is considered normal.
http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/contribu... The day after Robin Bush died of leukemia at the age of three, George H. W. Bush and Barbara Bush played a round of golf. There was no funeral for Robin Bush and she was buried in New York -- not transported back to Texas where the Bush family lived at the time.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discu... stinkeefresh (563 posts) Tue Sep-14-04 09:44 AM
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10. They didn't tell him what happened!!!
Any more details? I am facinated by Robin Bush. In a Salon review of that book, they mention that the family played golf the next day.
Paragon (1000+ posts) Tue Sep-14-04 09:56 AM
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12. Yeah, they did.
Bury the kid, then play 18.
If they were that far in denial, imagine how it affected the son.
stinkeefresh (563 posts) Tue Sep-14-04 10:16 AM
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16. I'm tempted to pin the whole psychological trauma
of Bush on the death of Robin. I don't care how much your family sucks, a six year old boy loves his three year old sister.
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I'm not sure why I suddenly remembered this today, but there you have it. The incident was apparently reported in Justin Frank's "Bush on the Couch," which I have not read in its entirety.
But it certainly makes me wonder all the more if there aren't elements of real, deep-seated mental illness at work. Not only does booooosh need to out-do Poppy in everything -- re-election, taking the war to Baghdad and Saddam, etc., etc., etc. -- but now he's even sticking it to the old man about giving up golf to somehow honor the dead, exactly the way GHWB failed to honor the beloved baby sister.
Bat-shit crazy, that's what this guy is. Totally, completely, without a freakin' doubt, bat-shit crazy.
Or I'm not
Tansy Gold
