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| A true American political icon |
“Yes, I am the George Bush that was once President of the United States. Now, at times, this seems hard for me to believe. All that is history and the historians in the future will sort out the bad things I might have done from the good things.”
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The best President of my lifetime.
Mine too.
The letter to Bill Clinton .
Dear Bill,
When I walked into this office just now I felt the same sense of wonder and respect that I felt four years ago. I know you will feel that, too.
I wish you great happiness here. I never felt the loneliness some Presidents have described.
There will be very tough times, made even more difficult by criticism you may not think is fair. I’m not a very good one to give advice; but just don’t let the critics discourage you or push you off course.
You will be our President when you read this note. I wish you well. I wish your family well.
Your success now is our country’s success. I am rooting hard for you.
Good Luck — George
second best in my lifetime, after Ronaldus Magnus.
He was the last R i voted for.....sad how much trump has degraded the office that HW did so much good in....
the disgusting fucking assholes at the NY Times just couldn't help themselves...
‘No shame’: The NY Times thought THIS was worth re-visiting in George H.W. Bush’s obituary? (Hint: Retro ‘fake news’)
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2018/12/01/no-shame-the-ny-times-thought-this-was-worth-re-visiting-in-george-h-w-bushs-obituary-hint-retro-fake-news/
ann coulter was right when she said the 9/11 hijackers should've flown their planes into the NY Times building.
Good man
Great resume
Average president
No one who picks Dan Quayle gets to be great
JMO
Well if you actually had looked at the whole article....it was very respectful to HW and his legacy....They mentioned the scanner not in a negative note, but as part of his whole story....Again, an asshole has cherry picked an outrage that does not exist and of course, rectum breath got trolled by fake bullshit again and posts the guano without thinking....typical of loser trump sycophants and abject assholes!!!!
The point is that it was not true. It was never true. It was Democrat propaganda that the news media turned into a myth.
Robert Tracinski @Tracinski
Following the trope that “The Only Good Republican Is a Dead Republican,” expect the sort of people who hated and vilified George H.W. Bush when he was in office to spend a few days telling us how great he was—and how much better than today’s Republicans.
Why do democrats always say things like "last Republican I voted for". now changed to Bush 41 from Reagan, to be followed by Bush 43, then Trump? They think it gives them credibility. It doesn't.
Very proud to say I never voted for Obama.
The point is that it was not true. It was never true. It was Democrat propaganda that the news media turned into a myth.
precisely. it was a lie crafted by carville and stephanopoulos.
great moments in public education. if your kid's a moron, thank a liberal...
Gavin Clarkson was stopped in his tracks when applying for a marriage license after the clerk refused to take his driver’s license from New Mexico as proof of identification.
Clarkson, who once ran for New Mexico secretary of state, said the District of Columbia clerk thought he was a foreign citizen. He was told he would have to provide an international passport to get the marriage license.
"You know you are from flyover country when you are applying for a marriage license, give them your New Mexico driver's license, and they come back and say: 'My supervisor says we cannot accept international driver's licenses. Do you have a New Mexico passport?'" Clarkson wrote on Facebook.
https://www.wcvb.com/article/couple-denied-marriage-license-after-clerk-says-they-cant-accept-new-mexico-drivers-license/25360009
The worst part is that somebody in charged of people and policy didn't know New Mexico was part of the US. Must have been a Harvard grad.
G.O.A.T. Reagan
2nd place Bill Clinton for his working with Republicans.
Menstral our cramp posted...
The point is that it was not true.
Hey cramps....my memory of that story is that I remember watching that piece on the news and how surprised HW was at the ease it identified the products.....There was no fake news story, it was his honest reaction and at the time, no one made an issue of it!!! I can't help it if you don't remember the incident, but I do vividly.....
New Mexicans have stuff like being asked for our passports happen to us fairly often. Another common thing is ordering something over the phone and being told the company won't ship internationally.
