re: I'm Curious;How Many Conservatives/GOP Here Still Have A Positive View Of the Bush Family?

H.W. gave us Bill Clinton with an assist from Perot. I thought he got lazy toward the end of the campaign and let Clinton catch him. Didn't like W but was the lesser of two evils in both elections. Made up a reason to go into Iraq.

Glad they’re done with

Someone blamed the subprime housing crap on Bush.

Nope. All on Bill Clinton.

Actually, Andrew Cumo at HUD and Jamie Gorelick. They are the ones who leaned on Fannie and Freddie to take on subprime. They are the ones who stuck the government's fingers in them and screw things up. Throw in Congressional cover from Barnie Frank. Then they got rid of Glass Steagall and leverage limits.

Removing the leverage limits transformed a block fire into one that would burn down a whole city.


Bush checked out his last year and did almost nothing about the 2008 meltdown. McCain didn't have a clue.

Bush also gave us NCLB, didn't veto a single spending bill his first term, got us in endless wars, and did nothing about illegal immigration.

“Oil?….who said something oil, bitch you cooking?”

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Scumbags all. I will never, ever vote for anyone associated with the scumbag Bush family.

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The Bush family has been a corrupt, MIC concern since WWI:

As war loomed in 1914, National City Bank began reorganizing the U.S. arms industry. Percy A.
Rockefeller took direct control of the Remington Arms company, appointing his own man,
Samuel F. Pryor, as the new chief executive of Remington.

The U.S entered World War I in 1917. In the spring of 1918, Prescott’s father, Samuel P. Bush,
became chief of the Ordnance, Small Arms and Ammunition Section of the War Industries
Board.@s2 The senior Bush took national responsibility for government assistance to and
relations with Remington and other weapons companies.

This was an unusual appointment, as Prescott’s father seemed to have no background in
munitions. Samuel Bush had been president of the Buckeye Steel Castings Co. in Columbus,
Ohio, makers of railcar parts. His entire career had been in the railroad business– supplying
equipment to the Wall Street-owned railroad systems.

The War Industries Board was run by Bernard Baruch, a Wall Street speculator with close
personal and business ties to old E.H. Harriman. Baruch’s brokerage firm had handled Harriman
speculations of all kinds.@s3

In 1918, Samuel Bush became director of the Facilities Division of the War Industries Board.
Prescott’s father reported to the Board’s Chairman, Bernard Baruch, and to Baruch’s assistant,
Wall Street private banker Clarence Dillon.

Robert S. Lovett, President of Union Pacific Railroad, chief counsel to E.H. Harriman and
executor of his will, was in charge of national production and purchase “priorities” for Baruch’s
board.

With the war mobilization conducted under the supervision of the War Industries Board, U.S.
consumers and taxpayers showered unprecedented fortunes on war producers and certain holders
of raw materials and patents. Hearings in 1934 by the committee of U.S. Senator Gerald Nye
attacked the “Merchants of Death” — war profiteers such as Remington Arms and the British
Vickers company –whose salesmen had manipulated many nations into wars, and then supplied
all sides with the weapons to fight them.

Percy Rockefeller and Samuel Pryor’s Remington Arms supplied machine guns and Colt
automatic pistols; millions of rifles to Czarist Russia; over half of the small-arms ammunition
used by the Anglo-American allies in World War I; and 69 percent of the rifles used by the
United States in that conflict.@s4

Samuel Bush’s wartime relationship to these businessmen would continue after the war, and
would especially aid his son Prescott’s career of service to the Harrimans.

Most of the records and correspondence of Samuel Bush’s arms- related section of the
government have been burned, “to save space” in the National Archives. This matter of
destroyed or misplaced records should be of concern to citizens of a constitutional republic.
Unfortunately, it is a rather constant impediment with regard to researching George Bush’s
background: He is certainly the most “covert” American chief executive.

Now, arms production in wartime is by necessity carried on with great security precautions. The
public need not know details of the private lives of the government or industry executives
involved, and a broad interrelationship between government and private-sector personnel is
normal and useful.

But during the period preceding World War I, and in the war years 1914-1917 when the U.S. was
still neutral, interlocking Wall Street financiers subservient to British strategy lobbied heavily,
and twisted U.S. government and domestic police functions. Led by the J.P. Morgan concern,
Britain’s overall purchasing agent in America, these financiers wanted a world war and they
wanted the United States in it as Britain’s ally. The U.S. and British arms companies, owned by
these international financiers, poured out weapons abroad in deals not subject to the scrutiny of
any electorate back home. The same gentlemen, as we shall see, later supplied weapons and
money to Hitler’s Nazis.

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Is there any surpise that both Bush presidents would go into the ME, creating huge market opportunities for the MICs?