Not sure I would necessarily describe it as modest. It is very tasteful and not ostentatious. I'd love to have one like it.
Posted on 08/22/2007 12:16:32 PM PDT by Ready4Freddy
Husband of George H.W. Bush’s cousin has heart attack at Maine retreat
Updated: 9:17 a.m. CT Aug 22, 2007
KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine - An 81-year-old houseguest suffered a fatal heart attack at the summer home of former President George H.W. Bush.
John C. Jansing, the husband of Bush’s cousin Shelley Bush Jansing, was taken by paramedics late Tuesday to the emergency room at Southern Maine Medical Center in Biddeford. Efforts to revive him were unsuccessful.
“Jack was a wonderful man,” the former president said in a statement. “Our thoughts and prayers are with his wife and their three children. Barbara and I will miss him terribly.”
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
I've met Mr. Jansing a few times, his Harbor Springs home on Little Traverse Bay isn't that far from my hangout on Grand Traverse. He was known in Petoskey & Charlevoix (where I met him).
RIP
Bush’s fault.
I was thinking about pellets from Cheney’s shotgun...
Thank you for the information on Mr. Jansing.
I will be in the Traverse City and Charlevoix area visiting next week. Will have to see if me parents knew Mr. Jansing or know of him.
RIP and prayers for the Jansing family
Ex-president???? That negatively biased term used to be reserved only for Nixon. So now all former presidents will be referred to as ex or only just ones named Bush?
Lame stream media strikes again.
Mainicide?
This incident will get alot more scrutiny from the MSM than Vince Foster’s death. The media is society’s watchdog, don’t ya know. /sarc
Yep only ex-presidents named Bush are labeled that way.
I have seen Bill Clinton interviewed a number of times after his presidency ended, and invariably the interviewer says he/she welcomes “President Clinton”.
And it applies to others too. John Edwards is always addressed as “Senator Edwards” though he no longer is a senator.
Did Bush the elder sell his ocean front house in Kenebunk? Or is this a different place? It had a great location and was actually pretty modest.
Same place, you have an incorrect spelling of the location.
Or maybe they just couldn’t find an Aggie to write the headline? UT Alums are Texas Ex’s, Aggie Alums are ‘former students’ (anyone who darkened College Station’s doors can join :).
Not sure I would necessarily describe it as modest. It is very tasteful and not ostentatious. I'd love to have one like it.
>>Aggie Alums are ‘former students’ (anyone who darkened College Station’s doors can join :).<<
Aggie alums are Aggies. No “ex” or anything needed. The school refers to the alumni as Former Students just to distinguish, and entry is a bit more stringent than you suggest: one has to actually attend A&M.
OK, color me a moron. I misread former president Bush as former summer home of Bush.
I’ve stayed in the town right next to it and the house is beautiful. By modest, I meant it appears to blend into the surroundings and is not what I would expect an ex-president to have.
Been To Kennebunkport a couple times - I don’t know of a more beautiful place to die....
RIP
But not graduate...
Anyway, I knew I catch at least one! ;>)
Bush: Ex-president
Clinton: Sex-president
I hope to see GHW Bush and Barbra on MTV Cribs one day........
I have NEVER heard Clinton referred to as our ex-president.
RIP
I wrote MSNBC and complained:
I object to the headline “Houseguest dies at ex-President Bush’s home”. “Ex” is a negatively biased term associated with President Nixon’s resignation from office. Will your style book now use this term in conjunction with President Carter or Clinton?
Your editors should know better and should be reprimanded for such a flagrant and obvious trick which exposes them as unreasoning left-wingers that can’t resist poking at perceived opponents and apparently are unable to maintain even the appearance of respect for the office of the president as an institution.
It isn’t partisan politics that has made social discourse unpleasant. It is irresponsible and juvenile journalism that seeks attention and notoriety at the expense of our nation.
Sincerely,
It’s been in the Walker / Bush family since the late 1800’s. That’s ‘Walker’ as in the Walker Cup Match (amateur golf match between US & England/Ireland).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_compound
Umm, if you call Bush 1 President Bush, I would assume you’re talking about the guy in the White House now. Maybe former President Bush, but not President Bush.
Calderon: Mex-president
ducking....
The correct style is former President Bush and the editors know that. They will of course use a lame excuse about character space in headlines, but they could have said President Bush Sr. to convey the difference or Former Pres. Bush.
But they wanted to juxtapose ex with President Bush to fulfill their juvenile impeachment fantasies.
Methinks thou protesteth too much. ‘Ex-’ means ‘former’.
Hitlery Clinton: Hex-president
Jansing was about to “spill the beans” ? /sarc
From CBS:
Clinton Cheated ‘Because I Could’
Ex-President Discusses Lewinsky Affair In 60 Minutes Inteview
From NewsMax:
Ex-president Bill Clinton has agreed that when it comes to speaking out on controversial issues, his wife, Sen. Hillary Clinton, will have the last word from here on out.
From the NY Daily News:
Ex-President Bill Clinton says he still gets ripped when he hears people picking on his wife Hillary,
From People magazine:
Janet Jackson Finds Ex-President ‘Sexy’
I could go on but I won’t.
Apparently you are not familiar with publishing style books. There was some small furor about using the term ex back when Nixon resigned.
It’s just cheesy and juvenile reporting and they know better.
Complaining is just another drop in the chamberpot that major media is drowning in because they refuse to assess and discipline themselves, leaving themselves at the mercy of the gods of the marketplace.
Not that I have a problem with that. LOL
“The correct style is former President Bush and the editors know that. They will of course use a lame excuse about character space in headlines, but they could have said President Bush Sr. to convey the difference or Former Pres. Bush.”
See post number 29 for just a few of many examples of “ex-President Clinton.”
The AP Stylebook, which is what most media follow, has no style rule about “ex” or “former” when it comes to presidents.
Ahhnold: pecs-president.
OK, I'll stop now.
After Jan. 20, 2009, all our exes will live in Texas.
Apparently they have dropped it. I must be getting old, really old.
Still hacks me off though.
Oh, I have. I say it, with relief, everytime I mention the man. As in when I tell my daughter, a young, attractive blond, if you ever are in a situation where the ex-president of the United States, Bill Clinton, is in attendance, regardless of what you are doing there, you need to flee, immediately, without looking back. You are in danger until you remove your person from his.
OK, I'll stop now.
One of the reasons is that there are/were a whole host of Aggies that went to war before they graduated and never returned to school. As you know from our history, we aren’t going to leave them out. But I don’t think transfers or drop outs really call themselves Aggies or former students. Nowadays, they just go somewhere else and integrate into their alumni.
If she has to "remove her person from his," I think it's already far too late....
(Prolly not best choice of wording you've ever made.... ;-)
Now Cheney has a heart attack machine ?!
Will the madness never end?
Beautiful.
And very zombie proof.
I like it.
As you know from our history, we aren’t going to leave them out.
May the gentleman rest in peace. Prayers for his family.
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