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George H.W. Bush, 41st president of the United States, dead at 94.
Fox News ^ | 12/1/2018 | Fox News

Posted on 12/01/2018 4:31:15 AM PST by Carriage Hill

Former President George H.W. Bush, who spent a lifetime in public service and as the nation's leader scored a decisive victory over Saddam Hussein but battled a faltering economy, died Friday at age 94. Family spokesman Jim McGrath said Bush died shortly after 10 p.m. Friday, about eight months after the death of his wife, Barbara Bush. He is survived by five children, including former President George W. Bush and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. A sixth child died in early childhood. The late former president also is survived by 17 grandchildren.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 41; 4th; bush; potus
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To: carriage_hill

I had uncles who were every bit the “war hero” GHWB was, but they came from dirt-poor families in flyover country. It never hurts to be the commissioned scion of a wealthy east-coast family when it comes time to get all the bennies and launch a lifetime of “public service.”


21 posted on 12/01/2018 4:59:37 AM PST by niteowl77 ("I am equally hostile to unbridled power whether exercised by the head or tail of society.")
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To: equaviator

He definitely made some mistakes as POTUS. God will judge him; people on FR aren’t qualified to.


22 posted on 12/01/2018 5:00:14 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: DarthVader

Where does that come from?


23 posted on 12/01/2018 5:01:26 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: carriage_hill

Well, it appears that a few airheaded youngsters decided to show up for this thread.


24 posted on 12/01/2018 5:01:52 AM PST by OkiMusashi (Beware the fury of a patient man. --- John Dryden)
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To: allendale

Well, he is dead. If he caused harm, he can’t any more. I he did good, we will suffer the loss of it.

So it goes....


25 posted on 12/01/2018 5:02:03 AM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: carriage_hill

Doesn’t matter. Freepers will dig out the antibush dogma and gladly ride the band wagon


26 posted on 12/01/2018 5:03:33 AM PST by bert (to them (KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Invade Honduras. Provide a military government)
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To: allendale
He eventually became President only because Ronald Reagan had difficulty selecting a Vice President running mate in 1980.

My recollection was that 41 was shoved down Reagan's throat at convention. It was a heated compromise as RWR didn't want Bush as his running mate.

Had nothing to do with "difficulty choosing" and everything to do with the squishy party leaders.

27 posted on 12/01/2018 5:04:20 AM PST by CAluvdubya (<---has now left CA for NV, where God/guns have not been outlawed! She's done and he's won!)
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To: niteowl77

you don’t measure up.


28 posted on 12/01/2018 5:07:27 AM PST by bert (to them (KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Invade Honduras. Provide a military government)
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To: OkiMusashi

I mean, honestly, the whole “NWO” stuff aside, back then he wasnt seen as a “terrible” president. He was lucky to be the one in charge at the final collapse of the USSR, and no one can say that his performance during Gulf War I wasn’t anything short of spectacular. he really phoned it in back in 92, though.

I was in 4th grade when he was elected, and I do remember the day after the election some of us trying to get used to saying “President Bush”, which sounded really weird, when we really only knew of President Reagan, and in a way he kind of gets lost being between him and Clinton.

But yeah, he certainly lived a long time after leaving office, so this isnt a huge shock to me to hear today. I think that leaves the Simpsons as the only major thing to come out of 1988 that is still going.


29 posted on 12/01/2018 5:08:42 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: carriage_hill

Mark Taylor


30 posted on 12/01/2018 5:10:04 AM PST by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of today be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: bert; OkiMusashi

You’re right. Who didn’t see them coming to vent. God will judge Bush; it’s not our job.


31 posted on 12/01/2018 5:10:47 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: allendale

Spot on, you are, with that observation.


32 posted on 12/01/2018 5:12:14 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: dp0622
Rot in hell.

That's a little harsh.
G.H.W. Bush was a NWO'er later in life and for that, he should be rightly criticized.

His career as a government bureaucrat was distinguished and enviable.

33 posted on 12/01/2018 5:13:50 AM PST by Ouderkirk (Life is about ass, you're either covering, hauling, laughing, kicking, kissing, or behaving like one)
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To: allendale

I agree with you totally, if any real history is ever written again after Democrats finally take over the world. And they will.


34 posted on 12/01/2018 5:14:32 AM PST by Hardastarboard (Break it off in 'em, Brett. They've earned it, and you've earned it.)
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To: dp0622

your posts departs rationality and plunges to the depths of absolute stupidity.


35 posted on 12/01/2018 5:17:03 AM PST by bert (to them (KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Invade Honduras. Provide a military government)
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To: dp0622

He made the throat cutting gesture on television from his wheel chair when his family spoke about then candidate Donald Trump and the withdrawal of Jeb Bush’s candidacy.

At that point I wonder exactly what this demented former Director of the CIA might have done to our country. Not much good.


36 posted on 12/01/2018 5:25:13 AM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: carriage_hill

He was the beginning of where we are now.


37 posted on 12/01/2018 5:28:53 AM PST by RedwM
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To: Ancient Man

We don’t pay much attention to 3rd parties, but they have had pivotal roles in elections. Perot in 1992, Nader in 2000.


38 posted on 12/01/2018 5:31:40 AM PST by beef (The more they tighten their grip, the more blogs will slip through their fingers.)
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To: dp0622
Although I have a profound reverence for WW2 vets (they were my heroes when I was a kid growing up) and indeed all vets in general, going forward this is the George H. W. Bush legacy I will remember:

"You have not repudiated Mr. LaPierre’s unwarranted attack,” Bush’s missive reads. “Therefore, I resign as a Life Member of NRA, said resignation to be effective upon your receipt of this letter. Please remove my name from your membership list.”

July 8, 1989.
"The Bush administration yesterday imposed a permanent import ban on 43 types of semiautomatic assault rifles, including the Chinese-made AK47 and Israeli-made Uzi carbine."

39 posted on 12/01/2018 5:35:37 AM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: VanDeKoik

I was in my 30’s. I grew up in the Cold War. Yeah, “Duck & Cover”, Civil Defence Drills, and studying Rads in hs physics classes.... the whole works. That was “life”. No way out.

If someone had told me, in grade school, in my teens, or, hell, 20’s, that the USSR would end the way that it did; I would have laughed at them.

GHWB and Reagan played that hand as good as it could have been played.

LOL. Noobs latch on to his “New World Order” line and whine mainly because they are too young to understand that it was a necessary and welcome alternatve to the “Old World Order” that really, really, sucked.


40 posted on 12/01/2018 5:40:13 AM PST by OkiMusashi (Beware the fury of a patient man. --- John Dryden)
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