The Political Revival of George Herbert Walker Bush

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A testimony to the bankruptcy of the US' political elites. We now have nostalgia for G. H. W. Bush, an airhead aristocrat who never had a moral compass or any other sort of compass.

KENNEBUNKPORT, Me. — The big wood-shingled house on the craggy seaside promontory called Walkers Point has been a Bush family refuge for more than 100 years. But things looked bleak for the family patriarch, George Herbert Walker Bush, when he spent a weekend respite here during the final summer of his presidency in 1992.

His re-election campaign was faltering. His poll numbers, which had skyrocketed after the Gulf War, were in the tank. The economy was on the rocks. A hurricane named Andrew blew through Florida that August, leaving 250,000 people homeless, sweltering and angry about the incompetence of the federal government. Sound familiar?

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The father, in the soft glow of history, is having a political revival, as the spotlight glares ever more harshly on his son.

Consider the last high-profile guest to come to Kennebunkport: Senator John McCain of Arizona, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, who was here last week. Mr. McCain has studiously avoided the incumbent President Bush; they appeared only once together, briefly on an airport tarmac in Phoenix, since the president endorsed the senator in the White House Rose Garden in March.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/01/us/politics/01web-stolberg.html?em

[StarfishParable]

1. Read the book on the whole Bush clan by Kitty Kelley

She does meticulous research. Bush 1 is a whimp. Barbara is an elitist snob. Don't have to comment on Duffis W.

Obama's people need to run ads with McCain (in his $580 Ferragamo loafers) and Bush 1 (in his mock turtleneck) driving around Walker's Point in the Golf Cart. Priceless imagery.

Now really, who is the Elite?

[morningglory]

2. Welcome to DU, Star!! Glad to have you. This is a great place to play. nt

[Demeter]

3. I Haven't Any Nostalgia for Poppy Bush

and no compassion, either. I think that in order for the US to succeed, the poppy must be plucked from the scene so that the GOP can run leaderless and disorganized and disintegrate.