Yes.However, he has stood by and said ZERO while zero is destroying this country. He’s abdicated his position as a former POTUS - however, what good would it do if he spoke up? Wouldn’t it just be fodder for endless arguments? Aren’t there enough others who can speak about this more articulately?
I sort of think Bush had a specific mission and that was fulfilled. It’s time for the rest of us to find the person for the next mission.
If you know anything about the Bushes - both of them - you know that. The very last thing either of them has ever had in mind for a post-presidency is to violate tradition by being critics of their successors.They leave that sort of low class behavior to Democrats. They take no public notice of it.I call to mind the aftermath of Kennedy's Bay of Pigs fiasco. Kennedy had fecklessly sent the mission forward while chickening out on providing the air cover on which the mission was predicated. Thereby getting all the odium of having launched the attack, without winning the battle. What do you suppose that President, renowned four-star general, Eisenhower thought of that!
Kennedy's prestige was eviscerated, and he summoned Eisenhower to help him out of the hole he had just dug. Reportedly they took a walk at Camp David and Eisenhower privately reamed Kennedy out as he deserved - then they held a joint news conference at which Eisenhower lent his still-enormous prestige to putting the best face on things for Kennedy. Eisenhower did that for the country - just as Nixon had, for the good of the country, refused to contest the fraudulent razor-thin victory which Kennedy eked out with the help of the Daley machine in Chicago.
What a wonderful concept - a POTUS, past present or future, working for the good of the country and not himself first. Seems to me that ended with Al Gore and Florida.
Your story about Eisenhower and Kennedy was a good one!
“What do you suppose that President, renowned four-star general, Eisenhower thought of that!”
He would have thought that you had shorted him one star.