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Bush Declines Obama’s Invitation to Ground Zero
The New York Times ^
| 5-3-11
| MARK LANDLER and PETER BAKER
Posted on 05/03/2011 10:23:28 PM PDT by Justaham
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posted on
05/03/2011 10:23:33 PM PDT
by
Justaham
To: Justaham
"He [Bush] continues to celebrate with Americans this important victory in the war on terror." The 't' should not be prefixed to the word after Americans.
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posted on
05/03/2011 10:26:44 PM PDT
by
re_nortex
(DP...that's what I like about Texas.)
To: re_nortex
Gotcha!!..... and I agree.
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posted on
05/03/2011 10:28:46 PM PDT
by
basil
(It's time to rid the country of "gun free zones" aka "Killing Fields")
To: Justaham
He... has chosen in his post-presidency to remain largely out of the spotlight. You mean just like Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton did?
/sarcasm
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posted on
05/03/2011 10:30:23 PM PDT
by
Michael.SF.
(Going to Charlotte for the barbecue is like going to Minneapolis for the gumbo - John Reed)
To: Michael.SF.
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posted on
05/03/2011 10:34:01 PM PDT
by
re_nortex
(DP...that's what I like about Texas.)
To: Justaham
Good.
It is ridiculous to have this ceremony.
All decent people should avoid it.
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posted on
05/03/2011 10:39:43 PM PDT
by
rogue yam
To: Justaham
I am absolutely shocked that the Regime thought to even recognize Bush’s existence.
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posted on
05/03/2011 11:06:17 PM PDT
by
Lazlo in PA
(Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
To: re_nortex
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posted on
05/03/2011 11:12:00 PM PDT
by
expatguy
(Donations Keep The Expat Fueled !)
To: Justaham
Good for him.
He’s not so desparate for attention he’ll let Obama use him as a prop.
Bush is class through and through. Unlike some other expresidents, who just can’t give up the spotlight.
Anyone want to bet after Obama is done he’ll run around just like Clinton, saying, “Look at me! Look at me!”
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posted on
05/03/2011 11:12:33 PM PDT
by
I still care
(I miss my friends, bagels, and the NYC skyline - but not the taxes. I love the South.)
To: Justaham
Smart move on Bushes part. He’s not going to let Obama use him for his PR moment...and going there isn’t a good idea in my mind in the first place. If I had lost a family member or friend I wouldn’t go there for this kind of “celebration??????”.
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posted on
05/03/2011 11:20:53 PM PDT
by
caww
To: Justaham
The only reason why George W. Bush would choose not to be seen with Obama is that he knows that Obama is not constitutionally qualified to be president and is therefore not a legitimate president.
To: Uncle Slayton
I wouldn’t go that far for his reasons not to go there. He’s just not going to be used in political ways and this is a PR move for Obama....besides he’s doing what he said. Not much in the way of anything with political overtones, thus it’s ALL on Obamas watch....
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posted on
05/03/2011 11:25:10 PM PDT
by
caww
To: Justaham
To thine own self be true. A principled man. I miss him.
He’s keeping true to his word and the humility speaks volumes.
He appeared on one or two news shows last week to promote awareness of wounded warriors and his 100 km ride across the desert with many of them. How many saw that coverage?
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posted on
05/03/2011 11:31:33 PM PDT
by
SueRae
(I can see November 2012 from my HOUSE!!!!!!!!)
To: Justaham
Bush has in the past revealed himself to be utterly indifferent, almost unconscious, to the slights directed at him by the Democrats and especially by Obama himself. Yet, it is also true that apart from his own election and reelection campaigns Bush has been equally indifferent to seeing his party prosper at the polls. In fact, one could point to his toadying after the likes of Teddy Kennedy as a pander to the media elite and the Washington establishment at the expense of his own party.
So it is not clear what motivates Bush to decline his invitation if it is not exactly as stated, a desire to avoid the spotlight. My own surmise is that Laura Bush pulled him aside and said "enough, enough do not go there and burnish the image of the man who has disparaged you up and down the country for the last decade."
I doubt if the consideration is that Bush ought not to burnish the image of the man who will be running against a Republican candidate for president.
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posted on
05/03/2011 11:37:41 PM PDT
by
nathanbedford
("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
To: Lazlo in PA
I am absolutely shocked that the Regime thought to even recognize Bushs existence. --------------------------
Exactly right Lazlo in PA.
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posted on
05/03/2011 11:38:37 PM PDT
by
BobP
(The piss-stream media - Never to be watched again in my house)
To: BobP
LOL. I love that in the “smarter than Bush” crowd in the pic is good old Bob Gates. Worked for Bush I and Bush II. The regime is so much smarter that they needed Bushes Sec of Def to keep their heads above water with military issues. Just one more thing that Obummer needed to copy from the criminal Bush administration.
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posted on
05/03/2011 11:57:38 PM PDT
by
Lazlo in PA
(Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
To: nathanbedford
Well, who knows with the Bushes. I'll choose to have more respect for him, for not choosing to draw attention to himself at this time...even though they choose to sidle up to Billy Jeff Clintoon as son and brother. That, I will never understand....the Bush family is a strange combination of class, dignity, and...not so much.
Maybe any one of us who spent so much time within the sick, dysfunctional, evil world of politics, would end up the same way. Somebody's gotta do it.
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posted on
05/04/2011 12:01:16 AM PDT
by
FlyVet
To: Justaham
I never doubted that George W is a class act.
NOBAMA is coming to Ground Zero Thursday do do his victory lap at a sacred site he cares nothing about. Cares more about the sensibilities of the Islamic terrorists that the Families whose loved ones were blown to Kingdom Come by this Muslim Death Cult.
For NOBAMA it is just another campaign rally,
For we NYers he is a pestilence that arrives with his huge motorcades like some African colonial dictator tying up traffic to toot his own born
His mother never raised him to know that braggadocio is a self indulgent infantile narcissism.
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posted on
05/04/2011 12:03:48 AM PDT
by
Cincinna
( *** NOBAMA 2012 ***)
To: nathanbedford
Let the fraud stand alone in the hour of his great victory. Bush needn't be there as a prop.
While interested in politics, the most detestable of sciences, and follow the daily changes like an addict, some things like this speak greater politically than showing face would ever do.
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posted on
05/04/2011 12:16:23 AM PDT
by
BIGLOOK
(Keelhaul Congress!)
To: Justaham
Very nice that the White House invited the former President. He has decided to stay out of the public. Former Presidents always look out for each other. It is like a fraternity.
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