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In the News (Wed 11 Nov 09)

  
  George H. W. Bush - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bush is the father of the 43rd and current President George Walker Bush, and the 43rd and current Governor of Florida Jeb Bush.
Bush blamed Dukakis for polluting the Boston Harbor as the Massachusetts governor.
Bush was diagnosed with Graves disease in 1991.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_H._W._Bush   (6412 words)

  
 Bush family - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Samuel P. Bush (1863-1948), a close advisor to President Hoover, was president of the Ohio Association of Manufacturers and a major Columbus industrialist.
Dorothy Walker Bush, the wife of Prescott, was the daughter of George Herbert Walker of the well-connected Walker family of bankers and businessmen
James Smith Bush (1825-1869), an Episcopal priest in New Jersey, California, and New York, was the son of Obadiah Bush and the father of Samuel Prescott Bush.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bush_family   (891 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power
Bush was also on the board of at least one of the companies that formed part of a multinational network of front companies to allow Thyssen to move assets around the world.
Prescott Bush, a 6ft 4in charmer with a rich singing voice, was the founder of the Bush political dynasty and was once considered a potential presidential candidate himself.
Bush was a founding member of the bank and the incorporation documents, which list him as one of seven directors, show he owned one share in UBC worth $125.
www.guardian.co.uk /usa/story/0,12271,1312540,00.html   (3686 words)

  
 George Herbert Walker Bush - dKosopedia
As a result George H. Bush is sometimes referred to as "the Elder Bush", "Bush the Elder", "Bush Senior", "Bush 41", or "the first President Bush" in order to avoid possible confusion between his presidency and that of his son.
George Bush attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts from 1936 to 1942, where he demonstrated early leadership, captaining the baseball team, and was a member of an exclusive fraternity called the A.U.V, or "Auctoritas, Unitas, Veritas" – Latin for "Authority, Unity, Truth".
Bush served as Acting President for approximately 8 hours, during which time he is reported to have spent most of the time playing tennis.
www.dkosopedia.com /index.php/George_H.W._Bush   (1225 words)

  
 CNN.com - Senior Bush plugs Jeb for president 'someday' - Jun 1, 2005
Former President Bush and his wife discuss the Bush political dynasty.
Bush, who was president from 1989-1993, appeared on CNN's "Larry King Live" with former first lady Barbara, from the family compound in Kennebunkport, Maine.
On the political front, Bush said he hopes the controversial nominee John Bolton is confirmed as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations when the Senate reconvenes after a weeklong recess.
www.cnn.com /2005/POLITICS/05/31/bush.plug/index.html   (730 words)

  
 Defending Bush's Nazi connection
Bush I), were well-known to be anti-Semitic and that Hitler's hatred for and intention to kill the Jews was well-known long before he ever came to power.
Bush's most zealous opponents apparently believe that his faults, and those of his cronies and his administration, will be insufficient to unseat him next year.
There are no Jewish members of Bush's cabinet, he notes, while Ari Fleischer's role adds "ethnic credibility in the event questions arise regarding the President's Hitler connection." Lederman accuses Bush of appointing, and embracing, a few token Blacks and minorities.
www.rense.com /general43/bush.htm   (1983 words)

  
 Like his brother, Jeb Bush reaches out to Democrats
Bush is campaigning in some of Florida's poorest fl neighborhoods as enthusiastically as he trolls for votes among the moneyed, white country club set.
In Texas, Gov. George W. Bush appears to be listening to the same muse, if not reacting to exactly the same set of circumstances, as he courts Texas' Hispanic vote with a strong defense of bilingual education, opposition to military patrols of the U.S. border with Mexico, and a pitch for improved education.
He suspects many Texas donations to Jeb Bush's campaign and the Florida GOP are really intended to help the older brother carry the third most populous state in the Union in a bid for the presidency.
www.chron.com /content/chronicle/page1/98/07/12/jeb.html   (1938 words)

