Posted on 05/31/2012 6:58:57 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Bushes humorous return to White House
(CNN) -- Thursday afternoon, Barack Obama presided over the unveiling of George W. Bush's official portrait in the White House, a warm event that reminds us: It feels like years since President Dubya regaled the world with his famous spoonerisms. His retirement has been defined by an awkward silence. While John McCain's endorsement was trumpeted by Mitt Romney, Bush delivered his in just four words. "I'm for Mitt Romney," he shouted to a journalist as an elevator door closed between them. If, just for old time's sake, Bush had said, "I'm for Ritt Momney," it would have been perfect.
Bush's silence may be motivated by the recognition that much of the public doesn't like him. He left office with the worst approval rating for a president since Watergate. But Bush could undergo a renaissance of enthusiasm. Consider the shifting attitudes toward Harry Truman.
When he left the White House in 1952, Truman was blamed for the recession and an ugly war in Korea. His approval rate was just 31%. By 1977, Jimmy Carter was hanging Truman's portrait in the White House and the band Chicago sang, "America needs you, Harry Truman!" The switch came partly because Truman, like Bush, had a gentle, honest personality that voters looked back on with fondness. But Truman also proved prescient in his conduct of the Cold War. Bush, likewise, might seem a better and more farsighted leader in a few years time.
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“Bush, likewise, might seem a better and more farsighted leader in a few years time.”
Gee, ya think?
After three & 1/2 years of “The One”, Bush is starting to look mighty good, even to CNN.
My history of Bush will be kind but honest, meaning I won’t gloss over some failures that lots of folks get the blame for.
A consider him to be a very likable man who really cares about America and has shown an ongoing genuine concern for our troops.
Who writes this crap? Oh, yeah. CNN et al.
Maybe, just maybe, his silence is motivated because it is the "right" thing to do, and what nearly every single President before Jimmy Carter did.
NO! And it shouldn’t either.
Time to move on and fire Boehner and McConnell and other Bush era RINOs.
You don't say.
It was a Frenchman, whose name escapes me, who said: “Everyone knows the future, nobody remembers the past.”
It will be kinder to Bush than it will be to the
usurper Obama and the Clintons.
AMEN!
Thank You! I'm so tired of people (even conservatives) saying he keeps quiet because he is so hated.
Bush was far from perfect, but IMHO he loved the country and especially the military. Can anyone say the same about the current occupant of the White Hut?
There is absolutely no necessity for a negative article about Bush on a day when his and Laura's lovely portraits were unveiled. And they cannot bear to give him credit for being the gentleman that he is and following the unspoken rule that former presidents stay out of the fray regarding current "Occupants" in the White House. Bush is so superior in dignity and tact - far above the biting, self-centered and approval-seeking former Democrat presidents, Clinton and Carter who keep interjecting their views.
The behavior of Liberals and especially writers like the one who wrote the article is so sickeningly petty, childish, and obviously partisan. The practice of real journalism has been lost and we only have what used to be called "yellow journalism" now where each writer believes their own opinion is more important than the facts in a story.
There is absolutely no necessity for a negative article about Bush on a day when his and Laura's lovely portraits were unveiled. And they cannot bear to give him credit for being the gentleman that he is and following the unspoken rule that former presidents stay out of the fray regarding current "Occupants" in the White House. Bush is so superior in dignity and tact - far above the biting, self-centered and approval-seeking former Democrat presidents, Clinton and Carter who keep interjecting their views.
The behavior of Liberals and especially writers like the one who wrote the article is so sickeningly petty, childish, and obviously partisan. The practice of real journalism has been lost and we only have what used to be called "yellow journalism" now where each writer believes their own opinion is more important than the facts in a story.
I am shocked. “Shocked, I say!”
Not as long as liberals write the history books.
“famous spoonerisms” “His retirement has been defined by an awkward silence.” ... “If, just for old time’s sake, Bush had said, “I’m for Ritt Momney,” it would have been perfect.”
“Bush’s silence may be motivated by the recognition that much of the public doesn’t like him ... “
Journalists: they give whale **** at the bottom of the Marianas trench a run for the money.
Amen to that, but he did grow the government and spend too much. That begot us the Won.
“....just found out their messiah is just a typical Chicago scumbag politician?”
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No, they knew it all along and they still do but scumbag journalists defend scumbag politicians.
I disagreed mightily with GWB on several things (No Child Left Behind, “Bi-partisanship”, treatment of Scooter Libby, just to name a few)
But what galls me most is his unwillingness to stick up for himself and to let the liberals set the tone and define the rules of discourse. I understand part of that was his gentlemanly personality, and part was his belief that doing so would undermine the office of the Presidency, but I wish he had come out swinging. He was tough enough to do it, why he just surrendered that ground to liberals just angered me.
But all in all, I did feel like adults were in charge during that eight years, even with the policies I disagreed with.
Now, with this administration, not so much.
Where the hell has this idjit been? The Bushes have made no secret of their decision to NOT talk about their successors once they've left office. And besides, I'll bet an honest poll would give W a higher job approval than 0.
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