George H.W. Bush - Classic or Dud

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)

I am fortune's fool!

http://time.com/5019182/george-hw-bush-groping-allegation/

he's ailing again

https://i.imgur.com/iG9sZb1.png

And yet they say he is recovering already.

He is a dud--Al your many glorious postings on this thread are everything I love about you in one place.

He's going to be (deservedly) the least lionized president of my lifetime.

Dunno! The fictional bipartisan era he represents is gonna get another airing when Jon Meacham, "Morning" Joe, et al command the airwaves for a couple days.

A friend pointedly reminded me on FB last week that he (willingly) signed and showed executive muscle to get the ADA.

my parents were poppy supporters during the 1980 gop primary; they lived to regret it for his offspring, not specifically him

he oversaw the end of the cold war and didn't make any drastic errors. maybe the best republican president of the last . . . idk, eisenhower? teddy? pretty low fuckin bar

the least lionized president of my lifetime

When he dies, he'll get the full praised-to-the skies treatment. He won't get a flag-draped caisson down Pennsylvania Avenue, but in eulogy he'll become a towering statesman, a strong and visionary leader, a paragon of every virtue, and the symbolic kindly father of us all. It's mandatory.

He seems like maybe a less terrible person than his older son or his wife, but that's a low bar.

pretty low fuckin bar

Hey listen guys, but I don't know how she could get any lower!

I met Poppy multiple times in 1988 and drove a car in his motorcade. Met all the Bushes, including young W. That experience is what led to my immediate, permanent hiatus from the Republican party. For every sensible thing that Poppy did, there was a Lee Atwater to counter balance.

BUSH HOLDS ON TO LIFE https://t.co/faHXAUxeJO

— DRUDGE REPORT (@DRUDGE_REPORT) April 24, 2018

he raised taxes, so not too many modern Repugs are gonna weep

still, for AIDS, Iraq and Willie Horton, fuck him

not too many modern Repugs are gonna weep

he was the ruler of the tribe. he'll get his day or two of synthetic tears.

(xpost)

Had to look up Willie Horton. I'm assuming this covers the issue?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTdUQ9SYhUw

☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️

Cue the media nostalgia for the days of the “good” Republican Party.

Barbara kicked it last April, so there wasn't much propping him up any more. Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter outlived them both. A small justice. I can do without the media hagiography that will surely come now, as it did for McCain.

which will surely be even more lachrymose now with concurrent Trump/Mueller news

surprised he lasted 7 months after Barbara tbh. he looked like a bag of bones and jelly getting wheeled out at the Superbowl in 2017

Grabbin' Ass In Heaven Hell Now.

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

― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, October 25, 2017 9:48 PM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh yeah he got MeToo'd lmfao

too late to do anyone any good

could've at least won in '92 and spared us Billary

It doesn't help that no decent bios exist (a shock actually).

is this still true, Alfred?

I had no use for him