Bush, "I Have no compassion."

[revtj]

Omigosh...I just watched W's interview with Elizabeth Vargas on abc news. Of course it was edited & sanitized by the White House but there was one exchange that they must have missed, it blew me away!

Vargas was asking him about the drunk twins and if there may be a White House wedding. He said any suitor would have to come to the Oval Office & talk to him first. Vargas asked him if he realized how intimidating that could be and then said, "Don't you have compassion for the boy?"

"No. I have no compassion," he replied.

And that my friends has been what these last 6 years have been all about. He literally sucked the soul of the nation out, such that we are now hated almost everywhere on the planet. He looted the treasury such that we are 8 trillion dollars in debt. The effects of global warming are out of control
such that catch-up may be impossible.

And where did he spit the aftertaste? On us, on gay people. He used gay marriage and fearmongering to do his deed. (No, not on Muslims-- he is still in bed with the Saudis and the UAE, & he has no clue nor care where Osama is hiding.)

Gay people ended up being the wrench that connected the dots for him. When 'Amurrica' comes back to its senses (as it seems to be, slowly) I hope the price of homophobia becomes clearer to us all.

[keltic63]

I looked up that interview online, there is a transcript. It's a bit scary.

VARGAS: Do you have compassion for the people that they do date, and probably …
BUSH: No.
VARGAS: No, OK — well that settled it. (Laughter)
BUSH: No, I don't have compassion.
VARGAS: OK.

He cut her off and answered bluntly from the looks of things. That's very indicative of his character, in my opinion.

[revtj]

Thanks, Keltic...the actual exchange is even scarier in print. I think he thought he was being "cute" in reality, but, as Shakespeare said, "How oft the truth is spoke in jest."

I say Bush has no soul because he has tried to serve 2 gods : Christ and Mammon. yikes, revtj

[schoolboi]

wow I don't know what to say

[SolInvictus]

Yikes. Indeed, he (Bush) has no compassion.

[Vanessa White]

I think I always sensed that he didn't have much warmth or compassion for any person, but this just clinches it in my mind. No matter what bad choices that President Clinton made personally, and even dodging issues at some point politically, I always felt he had a character that really, genuinely cared about other people and their circumstances. I have never sensed that from President Bush, and that is part of why his response to the human factor of the levee breaches in New Orleans felt so emotionally hollow. It is unfortunate that we as his citizens pay the price for his insensitivity, but we have to strengthen our resolve. Easier said than done??????