he's live a full life. For his 90th birthday he did the the following
Posted on 01/17/2017 11:52:56 PM PST by DoughtyOne
HOUSTON – Former President George H.W. Bush has been hospitalized, his office chief of staff, Jean Becker, tells KHOU 11 News.
Becker says the former president is in stable condition and is “doing fine,” but the reason Bush was hospitalized was not immediately disclosed.
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They’ll hold him over for Friday so the entire family will have an excuse not to attend the inaugural. All in all, might convenient timing.
I agree with you. What further cemented this idea for me, is when Cruz turned out to be a Bush man. His father was with LHO and then he went from New Orleans to Canada in Nov 1963. Too many coincidences.
The moon-battery is strong here. Very Strong.
Delusional much?
The Bush folks don’t seem to quite get it. Too bad.
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They know exactly what they’re doing.
I have spent years researching into the JFK assassination. Bush is all over it, both before and after. The evidence of his being the prime mover is extensive. Do your homework.
The man who blew a 90% approval rating following DS1 and then threw in the towel vs Clinton. Hope he recovers but history makes me not a fan.
As did I. It seems he was hospitalized Saturday and we're just now finding out as "Breaking News".
Prayers up for Bush, the Senior.
No! Perot gave us Clinton!
I don't like him either, but I still wish him good health and a long life. I also wish that long life were spent in something other than politics. The same applies to the rest of his family.
GHW Bush is an interesting guy, and he has been around. I thought what he did re: the build-up and execution of Desert Storm was brilliant; that was very hard to do, and he did it admirably.
One of his negatives is that he just comes across as cold. He is no doubt a very loving and warm person with his family, but with non-family members he just doesn’t come across well.
I voted for him in 1988 and again in 1992 (though by then he had become a disappointment, but the alternative — Bubba Clinton — to me was unacceptable). He was not a good campaigner in 1988 and he was a terrible campaigner in 1992.
Now, at age 92, I think he is approaching the end. I hope he is comfortable and at peace, and that his family receives God’s comfort, as well.
Interesting note: I read somewhere that he was the youngest or one of the youngest naval aviators in WWII.
God speed, Mr. President.
The man who blew a 90% approval rating following DS1...
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That’s what I remember the most about Bush I. Ahhhh, the fickleness and short attention span of us Americans.
Did any president ever enjoy such a high approval rating? Then 18 months later - he lost to Clinton/Perot.
“September 2, 1944. As he and his two-man crew dove their Avenger bomber through anti-aircraft fire toward a Japanese radio tower on the volcanic island of Chichi Jima, 150 miles north of Iwo Jima, his plane was hit at 8,000 feet and caught fire. He finished his dive, dropped his four 500-pound bombs successfully on target and headed out to sea.
He could have tried to make a water landing, something he had done once already when another Avenger he was flying lost power. That day, he and his crew got out of the plane and into the life raft before the plane sank. But this time, the burning Avenger could blow up before they got to the water. He ordered his radio operator and gunner, neither of whom he could see from the cockpit, to “hit the silk,” an order heard on the radio by crewmen in other U.S. planes. No response. He remembers banking his plane steeply to the right to lessen the slipstream pressure on the rear door and help his crew mates exit. Then, at about 3,000 feet, Bush bailed out and hit his head on the plane’s tail.
He landed in the ocean and freed himself from his chute. Another Avenger dived to signal the location of his life raft, which he swam to and climbed in.
His head was bleeding and he was throwing up from having gulped seawater. He secured his revolver and started hand-paddling furiously away from Chichi Jima, where Japanese gunboats had already headed out to get him. Avengers and the Hellcat fighters that protected them strafed the boats but soon had to return to San Jacinto. Young George, who would later be awarded the Navy’s Distinguished Flying Cross for his actions that day, didn’t feel much like a hero. He feared correctly that his crew mates were dead. In that life raft, he began asking himself the question that still haunts him in his Houston office at age 82: “Did I do all I could to save them?” In the raft, he cried. It seemed like a miracle when more than two hours later the periscope of the submarine USS Finback appeared.
“Welcome aboard, sir,” a sailor said as Bush was hauled on deck while the sub’s photographic officer recorded the scene on his 8mm camera.”
http://www.historynet.com/george-hw-bush
I’m with Laz.
His tax increase and then Jim Florio increased Taxes in New Jersey caused thousands of layoffs and business moves to go down south.
Congress got him to do it, then hung it on his neck.
He was a DC insider. He wanted democrats to like him. They did.
Well I hope he gets better fast. No need to upstage the important events this week.
The only reason GHWB got elected was that he was the VP of wildly popular Reagan. In 1992 after four years, that credential was gone and all you had was GHWB himself and that was enough to bounce him . That and his “read my lips no new taxes” debacle.
Politically, the Bushes and the Clintons were cut from the same cloth. GHWB had no vision for America. He called it “the vision thing”. Just government business as usual which meant more government and less freedom. He was a pure Washington politician. All he could see was more government. After Reagan it’s been 28 years of weak Leftism taking America down until the present anticipated reversal with Trump.
GHWB was by far Reagan’s greatest mistake ushering in 28 years of misery and damage to our country. GHWB brought us Clinton the way GWB brought us Obama. But Obama overplayed his Leftist agenda and has brought us Trump. Trump will turn out to be Obama’s only legacy. Lol.
“The guy was exposed to enough of our government to know better than he seemed to think. He claimed he learned a lot from Reagan, but he clearly didn’t learn (know) the things we did.”
His great flaw, that caused him to miss the obvious, is that he is in the deepest part of his being, a patrician. He does not have an understanding of the common man in the American experience. And that made all the difference in the world.
Reagan’s biggest mistake.
Exactly right!
That and granting amnesty to illegal Mexican immigrants, two black marks against an otherwise exemplary Presidency.
In Reagan's defense on the GHWB count, picking a Rockefeller Republican like Bush was a good short-term strategy, otherwise the liberal wing of the party would have defected and voted for Carter, plus he needed the support of Rockefellerite Republicans in Congress to get his agenda passed. The long-term downside was giving the Bush clan a stranglehold on the Republican Party that has lasted for decades.
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