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History will remember George H.W. Bush for his part in the first Gulf War, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and his fabulously colored socks
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downstairs
2012-02-13 04:27:03 PM
Old people have strange tastes in sock color. By dad always wears these hideous red ones.
unyon
2012-02-13 04:38:36 PM
Hey, looks like he and my teenaged daughter have something in common. BTW- I'll always remember him as the guy that barfed in the lap of the Japanese prime minister.
Since this is a sock thread, is it too much to ask for it to stray into sexy rainbow brite territory?
vudukungfu
2012-02-13 04:43:36 PM
He's going to be remembered as the lying traitorous asshat that murdered a couple of thousand innocent, and unarmed boys in the desert, in afghanistan, and buried them alive in hot sand.
War criminal
Liar
Cheat
Loser
vudukungfu
2012-02-13 04:44:52 PM
Oh, I do appologize. I was thinking of his rotten assed son.
the father is a different sonnovabiaoth altogether.
he has a specail circle of hell reserved just for him
Loucifer
2012-02-13 05:18:05 PM
and puking on the Japanese.
jimpoz
2012-02-13 05:18:12 PM
I had no idea he was in a wheelchair.
Tax Boy
2012-02-13 05:18:37 PM
presidents sure do like their socks
Cagey B
2012-02-13 05:20:03 PM
unyon
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Hey, looks like he and my teenaged daughter have something in common. BTW- I'll always remember him as the guy that barfed in the lap of the Japanese prime minister.
I remember being amazed at how much vomit he was able to produce.
Yakk
2012-02-13 05:24:00 PM
...or the last competent and sane Republican.
Bukharin
2012-02-13 05:24:25 PM
four95
2012-02-13 05:24:55 PM
vudukungfu
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Oh, I do appologize. I was thinking of his rotten assed son.
the father is a different sonnovabiaoth altogether.
he has a specail circle of hell reserved just for him
Nothing compares to Barbara. You want a special circle of Hell?
This was a quote when they asked her about whether she thought images of flag draped coffins and body bags should be censored from Iraq war coverage.
LewDux
2012-02-13 05:25:16 PM
beta_plus
2012-02-13 05:26:11 PM
vudukungfu
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Oh, I do appologize. I was thinking of his rotten assed son.
the father is a different sonnovabiaoth altogether.
he has a specail circle of hell reserved just for him
I guess he can share it with the guy who ordered US military forces without congressional approval to assist this:
IXI Jim IXI
2012-02-13 05:26:39 PM
vudukungfu
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He's going to be remembered as the lying traitorous asshat that murdered a couple of thousand innocent, and unarmed boys in the desert, in afghanistan, and buried them alive in hot sand.
Wrong shrub.
penthesilea
2012-02-13 05:29:45 PM
Sock porn thread?
Just bought these:
SockDreams.com
culebra
2012-02-13 05:31:51 PM
Loucifer
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and puking on the Japanese.
Yeah, this is the first thing that comes to mind when I think of GHW Bush. Banning broccoli and puking on the Japanese. That's his legacy.
This is a nice piece of wishful thinking from the Chronicle, but the truth is that Bush the Elder has an uphill battle regarding his public perception. More than likely he'll be regarded as adequate, forgettable, or occasionally regrettable caretaker president of the U...S...A!!!!
HeadLever
2012-02-13 05:32:24 PM
vudukungfu
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He's going to be remembered as the lying traitorous asshat that murdered a couple of thousand innocent, and unarmed boys in the desert, in afghanistan, and buried them alive in hot sand.
Speaking of puking - you covered this thread quite nicely.
pit and pendulum
2012-02-13 05:32:57 PM
is that from the same guys who credit Reagan with winning the vietnam war??
hammettman
2012-02-13 05:33:01 PM
I seem to remember him looking at his watch as the Berlin wall fell and deciding, well, not much for me to do here so just let the chips fall where they may. Also, pardoning a bunch of guys (who would later go on to greater fame) who sold weapons to bad people and had plans to suspend the constitution. Also, advising his shiathead son W, that it would be best if the FBI stopped investigating Saudi financiers who were tied in with militants from a group named al Qaida, best forgotten for the Bush faithfull.. Also, I remember him meeting with a bin Laden on a day in September, I believe it was the 11th, of 2001. Kinda weird that the nation's number one enemy's father is meeting with the father of a president who has done nothing, and does nothing as the attack happened.
