George Bush just became a member of your family....

[Edward Teach]

A post election Ohio focus group on C-SPAN was asked the following question:

George W. Bush just became a member of your family. He will be with all of you for Thanksgiving dinner. How will he fit in?

What do you think?

Ed

 

[carsonshepherd]

A post election Ohio focus group on C-SPAN was asked the following question:

George W. Bush just became a member of your family. He will be with all of you for Thanksgiving dinner. How will he fit in?

What do you think?

Ed

We don't allow Republicans in my family.

 

[BlackShanglan]

Very nicely ... we'll all be too completely sedated with massive quantities of turkey to talk politics in any way. You could probably wheel Ming the Merciless in and we'd just groan feebly and wave.

 

[EmeraldKitten]

A post election Ohio focus group on C-SPAN was asked the following question:

George W. Bush just became a member of your family. He will be with all of you for Thanksgiving dinner. How will he fit in?

What do you think?

Ed

How will he fit in?
Why, he'll be stuffed and put into the oven of course!

 

[minsue]

I keep my liberal-assed mouth shut at family dinners (hate to see good food flung across the room ), so he'd likely fit in just fine with some of them.

 

[BlackShanglan]

Actually, I really, really wish that I could join the parents for this Thanksgiving. My brother has married a charming young woman so far to the right that, in a very sweet and bubbly way, she may be a little unhinged. Nonetheless, this has brought me deep bliss. Why? I can now quietly go about enjoying the meal, freed from the burden of taking up the liberal cause, and marvel at the amazing spectacle of my father forced to take a moderate stance. He's always been the conservative curmudgeon of the household, but even he is daunted by our new additon, whom he describes with some wonder as "about three steps to the right of Rush Limbaugh." I'm just delighted to see the old boy's sense of fair play kick in and drive him to present the moderate argument when she begins to wax perhaps a bit overly enthusiastic.

Shanglan

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Personally, I think Bush would probably be a fun guest for dinner. He'd also be a fun guy to go fishing with, or sit around and get stoned with. Him buying of course.

But the same thing could be said for my old friend the Weasel. That doesn't mean the Weasel would make a good president, and I think the same is true of GWB.

---dr.M.

 

[Edward Teach]

I'm wondering if this isn't the central question of the whole election. As much as I despise him, I can see Bush fitting in with our family at Thanksgiving. Everyone would try to make him feel welcome and I can picture him relaxing and having a good time.

There would be alcohol in the house and a pot bong going in the garage. I don't picture him objecting. He would like my idiot brother-in-law's "Give Me Head Until I'm Dead" tee shirt and they would get along real well talking about chain saws and wasp stings.

I don't picture Kerry fitting in. He is too stiff and proper.


Ed

 

[OhMissScarlett]

Personally, I think Bush would probably be a fun guest for dinner. He'd also be a fun guy to go fishing with, or sit around and get stoned with. Him buying of course.

But the same thing could be said for my old friend the Weasel. That doesn't mean the Weasel would make a good president, and I think the same is true of GWB.

---dr.M.

Amen, Doc.

Actually we always run out of room, so he'd be forced to sit at the little kids' table with my son. It's ok, George, we have a vast array of sippy cups for your drinking pleasure.

 

[BlackShanglan]

I don't picture Kerry fitting in. He is too stiff and proper.

Perhaps it's his recent run for office, but somehow I can see him as the sort that would still be campaigning over the mashed potatoes and trying to explain his health care plan every time someone made eye contact to ask for the cranberry sauce. I hope for his sake that he's having a *relaxed* Thanksgiving.

 

[Edward Teach]

One woman in the focus group actually said that the reason she voted for Bush was because he knew what it was like to be without money but Kerry didn't because he had always been rich and so had his wife.

Those 'Publicans can sell like a sumbitch, can't they.

Ed

 

[English Lady]

well e'd have to put on thanksgiving special for him like but he'd fit right into a family meal here I'm sure. Mum would talk to him abou alsorts (she'll talk to any one) Beth would be happy to talk at him too...she likes to have new people around to show off too and I am sure he'd be very pleasant. Hubby says as long as he either brings some food with him or does the pots after he's happy for him to come round so yeah if you're reading this Mr Bush,George love you've got a warm welcome in this little section of the wirral*L*

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Cousin W?

