Bush 41's Opinion Of Paul Wellstone: A 'Chicken Shit'?

By Wayne Madsen

Before we all get sucked into George W. Bush's eulogies of the late Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone let us not forget what his father, Bush 41, called the Senator at a White House reception for newly-elected members of Congress in 1991.

Wellstone, who ran on a progressive platform, did not think Bush 41 cared one wit about education, health care, and workers' safety issues.

So when Wellstone met Bush in a typical White House pro forma reception line, he used the occasion to urge Bush on three different occasions to spend more time on issues like education and cautioning him against the Persian Gulf War. Of course, Bush was more concerned about fighting the war against Iraq (sound familiar?) and could care less about Wellstone's issues.

After Wellstone violated Bush 41's sanctimonious White House protocol, Bush was overheard saying, "Who is this chicken shit?"

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http://archive.democrats.com/view.cfm?id=10236

and that the Jews carried out 9/11, and currently own Hollywood, the media, both political parties, and the White House.

What the fuck is wrong with you, Octafish?

The source is Democrats.com.

What the fuck is wrong with you is obvious.

It's been pointed out to you over and over.

The reason: they actually side with Paul Wellstone and democracy over the Bush crime family.

I will bet a doughnut hole to a dollar that Sen. Wellstone was going to be Tweety's guest right after the election, so Tweety could find out all about a Democrat with stones, right?

Right?

He thought GE would be around to protect him for ever and ever. Now that the spaghetti's hitting the fan regarding Bush's lies for War Inc. -- no thanks to the Democratic leadership! -- Matthews will be lucky to find a concrete life vest.

Couldn't happen to a nicer fellah.

Everyone else would play lap dog. Wellstone would not and wasn't having any of the BFEEs bullshit smoke and mirrors.

RIP sir.

The Nation wrote that a few months before that awful day:

http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0510-04.htm

I remember on DU we noted how Wolf Blitzer zeroed in on weather, despite what his reporter on scene was saying. It sounded like Wolf wanted to make certain CNN was on the side of "accidents happen" from the first day.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3931991

That he was still with us, What a VP choice for Bernie!! , You are Missed Sen.Wellstone

He showed leadership, not only regarding the war, but on what it means to be in politics:

"I represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party."

The Progressive Professor said he was planning to run in 2004:

http://www.theprogressiveprofessor.com/?tag=paul-wellstone

A former colleague and friend of mine became a private pilot in the early 2000s. A whip-smart woman who had gone to law school, had a growing practice but fell under the spell of flying.

The day Wellstone died she was flying Norm Coleman to the site of the debate that night. Both planes were in the air at the same time. She was within ten air miles of the Wellstone plane when it went down.

We talked at length about it later. She was very badly shaken. The weather, she said, was chilly, not close to freezing, however, overcast and drizzly but absolutely no threat to any aircraft or licensed pilot. A normal autumn day in Minnesota.

She said, and I quote as close to verbatim as I can recall, "there was no reason, none, for that plane to do down. One minute it was there, the next minute it was gone. It was like something just knocked it out of the sky." Her only other surmise was that the pilot deliberately crashed the plane, which she dismissed out of hand as absurd, but that was the only other explanation she could think of.

And this woman was neither especially political nor a "conspiracy theorist." Yet in her heart of hearts she did believe that something DID "just knock it out of the sky."

...political actors as all the other previous "coincidences" did.

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under, shall we say, unusual circumstances was of the left.

Medgar Evers
John Kennedy
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Malcolm X
Robert Kennedy
Paul Wellstone

"Mister Bond, once is an accident, twice is a coincidence. But three times is enemy action."

- Auric Goldfinger

over the years, metaphorically (perhaps literally?) speaking...

And those deaths have helped pave the way.

bond was right

http://www.ntsb.gov/news/press-releases/Pages/NTSB_Cites_Flight_Crew_Failures_in_Crash_of_Airplane_Carrying_Senator_Wellstone_7_Others.aspx

Michael Guess was a flight instructor. Reported it odd that Moussaoui was just interested in learning how to turn 747 toward a spot on the map, and not in taking off and landing.

Of course, the FBI defended Moussaoui's Fourth Amendment rights and refused to look into his laptop until Sept. 12, 2001. Guess died with Wellstone and the others. One of the other staffers at the flight school received a $5 million reward from the Department of Justice.

For those interested in the subject, and for new DUers and readers who may not remember Moussaoui's role:

Old News to you, hifiguy. To most people, unbelievable, but true: Know your BFEE: The Stench of Moussaoui Permeates the Octopus

To become a flight instructor you have to be a very competent and experienced pilot.

Had the pilot of PW's plane been that incompetent, the co-pilot would have immediately assumed command of the flight. Anyone with a flight instructor's skills and experience would have been able to anticipate and prevent any normal difficulty the plane might have met due to pilot error.

Which means that something very abnormal happened to that plane.

Between anthrax and plane crashes, it's no wonder Dems went silent.

Pukes don't care about people who care.

