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Former first lady Barbara Bush dies at age 92

By Lois Romano
April 17

Barbara Bush, who was the wife of one president and the mother of another and whose embrace of her image as America’s warmhearted grandmother belied her influence and mettle, died April 17. She was 92.

The office of her husband, former president George H.W. Bush, issued a statement Tuesday evening announcing her death but did not disclose the cause. Mrs. Bush was reportedly battling chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and congestive heart failure. Her family announced two days earlier that she had “decided not to seek additional medical treatment” after recent hospitalizations amid her “failing health.”

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I'm being picky, at 92 with end stage COPD, there is no "additional medical treatment," except comfort and it is not a good way to go out either.
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There is additional medical treatment. It's just not going to change the end result, except by perhaps pushing the inevitable out a bit later.

May she rest in peace, and her family have the comfort that she lived a good life and had a positive impact on many people.
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No there is not, been there, done that dozens of times.
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I admire her for ending her life being pro-choice, and taking control of her own body.
... what's the term, one we all need to know ... no invasive measures ... that is not it, but what it was on her bracket ?

It was a bit late, but after years of watching her, I've got to say that she always struck me as a poor closeted a pro-choice woman, the sort the sort that would council the Country Club teens , the young women in trouble, (to use the terms of her time) who she would tell them that Dr. Whosit, yeah him, the podiatrist and judge at the beauty pageant, will fix it for only $200 (back then), when money was worth less, but a "girl" being a woman, especially, a single was not an option.

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Politics aside, she seemed like a nice lady.

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 the only thing i didn't like about her was her pearl necklace, other than that she was a class act.

“You must read to your children and you must hug your children and you must love your children. Your success as a family, our success as a society, depends not on what happens in the White House, but on what happens inside your house.” Barbara Bush
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NOt everybody loves Barbara, but those who don't get soundly bashed.

After calling Barbara Bush an ‘amazing racist,’ a professor taunts critics: ‘I will never be fired’

by Cleve R. Wootson Jr. and Herman Wong
April 19

In the hours after Barbara Bush died Tuesday, even those who didn’t share the former first lady’s political views expressed their condolences and recounted warm memories of the Bush family matriarch.

But Randa Jarrar, a creative writing professor at California State University at Fresno said on Twitter, “Barbara Bush was a generous and smart and amazing racist who, along with her husband, raised a war criminal.”

In another tweet, she wrote: “I’m happy the witch is dead. can’t wait for the rest of her family to fall to their demise the way 1.5 million iraqis have. byyyeeeeeee.”

Enraged, some people tagged Fresno State and the institution’s president, Joseph Castro, demanding that the professor be fired.

Jarrar laughed at them. “LOL let me help you. What I love about being an American professor is my right to free speech, and what I love about Fresno State is that I always feel protected and at home here,” Jarrar wrote.

University President Castro said Jarrar’s comments were “beyond free speech. This was disrespectful. A professor with tenure does not have blanket protection to say and do what they wish.” He said Jarrar’s words were “obviously contrary to the core values of our University” but that they “were made as a private citizen.”

As the controversy swirled, Fresno City College said Jarrar had dropped out as the featured reader at an upcoming literary festival. “While we respect the right to free speech, even objectionable speech, Jarrar’s statements are her own and do not reflect the values of LitHop or Fresno City College,” the statement said.

On talk-radio station KMJ, the university president said: “I want all of your listeners to know that I condemn the tone, substance and timing of Dr. Jarrar’s comments. I want that to be unambiguous. And how do I feel? I was shocked, upset, appalled just like everybody else.”

A day later, Castro declared that “academic freedom is at the core of our University, something we promote and practice every day in our teaching, research and public service. I recognize that in the exercise of free speech rights, individuals may present personal opinions in a provocative manner, and I also value the First Amendment rights of individuals, even when others may find the speech unpleasant and inappropriate.”

As critics slammed Jarrar, the points she made about Bush were still reverberating across the Internet. For example, the former first lady’s statements about the mostly black evacuees taking refuge in Houston’s Astrodome during Hurricane Katrina.

After her son George W. Bush’s administration was criticized for its slow response to Katrina in 2005, Barbara Bush told the public radio program “Marketplace” that the evacuees who had fled their homes and were being sheltered in Houston’s Astrodome “were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.”

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Barbara Bush told the public radio program “Marketplace” that the evacuees who had fled their homes and were being sheltered in Houston’s Astrodome “were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.”


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She's being bashed, not because she doesn't like Barbara Bush, but because she was an utterly classless !@#$ in her declarations.
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