The Bush Family!
 

"The Family"
By Kitty Kelley
Bantam Books, 2005


THE SKELETONS KEEP rattling and tumbling down from the closet of the Bush dynasty in this latest book by biographer Kitty Kelley, known for her exposès of such celebrities as Jackie Kennedy, Frank Sinatra, Elizabeth Taylor, Nancy Reagan and the British royals.

Kelley quotes a divorced daughter-in-law of Bush, Sharon Smith Bush (former wife of Neil Bush, son of George H. W.), as declaring: "This is a family of alcoholism, drug addiction, and even schizophrenia." Also, on at least two instances, of adultery.

The black sheep of the family was James S. Bush, brother of George H. W., who was disowned because he married and divorced many times, something the Bushes strongly disapprove of. Accused of embezzlement, James, an alcoholic, fled to other countries and ended up in the Philippines.

There, as a US consular officer reported, he was "living with a Filipino street woman he had met in a bar." Impoverished, crippled, almost blind, the unfortunate James died of lung cancer at the Veterans Memorial Medical Center in Quezon City in 1978 at the age of 77.

His death was "a great relief to all of us," declared George H. W.

Meanwhile, here in Canada...we just got rid of a Prime Minister who's son is a convicted rapist.

Some great role models we got for leaders in North America.

what does his son have to do with him being PM?

On the extracurricular front, George H. W. had his dalliances while he was vice president, and even before, when he was a congressman: "He chose his other involvements carefully (usually out of town) so as not to threaten his marriage. Then along came Jennifer Fitzgerald, who became his secretary and became so much more."

The long drawn-out affair caused his wife Barbara to leave him for three months (he was then US ambassador to China), burn her letters, and to suffer severe depression almost to the point of suicide.

This gonna be kinda like the Osmonds?

George H. W. was not the only member of the family to play around. His only sister, Nancy Bush Ellis, had a torrid affair with historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. of Camelot (Kennedy) fame.

George H. W. and his son George W. excelled in athletics (although the latter was considered a "bully boy"), but were mediocre students at the elite Andover Academy and the Ivy League Yale University. George W., in fact, finished at the bottom of his class.

At Andover, George W.'s first assignment in English was to write an essay on an emotional experience. Since he had written the word tears several times, he scouted around for a synonym in the thesaurus his mother had given him. And thus he wrote: "And the lacerates (italics mine) ran down my cheeks."

It turned out that lacerates was not a noun at all but the verb for tears (as in "tearing apart"), a different meaning altogether. The teacher gave him "a big red zero" and scrawled a note: "DISGRACEFUL (all caps the teacher's). See me immediately."

I'm guessing this does not come from a reliable source.
"[...]burn her (his) letters[...]

Anyhow, Bush is an asshole but we all know that, and truthfully we're getting tired of hearing about it. I've got family who've done jailtime, does that condemn my future grandkids, 2 generations down the line? Some things in life are genetic/hereditary, some aren't. In a few years, this whole thing will all be over, and may this serve as a lesson if the US wants to preserve its dominance over the rest of the world. You can't blame Bush for taking advantage of an asleep population, shiiiit, I would've done the same to serve my personal agenda. I must say I'd be curious to find out what's in that book though, cliff notes anybody?

Less amusing are some of the reminiscences and opinions of the Yale batchmates of the current US president. Ken White (Yale 1968) opines that "he [Bush] was the last guy you'd ever expect to see in the White House... My wife remembers him roaring drunk one night at a party with a date doing the alligator; that was some sort of dance back then when you fell to the floor on all fours and started rolling around. It's hard to see a guy like that holding the highest office in the land."

From Tom Wilmer, another Yalie: "Georgie, as we called him then, has absolutely no intellectual curiosity about anything. This guy has no concept of complex issues... He's a simpleminded zealot and-God help us all-he's now the guy with his finger on the button."

They say that the apple does not fall far from the tree.

BUt I am not so sure that I believe this. I will agree that the Bush family has a lot of fucked up people in it, but I think that all families do.

Its part and parcel of the whole failed accomplishment environment that surrounds his corrupt ass. The guy couldn't even raise his own family right.

Some politicians like to promote themselves by saying things like, "I come from a respectable background of being a good family man."

How do you spin that? "Hi, I come from a background where although my son's a rapist...he only raped ONE person."

When you know and consider all the criminality and shady character aspects of former PM Jean Chretien - the fact that his son's a convicted rapist comes as little surprise.

Thing is, nobody's perfect, and there always has to be someone on top of the hierarchy. Quebec just elected an ex cocaine addict/homosexual to lead the Bloc, but I'm guessing he'll be nothing more than charismatic. Not that I have anything against reformed junkies, nor fudgepackers.

Actually she documented her depression pretty well in her own auto-biography - although some of it was obviously smattered with glossing over facts as quite a few people do when battling depression

you have him for president to run your country, and you worry about what he did to his family? - that story should be the least of your worries buddy. Think about how he fucks up your country

i don't want bother with him...

(lol)

So when the Bloc holds their next separation referendum and wins...their first trading partner as an independent sovereign nation will be...Peru, Bolivia perhaps?

Having an ex-cokehead at the head of the Bloc just seems so - appropo.

But yeah, I've seen him and heard his speeches. He does seem somewhat charismatic. Young lookin' for his age, too.

:thumbsup

Jeez he adopted the dude and it turned out to be a wrong move ...

Amazing ... I wasn't informed that Duceppe left the Bloc ...

Oh well, after all, I am just a surfer ... :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

there are no perfect families in this world.

Well, Bush would be gone in a couple of years....

No, they are a normal family :1orglaugh

Neil Bush Meets the Messiah

What is this?

If that's the president... i can imagine the normal people... WHO CHOSED HIM AND ARE STILL CHOOSING HIM AND WATCHING HIM HOW HE FUCKS UP THE WHOLE WORLD!

The students here in Bulgaria can't make that mistake in elementary school... not even gipsies. Not even on English as their second language. That's just absurdness!! AND IT'S NOT FUNNY EVEN!!!

And yes i have seen SOOOOOO stupid people, but i have never seen so stupid leader of whatever... and this is the leader of one of the greatest countries.

And that's in 21st century...

Stop the Earth! I want to get down!

I am not sure if that's really true or not but thanks for that nice post anyway. :)

The truth: no WMD in Iraq!