  
 CBSNews.com Timeline
The Bush political dynasty begins with the birth in Columbus, Ohio, of Prescott Sheldon Bush, who will be the father of one president and the grandfather of another.
During his career, Bush was on the Senate Committee on Banking and Currency, the Senate Committee on Public Works, the Committee on Armed Services, a congressional Joint Economic Committee, and the Special Committee on Aging.
George W. Bush is elected governor of Texas, defeating Ann Richards 53 percent to 46 percent.
cbsnews.com /elements/2002/11/01/politics/timeline527902_0_main.shtml   (349 words)

  
 Election2002: Bush, decisively
Bush's overwhelming victory keeps the Governor's Mansion firmly in Republican hands as his brother the president plans a 2004 re-election campaign and Tampa seeks to host the next Republican convention.
Bush dined on stone crabs from Joe's, a Miami Beach institution, while watching election returns on TV with his family, including his parents, former President George Bush and former first lady Barbara Bush.
Bush held big leads in Pinellas, Hillsborough and Pasco counties and along the Interstate 4 corridor, a key swath of moderate voters that McBride hoped would swing in his direction.
www.sptimes.com /2002/11/05/Election2002/Bush__decisively.shtml   (1275 words)

  
 the Bush and bin Laden families - business partners for two decades
In August 2001, Bush was sinking in the polls amid continuing charges that his presidency was an illegal contrivance engineered by his brother in Florida, Florida’s Secretary of State Katherine Harris, and five partisan members of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Bush’s friends and partners in the United Arab Emirates arranged for $109,500 to be transferred to the joint Sun Trust Bank account in Florida used by hijackers Mohammed Atta and Marwan al Shehhi.
The sinister Bush family and their bastard operatives are the most dangerous collection of demagogues and hate mongers to have achieved power since the days of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.
www.oilempire.us /bushbinladen.html   (3069 words)

  
 The Bush Dynasty
The Bush administration has promoted a huge increase in military spending for purposes such as invading Iraq, providing an enormous source of extra profit for big defence contractors and military-corporate shareholders, who at the same time have also been given large tax cuts by Bush and his cronies.
Bush is a Moron “was created to collect articles and other documentation regarding Bush and/or his administration's intelligence....
Bush is a Coward by Jack Balkwill, 21 June 2003.
www.doublestandards.org /bushdyn.html   (2156 words)

  
 The Bush Dynasty
President Bush once described his mother, a championship-tennis player, as a "perfectionist, and a fierce competitor." She kept the Ping-Pong table in the entry hall of the Greenwich, Conn., house--the games were always front and center.
Bush saw it for himself at W.'s final rally in Houston on his way to being re-elected with 70% of the vote.
The last thing Bush wanted was to convey any idea that this crown was his for the taking, something he had inherited like a life peerage or a seat on the board.
shs.westport.k12.ct.us /jwb/AP/Bush.htm   (5199 words)

  
 A strange intersection of Bushes, bin Ladens
Bush reportedly gets $80,000 to $100,000 for each of a half-dozen or more speeches he delivers for the Carlyle Group each year, and takes payment in Carlyle stock.
Judicial Watch's criticism of the Bushes is noteworthy because the group was one of the chief antagonists of the Clinton administration.
Another Carlyle principal with ties to both Bushes is James A. Baker, the secretary of state in the first Bush administration, and the point man for George W. Bush during his legal fight with Al Gore last year over Florida's presidential votes.
www.webcom.com /hrin/magazine/bedfellows.html   (1232 words)

  
 Election2002: Bush, decisively
Bush's overwhelming victory keeps the Governor's Mansion firmly in Republican hands as his brother the president plans a 2004 re-election campaign and Tampa seeks to host the next GOP national convention.
Bush dined on stone crabs from Joe's Stone Crab, a Miami Beach institution, while watching election returns on TV with his family, including his parents, former President George Bush, former first lady Barbara Bush and the governor's two sons.
Voting went smoothly for a change and Bush won big in Pinellas, Hillsborough and Pasco counties and along the Interstate 4 corridor, a key swath of moderate voters that McBride hoped would swing in his direction.
www.sptimes.com /2002/11/06/Election2002/Bush__decisively.shtml   (1301 words)

