Bushes to skip inauguration; DUmmy asks a softball question

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IDemo (11,931 posts)

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Presidents Bush to Skip Obama Inaugural
Source: ABC News

Former President George W. Bush does not plan to attend President Obama’s second inauguration on Monday, joining his father, former President George H.W. Bush, among the living former presidents who are sending regrets, according to several officials with knowledge of inaugural planning.

The decisions mean Obama’s second oath of office will occur with only Democratic former presidents sharing the stage. Both former President Bill Clinton and former President Jimmy Carter plan on attending.

The younger President Bush is citing his father’s health in declining the invitation to attend, according to the officials. The older Bush, who is 88, was just released from the hospital this week after an extended illness.

Monday’s partial ex-presidential attendance will stand in contrast to Obama’s first inauguration, in 2009. All four living presidents attended that event – including, of course, President George W. Bush, who was turning the office over to Obama.

Probably because 0bama treats his friiends like shit, so God knows the indignities he has planned for his enemies

triplepoint (305 posts)
2. What's He Know That We As Yet, Don't?

Just asking...

      Um, how about that 0bummer is a shit cigar in a manuro wrapper? (See what I did there, cigar buffs?)


      If you're implying that he knows some violence is planned, then I wonder why he couldn't have stayed home for the first inauguration, too?

[franksolich]

Well now, it's not compulsory that former presidents attend inauguations.

The article cites recent exceptions.

And I don't recall that Richard Nixon attended Jimmy Carter's inauguration in 1977 (Gerald Ford, outgoing president, was there as a matter of course), despite his being the then-only-living former U.S. president.

I don't recall that Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson attended Richard Nixon's second inauguration in 1973, even though both of them were still alive.

I don't recall that Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower attended Richard Nixon's first inauguration in 1969, even though both of them were still alive (Lyndon Johnson was there as a matter of course).

The history books don't say anything about Harry Truman attending Lyndon Johnson's (1965), John Kennedy's (1961), and Dwight Eisenhower's (1957) inaugurations, or about Herbert Hoover, who was still very much alive at the time, attending Kennedy's either.

Whoop-dee-doo.

[J P Sousa]

I'm visualizing W giving the finger as he wrote that reply , but I know he is above that stuff............but it's what I would do after some bozo was throwing shit bombs at me.  
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[franksolich]

Also.....I don't recall that Jimmy Carter attended Ronald Reagan's second inauguration in 1985 (he'd been there in 1981 as a matter of course, being the outgoing president).  Maybe Richard Nixon did, but I dunno.

I don't recall that Jimmy Carter attended George Bush's inauguration in 1989; Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Ronald Reagan might have, I dunno.

Nor that Richard Nixon attended Ronald Reagan's inauguration in 1981.

The history books don't say anything about Herbert Hoover attending Harry Truman's inauguration in 1949.

This can go on and on and on; I suspect absentee former presidents have been more common than attending former presidents.

[Chris_]

Who would pass up the chance to hang around a glorified bus terminal with a doddering old fool and an inept pervert?  Sign me up. 

[franksolich]

Well, damn, here it is, there's even been outgoing presidents who didn't stick around for the inauguration of their immediate successor.

The outgoing president customarily attends the inauguration, barring those cases where succession was due to his death. There have been four exceptions:

John Adams did not attend Jefferson's inauguration.
John Quincy Adams did not attend Jackson's inauguration.
Andrew Johnson did not attend Grant's inauguration.
Woodrow Wilson did not attend Harding's inauguration (but did ride to the Capitol with him).
 
Gerald Ford had no inauguration, but rather a swearing-in ceremony. Richard Nixon left Washington, D.C. before his resignation took effect and did not attend the ceremony.

The above's the immediate outgoing president, and doesn't include other former presidents who were alive at the time.

[Vagabond]

Adams and Jefferson honestly and truly did not like each other.  John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson had a longstanding enmity and Jackson thought that it was John Quincy Adams that had started the rumour about Jackson and his wife being adulterers due to the living arrangements prior to their marriage.

Andrew Johnson was as a gentleman and knew it was best if he leave.  He's also the only president to have ever returned as a member of a congress.  He was elected as a Senator from Tennessee.  I visited his house in TN a couple of years back, I have a picture of my son standing at his statue. 

I don't know about Wilson, except that he was similar in a lot of respects to Obama.  A college professor who surrounded himself with yes men and didn't like being disagreed with.

[DumbAss Tanker]

triplepoint (305 posts)
2. What's He Know That We As Yet, Don't?

Just asking...

Trajectory parameters are nominal on the asteroid.

 

[Duke Nukum]

Trajectory parameters are nominal on the asteroid.

 

Yeah, Niberu or Elenin or whatever crashing into or otherwise invading the earth.

Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.

[Airwolf]

Ex Presidents are not the only ones not going to Nobamas bash. Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi and others that were at the last one are not going either and they sent tons of cash and support to their Dear Leader.

