The Briefing Room
General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: Formerly Once-Ler on April 16, 2018, 02:19:02 am
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https://www.redstate.com/sarahquinlan/2018/04/15/485720/ (https://www.redstate.com/sarahquinlan/2018/04/15/485720/)
In today’s tumultuous political climate, it may sometimes seem as if there are few things that unite us as a country.
Earlier today, however, partisan divisions fell by the wayside after the office of George H.W. Bush released a statement that former First Lady Barbara Bush’s health is failing and that she will not seek further treatment.
In response, there was an outpouring of support for the former First Lady from both sides of the aisle:
Nancy Pelosi@NancyPelosi
As always, Barbara Bush is a comfort to her friends & family teaching us all how to live full of faith, love & humor. Praying that she is comfortable & send love to President Bush & their family. https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/985585107267448833 (https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/985585107267448833) …
2:49 PM - Apr 15, 2018
Nikki Haley@nikkihaley
Prayers going up for a woman of great faith, great strength, and an unwavering love of country. Our country is better because of former First Lady Barbara Bush â¤ï¸🇺🇸
1:25 PM - Apr 15, 2018
Chelsea Clinton@ChelseaClinton
Keeping Barbara Bush and her family in my heart and prayers. I will never forget how kind she was to me on every occasion we met, and how fondly the White House staff always spoke of her.
3:15 PM - Apr 15, 2018
more tweets at link
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At a time like this, classy people put aside differences and offer encouragement and support. Or if they can't do that, they should just keep quiet.
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Absolutely. I wish we had more leaders like this wonderful couple. George HW made mistakes but he wasn't mean or evil.
And to Barbara Bush, I say: Good decision on staying out of the hospital. I wish I hadn't taken my husband to the hospital and had let him die at home.
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We thought our mother, age 93, was a gonner early this year. Hospital emergency room, regular room, skilled nursing etc.
Doctor advised it was okay to take her home, for hospice healthcare. My younger sister is her full time caregiver. I visit twice per week.
My father died not from the cancer surgery, for which he was in the hospital. He died from infection which was contracted in the filthy disease ridden hospital.
So your family stand better chances of longer lives,, at your homes. In my lay person view.
Maybe Barbara has 19 lives like my mother.
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Just found this on my news feed.
https://www.today.com/news/jenna-bush-hager-shares-emotional-update-grandma-barbara-bush-she-t127102 (https://www.today.com/news/jenna-bush-hager-shares-emotional-update-grandma-barbara-bush-she-t127102)
My worthless opinion: If medical care is not going to restore my health or is just going to prolong my suffering or is not going to extend my life beyond a few days tops -- it's time to stop the machines, dope and what not, go home and wait for God to call me.
Seems to me Mrs. Bush made the right choice -- for herself.
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Absolutely. I wish we had more leaders like this wonderful couple. George HW made mistakes but he wasn't mean or evil.
And to Barbara Bush, I say: Good decision on staying out of the hospital. I wish I hadn't taken my husband to the hospital and had let him die at home.
Wasn't evil? He was a globalist who pushed many policies which weakened America including the asset forfeiture policies which is being used to confiscate millions of dollars of property without cause or court oversight.
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Wasn't evil? He was a globalist who pushed many policies which weakened America including the asset forfeiture policies which is being used to confiscate millions of dollars of property without cause or court oversight.
Please take your nasty thoughts to another thread.
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Wasn't evil? He was a globalist who pushed many policies which weakened America including the asset forfeiture policies which is being used to confiscate millions of dollars of property without cause or court oversight.
*****rollingeyes*****
And so were/are Ted and Heidi Cruz... or so I was told during the 2016 campaign,
More Alex Jones conspiracy nonsense.
But as @Emjay said -- it's a subject for another thread, not this one.
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FILE - In this June 6, 1964 file photo, George Bush, candidate for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate, gets returns by phone at his headquarters in Houston as his wife Barbara, beams her pleasure at the news. Former first couple George and Barbara Bush’s relationship is a true love story, described by granddaughter Jenna Bush Hager as “remarkable.†They met at a Christmas dance. She was 17. He was 18. Two years later they were married. Now 73 years later, with Barbara Bush declining further medical care for health problems, they are the longest-married couple in presidential history. (AP Photo/Ed Kolenovsky, File)
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Wasn't evil? He was a globalist who pushed many policies which weakened America including the asset forfeiture policies which is being used to confiscate millions of dollars of property without cause or court oversight.
Not the place *****rollingeyes*****
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At a time like this, classy people put aside differences and offer encouragement and support. Or if they can't do that, they should just keep quiet.
goopo
This article makes me happy. Bless the Bush family.