  
 06/07/02 - GOP Hispano-Pander Failing — Except Maybe For Bush Dynasty
Bush was making no progress before September 11 and then afterward there was a sudden shift in his direction.
It always makes political sense for a President to emphasize "wedge issues" that illustrate the differences between his party and the other party (assuming more voters agree with him than the other guys).
My theory: because Mexican amnesty is good politics for the Bush family from a dynastic point of view.
www.vdare.com /sutherland/pander_failing.htm   (1144 words)

  
 Bush Family Values Photo Album
In 1918 it is said that he robbed the grave and stole the skull of the Native American warrior Geronimo as part of an initiation into Yale's Skull and Bones Society.
Besides their last names, George W and Jeb Bush have this in common: All of their children have been in trouble with the law.
On September 11, The Carlyle Group was having a conference at the Ritz Carlton hotel in Washington, DC with members of the Bin Laden family, one of their investors.
www.hereinreality.com /familyvalues.html   (668 words)

  
 Political Wire: The Bush Dynasty
Bush is a name that belongs next to Adams, Kennedy and Roosevelt as a force whose influence spans decades," the Washington Post reports.
Most notable is its clear upward trajectory, each generation exceeding the political success of the one before it...
Taegan D. Goddard is the creator of Political Wire, a political column updated around the clock with the most interesting news, buzz and commentary.
politicalwire.com /archives/2005/01/16/the_bush_dynasty.html   (296 words)

  
 The Roosevelts, Kennedys, and Now the Bushes (washingtonpost.com)
George Herbert Walker Bush went from two terms in the U.S. House through a succession of presidential appointments before his single term as president -- losing to Democrat Bill Clinton in a contest that family friends say left a bitter residue that George W. Bush was determined not to taste for himself.
The Bush family's success is all the more remarkable for another reason: Even many admirers regard the Bushes as distinctly life-sized characters and have been surprised to witness how the current president's policies have reshaped American politics and the world at large.
She believes that George W. Bush wants and expects to be judged well for his decisions decades from now but is indifferent about whether he is regarded as charismatic or wins favorable notices from contemporary journalistic and cultural tastemakers.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A14032-2005Jan16.html   (1780 words)

  
 Bush took cocaine: Kelley - Books - www.smh.com.au
One of the sources she names for the Camp David allegations is Sharon Bush, the former wife of President Bush's brother, Neil.
Among the other claims made in the book is that the first president Bush had an extra-marital affair in the early 1960s.
The author denied that she was trying to change the minds of voters ahead of the November 2 presidential election.
www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/09/15/1094927610530.html   (511 words)

  
 RichardPoe.com - Single Blog Entry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
If the Bush family is the only family that can be trusted with such an apparatus, then one could make the leap of suggesting that the Bush family is creating the need for their retention of the power of the Presidency.
I am willing to support a Bush dynasty precisely because the Bush family appears to be the only force left in American politics with the will and clout to oppose the Hillary-Soros machine -- which is to say, the Shadow Party.
Dynasty is too dignified a word for the criminals that occupy the White House.
richardpoe.com /blog_single.php?rowID=417   (7025 words)

  
 Tampa Bay Newspapers : Viewpoints  
Gov. Bush has repeatedly said he won't run for president in 2008, and there's little reason to doubt his word.
The governor fought to keep a feeding tube connected to the gravely brain-damaged woman, despite numerous court rulings and reams of medical evidence that she was in a permanent vegetative state.
The Schiavo case backfired on the Bushes and other top Republicans, who'd badly misjudged the public's tolerance for politicians meddling in private family matters.
tbnweekly.com /editorial/viewpoints/content_articles/052406_vpt-03.txt   (897 words)

