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Third Woman Accuses George H.W. Bush of Groping Her, Was Asked to ‘Be Discreet’

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. . .In 2014, author Christina Baker Kline was invited to a fundraiser for the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy in Houston.

After a luncheon and having met former First Lady Barbara Bush, she and her husband then met the former president for a photo op. He told her that she was “beautiful” and she thanked him. After confirming with her that she was a writer, he then whispered, “You wanna know my favorite book?”

With “impeccable” comic timing, Bush reached his arm around her lower back, “squeezed [her] butt hard,” and answered “David Cop-A-Feel” as the photographer took the picture.

Afterwards, a woman who claimed to be a friend of the Bush family drove her and her husband back to their hotel. It wasn’t until they were in the car that Kline told her husband what had occurred . . .

“Our driver, who was stopped at a light, sat there for a moment, then leaned back and looked at us. ‘I do trust you will be … discreet.’

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George H.W. Bush Rushed to Hospital

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Photo Credit: Helen Thorgalsen/Facebook

Photo Credit: Helen Thorgalsen/Facebook

Former President George H.W. Bush was hospitalized on Tuesday after experiencing what a spokesman called a “shortness of breath.”

Bush, 90, was taken by ambulance to Houston Methodist Hospital Tuesday evening as a precaution. The former president will remain there under observation.

In late 2012, he was admitted to the hospital with a bronchitis-related cough. Bush was released Nov. 19 but returned the day after Thanksgiving with a persistent cough. He was later admitted to intensive care with a stubborn fever. Bush spent that Christmas at the hospital, only leaving intensive care on Dec. 30.

He spent nearly two months at the hospital until his release in mid-January 2013.

The oldest former president, Bush has health problems that have forced him in recent years to rely on a wheelchair or motorized scooter to get around.

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A Long Line of Nice Losers

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photo credit: donkeyhoteyMitt Romney now joins the long list of the kinds of presidential candidates favored by the Republican establishment– nice, moderate losers, people with no coherently articulated vision, despite how many ad hoc talking points they may have.

The list of Republican presidential candidates like this goes back at least as far as 1948, when Thomas E. Dewey ran against President Harry Truman. Dewey spoke in lofty generalities while Truman spoke in hard-hitting specifics. Since then, there have been many re-runs of this same scenario, featuring losing Republican presidential candidates John McCain, Bob Dole, Gerald Ford and, when he ran for reelection, George H.W. Bush.

Bush 41 first succeeded when he ran for election as if he were another Ronald Reagan (“Read my lips, no new taxes”), but then lost when he ran for reelection as himself– “kinder and gentler,” disdainful of “the vision thing” and looking at his watch during a debate, when he should have been counter-attacking against the foolish things being said.

This year, Barack Obama had the hard-hitting specifics– such as ending “tax cuts for the rich” who should pay “their fair share,” government “investing” in “the industries of the future” and the like. He had a coherent vision, however warped.

Most of Obama’s arguments were rotten, if you bothered to put them under scrutiny. But someone once said that it is amazing how long the rotten can hold together, if you don’t handle it roughly.

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