I hated what HW Bush did, or rather didn't do, when the college students rose up in 1989 in Tiananmen Square. They built a replica of the Statue of Liberty and peacefully demonstrated for their human rights. Not a word of support from HW the whole time. Eventually the Chinese came in with tanks and mowed them down. Still, from HW Bush, only silence. That my friend is pure evil.
As I said, we soon found out GW was an imposter.
When ever I think of GW, I am reminded of radio commercials that Pat Buchanan ran during the primaries.
“America needs a leader who will fight, and George Bush just won’t fight”.
Other than 9/11, like I said, George bent over backwards to give the left every thing they wanted.
Every time George did back down to the left, Buchanan’s voice and those words rang in my head.
“Still, from HW Bush, only silence. That my friend is pure evil.”
Man, I did not realize this. It was totally on the news. Guess CNN wouldn’t cover Tiananmen II would they? But I never realized Bush said nothing about it.
I do remember being somewhere in NYC with a friend who was a pretty big lib. We saw a T-shirt in a window that was memorializing the victims on that uprising with a fallen over bicycle (which I think was based on some news photo that there had been). This guy was a big bike rider, so I pointed out the shirt to him.
To my absolute shock, he had ZERO sympathy with the protestors. He seemed to feel that they were foolish, and seemed to imply that they’d been egged on (by who? capitalists? I don’t know, this man was a business owner himself), and that to buy or wear a shirt like the one we were looking at would only encourage these misguided people and probably get them killed by the Chicoms!
I think that was my first “wow, just wow” moment.