Author Topic: primitives griping about Kennedy award for George H. W. Bush  (Read 1528 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline franksolich

  • Scourge of the Primitives
  • Global Moderator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 58722
  • Reputation: +3102/-173
primitives griping about Kennedy award for George H. W. Bush
« on: March 27, 2014, 09:37:58 PM »
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024739611

Oh my.

What the primitives won't grouch about.

Quote
dflprincess (20,211 posts)  Thu Mar 27, 2014, 09:54 PM 

Former President George H.W. Bush to receive Kennedy Library Profiles in Courage Award

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/2014/03/27/former-president-george-bush-receive-kennedy-library-profiles-courage-award/9efj49K7G33rv6H8817bJL/story.html
 
Former President George H.W. Bush has been selected to receive a Profile in Courage award from the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation for agreeing to a 1990 budget deal that would raise taxes, despite previously pledging not to raise them, the foundation said today.
 
The annual award is presented to public servants who have made courageous decisions without regard for personal or professional consequences, the foundation said in a statement.
 
The award is named for President Kennedy’s book “Profiles in Courage,” which details stories of US senators who risked their careers for the greater good.
 
Bush is being honored for the courage he demonstrated when he agreed to the budget compromise. This reneged on his 1988 campaign pledge to not raise taxes, and risked the Republican’s re-election prospects, the foundation said. Democrat Bill Clinton ultimately won the 1992 election.
 
At the time of the deal, the federal deficit was set at $200 billion, and the Congressional Budget Office predicted it would double. Bush negotiated with Democrats and agreed to a deal that included both spending cuts and tax increases, the foundation said.
 
“In his first term in office, President George H. W. Bush risked his reputation and ultimately his political career by forging an important compromise on the budget in 1990 that moved our country forward, and should not be forgotten,” said Jack Schlossberg, President Kennedy’s grandson in the statement.

 
Seriously? What shouldn't be forgotten is that George H.W. Bush, like his father before him and his son after him, committed treason to further his own career. (And God only knows what the SOB was doing on 11/22/1963 - Bush himself has claimed he doesn't remember.)

Quote
DisgustipatedinCA (7,408 posts)    Thu Mar 27, 2014, 09:55 PM

1. Tell it to the dead crew he bailed out on, Kennedy Library.

Quote
TexasTowelie (7,935 posts)    Thu Mar 27, 2014, 10:03 PM

2. I thought he might have been receiving the award since he was a pilot in World War II, but an award

for his political career is dubious. At least he isn't a chickenhawk like many of his Republican brethren such as Cheney.
 
I guess that the JFK Library Foundation wants to appear bi-partisan, but it does seem like it's a waste of time and I won't watch the ceremony.

Quote
dflprincess (20,211 posts)    Thu Mar 27, 2014, 10:12 PM

4. See post#1

There has been a lot of debate over the years on just how "brave" Poppy was.

This is link from 2004

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x994545
 
and this information is contained in one of the posts from that link

... someone who was on the same mission:

http://www.usvetdsp.com/story46.htm
 
Other corroboration comes from another pilot of an Avenger who has said that the plane was quite unstable without a pilot at the controls, and had a tendency to roll over, and that it was the obligation of the pilot to remain at the controls until the crewmen had exited the plane. Stated further that the operations manual of the plane specifically recommended water landings in emergencies, and the person found it odd that Bush did not attempt one when his people hadn't gotten out, because he'd done one a few months before.

Quote
Politicalboi (11,184 posts)   Thu Mar 27, 2014, 10:05 PM

3. He tried to hide from "Read My Lips"

He regretted it.

Suck on it, primitives.
apres moi, le deluge

Milo Yiannopoulos "It has been obvious since 2016 that Trump carries an anointing of some kind. My American friends, are you so blind to reason, and deaf to Heaven? Can he do all this, and cannot get a crown? This man is your King. Coronate him, and watch every devil shriek, and every demon howl."

Offline Carl

  • Global Moderator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 19839
  • Reputation: +1618/-100
Re: primitives griping about Kennedy award for George H. W. Bush
« Reply #1 on: March 27, 2014, 09:46:06 PM »
He found out that you can never trust a democrat...never.

Offline Dori

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 7964
  • Reputation: +406/-39
Re: primitives griping about Kennedy award for George H. W. Bush
« Reply #2 on: March 27, 2014, 10:13:50 PM »
So do the anti-American cowards who wouldn't lift a finger to protect this country if it ever came under attack, really want to go there?