[Freeper]

If Bush was planning on attending they would be bitching that the Chimp was there.

[Delmar]

Response to IDemo (Original post)Fri Jan 18, 2013, 04:39 PM
Drunken Irishman (24,175 posts)
11. Not that I'll miss him, but it does reek of disrespect.

I can understand his father, who just got out of the hospital, but is his dad's health that precarious he can't take one day to attend the Inauguration of the President?

Clinton and Carter attended both Bush inaugurations ... and I wouldn't be surprised if Gore did too (I know he did in '01).

It just doesn't make sense. He was well enough to leave the hospital, but the health is so serious that Dubya can't leave his bedside for 24 hours?

Yeah right.

The friendless dipshit chimes in. 

It reeks of disrespect?  Barack Hussein O'Chickenhawk is a worthless, choom toking commie and doesn't deserve respect.  The chicken hawk would have to stand on Biden's shoulders to kiss W's ass.   

[WinOne4TheGipper]

Well now, it's not compulsory that former presidents attend inauguations.

The article cites recent exceptions.

And I don't recall that Richard Nixon attended Jimmy Carter's inauguration in 1977 (Gerald Ford, outgoing president, was there as a matter of course), despite his being the then-only-living former U.S. president.

I don't recall that Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson attended Richard Nixon's second inauguration in 1973, even though both of them were still alive.

I don't recall that Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower attended Richard Nixon's first inauguration in 1969, even though both of them were still alive (Lyndon Johnson was there as a matter of course).

The history books don't say anything about Harry Truman attending Lyndon Johnson's (1965), John Kennedy's (1961), and Dwight Eisenhower's (1957) inaugurations, or about Herbert Hoover, who was still very much alive at the time, attending Kennedy's either.

Whoop-dee-doo.

Truman died on December 26, 1972.  LBJ died on January 22, 1973, just two days after the inaugural.

[marv]

After four years of the shit hussein threw Bush's way, what would anybody expect? I have an idea........

[WinOne4TheGipper]

Adams and Jefferson honestly and truly did not like each other.  John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson had a longstanding enmity and Jackson thought that it was John Quincy Adams that had started the rumour about Jackson and his wife being adulterers due to the living arrangements prior to their marriage.

Andrew Johnson was as a gentleman and knew it was best if he leave.  He's also the only president to have ever returned as a member of a congress.  He was elected as a Senator from Tennessee.  I visited his house in TN a couple of years back, I have a picture of my son standing at his statue. 

I don't know about Wilson, except that he was similar in a lot of respects to Obama.  A college professor who surrounded himself with yes men and didn't like being disagreed with.

Remember that Wilson had suffered a stroke during his term, so he wasn't in the best of health.  That may have been his excuse.

[Ralph Wiggum]

If Bush was planning on attending they would be bitching that the Chimp was there.

Very very true.

[Ralph Wiggum]

Truman died on December 26, 1972.  LBJ died on January 22, 1973, just two days after the inaugural.

IIRC, 1973 was the last year that there were no living former Presidents.

[WinOne4TheGipper]

IIRC, 1973 was the last year that there were no living former Presidents.

Pretty sure you're right.  From LBJ's death to Nixon's resignation.  Since then, we've had 5 living former presidents twice, the most ever (Clinton's inauguration to Nixon's death and Bush's inauguration to Reagan's death).

[USA4ME]

triplepoint

What's He Know That We As Yet, Don't?

If by "we" you mean you as liberals, then what Bush knows that you don't would be one of the longest books ever written.  Of course, that's true of what you primitives know compared to any conservative.

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[Skul]

Barry--- Hey, George, you come to my obamaration, OK?
George-- Sorry, buddy, Laura asked me to bathe the cat that day.

[micmac]

I wouldn't want to be that close to Obama either. 

[franksolich]

Truman died on December 26, 1972.  LBJ died on January 22, 1973, just two days after the inaugural.

Thanks for the correction; I was relying upon memory, and was obviously some days, or weeks, off.

[franksolich]

I don't know about Wilson, except that he was similar in a lot of respects to Obama.  A college professor who surrounded himself with yes men and didn't like being disagreed with.

Yes, of course, but I think the real reason was that he'd had that stroke and was pretty much unable to walk around--there was a lot more walking in those days--and it wasn't fitting for a president to appear incapacitated (i.e., in a wheelchair).

Wilson loathed Harding--in fact there were few people he didn't loathe--but I suspect he was enough of a statesman that if he were ambulatory, he would've attending the inauguration too.

[Randy]

Lets see here.....going and being seen with implies approval of the man and his destruction of the country.

I wonder if DUmmies, the self proclaimed smartest people eva!!!!! 1111111111!!! Eleventy eleven elevens  really understand what the expression, not with a 10ft pole means? 

[Big Don]

Not everything has a political motive. George H W Bush just spent 2 MONTHS in the hospital, and these assholes think he should kowtow to Obama at an OUTDOOR event in January, in DC?!