George H. W. Bush

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During his time in government, the checkout scanner/UPC bar code system was widely implemented, but no one told him in an elaborate practical joke to make him look clueless while running for re-election in 1992 against the upstart hillbilly, [[Bill Clinton]], who went on to win, using the slogan "It's ... Stupid!"
 
During his time in government, the checkout scanner/UPC bar code system was widely implemented, but no one told him in an elaborate practical joke to make him look clueless while running for re-election in 1992 against the upstart hillbilly, [[Bill Clinton]], who went on to win, using the slogan "It's ... Stupid!"
 
He reportedly disrupted [[H. Ross Perot]]'s daughter's wedding{{lie}}.  Perot [[pwn]]d him anyway, and we wound up stuck with Bill Clinton for eight years, who was an improvement over Bush but only just.
 
  
 
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George H.W. Bush. This is actually his official presidential portrait and only looks like a cardboard cutout in front of a backdrop.

George H. W. "Mad Dog" Bush was the 41st President of the United States. He saved Kuwait for despotic monarchy and yellow ribbon manufacturers, and kidnapped another head of state to drag him to trial in Miami for offenses committed in Panama (how the U.S. could claim jurisdiction being anyone's guess), although he admitted to lacking in the "vision" department.

Prior to his presidency, he was Ronald Reagan's vice-president for eight years, ran the CIA, and, unlike his boy, was an actual fighter pilot. He got elected over second place finisher Michael Dukakis in 1988 by resorting to moral panics and attack ads, in one of the nastiest one-sided presidential campaigns in recent history. Ironically Bush campaigned on a vague platform of making the U.S. a "kinder, gentler nation". American politics have never really recovered.

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Things that happened during his reign

The Satanic panic peaked just around the time he was elected.

During his time in government, the checkout scanner/UPC bar code system was widely implemented, but no one told him in an elaborate practical joke to make him look clueless while running for re-election in 1992 against the upstart hillbilly, Bill Clinton, who went on to win, using the slogan "It's ... Stupid!"

Nicknames

  • "Poppy"
  • "Snugglebutt"
  • "Sqeeckychums"
  • "41" (around the compound at holidays, to distinguish him from "43")
  • "Ticklebickle"
  • "Mad Dog"

Fun facts

Saddam Hussein had Bush's likeness mosaiced onto floors so that he could walk on his face. Unfortunately, his name was misspelled, resulting in the insult being directed towards "Georg Bush", an innocent goatherd in the Caucasus Mountains, who has had a steady run of bad luck since 1994Do You Believe That?.

Alma maters

Hates atheists

"No, I don't know that atheists should be regarded as citizens, nor should they be regarded as patriotic. This is one nation under God..." —George Herbert Walker Bush [1]
His religiously bigoted side often goes unnoticed. Among the many things abhorrent about this statement, as President, all people in your country who are, in fact, citizens, should be considered "citizens", not just those who agree with you theologically. However, the above quote has come into dispute, as the conversation was never recorded through video or audio.

A possible explanation to his disdain for atheists is a conflict with Madalyn Murray O'Hair, the chairlady of American Atheists' Association.

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