Geyer; Poppy's award to Ted Kennedy a slap at Junior?

[xray s]

I read this and went :wow:

http://www.uexpress.com/georgieannegeyer/

BUSH SR. SENDS NOT-SO-SUBTLE MESSAGE WITH AWARD TO KENNEDY

WASHINGTON -- It's not as though Osama Bin Laden gave a Jihad Award to Ariel Sharon, or Donald Rumsfeld gave his Good Pal Award to Condoleezza Rice. It's not even as though Dick Cheney gave his Favorite Foreigners Citation to the French.
But the news from College Station, Texas, this week -- that the First Father, former President George H.W. Bush, has given his own most treasured award to Sen. Edward Kennedy -- is nearly as astonishing.

When it was announced (with amazingly little fanfare) that the pugnaciously anti-Iraq war Democrat Kennedy had been awarded the 2003 George Bush Award for Excellence in Public Service, so many jaws dropped all over Washington that usually voluble politicians were only heard swallowing their real thoughts...

[Hieronymus]

1. One wonders......

if it's an intentional slap at Junior.
The cons are going to go into a tail spin over this.:wow:

[elfin]

2. VERY interesting

I heard her speak over a year ago. It was obvious she is a moderate Repug and even then she was worrying aloud about the neo cons and their unrealistic views of how Iraq would play out. The group was heavily Repug. and quite a few were disgusted that she dared to even mildly question their boy. I was pleasantly surprised and even more pleased that she has retained this stance on her appearnaces on CSpan throughout the year.

She has not been cowed by this misadministration, even though I suspect she was a loyal Repug all the previous years.

She is the epitome of the intelligent "swing vote" we need in 2004.

[jeter]

3. I think it's the Bush's trying to identify themselves with the Kennedys

They've been kissing Kennedy ass all along. Bush named the DOJ after RFK. He invited the Kennedy clan to the WH to watch 13 Days. Pappy gives this award to Teddy. And this past weekend, Bush said of Arnold, that like he, "he married well (to a Kennedy)."

The Bush's are trying to portray themselves as the new Kennedy's. That's what it is, in my opinion.