Fmr. Pres. George H.W. Bush moved out of ICU

Former President George H.W. Bush, who has been at Houston's Methodist Hospital since November due to complications from bronchitis, was moved from the intensive care unit to a regular patient room at the hospital today due an "improved" condition.

Bush's office announced the move in a statement: "President Bush's condition has improved, so he has been moved today from the intensive care unit to a regular patient room at The Methodist Hospital to continue his recovery. The Bushes thank everyone for their prayers and good wishes."

• Bush aide: "Please put the harps back in the closet"
• George H.W. Bush Pictures

The president was moved to to the intensive care due to what a spokesman described as a "persistent" fever. Despite worries that the move to the ICU signaled a turn for the worst, Bush's chief of staff Jean Becker told CBS News on Thursday that Bush "has every intention of staying put" and would ask well-wishers to "please put the harps back in the closet."

The former president, who is 88 years old, was hospitalized in November due to lingering complications from a bronchitis-like cough. He also suffers from a form of Parkinson's disease.

[varigdc10]

Never liked old man Busch and even worse his son, but he is a human being and I sincerely wish him well. My old man told me many moons ago " never kick a man when he's down, it somehow will come back to haunt you".

[14FREEK]

I would like t think that in some small way God has heard my prayers and lifted George up. I am willing to admit the millions of others' prayers helped a little too.

Hang in there, Mr. President, George. I hope your family uses this time to show you the appreciation you deserve, and the nation shows you the respect a President deserves.

[ugacrew]

God is Good.

[hypnotoad72]

I presume you're not referring to what happened on 9/11/2001...

[ugacrew]

Hypnotoad72,

I am referring to my own personal life's experience as well as this President's improved condition.

There is plenty of evil happening in this nation that could choose to blame on him, but I choose not to.

I leave that up to people like yourself, who have no faith in him.

[saturn05]

I may not have agrred with his policies as President, but I wish him well. I hope he continues to improve.

[hypnotoad72]

Agreed. Politics vs being a fellow countryman. At least GHWB gets humane medical care.

And the fact he denounced "voodoo economics" only makes him more respectable. Pity he didn't change it when he got elected...

[JV1970]

I'm glad you're doing better Mr. President! I wish you well!

[JV1970]

I hope the Bush family don't see some of the comments here! Half of these people don't even know the meaning of the word respect!

[KansasCity-2012]

Good to hear you are recovering. Good health is a prize.

[hypnotoad72]

Newster9O21O -

As with Infant's* response above, these idiotic parallels are completely juvenile, and I don't care which side they're coming from.

* I'm not typing out his latest full pseudonym, he'll be changing it again every week or so by Friday anyhow...

[167irishboy]

Who cares

[BWB2020]

Maybe there is still time to hold him personally responsible for the genocide in Iraq, and claw back come of the profits he made from it.

But if he likely does croak before we can bring him to justice, at least bury him under an outhouse, so we can average Americans can return to him some of what he gave so much of to us.

[hypnotoad72]

As I recall, Iraq had outright invaded another sovereign country (Kuwait) - which prompted worldwide disgust and a unified reason to fight back. There was a multinational coalition to put warmonger Saddam Hussein back in his place.

Dick Cheney, in 1994, had this to say:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BEsZMvrq-I
(Summary: By going into Iraq, a very expensive quagmire would be created.)

Contrast to 2003, when trumped up excuses were made to go back to Iraq, and excuses that were changed the moment that - lo and behold - there were no WMDs. Now we're giving freedom to the Iraqi people and "nation building" (Something that GWB Jr said he would NOT DO, and it was the same Dick Cheney that helped him along.)

And, unlike Bush Sr, Bush Jr lost what multinational coalition he had built up. He was seen as an incompetent, a liar, or an incompetent liar.

People need to keep their Bushes in order. Sr was decent and reacted to things that happened in reality. Jr was a total travesty that should have been impeached, because all he did was carry out his myopic little fantasy and the whole country suffered. Well, two whole countries...

[kareemfard]

I wish satan hurry up and go, BANG!!!!!!!!

[hypnotoad72]

That's a really sick thing to do, and - no - I would not say the same thing to Bush Jr (aka #43, who served 2 terms, and as 43*2 = 86, it's a fitting number given the travesty of his presidency... but despite all that I would not be so devolved or crude).