Someone once said that you shouldn't speak ill of the dead.
Uh huh.
But then I'd have very little to say about George H. W. Bush.
So here goes:
Willie Horton. (Ooh look! A scary black man! Be afraid! Be very afraid!)
Lee Atwater. (See above.)
Iran-Contra. (Bush famously claimed to be "out of the loop" about the Reagan White House's arms deals with Iran. Fortunately--for some--he was President and "back in the loop" when it was time to pardon everyone involved.)
April Glaspie. (Remember her? She's the one who essentially told Saddam Hussein that he could do whatever he wanted with Kuwait--we didn't care. But she did not do this on her own...)
Dan Quayle. (Having a halfwit a heartbeat away from the Presidency is never a good idea.)
C.I.A. (Once a C.I.A. boy, always a C.I.A. boy.)
Prescott Bush (His Daddy, who by some accounts was allegedly part of an attempted coup against FDR, and who was also a banker friendly to the Nazis.)
This was in no discernible way a "great" man. Was he better than his son, Simple W.? Sure.
Was he better than the oozing pustule now besmirching the White House? Of course he was. That bar is awfully low, though.
Rest in Peace, Poppy. (It's better than you deserve.)
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