This is absolutely the most terrifying article I have ever read.

[WilliamPitt]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/06/AR2006030601446_pf.html

Holy shit.

[Virginia Dare]

1. Yes, the man is truly a sick individual.

Add OCD to his list of mental ailments.

[republicansarewhores]

69. It would be funny if a visitor threw up all over it...

After remarking "Ewww... where did you get this fucking ugly rug? It's the color of diaherrea and is making me nauseous... oh shit :puke:"

RAW

[Richardo]

74. Perhaps his Dad would do us the favor...

Just feed him a Japanese dinner et voila!

[babsbunny]

88. Should of been an episode of "The Twilight Zone!"

CREEPY!

[Coexist]

2. who stole the strawberries? n/t

[WilliamPitt]

7. Heh

[madokie]

46. Are we getting closer to the identity of bob boudelang

[grytpype]

105. Even better...

The Dude: Walter, what is the point? Look, we all know who is at fault here, what the fuck are you talking about?
Walter Sobchak: Huh? No, what the fuck are you... I'm not... We're talking about unchecked aggression here, dude.
Donny: What the fuck is he talking about?
The Dude: My rug.
Walter Sobchak: Forget it, Donny, you're out of your element!
The Dude: Walter, the chinaman who peed on my rug, I can't go give him a bill, so what the fuck are you talking about?
Walter Sobchak: What the fuck are you talking about? The chinaman is not the issue here, dude. I'm talking about drawing a line in the sand, dude. Across this line, you DO NOT... Also, dude, chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature. Asian-American, please.
The Dude: Jeez, Walter, I'm not talking about the guys who built the fucking railroad here.

[driver8]

9. Should we call him "Old Yellow Stain"?? n/t

[underpants]

13. LOL

that was a classic post

[atomic-fly]

90. good one

[tanyev]

3. My cat loves rugs, too. Rubs his face on them all the time.

Maybe he should be president.

[4 t 4]

Has a presidents

mental state of health ever been called into question? -I'm just saying...

[Cleita]

23. Doesn't he refuse to take physicals?

I mean there is a lot that could be exposed there, his drinking and drug abuse and probably mental disorders too.

[Cleita]

20. OMG! Certifiable!

What's that called, obsessive/compulsive syndrome?

[Az_lefty]

85. I'd vote for your cat over the chimp any day. n/t

:toast:

[shain from kane]

4. He's snug as a rug, and the rest of us are scared

shitless.

[ComerPerro]

5. Oh my God, that man is such an idiot

The rug is a metaphor for leadership?

The rug that his wife picked out and designed?

WTF?

Listening to Bush discuss metaphors is like reading essays on symbolism submitted by Remedial English students.

[proud2BlibKansan]

60. You know when the emperor has no brain,

the little things like rugs make a HUGE difference.

LOL Ever since I read this I have this image of fairy tales and magic carpets and boogie men.

[driver8]

6. That rug is a metaphor for his presidency alright -- flat and lifeless.

[stepnw1f]

14. Oh That Was Funny.. (nt)

[Tin Man]

31. Bush known to lie like a rug, too

[Ilsa]

47. Bravo! Excellent! nt

[trotsky]

32. *SNORT*

Nice one. :thumbsup:

[mattclearing]

55. Not to mention unfunny, disingenuous, and creepy. n/t

[Hekate]

99. Bush likes to walk all over everybody & wipe his feet on them nt

[Hekate]

100. We'll be pulling that rug out from under him one fine day! nt

;-)

Hekate

[EFerrari]

8. Holy shit. You're not kidding.

:scared:

[phoebe]

10. carpetbagger if there ever was one..

n/t

[liveoaktx]

11. Bwahahahahahahah! Didn't scare me but made me laugh!

It's like when he says he's a C Student Over and Over and Over ... and over....

[lonestarnot]

25. You give him tooooo much credit. At least C students show

up to class sometimes.

[formercia]

98. If he says it often enough

people might start to believe him......

[liveoaktx]

117. Had to make a VIDEO of those clips of him talking about the rug

Obsession

[Sugar Smack]

12. OH. MY. GOD.

I need a drink.

[Katherine Brengle]

15. Ew...

Thousands if people are dead thanks to his "optimism."

He can take his stupid rug and shove it you-know-where.

