My wife says I have moved from skepticism to corrosive cynicism...

[kentuck]

When I mentioned to her that the photo of Bush showed a tear running almost down to his lip. I asked if whether or not the "average" person would wipe the tear away, rather than wait for the camera to take a picture of it? In order to show his compassion and hurt? Even his tears are staged for effect and political purpose!

[demrabble]

1. With Respect to Your Wife,

I think you are being realistic.

I think that * would do anything if he thought it would help him politically.

[Jeanette in FL]

7. Welcome to DU, demrabble

I think that your assessment is 100% correct.

[demrabble]

26. Thank You

Thanks for your warm welcome.

[seabeyond]

2. how it looked to me. take the picture will you... perfect. done n/t

[heinz]

3. Your wife should listen to you

Everything these people do is staged. All the debates are staged. All photographs are photo-ops. The only reporters allowed into these events are the ones wearing kneepads. Its not corrosive to know when your being lied to, its damn smart!

[underpants]

11. Welcome to DU heinz AND demrabble

:hi::hi:

heinz that is the #1 thing you have to remember with this lot. They already "Achieved" their main goals (empty the Treasury into their cronies pockets, raid the public trusts for profit, and get boots in Iraq) the rest is just winning the daily news cycle for sport mostly.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

14. Welcome to DU!

Hi, heinz--are you, perhaps, from Pennsylvania? Anyway, post often!

:hi:

[redqueen]

4. If you ask me, she's being gullible.

Everything they do is staged for effect. EVERYTHING.

[kentuck]

40. She's not gullible...she was being sarcastic..

She's smarter than I am. She believes like most of us.

[Warpy]

5. I would like to analyze that tear, myself

My bet is that there's a lot of glycerine in it.

[Atman]

28. Wear gloves...it probably has AIDS in it!

Ever since Dr. Frist educated me on HIV transmission, I don't go near anyone who cries.

.

[jeff30997]

6. I agree with ya!!!

[rubberducky]

8. Cynicism is rampant under bushco.

We have been lie to so many times, that now we must question everything this admin. tells us. Sad fact of life with this white house. IMHO bush doesn`t have the compassion to shed a tear for anyone except himself.

[Robbien]

9. That is why Bushco keeps getting away with it

People don't want to listen to those of us who know it is all bullshit. Too depressing. Thus either we stop talking or they stop hearing.

And Bushco gets a free pass.

[underpants]

15. They operate on the margin you and I take for granted

the margin that we leap over to get to a realistic discussion of facts in order to decide on policy.

[MUAD_DIB]

10. It wasn't tears. He was sweating bullets, and he missed wiping one away.

Seriously, you are right, and my wife thinks the same about me.

It's hard to keep one's unbiased perspective when having to suffer murderous fools.

[Richard D]

12. I've seen a lot of people cry

and I've never seen a tear starting at the outside corner. They always come from the inside, unless the person is lying down.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

13. My wife is even more cynical than I am.

Last night, when Bush appeared while switching channels, she screamed, "Get that asshole off!"

A good (ex)Catholic girl who once voted for Reagan. Now, a very left-wing Socialist cynic who sometimes astounds me, an Anarchist, with her disdain for anyone to the right of Karl Marx.

How can I not love her?

[JuniperLea]

27. Awww! I love that!

I love seeing a man talk nice about his lady! Good on you! Recognizing those qualities you love in a person is so special.

My b/f watched the speech, but he normally yells "aiieeee" and changes the channel whenever he sees the chimpy mug.

I listened on the radio during my commute home... missed the tear... *snif*

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

29. She's pretty fiery for a 66 year old revolutionary.

I expect her to start shouting, "Aux Les Barricades!" and waving a red flag some day.

[JuniperLea]

34. I want to be just like her when I grow up!

She sounds like my kind of gal pal! I come from a long line of fiery ladies... I'm just getting started:)

Tout le monde aux les barricades!

[Marr]

16. I'm of the same opinion as you. There was more than one

photo of him with that tear on his face, and they were clearly separated by more than a few moments. Everyone I've ever seen cry- especially in a public setting- wipes the tear from their face as it falls. And those are people who were just bawling, with tears streaming out. Bush appeared to have had just one, and left it there.

C'mon- if you don't believe a man like Bush would play up a tear for the camera, you're just being naive.

[elehhhhna]

24. I knew it was a fraud when there was no booger-bubble

[stonecoldsober]

17. Anyone have the picture?

[SoCalDem]

38. Here are a few.. The freepies posted a bunch to show what a "m.o.p" he was

they swooned over these two

[stonecoldsober]

42. Looks photoshopped to me.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

18. Then I guess I've also transcended to that point

I felt the same way you did, it was all for show and no real emotions behind it.

[Doctor_J]

19. Congrats on holding out this long

You're tougher than I am. I think I slipped over into cynicism when the MSM helped the pansy Saxby Chambliss become more of a patriot than Max Cleland

[JuniperLea]

20. That's pretty funny... look what I just posted here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x3053355#3053371


My b/f and I had a similar discussion just this morning.

[Virginia Dare]

21. Remember "Iron Eyes Cody", maybe that was the..

effect he was trying to achieve..:puke:

[elehhhhna]

22. tell the Mrs. you aren't alone. Tears run down the side of your NOSE,

not the center of the cheek -- it was staged.

[mrcheerful]

23. Hey your lucky, my mate has grounded me away from the TV when shrub or republicans are on

She said I was becoming a nut case. Well its not my fault that the remote that I threw at the TV was cheap and broke when it hit the wall during shrubs new plan speech, new plan stay the course. I couldn't believe people believed he had a new plan just because he used bigger words and didn't actually say stay the course. But then, I'm a liberal and I can smell bull shit when it reaches my ears.

[seabeyond]

31. thats funny. lol lol. n/t

[EFerrari]

25. She's probably right -- and move over, it's crowded in here.

:)

[SaveOurDemocracy]

33. LOL

:evilgrin:

[Ilsa]

30. Kentuck, I thought the same thing. I think he should show his respect and

remain somber, but he looks too weepy and out of sorts with this teariness. I think he is losing control of his emotional state, and it is only a matter of time becfore he's chatting with the WH portraits, and claiming they are giving him advice.

[SaveOurDemocracy]

32. cynicism, at this point, is a coping skill ...

... it's kicked in to keep us from going absolutely mad, and doing something rash and out of character. :argh: :nuke:

[JackRiddler]

35. This could be as true of anyone including Clinton

This is what I thought on seeing several "Clinton cries" photos. Don't let the special criminality of the Bush mob blind you to the cynicism of politicians generally.

[shadowknows69]

36. Hi my name is Shadow and I'm a corrosive cynic too

you're in good company man.

[kentuck]

37. Just for clarification:

My wife was being sarcastic. She is on the same page as the rest of us. Believe me, she is not gullible!

[redqueen]

41. Sorry!

:blush:

[Vidar]

39. Living in the USA will do that to you, if your eyes are open.