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Went Perot in 1996.
I officially started hating politics when Clinton beat him in 1992.
Bush the senior was a good man and a well-qualified President. We have not had one since.
The Post "HW" presidencies have been like Notre Dame Head Coaches post-Holtz (and pre-Kelly)
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The most qualified candidate.
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He was up in Wisconsin, campaigning on a whistle-stop tour, in 1992. At that point in the campaign, it was increasingly clear he was going to lose. A local reporter asked him how the train trip from downstate was going. Bush had just been on a whistle-stop tour in Louisiana and a family had stood next to the tracks all dropped trou as the train passed. Bush responded to the Wisconsin reporter, "Good. Nobody's mooned us up here."
Many other examples of his sense of humor, including inviting Dana Carvey to the White House a month after he lost, which indicates a sense of humility, too.
with Notre Dame socks on.
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May all of us have a relationship in our lives like his and Barbara's.
those internet times well too. His son was a big drop off.
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Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/30/us/politics/george-hw-bush-dies.html
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With an underrated foreign policy.
RIP, 41
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But Trump understands it much better than you and neocon.
Link: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Chicken_Kiev_speech
You and your hero in the White House could learn a lot from GHWB - like how he insisted as the Cold War came down that there would be no “spiking the football.”
He was not perfect - no one is - but he was a good man, and a marked contrast to what we have now.
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