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FILE - In this June 6, 1964 file photo, George Bush, candidate for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate, gets returns by phone at his headquarters in Houston as his wife Barbara, beams her pleasure at the news. Former first couple George and Barbara Bush’s relationship is a true love story, described by granddaughter Jenna Bush Hager as “remarkable.†They met at a Christmas dance. She was 17. He was 18. Two years later they were married. Now 73 years later, with Barbara Bush declining further medical care for health problems, they are the longest-married couple in presidential history. (AP Photo/Ed Kolenovsky, File)
Wow. Good looking couple back then.
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Wow. Good looking couple back then.
Married 72 years. Not many in the limelight can say they stuck with their spouses anywhere near that long.
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Married 72 years. Not many in the limelight can say they stuck with their spouses anywhere near that long.
Not many marry young enough, and then live long enough for that.
She apparently married at age 19, and Judge moore wasn't around.
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Just found this on my news feed.
https://www.today.com/news/jenna-bush-hager-shares-emotional-update-grandma-barbara-bush-she-t127102 (https://www.today.com/news/jenna-bush-hager-shares-emotional-update-grandma-barbara-bush-she-t127102)
My worthless opinion: If medical care is not going to restore my health or is just going to prolong my suffering or is not going to extend my life beyond a few days tops -- it's time to stop the machines, dope and what not, go home and wait for God to call me.
Seems to me Mrs. Bush made the right choice -- for herself.
Yes. Exactly What you said.... plus one hundred percent more.. People need to take control of their way out of this place.
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Graduation photo, 1943
(https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/170119151342-03-barbara-bush-super-169.jpg)
https://www.cnn.com/2012/12/26/us/barbara-bush---fast-facts/index.html (https://www.cnn.com/2012/12/26/us/barbara-bush---fast-facts/index.html)
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She has lived for 92 years and she will die with dignity, grace and surrounded by loved ones! What wonderful blessings!
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Graduation photo, 1943
(https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/170119151342-03-barbara-bush-super-169.jpg)
https://www.cnn.com/2012/12/26/us/barbara-bush---fast-facts/index.html (https://www.cnn.com/2012/12/26/us/barbara-bush---fast-facts/index.html)
Her inaugural gown.
(http://amhistory.si.edu/img/firstladies/MG34-800.jpg)
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Wow. Good looking couple back then.
You can really see the resemblance there between HW and W.
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1945
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You can really see the resemblance there between HW and W.
Yes, that was my thought as well.
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@ the christening ceremony of the USS George H.W. Bush at Northrop-Grumman - 2006
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Yes, that was my thought as well.
I've always thought W strongly favored his mother.
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I've always thought W strongly favored his mother.
I would have said so, too, before I saw the picture in question. Apparently, W has resemblances to each of his parents. Go figure.
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goopo
This article makes me happy. Bless the Bush family.
Amen!
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Graduation photo, 1943
(https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/170119151342-03-barbara-bush-super-169.jpg)
https://www.cnn.com/2012/12/26/us/barbara-bush---fast-facts/index.html (https://www.cnn.com/2012/12/26/us/barbara-bush---fast-facts/index.html)
Beautiful! Thank on for finding it @Right_in_Virginia
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Beautiful! Thank on for finding it @Right_in_Virginia
Most of us tend to think of Barbara Bush as just the white haired lady in the WH. She was quite beautiful in her youth.
@Freya
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Most of us tend to think of Barbara Bush as just the white haired lady in the WH. She was quite beautiful in her youth.
@Freya
Mrs. Bush has been lovely all her life -- inside and out. She's tough and classy. Great combination and a rarity.
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I put on a Hazmat suit and waded over to Skinner's Island of Misfits a.k.a. DU...not gonna bring the posts back here but they are what you'd expect where Mrs. Bush is concerned from the intellectual midgets that inhabit the DUmp .
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I put on a Hazmat suit and waded over to Skinner's Island of Misfits a.k.a. DU...not gonna bring the posts back here but they are what you'd expect where Mrs. Bush is concerned from the intellectual midgets that inhabit the DUmp .
And yet when Ann Richards (who spawned Cecile Richards, baby killing advocate extraordinaire) They extolled her (un)graces all over the web.
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I put on a Hazmat suit and waded over to Skinner's Island of Misfits a.k.a. DU...not gonna bring the posts back here but they are what you'd expect where Mrs. Bush is concerned from the intellectual midgets that inhabit the DUmp .
You are a brave man, sir.
However. to be fair, there are some on our side who can't be civil about John McCain either.
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And yet when Ann Richards (who spawned Cecile Richards, baby killing advocate extraordinaire) They extolled her (un)graces all over the web.
I'll never forget the pics I saw of one DUmmie who had a friend snap a pic of him pretending to pee on Reagans grave at the Reagan Library.
He was roundly cheered at DU.
