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George W. Bush just laid a major smackdown on Trumpism
CNN Politics ^ | 10/19/2017 | Chris Cillizza

Posted on 10/19/2017 12:50:54 PM PDT by EagleUSA

(CNN)George W. Bush doesn't talk much about politics in public. Which makes the speech he gave Thursday in New York City -- a point-by-point rejection of Trumpism -- all the more important and noteworthy. The 43rd president of the United States -- and the last Republican to hold the office before Donald Trump -- didn't mention the 45th president by name in his speech at the George W. Bush Institute. But Trump -- and his views -- were ever-present in the former President's address.

Bush condemned "nationalism distorted into nativism." He derided "discourse degraded by casual cruelty." He acknowledged that "our politics seems more vulnerable to conspiracy theories and outright fabrication." And, most importantly, Bush said that "bigotry seems emboldened."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: elitist; globalist; hate; loser
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To: detective

Well said detective. Bush has exposed himself for who he is. He agrees with the war Obama waged against the American people. With the weaponization of the IRS against the tea party. With the destruction of coal companies, the money laundering with the solar companies, Fast and Furious, Benghazi, Obamacare, not destroying ISIS, weakening our military and our rules of engagement, the war on police, open borders, and all the destruction Obama worked against America because Bush never spoke one word against any of that. Not one word for America.


101 posted on 10/19/2017 1:56:01 PM PDT by sheikdetailfeather
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

The Bushs’and the Saudi royal family are tight. Why? Petrol dollars.


102 posted on 10/19/2017 2:01:43 PM PDT by jpsb (Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied. Otto von Bismark)
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To: EagleUSA

Did CNN ever air smackdowns of Obamunism?


103 posted on 10/19/2017 2:05:53 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: All

How much was he paid for the speech?


104 posted on 10/19/2017 2:15:55 PM PDT by Terry Mross (Liver spots And blood thinners..)
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To: Hojczyk
Ronald Reagan’s biggest mistake the first George Bush..

Good thing Bush family friend Hinckley wasn't that great a shot--could have been a fatal error.
105 posted on 10/19/2017 2:18:31 PM PDT by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
Chris Cilizza could at one time offer decent articles here and there for the ComPost. Not anymore; full blown TDS.

Now as for Dubya, he is working my last nerve. I defended him when he would not even defend himself or people like me who voted for him.

106 posted on 10/19/2017 2:20:10 PM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: treetopsandroofs

Thank you for remembering her.


107 posted on 10/19/2017 2:24:03 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyonse's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: HombreSecreto

“Wonder if something in the upcoming JFK document dump is upsetting him?”

B.I.N.G.O.

He’s worried about Poppy and the dismantling of the already deteriorating Shrub Legacy.

Ever wonder why the Tex-Mex son Jeb was so popular in Miami and launched his political career in the S. FL Cuban community?

JM Wave...Operation Mongoose..Dallas ... the ties that bind.


108 posted on 10/19/2017 2:24:06 PM PDT by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
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To: KC_for_Freedom

I saw a determination in Trump from the beginning. He has tripped around politicians for years. He saw some for the person they were. Some good, some greedy. He has been asked over the years if he’d consider the presidency. He always said in one way or another, “if I’m needed”. All this time he was busy building, negotiating, doing good things, quietly.
I watched him, read his books. He has a good strong mind. He’s no perfectionist, he’s like the average American. He, like us is full of warts and doesn’t take flim flaming well. He speaks out about it, just like a lot of us do. He loves our country, family, faith, us, our traditions, and doesn’t want them changed to look like Europe and their ways. He like us, likes our traditions, our American way of doing things, I could go on, but better stop. Do not let anyone take away our 2nd Amendment.


109 posted on 10/19/2017 2:24:23 PM PDT by tillacum (I'm still a Deplorable and I COLLUDED during the election SO THE DONALD could WIN! I voted.)
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To: EagleUSA

Oh, look! Mister Isms is back.


110 posted on 10/19/2017 2:24:37 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyonse's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: ptsal

Bushes are dirty also


111 posted on 10/19/2017 2:34:51 PM PDT by mel (There are only 2 races decent and undecent people)
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To: EagleUSA

I can’t believe I voted for that open borders, globalist, lying son of a bitch.


112 posted on 10/19/2017 2:37:36 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation ("You can't fix America without pissing off the people who broke it".....Bill Mitchell)
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To: rocksblues

“So now George opens his mouth not the last 8 years. Loser!”

Very telling isn’t it.


113 posted on 10/19/2017 2:39:10 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: EagleUSA

Now the left actually GAF about Bush.


114 posted on 10/19/2017 2:39:18 PM PDT by trublu
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To: EagleUSA

I didn’t have much of a choice but, I can’t believe I voted for this SOB!


115 posted on 10/19/2017 2:47:44 PM PDT by shoff (Vote Democrat it beats thinking!)
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To: knighthawk

Good to see you.

I too am disgusted that he would keep his mouth shut for Obama and now this. I knew that he was not a conservative which is why he and Rove had to come up with his “compassionate conservative” angle but I understood and preferred him to McCain by a long shot. Certainly Gore would have been worse and I did have compassion for him after 9/11. But this.... wow.


116 posted on 10/19/2017 2:53:05 PM PDT by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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To: EagleUSA

Trump single handedly defeated the Bush and Clinton Crime Families and administered an epic humiliating beat-down of both the far left and the left-of-center republican establishment. Not to mention forever exposing the so-called “mainstream media” as the propaganda arm of the DNC.


117 posted on 10/19/2017 2:57:34 PM PDT by Godebert (CRUZ: Born in a foreign land to a foreign father.)
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To: EagleUSA

I despise this retarded baboon to no end, but I must admit that I am grateful to GWB for one thing. He was probably the person more responsible than anyone other than Hillary Clinton for Donald Trump’s victory in 2016. GWB singlehandedly ensured that his brother Yeb was less popular than a child molester in America last year.


118 posted on 10/19/2017 3:00:55 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Tell them to stand!" -- President Trump, 9/23/2017)
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To: jpsb

The Sow ingrates fund terrorists who try to kill us, and with oil dollars. Without our help, they’d still be wandering around aimlessly in the Sahara, raping goats.

The “royals” and their imams still need to be vaporized.


119 posted on 10/19/2017 3:03:27 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (RATs, RINOs...same thing)
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To: EagleUSA

“Protectionism, nativism, isolationism, & white supremacism”

Bush, the treasonous globalist chimp, is obsessed with ‘isms’

Is it any wonder why our country is FUBAR?


120 posted on 10/19/2017 3:10:51 PM PDT by Electric Graffiti (Obama voters killed America. Treat them accordingly.)
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