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marble falls

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4. When he was living in Austin before any political office, he was noted around town for being a drunk with ...
Fri Mar 21, 2025, 10:14 PM
Mar 2025

... with serious marching powder habit. There was a bar in a basement near the capitol where he hung out that was a meeting place for single women working at the statehouse that he would spice his social life at. Once he met Laura he straightened up, he had trouble trying to pull together oil deals, but caught on after he became front office for the Rangers. It's generally agreed he was a successful baseball general manager.

To bad he he went beyond his ability. He was a shit military pilot, a shit oil wheeler dealer, a degenerate drunk, a poacher of women much younger than himself, a bully, an indifferent student, an exploiter of doors opened by being GHWB's son, he was a week President that delegated .

Laura straightened his behaviors but she did not make him smarter.

My thought is that if Michele Obama can find something compelling about him then maybe I should be willing to see something in him, too.

https://www.today.com/news/michelle-obama-explains-friendship-george-w-bush-t169551

Michelle Obama explains friendship with George W. Bush: 'Our values are the same'

"We disagree on policy, but we don't disagree on humanity," the former first lady told Jenna Bush Hager during their trip to Vietnam.


https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/19/politics/bush-michelle-obama-friendship/index.html

Bush says he was ‘shocked’ by people’s reactions to his friendship with Michelle Obama
By Ariella Phillips, CNN
1 minute read
Updated 11:52 PM EDT, Mon April 19, 2021


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