Bush Will Attempt to Match Kerry's Band of Brothers

[louis c]

by accepting the Republican nomination with his band of brothers from the same time period.

They can all attest to their brave actions in killing a fifth of vodka and gin, or living through the fear of snorting cocaine until the wee hours of the morning.

It seems that very few of Bush's brain cells survived that war, and they are sorely missed.

[Fed Up]

1. Otis from Mayberry will be there, if Barney lets him out of jail. n/t

[CatWoman]

2. exclusive!!!! here they are from a previous engagement

[meti57b]

3. LOL!!!

[onethatcares]

4. the only problem with that,

no one will claim to have served with him in the Alabama Air National Guard, otherwise Gary Treadeau would be out 10K. Even tho I served almost thirty years ago, I could name at least 50 people that I served with, E1 thru O5, including the warrant officers. They'd probably remember me, I didn't really fit into the military.

[The Spirit of JFK]

5. This is my brother Jack Daniels...

This is my OTHER brother Jack Daniels.

[NightOwwl]

11. Bwah!

:beer:

I think I'm going to enjoy this campaign.

[JDPriestly]

6. Good question.

Who were his drinking buddies? Has anyone researched this?

[Karenina]

7. Where's that James Bath feller???

???

[peacetalksforall]

8. Yeah, bring 'em on. I want to see his friend and partner Bath standing

next to him. And they should have a totally open press conference.

I wonder if any of his other not-used-in-Vietnam fighter jet co-students alse became business partners.

And let's have all their higher ups out there with him.

And let's hear about how brave he was. Did he do flips that no one else would do? Did he zoom down to scare the cows?

Meaning no disrespect - as they do on the House and Senate floor.

[louis c]

18. When will Bath appear?

[UdoKier]

9. He should have a "Band of Corpses"

He can have the guys whose pointless deaths he directly caused stuffed and mounted and drag them around wherever he goes.

[Jade Fox]

10. An ode to the Texas Souffle'....

from those Alabama women campaign workers who nicknamed him that.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

12. Bush and his Band Of Brothers

Bush in 1963 at his Andover prep school, dressed in drag along with his other cheerleader Band Of Brothers. This at a time when US troops were starting to arrive in the jungles of Vietnam and young men were volunteering for duty.

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[Piperay]

13. Hahahaha

caught me by surprise on that one! :bounce:

[rumguy]

14. He should bring his fellow cheerleaders up on stage with him

and Lott can also be there with his fellow cheerleaders....

[kodi]

15. what? will they play "the Ballad of the Tanqueray?" for Bush

Ballad of the Tanqueray

Drunken men who swill rye,
Puke on their shoes and hope to die,
Men who slur just what they say,
The drunken men of the Tanquerary

Chorus

Silver beer tabs upon their chest,
They drink Bud, America’s best,
Fifty beers George drinks a day.
And washes it down with Tanqueray

Trained to drive while drinking beer,
They nearly hit a lot of deer
Men who smash dad’s car at night,
Then get into a great big fight


Back at home his Laura waits,
Worries if George met his fate,
Has he crashed the car again,
All because he’s drinking gin


Silver beer tabs on his chest,
He’s passed out, and needing rest,
A 100 beers he’s had today,
But only 3 shots of tanqueray

[The_Casual_Observer]

16. Well, for starters there's that brave sailor Capt. Morgan

flanked by a couple of Beefeaters. Maybe he can be introduced by Cokie Roberts?

[merh]

17. Maybe folks from the Cloverdale Grill in Montgomery AL will show!

(Snip)

The following excerpt about Mr. Bush's time in Montgomery were reported by Free-lance writer Glynn Wilson who gave The Independent to use the excerpts. See his full story at: southerner.net/blog and southerner.net/fast.

Many who encountered Bush during that Blount campaign remember him as an affable social drinker who acted younger than his 26 years. He also tended to show up late every day, around noon or one o'clock, at Winton "Red" Blount's campaign headquarters. There he would prop his boots on a desk and proceed to brag about how much he drank the night before.

Bush rented a house on Cloverdale Road. He would often be seen with beer in hand, maybe along with a shot of Jim Beam, a fist-full of peanuts or an Executive Burger at the Cloverdale Grill. It is also part of the conventional wisdom here that Bush also liked to sneak out behind the bar for a joint.

Alabama writer Wayne Greenhaw said biographer Kitty Kelly knew about Warren Moseley, who served for some time as proctor of the state bar exam. He says Moseley had "talked." Cloverdale regulars recall Moseley from decades of late nights, including a few when the president-to-be made something of an impression not only for his jeans and cowboy boots. They remember Bush's stories about how the New Haven, Connecticut police always let him go, when they stopped him "all the time" for driving drunk as a student at Yale - after he told them his name, of course

(snip)

Bush told that story to others working in the campaign "what seemed like a hundred times," said Winton Blount's nephew C. Murphy Archibald, who worked in the campaign and says he has "vivid memories" of that time.

"He would laugh uproariously as though there was something funny about this. To me, that was pretty memorable, because here he is, a number of years out of college, talking about this to people he doesn't know," he said. "He just struck me as a guy who really had an idea of himself as very much a child of privilege, that he wasn't operating by the same rules."

(sni)

"He was an attractive person, kind of a 'frat boy,'" Blount said. "I didn't like him."

He remembers thinking to himself, "This guy thinks he is God's gift to women," he said. "He was all duded up in his cowboy boots. It was sort of annoying seeing all these people who thought they were hot shit just because they were from Texas."

Bush also made an impression on the self-described "Blue-Haired Platoon," a group of older Republican Women working for Blount. Behind his back they called him "the Texas souffle," Archibald said, because he was "all puffed up and full of hot air."


http://www.al.com/news/independent/index.ssf?/base/columnists/1077146101315230.xml

[DrFunkenstein]

19. Bush Has No Long-Term Friends

Just political allies.

[louis c]

20. Correction, with all due respect

his father's political allies. He has nothing.