AOL tries to spin Bush, portrays him as having a difficult upbringing

[dissent1977]

I just found this bio of chimp on AOL's site (don't worry I am not a subscriber), and I thought you would all find this part interesting:

At first they lived in a ramshackle duplex in the roughneck town of Odessa, with two prostitutes renting the other half of the house. Two years later, after a brief time following the elder Bush as a drill-bit salesman in California, they moved to Midland, a more refined city that was better suited to raising a family.
More: http://rl.channel.aol.com/history/biography?id=20050413141209990019

So Bush lived in a "ramshackle duplex" with prostitutes? Can anyone back this up, it appears to me AOL is trying to build false sympathy for Bush

[LiberalEsto]

1. Oh boo-hoo

poor little rich brat

[knowbody0]

2. that's no doubt his fantacy

[edbermac]

3. I'm sure Hitler had a tough childhood as well...

That would explain everything, right? :sarcasm:

[Kraklen]

4. It's not easy going to school on the short bus.

Or growing up with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome in general.

[teryang]

5. They're desperate

Repeating the old bush mythology in a desperate attempt to curry favor with a dissatisfied public.

[ClassWarrior]

6. I'd charactarize living with Bar as difficult.

They're probably getting the two prostitutes thing mixed up with Jenna and Barbara.

NGU.

[NewJeffCT]

16. No, the two prostitutes were visiting Neil from Thailand or China

probably after a green card, too.

[Bluesplayer]

24. they weren't prostitutes

prostitutes have standards.

[dhinojosa]

7. Is that bullshit I smell?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H._W._Bush

This is what wikipedia has

[Botany]

8. Oh please

..... so they struggled as young couple HW & Babs but they
still had the little "family compound" in Maine and $ left over
from Prescott's dealings w/ the nazis.

[Sanity Claws]

9. Bizarre

I knew the family was a bunch of whores. Maybe those prostitutes were just visiting relatives.

[Reverend_Smitty]

10. Yeah I'm sure the Bush family had it difficult

:eyes: If we want to compare difficult upbringings, Big Dog will win hands down. I just read his book, his father died before he was born and his step-dad was an abusive alcoholic...still he managed to deal with that and become a Rhodes Scholar

[Tripper11]

11. So I checked it out...I love the lead....

"When George W. Bush (born 1946) won a disputed election to become president of the United States, it capped a meteoric rise to power in a relatively short political career that combined good timing, a powerful family, and uncanny campaigning skills. A late bloomer in terms of achievement..."

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

[wtmusic]

12. I thought it was pretty good

they quote Molly Ivins later on

oh, and they left out the war criminal part

[Lecky]

13. Imagine if Babs Bush was your mother n/t

Who was it who described her as a pitbull with a white wig and pearls?

[Bluesplayer]

21. !!

Like a pitbull, but without the charm.....

[unhappycamper]

14. Some of the difficulties:

ran out of coke once.
ran out of booze three times.
ran out of the ANG.

Gimme a fucking break.

[Deja Q]

15. If they want a TRUE "difficult upbringing" story, send the fuckers my way.

:mad:

[Beaverhausen]

17. boo fucking hoo - here's more

The next year, his father, who had become a millionaire, moved the family to Houston.

Two years later, George W. was sent back East to enroll at Phillips Academy, an elite private prep school in Andover, Massachusetts. At Andover, he was a whirlwind of physical activity, playing varsity baseball and basketball and junior varsity football. In basketball he often made self-deprecating jokes about riding the bench. Instead of trying out for varsity football, he became the squad's head cheerleader.

[Benhurst]

18. Were the prostitutes relatives? NT

[Solly Mack]

19. Bovine caca....deep, moist, smelly bovine caca

[Bluesplayer]

20. Strangely,

one of the prostitutes was Jeff Gannon's mother.

[Hubert Flottz]

22. "Fraggin' Friggin' Frogs all day, was Haaard Work!"

Maybe his poor upbringing was why he went AWOL!

[BiggJawn]

23. Did they repeat the myth about Poppy and Bar blowing into town...

...in Poppy's old beat-up Studie?

That drill-bit company Poppy worked for was Dresser Industries, an international that was bought in in 1929 by the W. A. Harriman & company, part of Brown Brothers Harriman (Prescott Bush, Managing Director) Bunny Harriman appointed Henry Neil Mallon (yes, Neil Mallon Bush's namesake) to run it. Prescott Bush joined the BoD in 1930.

Now, if I was working for a company who's president my daddy named my brother after, and daddy was sitting on the board of directors, do you thing *I* would be living in a jerk-water double, sharing a bathroom with a coupla whores?

No, I don't think so.

[ComerPerro]

25. Wow, they had it tough for a few days before Poppy

was able to use the family's fortune to make even more money in oil.

[Kathryn STone]

26. What-EVER!!!!!I am so not believing this! n/t

[gizmo1979]

27. What a load of CRAP!

They were never poor!Isn't he a 3rd generation politician?I know his dad was an officer in the navy I think.Navy pilot.Poor my ass.

[dissent1977]

28. Don't forget, Prescott was also making a lot of money off the Nazis

[gizmo1979]

30. exactly

there was no poor childhood.Maybe they lived next to a black couple.So they assumed they were prostitutes.

[LightningFlash]

29. Bush is a god damn slimy slug.

Nothing will ever change what he's done, NOTHING!!!!

Though PNAC and the fascists like Wolfowitz used him and played him like a pawn. And that's the end of the story, he will be held account to his crimes....

And all the neocons will be brought out of the WOODS this time!!!!!! :mad: :mad: :mad:

[RobbinsdaleDem]

31. Boo hoo...

Nothing that could ever have happened to that man would make me feel sorry for him. Nothing!