It hasn't happened to me yet, but I wasn't born here all my life.
my memory of that story is that I remember watching that piece on the news
Before or after your therapy session with a bong?
Before or after your therapy session with a bong?
Can always count on our cramps to make another stupid statement confirming why I think he is just a worthless pile of shit with no purpose other than being a dumb fucking asshole....The only memory you have is denying science, hating women and sucking on trumps little dick....
He shoots!!! He scores!!!
CS triggered Tranny Denise.
Go Dawgs.
57 States!
The last words spoken by former president George H.W. Bush came barely an hour before he died, in a telephone conversation with his son, former president George W. Bush. The 43rd president had expressed his love for his father. “I love you, too,” the 41st president replied.
The president’s eldest son was on speaker phone, one of a series of final, farewell conversations between the family patriarch and his children, arranged at a moment when those around the former president knew the hours were short.
He had struggled for days, not getting out of bed, eating almost nothing, seemingly in decline from the vascular parkinsonism that had restricted his speech and mobility in his last years. But when the end came, said James A. Baker III, Bush’s friend and confidant of 40 years, “it was a very gentle and peaceful and easy passing.”
Baker and his wife, Susan, were there at the end, the third visit of the day for the former secretary of state. The first visit had come Friday morning. Baker had risen early, as always, and after a long walk decided to pay a visit to Bush, who lived not far away in Houston.
He knew the former president was ailing and wanted to see how his friend was doing. He arrived about 7:15 a.m., and when he got there, Bush was sitting up in bed. One of Bush’s caregivers told the former president that “Secretary Baker is here.”
“He looked up at me and said, ‘Bake, where are we going?’ ” Baker said in a telephone interview Saturday afternoon. “I said, ‘Jefe, we’re going to heaven,’ and he said, ‘That’s where I want to go.’ ”
ann coulter was right when she said the 9/11 hijackers should've flown their planes into the NY Times building.
Seig Heil Mr. Trump @realDonaldTrump
Somewhere in Georgia Cali is getting happily plastered on Rum & cokes. Georgia up by 14.
Not so happy now. Georgia blew their 14 point lead.
Georgia lost it in the 4th quarter when they played too conservatively and didn't get first downs.
No Kirby thinking he’s Les Miles with that fake punt
It was a hell of a game.
Who runs a fake punt on 4th and 10?
As bonehead a play as the fake punt was the 3 and outs in the 3rd and 4th quarters is what let Bama back into the game. The fake punt was a desperation play after Bama took the lead.
It was stupid.
Les Miles is coming to my college. He will be gone in 4 years with a losing record.
Blogger Commonsense said...
Who runs a fake punt on 4th and 10?
When Bama left their regular D, didn’t bring their special team out?
Fucking stupid
Was President Bush ‘Amazed’ by a Grocery Scanner?
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bush-scanner-demonstration
Claim: During a photo opportunity at a 1992 grocers' convention, President George Bush was "amazed" at encountering supermarket scanners for the first time.
False
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Fact checked by snopes.com
Bill Clinton on George H.W. Bush this morning.
Fifty years ago this spring, as a congressman representing Houston, he voted for the Fair Housing Act of 1968, going against his nearly perfect record of conservative votes in Washington. When he returned to Houston, he held a town hall to explain his vote to a hostile crowd who thought he’d lost his mind. He believed that he could convince them it was the right thing to do, as long as they would hear him out. That evening, at least, he was right. When he was finished talking he got a standing ovation.
Given what politics looks like in America and around the world today, it’s easy to sigh and say George H.W. Bush belonged to an era that is gone and never coming back — where our opponents are not our enemies, where we are open to different ideas and changing our minds, where facts matter and where our devotion to our children’s future leads to honest compromise and shared progress. I know what he would say: “Nonsense. It’s your duty to get that America back.”
We should all give thanks for George H.W. Bush’s long, good life and honor it by searching, as he always did, for the most American way forward.
President George H.W Bush despised Trump and voted for Hillary Clinton. I voted for Bush in 1988. I voted for Clinton in 96. Although I seriously considered voting for Bush.
