Former First Lady Barbara Bush has died [UPDATED]

[Artistic Skaters]

Barbara Bush hugged & kissed babies & men with AIDS starting in 1989, when other leaders lacked compassion & wouldn't even mention the disease, much less touch anyone who had it. She also publicly expressed to adults with HIV/AIDS her hope that their family members would stop disowning them & instead offer them the support & comfort they needed. I hope some of the people who discriminated against those with AIDS & did horrible hateful things to them feel shame when they see she lived to age 92 after doing it.

 

[ballettmaus]

Does anyone know why there were two hearses in the motorcade?

 

[kwanette]

What's that game - "one of these things is not like the other"? I hope somebody gives her funeral protocol lessons.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...will-go/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.f76702b70f6b

 

[Susan1]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...will-go/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.f76702b70f6b

AGAIN -

when I first mentioned protocol, I meant how to ACT at a funeral for a famous person that you did not know when there are lots of people there who do not like you, not protocol of who was supposed to be invited and/or accepting. I guess I should have used the word "behavior" instead of "protocol".

And, apparently, she did behave appropriately. Much has been said about what a classy gentleman President Obama was toward her. And how she looked happier at a funeral than she does around her own husband. I bet he was throwing his golf clubs around when they showed her smiling with President Obama.

 

[kwanette]

AGAIN -

And, apparently, she did behave appropriately. Much has been said about what a classy gentleman President Obama was toward her. And how she looked happier at a funeral than she does around her own husband. I bet he was throwing his golf clubs around when they showed her smiling with President Obama.

I never doubted for one moment that Melania Trump would know how to "behave" at a funeral for ANYONE.

 

[Skittl1321]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...will-go/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.f76702b70f6b

Having not read the post that contributed to "one of these things is not like the other". I thought the issue of protocol at hand was Nancy Reagan's white jacket. (A lot of funerals no longer do black; but this one clearly did.)

Then I went back in the thread and saw the issue was about Melania. Nothing Melania did seems remotely controversial, and it is not common for a sitting president to attend a former first lady's funeral. I don't like Trump at all, but this seems a lot of fuss over nothing.

Edit: I typed this, submitted it, and then got confused- because Nancy Reagan is dead. But the photo I saw on that article is Lady Bird Johnson's funeral!

 

[Lynn226]

https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/23/politics/george-hw-bush/index.html

I didn't see a thread for this. Bush 41 is in ICU.

 

[kwanette]

https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/23/politics/george-hw-bush/index.html

I didn't see a thread for this. Bush 41 is in ICU.

Sad, prayers for the former President and his family.

 

[purple skates]

?

 

[Vash01]

https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/23/politics/george-hw-bush/index.html

I didn't see a thread for this. Bush 41 is in ICU.

Just saw it when I logged into my computer. It sounds serious. I hope he can recover.

 

[AxelAnnie]

So sad....but not surprising. That was a lot of activity and emotion and stress for someone whose health is not all that good.

The article says he has a form of Parkinson's. Anyone know what it is exactly?

 

[Sylvia]

This official statement by the Office of George H.W. Bush on President Bush's health sounds encouraging: https://twitter.com/jgm41/status/988549097584984064