a Prescott Bush interview
I posted this at roughly 70% of the standard youtube size to improve the so-so image resolution, but if you want the rest or the "full-size", it's here( part one), and part 2 is here.
Both are via a channel called "BBC propaganda news", which, presumably, is not related to the BBC. As most of you already know, Prescott Bush was a US senator and the current president's grandfather.
Labels: history, politics, Republican Party, TV, web2.0, youtube
posted by Jonathan Versen at 9:03 PM
5 Comments:
Like Grandfather, like father, like son. Talk about nepotism. Perhaps there ought to be a law that says once a person holds office in congress or the Whitehouse that no other relatives should be allowed to do the same and considering current events that goes for spouses as well. Very few mention this tendency for people from the same family being president which seemed to begin with the Kennedys, followed by the Bush’s and attempted by the Clintons. There is something very bothersome about that and it smacks of the European royal families.
"There is something very bothersome about that and it smacks of the European royal families."
Hi Rob,
Although I see your point, it reminds me more of Latin American countries, because nowadays in Europe people have enough sense to avoid giving their monarchs any real power.
Hi Jonathan,
Touché or is that toupee, I should have qualified that as European royalty of the past. However the Queen of Holland owns the Shell oil company so she probably doesn’t count, no wait queen, no wait, the count of Monte Cristo, no wait, she is a queen not a count, does that count?
Well, a monarch with bags of money and no real political power is far less dangerous than a monarch with power.
(although I'll admit I hadn't heard of the Queen's stock portfolio. But still-- wouldn't we have been better off is somebody said to Junior, "here's a crown and a billion dollars-- now go away, we'll call you when we need to christen a ship or open a zoo or something." ??)
Yes it would have been much, much better.
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