People are resources (things) to be used.

Amazing after the 2000 elections

http://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Pages/AAR0303.aspx

Posted to dispel the inevitable 'BFEE killed him!!1!1' conspiracy theory nonsense.

Sid

Plausible Deniability and all that.

Poppy Bush warned FBI -- AFTER -- JFK assassinated.

In the hour of the death of President John F. Kennedy, Texas oilman George Herbert Walker Bush named a suspect to the FBI in a "confidential" phone call. He then added he was heading for Dallas. Skeptics need not take my word for it, that's what Poppy told the FBI:



Here's a transcript of the text:



Gee. Why was Poppy Bush in Dallas when JFK was assassinated?

Could it be, he was on official business? I suspect he was on Secret Government business. After all, his eldest son bragged during his Texas Air National Guard and Harvard grad school days that his daddy was CIA.

Here's an FBI document from the same week of the assassination in which FBI Director J Edgar Hoover briefed one "Mr. George Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency." Some strange coincidence there, wot?



Here's a transcript of the above:



I do remember that GHWB was head of the CIA when the Church and Pike committees were looking into the CIA assassination programs. He made things all friendly-like and turned what had been a serious hunt for truth under previous DCI Colby into another dog-and-pony show that was big on show and light on facts.

Regarding Dallas: Now I don't know if Poppy was a trigger man, was only there to watch what happened or what just happened to be there. I do know Poppy Bush has never explained these memos. He's never even admitted where he was the day JFK was killed.

Seeing how he would go on to become President, as would his dim son, I believe it's vitally important that we learn the Truth.

Why? The United States and the world haven't been the same since November 22, 1963. And not a single major player in the nation's mass media have stepped up and demanded a real investigation. So, it's up to us, We the People.

What's more, Poppy Bush sheltered mass-murdering jet-bombing terrorists like Luis Posada Carriles. You know, Pinochet's friend.

Thanks for reminding me.

Never since the dawn of aviation have aircraft crashed.

Wayne fucking Maden.

Promoting and legitimizing an homophobic piece of filth like Madsen at DU should get you banned.

Can you believe that? Using Wayne Madsen to defend Paul Wellstone is fucking atrocious.



Sid

I will tell you: Your sappy phrase, "fucking atrocious," reminds me that for years you have rushed to defend the Bush crime family when I post about them on DU.

"Atrocious."

http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20100522

"The Israeli Lobby controls the Congress, media, Hollywood, Wall Street, both political parties, and the White House."

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/12/06/wayne-madsen-the-israeli-lobby-owns-the-congress-hollywood-and-the-whitehouse/


This is the kind of person you find acceptable to post here.

Which is strange, considering how Paul Wellstone was Jewish and from what I posted, Wayne Madsen was supporting his liberal, progressive and democratic perspectives.

If you and SidDithers of DU want anti-Semitic perspective, it would explain your defense of George HW Bush, a lifelong friend and longtime business and government associate of Allen Dulles. That guy was so corrupt, he failed to forward to FDR the reports smuggled out at great cost from NAZI Germany of The Holocaust.

http://www.salon.com/2015/10/15/every_president_has_been_manipulated_national_security_officials_david_talbot_investigates_americas_deep_state/

So, why you dump on me for pointing that out, nuclear dem?

Actual conversation seems to be "off the table" from their perspective.

But I wonder what the constantly recurring correlation between conservatism and snark tells us?

Jesus

What happened to the pilots that they veered off course for more than a mile on the approach then dangerously lowered their airspeed more than 50 mph below the recommended landing speed then ignored their stall horn warning plummeting to the ground at a 30 degree angle instead of a 3 degree angle without either one ever picking up the radio to communicate any problem?

I've never quite figured that one out. It's like both pilots fell asleep on approach. At least that is what the NTSB report you linked describes.

And brave man.

He is missed.

You know who voted against DOMA and the Iraq War? Bernie Sanders.

Got to meet him (and Jim Hightower) at a conference in Chicago back in like 1999.

Ha, found the article on it: http://chicagodsa.org/ngarchive/ng61.html#anchor1166103

Guests, speakers and panelists included a wide variety of stellar figures of the Left. Syndicated talk show host, Jim Hightower, was emcee for the Friday evening (Oct. 9) plenary session, and typified the tone of the conference. Sandwiched in among his hilarious down-home Texas jokes were serious calls to fight predatory corporations and embrace Joe six-pack.

Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone, the Left's primary preference for president in the 2000 election, key-noted the conference with an emphasis on the Left's need to join the middle and lower economic segments of society in a common effort for reform if needed changes are to be made in the electoral process. As opposed to the Republican's equating of morality with sex, he defined morality in terms of a living wage, affordable health care, quality education, adequate nutrition for all children and curbing domestic violence, all of which are true family values. Republicans cloak greed and selfishness behind the mantle of "individual opportunity". Wellstone wants us to campaign for education, health care and jobs, saying, "We all do better when we all do better".

Same needs, 16 years later...

Thank you for another outstanding thread Octafish!