https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHGz6IEDvkM&feature=youtu.be
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Saturday, 1 December 2018 23:05 (five years ago) link
ugh, that didn't work. well, here's the tweet i got it from:
George HW Bush on Watergate: "It is wrong for the President to resign...[and] be forced out of office. The system has got to work...and I remain rather convinced that the system will not compel the President to leave office..." https://t.co/iNgbVVNqi8— Shane O'Sullivan (@e2films) December 1, 2018
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Saturday, 1 December 2018 23:07 (five years ago) link
I wonder if he ever remembered where he was the day JFK was shot
― Οὖτις, Saturday, 1 December 2018 23:13 (five years ago) link
^^Grassy knoll, iirc.
Just found out Poppy felt up another one of my friends. #HoustonLife
― The Greta Van Gerwig (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 1 December 2018 23:53 (five years ago) link
he wasn't a bad-lookin' man for his time
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 2 December 2018 00:09 (five years ago) link
This was drooling senile wheelchair Poppy doing the groping tho.
― The Greta Van Gerwig (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 2 December 2018 00:29 (five years ago) link
A poster at LGM wrote the following about Jennifer Fitzgerald, whom I've read about over the years:
Jennifer Fitzgerald became GHW Bush's secretary in 1974 when he was appointed US ambassador to China.
She followed him to Langley as his assistant when he was named Director of the CIA.
When Bush left for the private sector he arranged for Fitzgerald to become special assistant to Kingman Brewster, then US ambassador to the United Kingdom. Bush worked at that time as a corporate director and often travelled to London.
In 1980 Bush hired Fitzgerald as a staff member once he was named as Reagan's running mate. During his vice presidency Bush and his paramour were in car accident together, were in flagrante delicto when her apartment building caught fire in DC and Bush had to escape out the back, and shacked up together on Lake Geneva during disarmament talks in 1984.
Bush assigned her to be his chief lobbyist in Congress during his successful run for the presidency in 1988. Once president, Bush installed Fitzgerald as deputy chief of protocol at State, under James Baker.
Fitzgerald was said to have considerable sway with George HW Bush, and many of Bush's aides over the years tried to isolate her influence with the boss.
In short, Jennifer Fitzgerald served George HW Bush in many and various positions over the years, and yet I've not read a single reference to this woman in all the encomia.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 2 December 2018 00:54 (five years ago) link
https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/director-george-bush-sits-beside-jennifer-fitzgerald-the-pair-is-to-picture-id576838970
CIA Director George Bush sits beside Jennifer Fitzgerald. The pair is rumored to be romantically involved. George Bush's wife, Barbara, sits behind him. (Photo by © Wally McNamee/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/director-george-bush-sits-beside-jennifer-fitzgerald-the-news-photo/576838970
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Sunday, 2 December 2018 01:01 (five years ago) link
Bar's got a notion.
https://i.imgur.com/D1FrDOM.jpg
― pplains, Sunday, 2 December 2018 01:26 (five years ago) link
everyone in the previous pic has george bushs face and i cant unsee it
― puppy bash (darraghmac), Sunday, 2 December 2018 02:41 (five years ago) link
surprised Shakey didn't know that Bill Clinton became good buds with both Bushes
that's how you can tell he's subhuman shit
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 2 December 2018 04:00 (five years ago) link
btw the four presidents beginning with Ford all lived to be 90? Only the good die young.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 2 December 2018 04:05 (five years ago) link
Lotsa talk of bushes itt
― F# A# (∞), Sunday, 2 December 2018 04:32 (five years ago) link
Incumbent pres getting 37% of vote in re-election bid is always lol to me
― President Keyes, Sunday, 2 December 2018 05:02 (five years ago) link
A solid obit.
