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Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Politics / History Inaugural Address of the Day

Posted by Eli Sanders on Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 10:48 AM

Today, an inaugural address from the Bush whose reputation has been making a bit of a comeback lately—George H.W. Bush.

My friends, we are not the sum of our possessions. They are not the measure of our lives. In our hearts we know what matters. We cannot hope only to leave our children a bigger car, a bigger bank account. We must hope to give them a sense of what it means to be a loyal friend, a loving parent, a citizen who leaves his home, his neighborhood and town better than he found it. What do we want the men and women who work with us to say when we are no longer there? That we were more driven to succeed than anyone around us? Or that we stopped to ask if a sick child had gotten better, and stayed a moment there to trade a word of friendship?

And now, as his son told us, go shopping more!

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I'd forgotten what a smarmy old woman Bush I was.

Posted by Fnarf on January 7, 2009 at 10:59 AM

What a frickin liar that guy is/was/will be.

And think, at that time he was planning to attack Iraq without reason and 9/11 just plopped up and gave him an "excuse".

Posted by Will in Seattle on January 7, 2009 at 12:24 PM

as much as I dispise republicans as weaseals I have to give this ex ww2 fighter pilot rational thinker some credit...he was pretty moderate...like nixon without the gross abuse of power (if you dont count iran-contra drug smuggeling)

Posted by whaleofashrimp on January 7, 2009 at 12:44 PM

I guess he wasn't a loving parent so much.

Posted by gk on January 7, 2009 at 1:12 PM

In that "W" movie George H. is basically seen as an accomplished guy, not a jerk, and very troubled by his fuck-up son. I was surprised, frankly, at how sympathetically he was portrayed.

Posted by Yeek on January 7, 2009 at 2:04 PM

That's easy for a millionaire to say.

Posted by disintegrator on January 7, 2009 at 2:37 PM

I was there!!!

Also: that fucker.

Posted by SEAN NELSON, EMERITUS on January 7, 2009 at 3:48 PM