Posted on 12/01/2018 9:27:34 PM PST by Yomin Postelnik
A few exceptional things stand out about President George H. W. Bush. First and foremost, the Soviet Union, which was on its last legs after 8 years of Reagan-Bush, finally collapsed under his watch. The Evil Empire falling with Dukakis as its main foe seems improbable at best.
He was an example to society and to the next generation. He was also the first to battle someone who ended up eroding societal values and that too is a great credit to him.
He recognized the danger of Iraq. Saddam Hussein had the fourth most powerful army in the world and was a menace to his neighbors and a murderer of millions.
From a spiritual aspect, the Messianic Era, when "nations... will beat swords into plow shears," happens in stages (there can be a 40 year initerval, or less based on merit, between the initial miracles and the manifestation of the eternal redemption). In 1991, when the US under Pres. Bush's leadership, diverted funds to feed the starving Kurds in the aftermath of the Gulf War, the Lubavitcher Rebbe pointed out how this was the first time ever that nations would feed another nation's hungry with absolutely no benefit to themselves at all. This, he said, was the beginning of this prophecy. This happened under a president who made kindness his mission, President George H. W. Bush.
Saddam's containment was also of profound spiritual benefit. During the last weekend of the war, the Rebbe commented on the rumor that Saddam had fled his palace. He specifically said that it's a rumor (untrue at the time), but one with significance. When the speech was being published the Rebbe edited the draft, writing next to those words, "od chazon lmoed," it will come to pass in the appropriate time, something that seemed improbable, as the war was winding down.
Saddam was no puny enemy, as people made him to be for the purposes of dishonest politics. Aside from the 2 million he killed in the region, he was also cutting 10k and 25k checks to suicide bombers in Israel. His attempted assassination of by then former President GHW Bush showed that he was capable of trying to transfer or spread such havoc to America and GHWB's son, 43, was right for calling the danger what it was.
The Rebbe also explained at the time that the famous quote of our Sages, that Tzur, the principal city of Babylon, was built from the destruction (gold, silver, marble, etc.) of Jerusalem, is applicable to our times in reverse. When evil in the place of Babylon is eradicated, Jerusalem is built up materially and spiritually. Indeed, Saddam was finally captured on Yud Tes Kislev (the holiday of the 19th of Kislev, which focuses on spreading Chassidus, a remarkable part of Torah, which concentrates on developing ultimate fear and love of G-d and understanding that which we can understand of His interactions in the world) in Iraq during the 9th hour of the night (G-d runs the world differently with each hour). Fourteen years later, on Yud Tes Kislev in the 9th hour of the night in Jerusalem, Israel was declared by the leading nation of the world, Pres. Bush and Pres. Trump's America, as the eternal capital of the world. The word "eternal" is itself a clear recognition of G-d Almighty by the world, another part of the prophecy of the complete and eternal redemption. This process started under President Bush 41's watch.
When leadership was removed from the WW2 generation, the world lost competent leadership and elders who youth naturally respected. The world would have been much better off keeping that generation in charge for as long as possible.
He also nominated and got confirmed the very liberal David Souter.
Comment 22 on this thread makes an interesting point about the tax cuts, basically that he was too trusting, with some added info that helps make the case.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3709909/posts
I wish all presidents had seen the hippie slime for the Sodom and Gomorrah corrosion of society that it was. Most didn’t and didn’t care to muddy themselves fighting hedonist loons. We need to now. They should have then (if people knew what kind of people were behind the war against Nixon the country would have rallied to his defense - see also https://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/27/obituaries/baruch-korff-81-rabbi-and-defender-of-nixon.html). That doesn’t take away from the good they did.
You say that because you know very little about the real Bush family. The truth is we know so very little about the incestious families that we chose to rule over us. Look into the life of Prescott Bush and tell me how great he was.
Chekhov's Dud.
Don't keep us guessing.
A history of George H.W. Bush's relationship with Planned Parenthood
“One of the chief co-sponsors of the Title X statute, which allocates millions of federal tax dollars to Planned Parenthood and other family planning organizations, was Rep. George H.W. Bush (R-TX)”
The first of two elections against a certain ClinToon was fought by him. I deal with the unfortunate peace he made with him in comments.
Prescott Bush was the Treasurer for Planned Parenthood.
That came out when he was running for the Senate in Connecticut in 50' and he lost the election.
Then there is the legend that he and other members of Skull and Bones from Yale dug up Geronimo's body and removed his skull. (Unconfirmed)
I know about ‘88; what was the other time?
92 was Bush v Clinton
96 was Dole. I prefer Dole on almost everything, but this is about the good works of Bush, and there were many.
Ridiculous not to credit Bush for sticking by Thomas, he could have pulled the nomination.
Bush had a poor reelection campaign the media ganged up on him, but he lost largely because of Perot.
