First Father: Tough Times on Sidelines

[EV_Ares]

By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG of NY Times:

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 — There are times in the life of George Herbert Walker Bush, the 41st president of the United States and father of the 43rd, that people, perfect strangers, come up to him and say the harshest things — words intended to comfort but words that wind up only causing pain.

“I love you, sir, but your son’s way off base here,” they might say, according to Ron Kaufman, a longtime adviser to Mr. Bush, who has witnessed any number of such encounters — perhaps at a political fund-raiser, or a restaurant dinner, a chance meeting on the streets of Houston or Kennebunkport, Me. They are, he says, just one way the presidency of the son has taken a toll on the father.

“It wears on his heart,” Mr. Kaufman said, “and his soul.”

These are distressing days for the Bush family patriarch, only the second former president in American history, after John Adams, to see his son take the White House. At 83, he finds it tough to watch his son get criticized from the sidelines; often, he likens himself to a Little League father whose kid is having a rough game. And like the proud and angry Little League dad who cannot help but yell at the umpire, sometimes he just cannot help getting involved.

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[AndyA]

1. “It wears on his heart,” Mr. Kaufman said, “and his soul.”

George H.W. Bush has no soul. Neither does his wife, his children, or anyone else in his family.

They are evil. No souls, just evil to the core.

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

2. Tough crap, George.

You're a monster. Your wife's a monster. You raised a monster.
Deal. With. It.

[maxsolomon]

3. boo fucking hoo

who made this monster?

you did. at least have the dignity to keep your whining private, and order your sycophants to do the same.

[tanyev]

4. You and Babs spawned a lot of evil, Poppy.

Deal with it.

[Mandate My Ass]

5. All his sons are utterly despicable...so is he and Babs

maybe spreading the love around a little will help. Talk to the loved ones of dead soldiers and tell them the "Little League" analogy.

What a whiney, self-absorbed asshole. :nopity:

[Jim__]

6. ...he likens himself to a Little League father ...

The real problem, Poppy, is this ain't little league and junior's not just having a rough game. The asshole is scewin' up the whole world.