Posted on 11/30/2018 8:56:11 PM PST by CaptainK
Breaking per FOX News
“Maybe some of those last JFK papers can finally be released now.”
Indeed.
RIP...George...You drove me from the Republican Party because of you raising taxes and NAFTA...if you didn’t do those things I wonder if Clinton would not be elected and I wonder what the USA would be if Bush 41 got reelected...
In fairness to the elder Bush, neither Reagan nor the younger Bush did much better with Supreme Court selections, and Nixon and Eisenhower did worse. Hopefully Trump will do better.
Perot was the reason that Clinton won.
My prediction is that he will be asked to attend because that's protocol and the Bush family won't violate that. But he won't be asked to give a eulogy of any kind.
I still recall the Republican Primary jingle in Puerto Rico in 1980. Bush won that Primary — Reagan got only 6 votes!
Me gusta George Bush porque dice “Estadidad!” ahora!
Me gusta George Bush por su gran sinceridad
Y porque Puerto Rico estado es lo que quiero
En las primarias, mi voto es por George Bush!
We say goodbye to another globalist sell out. People like Bush I learned the wrong lessons from WWII and foisted this anti-nationalist stupidity on the USA. Other that that, I have no problem with him.
Derailed the Reagan Revolution, setting us back by seven presidential cycles.
I can live with that. Let Jeb! give the eulogy for the entire Bush Family ‘legacy’.
I am not a fan of G.W. Bush, and I really dislike Jeb Bush, even though when they ran for public office, I voted for both them multiple times.
Their father, Ex-POTUS, George Herbert Walker Bush is another story. IMHO, a true American hero has passed on yesterday. While the senior Bush had his ups and downs in politics, I remember two things that will endear me to him for eternity.
Bush was accepted to “Yale University”. He chose to delay his entrance into Yale, because he joined the U.S. Navy, becoming the young naval pilot in 1942. during his term through WWII, Bush participated in Fifty-Eight combat missions.
On September 9. 1944, at age twenty (20), his Grumman TBM Avenger fighter bomber was hit by Japanese flak causing a fatal fire on his engine. Bush completed his mission successfully, dropping his bombs on the assigned Japanese targets and then he headed out to sea to ditch if possible. He and his crew abandoned the aircraft via parachute and, one crew member was killed when his parachute failed to open. Bush landed in the water where he waited for four hours for an American submarine to pick him up. Had he attempted a landing over the island he attacked, he knew they all would have been shot by the Japanese.
The second item that endears me to the senior Bush is that he was once asked at a dinner, “What is the important task of life that you have served, Mr. POTUS, George HW Bush?” He answered immediately without hesitation, “Being a good Husband, Father & Grandfather”!!!
These two moments in life say it all about American Hero & past POTUS, George H.W. Bush...period!!! RIP, POTUS, Bush.
Thanks for the succinct summary.
You are exactly right.
The Bushes brought no greatness to this country.
The highway of death: Joint STARS saw right through your stinking sand storms.
You know that Obama and Clinton will be asked to speak, right?
I’ll never forget in his debate with Clinton when he looked at his watch. I felt like the election was over at that moment.
Prayers for the family.
H.W. was our last president who was a WW II vet. He (and his son) talked of new world orders and attempted the nation building alliances that sustained America through the cold war. Those days have passed. Americans mostly virtue signal now on social media and expect kudos for risking nothing. Thank you, Mr. President. You risked your life for this country long before becoming President.
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Will and Ariel Durant also were married a very long time -- 68 years. They were extremely close. After she died, he dies two weeks later in 1981.
One more denizen of the “Deep State” gone. No loss...and no respect here for Mr. New World Order.
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