Bush stood by Gorbachev and Yeltsin against the hardline Russian coup.
Bush also insisted on the reunification of Germany when everyone was saying we’d have to keep the Russians in East Germany.
Bush faced a Democrat Congress his entire presidency, which is why he agreed to $1 in tax increases for every $3 in budget reductions. This resulted in budget surpluses, including in the Clinton years.
The coalition against Iraq was masterful, and people forget how vehemently every step was opposed by the media.
“Great in his time”......What in the hell is wrong with you? Good God, pay attention! The New World Order Bush folks are pure scum! To think that there are FReepers who think these Globalist pukes are okay is really something! Grow up sonny! Get a clue!
In her exaggerated Texas drawl, she enumerated the list of the worst verbal gaffes GHWB had made in his life, and accused him of being a spoiled rich kid of a US Senator. The "big zinger" in the Hatchet Speech combined these two themes:
"Pooowor Geooorge! He jus' cain't he'p hisself! He was bawrn with a silver fooowot in his maowwwwth!"
For years after, Dan Rather would play that clip on CBS "news" shows ad nauseum, and never failed to fall off his chair and roll on the floor with tears of laughter streaming down his cheeks, just to hear again for the 1000th time what surely must be the funniest line ever written in all creation, or at least according to Rather.
And the frequency of its being played was ramped up in 1994, when Bush's son, derisively referred to as "Shrub" by the Texas Dem/Media establishment - including Richards & Rather, was running what looked to be an impossible campaign to unseat Gov Ann Richards. Whenever the economy is doing great - as it was in Texas that year, it's a safe bet that a scandal-less incumbent Governor will ALWAYS cruise to an easy re-election.
But the conventional wisdom disappeared that year. Dubya beat her by a huge margin. And the next day, as reported by Rush, the joke going around Texas was ---
"Pooowor Ann! She jus' cain't he'p herself! She woke up this mawrnin' with a silver boooot in her butt!"
I've always loved stories of come-uppance like that!
Well said E3. I can’t believe there are FReepers talking good about this SOB Bush. Not to mention his little, ahem, drug bizz, with Billy Boy Clinton out of Mena airport in the 1980’s.
He made no public statements of encouragement of Thomas. No statements blasting the Dems for their hatchet job. Thomas survived on his own, and the Dems ultimately confirmed him because they were overplaying their hand.
Bush had a poor reelection campaign the media ganged up on him, but he lost largely because of Perot.
Perot and Buchanan were the forerunners of what Trump is now. They were hitting on issues that Bush and the GOPe were ignoring. Working and middle-class families losing their jobs to globalism.
Bush stood by Gorbachev and Yeltsin against the hardline Russian coup.
I don't care about Gorbachev and Yeltsin.
Bush also insisted on the reunification of Germany when everyone was saying we’d have to keep the Russians in East Germany.
Who is everyone? Who was advocating that Germany remain divided?
Bush faced a Democrat Congress his entire presidency
Yeah so Reagan faced a Democratic House and they still passed his tax cuts. It's called leadership, which The Wimp didn't have.
which is why he agreed to $1 in tax increases for every $3 in budget reductions. This resulted in budget surpluses, including in the Clinton years.
Still was stupid to break his promise.
The coalition against Iraq was masterful, and people forget how vehemently every step was opposed by the media.
The coalition was a joke and is responsible for all the turmoil and refugees flooding Europe that is happening now.
Thank you. I have absolutely no love for the Bushes. Don’t care about them, wish I can take back my votes for them. I’ve stayed off the GHWB threads slobbering all over Poppy. They are the epitome of Rockefeller Republicanism.
“Kemp should have been Reagan’s VP.”
I was thinking the other day about GHW Bush and how he represented the Republican Party before Reagan, and also, ironically, after Reagan.
Re Kemp. Kemp was a free trade, open borders, globalist neocon = Bush Republican.
Pissed away Reagan’s legacy, I have no regard for the man.
The Coup collapsed thanks to resistance from Moscow citizens.
Bush also insisted on the reunification of Germany when everyone was saying we’d have to keep the Russians in East Germany.
German Reunification was led by Helmut Kohl, if anything Bush's insistence that a reunified Germany remain in NATO made it more difficult, that was quite unpopular in Germany.
The collapse of the Soviet Union meant Yeltsin had little money left for the Russian military, the last of which left Germany in 1994 ahead of schedule and leaving behind a toxic waste dump.
Bush faced a Democrat Congress his entire presidency, which is why he agreed to $1 in tax increases for every $3 in budget reductions. This resulted in budget surpluses, including in the Clinton years.
Read My Lips has to be the biggest unforced gaffe by an American President in the past 50 years...
The coalition against Iraq was masterful, and people forget how vehemently every step was opposed by the media.
And this wonderful coalition turned out to be the reason given for Saddam being left in power in 91'.
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