I never liked him and I'm not going to pretend that I did now. Bush was a former CIA Director. Right there, it's obvious that he was Deep State swamp material. Head of the Bush Family Dynasty - and I'm not a fan of royal families in our country. Reagan never cared for him, but the GOP forced Bush on Reagan as part of granting its support in 1980. Do you remember Bush's 1988 campaign slogan... so heavily pressed that it is still remembered 30 years later and may have gotten him elected? "READ MY LIPS. NO NEW TAXES!" He took office in 1989 and signed off on major new taxes in 1990. Hypocrite. Liar. Swamp. A stain on the Reagan legacy.
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I understand what you are saying, DE. I agree with most of what you are saying, but can't we have some nonpartisan peace for just 3 days?
I was only saying that I admired GHW Bush's invitation to the Donald and Melania to his funeral.
I am still pissed off at the McCain's for excluding him.
Yes, I do remember his slogan of "no new taxes." De, he raised the taxes because he made a deal with the devil (libtardos) thinking that the "can't we all get along" mentality would turn things around. YOU CANNOT TRUST THEM, and they ultimately used this against Bush when election time came around. I would have never, ever done it.
Royal families in this country? I spit on that notion completely. Regardless of one's stature in this life, everyone should be treated equally, no exceptions. Shaft me? It is as simple as "bye, bye." There are two couples in my life that I will never eat (out) with again. Both couples mistreat the waitresses. Simple: C YA! Why are they better than one who is working her/his tail off trying to make ends meet? NO, no royal families here, please.
But, you think Bush and his "dynasty" negatively affected this country. Well, you may be right, but I just think it's a time to honor someone who ran the country for 4 years. I WILL FEEL THE SAME when Jimmy Carter dies, too.
DE, THIS IS FOR YOU, courtesy of the Fox News Halftime report, yesterday's edition. I kept it in my email box if you would like me to forward it.
GEORGE BUSH, EXCEPTIONALIST
In his pre-funeral takedown of President George H.W. Bush, The Atlantic’s Franklin Foer tries to snap readers out of their nostalgia for the 41st president.
“In reality, he was an archetypal representative of the modern party, a man whose sense of duty failed him when it came to resisting the rise of racially revanchist, libertarian forces,” Foer writes. “He embodied an Establishment that wrote very nice thank-you notes. But good manners are hardly the same as moral courage; prudence is sometimes hard-hearted.”
Even in death, Bush could not escape the critiques of those like Foer who resent the former president’s patrician, roots and manners.
The author argues that Bush was the last of the WASP presidents, those blue-blooded effetes who went to fancy boarding schools and lived and played by the Protestant work ethic.
But who else is Foer talking about? Was it Bush’s predecessor, the son of an itinerant, alcoholic traveling salesman? The peanut farmer from Plains, Ga.? The adopted kid who got into the University of Michigan on a football scholarship? The Quaker boy from the orange groves? The schoolteacher from the Pedernales Valley? The Roman Catholic? The German boy from a railhead in Kansas? How about the men’s clothing salesman from Independence, Mo.?
You would have to go back to Franklin Roosevelt to find a president of the same WASPy origins in and comportment as Bush. Perhaps only FDR and his cousin Teddy fit the same category.
The part of Bush that actually seems to rankle Foer and other critics is what Bush in his very elitist way referred to as “noblesse oblige.” That literally means the obligation of nobility. It is an ancient idea that even finds expression in the bible. Jesus says in Luke’s gospel, “From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked.”
This kind of thinking seems antiquated in our meritocratic culture. But it has been a governing precept for our civilization since long before they started taking legacies at Andover.
It also happens to inform our national ethic, the much-abused concept of American exceptionalism.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
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