[MadHound]

16. Not the most terrifying, but definetly an odd fixation on the rug

I mean really now, it is just a piece of fabric. But crows and monkeys do tend to fixate on bright and shiny things:eyes:

[underpants]

17. The writer really needs to tie the story together with the rug & the twins

:evilgrin:

[Ugnmoose]

18. Yeah and Captain Queeg loved his strawberries

Beyond belief!

[blm]

19. Sunshine yellow - or just plain, old CHICKENHAWK yellow?

.

[Cleita]

21. Isn't that the color of beer?n/t

[Canuckistanian]

80. "Yellow Elephant" Yellow

The official color of the Bushco administration...

[Cleita]

110. I get it. Laura was matching the yellow stripe down his back. n/t

[Canuckistanian]

111. She's so fashion conscious

Must coordinate those colors!

[in_cog_ni_to]

22. He's intellectually bankrupt.

He can't talk foreign policy because he's so damn ignorant....so he talks about a rug? I wonder what goes through the minds of world leaders when he starts babbling on about "THE RUG?" He makes me want to crawl in a hole and hide from embarrassment.

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

40. Another piece of evidence that Chimpy is a complete and utter

imbecile...

I can just imagine what Chirac, Putin and the rest of them must've thought when the Idiot started expounding his views on the rug in the Oval Office.

IMHO, this is worse than Nixon talking to the pictures on the wall at the end of of his presidency.

Scary indeed.

:crazy: :freak:

[flordehinojos]

24. when the bastard talks about the carpet, he doesn't have to talk about

dubai, the economy, his incompetency, etc., etc., etc., the rug is the theme of a damn cover up which began with the stealing of our national elections in 2000. talk about the rug and you don't have to talk about our stolen elections, his illicit prissydency, nor his bullshit ass.

[lonestarnot]

27. Ewwww you said it! Keep repeating it! Buried under the rug!

[flordehinojos]

29. O:-)

:toast:

[lonestarnot]

34. :>)

:toast:

[ScreamingMeemie]

26. I was stupid enough to go and take the virtual tour with Mr. Bush.

Stupid, stupid me...

Journalists should be shot for including links in their articles.

"You can't have the Oval Office without George Washington..."

[Pirate Smile]

49. Do you remember him commenting on "the rug"?

Here is an "optimistic" yellow rug:

[ScreamingMeemie]

56. Yes. "The eagle is facing the talon (not talons) holding the olive

leaves..." :hi:

[SeattleGirl]

28. Good grief!

Maybe once the asshat is out of office, they can hang the rug up instead of his portrait, since he seems to think it says so much about him (or at least, about what he wants us to think about him).

:puke:

[Duer 157099]

30. You'd think the article would have a photo of this rug

And I'm surprised he didn't go for the obvious motif of just a happy face

[BlacknBlue in Red NC]

33. Here it is!

Here's the rug in question:



Here's the unexpurgated White House photo caption:
President George W. Bush hosts a meeting in the Oval Office decorated with the new presidential rug on December 20, 2001. The rug, which is unique to the Bush administration, arrived earlier in the week and was unveiled to the media on Friday, December 21, 2001. Members from the Office of Homeland Security and other White House staff attended the meeting. The participants included (clockwise from the bottom), President George W. Bush, Governor Tom Ridge, Dr. Condoleezza Rice, Admiral Steve Abbot, Karen Hughes, Dean McGrath, Karl Rove, Albert Hawkins, Mitch Daniels, Josh Bolton, and Andy Card. White House Photographer Paul Morse is at left. White House photo by Paul Morse.

Village Voice article from 12/24/04: www.villagevoice.com/.../ archive/2004_12.php

[in_cog_ni_to]

42. Hmm...funny color of yellow.

:crazy:

[mzteris]

86. I thought this was it!

[WillyT]

107. A Bit More Like This I Think...

:evilgrin:

[Olney Blue]

127. The Chimperor is just sitting there with his hands in his lap

passively taking in his "glorious" rug.

Is it time to impeach yet?

[jane_pippin]

35. It's where he and Barney have "butt-scootin' races." That's why he likes

it so damn much.

[DrGonzoLives]

36. Is it a Perisan rug?

You see, Iranians are Persian...and the irony...