n the end, Bush was probably an average president, but that’s really more about most of our presidents having been between bad and Trump. There’s nothing particularly wrong with being an average president. But he’s also been more than a touch romanticized by liberals because a casual glance makes it seem he led a Republican Party far to the left to that today. That’s not wrong per se, but it also lacks context. Bush pushed the party to the right from his first engagement with politics. His nomination of Clarence Thomas, his pushing Dan Quayle on the national scene, his Lee Atwater ad, the War on Drugs, naming Dick Cheney Secretary of Defense, and leaving Iraqi rebels out to dry—these are very bad, no good things. And they need to be remembered more than an imagined moderate Republicanism of 1989.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 2 December 2018 15:14 (five years ago) link
That was good, best thing I've read since he passed
― The Poppy Bush AutoZone (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 2 December 2018 16:49 (five years ago) link
I'm listening to Schwarzenegger talk about Bush on CNN, and all I can think about is Albert Brooks in Broadcast News: "Arnold just said that he's been making three million a movie now. But he's not ever gonna change. He's still the same person when he was making two million dollars a movie. He feels no different. He also bought a brand-new condo with Maria, they gonna furnish tastefully."
― clemenza, Sunday, 2 December 2018 17:48 (five years ago) link
My second groped friend said that was a common occurrence between Bush and actresses in the employ of a particular major Houston theatre company when he did photo-ops. She showed me the photo taken during her incident and BARBARA WAS RIGHT THERE BEHIND THE WHEELCHAIR.
― The Greta Van Gerwig (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 2 December 2018 18:35 (five years ago) link
I was on our private terrace, overlooking Sydney Bay, doing some warm-up yoga exercises, so close to the water I could almost touch it, when who should pop into view, two or three yards away, just below me on the esplanade separating the hotel from the sea, but Poppy himself, walking briskly towards the city skyline. He was casually dressed, as if about to play golf, and surrounded by a sizeable entourage – some muscled security heavies, some suited confederates, perhaps a secretary or two, all of them quietly obsequious, all of them situated at a prudent distance, respectful of an invisible protective boundary that isolated the politician who had once been the most powerful person on Earth. Closest to Bush, half a step behind him, was a bulky, crew-cut military man, with so many medals on his uniform that it was a miracle he wasn’t sagging from the burden. A general, at least, I thought.Suddenly, the former president lifted his right arm into the air, his fingers extended backward, snapping them without, however, deigning to look at the man behind him. The officer reacted with celerity, producing, seemingly out of nowhere, a tube that he deposited in his master’s hand. It turned out to be a sun tan lotion, as George Senior, without losing his stride and definitely without thanking the aide, began to lavishly apply it to his exposed forearms and neck.
Suddenly, the former president lifted his right arm into the air, his fingers extended backward, snapping them without, however, deigning to look at the man behind him. The officer reacted with celerity, producing, seemingly out of nowhere, a tube that he deposited in his master’s hand. It turned out to be a sun tan lotion, as George Senior, without losing his stride and definitely without thanking the aide, began to lavishly apply it to his exposed forearms and neck.
the rest of it is pretty good, too
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 2 December 2018 21:00 (five years ago) link
Ew.
My BFF just shared this news segment featuring her husband, discussing GHWB and the Americans with Disabilities Act:
https://wjla.com/news/local/remembering-george-hw-bush-a-champion-for-those-with-disabilities?fbclid=IwAR3cPovgOXtBnevGe9kvVMoA9s2EjoLiux7XyGme3QDwYR9NSTYPAMJLsxI
― suzy, Sunday, 2 December 2018 21:02 (five years ago) link
Americans with Disabilities Act
Bob Dole was the real mover behind that.
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 2 December 2018 21:29 (five years ago) link
...as I’m sure my friend’s doctoral thesis mentioned in segment points out.
― suzy, Sunday, 2 December 2018 21:37 (five years ago) link
I'm not going to argue with the many liberal friends on FB who loathed the Reagan-Bush era who nevertheless reminded me that his signing this act made their lives easier.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 2 December 2018 23:31 (five years ago) link
Again: least worst GOP president since Ike.
The run up to 2020 is gonna be a great time to take a break from all social media.
― Groove(box) Denied (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 2 December 2018 23:37 (five years ago) link
(That's not aimed at this thread, btw, or ILX, but more widely used social media platforms. A general statement.)
