Can anyone name even one Bush worthy of some admiration for even one action in their pathetic ......

[Stinky The Clown]

...... lives of privilege and entitlement?

Just one Bush and one act worthy of admiration.

Just one

.......

?

[Maccagirl]

1. No

n/t

[Skittles]

2. no

[begin_within]

3. Kate Bush

[barbtries]

25. there ya go

some good songs.

[begin_within]

4. Well, Flora Bush did do a pretty good video

http://www.florabush.com/

[az chela]

5. NOPE not one

[Contrary1]

6. Back when I was much younger, some admired...

Uh, never mind. :evilgrin:

[Occam Bandage]

7. There was that time Paris Hilton was penetrated by three guys at once. That's pretty impressive.

...or so I hear.

[hlthe2b]

8. Well, Prescott Bush croaked...

eventually...:evilgrin:

[Wiley50]

9. Oh, surely, there's been ONE somewhere down the line who committed suicide? n/t

[Journeyman]

10. George W took time to congratulate Jason McElwain when he fulfilled his hoop dream. . .

I thought that was an admirable act, no matter how politically motivated it may have been.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngzyhnkT_jY

http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/news/story?id=2368193

[The_Casual_Observer]

11. They didn't start a nuclear war. That's about the best you could say.

[salguine]

20. Don't pat 'em on the back yet; they still have a week and a half.

[The Traveler]

12. Sure.

At age 18, former President George Herbert Walker Bush joined the Navy as an aviator ... the youngest in history at that point. He becomes a torpedo bomber pilot. Life expectancies for Navy pilots in the Pacific theater were tragically short. (Actually, life expectancies for all sorts of aviators in WWII were tragically short. Just ask George McGovern ... another distinguished military aviator who outlived many, many of his peers.)

Now, certainly he could have gotten a nice, safe job some where. But he didn't. He did this.

For all his other misdeeds, he has this to his credit, and I respect him for it.

But, dammit, besides this ... Nope. Can't think of a damn thing.

Trav

[cynatnite]

13. Umm...the Do Not Call list comes to mind...

not sure if it's worthy of admiration, though.

[B o d i]

14. Well, there was that UK rock band in the late 90s, I thought they were ok.

Glycerine, Machinehead, and The Chemicals Between Us we some of their more popular songs. I think they broke up though.

Other than that? Got nothing...

[ColbertWatcher]

15. Reggie Bush ...

"... the only man named Bush to have done anything for New Orleans."

--Truthiness Encyclopedia

[hulka38]

16. GHW Bush risked his life piloting a fighter plane against the Japanese in WWII.

He was born with all the advantages of being from a wealthy and influential family and but unlike his son he decided to fight tyranny instead of taking the easy way out.

[chknltl]

21. Good one, well said too.

http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq10-1.htm

[Stinky The Clown]

26. It was a torpedo bomber, not a fighter

But yes, he flew them and was the then-youngest man to do so.

[Fumesucker]

17. I understand the twins were very nice to Sasha and Malia during the WH tour.. n/t

[chknltl]

18. I approved of Desert Storm to a degree.

Saddam needed to be removed from Kuwait but not followed back to Baghdad. For a time, the world set aside their differences in order to remove a hostile thug from an area he had no business in. I liked how there was a coalition of forces which included many allies from the Middle East-(Jordan and Syria to name two), and President GHW Bush could be said to have led this coalition. I can complain about how that war was handled as well but you asked to name an act worthy of admiration, I think that qualifies as one for President GHW Bush. (Well, that is, until a fellow DUer sets me straight on the details of Desert Storm.)

[glowing]

22. There was a lot of winkin' and blinkin' in regards to the actions in the ME the

first time around... His CIA connections are just too much for me. the bush family wished to be like a Hitler type Nazi family in charge of America. They are all bad for America and should have been incarcerated for treason long ago.. along with the other aristocracies that were part of the failed attempt at overthrowing our govt.

[chknltl]

23. I feel that warcrimes were comitted back then myself.

The use of Depleted Uranium munitions in Gulf War-I for instance, furthermore I think his pharmaceutical company (Eli Lilly???) made out quite well with those shots our troops were forced to take before going over there.

That said, GHW was President at the time that we kicked Saddam out of Kuwait. It is to me, a good thing, impressive actually, that the coalition America led against a (rogue) Muslim country included Muslim nations. America should have (imo), expanded on these relationships but bush #2 was not interested in such-seeking instead to create a gulf between those we once called allies.

[bridgit]

19. no

[ddeclue]

24. I believe that George H.W. Bush's WWII service WAS admirable.

It's his later life that has been problematic.

Doug D.
Orlando, FL

[madrchsod]

27. he had to join cause his relatives were being charged with....

trading with the enemy and that lingering bad taste of his friends trying to overthrow fdr.