The tax comment was successfully turned against him, because he trusted that everyone was as honest and trustworthy as himself.

Bush was very much loved by a great segment of the public. The significant statement would be that he was loved by those who knew him.

Much has been made over the course of his life about his privileged birth; and I am sure it will be noted by some now. The truth is that none of us has responsibility or control over the circumstances of our birth, and often virtually none over our formative years. G.H.W. Bush did not let those circumstances govern his life.

RIP noble Sir.

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/12/george-h-w-bush-rip.php#comment-4220510596

Click on “Show/Post Comments”, the first one should be this story from a commenter calling himself “Pointless Comment Generator”. However the story is far from pointless.

https://www.mlb.com/news/george-hw-bush-dies-at-94/c-301335482

“Garner’s daughter, Bethany, attended Texas A&M, and when the Bush Library opened there in 1997, she was part of a welcoming party for former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
“When they get there, Barbara Bush says she wants to say hello to the students who were helping with the event,” Garner remembered.
“Here they come down the receiving line, and Bethany is panicked and doesn’t know what you say to the former president of the United States. She’s looking at the floor as he approaches, and out of nowhere, she sees his boots and says, `Those are great looking boots, Mr. President.’
“He says, `I bought these boots especially for this occasion, and nobody has noticed until now. Thank you very much.’ He immediately picked up on how nervous she was and tried to make her feel at ease. Regardless of your politics, he’s a great man.”
…
Byrne has another point to make.
“When the president and Barbara came to a football game, they insisted on arriving early and leaving early,” Byrne said. “Because they have Secret Service protection, they didn’t want to disrupt traffic.
“There were times when the game was tight in the fourth quarter, and we’d ask them to stay. No, they didn’t want to disrupt anyone else from getting home.”
Longtime Texas A&M sports information director Alan Cannon was at an Aggie softball game one afternoon when the telephone rang. It was Rod Thornton, a Bush staffer, asking if it would be OK if the former president came over.
And that’s how Cannon got to spend an afternoon watching an Aggie softball game with the 41st president.
…
For Slocum, one moment stands out.
“We were at a course in New Jersey having breakfast before going to play,” Slocum said. “We were sitting there talking about our game, and you could tell the woman waiting on the table was a little nervous.
“President Bush stopped the conversation and said, `How are you today? We really appreciate you taking the time for us.’ He just turned his full attention to her and made her know she was important. I don’t know where that woman is now, but I promise you she’ll remember President Bush for the rest of her life.
“Of all the people I’ve met, there’s no one who better exemplifies the qualities you’d want in someone — integrity, kindness, humility, strength. When you’re around him for very long, you tend to put aside all that he did for our country, not just in public service, but in the military, and you just see one of the best men you’ll ever meet.”

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2010/03/wtf-did-biden-just-say-a-brief-history-of-bad-language-in-washington.html

“People of a more sensitive nature might disapprove of this language, but it is a fact of politics. At times, it is necessary.”

Don’t bother going there, as it is an apologia for Biden’s profanity on an open mic, so as not to tarnish the Anointed One’s administration; the defense was ditched summarily when Trump ran in 2016.

Since I was already aware that none of our presidents had a particularly tight rein on their emotional locutions, Trump’s did not bother me as a qualification for President; all he did was say out loud what all of them said in private (except for Reagon, it appears).

Personally, I thought getting Barbara and Laura as First Lady was the best part of both their husbands’ tenures.

Then he came to the American people with “have I got a deal for you: we’ll agree to raise taxes (thereby shredding his and his party’s credibility), but they’ll agree to cut spending. I couldn’t actually believe it when put that way, and although I was naive in paragraph 1 [above], I was right on in paragraph 2 [right here]. Sure enough, as day follows night, we got the new taxes, but did we get the spending cuts? Bwahahahahaha.

Lucy, Charlie Brown, and the football.

George H. W. Bush was a model Republican: he knew exactly how to cater to the more conservative base, and then, once assuming office, cater to the all-important establishment. (Do note that the media despised him even more after that generous taxes-for-spending-cuts compromise.) But! — the man was very civil.

If so, he was the last President like that we’ve had. Clinton, Bush 43 (to some extent), Obama and Trump were all outsiders when they got to the White House.

I used to think that kind of expertise was important. Now I’m not so sure.

Wake up, sheeple!

*Along with Ted Cruz’s father, of course.