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

[dflprincess]

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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.)

[DisgustipatedinCA]

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

[TexasTowelie]

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.

[dflprincess]

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

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... 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.

[Politicalboi]

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

He regretted it.

[Art_from_Ark]

5. A "Profile in Courage" for just agreeing to a budget deal?

[GeorgeGist]

6. What he really said ...

"Read my lips: No new Texas".

[lpbk2713]

7. It must take a lot of courage to show his face in public.

After raising the idiot and conniving sons the way he did and then turning them loose on the world.

[gulliver]

8. He also publically resigned from the NRA.

Think of that. By the standards of today's Republicans, he definitely is a profile in courage.

[Johonny]

9. On the bright side; he probably was the best Republican President of my lifetime

man we live in such a sucky age in American history.

[sabrina 1]

10. In the NEW Democratic World, the Bushes are PATRIOTS!! See all the threads DEFENDING what we once

OPPOSED so vehemently!!

I have to check to make sure I am on DU these days.

Whoever thought there would ever be any question about the Iraq War on DU.

The War Criminals must be smiling.

[dflprincess]

11. Good points

and sad, but true.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

12. This is actually a clever little knife twist on someone's part.

I can't imagine Poppy's going to feel very honored by it plus it sends the message that raising taxes is sometimes okay even for republicans. Provides a little more framing o Jeb, too, if that's needed for some people.