Former president (Bush Sr.) faces hecklers in Kan.

[sabra]

Source: AP

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) -- Former President George H.W. Bush faced a few hecklers Sunday at the University of Kansas as he reminisced about his career and reflected on the economic and international issues dominating the end of his son's presidency.

The elder Bush said it's too early to know how history will judge his son's two terms. He defended his son's recent oversight of the current war in Iraq after discussing the decision in the first Gulf War not to attempt to topple Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.

The former Republican president also dismissed the idea, advanced by many Democrats, that deregulation of the nation's financial markets led to the economic meltdown this fall. He argued for continued U.S. involvement with China, saying that nation does not want to dominate its neighbors.

The crowd of about 2,000 people was mostly friendly, but security officers escorted a half-dozen hecklers from the auditorium while Bush answered questions from Bill Lacy, director of the Dole Institute of Politics, and submitted by e-mail. The hecklers appeared to be critics of the current president, and none was arrested.

"These guys yelling at me, that doesn't bother me anymore," Bush said. "It goes with the territory, and you have to get used to it."



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[midnight]

1. 5 Million Iraqi Children Orphaned

It's not to early to juge his son. "Recounting her traumatic memories, Halima, a nine-year-old girl who is living in a public orphanage, said that she lost her parents in a blast that ripped through a local market in a Baghdad neighborhood."http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/70886/?page=entire

[Capt. America]

2. He cried at Jeb's going away in FL, because he knew the wrong son got the Presidency.

[jwirr]

3. I doubt that either son would have been better.

[Raster]

14. Jeb would not have been the out-and-out fuckup like his older bro.

Jeb, a cold, heartless, manipulative prick would have given dickless cheney* a run for his money in the "evil bastard" category.

[Judi Lynn]

4. What a heart-wrenching moment. Poor, poor thing. What a loving father!

http://www.foxnews.com.nyud.net:8090/images/244224/0_21_120406_bush_tears.jpg

The _Bushes are known throughout the world for their unbelievable acts of kindness.

[Raster]

11. Your entire post requires one large SARCASM tag!

Why Poppy cried.

Face it, you are the patriarch of a family with ties to Nazi money laundering, dirty wars in Central America and international bank scandals. Your first-born and least favorite son, the not-so-bright, ne'er-do-well that failed at everything is keeping his streak alive by becoming the worst President ever and shattering records for his unpopularity. Even family friends and Bush* clan allies have breached protocol to publicly slap Gee-dumbya upside the head.

[Doremus]

18. Sociopaths.

Maybe his perpetual water works are the souls of all the innocents he and his spawn have killed, maimed or harmed during his long, disgusting life.

Poor, poor sociopath has alligator tears. Fuck him, his antecedents and his descendants. Perhaps stem cell research can find a cure for his evil DNA.

[pacalo]

5. I just had to fill out the comment section. Too many lies going on with Poppy.

Now, see, what the American people are tired of is how the Republican politicians distort the truth & attempt to re-write history, which is the case with Mr. Bush's comments in this speech.

The Iraq war wasn't the big issue in the '08 election because "the surge is working". We're all hurting in some way or another, due to the fact that the domestic issues in our country are all in dire straits right now.

Think about all the money that could have been put to constructive use in our own country if Bush's son had not lied to the country in order to invade Iraq. That was a costly misadventure that is largely the blame of our national woes, so, indirectly, Iraq was indeed part of the reason the Republicans were rejected in the recent election.

Additionally, there is certainly a very large portion of the population who consider it "murder" when lives are killed based on lies.

And his son did not surround himself with "good" people. Call them what they are: crooks who ignored our country's Constitution.

History will not judge his son well, no matter how many times he & his son try to make us think so.

[pitchforksandtorches]

6. Saul Alinsky had Bush's number in 1972...

COPYRIGHT 1990 Davis Information Group

Let Them Call Me Rebel

In 1972, a group of activists at Tulane University, bent on doing their part to end the Vietnam War, invited Saul Alinsky to help plan a demonstration against a scheduled appearance by George Bush, then serving as U.S. representative to the United Nations. Traditional methods of protest--picketing, chanting, sit-ins--were becoming increasingly ineffective, and the students, desperate, hoped that Mr. Alinsky would offer them a novel, slightly subversive approach to civil disobedience. They weren't disappointed.

Mr. Alinsky suggested that rather than simply disrupting Mr. Bush's speech in New Orleans, they should cheer wildly, whenever he defended the war. But, he added, "Just make damn sure you dress up as members of the Ku Klux Klan."

The students followed his instructions to the letter, first trailing Mr. Bush across the campus in Klan regalia and later waving oversized banners reading "The KKK Loves Bush" during his address. The next day, having successfully sabotaged Mr. Bush's visit, they found themselves hailed as the pride of the antiwar movement, and their tactics were emulated on campuses across the country.

Though trivial in comparison with his other achievements, the incident was characteristic of Mr. Alinsky's approach to community organizing: innovative, savage, and, above all, effective. It was these qualities that made him the premier radical organizer of this century--the man who gave voice to the inhabitants of America's ghettos. And it is these same qualities that make Mr. Alinsky the fascinating subject of Sanford D. Horwitt's luminous biography, Let Them Call Me Rebel.

[balantz]

8. Thanks for sharing that great story! n/t

[spag68]

7. Bush and deregulation

What would you expect from a crook that has a history of banking going back to the turn of the twentieth century?

[quidam56]

9. Third world Appalachia, come see the prosperity thanks to coal

Thank God the Bush era has come to an end ! http://www.wisecountyissues.com

[proud2BlibKansan]

10. . . .

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=4476080&mesg_id=4476080

[fasttense]

12. Hecklers didn't always follow around the neocons. n/t

[santamargarita]

13. Did he reminisce about how his "Old Man" helped build the Nazi War Machine?

In stead of belching out Neocon lies, admit the truth!

[Vidar]

15. Between Iran-Contra, his possible ties to Kennedy's assassination

and his monstrous progeny, the elder Bush also qualifies for a sentence of treason & a"necktie party".

[UTUSN]

16. He *didn't* burst into tears?!1 n/t

[Ian David]

17. These weren't "hecklers." These were legitimate questions that the son of Prescott ignored.

<snip>

A man in the front of the auditorium shouted a question at Bush and, when Lacy admonished him that the Dole Institute's goal was to promote a civil discussion of issues, the heckler replied, "There's nothing civil about war or war crimes."

An officer escorted him and a woman from the auditorium. Later, three women stood, and one of them shouted remarks at Bush, appearing to read them from a piece of paper, though much of what she said was inaudible at the front of the hall. Bush drew laughter and applause with his response.

<snip>

He was interrupted a third time when he said Obama faces huge problems. A man in the audience shouted, "Whose problems are they? Who made them?" Bush didn't answer as the man left.

More:
http://www.hdnews.net/wirestories/k1045-BC-KS-ElderBush-Kansas-1stLd-Writethru-11-16-0868

[Ecumenist]

19. HUH??!! It ain't too early to judge that idiot.

He presided over the destruction of our country's economy and millions of lives in other countries for greed and ideological reasons. It's about 8 years late in coming. That SOB needs to face the same thing that he foisted on so many millions of innocents and his merry bnd of slobbering psychopaths need to to go with him. Luckily, I think that time WON'T be kind to them AT ALL and the name bush will be right up there with goebbels, pol pot, ceaucescu, kim jong il and bundy.

[PfcHammer]

20. Prolly sundowning. Early AD. That or he's

just a batshit crazy winger mofo. :evilgrin:

[roamer65]

21. DUMB and DUMBER.

Pappy and the Moron.