Posted on 01/06/2020 6:16:30 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
When US President George HW Bush craved "a smoking gun" in 1992 to politically kneecap his White House challenger Bill Clinton, the British government delved into its files for damaging information. So, did the Bush camp solicit foreign interference to help him win an election - the allegation that has seen President Trump impeached?
"A guy like that doesn't deserve to be president," President Bush told his sister about Clinton.
He viewed the young Arkansas governor, who was the same age as Bush's eldest son, as a scoundrel and felt confident he could roll over him.
But the president sorely underestimated a political thaumaturge, so gifted that his ascent to the White House had been foreseen when he was aged just seven by his school teacher.
To Bush's mystification, his saxophone-tootling challenger's popularity in opinion polls was even defying the gravity of revelations about his draft-dodging past.
The Republican, a decorated World War 2 fighter pilot, dictated to his diary: "I'm tired of this guy lying and ducking on the draft and not coming clean
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Read my lips....
The BBC is British for CNN.
Seems like a better question would be what country didn’t meddle in the 2016 election
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Is this a JOKE? 1992?? And the BBC has nothing to say about the MI-5 helping John Brennan try and defeat Trump in 2016?
Back in 2004 there was an organized campaign to give people in different countries email addresses of people in the US so they could write us personal emails pleading to get rid of the existential threat of GWB. Where was the outrage over that bit of foreign intervention?
Yes. The 2016 presidential elections. Through ex MI5 agent Christopher Steele and Fusion GPS.
The ‘92 election was decided by Ross Perot. In a 2-man race, Bush beats Clinton easily.
41 shot himself in the foot over raising taxes.
Horsecrap. The Bushes and Clintons were best pals going way back.
Wrong. Perot took about as many votes from Clinton as he did from Bush.
Bush lost it all on his own.
Yep.
EVERY NATION THAT CAN MEDDLE IN A FOREIGN ELECTION TO THEIR BENEFIT WILL ATTEMPT TO.. .PERIOD....
GHWB was so upset he adopted Bubba.
Yeah, in 1860................
Britain meddled in our elections in the late 30s/early 40s to smear isolationist candidates.
“A guy like that doesn’t deserve to be president,” President Bush told his sister about Clinton.”
Since when does the requirement to become president of the USA include “deserves”?
Only an elitist putz would say such a thing.
Yes they meddled in 1776 as well
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