Imagine being George Herbert Walker Bush this weekend.
While he watches the world honor Al Gore for the Nobel Peace Prize, George H.W. Bush watches countless replays that make him look ridiculous, waving his arms and calling Gore the Ozone Man.
Then he watches the evening news, when a retired three star general accuses his son of dereliction of duty and suggests that if Bush 43 were in the American military, he would be court-martialed for what he has done during the Iraq war, which the Nobel Laureate had opposed.
Tough weekend for George Herbert Walker Bush, who would probably trade sons if he had the chance.
Enough to make a grown man cry.
Like someone --blind from birth, trying to imagine what stars look like.... on a moon light night, in Yosemite
1917 WWI - Samuel P. Bush, became chief of the Ordinance, Small Arms and Ammunition Section of the War Industries Board.
Samuel P. Bush took national responsibility for the government assistance, control and relations with Remington and other weapons companies with which Samuel P. Bush had business ties. They made a lot of money.
Prescott S. Bush - director of the Union Banking Corp from 1934 through 1943.
Union Banking Corp was set up by Averell Harriman and Fritz Thyssen to fund Hitler and pay for munitions and steel made in the US that the Germans were using in the war.
Roosevelt signed orders to seize the assets of Union Banking Corporation under the "Trading With The Enemy Law" and then a few weeks later changed those orders to seize only the Nazi owned shares leaving Prescott and other US executives in possession of the money earned from doing business with Nazis.
George H. W. Bush - Too long a list
Neil Bush - Savings and Loan Scandal
Jeb Bush - 2000 election
George W - failed every business he ever ran but has made a lot of money for poppy's friends
Of course there is more but space is limited.
No, I would say poppy is very proud of his boy who learned everything he knew from the Bush's before him.
http://consortiumnews.com/2007/100307.html
Bill Clinton hoped that sweeping those criminal investigations under the rug would gain him bipartisan comity from the Republicans, but instead it gave Republicans the freedom to go from the defense to the offense, making "moral values" the center of their relentless investigations into Clinton's own administration.
In 2000, Al Gore, not having learned the lesson, topped Clinton's naivete and failure to stand up for the rule of law and justice. Not only did Gore select Joe Lieberman to be his running mate based on "moral values" (thereby buying into the right-wing Repub 'moral values' spin), but Gore failed to stand up for Texas school children tossed out of pre-school, after-school, and health care by Gov. Bush's signature Tax Cuts for millionaires and Texas' wealthiest corporations. Gore topped that dismal failing (which is still the cornerstone of Democratic _retreat_ in face of Bush/right-wing agenda) by _refusing_ to make Bush's AWOL Texas ANG a newsworthy issue... and even worse than that, refusing to highlight Dick Cheney's sales of oilfield equipment to Iraq while Cheney was Chairman and CEO of Halliburton, using European subsidiaries to skirt the US enforced UN sanctions on Iraq - at a time when US aircraft were bombing Iraq, and Cheney had signed the PNAC "statement of principles" declaring Iraq a dangerous nation that was seeking nuclear weapons! If ever there was an issue that was a campaign maker/breaker, it was Dick Cheney selling technology to Iraq in the late 1990s... and Gore was either ignorant, tone-deaf, or incapable of bringing such an important subject to the attention of American voters.
How can we have intelligent and responsible leadership if we are not responsible and intelligent enough to educate ourselves to recognize it?
It is now and moreso becoming, only for the wealthy, and the lucky few who get scholarships. Unfortunately, we know what happens when we educate the wealthy..... they become republicans so they can hold on to their money and not pay their share into society.
There are a whole lot of citizens that are at fault and they are the ones out in their driveways at night scraping Bush/Cheney bumper stickers off their cars. Don't dare put me in the same class as those pinheads!
It's doubtful that the winning of the Nobel Peace Prize by Al Gore will amplify his heartache.
Why distract yourself with speculative reasoning when the ANSWER on Iraq INVASION has been in front of your face all this time??
The purpose of Iraq INVASION is for Bush-Cheney to spend down all USTaxpayer money out of USTreasury and shovel it into pockets of their ULTRA RICH CORRUPT CORPORATE PROFITEER WELFARE QUEENS privatizing this "war". And capturing oil fields for Big Oil's profits. Bush-Cheney KLAN stand to make billions for years on this "deal".
It's the BUSH FAMILY "VALUES".
It's about THE BOTTOM LINE, stupid.
Always look for the answer to: WHO'S MAKING THE MONEY?
I strongly disagree with you.
The Bush family doesn't care about things like honor, respect. They care about one thing and one thing only; power. They want raw power to enrich themselves and their cronies. And on that scores they have done very well. That is all that matters to them.
Some are calling for a rewrite of the Constitution which was a rewrite of the Magna Carta. The goal is to make our common agreement pertinent for the coming century. Every once in a while the slate has to be wiped clean and the Truth restated. Was there ever a better time than this?
We can drench the welcome mat to the 21st century in blood, as we did the last one, and set the course for universal misery or we can pave the way to a humane future by saying no to tyrants.
If Al ran and was elected, the single biggest obstacle to his realizing his life's dream would be solved.
So...why doesn't Al run?