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10/19/2003 Archived Entry: "'...and the George Herbert Walker Bush Award goes to...'"
'...and the George Herbert Walker Bush Award goes to...'
Teddy Kennedy!!! AHHHHH-HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Take that, Sonny Boy!!
But the news from College Station, Texas, this week -- that the First Father, former President George H.W. Bush, has given his own most treasured award to Senator Edward Kennedy -- is nearly as astonishing.When it was announced (with amazingly little fanfare) that the pugnaciously anti-Iraq war Democrat Kennedy had been awarded the 2003 George Bush Award for Excellence in Public Service, so many jaws dropped all over Washington that usually voluble politicians were only heard swallowing their real thoughts.
Since the current President Bush veered away from the real war against terrorism in Afghanistan and went a'venturing in Iraq, much to his father's dismay, just about everybody close to Washington politics has known of the policy schism between father and son.
It was politically and philosophically obvious. But people around Father Bush, a coterie of traditional internationalist conservatives who protect him like a wolf mother does her cubs, would heatedly deny any family rift -- and nobody spoke publicly about it.
Now it's all out. Father Bush has done it in his own preferred nuanced way -- the way Establishment gentlemen operate -- but he has revealed the depth of his disagreement with his impetuously uninformed son.
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The ideological rift between father and son has been growing ever since George W. began focusing on Iraq and, with that obsession, proposed "theories" of unilateralism (America needs room in the world) and preemption (kill even your perceived enemy before he kills you).
But while family friends say Father Bush has made his disagreements known to his son, they clearly have not found fertile soil in this White House.
More curious, and in many ways depressing, is the fact that this President Bush has embarked upon a policy designed to counter, or even to wipe out, his father's entire political legacy.
The father lived his life in the service of moderate and intelligent internationalism. His manners were always meticulously courteous, as he wooed even critics overseas to see the American position. He was even-handed in the Middle East and thus brought the area to the verge of peace for the first time in history; he was capable of using force but preferred to do it supported by coalitions of friendly states, thus cementing international cooperation.
The son seems to have made posturing against his father's accomplishments and beliefs his life's work.
Replies: 4 people speak up
I agree that Poppy is rebuking the miserable failure. It is possible that he is also trying to show Republicans that they don't have to demonize Democrats every chance they get.
Posted by TechnoPeasant @ 10/19/2003 04:56 AM NY
The $87 billion question is: will this story see the light of day in our august Fourth Estate?
Kobe Bryant, anyone?
Posted by Metropolitan99 @ 10/19/2003 09:51 AM NY
thats incredible, hes out eviling his VERRY evil father. that whole family is evil, but then again, you cant expect the evil of the family that built auschwitz to wear off in just 2 generations, that kind of evil only stagnates, and festers, and spreads. i dont generally see the wold in terms of good and evil, after all im a liberal which means i can see shades of gray (well, i prefer the term leftist, i differ with the liberals on the subject of guns, i like them and wish i was allowed to own one, in chicago only the criminals are allowed to protect themselves) anyway, what im saying is, that family is genuinely evil, evil like in horror movies. maybe its a good thing george 2 had daughters, maybe that will break the curse. the father, the son, and the unholy spirit of prescot bush, may he burn in hell
Posted by justin @ 10/19/2003 10:51 AM NY
in honor of granny bush's book coming out, nbc, the newest official channel of the gop party, will air a dateline special tonight@ 7pm.
not to be outdone, cnn will later air a bush feature @ 8 pm.
liberal media- my ass!
Posted by jeff @ 10/19/2003 12:01 PM NY
