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"With the news of Barbara Bush's passing on Tuesday, lawmakers and officials from around the world shared fond words about the former first lady."
Bush, described as "a relentless proponent of family literacy," died at the age of 92, a spokesman for the family confirmed.
The BBC adds:
She was a fierce advocate of civil rights and went against many of her husband's Republican party supporters with her more liberal view on abortion rights.
In a statement from the White House, President Donald Trump said Mrs Bush would be long remembered for her devotion to country and family, "both of which she served unfailingly well".
Barack and Michelle Obama described her as "the rock of a family dedicated to public service" and as "an example of the humility and decency that reflects the very best of the American spirit".
Another former US president, Bill Clinton, said Mrs Bush was "feisty in support of her family and friends, her country and her causes".
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(Score: 5, Informative) by takyon on Wednesday April 18 2018, @08:01PM (23 children)
The Professor adds [newsweek.com]:
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 18 2018, @08:42PM
You can't be a "war criminal" unless you lose a war to a democracy.
If you win, obviously you get to decide who is a war criminal. Of course you aren't a war criminal!
If you lose to a non-democracy, you may get killed but you won't be a war criminal. The non-democracy has no need to bother with the designation. If they want you dead, they just kill you.
If you lose to a democracy, then you are a war criminal. It doesn't matter what you did. The democracy wants you dead, generally, but feels a need to justify this. They thus create a farce of a trial, find you guilty, and execute you. The more pacifist/liberal/feminine portion of the population can be partially satisfied that everything was done in some supposedly "legal" and "just" manner. Really, it's just the winner delivering the final necessary blow to the loser, but a democracy requires pageantry.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by PartTimeZombie on Wednesday April 18 2018, @10:33PM (3 children)
An awful lot of nonsense seems to be written about these sorts of people when they die.
Especially someone like Barbara Bush, a child of wealth, who married into a family of wealth and political influence, and whose only real achievement over her life seem to have been to give birth to the next generation of US rulers.
It does sound odd to me when I hear US media talking about "political dynasties" in admiring tones like that is something to be admired.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 18 2018, @10:51PM
An awful lot of nonsense seems to be written about people when they die.
FTFY.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday April 18 2018, @11:18PM (1 child)
George Washington's experience as he traveled to his inauguration made quite clear that the American people wanted him to be King.
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 19 2018, @06:19AM
"If I asked my customers what they wanted, they'd have said a faster horse" --Henry Ford.
George Washington could have said the same thing with "better king" for "faster horse".
(Score: 2, Flamebait) by Runaway1956 on Thursday April 19 2018, @01:42AM (14 children)
That nasty bitch isn't worthy of the respect inferred by the title of "professor". I'm not one to start talking nice about a person, just because they have died. But dancing on the dead person's grave is something that a subhuman does. That "professor" is subhuman, and she has very publicly proclaimed that fact.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday April 19 2018, @02:40AM (13 children)
Did you check her whole genome sequence before determining that?
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(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday April 19 2018, @02:47AM (12 children)
No need. One need go no further than her mouth.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday April 19 2018, @03:21AM (11 children)
Some peoples' graves need dancing on. Now, I don't know if Barbara Bush is one of those people, but her sons, plural, most definitely are. She herself seemed to be a decent enough person as far as I can tell.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 19 2018, @08:30AM
The full JFK assassination archives are supposed to be released soon.
We'll see if CIA convinces Trump otherwise.
GHW Bush (Bab's husband), later CIA Director and eventually President, is said to have been in Dealey Plaza November 22, 1963.
Was he sightseeing--or did he have a mission?
All just coincidental?
Will the evidence say otherwise?
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(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday April 19 2018, @02:22PM (8 children)
We can know this intellectually. I knew a small number of people who need to have their graves danced on. Number one on that list, is my own father. Yeah, he deserves it. But, do I deserve debasing myself to perform that act?
If one conducts himself as a subhuman animal, will he not become a subhuman animal?
And, I can see that we can agree that maybe the mother shouldn't be blamed for the sins of her sons, and maybe the sons shouldn't be blamed for the sins of their fathers, etc, ad nauseum. Each of us has our own load of sins to answer for. Barbara doesn't deserve to be judged for the actions of either her husband, or her sons. That is just WRONG.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday April 19 2018, @09:00PM (7 children)
Thanks for *finally* confirming the Daddy issues (issues, hell, you've got a lifetime subscription...). It was obvious from the start, but it helps to hear straight from the horse's a--er, mouth.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday April 19 2018, @09:50PM (6 children)
Don't get started. You've done well recently, don't revert.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday April 20 2018, @04:03AM (5 children)
Eat shit. If I've "done well" by your metric, it means in the eyes of sane, normal, decent people I've been backsliding. You're a sad sack, someone who can't even psychopath properly but wants to run with the rabid dogs and fails.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Friday April 20 2018, @01:55PM (4 children)
Oh, girl - you're off your meds again. Are we going to do this stupid shit again? As distasteful as it is, I can do it. Just wait right there, and I'll make you a shit sammich.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday April 20 2018, @02:37PM (3 children)
Nah, just have another Troll mod. I take no "meds" aside from some vitamins. You, on the other hand, could do with some strong tetracyclics...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Friday April 20 2018, @02:46PM (2 children)
So, you're saying that you want/need to be trolled endlessly again. Got it.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday April 20 2018, @05:43PM (1 child)
You're a glutton for punishment, ain't'cha? Keep responding with trollish bullshit, and I'll keep downmodding. You're going to end up with negative karma if you keep it up.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Saturday April 21 2018, @12:18AM
Troll . . .
(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday April 21 2018, @02:39PM
Looks like our President will not be doing any dancing:
Barbara Bush funeral: Donald Trump not attending 'out of respect' [bbc.com]
However, Melania will be there. Maybe she will send a marriage-relateed SOS.
What Melania Trump Can Learn From Barbara Bush [politico.com]
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(Score: 5, Touché) by TheGratefulNet on Thursday April 19 2018, @02:48AM (2 children)
I'm also not one to speak glowingly of someone JUST because they died.
she was horrible, her husband and whole family are evil and I wish them nothing but badness in their life.
they fucked over a LOT of people and they DESERVE lots of pain and suffering in their lives.
look, evil people die, and when they die they don't deserve honor or respect. if they were horrible during life, lets rejoice that the world is better with one less evil person in it.
fuck the bush family. rich fuckers who destroyed a lot of good in the world.
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 19 2018, @08:39AM (1 child)
Well, GHW Bush did call Reagan's shit "Voodoo economics".
I'll give him a point for that.
Of course, Daddy Bush did reverse his azimuth when he got the top gig.
...and I wonder if you know about Prescott Bush (GHW's daddy and Dubya's granddaddy) and his profiteering by financing the Nazis.
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(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday April 19 2018, @09:01PM
I know aaaallllllll about Prescott Bush. Three generations of raw sociopathic evil, starting with him. I can't wait for Bush I and II to bite it and go join Grandpa Prescott in a hot place...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...