Posted on 09/20/2016 5:57:13 AM PDT by MarchonDC09122009
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George H.W. Bush to vote for Hillary - POLITICO
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George H.W. Bush to vote for Hillary
A Kennedy outs a Bush who favors a Clinton.
By Darren Samuelsohn
09/19/16 11:20 PM EDT
Updated 09/19/16 11:36 PM EDT
Former President George H.W. Bush is bucking his party's presidential nominee and plans to vote for Hillary Clinton in November, according to a member of another famous political family, the Kennedys.
Bush, 92, had intended to stay silent on the White House race between Clinton and Donald Trump, a sign in and of itself of his distaste for the GOP nominee. But his preference for the wife of his own successor, President Bill Clinton, nonetheless became known to a wider audience thanks to Kathleen Hartington Kennedy Townsend, the former Maryland lieutenant governor and daughter of the late Robert F. Kennedy.
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On Monday, Townsend posted a picture on her Facebook page shaking hands next to the former president and this caption: "The President told me he’s voting for Hillary!!”
In a telephone interview, Townsend said she met with the former president in Maine earlier today, where she said he made his preference known that he was voting for a Democrat. “That’s what he said,” she told POLITICO. BushHillaryPic.jpg
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Asked about Townsend’s post, George H.W. Bush spokesman Jim McGrath in an email replied, "The vote President Bush will cast as a private citizen in some 50 days will be just that: a private vote cast in some 50 days. He is not commenting on the presidential race in the interim."
George H.W. Bush and former First Lady Barbara Bush have stayed out of the political debate since campaigning earlier this year for their son Jeb's unsuccessful bid for president. Neither George H.W. Bush nor his son, former President George W. Bush, attended this summer's Republican National Convention in Cleveland where Trump accepted the nomination. 09_hillary_clinton_17_gty_1160.jpg
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Many former GOP officials from both Bush administrations have also announced their support for Clinton over Trump, including national security adviser Brent Scowcroft and former Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez.
One Bush official who has taken Trump's side is former Vice President Dan Quayle, who told POLITICO in an interview this summer he was still holding out hope both Bushes would back Trump. "Clearly in their heart of hearts I should hope they would want a Republican president, but they can speak for themselves," Quayle said in an interview in July.
Eastern elitist POS.
that’s sad...so sad.
The Bush family is just another bunch of entitled globalists. They are just as much a part of what’s wrong with this country as the Clinton’s and Oshame. GW Bush was the single biggest effing disappointment of my voting lifetime. Both times.
Pictures speak a thousand words and often reveal hard truths, don’t they?
Thanks Everyone for your candid, reassuring, and sometimes very amusing responses.
FReepers Are The BEST, and Thank you, Jim!
Of course, God had bigger and better things planned for him.
And was “Poppy” in Dallas that day? I think that is all conspiratorial nonsense but there is stuff on that.
I’ve always admired George H. W. for his heroism in WWII. I don’t know how he can support Hillary after her attacks on George W. I guess I’ll chalk this up to old age.
Now there is no way GWB is voting for Hillary, right? Or am I too naive?
I never got the big deal about Jeb. No personality. I never understood why they thought he would be President before GWB, who has a human quality to him.
Rush was going on today that there is really no proof Bush said this, it’s just reported via a Kennedy (that Kennedy family?); I don’t know.
A lot of stories show up in the press especially in an election year and a lot of the stories are malarky, most likely the Bushes won’t comment on this one way or another.
We know, George P. Bush I think, one of the Bushes has come out for Trump.
Here is a story, I’m sure it is posted here, http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/donald-trump-finally-gets-a-bush-family-endorsement/article/2598832
But it’s not one of the MAJOR Bushes, not Poppy or the Sons.
“Out of these troubled times, our fifth objective – a New World Order – can emerge. . . Now, we can see a New World Order coming into view. A world in which there is a very real prospect for a New World Order. . .A world where the United Nations, freed from a Cold War stalemate, is poised to fulfill the historic vision of its founders.” —George H. Bush- Address Before a Joint Session of Congress (September 11, 1990)
The truth is good for you, like sunlight, but too much all at once can really hurt.
George H Bush, whose secretary of state now works for a law firm supporting the Saudis? Say it isn’t so.
Lets hope it’s longer than that.
I hope you’re not referring to me because she facts of this thread are still in dispute. Your quote is not much light.
Also George W. made sure that Sandy Berger the Burglar would not be prosecuted.
No, I was not referring to you. Where in the hell has Freepers self confidence gone to lately? Seriously. Get over your victimized feeling. What brought it on? No, don’t bother telling me, I don’t want to be a shrink today.
It is globalist vs. nationalist.
I have no idea where he was. I read somewhere that Bush I claims his memory is fuzzy as to where he was that day.
It was almost as funny as the Zodiac killer thing.
Don’t understand your post
First globalist President!
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