Former President George W. Bush Dead at 72....

[flowomo]

now here's a strange piece that I plucked off the freepers' board which comes from:

http://www.citypages.com/databank/25/1248/article12626.asp

by Greil Marcus

Policy Review, October 5, 2018--George W. Bush, the 43rd president of the United States, died today at Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas. He was 72. The cause of death was announced as heart failure.

Mr. Bush's always controversial presidency left behind a changed nation and a changed world. Taking office in 2001 after a disputed election settled only by a 5-4 decision by a bitterly divided Supreme Court, and decisively reelected in 2004, President Bush led the United States into four wars, oversaw the dismantling of Social Security and Medicare, and enforced a drastic shrinking of elementary, secondary, and collegiate education. He spearheaded the transformation of President Bill Clinton's budget surpluses of 1999 and 2000 into permanent deficits of more than a trillion dollars a year...

...and as a result of the passage of the 28th Amendment in 2006 and its ratification by the states the next year, in 2008 Mr. Bush announced his candidacy for a third term. He was overwhelmingly defeated that November by former President Bill Clinton....

...Mr. Bush's life after his presidency was marked by misfortune. He soon lost interest in his status as the standard-bearer of his party and its chief fundraiser; many believed he had again begun drinking, and in any case he seemed to spend most of his time at private clubs in Houston, where he established residence in 2010 after selling his property in Crawford, Texas. ("At least I won't have to cut that f--- brush again," Mr. Bush was heard to say after his last election.)...

[Straight Shooter]

1. Clearly a bogus fortune-telling obit. George W. bush has no heart.

:evilgrin:

[intheflow]

2. WTF?!?!

Predicting the future? Planning an assassination?

:wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :wtf:

[flowomo]

6. nah, he isn't assassed... read the article.... has a sad ending...

dunno what Marcus was thinking.

[SoCalDem]

3. 72, eh?? Poor Laura

:(

[flowomo]

7. she dies too.... Parkinson's in 2015

[jerryman814]

4. Wish it was 2004 and not 2018...

[kdmorris]

8. Yeah cause if he died in 2004

We would at least be POSITIVE that Cheney is our president.

[jerryman814]

12. I doubt Cheney would have won the election against Kerry...

he looks too evil even for the Evilgelicals sake!

[Kire]

13. then there's Mary

his lesbian daughter

[kdmorris]

16. Excellent Point

I was thinking about after the election, but if it had happened in, say, June, we'd have Kerry.

[frogbison]

14. My mom told me

to not wish my life away. I think it's good advice.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

5. .

[Zero Gravitas]

9. overwhelmingly defeated...by former President Bill Clinton

I like it!

[Daisey Mae]

10. very original

[Kire]

11. Lipstick Traces changed my life...

...everyone who is part of any resistance movement should read it.

http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/MARLIP.html

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0674535812/qid=1099720178/sr=8-2/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i2_xgl14/102-5972333-8740121?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

Thanks, Greil

[Kire]

15. Mr. Bush was preceded in death by...

Mr. Bush was preceded in death by his sister Robin Bush, his brothers John "Jeb" Bush, the former governor of Florida, Neil Bush, and Marvin Bush, and his sister Dorothy Bush Koch. He is survived by his parents.

[Ithuilwen]

17. "...and as a result of the passage of the 28th Amendment in 2006

and its ratification by the states the next year, in 2008 Mr. Bush announced his candidacy for a third term. He was overwhelmingly defeated that November by former President Bill Clinton..."

Ha!