― Groove(box) Denied (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 2 December 2018 23:38 (five years ago) link
I'm not convinced of Bush's loathsomeness from Ariel Dorfman, revealing one level of #firstworldproblems against another. I'm sure there's better.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 2 December 2018 23:39 (five years ago) link
if nothing else it contains probably the best account of the process of applying suntan lotion to a former president that i, personally, have ever read
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 2 December 2018 23:45 (five years ago) link
"worst GOP President since" is like rating bouts of food poisoning
― louise ck (milo z), Monday, 3 December 2018 00:03 (five years ago) link
i'm kind of amused at the "gop" qualifier yall are using. In the long run, Clinton was more harmful and Obama might've been too.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 3 December 2018 12:48 (five years ago) link
theeeeeeeeee supreme court tho
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Monday, 3 December 2018 12:50 (five years ago) link
yeah, his most damaging contribution -- which could've been stopped by Biden and the Dems
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 3 December 2018 12:55 (five years ago) link
In the long run, Clinton was more harmful and Obama might've been too.
You're ignoring that I prefer Clinton and Obama's judicial picks.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 December 2018 14:51 (five years ago) link
i'm not ignoring anything.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 3 December 2018 15:08 (five years ago) link
You haven't responded to my last few texts
― The Poppy Bush AutoZone (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 3 December 2018 15:41 (five years ago) link
join the club
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 3 December 2018 17:52 (five years ago) link
Ran the CIA, campaigned on racist ads, lied to sell a war—real nice. https://t.co/lewiDw6p9P— Doug Henwood (@DougHenwood) December 2, 2018
the broad & long lasting reach of Dana Carvey's SNL imitation of Bush is pretty incredible, I think it shapes ppl's view of him even today
― The Poppy Bush AutoZone (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 3 December 2018 17:55 (five years ago) link
If, like Morbs, you take as your starting position that every POTUS is a criminal, then it makes sense to conclude that two-term presidents must do more harm than one-term presidents. However, GHWB qualifies for extra credit because of his CIA directorship.
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 3 December 2018 18:00 (five years ago) link
Mission complete. #Remembering41 pic.twitter.com/rXdyXAS4lk— Jim McGrath (@jgm41) December 3, 2018
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 3 December 2018 18:42 (five years ago) link
Say what you will about Hitler, he loved his dog Blondi, who was a loyal companion to the end. #NaziPups #Awww pic.twitter.com/uYk6wycXYn— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) December 3, 2018
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 3 December 2018 18:43 (five years ago) link
how big is the check that Perrin cuts you for promoting him?
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 December 2018 18:47 (five years ago) link
In the end, his bio will be: one errant sperm of his led to the worst presidency of our lifetimes
Posts that have not aged well?
― Brian Oenophile (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 3 December 2018 18:54 (five years ago) link
We're talking Dennis Perrin here. At best it's enough to cover a food-truck burrito once a week.
― grawlix (unperson), Monday, 3 December 2018 18:55 (five years ago) link
Trump hasn't come close to GWB yet xp
― flappy bird, Monday, 3 December 2018 18:57 (five years ago) link
agreed, wake me up when 45 has killed a million directly or indirectly thx
― resident hack (Simon H.), Monday, 3 December 2018 18:59 (five years ago) link
https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Po8HEqpmUzc/U6pOhwAF4aI/AAAAAAAAMgQ/B4ihU0ipJyI/s1600/Ronald+Reagan+Thumbs+Up+Sincere+Smile+Nonverbal+Communication+Expert+Body+Language+Expert+Speaker+Keynote+Consultant+Las+Vegas+Los+Angeles+Orlando+New+York+City.png
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 December 2018 19:00 (five years ago) link
but good manners are the important thing
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 3 December 2018 19:04 (five years ago) link
xp Nothing sets a high bar for worst president like coordinating a huge misinformation propaganda campaign in order to start an unnecessary war that kills hundreds of thousands of civilians, costs more than a trillion dollars, and indirectly gives rise to ISIS, all without gaining any of its major war aims (except killing Saddam Hussein). And that's just the turkey, not the trimmings.
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 3 December 2018 19:06 (five years ago) link
Like I said on Saturday, if Donald Trump has his uses, it’s to destroy the fiction that our presidents must be gentlemen.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 December 2018 19:07 (five years ago) link