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Jeb Bush speaks about aging father, George H.W. Bush
The Upshot ^ | June 7, 2012 | Mike Krumboltz

Posted on 06/07/2012 12:23:20 PM PDT by presidio9

In an interview with Charlie Rose on "CBS This Morning," former Florida governor Jeb Bush revealed that his father, George H.W. Bush can no longer walk unassisted.

Jeb Bush said his father, 87, is still good mentally, but "he can't walk... He has to, you know, he's help by a stroller... That's hard for a guy that's been so vital and vigorous in life."

[Related: George W. Bush's favorable ratings lowest of any living president]

Indeed, there are few senior citizens as vital as George H. W. Bush. For many years, on his birthday, the 41st president made it his habit to skydive from an airplane. He did it for his 75th and 80th birthdays, as well as number 85 back in 2009.

In 2009, after landing, he joked, ""It's a great, exhilarating feeling... I don't feel a day over 84."

In the interview, Jeb Bush commented on his brother's legacy as president. "There's a fine line between stubbornness and the positive side of that, which is dogged determination. And I think what people will begin to see is that he wasn't stubborn. He was totally determined and principled about it. And the country was safer

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To: AUsome Joy; svcw
I had wondered the same thing because as I grew up I had identified Republicans with blue signs and Democrats with red signs. It appears that in 2000 is when the left called us red states.

"The terms red states and blue states came into use in the United States presidential election of 2000 on an episode of the "Today" show on October 30, 2000 to refer to those states of the United States whose residents predominantly vote for the Republican Party or Democratic Party presidential candidates, respectively."

From: Red State-Blue State

21 posted on 06/07/2012 1:51:42 PM PDT by Spunky
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To: presidio9
[Related: George W. Bush's favorable ratings lowest of any living president]

Related? How on earth is this related to the rest of the article?? The only way it is related is by genetics. Good grief, these media people are ridiculous!

22 posted on 06/07/2012 2:03:02 PM PDT by Shelayne
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To: Williams
He managed the breakup of the USSR (not Reagan)

If it were not for Reagan, GHWB, as did Presidents PRIOR to our 40th President, would have continued to preside over the abominable foreign policy known as 'detente' with the Soviet Union. America's past administrations had validated the Soviet annexation, domination and control of Eastern Europe, didn't give a good damn about the Baltic states, and were content to let Moscow "live and let live".

Not so Ronald Wilson Reagan, his approach to the Cold War was direct and straightforward, i.e. "we win, they lose" and his policies were what brought about America's victory over the Soviets, so don't hand us any crap about GHWB 'handling' the breakup of the USSR, he 'handled' it the same way that 0bama is responsible for 'catching' 0sama bin Laden. He just happened to be sitting in the Oval Office at the right time, when the Soviet monolith came crashing down. It wasn't GHWB who went to the Berlin Wall and thundered "MR GORBACHEV? TEAR DOWN THIS WALL!"

And let nobody forget that.
23 posted on 06/07/2012 2:06:16 PM PDT by mkjessup (Eternal Vigilance (aka FReeper Tom Hoefling) has my vote for President in 2012.)
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To: US Navy Vet
Reagan was BRIGHT RED

Reagan was a RED???

24 posted on 06/07/2012 2:09:36 PM PDT by Da Bilge Troll (Defeatism is not a winning strategy!)
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To: presidio9

I met him about a year and a half ago and he was not getting around too well.


25 posted on 06/07/2012 2:12:56 PM PDT by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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To: Williams
He managed the breakup of the USSR (not Reagan)

Yeah right! I remember that during the breakup, GHWB's administration was worried that Yeltsin and his people would be worse than the Soviet leaders and were rooting for the continuation of USSR.

26 posted on 06/07/2012 2:29:37 PM PDT by JimWayne
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To: Williams
He managed the breakup of the USSR (not Reagan)

Yeah right! I remember that during the breakup, GHWB's administration was worried that Yeltsin and his people would be worse than the Soviet leaders and were rooting for the continuation of USSR.

27 posted on 06/07/2012 2:29:54 PM PDT by JimWayne
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To: napscoordinator
I hate when I hear this. Reagan was his own person and made his own decisions...this reminds me of the people who claimed that Reagan had a feable mind.

Your opinion. Sorry you hate to hear it. I have read other of your posts and find we agree on very little.

