Some people just have good genes and can overcome a lot of "bad" habits.
Just ask George Burns.
Posted on 04/15/2018 11:18:07 AM PDT by Eyes Unclouded
Former first lady Barbara Bush is in failing health, a source close to the Bush family tells CNN. At 92 years old, Bush has been suffering for some time and has been in and out of the hospital multiple times in the last year while battling with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, or COPD, and congestive heart failure. The source said she is being cared for at her home in Houston and has decided she does not want to go back into the hospital.
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I assume you mean GWB and GHWB. I would think those public affairs involving past heads of state, Trump would "have to be invited" and "have to appear." He'd handle it fine. He'd pretty much have to appear, it's more than a family decision.
Trump isn't going to deliberately insert himself privately where he isn't welcome, and he is obviously not in the Bush family orbit.
Some people just have good genes and can overcome a lot of "bad" habits.
Just ask George Burns.
Be welcome? Who knows?
But it's a state occasion that a sitting president can't be excluded from.
I'm pretty sure that federal funding is involved: it's not just a family affair.
For Bab's funeral, Mike Pence can go and feel reasonably welcome.
I dont recall, but I wouldn’t be shocked if she did. She is from that time when many women smoked socially, and old habits are hard to break.
Thanks.
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Obama didn't make it to Nancy Reagan's funeral.
Not sure if there was something going on in the background or if he was just being his turd self.
Time for the deathbed confession of how you wrote an alibi for your husband, lying about how you guys were NOT in Dallas when JFK was assassinated, when Georgie was indeed there.
"...First Lady Barbara Bush..."
Maybe she is the only honest one. She pretty much publically said her son ¡Jeb! was a dim wit.
Good for her. Much better to die at home in your own bed.
I’m very glad for her that she lived long enough to see Yeb! fail in such a spectacular fashion to someone she thought unworthy. And that W finished office with record low approval numbers. And that her husband could only manage one term.
Godspeed Babs.
Not a Jeb Bush fan, but his mom torpedoed what was left of his political career.
Mom of the Year, you almost feel sorry for him.
Almost.
She tried to insult Sarah Palin back in the day. Sarah would have none of her condescending, elitist cuts, and gave it right back to her, in spades. Loved Sarah even more after that!
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I’ve lost a lot of respect for the Bush family but wish her well nonetheless
Maybe she is the only honest one. She pretty much publically said her son ¡Jeb! was a dim wit.
Best line of the 2016 campaign was when Candidate Trump told Jeb maybe his mother should run for President.
“see Yeb! fail in such a spectacular fashion to someone she thought unworthy.”
The really sad part is she wouldn’t have been upset to see him lose to Hillary.
Who needs God, when we've got you?
The Bush family was fund raising for Hillary.
I’m sorry for her sufffering. Didn’t know she was a smoker.
I’ll always remember the first photo I saw of her in 1979. She and her husband were standing in the doorway of an airplane smiling at the photographers. I thought, “He must be a bachelor to bring his grandmother to the convention.”
And sure enough, when she became First Lady, she was “Ma Bush” a character like Rose Kennedy whose lust for power drove her husband and sons through lifelong political careers.
COPD can come from exposure to asbestos.
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