George Herbert Walker Bush. You know, I just don’t
have much on this guy, I voted for the other guy, Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts
mostly because he had the balls and good sense to put a woman on his ticket as
Vice President (Geraldine Ferraro), but I lost yet another one in 1988, my
fifth out of six tries. Not a very good percentage.
Bush the Elder, as he is often referred to, was
VPOTUS under the popular entertainer Ronald Reagan and pretty much rode his
coattails to victory when Reagan was no longer eligible to run. Looking back,
we have Bush to thank for putting the entire world in peril by taking on Indiana
Senator Dan Quayle as his Vice President thereby potentially placing the massive
power of the United States war machine in the hands of a babbling imbecile,
only a heartbeat away. It provided the greatest possible incentive imaginable to
keeping the POTUS alive.
Under Bush the Elder, I first became acquainted
with his Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney, a despicable individual who would come
back later to haunt us all. I recall a little intrigue down in Panama when the
dictator that the CIA had in place, an acne suffering army general and thug named
Manuel Noriega, began to spill some beans about the CIA’s trafficking in drugs,
mostly cocaine from Colombia, upsetting the POTUS enough that he sent a bunch
of U.S. troops to that country, captured the ungrateful little bastard, brought
him back Stateside, then promptly stuck him in a Florida prison. The spill of
beans was stopped.
Cheney got to flex his muscle later as SecDef along
with padding his Halliburton Industries bank account by rescuing the tiny
nation of Kuwait from the invading forces of that evil terror from Iraq, Saddam
Hussein. This guy would also pop up later.
But overall, not much happened in those four
years except that the economy tanked in the end and George Herbert Walker Bush
(what the fuck kind of name is that anyhow?) lost his re-election bid in 1992
to a hillbilly with a saxophone.
Next up: William Jefferson Clinton
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