Posted on 12/03/2018 4:06:46 AM PST by C19fan
The tributes to former president George H.W. Bush poured in this weekend, each in their own way exposing the pitfalls ahead this week for the Oval Office’s current resident.
The 41st president was remembered by Barack Obama, the 44th, as “a humble servant.” “Honorable, gracious and decent” were the words Bill Clinton used in praise of his immediate predecessor. House Speaker Paul D. Ryan’s encomium described Bush as “great in his character, leading with decency and integrity.”
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I was born in 1980. So the only thing I remember about Bush Sr’s Presidency is not keeping his promise on “No new taxes” and not finishing the job in the Gulf War.
If Bush is a yardstick, then Trump is a construction grade 100’ tape measure.
I think the most telling commentary on Perot’s goal was that he campaigned hard whenever Bush was in the lead and all but disappeared as long as clinton was winning.
Perot was in the race only to screw Bush. He put his personal hatreds ahead of the health of the country and he should rot in hell for it.
Comments by 2 vile and immmoral democrat ex presidents are not worthy of repetition. Their words were trivial and saccharine. President Trump’s eulogy to the Sr. Bush was heartfelt, generous, and poignant.
Of course 60 minutes last night made much of the 2 despots and the son’s words, but not a breath of acknowledgement that President Trump spoke a word of praise for the elder Bush. How dare CBS and the louts in the MSM raise their heads from their shame.
Do not forget, anyone who is espouses the New World Order is a friend of the Washington Post.
I am sorry, George Herbert Walker Bush may have been a war hero and he may have been a dutiful public servant but when he announced that a new world order was on the horizon, and the USA was going to a be a part of it, that’s when I started to question his integrity to our Constitutional Republic.
Sure thing, Mr jaffe. /LOLOL!!
Dear God, I hope he is not a “yardstick” for any President. GWHB was a gun-grabbing (”assault weapon” import ban), tax-and-spend (”read my lips, no new taxes!” right), patrician Rockefeller Republican. I did NOT vote for him. Probably in the top 15 worst Presidents in American history.
I hope Trump will try to hug Mike Obama at the funeral, and in a fit of repulsion, he moves backward and falls on his 80 pound butt. During his speech, I also hope that Trump says that Bush would never give Putin our Uranium, and Cankels storms out of the funeral.
I don't doubt your word in the least. I stopped caring what the Washington Pish writes some time back. It is always slanted if not outright lies. They are one of the major mouthpieces for the Limousine Liberal Globalists who insist they know better how to run the country than working and voting citizens.
P#ss on 'em all.
,,,, the dead ones that surrender to tax increases and new welfare programs.
Willy Horton is in shock today. The racist bigot that sounded the KKK dog whistle is now a hero?
,,,, and Bush 43, he is now a hero, wasn’t he the racist cowboy who encouraged crackers to drag a black man to his death, tied to a bumper? I saw this racist bigot on CBS news this morning being slobbered over with affection.
So if Trump writes a book and calls the next GOP president a blowhard, he’ll measure up to W and his dad?
WaPo is the reason folks don’t read newspapers any more...even if they’re on line.
It proves once again Rush Limbaugh’s statement that to the MSM, the only good Republican is a dead Republican. It’s the only time they love them!
“Yardstick” was used in the 1930s to show how lowered electric rates from the Tennessee Valley Authority measured against private power. Wendell Willkie became the spokesman for the power companies, and the ex-Democrat won the 1940 Republican nomination, then yielded to FDR, who pushed for the TVA. But George Norris of NE is considered the father of the TVA, a still political force in TN, MS, and AL.
Perot is an AR native and has a long affection for Clinton.
Willkie's book is around here somewhere, belonged to my grandpa I suspect. Even the koolaid drinkers of that generation started to turn against FDR over his push for a 3rd, and then 4th term. Willkie's foreword thanks President Roosevelt for allowing the book to be published during the time of paper rationing, some such ****.
Figures a metooliberal, both of whose parents (it sez here) were lawyers, would be ex-Demwit. He's a mixed bag, showing the traditional GOP suppot for civil rights and the 1st amendment, but for the most part supporting the New Deal.
FDR's decision to run in 1940 was the last straw for his VP Garner (1st of 3), who thought he might be endorsed to run as FDR's successor during the period FDR considered retirement. Willkie died in 1944, predeceasing Roosevelt.
Now, now - sometimes we have to push down our real feeling for the sake of decorum... appeal to our higher angels...
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