Poppy Bush never had an Alec Baldwin tell him "Nice guy? I don't give a shit. Good father? Fuck you. Go home and play with your kids!
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 27 December 2012 23:14 (eleven years ago) link
Being the father of George W., Neil & Jeb is probable cosmic blowback for being the son of a Nazi financier.
Also ironic for him being the son of the first national treasurer of Planned Parenthood.
― Canaille help you (Michael White), Thursday, 27 December 2012 23:19 (eleven years ago) link
'never understood lemonade myself...not my forte.'
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 27 December 2012 23:19 (eleven years ago) link
morbs' favorite president!
he's loathsome... just less so than the 3 who've followed.
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Friday, 28 December 2012 00:40 (eleven years ago) link
(weighing everything, that is)
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Friday, 28 December 2012 00:41 (eleven years ago) link
On one of the modern rock chart polls we tossed around the idea of the 1988-1992 musical interzone when certain ideas about presentation and arrangements reached their apex then started to slowly wilt until the next set of jolts. Poppy's presidency was a perfect match: a purported continuation of Reagan, only not so; a sense of sitting in a waiting room for the Next Big Thing. Reagan of course is still with us, the corpse that keeps getting exhumed; so is the Lobster of Hope. Bush will never be reexamined though...except when Obama refers to his foreign policy as a model of excellence.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 28 December 2012 00:59 (eleven years ago) link
i kinda feel like no one can be director of the c.i.a., even for a year, and not be a complete asshole.
― packt like phoebe cates's dad in a chimney (strongo hulkington's ghost dad)
sums it up for me, there's plenty we'll never know about.
― sleeve, Friday, 28 December 2012 01:08 (eleven years ago) link
So he's the unplugged "Layla."
― your damn bass clarinet (Eazy), Friday, 28 December 2012 01:09 (eleven years ago) link
He's Richard Marx's "Angelia."
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 28 December 2012 01:11 (eleven years ago) link
JCM's Whenever We Wanted might have been his best.
― pplains, Friday, 28 December 2012 01:34 (eleven years ago) link
what's that painting of him and clinton in front of the mosque upthread?
― wk, Friday, 28 December 2012 01:35 (eleven years ago) link
I think it was part of the 2004 Tsunami Relief fund?
― pplains, Friday, 28 December 2012 01:40 (eleven years ago) link
Bush tried to surprise Clinton with a visit to his friend's office in New York City's Harlem; when Bush arrived, he found Clinton was overseas. So Bush sat down in his successor's office, put his feet up and called him on the phone. "Bill! It's George. Nice view! Nice desk!"
― pplains, Friday, 28 December 2012 01:43 (eleven years ago) link
Ha, what is this, trying to get there first to hold open the door?
http://news.yahoo.com/famed-gulf-war-u-general-schwarzkopf-dies-former-012253521.html
― pplains, Friday, 28 December 2012 02:49 (eleven years ago) link
weird times, those were.
http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/image.php?id=1168&filename=P22412-16.jpg
― pplains, Friday, 28 December 2012 02:51 (eleven years ago) link
http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/image.php?id=2261&filename=HS767.jpg
― buzza, Friday, 28 December 2012 03:16 (eleven years ago) link
Bar?
― Big Sambola & The Tailspinners (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 28 December 2012 03:19 (eleven years ago) link
open and wet
― pplains, Friday, 28 December 2012 04:15 (eleven years ago) link
During the 1988 presidential campaign, Donna Brazile, a campaign aide to Bush's opponent Michael Dukakis, was asked to resign after she told reporters that George H.W. Bush needed to "'fess up" about unsubstantiated rumors of an extramarital affair. Said Brazile, "The American people have every right to know if Barbara Bush will share that bed with him in the White House."
