Posted on 12/01/2018 4:31:15 AM PST by Carriage Hill
Former President George H.W. Bush, who spent a lifetime in public service and as the nation's leader scored a decisive victory over Saddam Hussein but battled a faltering economy, died Friday at age 94. Family spokesman Jim McGrath said Bush died shortly after 10 p.m. Friday, about eight months after the death of his wife, Barbara Bush. He is survived by five children, including former President George W. Bush and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. A sixth child died in early childhood. The late former president also is survived by 17 grandchildren.
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I had uncles who were every bit the “war hero” GHWB was, but they came from dirt-poor families in flyover country. It never hurts to be the commissioned scion of a wealthy east-coast family when it comes time to get all the bennies and launch a lifetime of “public service.”
He definitely made some mistakes as POTUS. God will judge him; people on FR aren’t qualified to.
Where does that come from?
Well, it appears that a few airheaded youngsters decided to show up for this thread.
Well, he is dead. If he caused harm, he can’t any more. I he did good, we will suffer the loss of it.
So it goes....
Doesn’t matter. Freepers will dig out the antibush dogma and gladly ride the band wagon
My recollection was that 41 was shoved down Reagan's throat at convention. It was a heated compromise as RWR didn't want Bush as his running mate.
Had nothing to do with "difficulty choosing" and everything to do with the squishy party leaders.
you don’t measure up.
I mean, honestly, the whole “NWO” stuff aside, back then he wasnt seen as a “terrible” president. He was lucky to be the one in charge at the final collapse of the USSR, and no one can say that his performance during Gulf War I wasn’t anything short of spectacular. he really phoned it in back in 92, though.
I was in 4th grade when he was elected, and I do remember the day after the election some of us trying to get used to saying “President Bush”, which sounded really weird, when we really only knew of President Reagan, and in a way he kind of gets lost being between him and Clinton.
But yeah, he certainly lived a long time after leaving office, so this isnt a huge shock to me to hear today. I think that leaves the Simpsons as the only major thing to come out of 1988 that is still going.
Mark Taylor
You’re right. Who didn’t see them coming to vent. God will judge Bush; it’s not our job.
Spot on, you are, with that observation.
That's a little harsh.
G.H.W. Bush was a NWO'er later in life and for that, he should be rightly criticized.
His career as a government bureaucrat was distinguished and enviable.
I agree with you totally, if any real history is ever written again after Democrats finally take over the world. And they will.
your posts departs rationality and plunges to the depths of absolute stupidity.
He made the throat cutting gesture on television from his wheel chair when his family spoke about then candidate Donald Trump and the withdrawal of Jeb Bush’s candidacy.
At that point I wonder exactly what this demented former Director of the CIA might have done to our country. Not much good.
He was the beginning of where we are now.
We don’t pay much attention to 3rd parties, but they have had pivotal roles in elections. Perot in 1992, Nader in 2000.
"You have not repudiated Mr. LaPierre’s unwarranted attack,” Bush’s missive reads. “Therefore, I resign as a Life Member of NRA, said resignation to be effective upon your receipt of this letter. Please remove my name from your membership list.”
July 8, 1989.
"The Bush administration yesterday imposed a permanent import ban on 43 types of semiautomatic assault rifles, including the Chinese-made AK47 and Israeli-made Uzi carbine."
I was in my 30’s. I grew up in the Cold War. Yeah, “Duck & Cover”, Civil Defence Drills, and studying Rads in hs physics classes.... the whole works. That was “life”. No way out.
If someone had told me, in grade school, in my teens, or, hell, 20’s, that the USSR would end the way that it did; I would have laughed at them.
GHWB and Reagan played that hand as good as it could have been played.
LOL. Noobs latch on to his “New World Order” line and whine mainly because they are too young to understand that it was a necessary and welcome alternatve to the “Old World Order” that really, really, sucked.
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