[KurtNYC]

37. The Big Lebowski would be like a horror movie to *

The Dude had a rug with some yellow in it also. It really tied the room together.

[bullimiami]

38. bush is, without a doubt, insane.

[TahitiNut]

39. ""If a suitor shows up and asks for their hand, ..."

... it's probably the ONLY part of their anatomy he's not had full access to. :evilgrin:

[FearofFutility]

41. Bizarre

He is truly an unstable man.

[tularetom]

43. Shit - there must be something wrong with me

I've lived in the same house since 1971. I just told my wife about this article and she asked me what color the area rug was in our entrance hall. I didn't fucking know - had to go look. Guess I just don't have "leadership qualities".

[nadinbrzezinski]

44. We have an insane man in teh WH

[sinkingfeeling]

45. For god's sake, it's just a stupid, ugly rug. Please take it with you

and get out of our White House!

[Ilsa]

48. Here's a link with a small pic:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/06/AR2006030601446.html

[SpaceCatMeetsMars]

66. Oh, they changed the link in the "who's blogging" box

This morning they had Jeff Gannon's blog listed first, where he said this:


"The Washington Post took a day off from printing national security secrets on its front page to run a story about President Bush's apparent fixation with the rug in the Oval Office. White House correspondent Peter Baker cites numerous instances of Bush bringing up how Laura Bush designed the carpet that covers the floor in his West Wing office.

I think Bush wants everyone to know that the Oval Office is different in every way from that of its previous occupant - all the way down to the rug that Monica Lewinsky crawled around on her hands and knees while "cavorting" with Bill Clinton."


Now you have to go to the bottom of the box, where it says "full list of blogs" and it will go to his. I posted this in another thread about this bizarre story this morning. It just goes to show that Bush AND the Washington Post AND Jeff Gannon are all completely CRAZY! I don't think anyone would want to give Bush a blow job anyway, except maybe Gannon, and he would no doubt charge a large sum of money.

[Ilsa]

68. Oh, I've got family members and neighbors

who would gladly oblige the bj thingy with Shrub. Hard core. They'll never change.

[tledford]

50. There is no question Bush is dangerous...

...to Americans and all of the world, but I can't for the life of me decide if he is just stupid, or stupid and crazy. The stupid part there is no question about, however.

[KittyWampus]

51. "make it say optimistic person" LOL!

[Ilsa]

52. I bet he plays games on that rug.

I bet Cheney tells him that every time he steps on a darker "ray", it breaks an Arab's back.

[wicket]

53. K & R

:kick:

[ClusterFreak]

I wonder if the rug talks to him....

What am I saying "wonder"....of course it does!!:yoiks:

[minvis]

54. What's truly frigtening

is the level of "journalism" we have sunken to. We have vapid, "pretty faces" reporting on non-issues while the country's going to hell!

That's what's frightening to me.

[More Than A Feeling]

57. "Tell me about the rabbits again!"

:scared:

[MadisonProgressive]

58. He's an optimistic fool

[madrchsod]

59. he`s delusional

i doubt the girls will be married anytime soon...

[gatorboy]

61. How metrosexual of him!

eom

[atommom]

62. "Open and optimistic?"

If I were designing a rug to portray this presidency, I'd make it dark, secretive, and menacing, with an incomprehensible pattern.

[renate]

63. "Don't forget the rug. President Bush never does."

"For whatever reason, Bush seems fixated on his rug."

This must be reporterese for "WTF is up with that?????"

[atommom]

64. It almost reads like a piece out of the Onion!

[tanyev]

116. It must be really hard to write for the Onion these days.

The truth is already outrageous beyond belief.

[geniph]

65. "It really ties the room together"

Where are the micturating nihilists when you need them?

[pitohui]

67. THAT is the most terrifying article you ever read?

you need to get out more

:disappointed:

[kwassa]

70. I only saw the Clinton decorating scheme when I peeked through the door

back about 2000 or so.

The whole West Wing is really small.

The press room looks run down, and is also small, with old-fashioned theater seats with little brass plaques denoting the media outlet.

[troubleinwinter]

71. There's what passes for "journalism" today. The presidential rug issue.

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

72. Rug important symbol, but Constitution "goddamned piece of paper"

Nazi lunatic.

I've been scared for a while now.

[izzybeans]

73. Kind of sad really. Reminds me of my Grandpa after dementia

set in. He became fixated on mundane aspects of his surroundings.

