Posted on 03/17/2009 3:44:20 PM PDT by DaveyB
CALGARY, Alberta (AP) - Former President George W. Bush says he won't criticize President Barack Obama because Obama "deserves my silence," and says he plans to write a book about the 12 toughest decisions he made in office. Bush's speech Tuesday at a luncheon in Calgary, Alberta was his first since leaving office. He declined to comment about the Obama administration like former Vice President Dick Cheney. Cheney said Sunday that Obama's decisions are threatening the nation's safety. Bush says he doesn't know what he'll do in the long term but says he'll write a book that will let people determine what they would have done if their most important job was to protect the country.
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Good for W. The current goober does nothing but blame President Bush for everything.
Taking the traditional role of former president seriously.
This is what stupidity looks like. Dick Cheney has it right. Bush failed to defend himself in office and he refuses to do it out of office. In the meantime, Obama is busy tearing down our national security defenses that kept us safe for seven years. Bush is an idiot and a disaster for the Republican Party.
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Amen!
Do you think the Fresh Prince of Bill Ayers will ever have that much class?
I’ll answer my own question: NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It has been common custom and common courtesy, a “gentleman’s agreement”, for a departing President to not comment directly on the policies or character or WHATEVER of his successors.
Obviously some are Gentlemen and some are low rent scum bags.
I have my points of extreme departure from President Bush, but one cannot deny the man has class.
I’m of the opinion that former presidents should avoid criticizing a sitting president; they should most especially avoid doing so before a foreign audience. Most ex-presidents know that. Clinton and Carter are the two exceptions.
I expect Bush to be a class act and he usually is.
Oh for pete's sake. Write the speech for us here, then.
Tell us what G W Bush could say, right now, at this time in history about Obama and his gang of thugs which would either help OUR cause and, or could not be used by their PR thugs to help THEIR cause.
Bush is not and cannot be the GOP spokesman for at least and until the next terror attack. Sorry, but there it is.
Non sequitur.
The public buys it too.... Amazingly people are tone deaf to the fact that the Democrats won a large majority in the house and a narrow majority in the Senate in the 06 elections that majority went into effect January 2007.
Every time Obama says inherited every Republican Lawmaker should reply...
Inherited from the Democratic controlled Congress.
I’m surprised that the Democrats did not engineer Bush’s arrest on war crimes while he was there.
I suggest you take a look at the Cheney interview on CNN this weekend. He tells it like it is. The fact that Obama is dismantling our security protection against Islamic terrorism should be of concern to all Americans. It is Bush’s duty as a former CIC to sound the alarm about what is happening. It is beyond political partisanship. It has to do with national security.
Obama has plenty of use for Conservative Cynics, keep up the good work for your master as he destroys this once great nation.
President Bush is doing what past Presidents have always done, except for Clinton and Carter. Neither of them have one ounce of class at all.
Bush has destroyed the party by his out of control spending, e.g., prescription drugs and doubling the Dept of Education budget, his support of amnesty, and losing control of Congress. And then there is his failure to veto McCain-Feingold despite having constitutional reservations about it.
I too have had profound objections to the policies of GWB and I do think he was in large measure responsible for the demise of the conservative movement in the republican party. But I never thought necessary to defend his manners, restraint nor his esteem of the executive office. He was often wrong on policy, but he has been and continues to be a class act!
I wonder if there's been any serious consideration about where Bush will actually be traveling to the next several years.
It doesn't really get any coverage here, but if you travel to Europe or South America, there's a reasonable amount of chatter about trying Bush and Cheney for war crimes.
I have no idea what you are talking about. If the Reps are afraid or intimidated about criticizing Obama, the Republic is already lost.
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