Posted on 12/17/2013 3:06:43 PM PST by Kaslin
Say what you will about Bush he is a nice guy.
Something no one ever accused Obama of being.
Thanks for posting this Kaslin! I came here to see if someone did as I wanted to share it with a few Dose friends who might not have heard it. Loved hearing Rush talked about GWB!!
Bush should be a hero to prepgresives.
Transcripts are not editorials.
His girlfriend looks pregnant.
When I see that picture I’m reminded of the old movie musical where Dick Powell serenades Ruby Keeler with “I Only Have Eyes for You”.
LOL!
I like this. You can never trust the majority of Libs to be fair and decent, but it’s nice to have a small amount of the young, unbrainwashed open to appreciating who W. was and is. Rush doesn’t say so, but the new warm feelings for W. are more likely to occur due to the Liar Of The Year, and his destructively bizarre White House staff.
Aspiring to be the dick of the thread?
By fishtank...updated Dec. 6, 2006
Here’s what a “conservative” is supposed to be?
* Doing his very best to destroy American sovereignty by melding America into Mexico into Canada???
* George W. Bush (43): “I looked the man in the eye. I was able to get a sense of his soul.
I knew that President Putin was a man with whom I could work.”
* Did nothing when his wife called a homosexual partner’s mom the “mother-in-law” ???
* Allowed the new Iraqi constitution to have a clause where no law would contradict Islam.
* Wanted to sell US port operations to Dubai - a nation that supports terror.
* Advocates a completely open border - to the detriment of national security.
* Calls the Minutemen “vigilantes”.
* Continually calls Islam a “religion of peace”.
* Pursues “free trade”, not fair trade. “Free trade” has not been very fair, so far.
* Supported Specter over Toomey.
* Told Hush to host Specter with softballs, and then Hush carries the water.
* Continually supported Linc Chaffee, and what did it win in the long run?
* Let Ted Kennedy write the education bill.
* Did nothing to rein in pork barrel government spending.
* In an exclusive interview with ABC News’ Charles Gibson, Bush said he believes that both Christians and Muslims worship the same God. “I think we do. We have different routes of getting to the Almighty,” Bush said.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=193746&page=1
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The F-102 was a supersonic second generation fighter designed in the early 1950s for the US Air Force. The primary mission of the aircraft was to intercept columns of Soviet nuclear bombers attempting to reach targets in the US and destroy them with air-to-air missiles. The technologies incorporated into the aircraft were state-of-the-art for the day. The F-102 set many firsts, including the first all-weather delta-winged combat aircraft, the first fighter capable of maintaining supersonic speed in level flight, and the first interceptor to have an armament entirely of missiles. Among the many innovations incorporated into the design were the use of the area rule to reduce aerodynamic drag and an advanced electronic fire control system capable of guiding the aircraft to a target and automatically launching its missiles.Regardless, the F-102 was still far more dangerous to fly than today's combat aircraft. Compared to the F-102's lifetime accident rate of 13.69, today's planes generally average around 4 mishaps per 100,000 hours. For example, compare the F-16 at 4.14, the F-15 at 2.47, the F-117 at 4.07, the S-3 at 2.6, and the F-18 at 4.9. Even the Marine Corps' AV-8B, regarded as the most dangerous aircraft in US service today, has a lifetime accident rate of only 11.44 mishaps per 100,000 flight hours. The F-102 claimed the lives of many pilots, including a number stationed at Ellington during Bush's tenure. Of the 875 F-102A production models that entered service, 259 were lost in accidents that killed 70 Air Force and ANG pilots.
After being accepted into the ANG, Airman Basic Bush was selected to attend pilot training even though his test scores were the lowest acceptable for that position. His six weeks of basic training was completed at Lackland AFB in Texas during July and August of 1968. Upon its completion, Bush was promoted to the officer's rank of second lieutenant required for pilot candidates. He spent the next year in flight school at Moody AFB in Georgia from November 1968 to November 1969. The aircraft Lt. Bush trained aboard were the T-41 Mescelero propeller-driven basic trainer, T-37 Tweet primary jet trainer, and the T-38 Talon advanced jet trainer. Bush ranked 22 out of 53 students in his flight school class with a grade of 88 on total airmanship. His scores included 100 for flying without navigational instruments, 89 in flight planning, and 98 in aviation physiology. Bush also completed two weeks of survival training during this period.
Bush then returned to Ellington in Texas to complete seven months of combat crew training on the F-102 from December 1969 to June 1970. This period included five weeks of training on the T-33 Shooting Star and 16 weeks aboard the TF-102 Delta Dagger two-seat trainer and finally the single-seat F-102A. Bush graduated from the training program in June 1970. When interviewed by the Associated Press in February 2004, flight instructor Maj. Udell recalled that Lt. Bush was one of his best students saying that, "I'd rank him in the top five percent."
I sure do miss him, and the the First Lady
I meant to record it, but luckily I found the video online so I was able to watch it
... folks, this is true, what I'm gonna tell you. Everybody who knew George Bush a little to a lot to very well saw a completely different guy in private than what everybody saw on camera.
I wish I had a $ for every time I have said the same thing. I referred to it as, "W trying to look Presidential." He is very personable and both he and his dad make you feel like they've known you forever. They are "comfortable" to be with.
Absolutely right. Bush has a purposeful life, he doesn’t care about the pop culture-talking head opinions, and is playing the long game in which I’m certain he will be remembered as a great President who demonstrated leadership in a troubled time even at a cost to his personal image and popularity.
Obama will be remembered as the polar opposite, a poor President who failed to lead, managed to overstep the authority of his office while at the same time staying uninvolved and disengaged from even the most important issues.
Bush will be remembered as a caring philanthropist; Obama will be remembered as an inept narcissist.
There is no need to make fun of it.
Shame on you
Sure looks like it
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