No great loss. As a former president he didn't really do much. He hasn't really done much since leaving office other than collect large fees for speaking. He hasn't doen anythign with his Points of Light foundation since a few years after he left office.

Now, if Jimmy Carter pased on, he would be missed! After leaving office Jimmy Carter has kept busy using his status to try to make the world a better place. Since leaving office he has negotiated peace agreements, and when he was no longer asked to do that he has worked tirelessly for Habitat for Humanity building homes, even when he was fighting off cancer.

Yeah, it cracks me up when the "newscasters" come on and say "surprising news", or similar words to describe his passing. He was 94 for chrissake, what's so shocking? And look at the legacy he left; ugh.

NWO mass murderer.

He was just another politician.

How is his war on drugs going?

Even buried in his freshly dug grave, I'd choose him in a heartbeat over what we have in the Oval Office today.

RIP, George HW. You were at least a far better president than your kid was, and probably the last Republican politician with even a smattering of common decency.

Good riddance the world has one less war criminal to jail

My sentiments as well. The newly departed are often glorified in their passing. Good things remembered and negative things overlooked. The skill of life is not knowing how to play the winning hand he was delt. The skill is drawing a poor hand and playing it well.

I couldn't have said it any better myself.

By comparison with the other Republican presidents in my lifetime (an admittedly low bar as far as I'm concerned), he did the least damage. He signed an income tax increase in violation of his own campaign rhetoric and took the heat for it from his far-right wing. He took us into a war to repel a genuine aggression in violation of international law, and then stopped before we could replace Iraq's government and become involved in a nation-building exercise.

He stepped firmly on his dong when he encouraged the Kurds to rebel, and then, because of political calculations (we still needed a counterweight against Iran, even a weakened one) did nothing to stop Saddam slaughtering them and burying them in mass graves- the very graves his son's administration used as retroactive justification for our second invasion. And I hold no brief for the way both he and Reagan propped up both sides of the Iran-Iraq war until Saddam went against one of our oil-producing allies.

Domestically, his continuation of Reagan's policies- kinder and gentler, but still blaming poor people for being poor- I believe were a result of the prosperity gospel that many of his age grew up with; if you're a good person, then God will look after you, and if you're not, then your faults find you out. The reverse of this is that wealth is a sign of good character and hard work, while poverty means you're slovenly and have no redeeming qualities. This is still the basic economic foundation of the Republican party, where it takes the form of social Darwinism: look after the rich, because they're the superior breed. We're better off without the poor weighing us down.

All in all, though, considering the Republicans who have come after him, I prefer GHWB. He was still more or less a gentleman, and his was a better generation. It's hard to imagine him sending twitter rants.

I always felt that Barbara looked like his mother, though.

He was the head of the CIA. No mercy or sympathy.

May he be at the place where the beer is stale.

"Read my lips...no Heaven""

The generic President. No wait, that was Ford!

I just read that. May he Rest In Peace!