[Pacifist Patriot]

76. That is the same reaction I had! I have had several close people

in my life succumb to senile dementia and all of them did the same thing.

[izzybeans]

81. He's still alive and is fairly functional and independent.

He was always a story teller prone to repeating them, but never about the history of the spoons he mixes his sugar water with. I guess perhaps you start holding on to any thread of identity you can when you feel it slipping away.

[Pacifist Patriot]

91. With my grandmother it was her table linens.

Her house is where we always gathered for the big family holiday meals so I wondered if she associated it with the families ties around the table.

[gollygee]

75. Louis XIV

The Sun King

[Canuckistanian]

77. Small things amuse small minds

And REALLY small things amuse total idiots.

[ReadTomPaine]

78. Ahhh, a visiting Dem should "spill" indeliable ink all over it during...

a meeting. Give it a nice, big dark stain from an "unfortunate accident" with a fountain pen.

[IndyOp]

93. No! Good grief the piece of crap probably cost us $500,000 and he'll

replace it if it has the smallest spot on it. F* it if someone dies from not having heating oil or food - he'll need a new carpet.

:grr:

[ReadTomPaine]

96. He loves it so much.. it's worth staining just to ruin his peace of mind.

It's also ever so appropriate. When the next one comes it, stain that one too. Always a stain on this Presidency, starting in the Oval Office. Just a perfect metaphor, and it'll irritate him like nothing else, if this story about his fixation is indeed true.

Who knows, it might work better than the protests he never sees, speeches he never hears or the op-eds he never reads.

Mightier than the sword? Who knows! :)

[TorchTheWitch]

95. It looks like a giant

banana torte with a bunch of people and furniture sitting on it.

[hootinholler]

79. Have you seen my stapler?

It's a red swingline...

-Hoot

[MADem]

82. Even scarier than the rug, was this "SERIOUS" topic of the interview

When it came her turn last week, Vargas expressed dutiful admiration for the rug and then tried to move on to more serious issues. Noting that Bush has two daughters in their twenties, she asked, "Any chances of a White House wedding for either of them, do you think?"

How many kids are dying in Iraq, and a soiree in the Rose Garden a la Tricia Nixon is a SERIOUS issue? Give me a fucking break!!!!

[Az_lefty]

83. "Sunbeam Yellow"...metaphor for his leadership alright.

[Jokinomx]

84. The only thing I know... he does lie like a rug...!!

I guess he relates to it ... it doesn't talk back... you can walk all over it without people getting upset...

You know... there are a lot of good reasons to love your rug...;-)

:toast:

[Strawman]

87. He actually got that color because Barney hates him

and constantly pisses on his foot. Go Barney!

[Career Prole]

89. This rug speaks to me...it says 'Don't tread on me'.

Then of course God tells it to shut up. :crazy:

[dalaigh lllama]

92. Is this what makes him a rugged individual? n/t

[mr_hat]

94. I could have a beer with a feller with a carpet like that.

[RazzleDazzle]

97. Hmm, they must've edited it since you posted about it

Because there's a lot I find more terrifying about Bush and the whole world.

I'm not even sure it's rightfully a fixation of Bush's, or of this reporter (tho that would be terrifying too, in a way).

So, tell me, what did they edit out?

[Ksec]

101. so a rug is scary?

I dont get it.

Maybe youre reading something into it I am not but other than it being silly bushisms, I see nothing here.

[NoodleyAppendage]

102. Perseveration = Frontal Lobe Brain Damage/Dysfunction

Perseverative behavior and language or an unusual repetitive focus on a singular topic is often a CLEAR SIGN of frontal lobe dysfunction. Chimpy's repetitive use of phrases like "hard work", "killers", and other pat phrases he uses ad infinitum are strong clues that his frontal lobes are not fully online.

I've often thought that if King Chimp were to dement, he would take the route of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) instead of vascular dementia or Alzheimer's disease.

