Bush recalls living in Montgomery in 1972

[Cocoa]

http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/ledgerenquirer/news/local/11102519.htm

Bush recalls living in Montgomery in 1972

Associated Press

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - President Bush spoke warmly but briefly Thursday about living in Montgomery in 1972 when he worked in the U.S. Senate campaign of Republican Winton "Red" Blount - a period that became a stormy issue during Bush's 2004 re-election race.

Bush, appearing at Auburn University Montgomery to promote his Social Security plan, said he had "fond memories" of the Alabama capital, including the now-closed Elite Cafe -- pronounced "E-light" by locals -- a noted seafood and steak eatery downtown.

He also mentioned Hank Williams' grave, where the legendary country music singer is buried. It is a tourist draw in a cemetery near the Capitol.

Bush paid tribute to a couple of prominent Montgomery Republicans, former long-term Mayor Emory Folmar and Winton Blount III, the son of Red Blount. "I remember working for Winton's daddy," said Bush.

[fertilizeonarbusto]

1. I thought

he couldn't recall any details from his time in Alabama...

[CO Liberal]

2. Does He Recall Showing Up For Guard Duty????

Probably not, because HE DIDN'T!!!!!!!!

[struggle4progress]

13. I waiting to hear him remember all his Guard buddies.

Or was he always so four-sheets-to-wind drunk that those happy days are lost to the blackouts?

[SoCalDem]

3. He's a regular Forrest Gump..

He's lived and worked in :

Alaska
Alabama
Scotland
.......and yet we have no details.... At least Forrest apparently kept records:)

[The Backlash Cometh]

5. What's up with Scotland?

Feeney's trip was to Scotland. Is there a ring of power there?

[rodeodance]

11. poppy bush has oil friends in Scotland--jr. stayed at sheep ranch

during the summers. said he 'worked' there. but it is more like a big Castle, not a poor sheep ranch.

[rodeodance]

12. there was an artile a few weeks back about Bush Sr and Jr staying

at friends in Scotland during a few summers (think it was CIA friend)

[Lisa]

4. Hank Williams' grave ... did he throw up on it?

He bragged about wild partying during his time in Alabama, didn't he.

[Sequoia]

6. Daddy?

That grates on my nerves to hear a grown man (ha) say that. On second thought, he's a big baby.

[EVDebs]

7. Wayne Madsen says they let him out of San Diego for trips to Alabama

once in awhile just to keep up appearances...

[BamaLefty]

8. Protests

I heard Montgomery Dems showed up and spoke outside the building.

Montgomery wasn't too friendly to the Fuhrer last November either. It is one of our last Dem strongholds in Alabama.

[rodeodance]

14. Ala. Senate passed resolution today to reject Bush SS plan!!

there is a tread a DU somewhere

[fob]

9. The snippet doesn't say but seems to imply that bush* didn't get

the "local pronuciation" of the Elite Cafe correct. Is there any audio/video of this event?

[BamaLefty]

20. I Didn't Watch It

I couldn't stomach it to tune in.

We call it the "E-light" cafe. It is a wonderful place to eat by the way. Don't tell me he said "Elite" did he???

[fob]

29. That's the way it reads to me. Why would they need to give the

"local pronounciation" other than to clarify after someone used the standard pronounciation?

[blue northern]

10. Wonder if * remembers this particular evening?

Sounds like he had a kick-ass time in Montgomery
:hangover:

From the Montgomery Independant:

Mrs. Allison remembers that the elder Bush asked her husband to take young George W. along to Alabama to work in Blount's campaign to get him out of Houston. This was about the time that George W. failed to take his annual Texas Air National Guard flight physical, required annually by the Guard.

Mrs. Allison recalls that after a boozy election night wake for the Blount Campaign here on Nov. 2, 1972 young George went on a tear, urinated publicly on a car in a parking lot, yelled obscenities at policemen and trashed his rented house, breaking furniture, damaging walls and destroying a chandelier, as The Birmingham News reported in February.