But if you dared to bring up how Ted Kennedy didn't qualify for burial at Arlinton Cemetary...why that was in American and disrespectful of the dead.
**nononono*
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You are a brave man, sir.
However. to be fair, there are some on our side who can't be civil about John McCain either.
Yeah and that's unfortunate.
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Mrs. Bush has been lovely all her life -- inside and out. She's tough and classy. Great combination and a rarity.
A close friend of my husband was in the Secret Service guarding several Presidents and he said Barbara Bush is a marvelous human being (as is GHW). Kind, gracious, and lovely.
He had close contact with her and thinks the world of her. He has many specific stories to back it up too.
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goopo
This article makes me happy. Bless the Bush family.
Me, too, @Freya. Good people encourage me. I didn't realize how young they were when they married but people were more inclined to marry really young back in those days.
People forget things about George HW. For one thing, he was a war hero.
" Following the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Bush postponed his university studies, enlisted in the U.S. Navy on his 18th birthday, and became the youngest aviator in the U.S. Navy at the time. He served until the end of the war."
Disagreements about his policy decisions are a poor reason to dismiss this man or this family.
America was lucky to have them.
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Yes. Exactly What you said.... plus one hundred percent more.. People need to take control of their way out of this place.
Yep. One of my biggest regrets was taking my husband to the hospital at the end of his life. I would keep him at home if I could change things.
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Me, too, @Freya. Good people encourage me. I didn't realize how young they were when they married but people were more inclined to marry really young back in those days.
People forget things about George HW. For one thing, he was a war hero.
" Following the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Bush postponed his university studies, enlisted in the U.S. Navy on his 18th birthday, and became the youngest aviator in the U.S. Navy at the time. He served until the end of the war."
Disagreements about his policy decisions are a poor reason to dismiss this man or this family.
America was lucky to have them.
I'm still glad George Bush 43 was president for 9/11. Can you imagine if Obama had been in office then? He would have apologized to Al Qaeda. President Bush held this country together.
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I'm still glad George Bush 43 was president for 9/11. Can you imagine if Obama had been in office then? He would have apologized to Al Qaeda. President Bush held this country together.
He did. I thought of him when I watched the movie, The Darkest Hour. Churchill saved England. Sometimes we're lucky enough to have the right man at the helm at dangerous times.
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Wasn't evil? He was a globalist who pushed many policies which weakened America including the asset forfeiture policies which is being used to confiscate millions of dollars of property without cause or court oversight.
About what I expected from you. You and your Westboro Baptist buddies protesting the funeral?
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I'm still glad George Bush 43 was president for 9/11. Can you imagine if Obama had been in office then? He would have apologized to Al Qaeda. President Bush held this country together.
Yes, he did, and I shudder to think what would have happened to America if algor had stolen the election.
And that is why, though I disagreed with W on many issues, growth of government and spending, I will always respect him. Always.
There is so much hatred of him from both left and right that it's good to see that some people have perspective on what he did that was GOOD for this country.
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"I'm still glad George Bush 43 was president for 9/11. Can you imagine if Obama had been in office then? He would have apologized to Al Qaeda. President Bush held this country together."
Us gals would be wearing burkas and we would be speaking Arabic.
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Yes, he did, and I shudder to think what would have happened to America if algor had stolen the election.
And that is why, though I disagreed with W on many issues, growth of government and spending, I will always respect him. Always.
There is so much hatred of him from both left and right that it's good to see that some people have perspective on what he did that was GOOD for this country.
Is this still a thread without political discussion @mystery-ak If not ... I'd like to respond to a few posts. If so, please let folks know.
Thanks.
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Is this still a thread without political discussion @mystery-ak If not ... I'd like to respond to a few posts. If so, please let folks know.
Thanks.
I hope you will refrain from bringing politics into this thread @Right_in_Virginia . There are plenty of places to express your dislike of the Bushes. This isn't one of them.
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Well this topic escalated quickly
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Is this still a thread without political discussion @mystery-ak If not ... I'd like to respond to a few posts. If so, please let folks know.
Thanks.
It's posted in "Politics." Here's an "E" Ticket. Feel free. *****rollingeyes*****
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Is this still a thread without political discussion @mystery-ak If not ... I'd like to respond to a few posts. If so, please let folks know.
Thanks.
@Right_in_Virginia, if you have complaints or suggestions for how TBR should be run, take them offline. The Mods are always glad to answer questions.
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Back in 99, I went to a big BBQ fundraiser for W. Her and former President Bush were there as well (no, I didn't get to meet them or anyone of note). I remember she really was a commanding figure, even more than her husband. But not in a bad way, more like a 'grandma who runs everything' mode. I remember she struck me as the perfectionist in the family, which, at an outdoor Waco BBQ, is tough to be.
