Clarification/Follow-up by Itsdb on 12/06/06 1:06 pm:
Your royal Chouxness, please point out your question. The only question I see is Bush's, “How’s your boy?”, which is reportedly between Webb and his boy. So, if you'd point out your 'question' I'd gladly answer it, but there is no question to be found. Perhaps it was asked by another personality.

Clarification/Follow-up by Itsdb on 12/06/06 2:27 pm:
Talk about callousness, some of the classiest of the 325 and counting quotes from the blowhards at Think Progress over the incident. Warning: explicit language ahead...

Bush is a piece of human garbage. How his supporters can admire someone who has been a failure at every stage of his life is beyond me.

Comment by RealScientist — December 5, 2006 @ 9:54 am

“That’s not what I asked you”
Great response.
Not, “We appreciate your son’s service” or
“I appreciate your family’s sacrifice”
but the equivalent of
Go F*ck you and your son for daring to question my brilliance!

Comment by RUCerious — December 5, 2006 @ 9:57 am

GDumbya is classless, tasteless and clueless. If Webb is being similarly accused, it is only because he got too close to the moron presidunce and some of it spilled over and stuck to him.

Anyone criticizing Webb over this incident is totally off-base. Just remember: Webb’s son is in Iraq while the “service-eligible” drunken slut Bu$h twins are cavorting in South America and elsewhere without a care in their sheltered little world.

Comment by Tom — December 5, 2006 @ 10:00 am

No surprise here: shrub ignores good counsel, bulls ahead, and steps on his dick. We’ve seen it before and likely will again over the next 2 years.

Comment by john o. — December 5, 2006 @ 10:05 am

#23 Daryll You are wrong. This is not Bushie house. This is the people’s house. He works for the American people not the other way around. Old Bushie need to growup. Bushie is an arrogant ruded idiot. Bushie thinks he is king. We need to impeach Bushie, Cheney, and his Admin. for war crimes.

I am glad that Webb spoke up against Old Bushie. We need to send Bushie twins over to Iraq and we will see how fast the troops come home.

Comment by Mary Poplins — December 5, 2006 @ 10:32 am

“And how’s Mrs. Goldman holding up? Does she still miss Ron? Well, gotta run, gotta sign some books, cash some NFL checks, play a little golf. Sure good talking to you though.”

That’s the level of civility Bush was shooting for.

Any decent person would have been tempted to wipe that smirk off his face. I admire Webb for not leveling the punk.

Two more years of this monkey’s sh*t throwing.

Comment by nanlichi — December 5, 2006 @ 11:12 am

As usual, George Bush continues to stick his neck where it doesn’t belong. He exemplifies everything that Republicans stand for: Crudeness, Arrogance, Insensitivity, Invasiveness, Racism, Rape, Murder, Torture, Exploitation, & Thievery. I guess we should thank Bush for exposing whats truly in the hearts and minds of all Republicans.

Comment by Republican Corporate Oil & War Machine Monopoly — December 5, 2006 @ 11:22 am

Go back to the sandbox, MA. As usual, you have nothing thoughtful to contribute.

Don’t forget to say your prayers at the altar of your Mighty Decider and to take your daily dose of Kool-Aid. The next two years are going to be pretty rough on you.

This said, if you decide to stay on this blog and be beaten up every time you rear your inane little head, we’ll be more than happy to oblige. It is open season on members of the freakish Bush cult.

Comment by New Yorker — December 5, 2006 @ 12:28 pm

Bush must be the insensitive man alive, just by the very fact that he’s this boorish, obnoxious fratboy who has everybody kissing his ass, even when he says stuff that would get anyone else punched out.

I could just hear him when Rove’s mother offed herself:

Bush: “Hey, Turdblossom! Tough break about your old lady.”

Rove: “Yes sir.”

Bush: “Well, you just have to let these things roll off your back.”

Rove: “Yes sir.”

Bush: “She was a bit of a whore anyway, wasn’t she?”

Rove: (silence)

Bush: “I said ‘Wasn’t she?’”

Rove: “Yes sir.”

Comment by Bush Bites — December 5, 2006 @ 12:50 pm (That screen name says a lot, apparently the guy doesn't have much to live for)

Id have grabbed my crotch area and told Bushie

‘I got you boy hangin’,’

Comment by scramopolis — December 5, 2006 @ 2:04 pm

If Bush’s children had a brush with death, it would probably be drivng home DUI.

Comment by dfout — December 5, 2006 @ 2:04 pm

Clarification/Follow-up by ETWolverine on 12/06/06 8:11 pm:
You call asking Webb "How's your boy?" upping the ante and an insult?

Geeze, your hate of Bush is so deep that if Bush asked how the weather was, you would say it was an insult to weathermen.

Asking someone how their son in Iraq is doing is not an insult. It is common courtesy. Ignoring the question to make a political point is an insult. Bush saw what Webb was doing and tried to get the conversation back onto a civil track by repeating the question. Webb then took the insult even further. Webb upped the ante, not Bush.

What Bush should have done at that point was publicly ask Webb to leave the event if he can't be civil to the President of the United States. And he should have made sure that the press heard it, and then explained in full detail to the press why he was doing it. He would have ended Webb's political career before it ever got started. But Bush is just a nicer guy than I am. I have a New York attitude. Bush is a nice Southern boy from Texas, and he's willing to turn the other cheek to a direct insult. I'm Jewish... I don't do the "other cheek".

Elliot