RIP
Great American Hero, last of that generation.
Great American Hero, last of that generation.
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An honorable man. I wish we had more like him today. Rest in peace.
Yes. And because I’ve been drinking after my trip this week to Europe, I’ll toast him with this song. It has nothing to do with him but I just like to drink to it.RIP
Great American Hero, last of that generation.
A very underrated President.RIP
Great American Hero, last of that generation.
Qualifications and performance in his assignments and jobs.If our president was selected by an unbiased board of directors which based their choice solely on qualifications, GHWB would be the kind of person they would choose.
GHWB was the closest to a prototype President who held office in my lifetime. Personable enough to build important foreign and domestic relationships. Humble enough to compromise and make deals on important policy issues. Confident and decisive enough to take bold and risky actions. Honest and good enough to attract the affection of all who knew him. He could never fill a stadium with a speech, he could never motivate a crowd at a rally, he could never excoriate his political opponents, nor could he ever act on a grudge. Yet he had a noticeable resolve that you'd expect from a combat aviator.
Thanks for posting the letter he wrote to Bill Clinton. I was struck by "There will be very tough times made even more difficult by criticism you may not think is fair." My mind immediately flashed to the 1992 campaign and the incoming HW took from the right, left, and center as he lost that election. The lesson learned was that being highly competent and effective in office without showmanship was not enough to attract votes.
I met him once. Only briefly at a reception with many people. Even for those few moments, he made me feel like I was the only other person in the room.
We need more like him.
RIP.
GHWB was the closest to a prototype President who held office in my lifetime. Personable enough to build important foreign and domestic relationships. Humble enough to compromise and make deals on important policy issues. Confident and decisive enough to take bold and risky actions. Honest and good enough to attract the affection of all who knew him. He could never fill a stadium with a speech, he could never motivate a crowd at a rally, he could never excoriate his political opponents, nor could he ever act on a grudge. Yet he had a noticeable resolve that you'd expect from a combat aviator.
Thanks for posting the letter he wrote to Bill Clinton. I was struck by "There will be very tough times made even more difficult by criticism you may not think is fair." My mind immediately flashed to the 1992 campaign and the incoming HW took from the right, left, and center as he lost that election. The lesson learned was that being highly competent and effective in office without showmanship was not enough to attract votes.
I met him once. Only briefly at a reception with many people. Even for those few moments, he made me feel like I was the only other person in the room.
We need more like him.
RIP.
Honorable, competent, and dull just doesn't cut it anymore. 'Tis a pity.He really was one of the good ones. Now we are running out of good ones.
That’s just the kind of nontribute tribute I expected from you. I voted for Carter, but it turned out that Reagan and GHW Bush were exactly what this country needed at the time. I was never more satisfied with my Presidential vote as when I voted for Reagan and Bush in 1984, 1988 and 1992, even as I voted for Democrats down ballot in each race. I consider them 2 of the top 3 Presidents in my lifetime. The 3rd is a Democrat, but you can guess which one. I’m certain you don’t have any Republicans on your list.Bush Sr. strikes me as really a patrician...the closest analog would be to a British Tory. Raised in wealth and privilege. Attended the finest schools. Not a particularly deep or clever fellow but with a deep sense of honor, patriotism and noblesse oblige. When he ran against Reagan and Reagan won the Republican Party made a big mistake as did the country. After that Bush was always out of step with the tribal right in ways that Reagan wasn't. The best parts of Bush's legacy are when he acted consonant with his patrician Tory values--essentially a neo-liberal technocrat. But Bush sacrificed a good deal of that when he joined Reagan's administration and when he subsequently ran for election himself in 1988 with Lee Atwater's racist campaign. He also paid a price for catering to the hard right money guys who were all about killing government that forced him to take the stupid "read my lips, no new taxes" pledge. He was already way out of step with the GOP early into the Clinton administration. Bush will probably be best known for the first Iraq war. Given the subsequent history of the region it is not much of a legacy. I would say that Bush was much more a victim of history than a shaper of it.
His friend Bill Clinton actually knows how to write a tribute.Honorable respectable great American hero. Truly a class act. RIP GHWB
Even if that was all true, and I don’t remotely think it is, you’d have to believe that they were goals of Reagan and Bush to be so disrespectful of them as Presidents. Like Presidents Obama and Clinton, I think Presidents GHW Bush and Reagan were patriotic Americans who did what they believe best for America. I think they were remarkably successful as well. That part, you can disagree with, but if you think Reagan and Bush didn’t have good intentions for America you’re being the hopeless partisan I’ve come to believe you are. I’d like to be wrong.Republican policies have exploded income inequality and supercharged corruption and decimated the environment and degraded civil rights and produced an epidemic of gun violence...and that is just a domestic accounting. Making a bunch of white guys feel like it is morning in America just doesn't count for much on the upside.
Of course Bush was obviously a lot deeper and more clever than the one you replied to.That’s just the kind of nontribute tribute I expected from you. I voted for Carter, but it turned out that Reagan and GHW Bush were exactly what this country needed at the time. I was never more satisfied with my Presidential vote as when I voted for Reagan and Bush in 1984, 1988 and 1992, even as I voted for Democrats down ballot in each race. I consider them 2 of the top 3 Presidents in my lifetime. The 3rd is a Democrat, but you can guess which one. I’m certain you don’t have any Republicans on your list.
Of course Bush was obviously a lot deeper and more clever than the one you replied to.
Even if that was all true, and I don’t remotely think it is, you’d have to believe that they were goals of Reagan and Bush to be so disrespectful of them as Presidents. Like Presidents Obama and Clinton, I think Presidents GHW Bush and Reagan were patriotic Americans who did what they believe best for America. I think they were remarkably successful as well. That part, you can disagree with, but if you think Reagan and Bush didn’t have good intentions for America you’re being the hopeless partisan I’ve come to believe you are. I’d like to be wrong.
A single man has ruined the lives of many coolerites.
I don't get this remark. There is no "coolerite" who could come close to ruining my life, not even a tiny bit.
I was going to link that too. Moving.
Must be nice to be all knowing and know what everyone else does.Must be nice to be a moderator who makes posts like this, but deletes ones that were aimed at you.
I was going to link that too. Moving.
Must be nice to be all knowing and know what everyone else does.
43's eulogy for his father. No matter where you stand politically, to me this was both heartwarming and heartbreaking (especially the end). We should all be so lucky to properly say and hear our goodbyes in those final moments.