George "Herbert Hoover" Bush, son of George Herbert Walker Bush...

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[RobertSeattle]

1. BUSH

B - Budget Deficits
U - Unemployment
S - Shameless Use of Military
H - Hoover All Over Again

[Yogi]

2. I like that,

very insightful and true!

[quinnox]

3. Yes, get it in the people's consciousness

George Bush = Herbert Hoover. I think they should do a campaign commercial comparing them with the job records!

[mahatmakanejeeves]

4. I demand a retraction

How dare you insult Herbert Hoover? This has been said elsewhere, but it bears repeating here:

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I really have to object to your comparison of Herbert Hoover to Bush. He may not have been successful as a president, but Hoover had quite a few accomplishments in his life. Here is an excerpt from his bio:

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Herbert Hoover

Son of a Quaker blacksmith, Herbert Clark Hoover brought to the Presidency an unparalleled reputation for public service as an engineer, administrator, and humanitarian.

Born in an Iowa village in 1874, he grew up in Oregon. He enrolled at Stanford University when it opened in 1891, graduating as a mining engineer.

He married his Stanford sweetheart, Lou Henry, and they went to China, where he worked for a private corporation as China's leading engineer. In June 1900 the Boxer Rebellion caught the Hoovers in Tientsin. For almost a month the settlement was under heavy fire. While his wife worked in the hospitals, Hoover directed the building of barricades, and once risked his life rescuing Chinese children.

One week before Hoover celebrated his 40th birthday in London, Germany declared war on France, and the American Consul General asked his help in getting stranded tourists home. In six weeks his committee helped 120,000 Americans return to the United States. Next Hoover turned to a far more difficult task, to feed Belgium, which had been overrun by the German army.

After the United States entered the war, President Wilson appointed Hoover head of the Food Administration. He succeeded in cutting consumption of foods needed overseas and avoided rationing at home, yet kept the Allies fed.

After the Armistice, Hoover, a member of the Supreme Economic Council and head of the American Relief Administration, organized shipments of food for starving millions in central Europe. He extended aid to famine-stricken Soviet Russia in 1921. When a critic inquired if he was not thus helping Bolshevism, Hoover retorted, "Twenty million people are starving. Whatever their politics, they shall be fed!"

After capably serving as Secretary of Commerce under Presidents Harding and Coolidge, Hoover became the Republican Presidential nominee in 1928.
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Rescuing children ... feeding the hungry, regardless of their politics ... these are accomplishments anyone could be proud of.

How can you compare him to Bush? An apology is called for.

[library_max]

5. Whatever his faults, Hoover was a man of principle.

Besides, the Great Depression was not Hoover's fault (although he failed to do anything to lift it). It was the result of the policies of Hoover's predecessors, Coolidge and Harding. If we push the image of Bush as Hoover, intelligent people might . . . *

Wait, never mind. Intelligent people aren't gonna vote for Bush anyway.

[RobertSeattle]

6. And Hoover was an Engineer

Which is cool with me!

[greekspeak]

7. That is pretty funny. Hehehe...

But I agree with many of my fellow posters. In some ways, he reminds me of Carter. Both were capable men with strong senses of what is right and wrong. For a Puke, Hoover was not bad. He just did not understand how bad things were for the average Joe and Josephine. Completely out of touch. Well, there is something that Shrub and Hoover do have in common. But the average Joe and Josephine these days often just take their kool-aid and agree that black is white and up is down.