Dynasty Blather
The Washington Post continues its sterling record of distributing disinformation and agenda based reporting in today’s column by John F. Harris. Its headline, The Roosevelts, Kennedys, and Now the Bushes and subheading aren’t the worst of it, but show clearly that the paper is set upon a course to inflate the national prominence of the Kennedys, of which only JFK served as President, and to exaggerate the families influence beyond the bounds of Massachusetts, while creating the impression that at any point the Bush family either sought a dynasty or believes one exist. GW and GHW were very different presidents and very different men, and the make believe that GW somehow sought to ease the pain of his fathers loss in ’92 by winning a second term is ludicrous.
We should expect ludicrous from the Washington Post.
For more make believe, how about Harris' idea that GHW should tip his hat to GW.
Amid the celebration and crowds of Inauguration Day came a surprisingly intimate moment between father and son. As John F. Kennedy's parade passed the reviewing stand where Joseph P. Kennedy was watching, the new president looked up and tipped his hat -- a gesture of affection and gratitude to the patriarch who had dreamed for years of putting a son in the White House.It would be a great thing to see GHW tip his hat to President Bush, not because he eased the sting of '92, but because he is the President of the United States.Forty-four years later, as President Bush prepares to launch his second term, it might be the father who should tip his hat to the son.
One of the 43rd president's achievements in winning reelection, according to Bush family friends and historians, is to ease the sting of the 41st president's failure to do so a dozen years earlier. The president's victory also establishes firmly a fact that earlier was open to dispute: The Bushes now belong in the top tier of political families in U.S. history.
