Bush 41 gives treasured award to Sen. Kennedy

[TexasEditor]

This has probably been posted already, but things get buried under new postings.

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http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2003/10/18/bush_srs_message_to_bush_jr/

Bush Sr.'s 'message' to Bush Jr.

By Georgie Anne Geyer, 10/18/2003

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 Senator 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.

Since the current President Bush veered away from the real war against terrorism in Afghanistan and went a'venturing in Iraq, much to his father's dismay, just about everybody close to Washington politics has known of the policy schism between father and son.

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[emad]

1. Just two words: "Martha's Vineyard"

rather defines the meaning of bi-partisan.....

[lindashaw]

2. I just have to see this to believe it. It's too good to be true. Are

we putting more into it than is there? Is this just parental tough love?

[phillybri]

3. Wow....

Wasn't Bush 41 against going into Iraq?

I seem to remember reading something to that effect....

[9215]

4. Georgie Anne Geyer is an idiot!

Poppy and son have a "schism". She doesn't know shit. All of this is just smoke and mirrors to titillate. There ain't know division between father and son anymore than between Don Corleone and his.

[FlemingsGhost]

5. Agreed.

Very well stated, 9215.

[realFedUp]

6. Will Babs get her sorry ass to the ceremony....

I guess the nut never falls far from .....