Two Things I Will Remember GH Bush for: 1) his Eternal Hoax on the Public and 2) how he conceals it [View all]

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Before you read my brief little opinion piece, let me just say condolences to all who cared about GH Bush and
are currently mourning him.

Let me also say this: in our country, there is no such thing as defamation of the dead. A person's reputation dies with the person. Look it up on any search engine.

Now, here is my brief little opinion piece:

There is a reason why GH Bush was such a young enlisted man (a Navy pilot), and it is not because he wanted to go to war and risk death, but rather because: his father wanted him to go immediately to college -- and GH Bush hated academics. GH Bush was athletically inclined as a K-12 student, and was popular enough with his peers, but he was not academically inclined. So, against his father's wishes, off he went to fight in the war.

After serving in the military, GH Bush married college drop-out Barbara Pierce, who had been attending a woman's college, Smith, in Massachusetts. And, off GH Bush went to Yale, as his father demanded.

But serving in the military, reportedly with heroic results, and marrying, did not make GH Bush any more interested in academics. He majored in "economics" at Yale. But he hated studying, reading, going to school - he hated learning about such a difficult topic as his chosen major. So, what did GH Bush do? He dropped out.

Yale did not seem to mind that when he began his political career and sought elected office, GH Bush lied and claimed he graduated from Yale. Why should Yale complain? Yale is a private school. No one has access to GH Bush's academic records. The Bush family had long-term ties with Yale. So what that GH Bush was now engaging in what the private sector commonly calls "resume fraud." Big deal.

Of course, as this college drop-out continues to pretend he had a college degree, and began to win elected office, GH Bush realized: perhaps he should somehow publicly account for his, shall we say, "shorter" time at Yale. Thus, an idea! He was in an "accelerated" economics degree program! Yeah! That's it! An "accelerated" undergraduate economics program existed back then at Yale! Only problem with that is: it didn't and it doesn't.

But, that doesn't matter. In 1992 or 1993, Maureen Dowd of the NYT wrote an opinion piece praising both GH Bush and Jeb Bush for their respective academic genius - and writing, gee, what a coincidence that father and son each finished their undergraduate degrees in only: "2-1/2 years"! Wow! They're BOTH genius-level leaders!

In death, the Washington Post points out in their GH Bush obit that after "graduating" from Yale, GH Bush would have taken a job at Proctor and Gamble (meaning: he had a college degree, required of that company's executives), but, alas, he was passed over, and thus - turned to a job provided by close family friends.

It seems to me that once a person wins a political election in this country, on any level, the "resume fraud" of faking a college degree is no longer subject to question or possible investigation. The public taxpayer-funded salary obtained by that fraud is kept by the con artist. Political power from office remains and can only increase.

Now we fast forward to his vice presidential oath. The oath of our nation's vice president is different from the president's oath. It requires that the vice president not be concealing anything, or words to that effect. But by the time GH Bush took that oath, he knew he was a fraud who had faked a college degree to deceptively win votes, he knew he would use his VP office to publicly conceal his knowledge of his son GW's drinking problem, and that he would and did lie about the academic career of his other son Jeb -- who, like his dad and mom, is also a college drop-out (and like his dad, fakes a college degree -- and while doing so, deceptively won two FL governor races).

But, so what! Who's going to investigate a vice president who lies under oath and thereby breaches the oath? (And who will use that VP office to lie about two of his offspring -- who are future political candidates.)

And now let's fast forward over many other deeds and misdeeds of GH Bush - whether it's not paying attention to the AIDS crisis, his history of groping women (yes, history, as it didn't all happen recently to the eight women who came forward while he was in a wheelchair), or him vomiting on the Japanese official when on an overseas trip, or angering his conservative base by raising taxes, voting for Hillary Clinton, or whatever else.

Now, GH Bush has passed away. He will be buried at his presidential library grounds.

Did you know this? GH Bush is the only president in US history who never once set foot in the town he chose for his presidential library. He never once visited prior to choosing the location. Never once (according to news reports that came out at that time and I read). He did not grow up there. He never traveled there as a boy or an adult. He never went to school there. He never worked there. Nothing. He has no personal connection whatsoever to the place he chose -- unlike every other president who chooses a location for their presidential library.

Why did he choose this place? This place where he will be buried? Where he moved his entire family plot?

It may be because the TAMU (Texas A&M University) location has a unique saying, known as the "Aggie Code of Honor." Here it is:

http://www.tamug.edu/studentrules/Aggie_Code_of_Honor.html

"An Aggie (a TAMU student) does not lie, cheat or steal or tolerate those who do."

So, to sum up my opinion: GH Bush is the first US president to successfully get away with "resume fraud" his entire political life, by faking a college degree -- and thereby he lied, cheated and stole -- yet, ironically, he will now be buried on land governed by: a Code of Honor that does not "tolerate" those who "lie, cheat or steal."

RIP GH Bush.


Note - 12/6/18 - Links to come - see my post #66 at end