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(45,120 posts)Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)So that when theyre done, no one will want to talk about him anymore.
Autumn
(45,120 posts)Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)But I think/hope Mueller has other plans.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Just to show how much republicans disdain truth and honesty.
irisblue
(33,034 posts)MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)meow2u3
(24,773 posts)Autumn
(45,120 posts)hlthe2b
(102,378 posts)does seem really excessive. But.... ?
Sneederbunk
(14,304 posts)Bradshaw3
(7,529 posts)Delmette2.0
(4,171 posts)Private my ass! Just 1,200 of their family, closest friends and tv crews from all the major networks.
I'm watching the drive to the train station...miles and miles of blocked traffic.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)maryellen99
(3,789 posts)Gerald Ford also had two funeral services -one in DC and one in Grand Rapids. He also had a public visitation at his library.
onenote
(42,768 posts)Trying to understand if you objection is to the service or the person whose service it is.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Followed, inevitably, by Necrogasm III: Electric Boogaloo and Necrogasm IV: This Time It's Personal.
malaise
(269,182 posts)although we know he's not from Texas.
UTUSN
(70,744 posts)up with Shrub. *********HEY, I've been very good at not sniping much for the past week, can't hold it anymore!1
Oh, look, the boys get to speechify but the girls can only read textual stuff. Plus the Houston crowd is considerably less diverse.
AWwww, how cute, the two granddaughters ended their separate readings by reading together and sharing a giggle!1 And Jeb Crow Shrub has moved up the family pecking order from down the row yesterday to next to Shrub today!1
malaise
(269,182 posts)Still the Oakridge boys and Reba means country does love HW.
Reba has a lovely voice.
LeftInTX
(25,558 posts)Pee is not warm at all.
Baker's was very good. I liked what Baker said about the Berlin Wall. Bush didn't take credit for it.
(The media gave it to Reagan. )
Sure Bush did bad stuff, but Baker was able to spin the bad stuff eloquently.
ETA: Not a fan of Jame's Baker, but he's got speaking skills.
Bradshaw3
(7,529 posts)Next week they will show flowers being laid, cemetary workers tending the grave, etc. Sheesh enough already!!
Really, its sad and kind of sick. We aren't a monarchy are we? Maybe we are more than I thought.
delisen
(6,044 posts)maryellen99
(3,789 posts)Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)1) The Carter family will opt for less ostentatious and protracted media coverage.
2) The media will spend more time than they did with GHWB discussing the shortcomings of the Carter presidency.
maryellen99
(3,789 posts)Due to the fact he would have 3 laying in state-One in DC,one in Atlanta,and one in Plains.
llmart
(15,555 posts)This has now become a spectacle.
The Carters probably already have arrangements for an understated display.
maryellen99
(3,789 posts)He will be buried in Plains.
LeftInTX
(25,558 posts)Also Carter accomplished more than he was given credit for during his presidency. Dept of Education. Special Education. Renewable energy.
Solly Mack
(90,787 posts)irisblue
(33,034 posts)Solly Mack
(90,787 posts)tammywammy
(26,582 posts)He was interred in a different city than where he lived. There was one service where he lived and another the next day prior to his internment.
llmart
(15,555 posts)but this is televised and 24/7 updates, etc.
Over the top.
tammywammy
(26,582 posts)I would expect the same for any former president that does. I just don't see the big deal.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)the past 4 days. It's kind of been a nice little break.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)Pundits have been filling the air with his praises since Friday evening.
Renew Deal
(81,873 posts)Of course.
And I would turn off the TV again.
The difference is I would actually feel something.
ebbie15644
(1,216 posts)technotwit
(71 posts)But remember, all this praise of SOMEONE ELSE is probably annoying the hell out of tRUmp.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,862 posts)Maybe they would let you hold the remote for a couple of seconds so you could switch to another channel.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)I should be free in about three months.
Just a Weirdo
(488 posts)The TV is not tuning into any network showing that crap.
I have remained silent about him, and only have two things to say about GHWB.
1) Thanks for the ADA. It was an important piece of legislation that made my life a lot easier.
2) He's dead. Good.
BannonsLiver
(16,460 posts)And who obsess and cant stop talking about things and people they supposedly hate.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)delisen
(6,044 posts)...and so we endure days of of the self-praise of the 1%.
This Bush is the guy who shut down the Special Prosecutor Walsh's investigation into Bush's own role in Iran Costa (the Reagan scandal of colluding with a sanctioned Iran to to move weapons to South American right wing killers.
Bush attained the presidency and pardoned all the bad actors in the Reagan-Bush administration, including Secy of Defense Caspar Weinberger who was about to stand trial, and possibly implicate Bush.
The smug self-praise of the Patriarchy is here on display. Best for the rest of us if it is the Swan Song of same.
We can't afford the old patriarchy any more-we need to spend the rest of this century cleaning up the mess and saving democracy for our heirs --the children of us 99%
I haven't even mention how GHW went to work for Barrick Gold Mining after he left office.
One thing is true however. He was highly experience, generally but not always polite and civil in the social arena, and was such a smooth operator could get away with things other presidents could not.
LiberalArkie
(15,729 posts)Houston is at GHW Bush's church and is a personal service and funeral. Graveside services later this afternoon after the train arrives from Houston.
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)I get it, there's some decorum to be maintained.
But as so many of us point out here, GHWB is no saint. There's a lot of destructive crap that happened during his presidency.
FrankBooth
(1,607 posts)... that FOX just ordered a full 22 episode season.
StarryNite
(9,460 posts)on a train in a glass car so people can watch the darn thing go by with his body inside regardless of who it is. But then I'm not a 'funeral' person.