As politicians go, he was as crooked as they come, while capable of feigning the patrician on TV. He was the head of the eff'n CIA and VP while the worst of the atrocities the U.S. perpetrated against Central and South America happened (the legacy of which we're living through right now), probably hip deep in Iran-Contra, but getting away with it, as usual with sons of privilege. As it turned out, the worst blot on his record was probably to spawn what rode to college, to business failure while still getting rich, to the governor's mansion and then to becoming #43, all on daddy's coat-tails. And this mass-murderous clown then rode to war on Iraq, and to a second term on the coat-tails of 9/11, which was when we learned that there's much, much worse than GHWB.
R.I.P.
