George H.W. Bush - Classic or Dud

http://i.imgur.com/ZUuq0yu.jpg http://i.imgur.com/agiUXUd.jpg

eaten by dogs

has there ever been a decent biography of this guy?

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41URrtJNQJL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

I'd like to imagine it's a book written by W.'s ghostwriter about Poppy's ghostwriter.

There's also

http://i.imgur.com/6kwFJ6k.jpg

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.

has there ever been a decent biography of this guy?

― (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

Would love to see Perlstein do a book focused around this guy.

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

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1699775/images/o-GEORGE-HW-BUSH-facebook.jpg

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.

Let's not get into the Pledge of Allegiance and Willie Horton.

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.

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

"These poor people are delicious!"

a president who also served as director of the cia is guaranteed to carry an especially heavy load of darkness

Definitely knows where the bodies were dug up and reburied.

He has given up his “C.S.I.” reruns, consuming campaign coverage on Fox News — intently but fretfully — when he is perched in front of the television in his Houston home.
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He reads three print newspapers daily, dials into briefings given by advisers to his son Jeb’s presidential campaign and stays up late to watch prime-time debates — after sitting through the so-called undercard, too.

Former President George Bush, 91 and frail, , is straining to understand an election season that has, for his son and the Republican Party, lurched sharply and stunningly off script. And he is often bewildered by what he sees.

“I’m getting old,” he tells friends, appraising today’s politics, “at just the right time.”

These are confounding days for the Bush family and the network of advisers, donors and supporters who have helped sustain a political dynasty that began with the Senate victory by Prescott Bush, the older Mr. Bush’s father, in Connecticut 63 years ago. They have watched the rise of Donald J. Trump with alarm, and seen how Jeb Bush, the onetime Florida governor, has languished despite early advantages of political pedigree and campaign money.

boo hoo:

“I have no feeling for the electorate anymore,” said John H. Sununu, the former New Hampshire governor who helped the elder Mr. Bush win the 1988 primary there and went on to serve as his White House chief of staff. “It is not responding the way it used to. Their priorities are so different that if I tried to analyze it I’d be making it up.”

Mr. Sununu, like many establishment-aligned Republicans, is especially mystified by Mr. Trump’s appeal. “He supports single-payer federal health care and he loves eminent domain, and the Tea Party hates both of those things,” he said. “So explain to me how people are voting on issues.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/25/us/politics/watching-gop-race-bush-41-is-glad-to-be-old.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

good to know there is an actual script for election season, things make more sense now.

“So explain to me how people are voting on issues.”

LOL @ people voting on issues

“I have no feeling for the electorate anymore,” said John H. Sununu, the former New Hampshire governor who helped the elder Mr. Bush win the 1988 primary there and went on to serve as his White House chief of staff. “It is not responding the way it used to. Their priorities are so different that if I tried to analyze it I’d be making it up.”

Mr. Sununu, like many establishment-aligned Republicans, is especially mystified by Mr. Trump’s appeal. “He supports single-payer federal health care and he loves eminent domain, and the Tea Party hates both of those things,” he said. “So explain to me how people are voting on issues.”

wish nixon was alive instead of these dweebs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSrMOm1roVs

lol that picture looks like what about bob

Nixon gets best one-liner about Bush: "President? He's just a person you appoint to things."

gwb just listing states he's recently been in. "george."

i mean ghwb.

The only dude alive who can't recall where he was on November 22, 1963.

Sez more stuff, mostly forgettable. Didn't know Meacham had an oleaginous biography ready for publication.

He said he thought Mr. Cheney had changed since serving in his cabinet. “He just became very hard-line and very different from the Dick Cheney I knew and worked with,” Mr. Bush said. He attributed that to the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. “Just iron-ass. His seeming knuckling under to the real hard-charging guys who want to fight about everything, use force to get our way in the Middle East.”

He speculated that Mr. Cheney was influenced by his wife, Lynne, and his daughter Liz, both strong conservatives. “I’ve concluded that Lynne Cheney is a lot of the eminence grise here – iron-ass, tough as nails, driving,” he said.

Still, he called Mr. Cheney “a good man” who pushed boundaries too far. “The big mistake that was made was letting Cheney bring in kind of his own State Department,” Mr. Bush said. “I think they overdid that. But it’s not Cheney’s fault. It’s the president’s fault.”

By that, he meant his son. “The buck stops there,” the elder Mr. Bush said.

He was even harsher about Mr. Rumsfeld, who had been a rival of his since the 1970s, when both served in Gerald R. Ford’s administration. “I think he served the president badly,” Mr. Bush said. “I don’t like what he did, and I think it hurt the president having his iron-ass view of everything. I’ve never been that close to him anyway. There’s a lack of humility, a lack of seeing what the other guy thinks. He’s more kick ass and take names, take numbers. I think he paid a price for that.”

He added, “Rumsfeld was an arrogant fellow and self-assured, swagger.”

iron-ass

^^
"Bar, toss me the remote. Tired of this iron-ass guy on here thinking he can solve all the puzzles without buying any vowels."

HW preferred Cheney's ass when it was soft and supple

http://static01.nyt.com/images/2009/06/28/books/wheatcroft-600.jpg

http://cdn.billmoyers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/AP060621018963.jpg

isn't iron-ass what nixon's navy "friends" called him because of his irritatingly patient poker tactics

the latest chapter of oedipus rex of the 21st century

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0quUM-Nr2c

http://www.miamiherald.com/latest-news/article127162609.html

Think his window for dying without a Trump eulogy expired last weekend.

"I know that Jeb and I didn't always see eye-to-eye--frankly, we hate each other--but I admired the former president very much. I gotta tell you, though, when it comes to low-energy, you can't get any lower than being dead. Not good, folks."

"You know, I won more counties than he did, in fact some say it was a movement, I got more primary votes than all these guys, anyone in history, really. And a lot of people have called to tell me how amazing that was. But we love George Bush, don't we? Terrific guy."

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/george-h-w-bush-apologizes-055154853.html

He actually did the same thing to an acquaintance of mine a year or so ago after seeing her in a musical.

does he have dementia yet? he looks like he does.

for some reason I remembered:

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/5f/43/c4/5f43c4b86c01f0d452547c3a61bc4af0--funny-old-people-funniest-jokes.jpg

Dirty Old Men In Wheelchairs

when this thread got revived I thought he'd died and the cockroaches flew out

the second apology from his team makes this worse than it sounded in the first place. "he's old and his arm is in a lower place than most peoples. also sometimes he pats women on the ass. sorry"

I hate to think about the sickening overpraising treatment he'll get when he does kick off. His most "pragmatic" moves were usually craven attempts to evade whatever principles he possessed.

Malapropisms are a Bush gene:

"If you're worried about caribou, take a look at the arguments that were used about the pipeline. They'd say the caribou would be extinct. You've got to shake them away with a stick. They're all making love lying up against the pipeline and you got thousands of caribou up there." —speaking in 1991 about the Alaskan pipeline.

"You cannot be president of the United States if you don't have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial and the Civil War and all that stuff. You can't be. And we are blessed. So don't feel sorry for — uh, don't cry for me, Argentina."

In the end, his bio will be: one errant sperm of his led to the worst presidency of our lifetimes.
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Thursday, December 27, 2012 2:23 PM (four years ago)

haha yeah his sex life ended up being a lot more damaging than clinton's
― iatee, Thursday, December 27, 2012 2:24 PM (four years ago)

iatee & Eric H otm
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, December 27, 2012 2:27 PM (four years ago)

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