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.”
Ooooo............ that’s gonna leave a mark, nagdt! ;)
me 2!!!! and I love Dick Cheney
Think of the commies out there now who feel "deceived" by Obama. It's the flip side of the same coin.
I agree.
Clearly you would have been so much better off with President Gore or Kerry.
And anyone who says they didn't know should be ashamed of himself.
President Bush did what he said he was going to do. He is who he says he was. And he has the same principles now as he did when he was elected.
Good parallel with the Marxists and Obama.
At some point, you have to defend yourself. Bush never did. His biggest fault.
I pray that God has mercy and grants us two people of this character to lead us again.
Especially after the purely evil people we have in the White House now....
I’m pretty sure this guy voted for both Gore and Kerry.
Oh gee, I think AlanD has left us already. I’m always late to the troll party....
hee
Reminder: jousting with the impenetrably
irrational BDSers is a fruitless pursuit ... ;)
They just can’t and won’t see that, as their or
their loved ones’ butts weren’t decimated or
vaporized from this earth by another terrorist
attack, it was due to the efforts, relentlessness
and duty to country of Pres. Bush (and our
awesome military and productive and vigilant
intel agencies).
It’s OK .. those more enlightened know and that
the reality IS the reality, and are profoundly
grateful.
THANK YOU for the ping . . . How I wish the adults were still in charge!!
Don’t we all ... tragically for us, the grownups are
missing from this White House. Keep praying.
Dick Cheney a neo-Con? Neo-Cons are former liberal Democrats, mainly Jewish, like Krauthammer, Kristol, Podhoretz, Dick Morris, etc.
Cheney is a solid conservative. Rock solid.
Oh, gee......gone already? And he was so CLEVER. LOL!
Sometimes it's good for the truth to be posted in contrast, though.
Post 18
Gov. Bush didn’t change significantly when he became Pres. Bush, in fact some (mostly Democrats) were appalled that he kept, or attempted to keep, his campaign promises.
Those who were disappointed expected something never promised. I think a weak and unprincipled Congress was more responsible for what Pres. Bush gets the blame for. Two instances that come to mind are social security and Gismo, where many, including Maverick McCain, ran for the tall grass.
BREAKING — George W. Bush, whose book will be out Nov. 8, at this morning’s closed-door Bush-Cheney alumni reunion breakfast, now under way at a downtown hotel: “This is going to come as quite a shock to people up here that I can write a book, much less read one.” He says former Vice President Cheney is not coming, as originally planned, but “is feeling well” and “has a fierce constitution.”
More 43: “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. “
My - how dedicated you are. Still trying to turn public opinion away from George Bush.
What an utter waste of time.
The fact that you do not see the value of a man like George Bush as president, shows your values, your expectations of a president and the result of your actions.
I trusted my government under George Bush. And I did not worry that our freedom and our country were being destroyed.
Guess that was not what you wanted in a president.
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