After Clinton won the partisanship increased to the level that we have endured ever since. Trump has made it even far worse because it's all about him. Bush's mother told him that "I" was not a word to use. Trump is the polar opposite. "I" listen to my guts and differ with others, even though they know far more about the issues.
He gave us ten years of prosperity. Clinton almost balanced the budget and created over 20 million jobs. Both of them raised taxes to pay for the expenditures by the government. He will go down as the best one term President in history.
May he Rest In Peace with his wife and family.
Nacho Pres. TRUMP has knee capped China on new Trade deals. China buys huge ads stocks of US Grains.
YUGE WIN!!
The death of former President George H.W. Bush is inspiring comparisons between his presidency and that of the current occupant of the White House. That was inevitable, because the traits that defined Bush’s one term in office are scandalously absent from the way Donald Trump has approached the highest office in the land.
Bush assumed the presidency after serving as a member of Congress, as ambassador to the United Nations, as CIA director and as vice president; Trump was a political amateur when he was elected (and proud of it). Bush was respectful of the expertise of his advisers and career government officials; Trump disdains them as a sinister “Deep State.” Bush was willing to abandon his “Read my lips: No new taxes” campaign pledge in order to cement a compromise agreement on the budget; Trump is loath to repudiate positions he took on the campaign trail, such as his reckless promise to withdraw from the Iran nuclear agreement.
Bush was an ambitious politician, but he also was self-effacing and reluctant to personalize the achievements of his administration. For Trump, everything is about Trump. And Bush cherished civility, despite some low shots on the campaign trail — especially his campaign’s questionable use of a prison furlough program against his opponent, Michael Dukakis. (Willie Horton, a black man who raped a woman after escaping while on furlough, figured in a racially inflammatory TV aid aired by Bush supporters.)
A handwritten note Bush left for Bill Clinton, the Democrat who defeated him in 1992, is being widely circulated this weekend, and for good reason. In it, Bush advised Clinton not to allow critics to “discourage you or push you off course.” Bush closed the letter by telling his successor: “Your success now is our country's success. I am rooting hard for you.” Contrast that encouragement with Trump’s obsessive attacks on former President Barack Obama. Contrast it with the crowds at Trump’s campaign rallies, egged on as they shout enthusiastically for the incarceration of Hillary Clinton.
President Trump and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, agreed to a cease-fire on trade after meeting for more than two hours Saturday after the close of the Group of 20 summit in the Argentine capital.
Under the agreement, Trump won’t raise tariffs while negotiations continue and China will purchase more U.S. agricultural and energy products, the White House said in a statement issued three hours after the meeting ended.
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“This was an amazing and productive meeting with unlimited possibilities for both the United States and China,” Trump said in a statement that marked a major de-escalation of rhetoric toward China. “It is my great honor to be working with President Xi.”
The tenuous truce between the two leaders means that Trump is essentially backing off his threat to raise U.S. tariffs on $200 billion worth of goods from 10% to 25% on Jan. 1 — for now.
“President Trump and President Xi have agreed to immediately begin negotiations on structural changes with respect to forced technology transfer, intellectual property protection, non-tariff barriers, cyber intrusions and cyber theft, services and agriculture,” said the statement from Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. “Both parties agree that they will endeavor to have this transaction completed within the next 90 days. If at the end of this period of time, the parties are unable to reach an agreement, the 10% tariffs will be raised to 25%.”
“The proof of tonight's pudding will be in the eating,” said David Loevinger, a managing partner at TCW Emerging Markets Group in Los Angeles and a former senior Treasury Department official for China affairs. “There was clearly a lot more that wasn't agreed than was. Neither side is tying their hands.”
It will be intresting to see it "O" left a letter for Trump.And what it might say. I somewhat suspect it wasn't half as gracious as Bush's was.
President Trump is sending the airplane generally used as Air Force 1 to Texas to pick up President George H.W. Bush, President George W. Bush and the Bush family for the state funeral in Washington.