He'd fit in just fine. The family eats turkey and ham dinner before the football games start, then we all stuff ourselves again after they are over. Everyone usually goes to bed early. No one drinks so he wouldn't be tempted and the only one who would dispute his political, moral values stances long ago gave up and dosen't talk politics at family gatherings.

 

[Guest]

It's ok, George, we have a vast array of sippy cups for your drinking pleasure.

He wouldn't fit in at mine (I'm imagining christmas dinner here, cos we don't have thanksgiving). My Mum (bless her) would start going on about gardening, and, unless he knows the best kind of soil for potting geraniums in, he wouldn't have a hope in hell. My Dad just grunts and burps, so I doubt they'd have much to talk about.

My kids would just show him up, the oldest one most likely to blind him with science, "Excuse me, George, but what is your take on the rumoured NASA experiments into micro-warp-drives?"

"Heh, cute kid," he'd reply, patting her on the head.

The other would want to show him her bug collection, and probably want to add him to it.

The rest of us would be heavily on the beer.

Lou

 

[cookiejar]

He'd fit in fine here. No politics are allowed (my mom's rules.) I can see him talking hunting and fishing with my dad and my uncles. I'm sure he would love a tour of the sugarbush out back and he could watch as my uncle wove a packbasket. That is part of his appeal to the 'common' folk, his likeability factor.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

I'm wondering if this isn't the central question of the whole election. As much as I despise him, I can see Bush fitting in with our family at Thanksgiving. Everyone would try to make him feel welcome and I can picture him relaxing and having a good time.

...

I have no doubt that his likability was the deciding factor in the election. It alsmost always is.

---dr.M.

 

[cantdog]

One woman in the focus group actually said that the reason she voted for Bush was because he knew what it was like to be without money but Kerry didn't because he had always been rich and so had his wife.

Those 'Publicans can sell like a sumbitch, can't they.

Ed

Sick. But the personality poll was the election, as you speculate. Aside from some single-issue voters. That question really was the core question of the election, as the question was put to the electorate.

We had no real separation between the two on foreign policy and none on the erosion of the constitution by the PATRIOT act and other shenanigans.

At a time when the country had made some extraordinarily bold and imprudent moves, the voters were not called on to decide the wisdom of them.

Imagine that.

 

[TheEarl]

What's Thanksgiving?

The Earl

PS. Rhetorical question btw.

 

[LadyJeanne]

I don't think George is so likeable. Rather smug and arrogant, for all the wrong reasons. I'd rather have Kerry over. At least he could debate the color of the sky with my argumentative uncles, leaving the rest of us to our turkey and stuffing.

 

[BlackShanglan]

What's Thanksgiving?

The Earl

PS. Rhetorical question btw.

The day the turkeys really get stuffed

 

[carsonshepherd]

I don't think George is so likeable. Rather smug and arrogant, for all the wrong reasons. I'd rather have Kerry over. At least he could debate the color of the sky with my argumentative uncles, leaving the rest of us to our turkey and stuffing.

He's not likeable. He's an idiot. My family would shred him up one side and down the other. I'd love to see him amongst the ex-hippies, queers and frothing Democrats at our Thanksgiving. Of course we'd all be drunk so we'd be at our peak, too.

But the Secret Service wouldn't let him in, 'cause Mom has an FBI file...

And if he did come, would we have to take down all the insulting cartoons down off the fridge...?

 

[KarenAM]

I suspect that if Bush came to my family's Thanksgiving, he and I would be alone there, because the rest of them would all go eat somewhere else.

I'd stay and talk to him about how Jesus was a liberal, 'cause I'm perverse like that.

 

[carsonshepherd]

I'd stay and talk to him about how Jesus was a liberal, 'cause I'm perverse like that.

I'd pay to see that.

 

[rgraham666]

Hell, I'd sell tickets.

 

[Liar]

George W. Bush just became a member of your family. He will be with all of you for Thanksgiving dinner. How will he fit in?

On thanksgivings day, my family are spread out on separate places all over the country. Does that mean that I can distribute George W. Bush likewise? I want his left leg. Mom gets the head.