― buzza, Friday, 28 December 2012 04:16 (eleven years ago) link
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ipk3HlMEmp8/Tta3aCfE74I/AAAAAAAACnI/jH3b6dZd7v8/s1600/pict435.jpg
― pplains, Friday, 28 December 2012 04:30 (eleven years ago) link
Looks like No. 3 is aping No. 5's hairstyle.
http://ww1.hdnux.com/photos/16/42/57/3812324/3/628x471.jpg
― pplains, Friday, 28 December 2012 04:32 (eleven years ago) link
How this picture features not one, but two future presidents shows that America has a lot to answer for.
http://ww3.hdnux.com/photos/17/03/43/3946702/3/628x471.jpg
― pplains, Friday, 28 December 2012 04:33 (eleven years ago) link
http://ww4.hdnux.com/photos/16/42/56/3812239/3/628x471.jpg
"Of course not, Biff. Now, I wouldn't want that to happen."
― pplains, Friday, 28 December 2012 04:47 (eleven years ago) link
Anyway. The funniest about this thread so far is that we're all pretty much doing this:
http://ww1.hdnux.com/photos/06/33/03/1683672/3/628x471.jpg
― pplains, Friday, 28 December 2012 04:48 (eleven years ago) link
Damn, no video of "Message: I care" on YouTube.
― your damn bass clarinet (Eazy), Friday, 28 December 2012 05:09 (eleven years ago) link
The death watch:
Mr. Bush’s single term, from 1989 to 1993, proved a pivot point at home and abroad. The last president to have served in World War II, he managed the end of the Cold War, reunified Germany and expelled Iraq from Kuwait. He reauthorized the Civil Rights Act, updated the Clean Air Act and signed the Americans with Disabilities Act. But he broke his “read my lips” promise not to raise taxes and lost re-election when he seemed disengaged from a troubled economy.
and:
The nostalgia for Mr. Bush may say as much about these times as his. Those were the days when America went to war with Iraq and then got out, when the two political parties struck grand bargains tackling the budget deficit, when Russia was a newfound friend retreating from confrontation rather than provoking it.
Just as telling are Mr. Bush’s current friends and foes. Among the friends are some of the same Democrats who tormented him but now lavish him with praise. Among the foes are some of today’s Republicans, who see him as the epitome of everything they do not want to be.
“You never hear anyone point to Bush 41,” said Matt Kibbe, president of FreedomWorks, a Tea Party group. “By definition, a one-term president is a failed president. The American people rejected his economic policies.”
On the other side of that argument is Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa, who ran for the Democratic nomination to challenge Mr. Bush in 1992. “I know they’re building statues of Ronald Reagan at airports,” Mr. Harkin said, “but in terms of their lives and their life’s work, to me, Bush 41 is much more integral to the development of American government and the process of democracy.”
Mr. Harkin will attend this weekend’s events at the elder Bush’s library at Texas A&M University, organized by Frederick D. McClure, chief executive of the library foundation. Mr. Harkin will appear on a panel to discuss the Americans with Disabilities Act, on which he collaborated with Mr. Bush.
Also on hand will be another Democrat, former Representative David R. Obey of Wisconsin, who helped broker the 1990 budget deal that included tax increases. “If there’s a single word that you can use to describe Bush’s approach to politics, it’s governance,” Mr. Obey said. “It was a case where the adults ran the show.”
Other Democrats are quick to add praise. “I actually have a high opinion of Bush 41,” said former Representative Richard A. Gephardt, Democrat of Missouri, who ran for president in 1988. Mr. Bush showed “strong presidential leadership,” Mr. Gephardt said, in taking on his own party over taxes and not pursuing Iraqi troops all the way to Baghdad.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/04/us/politics/hindsight-proves-kinder-and-gentler-to-bush-41.html?ref=politics&_r=0
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 4 April 2014 02:07 (ten years ago) link
Two bad neighbors
― Neanderthal, Friday, 4 April 2014 02:30 (ten years ago) link
Say what you will about HW but there's no denyinghe puked on that Japanese dignitary that one time
― art, Friday, 4 April 2014 02:42 (ten years ago) link
'and that is why i will continue to oppose teen alcoholism in all its forms.'
