George Bush Senior is Dead

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

He dead.

[Yukaphile]

Won't be celebrating. He was a moderate who didn't vote Trump. That makes him okay in my book. Do I think he did questionable things in his administration, though? Sure. All presidents do.

[J!!]

It's traditional for outgoing presidents to leave a short note for their successor in the oval office, this was his to Clinton.

Jan 20, 1993

Dear Bill,

When I walked into this office just now I felt the same sense of wonder and respect that I felt four years ago. I know you will feel that, too.

I wish you great happiness here. I never felt the loneliness some Presidents have described.

There will be very tough times, made even more difficult by criticism you may not think is fair. I'm not a very good one to give advice; but just don't let the critics discourage you or push you off course.

You will be our President when you read this note. I wish you well. I wish your family well.

Your success now is our country's success. I am rooting hard for you.

Good luck — George

I hope we have another president with this degree of magnamity and class again some day soon.

[Antiboyscout]

The Last WASP President

George H. W. Bush wasn’t the last of the Republican moderates. He was the archetype of the modern GOP, a man whose blue blood shouldn’t be confused with moral courage.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archi ... e-atlantic

I guess the Left can no longer use his death as a bludgeon to attack trump, time to burn him in effigy for being a white man.

[Yukaphile]

Hey, HW voted for Clinton, antiboyscout. What do you think of that?

[Antiboyscout]

Hey, HW voted for Clinton, antiboyscout. What do you think of that?

do you want snark or an honest analysis?

[Yukaphile]

Not really. I was pretty sure you'd deny it.

[ChiggyvonRichthofen]

While there are a not-small number of people who despise any president, Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush might have been the last two presidents who weren't absolutely despised by half the country. While Carter was seen as a bad president right away, and probably still is overall, some of his humanitarian work has been pretty appreciated. Bush Sr. actually left office with a very high approval rating (his big dip in approval came at the worst possible time), and while he has his critics there just isn't the same level of vitriol aimed at him as every other full-term Republican president since Eisenhower.

[Worffan101]

He was a mixed bag. Did some good (Gulf war, actually served in WW2 in combat, signing ADA, not being quite as rabidly homophobic as that monster Reagan), some bad (disgustingly dirty campaign especially by the standards of the time, continued failure to properly address the AIDS crisis, some of the stuff he did pre-Presidency was remarkably racist). Overall seems to have been a decent guy trying to be a good leader.

Orders of magnitude better than his scumbag son or the Mussolini wannabe currently occupying the office.

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

To spell out my feelings more precisely, I miss the pretense of a civil political discourse, don't miss the apathy and neglect that allowed thousands more of my people to die from AIDS, and I'm side-eyeing the heck out of liberal and moderate democrats I know acting like he was a wonderful man standing for a good and decent party.