Posted on 06/08/2009 6:58:16 AM PDT by meandog
Former first lady Laura Bush said while her husband, George W. Bush, does not think it’s appropriate for a former president to criticize his successor, she understands why former Vice President Dick Cheney has.
“That’s his right as a citizen of the U.S., and I think he also feels obligated and so I understand why he wants to speak out,” Bush said in an interview with ABC’s “Good Morning America.” “On the other hand George feels like as a former president that he owes President Obama his silence on issues and that there’s no reason to second guess any decisions he makes.”
The former first lady also approves of Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Sonia Sotomayor, saying “she sounds like a very interesting and good nominee.”
“As a woman I’m proud that there might be another woman on the court,” Bush said. “So we’ll see what happens, but I wish her well.”
Asked about the infighting within the Republican Party, Bush said while she and former President Bush “talk about it a lot,” it’s “probably not that bad.”
“I think it’s just a very typical political cycle,” she said of the GOP’s shrinking status. “It’s like creative tension within a party for people to talk about what it is they – how they want to be represented
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Concur! Though I voted for both GWB and GWHB (TWICE) I wish that hadn't and they'd never held office because I believe, had either Dukakis or Gore won, the country would now be in the hands of true conservatives for at least a half century. I see both Bushes as weak and pathetic figures of history; just like Charles I, Louis XVI and Nicholas II--all succeeded by radical regimes!
No kidding. Hasn’t anybody in the press ever heard a Southern Lady say, “Isn’t that nice?”
Yes...Cheney is looking at The One™ as if he were one reason people dig up drains.
And he's right.
I agree with you on that. I just find it appalling that his enemies who would love to see him in jail criticize him for defending himself and his actions.
Cheney’s glare is absolutely priceless
Perhaps you are right, let Bush not say a word that way people forget about him and will tend to place the blame where it belongs with Zero. The more Bush says the more it keeps him a hot topic.
Well, you are right also. Bush’s lack of communication was atrocious.
It's a shame him and his dad are the only two ex-presidents showing such class. The main thing I despised about George W. Bush was his failure to answer the slanderous attacks and the outright hatred Democrats heaped on him.
thanks for having really thought that through Laura....geez.
When exactly did YOU save the world from terrorists and protect the country against its enemies with your courage?
(Another internet weenie attacking a real man).
You guys make me laugh every time you attack President Bush.
Especially when you don't even see that the article is not even about our brave President, but about his wife, the classy and elegant and non-political LAURA Bush.
Anyone who doesn't realize that doesn't know much about the character of the man.
(Interesting choice of words regarding a behavior that might best be described as "Christian.")
Criticize Obama? It is the absolute obligation of George Bush to EXCORIATE Obama...to expose him as the fascist, wanna-be dictator he is. Bush should be on news programs every moment of every day, speaking to the American public. He should purchase air time if necessary. His silence is a disgrace, both to himself and to his former office.
Yes, and the Son of Man they follow was also considered weak.
THAT KIND OF TALK COULD GET YOUR BICYCLE VANDALIZED! If only Bush could talk. This guy made Calvin Coolidge seem positively loquacious; a real chatterbox.
As a boy, GW noticed that those Presidents on Mt. Rushmore said nothing, perhaps not noticing (A) that they were made of stone, (B) were dead, and (C) were effective communicatores while alive.
Tragedy. A really good man, a good President; and 20-year situation FUBAR as a legacy!
I concluded that a long time ago. She’s also gender obsessed.
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