[wagglebee]

I think GHWB is simply following the tradition of former presidents NEVER publicly criticizing another president (whether sitting or former).

[oceanview]

what is wrong with keeping silent?

[Lazamataz]

I think GHWB is simply following the tradition of former presidents NEVER publicly criticizing another president (whether sitting or former).

That tradition is now null and void. Clinton broke that tradition.

[302damnfast]

GHWB is a wuss, just like he was when he was President. He doesn't have anywhere near the stones (or even the brains)of W. He never did and he never will. JMO, but this kind of statement is par for the course for GHWB.

[somemoreequalthanothers]

I think GHWB is simply following the tradition of former presidents

You may well be right, but this whole deal is getting strange.

[Reactionary]

If it's a "tradition" to show respect (as you say) for someone some sociopath like Clinton, it's a rather odd form of "respect" that we've adopted.

It isn't a tradition in this country (so far as I know) to show respect for people who've financed their campaigns with communist Chinese cash, overseen the pilfering of our nuclear laboratories, and evidently preserved a terrorist network that killed 3,000 Americans.

Bush and Billy Boy obviously know things that keep them cozy. The rest of us don't have that insipid luxury.

[SpringheelJack]

I think GHWB is simply following the tradition of former presidents NEVER publicly criticizing another president (whether sitting or former).

I think it's a pretty lame tradition, however old it is (which I don't know). Why shouldn't it be okay for an ex-president to criticize something he thinks deserves criticizing? I don't see any rational reason for it other than stupid old boy clubbism.

[ExpatGator]

Yep. Don't wrestle with a hog. You'll both end up dirty and he will enjoy himself.

[RockinRight]

I think so too, GHWB for all his faults is a man of class.

That said I really wish he'd rip into Clinton just once. Even Barbara (HW's wife not his granddaughter) is harder on him!

Or, perhaps they really are in cahoots...