President Ronald W. Reagan is my favorite president of all time. Of course he was not of feable feeble mind. It was a political decision. The GOP would not have supported his presidential run if he hadn't "selected" George H.W. Bush as his running mate. It's as simple as that.

28 posted on 06/07/2012 2:35:17 PM PDT by arasina (So there.)
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To: presidio9

The left excells at demonizing and minimizing people. I grew up in a Lefty household and when I was five years old I thought that Ike was an old, feeble, not very intelligent man who only played golf and that Adlai Stevenson was almost a God and maybe more brilliant than God. Last night we watched IKE portrayed by Tom Selleck and the discrepancy between the hero and the man I was made to “see” was dramatically depressing to me.


29 posted on 06/07/2012 2:37:50 PM PDT by Anima Mundi (ENVY IS JUST PASSIVE, LAZY GREED)
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To: mkjessup

Ronald Reagan was great, but it’s also true the USSR fell not under Reagan, but under GHWB, and the elder Bush managed it superbly. All conventional wisdom was that East Germany would have to be kept in the Russian sphere, definitely no NATO troops there. Bush insisted on and got 100% German reunification in NATO.

As for a posting here about Yeltsin, when hardline commie generals tried to stage a coup, Bush backed Yeltsin and prevented a possible return to the cold war.

Has Bush been reelected, as a 2 term president his accmplishments would be far more recognized.


30 posted on 06/07/2012 3:05:04 PM PDT by Williams (No Obama)
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To: Williams
Bush insisted on and got 100% German reunification in NATO.

It also helped that Helmut Kohl was the German leader back then.

31 posted on 06/07/2012 3:07:23 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: presidio9

The Bush Sr. liberry (for those of you in Rio Linda) is near Houston, and I was there about 8 months ago. They mentioned then that he was in a wheelchair.

I’ve also met him a couple of times. Very nice and funny as hell. I’ll concur that he was a crappy president, but he’s a hell of a man.


32 posted on 06/07/2012 5:00:27 PM PDT by BobL
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To: Shelayne

I HAD to leave that link in there for exactly that reason. Thanks for noticing.


33 posted on 06/07/2012 6:15:54 PM PDT by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does.)
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To: presidio9
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34 posted on 06/07/2012 7:59:50 PM PDT by GreenLanternCorps ("Barack Obama" is Swahili for "Jimmy Carter".)
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To: bigbob

And speaking of opinions, the Clint Eastwood line came to mine as I read that snark about Bush 43’s popularity rating. One thing I always admired about W is the fact that he didn’t give a tin sh1t about what the polls said. And neither do I.
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I worked at US Customs and Border Patrol during W’s term. W was prepared to throw open the borders officially before 9/11. After 9/11 it was all unofficial. still is..

The border problem is the mess that’s left over from the crack up of an elite program to form a north american union.


35 posted on 06/07/2012 8:08:58 PM PDT by ckilmer
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To: GreenLanternCorps

Camera shy, I guess.

Bonus question: Which one of these flyboys looks least qualified for a life in politics.

Answer: The youngest one.


36 posted on 06/07/2012 10:02:46 PM PDT by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does.)
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To: Williams
Has Bush been reelected, as a 2 term president his accmplishments would be far more recognized.

You mean like selling out the Kurds, and letting Saddam Hussein live to murder, rape and pillage the innocent for another decade or so?

Yeah, that was quite an accomplishment. /s
37 posted on 06/07/2012 11:41:40 PM PDT by mkjessup (Eternal Vigilance (aka FReeper Tom Hoefling) has my vote for President in 2012.)
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To: US Navy Vet

To be fair, It was Reagan who put Sandra Day on the court.


38 posted on 06/08/2012 6:41:56 AM PDT by Perdogg
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To: Perdogg

THAT was Mistake No 2


39 posted on 06/08/2012 6:48:42 AM PDT by US Navy Vet (Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
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To: mkjessup

What stupidity, he led a coalition that smashed Sadaam, against everyone saying he couldn’t succeed. Freed Kuwait, destroyed Sadaam’s forces.

Do you realize Kuwaiti’s, Shiites and Kurds were being slaughtered BEFORE He smashed Sadaam?

That it set up Sadaam to be defeated in the second go round?


40 posted on 06/08/2012 9:35:25 AM PDT by Williams (No Obama)
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