Bush sends phoney condolences and Evans to Austin

[rusty_parts2001]

"Secretary Don Evans will attend the funeral services held for Governor Ann Richards at the University of Texas Frank Erwin Center on Monday, September 18, on behalf of President and Mrs. Bush.

As a lifelong Texan, Secretary Evans had the highest regard for the Governor, and he appreciated her tireless efforts on behalf of the state and her zest for life that endeared her to the entire country.

The President regrets being unable to attend her funeral, and he and Mrs. Bush send their deepest condolences to the Governor's family."
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/09/20060915-12.html

[AspenRose]

1. Good

He would have ruined the spirit of the occasion

Probably didn't want to get BOOOOOOED like he did at Pope John Paul II's funeral.

[OzarkDem]

2. That's a deliberate snub

What an a** Bush is.

[aquart]

4. We could have a contest imagining what Ann would say about it.:

Poor George, he didn't want to say anything around people with real Texas accents.

Poor George, we're the people he doesn't allow at his events, so of course he couldn't come.

Poor George, it isn't just global warming that makes the Gulf Coast too hot for him these days.

You try it.

[oasis]

16. Bush knows that he would be out of place at the Gov.'s services.(eom)

[NMDemDist2]

3. chit, I had to Google to figure out which Sec. he was

lame ass bastard Bush

[John Gauger]

13. I believe he is edumacation.

[NMDemDist2]

18. Commerce actually n/t

[theanarch]

5. no...Junior learned that lesson...

...when he made the mistake of attending Coretta Scott King's funeral...no way is this arrogant ego-maniac going to sit through another series of speakers criticising him...for all his babbling about humility and his grade-B western/tough-guy talk, he simply isn't man enough to hear it. Not, at least, twice in one life time...

[Sydnie]

6. He is still smarting over Coretta's funeral

No way he is going to march into that mess again willingly. Just as well. Nobody wanted him there anyway.

[Ilsa]

15. Exactly! And everyone knows it would all be a big phoney

show, so I'm glad he's not going there. "She insulted my Pa!" is probably what he is thinking. He was asked about her on Thursday, and he never got very friendly or personal in his remarks, which is good, because he would have looked and sounded very fake.

[cboy4]

7. Phoney all right. Time to pull out the 'ol Bush meter again - - -

I'm actually glad he DID NOT go.

[Horse with no Name]

8. It would have been too difficult for Georgie

Why would he want to be surrounded by TWO predecessors who were beloved and effective leaders?

[rhiannon55]

9. I'm glad the idiot is staying away

although it would have given him another of his seemingly endless chances to look like a fool in front of cameras.

But not at Ann's family's expense.

Although Ann would have laughed at his buffoonery from the grave, having that famous sense of humor, and all. :dunce: :rofl:

[El Supremo]

10. He shoulda' sent Cheney.

Evans is just one of his all buddies. If he couldn't go hisself, he shoulda' sent his biggest representative. There's a whole lot of Texans who love Ma Richards, including me.

[bluestateguy]

11. Bush is hated in Austin

Absolutely hated.

[Horse with no Name]

12. University of Texas wouldn't even accept his ignorant connected ass

They have standards, you know.:rofl:

[Ilsa]

14. You mean the law school, right? I doubt he ever applied

to UT for undergrad since he was a shoe-in as a legacy at Yale.

[Flying Dream Blues]

19. I think he applied to UT for his MBA and didn't get in?

[Ilsa]

20. I think he tried to enroll in UT Law School but his LSATs were

too low, then the MBA came while he was in TANG and he left TANG early to go to HArvard for the MBA.

[DemoTex]

23. GWB did "leave" TANG early (the "L" in "AWOL"), but not for Harvard.

Bu$h walked away from his sinecure at the Texas Air National Guard for a number of complex reasons, which probably included unsatisfactory proficiency checks in the F-102 and a reasonable doubt that he could pass the new drug screening requirements of every military pilot's annual flight physical. Bu$h, against written orders, failed to show up for that flight physical in July, 1972.

In September, 1972, Bu$h traipsed off to Alabama to work on the senatorial campaign of Winton Blount. Again, contrary to written orders, Bu$h failed to report to Lt. Col. William Turnipseed for TDY (temporary duty) in the AANG. His work in Alabama on the Blount campaign was memorable to others (but probably not to the rake Bu$h) for its mediocrity and his behavior was marked by loutishness, intemperance, and womanizing.

Harvard B. school came a little later.

[Ilsa]

24. 10-4. I couldn't remember all of the stuff he had going on

that got him out of TANG, and I knew he had problems, but I didn't know proficiency in his aircraft was one of them.

Thanks, DemoTex.

[silverlib]

22. He did apply to UT School of Law

and was denied.

I worked there and it is so true.

[ninkasi]

17. I am relieved that our beloved Ann's funeral

will not be marred by the presence of either the smirking simpleton, or Karl Rove, because of the utterly vicious and hateful campaign they ran against her when smirk was running for governor of Texas. To think that we went from Ann to him. The least he can do is let us mourn her without his taint ruining the whole thing.

[fooj]

21. Well said.

Dignity. Honor. Grace. That's what she deserves.

RIP, Ann. You will be with us always.

[spanone]

25. Evans must have pulled the short straw.