The frame house still stands at 3211 Cloverdale Road. It belonged to Mrs. Elizabeth S. Dickerson who was in a nursing home at the time. Her nephew the late J. Prior Smith of 322 Cloverdale Road, had rented it through Aronov Realty. His widow Mary told the newspaper that her husband sent young Bush a bill for $1,000.00 for the repairs but he did not respond.

http://www.al.com/news/independent/index.ssf?/base/news/1096053302279500.xml

[rodeodance]

15. blackout time

[CoffeeCat]

18. I don't know whether to laugh or cry...

...at the description of Bush's drunken rampage!

This is the best America could do?

"...urinated publicly on a car...yelled obscenities...trashed his house,...brekaing furniture...damaging walls and destroying a chandelier.

This sounds like one of those gorillas in the Samsonite commercials.

Nothing but class, folks. Nothing but class.

[daleo]

22. Nothing much has changed, here's an update for 2005

"...urinated publicly on <the U.N>....yelled obscenities <and threats>...trashed <Afghanistan>,...breaking <Iraq>...damaging <U.S. reputation> and destroying a <constitution>."

Perhaps not the work of a gorilla, but certainly that of a chimperor.

[Maccagirl]

19. But But But...

He's been "saved". All is forgiven (at least by his disciples). Didn't you get the memo?


:puke:

[oldlady]

24. glad to see

he took "personal responsibility" for his actions ...I think he still owes that family $1000

[Mnemosyne]

25. He doesn't remember what he said 5 minutes ago, much less 1972!

[Neverarepublican]

16. Asshole

That's all I got

[Massachusetts]

17. Another BUSHIT.

He was in the "purple haze", who is he shitting!

[Gyre]

21. Probably a flashback. NT

[UTUSN]

23. You Beat Me to It. Plus, "fond memories" = Brains-on-drugs n/t

[VegasWolf]

26. Hell, I didn't know boosh could spell his name in 1972! n/t

[despairing optimist]

27. Margot Channing recalls peering into the heart of an artichoke

Source: "All About Eve," which I'll wager is a lot more interesting than *'s hazily recalled romp through Alabama in '72.

[0007]

28. junior's lost years

http://www.southerner.net/blog/awolbush.html

BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Feb. 2 (SDN) — The result of an investigation into George W. Bush's lost year in 1972 reveals a cocky privileged son who used his family connections to avoid military service in Vietnam and spend seven months in Alabama partying. He clearly skipped out on National Guard duty and avoided a mandatory drug test, all while learning the politics of "dirty tricks," deception and coded racism in the land of George Wallace.

snip.....

The gap in Bush's military records for 1972, and his lack of a full answer to the question about his drug use, generated stories in 2000. Bush refused for months to say whether he had used illegal drugs. Then he changed his stance, according to the Globe, saying he had not used illegal drugs "since 1974."

snip....

Two books now contain the charge that Bush was arrested for possession of cocaine in 1972 in Texas, most likely before he made the move to Alabama. Close friends of the family say he was getting into trouble and needed to escape. He apparently performed community service in 1973 by working for a minority children's program, Professionals United for Leadership League (PULL), chaired by his father. The record of that arrest was expunged, meaning he received the equivalent of Youthful Offender status at the age of 26.

snip..

They also remember Bush's stories about how the New Haven, Connecticut police always let him go, after he told them his name, when they stopped him "all the time" for driving drunk as a student at Yale in the late 1960s. Bush told this story to others working in the campaign "what seemed like a hundred times," says Red Blount's nephew C. Murphy Archibald, now an attorney in Charlotte, N.C., who also worked on the Blount campaign and said he had "vivid memories" of that time.

Much more.......

[screembloodymurder]

30. Ah yes......the good old days

when whites were white and blacks were confined to the back of the bus. Bush's *formulative* days.

[symbolman]

31. One woman down there described him as the

"Texas Souflee"

Pretty to look at on the out side and nothing but hot air on the inside, tho looking at the outside makes me want to puke..

when the human race has abandoned the culling process by use of money then we're all doomed..

THe best part of George W ran down his mother's leg..