George W Bush Eulogizes His Father

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
12/05/2018 at 13:39 • Filed to: None

You should watch this. There has been so much grace, humility, wisdom, humor, and statesmanship on display at President Bush’s funeral. Alan Simpson !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . Brain Mulroney was eloquent. And George W. Bush could not have done a better job speaking of his father, and his mother.

DISCUSSION (20)

For Sweden > ttyymmnn
12/05/2018 at 13:36

It’s a shame that Erich Honecker or Saddam Hussein couldn’t make it. They had such a history with H. W.

TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > ttyymmnn
12/05/2018 at 13:36

I’ll watch it in the privacy of my own home so I can blubber like a baby, doing that at work is seen as “unprofessional”.

ttyymmnn > TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts.
12/05/2018 at 13:40

Watch Alan Simpson, too. Great stuff. Very large men, unlike 45.

McMike > ttyymmnn
12/05/2018 at 13:46

Good stuff.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > ttyymmnn
12/05/2018 at 13:50

Thanks for sharing this. I hope the example of this ceremony , and HW’s life, informs many of our current and future leaders on how to carry themselves in their careers and personal lives.

ttyymmnn > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com
12/05/2018 at 13:52

Hear hear.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > ttyymmnn
12/05/2018 at 13:53

I miss the 1990's and early 2000's.

TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > ttyymmnn
12/05/2018 at 13:57

45 isn’t a man, he is everything a real man shouldn’t be. I shit more masculine things than him.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > ttyymmnn
12/05/2018 at 14:12

Great line by Simpson about the “high road of humility”.

Chariotoflove > ttyymmnn
12/05/2018 at 14:14

Thanks, I’ll watch this tonight.

TheRealBicycleBuck > ttyymmnn
12/05/2018 at 14:23

I have great respect for anyone who can control their emotions well enough to stand in front of a crowd and speak about a recently deceased parent. I was such a mess at my mom’s funeral that I could hardly talk to anyone, much less deliver the eulogy.

ttyymmnn > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
12/05/2018 at 14:29

I miss it all. I prefer the 1980s, myself. At least we knew who our enemies were. Mulroney gave a very nice eulogy as well.

ttyymmnn > TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts.
12/05/2018 at 14:30

All of this today only served to show just how small a man he is. But it won’t have any affect on him. He’ll find a way to make it about himself soon enough.

ttyymmnn > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com
12/05/2018 at 14:30

It was fantastic. I wrote it down.

ttyymmnn > Chariotoflove
12/05/2018 at 14:32

All the eulogies were good. The Celegbrant’s was particularly good.

ttyymmnn > TheRealBicycleBuck
12/05/2018 at 14:40

I once played a funeral for a two-year-old boy. I don’t know how he died, but I assume it was some sort of accident, because thanks were given to the emergency services personnel. As a father, the only way I could keep myself composed was by staring straight ahead, at the wall across the chancel. On that day, I saw the bravest man I will ever see : the boy’s father, who gave the eulogy. He spoke of the boy’s recently deceased grandfather, Big John , who was big in every way, right down to always having the biggest car, the biggest TV, etc. The father closed the eulogy saying, “I comfort myself knowing that my son is in heaven, sitting on the sofa with Big John, and watching Daniel Tiger together on the biggest TV Big John could get.” I literally sobbed on the way home, and I never even knew them. I’m choked up writing this. I don’t know how he did it.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > ttyymmnn
12/05/2018 at 14:45

1980's were pre-me, but yeah, things were simple then.

ttyymmnn > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
12/05/2018 at 14:47

Simple? Not necessarily. Less fraught, perhaps. A bit more orderly.

PyramidHat > ttyymmnn
12/05/2018 at 19:56

Christ, I started to well up just reading that...

ttyymmnn > PyramidHat
12/05/2018 at 20:28

It was rough.