So, pink/salmon socks.
farking wondy, let's focus on that for awhile
Daddy's Big Pink Man-Squirrel
2012-02-13 05:33:02 PM
Fabulous = gay
colored = black
therefore GHWB likes walking on minorities.
Works for me.
/never trust a man who marries his grandmother
ginandbacon
2012-02-13 05:39:05 PM
You know, I always felt he was underrated as a statesman. I would take one of him today over the entire field of GOP candidates we have now. He was stiff, and patrician, and couldn't manipulate the press at all, but I always got the sense he was a man of honor. I respected him.
Deep Contact
2012-02-13 05:42:00 PM
It always amazed me that the elder Bush cannot really remember where he was on November 22, 1963.
generallyso
2012-02-13 05:44:55 PM
And for his involvement with the Iran-Contra treason.
m1ke
2012-02-13 05:46:37 PM
ginandbacon
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You know, I always felt he was underrated as a statesman. I would take one of him today over the entire field of GOP candidates we have now. He was stiff, and patrician, and couldn't manipulate the press at all, but I always got the sense he was a man of honor. I respected him.
This. He is definitely my favorite Bush.
Truth-In-Advertising
2012-02-13 05:47:45 PM
GHWB actually served in WWII. I hate war, but I realize that he actually paid his dues in the Pacific theater. This is what I choose to remember.
Alien Robot
2012-02-13 05:48:51 PM
downstairs
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Old people have strange tastes in sock color.
According to the
New York Times
, it's not old people who are wearing brightly colored socks -- it's a trendy 'secret-handshake' among young tech entrepreneurs that says 'you are part of the in-crowd.'
PhiloeBedoe
2012-02-13 05:49:27 PM
There was some blowback from the wig offensive.
Why Would I Read the Article
2012-02-13 06:08:22 PM
Bush the elder raised taxes. Shouldn't he be a hero among liberals? Oh, that's right, he had an R by his name, that means we have to revise history to turn him into Hitler and Pol Pot combined.
Critical thinking and/or thinking for yourself is hard!
Mikey1969
2012-02-13 06:12:54 PM
jimpoz
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I had no idea he was in a wheelchair.
Yeah, me either... When did this happen?
MJMaloney187
2012-02-13 06:14:16 PM
And History will also remember Bush 43 as the president who made the citizens so mad, they elected a foreign-born black liberation theologist. Of course, in this future Black America, Bush 43 will be respected as an anti-hero, but nobody will understand that.
Mikey1969
2012-02-13 06:15:09 PM
Why Would I Read the Article
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Bush the elder raised taxes. Shouldn't he be a hero among liberals? Oh, that's right, he had an R by his name, that means we have to revise history to turn him into Hitler and Pol Pot combined.
Well, he DID lie in his campaign promises, so that makes him a perfect Republican. I'd still rather have him back in office than his idiot son. Come to think of it, I'd rather have a sock puppet in office than his idiot son.
Why Would I Read the Article
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Critical thinking and/or thinking for yourself is hard!
That's probably why you skip it whenever you can, right?
Mr. Potatoass
2012-02-13 06:20:10 PM
Why Would I Read the Article
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Bush the elder raised taxes. Shouldn't he be a hero among liberals? Oh, that's right, he had an R by his name, that means we have to revise history to turn him into Hitler and Pol Pot combined.
Funny you should mention Hitler and the Bush family...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldwar
^
The whole f*cking family is rotten.
culebra
2012-02-13 06:21:29 PM
MJMaloney187
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And History will also remember Bush 43 as the president who made the citizens so mad, they elected a foreign-born black liberation theologist. Of course, in this future Black America, Bush 43 will be respected as an anti-hero, but nobody will understand that.
Word.
Ambivalence
2012-02-13 06:22:59 PM
And vomiting on the Japanese.
/lest we forget.
MrFisher_84
2012-02-13 06:29:09 PM
Great soldier. Not very good president. Probably a pretty good guy overall.
Mikey1969
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jimpoz: I had no idea he was in a wheelchair.