  
 The Neil Rogers Show - News - Book: Poppy opposed Dubya's war
In "The Bushes: Portrait of a Dynasty," Peter and Rochelle Schweizer cite as evidence a summer 2002 interview in which the older Bush's sister said her brother had expressed his "anguish" about the administration's preparations for war.
The older Bush has maintained strict public silence about possible differences, and only last week hammered "elites and intellectuals on the campaign trail" for criticizing the war.
These sources told The News that aside from his "exit-strategy" fears of a prolonged, bloody conflict, the ex-President is troubled that the war fractured the international coalition he painstakingly assembled to expel deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein from Kuwait in 1991.
news.neilrogers.com /news/articles/2004040702.html   (421 words)

  
 The Bush Files -- The Bush Dynasty
Since the Bushes are well on their way to becoming a political dynasty like the Kennedys, that’s the way they should be judged — not simply as individuals.
Vice President Bush managed to keep some of it under cover until after the election — particularly the role of his son Neil, who had been on the board of the infamous Silverado Banking, Savings and Loan of Denver.
One may also fairly conclude that the Bushes are blessed and protected beyond reason by those portions of the public’s brain that have turned to mush.
www.bushfiles.com /bushfiles/todynasty.html   (2042 words)

  
 Bush dynasty
Although Florida Gov. Jeb Bush says he won't consider running for president in 2008, it's a possibility he leaves open for the future.
J. Bush will move anyone not of mexican descent to second class citizenship and force spanish to be the language of the u.s.a.
Bush has very little regard for the problems and living circumstances of average american citizens that are not mexican.
www.worldmagblog.com /blog/archives/020300.html   (1862 words)

  
 Powell's Books - American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush by Kevin ...
A biting analysis of the Bush family's rise to power from one of today's premier political observers.
In their ambition, the Bushes ultimately reinvented themselves with brilliant timing, twisting and turning from silver spoon Yankees to born-again evangelical Texans.
Phillips is the bestselling author of The Politics of the Rich and Poor and Wealth and Democracy.
www.powells.com /biblio/1-0670032646-3   (630 words)

  
 All in the Family
The Bush family has brought the American political system to a "perilous state," he believes, due to their cunning brand of petro-politics.
Cleverly, the Bush Dynasty, with its deep New England roots, shifted its operations to Texas after World War II to a land where the law could be more easily manipulated, he claims.
Instead of sipping sherry at the Century Club in New York, the Bushes, by the time the Astrodome was built in the mid-1960s, were plopping their cowboy boots on the velvet sofas at the Petroleum Club in Houston.
www.motherjones.com /arts/books/2004/01/12_103.html   (1195 words)

  
 The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Presents a portrait of the Bush political dynasty and their influence on twentieth- and twenty-first century America, from Connecticut senator Prescott Bush, through his grandson, George W., the forty-third president of the United States.
In the book, the family that has produced two presidents as well as an assortment of other politicians, businesspeople, and a number of lesser-known fl sheep is portrayed as a powerful empire that leverages wealth and influence to grow ever stronger while stringently covering up numerous instances of drug abuse, infidelity, poor judgment, and scandal.
While charges about George W. Bush, including that he snorted cocaine at Camp David while his father was president, garnered the most attention upon the book's release, Kelley's history goes back several generations, detailing the rise to power of Senator Prescott Bush and his son, the first President Bush.
isbn.nu /0739313819   (590 words)

  
 The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Asad to Ashler
The Political Graveyard is a web site about U.S. political history and cemeteries.
The coverage of the site includes certain federal officials, state officeholders and candidates in all 50 states, state and national political party officials, federal and state judges, and mayors (including candidates at election for mayor) of qualifying cities.
Links to this or any other Political Graveyard page are welcome, but specific page addresses may sometimes change as the site develops.
politicalgraveyard.com /bio/asbjornson-ashlay.html   (1399 words)

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