Posted on 02/26/2010 10:06:59 AM PST by STARWISE
For the first time, former President George W. Bush has said publicly that he approves of former Vice President Dick Cheney’s high-profile role in defending the past administration’s national security policies.
“I’m glad Cheney is out there,” Bush said Friday morning at a reunion breakfast that was the inaugural event for the Bush-Cheney Alumni Association.
The reception, held at a downtown Washington hotel, was closed to the press. Attendees supplied this account of the remarks.
Cheney originally had been scheduled to appear with Bush but did not come because he is recovering from a heart scare. Bush visited his former vice president in McLean on Thursday and said Cheney “is feeling well” and has “a fierce constitution.”
The former president started with a funny patter that several attendees related to stand-up. In announcing his book, he joshed: “This is going to come as quite a shock to people up here that I can write a book, much less read one.”
Turning serious, Bush said: “I don't want to be involved in politics, but I do in policy.” He talked about his own record, saying of his signature education reform: “No Child Left Behind was the most advanced civil rights legislation since the Voting Rights Act.”
Giving advice, he urged humility. “Don’t swagger.
Sometimes I got carried away rallying the country," he said. "I think the swagger criticism was fair. A lot of others weren't. I hope I conveyed a sense that I was a lowly sinner who found redemption. I'm not better than anyone else. What makes me different from others is that I realized I needed help.”
“I’m religious — I confess,” he continued. “One of the challenges in life is: Maintaining religious piety is harder when the pressure is off than when it is on. But now there is still a dependency in a greater grace.”
Bush made it clear he plans to continue to keep a low profile: “I have no desire to see myself on television. I don't want to be a panel of formers instructing the currents on what to do. I'm trying to regain a sense of anonymity. I didn't like it when a certain former president — and it wasn't 41 or 42 — made my life miserable.”
Kinda thought you might like it, too! :D
Ditto here
LOL, always thought it was spelled stoonada.
It’s becoming a recurrent them that never seems to fail...put up a wonderful thread about an honorable and a sorely missed President, and you have Mr. or Mrs. Nitwits adding their uninvited comments. They seem to have an illness of the ego searching desperately for attention. Perhaps if we ignore them, they just may go away.
I have wondered about that as well in those moments I've given him the benefit of doubt. If true, I look forward to seeing some political revenge against the blackmailers, though I suspect two of them have recently died.
Budget battles and compromises are understandable, necessary and expected, but holding military funding hostage in a time of war to some politicians' pet pork projects is simply not tolerable. One would think that would be common knowledge.
One would also think it would be common knowledge to stop picking apart our president at the water’s edge, but that went out the door during the dem congressional reign as well. Name one time you can think of something equal to Pelosi going to Syria.
LOL!
In fact, the thread reminded me of the 2000 election and the attacks from the McCain people.
Once we figured out their attack plans .. it was just plain fun and games running them around in circles. LOL!!
Maybe some of those McCain posters have been reincarnated, because there seem to be several of them popping up and trying this tactic.
Dopey.
Yeah, I’ve noticed that too. Maybe they’ve been recruited by the Ron Paul people to smear Perry ..?? It kinda looks that way.
GREAT photos of the two of them. (deep sigh) How times have changed and not for the better. Thank you for the photos and thread.
They say after 50 you’ve earned your looks. Jimmah earned his in spades.
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