Yeah, me either... When did this happen?
Well, he's 87. And has something called Parkinsonism which weakens the legs.
PlatinumDragon
2012-02-13 06:36:51 PM
I'll remember him for saying atheists aren't patriots and shouldn't be considered citizens.
mitchcumstein1
2012-02-13 06:43:29 PM
I'll always remember him for killing John Kennedy, probably Bobby, and framing Teddy at Chappaquiddick.
/In all honesty, he whacked JFK, or knows who did.
MrFisher_84
2012-02-13 06:44:02 PM
PlatinumDragon
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I'll remember him for saying atheists aren't patriots and shouldn't be considered citizens.
I just had to delete and block a cousin last week for saying that about me. She says if you don't believe in "our god" then you don't deserve to use "our money" or hold "our jobs" because it says "in god we trust" on it. Also, she thinks anyone who believes in evolution is an idiot because it's "obvious" someone had to create us. She said someone has to create things like computers and cars, therefore, someone had to create people and the earth.
MrFisher_84
2012-02-13 06:45:11 PM
mitchcumstein1
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I'll always remember him for killing John Kennedy, probably Bobby, and framing Teddy at Chappaquiddick.
/In all honesty, he whacked JFK, or knows who did.
I know who killed JFK.
He name was Lee Harvey Oswald. I thought everyone knew this?
four95
2012-02-13 06:47:14 PM
penthesilea
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Sock porn thread?
Just bought these:
[www.sockdreams.com image 250x375]
[i470.photobucket.com image 198x296]
SockDreams.com
Here Ya Go...
(new window)
mitchcumstein1
2012-02-13 06:47:50 PM
MrFisher_84
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mitchcumstein1: I'll always remember him for killing John Kennedy, probably Bobby, and framing Teddy at Chappaquiddick.
/In all honesty, he whacked JFK, or knows who did.
I know who killed JFK.
He name was Lee Harvey Oswald. I thought everyone knew this?
SHEEP
Omahawg
2012-02-13 06:55:22 PM
I remember him as the guy who was right when it came to Voodoo Economics in 1980 and also for heading up the CIA during its years of coddling repressive stooges because they agreed commies were bad.
PsiChi
2012-02-13 07:02:54 PM
History will remember George H. W. Bush for his involvement in the Carlyle Group and his war mongering, among other dastardly deeds. Indeed, all the Bushes will be remembered with disdain.
Mugato
2012-02-13 07:08:51 PM
I don't know, I always thought he was kind of an idiot but then his son came along and suddenly he's like King Arthur by comparison.
Bukharin
2012-02-13 07:10:30 PM
Mugato
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I don't know, I always thought he was kind of an idiot but then his son came along and suddenly he's like King Arthur by comparison.
He was head of CIA and was pretty smart about foreign affairs,
much like his KGB counterpart, Andropov.
A very cunning pair of spooks.
pedobearapproved
2012-02-13 07:11:18 PM
penthesilea
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Sock porn thread?
Just bought these:
[www.sockdreams.com image 250x375]
[i470.photobucket.com image 198x296]
SockDreams.com
never had a thing for socks until my ex started buying stuff from that site.
/craigslist for valentine's day here I come
ciberido
2012-02-13 07:21:22 PM
Approves (new window).
Mugato
2012-02-13 07:23:38 PM
Bukharin
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He was head of CIA and was pretty smart about foreign affairs,
True. I mean he was born to a senator so he had the whole legacy thing going but he did actually accomplish some things. Sure, everything was handed to him but it's not he was a complete silver spoon moron like Dubya, who couldn't find oil in Texas and was handed the Presidency only to completely fark up the country. I think as republican Presidents go, he actually had some sense.
ZAZ
2012-02-13 07:29:00 PM
I had no idea he was in a wheelchair.
Me neither. It seems like only 7 years ago he was jumping out of airplanes.
Alien Robot
2012-02-13 07:32:08 PM
Omahawg
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I remember him as the guy who was right when it came to Voodoo Economics in 1980 and also for heading up the CIA during its years of coddling repressive stooges because they agreed commies were bad.
He was head of the CIA in 1976. Which were the 'good communists' that year?
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