George Bush Goes Out for Tex Mex

[Stephanie]

A normal person would be in Houston with his family if his mother was about to have open heart surgery.

http://sceneblog.guidelive.com/archives/2009/03/alan-peppard-george-ws-tex-mex.html

Alan Peppard: George W.'s Tex-Mex Run
12:02 PM Tue, Mar 03, 2009 | Permalink

Birds gotta fly, fish gotta swim and George W. Bush has gotta get his Tex-Mex. While the former president and first lady are not members of a local country club, Sunday evening, they turned up at Fernando's Mexican Cuisine--a low-key Tex-Mexerie known to the cognoscente as the Preston Hollow Country Club.


How often do the city's power brokers dine at Anne and Fernando Padilla's joint at Northwest Highway and Midway?

Well, just before the Bushes arrived, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison and her husband, Ray, came in with their kids.


President and Mrs. Bush were dining with their long-time friends, Debbie and Jim Francis. (Jim headed up W.'s deep-pocketed Pioneer fund-raisers during the 2000 campaign.)


It was an unusually busy night, but the Bush party settled in while the other diners tried to play it very New York cool--just stealing an occasional glance over the shoulder.


But when the former president posed for a picture with Fernando, waiters and staff members began getting their pictures taken, too. That opened the floodgates. As people came over, W. was reportedly very gracious to all.


When the former president departed, the entire restaurant stood and gave him a round of applause.

*title edited

[AndyA]

1. Obviously, a lot of idiot Kool-Aid slurpers in Dallas.

The people I know in Dallas aren't thrilled about the new addition to town.

[efhmc]

2. Another part of the state i need to avoid.

[babylonsister]

3. Gross, isn't he. I wish the people had all taken off their shoes and

started pitching them.

[notadmblnd]

6. Can I ask you a question? Seriously...

Would you still say the same thing you just said if GW was in the hospital having surgery? If not, why? What would be the catalyst that would give you a more humane attitude towards him?

I'm asking you because of what you just posted and because I think you're honest and I give a lot of thought to your posts. Also, because I'm getting flamed a little in another thread where people are not being so very nice in their words about the matriarch of the family.

[babylonsister]

8. If he were in the hospital, he wouldn't be dining out.

But he was, at a country club, while his mom was having surgery. Sorry, I can't stir up any sympathy for the man, or compassion. Sad, I know, but I don't think I'll ever be able to. The man ruined our country in so many ways.
So my cup of sympathy, empathy, etc., is empty where he's concerned.

[kimmerspixelated]

13. BSister's Right!!!

Double Touche'!!

[notadmblnd]

12. I can't be two faced about it either

thanks for answering.

[uponit7771]

4. WHOA! That's not something to be outtah town on if you can help it IMHO

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

5. What does this man need to do in order to get the appropriate reaction from the public?

Meaning booing at the very least or throw a shoe at him.

[tigereye]

18. you notice he didn't move anywhere in the Northeast...

I suspect parts of Texas are some of the only places in the US where they still think he's great....

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

21. Man, I'd love it if he came to Chicago and just take a little stroll...... by himself. He has lots

of fans here.

[AlCzervik]

7. Not that i'd ever defend any of the Bush people but maybe she didn't want him there.

There should be a new law enacted, the gop likes to do that so i propose one excluding all Bush family members from being in the public light, no more news stories about any of them unless it pertains to The Hague and no more holding of any public office.

i'm going to need a second to get it brought to the floor.

[maxsolomon]

9. "i call you my base"

:puke:

[graywarrior]

10. Based on who he is, it's NORMAL for him to not be there

[alfredo]

11. Even war criminals need to eat.

[Cleita]

14. They seem to be a family without feelings. GW Bush went fishing when

his daughter had an appendectomy, something that is considered major if routine surgery. His mother played golf the day after her daughter and George's sister died of leukemia. Apparently, there was no funeral or memorial either. Just, poof, she's gone. Somehow, I get the feeling that if it were son George in the hospital instead of her that she wouldn't bother herself much either about going to the hospital to see him. I think these Bushes are a fine bunch of sociopaths.

[Contrary1]

15. They went out to eat Sunday,

The Queen Mother's surgery was Wednesday. Was she even in the hospital three days earlier?

Not a big deal, IMO.

[Stephanie]

17. Hmm, I thought the surgery was the next day.

You're right. I'll try to change the title if it's not too late.

[onethatcares]

16. why should I trouble my beautiful mind with thoughts of the *s?

I have about as much sympathy for them as they would have for me tables reversed. (guess how much that is)

[gratuitous]

19. Apparently he got an excuse from Poppy

There's another thread around here where Poppy opined that the hospital was no place for children. Evidently not even 60-year-old children. So he's been excused from Mumsy's bedside.

As for how I would react? Tough question. It's not like Bush is going to act like a war criminal while he chowing down at a restaurant, so any overt negative reaction (shoe throwing, bird flipping, etc.) would lack the context to have any meaning. I'd probably scarf my meal in record time and skedaddle. I suppose I might also go passive-aggressive and loudly converse with my table mates on the shortcomings of the late Bush administration.

[MrSlayer]

20. I would applaud when he left the room as well.

I'd be really happy he was leaving.