President, WW2 Hero Great Man will be missed.
President, WW2 Hero Great Man will be missed.
RIP
Yes! One of the best presidents. Under-rated.
May he rest in peace.
not widely known :
Mr. Bush was a spectator for a number of years at the Houston Marathon.
Watching the marathon in a wheelchair, he allowed runners to come up to him and take selfies.
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not widely known :
Mr. Bush was a spectator for a number of years at the Houston Marathon.
Watching the marathon in a wheelchair, he allowed runners to come up to him and take selfies.
RIP an honorable and decent man, and pretty good president too. Last of the true Republicans, I voted for him myself back in 1992. Off to join Barbara at the great Kennebunkport in the sky.
It is interesting that because Bush Sr. was quite anti-Trump during his last years, we do now see how these neocons are are now championing him as a paragon of virtue because of that stand.
What is gone totally into the memory hole that Bush Sr. angered the AIPAC in the early 1990's and his share of the Jewish vote fell from 35-38 % (1988) to 8-12 % (1992) depending on the source when every neocons from Krauthammer to Kristol turned against him.
douglas burke wrote:
President, WW2 Hero Great Man will be missed.
As I listened to stories about him, there were a lot of things I already knew, but to hear them all at one time or in a short span of time really made me appreciate the life he led.
Whenever someone would spout off about Hillary Clinton being the most qualified person to ever run for President, I would fire right back with Bush's record. Talk about a resume!
It is also interesting to hear opinions on how he handled the fall of the Soviet Union. There was some concern that the UN would not recognize the new Russian Federation and that they would lose their seat on the Security Council. Now on the surface that might have been great, but the ramifications might have been worse had they not retained their seat.
In the end, like with most presidents, the economy got him. That recession and challenges from Buchanan and Perot did not help either. Gingrich did him a disservice by back out on the budget deal that included a tax increase (his no new taxes pledge). When the meeting at the WH ended, everyone supposedly was on board including Gingrich then the next day he had a change of heart. I have heard one story that Gingrich told Bush too late to change the press conference and announcement.
He was a good man, i don't know about great man. How great can you be if you work in politics for 30 years?
That said he is for sure someone I felt good about holding top positions in the Fed Gov. I felt he was very prudent, practical, reasonable, normal and dignified.
Danny Democrat wrote:
RIP an honorable and decent man, and pretty good president too. Last of the true Republicans, I voted for him myself back in 1992. Off to join Barbara at the great Kennebunkport in the sky.
Barbara and he had a unique relationship: from childhood sweethearts until "death do us part". Few relationships ever work out like that.
He was a wonderful human being but he was not a good president.
Aragon wrote:
It is interesting that because Bush Sr. was quite anti-Trump during his last years, we do now see how these neocons are are now championing him as a paragon of virtue because of that stand.
What is gone totally into the memory hole that Bush Sr. angered the AIPAC in the early 1990's and his share of the Jewish vote fell from 35-38 % (1988) to 8-12 % (1992) depending on the source when every neocons from Krauthammer to Kristol turned against him.
I was too busy in late 1980's and early 1990's to look at polls. What did George HW Bush say or do to anger Jewish-Americans?
Agree. An amazing life. Clearly a great man, a wonderful father, and outstanding husband. RIP.
Yet, it is also true that he was a terrible president with horrendous policies.
Here is an article about the key issue that Bush Sr. had with Israel in the 1991-1992 period, Jeffrey Blankfort has written something else also on the matter easily accessible via Google:
https://www.counterpunch.org/2013/09/16/remembering-aipacs-last-defeat/
Blankfort has also written about the shift of Jewish voting from 1988 to 1992 referencing to authors such as Jeffrey Goldberg on the subject matter.
Great Men?
If being great means using your power to serve your interests than, perhaps.
What lasting impression did he have on politics?
He helped make it commonplace to stir up tensions in third world countries and supply them with antiquated weapons to kill each other so that he could use the violence as a pretext to declare war or justify a military presence.
He helped to abridge civil rights and freedom to organize and protest.
He contributed to deregulation in the financial sector
He increased our countries debt
reallocated funds for education and infrastructure to national security
enhanced CIA autonomy
This great man had a vision, unfortunately it was the same as all his predecessors
John Utah wrote:
He was a good man, i don't know about great man. How great can you be if you work in politics for 30 years?
That said he is for sure someone I felt good about holding top positions in the Fed Gov. I felt he was very prudent, practical, reasonable, normal and dignified.
He said this exactly. Politics undeniably made him seem like a bad person. All politicians have flaws that are displayed publicly, some more than others. What must be said though, is that for all of his flaws he made up for them with strengths and was honest. Maybe not a great person or a president, but a good human.
At times like these, we need more of them.
One thing this funeral and the songbird McCain’s funeral has tought us is that Liberals love dead Republicans.
But did he go to Paris or not?