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Back in 99, I went to a big BBQ fundraiser for W. Her and former President Bush were there as well (no, I didn't get to meet them or anyone of note). I remember she really was a commanding figure, even more than her husband. But not in a bad way, more like a 'grandma who runs everything' mode. I remember she struck me as the perfectionist in the family, which, at an outdoor Waco BBQ, is tough to be.
The University where I taught for 17 years had a conservative political science department, and each year had a dinner with a political 'celebrity' as speaker. (Ronald Reagan was the first).
We went to the dinner where Barbara was the guest speaker and stood in line for a photograph with her. The time ran out and we were the next in line when it got cut off, and I clearly made a visible sign of disappointment.
Barbara looked over at us, and waved her hand for us to come on over, so we got the photo.
She was funny, witty, bright, and everything you'd expect her to be.
I don't know that I've ever enjoyed an evening more.
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Godspeed, Mrs. Bush.
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Mrs Bush once sent me a pawtographed book by MIllie Bush even though I wasn't a child. Well, probably one of her secretaries but still.....
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Wow. Red State writes an article claiming America is uniting around Bush because a bunch of political hacks twitted some obligatory messages. I'd argue that not too many people are all bent out of shape because a 92 year old lady that they can barely remember is on her way out. This is a nonsense story of the first degree.
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Yep. One of my biggest regrets was taking my husband to the hospital at the end of his life. I would keep him at home if I could change things.
@Emjay It's always a hard decision and can be a choice of bad alternatives ;(. My mother died at home, and my sister in th hospital, and both were tough for different reasons. I hope you don't give yourself a bad time -- I'm sure you did the best you could, and he appreciated you. XOXO
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@Emjay It's always a hard decision and can be a choice of bad alternatives ;(. My mother died at home, and my sister in th hospital, and both were tough for different reasons. I hope you don't give yourself a bad time -- I'm sure you did the best you could, and he appreciated you. XOXO
Thanks so much @LauraTXNM I try not to dwell on my bad decision and not feel guilty but sometimes I do.
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Thanks so much @LauraTXNM I try not to dwell on my bad decision and not feel guilty but sometimes I do.
You did what you thought best at the time, and that's nothing to feel guilty about.
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You did what you thought best at the time, and that's nothing to feel guilty about.
Exactly, @Polly Ticks! @Emjay, XOXO!
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@Right_in_Virginia, if you have complaints or suggestions for how TBR should be run, take them offline. The Mods are always glad to answer questions.
Good point. Will do. Thanks.
@Mod1
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Wow. Red State writes an article claiming America is uniting around Bush because a bunch of political hacks twitted some obligatory messages. I'd argue that not too many people are all bent out of shape because a 92 year old lady that they can barely remember is on her way out. This is a nonsense story of the first degree.
I'm sorry I'm crying @Frank Cannon .
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Wow. Red State writes an article claiming America is uniting around Bush because a bunch of political hacks twitted some obligatory messages. I'd argue that not too many people are all bent out of shape because a 92 year old lady that they can barely remember is on her way out. This is a nonsense story of the first degree.
Well, remember the majority of their writers weren't born when JFK died, or even RFK, when we landed on the moon, or when Nixon left office. I might go as far as to say they probably weren't alive when John Lennon was shot, or president Reagan.
So, to a 30 -something 90 is ancient. I'm not excusing it. They should not say that in a public article. That's bad behavior. Shame on their editor for not striking it out.
It seems today, to me at least, that so many have lost their moral compass. Back in the day I grew up to respect my elders. Now we have elder abuse. And I read a story about it nearly every day in the paper just like child abuse. When we as a society no longer respect our elders and children I think we are doomed.
Bless the Bush family. They just lost their matriarch. I can't imagine their pain. And it must be magnified because they are public figures.
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Well, remember the majority of their writers weren't born when JFK died, or even RFK, when we landed on the moon, or when Nixon left office. I might go as far as to say they probably weren't alive when John Lennon was shot, or president Reagan.
So, to a 30 -something 90 is ancient. I'm not excusing it. They should not say that in a public article. That's bad behavior. Shame on their editor for not striking it out.
It seems today, to me at least, that so many have lost their moral compass. Back in the day I grew up to respect my elders. Now we have elder abuse. And I read a story about it nearly every day in the paper just like child abuse. When we as a society no longer respect our elders and children I think we are doomed.
Bless the Bush family. They just lost their matriarch. I can't imagine their pain. And it must be magnified because they are public figures.
Excellent take on things, @Freya :patriot:
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Excellent take on things, @Freya :patriot:
That's because I'm really asleep. I'm brilliant when I'm asleep. (Blush)
Thanks @DCPatriot
Seriously though, this does bother me. I don't recall this amount of nastiness when Mrs. Reagan passed. (Footnote: Mrs Carter is 90)