JB

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

114. Interesting...

On this topic:

http://www.emedicine.com/NEURO/topic140.htm

<snip>
History:

* For the subgroup of FTD with PPA, the presenting symptoms involve a deterioration of language function. At first, other aspects of cognitive function and behavior may seem entirely normal. Patients who do not depend on their verbal skills for their livelihoods may continue to function at work. Artistic expressions may even increase or be taken on as new hobbies in these patients, although, according to Miller and Hou (2004), their productions are often compulsive in style.

o The most common presenting symptom is word-finding difficulty. However, decreased fluency or hesitancy in producing speech, difficulty with language comprehension, and motor speech difficulties (eg, dysarthria) are also common.

o The mode of presentation suggests a focal lesion of the left hemisphere language cortex, but a focal lesion, other than evidence of focal atrophy, usually is not found.

o The course is progressive, with slowly worsening language function.

* Most patients have a nonfluent aphasia. Fluent aphasia at onset is a less specific finding than nonfluent aphasia. Some patients with progressive, fluent aphasia have AD.

* One area of controversy in PPA concerns whether a generalized dementia eventually develops in all patients with PPA.

o The literature contains many cases of slowly progressive language dysfunction, developing over a period as long as 10-12 years, without obvious deterioration of other cognitive functions that would justify a diagnosis of dementia.

o The incidence of dementia in patients with PPA is unknown but likely approaches 50% over several years.

* One subgroup of the syndrome of PPA is semantic dementia, a disorder described by Hodges and colleagues in the United Kingdom. Semantic dementia is characterized by a progressive loss of naming ability and a loss of the ability to understand the meaning of words.

o The aphasia is fluent, except for word-finding pauses.

o The pathology underlying semantic dementia is variable, and some patients may have AD.

[RadiDem]

103. Bush* in 2001 "I love to dig the soil looking for bugs"

[Kerrytravelers]

104. This guy is seriously conflicted with OCD.

[CoffeeCat]

106. Ahhhhh....mystery solved...

So this is the rug that has been causing all of those abrasions on Junior's face.

Just a hint, Junior---love your rug, but don't LOVE your rug.

Step away from the carpet!

[MissB]

108. Yes, He Is A Freak.

No, this doesn't surprise me.

[Clara T]

109. Prepubescent adolescent fixation

No surprise really.

[Richard Steele]

112. Perhaps a rug featured prominently in his brutal toilet-training?

Some sort of sadistic rug-based punishment?

I can seriously picture his mom screaming over and over at toddler Georgie:
"It does its business in the pot,
or else it gets the rug alot!"

"Buffalo Babs", donchaknow.

[magellan]

113. That rug is all about his power, not optimism

I mean look at it. Beams radiating from the seal of the president. He even parks his chair on the seal when meeting with his staff. That fits in well with how he disrespects the office but loves the power it gives him.

His compulsive desire to draw attention to the rug and explain it to everyone is just his self-conscience poking him. He knows damn well what message it sends at first glance, but he offers an alternative explanation right away to make himself out to be a good person.

[54anickel]

115. The article didn't scare me enough, so like an idiot, I went to the WH

page and took the virtual tour with none other than the Shrub himself. OMG, now THAT will scare the shit outta ya.

[ginnyinWI]

118. They say there are three kinds of people:

The smartest people like to talk about ideas.

The middling people like to talk about other people.

And the simplist type of people like to talk about THINGS.

:scared:

[niallmac]

119. I think he's unraveling. n/t

[graywarrior]

120. He identifies with pulling the carpet out from under America

I swear this country is following that idiot right back into the 50's. I feel like I'm back in St. Mike's grammar school cloak room getting lectures about the evil's of patten leather shoes and the horrors of my first period.

Think Laura discusses soap opera plots with him while he obsesses over the rug? It's enough to make you build your own rocket and leave the planet.

[SupplyConcerns]

121. Putin admired the rug, shrewdly enough

And Bush loves Putin and has "seen his heart" or something like that. Don't you think Putin, the former KGB man, might be playing Bush like a fiddle? Maybe someone in the Russian government, before a Putin visit, determined that complementing the damn rug was a good way to win Bush over (and better manipulate the US geopolitically, of course). I bet Bush get played by shrewd foreign leaders all the time.

[BootinUp]

122. But I, being poor

But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. - W. B. Yeats

[populistdriven]

123. That rug was the only good decision he ever made as President...

or so Historians will agree 100 years from now.

[Olney Blue]

126. Except HE didn't make the decision- Laura did.

[Sydnie]

129. I HATE that rug

The first time I saw it in a picture and really got a good look at it was when all the former Secretaries visited last year. I comment then, asking wtf was up with that rug.

