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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBarbara Bush is in "failing health" and won't seek additional medical treatment.
sez Bush family in news release.
Link to tweet
Kyle is an MSNBC news producer.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)the Bush family can afford the best medical care, so price is not a concern.
DeminPennswoods
(15,295 posts)nt
displacedtexan
(15,696 posts)From the moment the RN completed her assessment (the MD was on the phone the whole time), FedEx started delivering meds and the nurses spent twelve hour shifts by his side. It was amazing, and he finally just went to sleep, peacefully.
hlthe2b
(102,509 posts)I'm sure she is getting excellent care, something countless millions can not expect, but I will leave it at that.
Fla Dem
(23,875 posts)go once she has passed.
I never liked her for many reasons, but wish her a peaceful passing.
misanthrope
(7,436 posts)Poppy will go about the same time.
Different Drummer
(7,677 posts)I was about to post a link to a similar tweet before reading yours.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)Barbara Bush said of the war in Iraq: "Why should we hear about body bags and deaths? Its not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?"
Barbara Bush said that hurricane Katrina New Orleans refugees being housed in the Houston Astrodome were "underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them."
gopiscrap
(23,767 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)angstlessk
(11,862 posts)According to the news of Barbara Bush's imminent demise "why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that"
malaise
(269,278 posts)Same here
bdamomma
(63,960 posts)I remembered those quotes.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,250 posts)I realize if you miscarry at home, doctors recommend you bring the fetus in so it can be examined for abnormalities, but I find her showing said fetus in a jar to the teenage George W a bit bizarre.
Arkansas Granny
(31,540 posts)I've often disagreed with her statements, but I bear her no ill will.
hlthe2b
(102,509 posts)and those dying in her son's ill-conceived war.
Still, though she did not always extend such kindness and understanding towards others, I will do so toward her.
Arkansas Granny
(31,540 posts)is that bearing hatred and bad feeling in your heart will cause damage to you and will have no effect on the person you despise. Sometimes you just need to let it go.
MyOwnPeace
(16,951 posts)and even tougher if you've encountered some rough experiences along the way.
But...........
you are correct.
hlthe2b
(102,509 posts)she did not always extend to others. I don't see that as anything other than appropriate, though I won't fail to remember how she treated others in dire need of such compassion.
CTyankee
(63,926 posts)I sometimes feel bitter toward my ex husband but I am happily remarried now (for 32 wonderful years) and it is a waste of my mind and my time to get all worked up over my first husband's transgressions.
Barbara is not going to be with us much longer. As you said "let it go." Or, as the Beatles sang "let it be."
Arkansas Granny
(31,540 posts)IluvPitties
(3,181 posts)and I send you a hug!
Arkansas Granny
(31,540 posts)bdamomma
(63,960 posts)Arkansas Granny. Let it go, or shake it off!
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MrsCoffee
(5,803 posts)MyOwnPeace
(16,951 posts)Sorry,
I don't know how to react to that one.
On one hand, I believe in the sincerity.
On the other, I wonder if you're not a Republican congressperson reading the "quick response card" following another mass shooting!
I'm going for #1, but chuckling at the irony!
Freethinker65
(10,105 posts)Kaleva
(36,395 posts)It is not my nature to go after very old people.
Mosby
(16,416 posts)nolabear
(42,002 posts)It all comes down to the same thing in the end.
poboy2
(2,078 posts)LuckyCharms
(17,472 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I don't have it in my heart to wish her ill, even though she has not been a very kind person. I hope she passes peacefully.
PJMcK
(22,069 posts)As I've written in other posts about Mrs. Bush, that's the nicest thing I have to say about her.
democrank
(11,112 posts)surrounded by family.
no_hypocrisy
(46,300 posts)Married and left college before graduation.
After losing her toddler daughter, Robin, to cancer, she and HW went out golfing to deal with their grief.
Advocated for reading (perhaps in deference to W's dyslexia).
Supported birth control and abortion but kept silent since 1980 when the republican party went evangelical.
Didn't want to sully her "beautiful mind" thinking about filled body bags from Afghanistan because those bags caused anguish to her son who filled those body bags.
Was so bitchy that Richard Nixon commented, That is a woman who knows how to hate."
Nonetheless, her imperfections don't make me wish her turmoil at the end as she faces transition. I can only hope she's made her peace with those whom she's hurt either purposely or inadvertently.
Crunchy Frog
(26,709 posts)Everyone dies eventually, and Mrs Bush is no exception. I expect that her passing will be a good deal more comfortable than that of many others.
blogslut
(38,022 posts)After Nancy Reagan moved out of the White House, Babs turned Nancy's in-house beauty salon into a welping room for Millie the dog.
Ilsa
(61,712 posts)after she passes. He hasn't been looking too great, either.
CTyankee
(63,926 posts)Women tend to be stronger but men just seem to fall apart...we had a wonderful older couple next door and she died first. He was gone in two weeks after...god, how sad...
bdamomma
(63,960 posts)worn the pants in the family.