The 't' should not be prefixed to the word after Americans.
You mean just like Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton did?
/sarcasm
Good.
It is ridiculous to have this ceremony.
All decent people should avoid it.
I am absolutely shocked that the Regime thought to even recognize Bush’s existence.
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!”
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??????”.
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?
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.
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.
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.
Hmmm. nobama is going to NYC, which has a lot of his friends in it. But the folks who will turn out at ground zero may be largely from a different crowd. A crowd of hardworking, taxpaying, patriotic Americans who had two 100-story towers fall down on their own city. Families of thousands who died. Families of fireman, cops and emts. And muslims did this, and New Yorkers know it, but barry and his team won’t admit it.
When President Bush promptly made his way there after the attacks - one could see those people and that President understanding, trusting and having respect for each other.
Oh, I think I see why nobama would rather have that President at his side.
nobama is one of those people who wants to be helped.
But he’s President. Just go barry, they won’t bite your head off if you don’t insult them. They’ll just be polite if you just say something reasonable. They have their own sorrows to deal with. They may seem intimidating, but they just don’t mince words, they don’t take well to being scammed. Americans would love to have a President who is not trying to put one over on them, have them submit to government control. But they’ll settle for barry as long as they legally have to.
“Bush Declines Invitation to Obama Campaign Event”
There, that’s closer to the truth.
You can disagree with some or all of Bush’s policies, which I did, but everyone should as an individual he was a class act.
He probably figured there would be extra security around if Bush was there too.
Anyway, he'll take credit for the kill, then talk about how this is an end of a chapter and now we can all agree to get along. Or some such idealistic baloney.
Ground Zero is a sobering site. Obama's choice to go there is obviously all political.
Bush is choosing to be remembered for the class-act photos taken of him at Ground Zero where he brought encouragement to a nation. Obama's trying to wipe those photos from the American memory by replacing them with photos where Bush stands in the shadow of a self-aggrandizing Hussein. The whole thing is gross.
I don’t blame him. Why should he go and get used as a prop by Obama and get “Paul Ryaned” while he sits in the front row and the TOTUS bad mouths him for a half hour.