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CounterPunch
October
25, 2002
Pappy Bush on
Paul Wellstone:
"Who Is This Chickenshit?"
by WAYNE MADSEN
Before we all get sucked into George W. Bush's
eulogies of the late Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone let us
not forget what his father, Bush 41, called the Senator at a
White House reception for newly-elected members of Congress in
1991.
Wellstone, who ran on a progressive platform,
did not think Bush 41 cared one wit about education, health care,
and workers' safety issues.
So when Wellstone met Bush in a typical
White House pro forma reception line, he used the occasion to
urge Bush on three different occasions to spend more time on
issues like education and cautioning him against the Persian
Gulf War. Of course, Bush was more concerned about fighting the
war against Iraq (sound familiar?) and could care less about
Wellstone's issues.
After Wellstone violated Bush 41's sanctimonious
White House protocol, Bush was overheard saying, "Who is
this chicken shit?"
 Now after Senator Wellstone was tragically killed
in a plane crash and "General" Karl Rove is obviously
busy trying to figure out how the tragedy can benefit the GOP's
chances of winning control of the Senate, I think it's time to
answer old man Bush's question.
Far from being a chicken shit, Wellstone
actually cared for people, unlike your pathetic son who could
not even find a few minutes to attend one or two funerals of
his Washington, DC area neighbors who were tragically shot and
killed by a couple of snipers. No, Mr. Bush 41, Paul Wellstone
was not a chicken shit, that epitaph is better reserved for you
and your moronic son.
Bush was entertaining a brutal dictator
at his awful Texas ranch while a group of Democratic leaders
-- Governors Glendening and Warner, Senators Sarbanes and Mikulski,
DC Mayor Williams, County Executives Duncan and Curry were celebrating
the capture of the snipers and consoling the families of their
victims. And then we were told that Paul Wellstone died in a
plane crash with his wife, daughter, staffers, and pilots. First
confirmation of the tragedy came not from the Senator's office
or that of Minnesota's governor, but from the scruffy Crawford
Ranch. I wanted to puke right then and there on the spot.
Mr. Bush 43: are you the President of
the United States or the President of a corporate America resident
in Texas? Senator Wellstone certainly knew the answer to that
question.
The best memorial for Senator Wellstone
is for Democrats, moderate Republicans, and progressives everywhere
to turn out the vote on Election Day and keep the Senate Democratic
and give the gavel in the House back to Richard Gephardt. It
is the best tribute to the late and much-admired "boat rocker"
from Minnesota.
Wayne Madsen
is a Washington, DC-based investigative journalist and columnist.
He wrote the introduction to Forbidden
Truth.
Madsen can be reached at: WMadsen777@aol.com
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