Posted on 02/27/2017 9:59:23 AM PST by servo1969
George W. Bush said he favored a welcoming immigration policy and warned that the media is "indispensable to democracy" in an interview with Matt Lauer Monday that seemed to take several shots at President Trump.
When Lauer asked Bush directly if he was for or against Trump's immigration ban, Bush said, "I am for an immigration policy that's welcoming and upholds the law."
"I think it's very important for all of us to recognize that one of our great strengths is for people to be able to worship the way they want to, or not worship at all," Bush said. "A bedrock of our freedom is the right to worship freely. People who murder the innocent are not religious people. They want to advance an ideology."
Laure asked Bush if he thought the ban was helpful in the war on terrorism.
"It's very hard to fight the war on terrorism if we're in retreat," Bush answered. "I think we learned that lesson -- that if the United States decides to pull out before a free society emerges, it's going to be hard to defeat them. The enemy is very good about exploiting weakness. If that's the goal, to defeat ISIS, I believe that we should project strength."
The former president acknowledged that Trump has only a little over a month in office.
"I think you have to take the man for his word that he wants to unify the country, and we'll see whether he's able to do so," Bush said. "It's hard to unify the country with the news media being so split up. When I was president, you know, you mattered a lot more because there was like three of you, and now there's all kinds of information being bombarded out and people can say things anonymously. It's just a different world."
Well the left thinks W is a retard and Hitler, so they should be running away from these comments any minute now.
Has anyone ever accused the Bush family of being....conservatives?
Like clockwork . . . after an 8-16 year snooze, Rip Van Bush has an opinion
Stockholm Syndrome . .after the way the libs treated you and Daddy.
We should have a welcoming immigration policy - for those who follow our laws. By eliminating illegals, we make decent Americans more confident that legal immigrants are here legally, and thus we all become more welcoming.
the gangster Bush family is totally irrelevant unless the leftists need a talking point, and then they are happy to further the Elite’s agenda - You know, all that NWO stuff, which, it turns out, was not a conspiracy but rather a little known fact.
This is all because his brother lost!
Really! I thought these Bushes were supposed to stay out of politics and let the president do his thing. More BS.
and a chimp, don’t forget that.
8 years of silence for Obama.
Now this?
STFU W.
[I]t is very clear that in fundamental theory, socialism and democracy are almost—if not quite—one and the same. They both rest at bottom upon the absolute right of the community to determine its own destiny and that of its members. Men as communities are supreme over men as individuals. …So now Mr. Dubya defends socialism openly.
— Woodrow Wilson, Socialism and Democracy, 1887
Are we allowed to blame George W. Bush now?
Read roger Stone’s “Jeb! The Bush Crime Family”
Funny how Obama “deserve[d] (Bush’s) silence” but not Trump.
Bush left office in 2008 and his reputation was toxic. He had been the Left’s whipping boy during his last term and all of Obama’s 8 years. No one in the Establishment respected him — Left or Right. They mocked him and thought him an incompetent fool. So he laid low for 8 years. Taking all the abuse. Now he sees his opportunity to get back into their good graces and have his reputation “reevaluated” by the MSM and liberal talking heads. So he’ll bash Trump in order to be held up by them as a “sane” Republican. Its a deal with the Devil. But Bush will make it to try to salvage his legacy. Its sad and disgusting. Its a betrayal of conservatives who defended him during his last term and during Obama’s years while he refused to say anything.
BLAH ,George W. Bush was beaten senseless by the MSM and this is proof
We welcome legal immigrants who follow the process, not those sneaking across our borders being welcomed into sanctuary cities and churches.
Mr. President, don’t you have a couple of paintings to finish up? We survived the Obama years largely without you. You allowed him to slime your name and your party’s name for eight years, barely saying a word against it. We elected a GOP president now, no thanks to you your brother Jeb! and the rest of your bitter, destructive clan.
So we don’t find ourselves in need of your ‘guidance’ at this time. Oh, and Hillary will be ready for her portrait whenever you decide to roll out of bed today.
He left out how much he misses having the Marxist Kenyan in the Oval Office.
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