is TOO high of a price.
May 15th, 2008 at 6:21 pmOld sayings so true, dogs of the same lay down together. rove, cheney, bush, feith, rumsfeldt on and on. All lying, criminals hanging together.
May 15th, 2008 at 6:21 pmYes, Badger I thought too, maybe the one good thing bush did would be to destroy the republican party. At least the word republican has taken a new meaning, a slur at the least.
May 15th, 2008 at 6:22 pmIsrael may or may not know bush would sell Israel out in a heartbeat if he didn’t need them anymore.
May 15th, 2008 at 6:26 pmOlmert is just as delusional as Bush is.
May 15th, 2008 at 6:32 pmIt’s always all about him.
May 15th, 2008 at 6:37 pmLaura said he suffers more than anyone when soldiers are killed. He was thinking of the troops.
Yeah, that’s the picture, thinking of the troops.
In this case, it seems his tears were for himself,” Froomkin adds.
If he feels that way for himself , what about every American who has had to put up with this clod for seven long years ?
May 15th, 2008 at 6:41 pmWow, I had no idea how f’d up the Israelis were — great leader? standing O? They need to get out more.
May 15th, 2008 at 7:06 pmAlcoholic crying jag is my guess.
May 15th, 2008 at 7:16 pmLook for Israel to get a big shipment of military stuff or a huge chunk of foreign aid change soon.
May 15th, 2008 at 7:40 pmI woke up today I was crying
May 15th, 2008 at 7:42 pmlost in a lost world
so many people are dying
lost in a lost world
some of them are living an illusion
blinded by the darkness of their minds
in their eyes its nation against nation against nation
with racial pride
sad hearts they hide
thinking only of themselves
they shun the light
they think their right
living in an empty shell
the moody blues
May 15th, 2008 at 7:43 pmYou will be crying, Chimpy.
In Gitmo.
With Cheney, Rove, Rumsfeld, Rice, Powell, Hadley, Wolfowitz, etc…
May 15th, 2008 at 8:26 pmKay Says:
You will be crying, Chimpy.
In Gitmo.
With Cheney, Rove, Rumsfeld, Rice, Powell, Hadley, Wolfowitz, etc…
I bet traitor rove gets more action than condi :)~
May 15th, 2008 at 8:36 pmWe are witness to the “last throws”… of Bush’s break with reality. It’s turning into a race between the end of his reign and his inability to function. I’m surprised that no one has noted, that I’ve noticed during the golf flap, that he’s become agoraphobic as his paranoia increases. If he weren’t such a diabolical bastard I’d pity him.
May 15th, 2008 at 9:42 pmIf I watch this will I taste my lunch twice?
May 15th, 2008 at 9:47 pmtake care
tony and guidedog Lido
Was this Omert’s exit speech?
May 15th, 2008 at 10:10 pmOh shaddup. You’d cry too if you found out that there is at least one person in this world that doesn’t hate your guts with a passion (and think you’re stoopid to boot). I’m quite sure he was overcome with emotion. Good to see that in a preznit.
Cheers,
May 15th, 2008 at 10:22 pmSave it for the gallows, chymp.
May 15th, 2008 at 11:24 pmI hope no one thinks all Jews are as stupid as Ehud Olmert.
May 16th, 2008 at 2:05 amUUUMMMMM Bush had nothing to do with the attack on the trade towers and to compare the tragedy of innocent people being murdered in cold blood to soldiers dying on the battle field well to the logical sings of stupidity.Yes going into Iraq was a mistake we should have kicked Saudi Arabia’s’ ass between their ears it was men from that country that killed our people in those towers and now they are killing us at the pump.You people need to get your priorities straight.We are lookin at an election with on the Dem side a former slumlord protester and political activist.On the Rep side you have a man with a bigger ego than bush and a dangerous itinery.Either way we are sssssoooo screwed!
May 16th, 2008 at 2:21 amThe only place on this Earth Bush gets some support…
May 16th, 2008 at 5:22 am52
May 16th, 2008 at 5:26 amOf course not! My disaproval of the terrorist State of Israel does not get mixed up with the jewish religion and culture. Being a Roman Catholic, I understand the Christianity stems out of Judaism. I’m against what the terrorist State of Israel does to the palestinian people.
Bush is beneath contempt, as are the trolls who still defend him for no apparent reason.Go ahead , feel sorry for yourself,
May 16th, 2008 at 10:02 ammost war criminals do.
take care
tony and guidedog Lido
Bush: egotistical f*(kwad.
May 16th, 2008 at 10:41 amBush: egotistical f*(kwad.
May 16th, 2008 at 10:41 amThose dudes in the second row look like they wish they had a shiv to shove into Dubya’s back.
May 16th, 2008 at 11:28 am