If "god" had a rug ... that would be the one, I remember thinking.

[sendero]

124. There are few personality traits that annoy me..

... quite so much as unabashed preening optimism. Sure, a positive outlook is a great thing, but I've seen too many folks who are so sold on the "it will work itself out for the best" idea of life that they neglect to take the steps necessary to make things come out all right.

All the yellow sunbeam rugs in the world are not going to fix the messes Bush has made.

[carpetbagger]

125. What a great way to say "I am the Sun King". n/t

[soup]

128. Don't step on the new rug!

For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
December 21, 2001

President Highlights Administration's First-Year Accomplishments
The Oval Office

11:10 A.M. EST

THE PRESIDENT: Don't step on the new rug! (Laughter.)

We wanted you to see the new rug. It's a tradition for each President to design a rug. And Laura helped design this rug, and I think she did a fantastic job, as you can see. It's just beautiful.

That's the seal in the middle. The border here has got a little Texan in it --

MRS. BUSH: We have the Lone Star.

THE PRESIDENT: The Lone Star. The rays are, I think, very dramatic. And so we wanted you to come by and take a look at it. <<<


>>> But all in all, it's been a fabulous year for Laura and me. We're so grateful to be living in this compound and I'm grateful to be working in this office. It's a joy to walk in here every morning, realizing that I'm the President of the greatest country on the face of the Earth.

Anything you want to say?

MRS. BUSH: Happy holidays to everybody. Very happy New Year.

THE PRESIDENT: Why don't you say something about the rug?

MRS. BUSH: Do you want to hear more about the rug?

Q Where was it made?

THE PRESIDENT: Thank you, Terry. (Laughter.)

MRS. BUSH: It was made, actually, in New York. Edward Fields is the company. I went and watched as it was being made. They have -- it was very interesting. They have huge racks the rug is up on, and then they developed this electric needle that sort of looks like a drill, and the yarn is actually sort of painted on with this electric drill.

We took a long time working on the design of it, and the colors. We went back and forth several times with strike-offs on the colors until we got what we liked. I think it's really pretty. They've done a beautiful job.

In late January, we're going to ask everyone who had to do with the Oval Office -- Scalamandre, who made the couches and -- the fabric on the couches; Brunschwig, the fabric on the drapes; the Drapery House, which is also out of New York, that made them. The museums that loaned these paintings from Texas. Tom Lea's widow, Sarah Lea. W.H.D. Koerner's son, who we found through Joey O'Neill, who loaned that painting to us. So we'll ask you back at that time to meet all the people who had something to do with the decorating of the Oval Office.

Q Mr. President, can we ask you --

THE PRESIDENT: Sure.

Q Do you think that perhaps the cease-fires and the talks about possible surrender negotiations gave bin Laden a chance to sneak out of Afghanistan or --
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/12/20011221-2.html

[Sydnie]

130. Definately not your rug .. definately. Two minutes to Wapner ...

:wtf:!

[soup]

132. yep. Or Gump's Shrimp and Rug Company

throw rugs, scatter rugs, Persian rugs, area rugs, hand-woven rugs, shag rugs, hooked rugs, prayer rugs, hearth rugs.....

B.A.T. S.H.I.T. L.O.O.N.Y.

[Blue_Tires]

131. i'm thinking more "General Ripper" than 'Capt. Queeg'

[Dem2theMax]

133. I'll just leave this up to everyones imagination. ;-)

As for this part:

When it came her turn last week, Vargas expressed dutiful admiration for the rug and then tried to move on to more serious issues. Noting that Bush has two daughters in their twenties, she asked, "Any chances of a White House wedding for either of them, do you think?"

"All I can tell you is this," Bush answered. "If a suitor shows up and asks for their hand, he's going to get to come here to the Oval Office and give me an explanation."

They'd have to "give him an explanation?" What does that mean?

Uh, Mr. pResident, I got your daughter pregnant.

Uh, Mr. pResident, I gave your daughter an STD.

Uh, Mr. pResident, we were having a drinking contest. Loser has to marry your daughter. Guess who lost.

It sounds like he actually knows that no one would be dumb enough to want to really marry one of his offspring. So they have to 'explain' why they would want to marry one of them? LMAO!