Live: President George H.W. Bush State Funeral Service

CSPAN ^ | December 5, 2018

[conservative98]

DECEMBER 5, 2018

President George H.W. Bush State Funeral Service

A National Day of Mourning includes a state funeral service for former President George H.W. Bush at the Washington National Cathedral.

Watch live

https://www.c-span.org/video/?455342-1/president-george-hw-bush-state-funeral-service

[Catmom]

Was this in a public school?

Nice to see this wherever it was, though. Kids are often more decent than the adults around them.

[Mercat]

That quote about hate totally applies to her.

[caww]

Held it together until the very end..then regathered his strength and went forward

.....truly rough burying your father....and this in front of a nation.

[Fury]

I am not going to participate in Bush worship.

Whatever.

[Veto!]

Thank. you for your decent comments, caww. I too was very moved by the service.

[Pravious]

Did I see Jeb cross himself? Has he converted to Catholicism?

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What was he? A member of the self-important Church of Dork?

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

That really choked me up.

[caww]

The singing by the Irish Tenor was majestic throughout the cathedral.....perfection.....

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[aspasia]

All those telling expressions. That’s ripe for captions.

[caww]

I've never had tears as I have through this Pres. service....between the military who showed such honor and precision throughout.....which first started wet eyes....to seeing our President salute George Bush.....to realizing the work of bridging people together he and the Bushes were doing together....obvious to any who were really watching what was going on.....stunning time in history.

[bryan999]

What a great picture!

Generation Z RISING!

[aspasia]

What gorgeous music at the opening!

[Otto Lidenbrock]

President George W Bush’s eulogy had me moved. Say what you want about his politics....no denying he loves his family and he can inject humour into a solemn moment without trying to hide his emotions too. I always liked that about 43.

[semantic]

Dude, you should bottle and sell whatever you're taking to reach that kind of hallucinogenic high. SMH - I don't even know how to react to such a display of profound ignorance or shear determination to alter facts. However, since I'm a pretty nice guy, I'll try and provide an outline of what the Bush family has been at the forefront of altering the national character.

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Citizens of the US/EU are like team members on a football/soccer team, whereas the ruling political parties are equivalent to ownership and management. The average career in the NFL is 3 years; within 10 years, maybe only one player is left from the original roster. (For example, Tom Brady.)

Do ownership, management, fans and TV networks care? No, because the imagery & symbolism of the team is all that counts, not the actual physical make-up of the individual members & players. That is, there is constant turnover, substitution and replacement that takes place on a consistent cycle.

To the uni-party, politicians don't care who actually comprises the electorate, or who actually represents the USA. To insiders, their assigned roles are (a) DNC = workers and (b) RNC = capitalists. It doesn't matter a whit whether this characterization is true or not. All that matters is traditional identity and party allegiance.

This is why the GOP is in favor of open borders. It doesn't matter who actually comprises the (permanent) 'capitalist' minority (ie savers, investors, morally upstanding people, etc), as long as elected GOP politicians have a place at the table to leverage their connections and pay-offs.

FR caters to those who actually believe(d) the patriotic lies - cue Otter in Animal House "you fvcked up, you trusted us". Trump identified this sentiment and rode it to the WH. In order for Trump - or anyone else - to reverse the course this country has been on since post WWII would literally take a civil war. No way is Trump willing to go there, so it's actually all over except for the crying.

[caww]

'Tearful touch'....after his speaking of his father....

[magna carta]

Did not see that part...WOW...on top of the incredible exaggeration regarding the Bushes with commentary from Bett Baier saying that NWO Bush was like A FOUNDING FATHER LEAGUE OF PRESIDENT...geez.
Scary stuff

[dfwgator]

Well, he was one of the "X-Presidents"....

[livius]

Jeb Bush is Catholic; he converted when he married his wife, who is Catholic and of Mexican descent.

[Trump Girl Kit Cat]

It is very depressing to realize the country will NEVER again be what we once had!!! Our founders did their damndest to give us a Republic that power hungry people could not destroy and with EVERYTHING they thought of that could possibly go wrong it still went wrong!!! POTUS can’t do this on his own and the BASTARDS elected could give a shit less about saving our nation!!! Founders should have put term limits into the constitution, I often wonder WHY they did not!!!!

[Black Agnes]

“Founders should have put term limits into the constitution, I often wonder WHY they did not!!!!”

Very few people were in good enough shape at 60 back then. Much less a chamber full of 80+yr olds who’ve been there 40+ years. Before antibiotics, heart surgery, chemotherapy, dialysis/etc the odds that many ‘someones’ would have simultaneously lived to be 80+ were very small.