Neil Bush, the brother that nobody ever mentions, has left his wife of 23 years and their three children to take up with a recently divorced woman who was once an assistant to his mother.
According to the radio news, Neil’s house is up for sale and his wife and three children had no place to live. Fortunately, George Sr. and Barbara are buying a house for their soon-to-be-ex daughter-in-law and three grandchildren. They can live there until the youngest child is 18.
I’m far from a Bush supporter but what’s the big deal. A married man with three children decides to get a divorce. That never happens in America. Wait wait, the kids are getting screwed. Nope, that never happens either.
But George Sr. and Barbara are buying them a house. To me, that sounds like good family values to me - taking care of their own.
Well, the grandparents aren’t gonna let them be homeless, but their father appears to be a different story. I think that’s the point of the OP, that turning one’s three children out with nowhere to go because you want to boink someone else isn’t exactly good family values.
Well W’s brother did commit one of the largest cases of fraud in US history and got away with it because of his daddy. This family obviouly does feel like they’re above the law and that they don’t have to be treated like everbody else.
::shrug:: That’s no crazier than the shit that goes on with my friends’ parents.
So Bush has a brother who’s being a dick? Big deal; it isn’t his fault. Besides, if we wanna Bush-bash, it’s not as though he hasn’t given us lefties and the like plenty of legitimate and relevant ammo already.
I find this absolutely repulsive. Such horrible rumours about a pair of girls whose only fault is that they’re fun-loving students and have a famous father have no place whatsoever in civilized society. I am disgusted.
Neil Bush is clearly pond scum, but I can’t see the point in holding Dubya responsible. The Shrub’s got plenty of sins of his own; there’s no need to hit him with guilt by association.
Except of course when he chooses the association, like when Falwell was at the White House earlier this year. But you can’t choose your sibs.
I think the issue here is that the Bush family, as a whole, bangs the drum of “family values”, then proceeds to behave as though those values somehow don’t apply to them. Neil’s indiscretion is the latest in a series of sins that each member of the family has had to endure.
As a “card-carrying Bush-basher” myself, I think we should lay off this one. As Gore Vidal once wrote, before we can play the cards we draw, we have to play the cards we’ve been dealt by fate–our family.
And, as Al Gore’s cousin, he should know all about the pitfalls of being a politician’s relative.
