So long 41....

[Lummy]

Bush was probably a lot more responsible for the present state of our government dysfunction than anyone acknowledges. To the extent that he escaped scrutiny and criticism is, I suppose, the mark of a true spy.

[Lummy]

At least three of the people in the funeral photo sitting together -- Obama, Hillary and Bill -- should be in prison, but there they are, as if they have some legitimate business at a state gathering, and Obama has the same $#@!ing smirk on his face he had in 2008.

Bush did that too.

[Peter1469]

I haven't read one word about his certain intimacy with the "Deep State", although he certainly was part of that self-serving, unAmerican bureaucratococracy going back to his CIA days in the 1970's and probably earlier. I often wonder how different things might be if Reagan had chosen another running mate.

Goodbye, Mr Bush.

I don't think Reagan had a choice.

[Lummy]

Sort of like LBJ never really had any choices. You do politically what you gotta do to win.

[Tahuyaman]

I wish there was such a thing as a time machine so we could go back in time and see how those who are claiming all this deep respect for George HW Bush were just savaging him during his presidency.

[Mister D]

I wish there was such a thing as a time machine so we could go back in time and see how those who are claiming all this deep respect for George HW Bush were just savaging him during his presidency.

I was just thinking about that at the gym. They were calling this a rare moment of unity but I too have to wonder what some of these folks were actually saying while he was in office.

[Mister D]

Think about the fact that GHWB enlisted at 18 and survived being shot down at 20. Compare that to what most 18-20 year olds are doing in today's world. Whomever labeled GHWB with the "wimp factor" BS is a fool. He was a stud alpha male and a great bureaucrat, husband and father.

RIP

A great bureaucrat? Lol sorry that made me smile.

[Tahuyaman]

I was just thinking about that at the gym. They were calling this a rare moment of unity but I too have to wonder what some of these folks were actually saying while he was in office.

I remember what they were saying and it doesn't come close to what they are saying now.

[Safety]

I wish there was such a thing as a time machine so we could go back in time and see how those who are claiming all this deep respect for George HW Bush were just savaging him during his presidency.

I was just thinking about that at the gym. They were calling this a rare moment of unity but I too have to wonder what some of these folks were actually saying while he was in office.

No different than those that maligned Clinton for his sexual transgressions, then supporting someone like Trump.

[MisterVeritis]

Bush was probably a lot more responsible for the present state of our government dysfunction than anyone acknowledges. To the extent that he escaped scrutiny and criticism is, I suppose, the mark of a true spy.

Explain.