by Mark Silva
"I have great plans for the boy,'' the father says.
What sort of plans could that father have for a "boy" who already has served as president of the United States, particularly when the father also served as president?
Former President George H.W. Bush is talking about his son, former President George W. Bush, in an interview with the 41st president and his wife, Barbara Bush, that airs this evening on FOX News Channel's On the Record with Greta Van Susteren.
The host asks the former president if his son, retired now in Dallas, will be getting involved with the father's humanitarian causes.
Dad says the 43rd president still has some work to do to pay off the new retirement home that he has established - though 43 made more than $15 million in the sale of the Texas Rangers some time ago, before he became governor of Texas, so maybe the place needs some patio furniture or something.
"Not yet,'' the father says of the son's involvement in dad's causes, "but I have great plans for the boy.... Laura's already interested. George has to make a little money first to pay for his house, I think."
On the show, Barbara Bush also has some thoughts about her husband skydiving on his 85th birthday, with a little help from the diving Golden Knights: "He wants a crowd. But now they're jumping at the church, evidently, and I picture him on the steeple....on the way down, I picture him just hanging on the steeple.
"They won't let him be hurt. It's the Golden Knights, they're going to take wonderful care of him,'' she says, adding of the guy she fell in love with some six decades ago: "I am in love with George Bush, 64 years later, pretty lucky."
(Former President George H. W. Bush is pictured above with Sgt. Bryan Schnell of the U.S. Army Golden Knights, in a skydive celebratiing the former president's 80th birthday in College Station, Texas, on June 13, 2004. (AP photo) As Ronald Reagan might have said of Bush;'s plans for his 85th: "There you go again.")
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"I have great plans for the boy,'' the father (Bush Sr) says.
Yeah, so do we. It involves handcuffs and a prison cell.
Posted by: America | April 22, 2009 7:56 PM
Republicans would have thought of George Bush as a great Presdent had he done all of the things that they wanted him to do like: kill thousands of Americans in an unnecessary war, torture and spie illegally, politicized the Justice Dept., out a CIA agent...oh wait...he DID do all that!......Nevermind.
Posted by: mick | April 22, 2009 8:42 PM
Try as you will, there's NO WAY you can make the Bush Dynasty appear warm & cuddly.
They are sort of like a WASP version of the Duvaliers.
Not as much money, but way older money--from banking with the Nazis and running stock pools in the 20's.
Posted by: ornery | April 22, 2009 11:09 PM
Lots of dads call their sons "boy" as a term of endearment.
If your dad ever does it I hope you think of this and feel like a mook.
Posted by: UnfrozenCavegirlBlogger | April 23, 2009 1:51 AM
Barack Obama is a fraud.
He is bring the country down to its knees and he will face prison for his deeds.
Posted by: Abe | April 23, 2009 6:38 AM
Well said Abe! That darn Barack Obama, after invading Iraq for no good reason, instituting a torture regime, letting Osama get away, crashing the economy, spying on American citizens without warrants, he STILL expects the nations respect...
Oh, wait, did you say BARACK OBAMA -- can I have some of what YOU'RE smoking?
Posted by: Smgumby | April 23, 2009 8:57 AM
What ex-President Bush needs, no one can give him, at this stage in his life. He has failed miserably and the whole world knows it !! He has made Reagan look presidential and that is almost as big an achievement, as Mt. Rushmore !!
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, BRING THEM HOME, ALIVE AND WHOLE. NOW.
Posted by: Don Fitzgerald, America | April 23, 2009 9:07 AM
What ex-President Bush needs, no one can give him, at this stage in his life. He has failed miserably and the whole world knows it !! He has made Reagan look presidential and that is almost as big an achievement, as Mt. Rushmore !!
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, BRING THEM HOME, ALIVE AND WHOLE. NOW.
Posted by: Don Fitzgerald, America | April 23, 2009 9:08 AM
George has to make a little money first to pay for his house
Oh, he must mean the house that George and Laura bought right after they sold the Crawford compound as soon as they could, since they no longer needed it as a movie prop.
Posted by: adkay | April 23, 2009 12:30 PM
I thought they still owned the ranch but decided to keep it and
"Move to town"
as they used to say 100 years ago in rural IL.
Posted by: ornery | April 23, 2009 1:19 PM
W. came into the White House with a twenty million dollar personal fortune, not counting the Walker family trusts, earned 400K a year for eight years, and just got a check for, IIRC, six million to "write" his "memoirs" (I think Karen Hughes will ghostwrite them in exchange for kibble and tummy rubs). But "the boy" has to earn some money to pay for a two million dollar house?
I guess he manages his personal finances as well as he ran the country's.
Posted by: Jim | April 23, 2009 2:13 PM
Well, of course daddy has "plans for that boy". Junior never amounted to anything in his life without the help of daddy and his cronies - everything Shrub tried on his own with daddy's help he FAILED AT!
Posted by: BC | April 23, 2009 3:11 PM
Stupid Americans, then why did his approval ratings rise after 9/11. Why did you vote him in twice.You love him!! you sucked his cock on Katrina, Iraq, heavy taxes, Briken economy, Guantanamo, Mortgages_ haha! now you are camping permanantly, how about dead wrotten American troops coming from an ass woopin from the Taliban. You all love Bush admit it.
Posted by: hahahahah!!!!!! | April 26, 2009 11:57 PM