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xray s Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-17-04 10:18 PM
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Looking For Best Evidence Of George Bush In Alabama
Edited on Tue Aug-17-04 10:18 PM by xray s
Bar receipts, DUI convictions, Playboy subscriptions...someone throw me a bone here!
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Feanorcurufinwe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-17-04 10:20 PM
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1. Isn't there a cash reward for that kind of evidence?
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buycitgo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-17-04 10:20 PM
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2. OK
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buycitgo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-17-04 10:24 PM
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3. try this
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napi21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-17-04 10:38 PM
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9. It's a good story, but if true, why hasn't any of these people
come forward in recent years? I don't know if all the stuff in that link is true or not, but it's of no use if no one will verify it now. I'm a bit surprised that no one has surfaced to support the shrub. Makes me think that the detractors are being paid off to be quiet, and there simply aren't any supporters out there.
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buycitgo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-17-04 10:41 PM
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11. I don't either, but thought it was a fairly concise overview
most of those people mentioned would support dumbo, anyway

what about those former pilots out of Memphis?

what's the deal with them?
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napi21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-17-04 10:45 PM
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13. It was a good overview, but in those circles, there's always
jealousy, greed, and need for fame. I still don't understand why everyone has remained so quiet. Surely if there were some real supporters from those days who are still supporters today, the shrub campaign would have been parading them everywhere!
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merh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-17-04 10:25 PM
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4. You mean like how he trashed the house he rented in 1972 in
Edited on Tue Aug-17-04 10:31 PM by merh
Montgomery, Alabama?


Bush remembered from social contacts
Saturday, February 28, 2004
BRETT J. BLACKLEDGENews staff writer

George W. Bush didn't make much of an impression as a Guardsman in Alabama, but plenty of people recall him socially from 1972, with memories fond and foul.

Bush is remembered by those who say they worked with him, socialized with him, even those who say he still owes them money.
Winston Groom, the "Forrest Gump" author, remembers a pleasant dinner with Bush in the summer of 1972. Lobbyist Fred Crawford recalls talking baseball, lots of baseball, with Bush. Birmingham native Murphy Archibald, now a lawyer in Charlotte, recounts how Bush often bragged about his drinking.

None have specific recollections about Bush and the National Guard. Some heard he was serving but never saw for themselves. All of them remember his time with Winton "Red" Blount's unsuccessful U.S. Senate campaign.

(snip)

For much of 1972, the 26-year-old Bush lived, worked and played in Alabama, mostly in Montgomery. He came to town to work for Blount at the urging of his father and with the help of a family friend, GOP political consultant Jimmy Allison of Midland, Texas. And he lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath cottage in Montgomery's historic Cloverdale neighborhood, the furnished home of a 68-year-old widow.

That's what the Smith family remembers most about Bush, how he left their aunt's home damaged, dirty and dumpy. "He was just a rich kid who had no respect for other people's possessions," said Mary Smith, whose family found damaged walls, broken furnishings and a chandelier destroyed after Bush left the house. A bill sent to collect the damages went unpaid, the family said.

http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1077963426278660.xml

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There are several articles on the net from alabama about how the rich kid in cowboy boots liked to drink, come to work late and brag about how his daddy got him out of trouble.

Do you want some more links?

On edit: I see you have been provided a good link. Wait for Kitty Kelly's book, she is supposed to have some good info.

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xray s Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-17-04 10:29 PM
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6. Now there is an interesting item
Edited on Tue Aug-17-04 10:30 PM by xray s
Winston Groom based his charecter Forrest Gump on George Bush, whom he had dinner with in 1972....hey, it could be true...well, except for the fact that Forrest went to Vietnam and Bush didn't...but that could be poetic license I suppose...
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merh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-17-04 10:32 PM
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8. Also, Forrest had integrity and the weed doesn't. (eom)
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xray s Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-17-04 10:44 PM
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12. yeah...and Forrest always told the truth...
Groom was really stretching it there. I guess the connection between Forrest and Bush is that startled look.
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merh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-17-04 10:51 PM
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14. LOL - that's about it - the startled look! (eom)
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buycitgo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-17-04 11:32 PM
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17. flip
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buycitgo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-17-04 11:34 PM
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18. flop
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Green Lantern Donating Member (277 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-17-04 10:27 PM
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5. Look
for Daddy's old check stubs-who did he contribute to-who got paid off-which 12 step program got a new home-check the walls of local bars for photos of a "celeb" back when who danced naked on bar stools-and locate Laura's old diary.
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wurzel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-17-04 10:30 PM
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7. Did he receive any mail? Make any phone calls? Use a credit card?
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MoonRiver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-17-04 10:40 PM
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10. If he can't produce the evidence, it doesn't exist.
And, I have yet to see any evidence.
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marlakay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-17-04 11:03 PM
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15. I bet Rove has spent years cleaning up after *
I just read that whole article and it sounds like people are afraid to come forward and tell the truth. Either because they are married and straight now and don't want to dig up their pasts with drugs either or it wouldn't surprise me if * admin threatened ALL of them.

It makes me sick the way he has gotten away with stuff all of his life. No wonder he gets that stupid smirk on his face. He is laughing at all of us.

You would think private investigators would have found some evidence though. The fact that no one ever came forward. Remember when the comic strip Doonesbury offered a $10,000 reward for anyone remembering that time, no one ever came.

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zestfolly Donating Member (220 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-17-04 11:16 PM
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16. Where were you in '72?
Most of us remember...Bush does not... http://www.awolbush.com
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Sparkly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-17-04 11:36 PM
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19. Good point, and...
it seems to me most of us who were around then also have school records, Social Security records, or *something* to prove where they were and what they were doing. I do. Anybody else?
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GalleryGod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-18-04 08:38 AM
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22. They Have W on Film at Nixon's Acceptance Speech in Miami!
All hung over:hangover: and shit in the row behind Poppy,Bar, and Rummy!
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TruthIsAll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-18-04 12:38 AM
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20. A Mobile drug store owner remembers him purchasing condoms (small)
For Victor Ashe..
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nomatrix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-18-04 01:36 AM
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21. This tells you through records
How Bush Failed to Fulfill His Duty
http://www.glcq.com/bush_at_arpc1.htm
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