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Former President George H. W. Bush was heckled recently in a restaurant by a customer with quite a nasty mouth on him - and it was all captured on video, of course.Former President George H. W. Bush was heckled recently in a restaurant by a customer... more
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Former President George H.W. Bush feels that the tone of the national discourse lacks civility. "I don't like it," Bush told CBS. "The cables (TV) have a lot to do with it."
Bush said he believes Obama was "entitled to civil treatment" when it comes to his critics. But it was not just those on the right, who presumably make up a majority of Obama's critics, that Bush felt were responsible for the angry tone. The left was guilty as well.
Singling out MSNBC hosts Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann, Bush said, "the way they treat my son and anyone who's opposed to their point of view is just horrible." Maddow and Olbermann, he added, are "sick puppies."
Needless to say, Maddow and Olbermann weren't taking Bush's criticism lying down.
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Texas is not Obama country. In fact Barack Obama lost the Lone Star State to Republican John McCain by a not-even-close 55-43 margin.
But today the president makes his first trip to Texas since winning the White House, accepting the invitation of former President George H.W. Bush -- otherwise known as Bush 41 -- to join him at Texas A&M University to celebrate volunteerism.
And conservatives on the Aggie campus are planning to protest, a wide-ranging complaint about everything from Obama's healthcare plan to his recently announced Nobel Peace Prize. As one put it on meetup, "The opportunity to make sure Obama gets a very clear TEXAS-SIZED MESSAGE to stop the liberal assault on our country cannot be passed up."
Worried the protests might get out of hand, Bush 41 wrote an open letter to "the A&M Family," on Wednesday that began with “Howdy” and concluded, “I cannot wait for Obama to experience the open, decent and welcoming Aggie spirit for himself. This will be an important national moment, and a moment for Texas A&M to shine in the national spotlight as it always does. I hope and believe it will serve as a point of Aggie pride for many years to come.”
Does the first Bush have cause for worry? Well, you be the judge. Last fall the school's Young Conservatives held an anti-Obama event on campus, encouraging students to throw eggs at a picture of the presidential candidate and participate in a "socialist on a stick" Obama ring-toss.
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John McCain usually is the one who dallies with reporters -- brushing off his press secretary to take as many as three questions after her habitual “We’re out of time.” But at the 4-acre compound of George H.W. Bush in Kennebunkport, Maine, McCain Monday found the former president outdoing him at his own game.
McCain probably had hoped for a camera-ready send-off after a news conference at the oceanfront retreat, where reporters strained to hear over the waves breaking against the rocky shore. But as McCain turned to leave, Bush began shaking hands with reporters and seemed keen to talk about his current adventures: how one of his guests exceeded 70 mph on the cigarette boat this weekend, how another boat "ran afoul of the rocks" and his plans for another parachute jump (his last) on his 85th birthday next year.
McCain reappeared at his elbow with a tight grin, trying to steer him away. Bush obliged by walking McCain halfway down the driveway, but then turned back, insisting that the reporters take a look around the complex. So McCain gave up and left -- leaving for his third fundraiser of the morning, while his press corps took the tour.
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