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 4 April 2014 03:58 (ten years ago) link
http://media3.s-nbcnews.com/j/streams/2014/June/140612/2D274906094889-today-george-bush-skydive-140612-02.blocks_desktop_medium.jpg
― how's life, Thursday, 12 June 2014 18:34 (nine years ago) link
mission accomplished.
― pplains, Thursday, 12 June 2014 18:49 (nine years ago) link
did he die
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 12 June 2014 19:03 (nine years ago) link
George H.W. Bush - Classic or Dead
― Funk autocorrect (cryptosicko), Thursday, 12 June 2014 19:04 (nine years ago) link
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/380298/ghwb-then-and-now-jay-nordlinger#comments
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 13 June 2014 12:56 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/ZUuq0yu.jpg http://i.imgur.com/agiUXUd.jpg
― pplains, Thursday, 27 November 2014 03:48 (nine years ago) link
eaten by dogs
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 27 November 2014 04:11 (nine years ago) link
has there ever been a decent biography of this guy?
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 28 November 2014 17:45 (nine years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41URrtJNQJL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg
― pplains, Friday, 28 November 2014 17:57 (nine years ago) link
I'd like to imagine it's a book written by W.'s ghostwriter about Poppy's ghostwriter.
― pplains, Friday, 28 November 2014 17:58 (nine years ago) link
There's also
http://i.imgur.com/6kwFJ6k.jpg
― pplains, Friday, 28 November 2014 17:59 (nine years ago) link
You probably would have to wait around for the guy for whom the CIA named its headquarters to die first before you can even think about publishing half of the good stuff, if that.
― pplains, Friday, 28 November 2014 18:01 (nine years ago) link
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.),
Ignore the shitty title: http://www.amazon.com/George-Bush-Life-Lone-Yankee/dp/068419452X/ref=sr_1_17?ie=UTF8&qid=1417205518&sr=8-17&keywords=george+bush+biography
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 28 November 2014 20:12 (nine years ago) link
Would love to see Perlstein do a book focused around this guy.
― TheMenzies, Sunday, 30 November 2014 13:54 (nine years ago) link
A dying Babe Ruth meets Yale baseball captain Bush, June 1948. (I think he's giving him a debate cheat book for 1988.)
http://images.politico.com/global/2012/12/03/george_h_w_bush_ap_17_605.jpg
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Monday, 13 April 2015 20:40 (nine years ago) link
http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1699775/images/o-GEORGE-HW-BUSH-facebook.jpg
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 13 April 2015 20:43 (nine years ago) link
Kind of amazing that the craziest he got, statement-wise, was about atheists not being real citizens - that shit wouldn't even get you a round of applause at a GOP rally these days.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 13 April 2015 22:08 (nine years ago) link
Let's not get into the Pledge of Allegiance and Willie Horton.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 13 April 2015 22:10 (nine years ago) link
I fully expect that when he dies and they cut him open, swarms of cockroaches will come flying out. god only knows the dark shit he's kept his trap shut about.
― Οὖτις, Monday, 13 April 2015 22:12 (nine years ago) link
like, for example, what they discussed at these Thursday luncheons:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ed/Photograph_of_President_Reagan_and_Vice-President_Bush_eating_lunch_in_the_Oval_Office_Study_-_NARA_-_198591.jpg
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 13 April 2015 22:14 (nine years ago) link
"These poor people are delicious!"
― Οὖτις, Monday, 13 April 2015 22:15 (nine years ago) link
I assume everyone who wanted to read Maureen Dowd's lengthy paean to her friendship with Bush has done so w/out a link here.
biggest yuk: GWHB referred to Dubya as "my son Quincy"
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 01:34 (five years ago) link
that picture of them in front of the Xmas tree is something else
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 04:57 (five years ago) link
Can't wait till we get back to normal. pic.twitter.com/QtdjNgKBCB— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) May 30, 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 11:31 (three years ago) link