Bush: ''I Don't Remember What I Was Doing In 1981''

[DeSwiss]

Bush: ''I don’t remember what I was doing in 1981''

In an attempt to decipher President Bush’s views on the recent Israeli airstrike inside Syria, NBC White House correspondent David Gregory asked the president at a press conference this morning whether he agreed with Israel’s decision to bomb the Osirak nuclear facility near Baghdad in 1981. Bush responded:

"Ah, Dave, you know I don’t remember what I was doing in 1981. I was living in Midland, Texas. I don’t remember my reaction that far back."



http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/17/bush-arbusto/">Watch video

To refresh Bush’s memory, in 1981, his twin daughters Barbara and Jenna were born. His father was vice president of the United States. And Bush was struggling as the head of a failing oil exploration company called Arbusto. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/campaigns/wh2000/stories/bush073099.htm">The Washington Post reports:

Arbusto’s balance sheets showed that at the end of 1981, it had little more than $48,000 in the bank and more than half of all its assets consisted of “accounts receivable,” money owed to it by others. At the same time, the company owed almost $300,000 in bank loans and close to $120,000 to other creditors.

At that time, Bush received an infusion of cash from a number of sources, including from longtime friend James R. Bath who was http://www.michaelmoore.com/warroom/f911notes/index.php?id=18">handling the finances for the bin Laden family.

Link: http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/17/bush-arbusto/

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Maybe because he was stinking drunk the whole time?

[no_hypocrisy]

2. I was going to mention alcoholic amnesia/mental fugues myself.

[DeSwiss]

3. And you'd think....

...that he'd remember when an evildoer's nukular plant got blown up.

:shrug:

[dragonlady]

4. I remember seeing a photo of him from then, looking quite good

He was dressed in hospital scrubs, holding a newborn twin in each arm. Just like any proud father on the day the miracle of birth happened in his family. Probably the high point of his less-than-stellar existence.

[DeSwiss]

5. Yeah.

Its too bad that he doesn't remember 1981 when all that happened.

[City Lights]

8. Unbelievable, isn't it?

Who can't remember what they were doing right before they became a parent for the first time, especially a parent to twins?

:wtf:

[DeSwiss]

11. I suppose that when you have......

....a limited supply of brain cells to start with, you use the ones you have ever so sparingly.

[MrCoffee]

6. cocaine is hell on the long-term memory

[DeSwiss]

12. But the cocaine.....

...now that he probably CAN remember.

[tanyev]

7. Passed out under a pool table in one of Midland's finest dives?

[WinkyDink]

9. Memory, schmemory. It was simply a big "FU" to DG.

[PuraVidaDreamin]

10. Recommend to help the memory

[robertpaulsen]

13. Wonder if his brother Neil remembers what he was doing then, or why.

Bush Son Had Dinner Plans With Hinckley Brother Before Shooting
The Associated Press Domestic News
March 31, 1981, Tuesday, PM cycle

The family of the man charged with trying to assassinate President Reagan is acquainted with the family of Vice President George Bush and had made large contributions to his political campaign, the Houston Post reported today.

The newspaper said in a copyright story, Scott Hinckley, brother of John W. Hinckley Jr., who allegedly shot Reagan, was to have dined tonight in Denver at the home of Neil Bush, one of the vice president's sons.

The newspaper said it was unable to reach Scott Hinckley, vice president of his father's Denver-based firm, Vanderbilt Energy Corp., for comment. Neil Bush lives in Denver, where he works for Standard Oil Co. of Indiana.

In 1978, Neil served as campaign manager for his brother, George W. Bush, the vice president's oldest son, who made an unsuccessful bid for Congress. Neil lived in Lubbock throughout much of 1978, where John Hinckley lived from 1974 through 1980.

http://www.hereinreality.com/hinckley.html

[WillyT]

14. Well... The Twins Are Gonna Be Pissed... That's The Year They Were Born !!!

<snip>

George Walker Bush
43rd President of the United States
(January 20, 2001 to Present)

Nicknames: "W", "Little George"

Born: July 6, 1946, in New Haven, Connecticut

Father: George Herbert Walker Bush
Mother: Barbara Pierce Bush
Married: Laura Welch (1946- ), on November 5, 1977
Children: Barbara Pierce Bush (1981- ), Jenna Welch Bush (1981- )

<snip>

Link: http://www.potus.com/gwbush.html

YOU BECAME THE FATHER OF TWIN GIRLS THAT YEAR, YOU ASSHOLE!!!

:wtf:

[Lint Head]

15. He is not an intelligent human being.

( I use the term human being advisedly. ) There is a correlation between memory and attention span. He does look old. Maybe he's reverting to to childhood in his old age and becoming forgetful. :dem:

[cosmicdot]

16. "hehe I wasn't media created then, smirk smirk" n/t

[MisterP]

17. what the hell do you mean, "I was living in Midland, Texas"?!

it's not like the city has memory-erasing gas seeping out of clefts in the rock!

[Pushed To The Left]

18. Stephanie Miller immediately gave Gregory a "Let's Hear It For The Boys" this morning after his

question. He made Bush look rather silly!

[lumberjack_jeff]

19. A perfect memory is not necessary. Knowing where the library is, is.

History books are useful things for a guy who's in a position to repeat history's mistakes.

[begin_within]

20. Here's what he was doing: