Salon.com with new AWOL evidence: "George W. Bush's missing year"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

George W. Bush's missing year
The widow of a Bush family confidant says her husband gave the future president an Alabama Senate campaign job as a favor to his worried father. Did they see him do any National Guard service? "Good lord, no."

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/09/02/allison/index.html

Sept. 2, 2004 | NEW YORK -- Before there was Karl Rove, Lee Atwater or even James Baker, the Bush family's political guru was a gregarious newspaper owner and campaign consultant from Midland, Texas, named Jimmy Allison. In the spring of 1972, George H.W. Bush phoned his friend and asked a favor: Could Allison find a place on the Senate campaign he was managing in Alabama for his troublesome eldest son, the 25-year-old George W. Bush?

"The impression I had was that Georgie was raising a lot of hell in Houston, getting in trouble and embarrassing the family, and they just really wanted to get him out of Houston and under Jimmy's wing," Allison's widow, Linda, told me. "And Jimmy said, 'Sure.' He was so loyal."

Linda Allison's story, never before published, contradicts the Bush campaign's assertion that George W. Bush transferred from the Texas Air National Guard to the Alabama National Guard in 1972 because he received an irresistible offer to gain high-level experience on the campaign of Bush family friend Winton "Red" Blount. In fact, according to what Allison says her late husband told her, the younger Bush had become a political liability for his father, who was then the United States ambassador to the United Nations, and the family wanted him out of Texas. "I think they wanted someone they trusted to keep an eye on him," Linda Allison said.

[glitch]

1. holey moley - that's worth a day pass nt

[AnnitaR]

2. Side note: Is Babs not one of the ugliest women ever?!?!

Blech! :puke:

She is absolutely horrid! I'm sorry I normally try not to make crude remarks about appearances but she doesn't deserve my kindness... She is ugly as hell!!!! I also think she was one horrible mother!

[LosinIt]

4. she looks exactly like Nathan Lane in The Birdcage

the resemblance is uncanny, anyone have a link??

[MissMarple]

5. I wish I did . Yes, you have a point!

Is that entirely coincidental, do you think?

[LosinIt]

8. I guess not, look what I found while looking for a picture of Nathan

http://www.time.com/time/international/1996/960408/showbiz.html

NATHAN LANE--UNCAGED
His brilliant drag turn in the Birdcage has made Lane a true movie star. But will we ever look at Barbara Bush the same?
RICHARD ZOGLIN

For years he's been a local hero on Broadway, but Nathan Lane is just now learning what it's like to be a real star. Most Hollywood vets know the drill: the rash of press interviews, the upsurge in people stopping you on the street to sing your praises . But Lane, who plays the flamboyantly effeminate half of a gay couple in The Birdcage, has to contend with something other movie stars don't. Stopped in Manhattan traffic in a taxi one day last week, he noticed a rough-looking van driver staring down at him. The fellow turned to his friend, then leaned out the window and yelled, "Hey, faggot!"

Lane froze. "It was really a horrible moment," he says. "I just sat there and thought, well, here's the flip side."

Luckily, it's the minority side. The Mike Nichols comedy--which earned $18.3 million at the box office its first weekend, the best opening record of any film this year--portrays a gay couple whose old-fashioned family values even Bob Dole conservatives could love. And Lane's funny, flouncy yet surprisingly restrained performance--topped by a bravura drag bit as a Barbara Bush-style matron--is a big reason why.

[Bluebear]

3. Devastating.

[Elwood P Dowd]

6. The problem with this article

It dwells too long on Linda Allison's disgust with the bushits. The major media will take it as someone taking revenge because they were no longer in favor.

[Dob Bole]

7. We need an abortion...

That is...this is good. But if the abortion story could get out into the press, we have our holy grail.

[DeepModem Mom]

9. kick

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

10. Kick for the morning crowd n/t

[Bushfire]

11. Kick for the afternoon crowd

devastating article... :kick:

[kskiska]

12. The story is in the Guardian, too (non-subscrip)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/salon/0,14779,1295936,00.html