There is an element to the denizens of the DUmp that I have zero tolerance for.





 
“How fortunate for governments that the people     they administer don't think”  Adolph Hitler

Offline USA4ME

  • Evil Capitalist
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 14835
  • Reputation: +2476/-76
Re: primitives griping about Kennedy award for George H. W. Bush
« Reply #3 on: March 27, 2014, 10:23:28 PM »
Libs are all too happy to give awards to Republicans who stab the American people in the back.

.
Because third world peasant labor is a good thing.

Offline delilahmused

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 7384
  • Reputation: +1367/-80
  • Devil Mom
Re: primitives griping about Kennedy award for George H. W. Bush
« Reply #4 on: March 27, 2014, 11:18:43 PM »
One person who was there that feeds their prejudice about H. W.'s service is the only opinion that matters. I'm guessing there were others on the plane who are/were capable of backing up this one guy.

Cindie
"If God built me a ladder to heaven, I would climb it and elbow drop the world."
Mick Foley

"I am a very good shot. I have hunted for every kind of animal. But I would never kill an animal during mating season."
Hedy Lamarr

"I'm just like any modern woman trying to have it all. Loving husband, a family. It's just, I wish I had more time to seek out the dark forces and join their hellish crusade."
Morticia Addams

Offline GOP Congress

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2334
  • Reputation: +274/-113
Re: primitives griping about Kennedy award for George H. W. Bush
« Reply #5 on: March 27, 2014, 11:56:23 PM »
Only in DUmmieland...

A man who DUmmies consider the enemy makes a promise to not raise taxes, something DUmmie's cannot stand.

Instead, said man does exactly the opposite and RAISES taxes, which would normally make the the DUmmies ecstatic, even braggadocio, because they can stick it to the rethugs that our own guy doesn't even like republican policies.

Yet, they come out and trash him because of the (R), and because of his "evil spawn" son Dubya.

Go figure.
"The main purpose of the Democrat Party and the Left is to destroy the United States, transform Western Civilization to a tribal-based dystopia, and to ultimately kill all conservatives and non progressives." - Jonah Kyle

Offline FiddyBeowulf

  • "Its on, its off, its on, its off." "That is called blinking, boys."
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 5271
  • Reputation: +523/-34
Re: primitives griping about Kennedy award for George H. W. Bush
« Reply #6 on: March 28, 2014, 07:08:55 AM »
Only in DUmmieland...

A man who DUmmies consider the enemy makes a promise to not raise taxes, something DUmmie's cannot stand.

Instead, said man does exactly the opposite and RAISES taxes, which would normally make the the DUmmies ecstatic, even braggadocio, because they can stick it to the rethugs that our own guy doesn't even like republican policies.

Yet, they come out and trash him because of the (R), and because of his "evil spawn" son Dubya.

Go figure.
That...and helping to whack JFK. :mental:
Fire...BAD!!! - John Fetterman


The policies that are indorsed by this party, that they backer of which are much of the 1 percent, causes a social structure much like the one back before the Revolution.

-Words of wisdom from Lady Freedom Returns

"Arguing with liberals...it's like playing chess with a pigeon; no matter how good I am at chess, the pigeon is just going to knock over the pieces, crap on the board and strut around like it's victorious." -- Anonymous

"A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat." - P. J. O'Rourke

Offline Rebel

  • MAGA
  • Administrator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 16934
  • Reputation: +1384/-215
Re: primitives griping about Kennedy award for George H. W. Bush
« Reply #7 on: March 28, 2014, 07:35:19 AM »
Quote
dflprincess (20,211 posts)  Thu Mar 27, 2014, 09:54 PM

Former President George H.W. Bush to receive Kennedy Library Profiles in Courage Award
 
Former President George H.W. Bush has been selected to receive a Profile in Courage award from the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation for agreeing to a 1990 budget deal that would raise taxes, despite previously pledging not to raise them, the foundation said today.

Ironic, since Kennedy actually lowered taxes. Once again we have an "organization" named after a person that doesn't know shit about the stance the person stood for and, chances are, ran by a bunch of f'n Progs. 
NAMBLA is a left-wing organization.

Quote
There's a reason why patriotism is considered a conservative value. Watch a Tea Party rally and you'll see people proudly raising the American flag and showing pride in U.S. heroes such as Thomas Jefferson. Watch an OWS rally and you'll see people burning the American flag while showing pride in communist heroes such as Che Guevera. --Bob, from some news site