Posted on 08/28/2009 7:00:44 AM PDT by meandog
Edited on 08/28/2009 7:57:03 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
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I’m sure it will a typical classy Democrat funeral...snarky and Wellstonian.
Bush 41 is a recovered alcoholic.........teddy was one till the end, or till he couldn’t lift the bottle anymore. joke all ya want, but that there is class. learn from your mistakes and all.
too bad 41 wants to go......but it’s his choice I guess. I wouldn’t bother.
It's nice to see some of the more positive comments on this thread. Yes, W was flawed and I violently disagreed with much that he did, but trying to get along with his political opponents is one of the things I liked about him (he indeed DID try to change the tone, the Dems were just petulant brats who held on to their resentment over Florida).
Carter is bitter about everything and everybody but himself about his failed presidency (about the only good thing I can admire about Bush 43 is that he's at least not as bitter and bad as Carter is/was.) I'm certain that he'll use the event to try to advance something positive about his legacy of complete and utter failure).
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According to the media, wife Vikie got Teddy to quit the bottle. No?
Bush was born, raised and educated in New England. His family, of course, is one of the most powerful in American politics since the 1930s. Face it, he’s a Connecticut Cowboy. But he played his gimmick well. As well known as Bush 41 is for publisizing the “new world order,” Prescott laid the seeds for it.
As someone stated—he is 85 years old. He doesn’t have to go if he doesn’t want to. Barbara Bush had heart surgery not that long ago (March) Leave them alone.
Some people wouldn’t be satisfied if Bush 41 appeared on national television, tore the head off a live rooster, and drank its blood, all while issuing a Santerian curse.
Why don’t you look at my post #13 in the thread.
They flipped a coin and George Jr. lost.
Wasn’t that his initiation into Skull and Bones?
Good point . . . maybe it was, and some enterprising FReeper will post a thread linking it to Kennedy’s death.
Was there a grassy knoll anywhere near Kennedy’s deathbed?
correction.....Bush 43 is the recovered alcoholic.....gees......what a mistake!
It's the ONE good thing from Teddy's legacy, he helped Reagan gain the White House.
if he quit it was more likely due to health reasons......he got too old to drink...happens a lot. pancreatitis will do it.....or your liver starts to go....or your body just can’t handle the stuff anymore, so you quit.....but he did it for LOVE? I find THAT one hard to swallow....LOL
Exactly! Hardly different really than the Kennedy clan 'cept the Bush's are WASPS and the Kennedys are RCs. But both families are damned yankees, IMHO, and no doubt had antecedents that attacked and tried to destroy my beloved Southern soil. The Bush's later became notorious carpetbaggers when it came to Texas oil money. Double-pee-yew even tried to pass himself off as a native Texan when he was the Lone Star state's governor--even wore a pair of Mahan boots with the state seal on them.
It's just too bad he didn't stop before getting the DUI...without that he might have won over 50% of the popular vote in 2000 and been in a stronger position in his first term without all the rancor left over from Gore's attempt to steal the Florida electoral votes.
Supposedly, Orrin Hatch (of all people) urged "his friend" to quit the bottle and new wife Vicki Reggie laid down the law about it after the William Kennedy Smith incident. I don't know the truth whether or not he still imbibed from time to time AND I don't know whether or not GWB ever slipped as well (as far as I know neither ever attended AA meetings) ... I believe that Bush didn't as he never appeared drunk while president but I'm also gonna give old Teddy the benefit of the doubt too after William Kennedy Smith got off with rape. Let me just say that they both had episodes of drunkenness that caused concern about their fitness. In Bush's case, however, it was in his 20s and 30s when he allegedly challenged #41 to fisticuffs after running his automobile into the house and, of course, was arrested for DUI; still, though he didn't hold any political office, he was a young father at the time. In Teddy's case he got away Scot free of manslaughter after drowning a young campaign aide when he ran off a bridge in a drunken driving event and steered his nephew on an Easter bender that ended up with a young woman alleging rape.
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