The stock market will skyrocket tomorrow. Futures are already up.
Winning.
"China will purchase more U.S. agricultural and energy products,"
The Naco President is getting so much done for the hard working class people like me and my fellow ranchers and farmers.
Gasoline price drop lower then during the Lost Years.
What benefit to the US worker was the Lost Years Ore?
That idiot Ortiz chic called for a boat of $1.00 in Federal Fuel tax. Why? For better bike access to roads and bridges.
Speaking of Gasoline prices, Macron really step into it it by raising taxes on gasoline and fuel oil.
They are rioting in Paris, and the far right party of Maria Le Pen will likely make big gains in the next round of elections.
Why didn't Obama get this done?
Trade is vital to the US worker.
Macron... what a pinhead. A true Globalist.
Trump pegged him.
The best President of my lifetime.
More like a close second to Reagan but he kept the Regan's policies and successfully sheparded the peaceful break up of the Soviet Union.
He certainly deserved more credit than the news media gave him.
FAKE NEWS stories about SUPERMARKET SCANNER debunked
It was widely reported that Bush was surprised to see an ordinary supermarket scanner.
Pundits, columnists and cartoonists seized upon the report as evidence that Bush was out of touch with everyday life after 11 years ensconced in government mansions.
“The whole thing is ludicrous,” Bob Graham, an NCR Corp. systems analyst who showed Bush the scanner, said in a telephone interview from Pleasanton, Calif. “What he was amazed about was the ability of the scanner to take that torn label and reassemble it.”
The White House also belatedly cried foul.
Press Secretary Marlin Fitzwater said Monday that Bush has “seen those (scanners) many times. This is a story that is totally media-manufactured and maintained.”
Bush had stopped by prearrangement at the NCR exhibit before addressing the grocers. He viewed some other high tech equipment, then walked over to the model checkout stand.
A videotape shot by a White House press pool shows Bush saying, “This is the scanner, the newest scanner?”
“Of course, this looks like a typical scanner you’d see in a grocery store,” Graham replied.
“Yeah,” said Bush.
full story at:
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/supermarket-scanner-story-contd-jonah-goldberg/
President George H.W Bush despised Trump and voted for Hillary Clinton. I voted for Bush in 1988. I voted for Clinton in 96. Although I seriously considered voting for Bush.
After Clinton won the partisanship increased to the level that we have endured ever since. Trump has made it even far worse because it's all about him. Bush's mother told him that "I" was not a word to use. Trump is the polar opposite. "I" listen to my guts and differ with others, even though they know far more about the issues.
He gave us ten years of prosperity. Clinton almost balanced the budget and created over 20 million jobs. Both of them raised taxes to pay for the expenditures by the government.
He managed the collapse of the Soviet Union era with patience and the wisdom to helped Gorbachev avoid a crisis within the Russian government. The hard liners wanted to invade Poland and keep the two German countries from reuniting.
He will go down as the best one term President in history.
May he Rest In Peace with his wife and family.
You really don't know whether it's true or not, and if it was, what does it matter now?
Other than making Trump seem all the more gracious by sending a plane to pick up Bush's remains and honoring him with 5 days of official mourning without batting an eye.
At this time, you TDS is tiresome and it is certainly not what HW Bush would have wanted.
Roger Amick said...
"I voted for Bush in 1988. I voted for Clinton in 96. Although I seriously considered voting for Bush.
After Clinton won the partisanship increased to the level that we have endured ever since. Trump has made it even far worse because it's all about him. Bush's mother told him that "I" was not a word to use. "
Does practice what you preach ring a bell ?
and by the way Bush didn't run in 96...
Anonymous cowardly king obama said...
and by the way Bush didn't run in 96...
and the alky remembers when the germans bombed pearl harbor too.
Liver toxicity is a terrible thing.
HB. A self proclaimed historian.
"voted for Clinton in 96. Although I seriously considered voting for Bush."
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