BUSH ON BUSH REVEALS HISTORY

In a story titled THE AFTERLIFE, W. Bush recounts a recent day when the family feared their patriarch was about to pass away.

"In November 2012, Dad checked into Houston Methodist hospital with a bad cough. When Laura and I went to visit a few days later, he was wearing a brace around his abdomen and obviously suffering serious pain. 'How you feeling, Dad?' I asked. He smiled. 'It's not the cough that carries you off; it's the coffin you go off in,' he quipped. In typical fashion, he lifted our spirits.

His condition worsened in early December. The brutal, hacking cough turned to pneumonia. I called him often. I wanted to hear his voice and gauge his strength. At the end of every phone call, I said, 'I love you.' He would always reply, 'I love you more.'

"Fearing the worst, our family surrounded Dad. My brother Neil sat for hours at his bedside reading aloud to him. Jeb, Marvin, and Doro visited with their families. Laura and I made another trip to the hospital in December. This time we brought Barbara and Jenna, who was five months pregnant. Before we went in, I told everyone not to cry. I did not want Dad to sense our despair. As we entered the room, he could barely open his eyes and his voice was weak.

"'Hi, George, how are you? And there's Laura. Hi, beautiful.' He lay back contently as Barbara and Jenna rubbed his head. Then he reached out and gently put his hand on Jenna's pregnant belly.

"'There's death,' he said, 'and there's new life.' We all left the room sobbing."

Everybody talks about how "stupid" George W. Bush is. Just that excerpt puts that lie to rest forever. For everything bad George W. Bush did, he also did a lot of great things. We were winning the War on Terror when he left, he righted the economy in the wake of 9/11, he never acted like a petulant child in office.

In contrast, if Barack Hussein Obama were to write a book (not ghosted by Bombing Billy Ayres), it would look like this:

He was, and is a great leader. A true executive. Sure he did thigs we didn’t like, but he was miles ahead of the Teleprompter Messiah. Speaking of teleprompters, W. could speak coherently without one. Obola cannot.

Actually, W speaks and spoke just fine w/out the teleprompter (it seemed to be the prompter with words written by other people that threw him for a loop) and was charming and chatty without it!

When running in 2000, we were at an event when he began with a "prompter" and began to stumble when attempting to read and look out to his audience, whereupon he grabbed his notes, tossed them on the floor, laughed and then spoke from his heart, answered questions from an audience who spoke the same everyday language that W spoke.

He never stumbled, mumbled and quipped, laughed at himself and charmed everyone in his audience.

I was for another candidate but my husband totally fell for W as he said, "he's a real man's man, with no need to pretend to be anything other than a guy who loves his country and believes in the values of America."

I wasn't able to shake my husband away from W even though I felt another candidate would be a better leader and that W's family and the establishment that supported his dad over Ronald Reagan, forced all other candidates off the stage with their millions behind them.

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