George Bush

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5. A "patrician" who thought he was competent to be Pres.

Wanted it to fulfill family history and expectations (sound familiar?), but paved the country he fought for (some historical questions about his true record here), on its road to unnecessary war and eventual monstrous debt via the worst of his progeny.

The ONLY thing he displayed any real courage about IMO was to buck his party and his promise about taxes to keep us on a better economic footing. Apparently a genial, family loving guy,and enough pleasant qualities and good manners to forge a friendship with the Big Dog.

His punishment has already happened to some degree with his long goodbye, surrounded by his harridan wife and mostly loser kids. Don't know enough about Doro and Marvin to put them in the same poop basket as GW and Jeb and crook Neil. He has also witnessed his country club, fairly moderate ( by present standards) and blandly mannered Republican Party turned into an ill informed, virulently bigoted, loony bin beginning with his horrible Lee Atwater tactics, which metasacized into something even he must cringe at.

I hope he makes it into 2013, just for the estate tax implications, but I bet the greedy family pulls his plugs before that.

I predict Clinton will produce an explosion of outrage on this board by an effusive eulogy.

He must have pneumonia,without any public affirmation of that. He has provided plenty of time for the lengthy histories and obits - just hope they include his nasty spook experience among other less than "patrician" qualities.