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George W. Bush: Maintaining a free society 'depends on the character of its citizens'
The Washington Times ^ | May 19, 2020 | Jessica Chasmar

Posted on 05/19/2020 12:23:40 PM PDT by kevcol

Former President George W. Bush penned an essay Tuesday stressing the importance of unity during the coronavirus pandemic, writing that maintaining a free society is dependent on the “character” of its citizens.

“We were not meant to live apart from each other, especially in times of challenge,” the Republican wrote in a piece published in the George W. Bush Institute’s quarterly journal The Catalyst. “Our tools of compassion — a hug, gathering as people of faith or in friendship, caring for our family when they are ill — bring the opposite of the love we intend.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: bush; bushcompassion; georgewbush; gope
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To: MinorityRepublican
Bush was great on 9/11. He was resolute in the Iraq War.

Sure, getting attacked by foreigners who were taught to fly U.S. aircraft on our soil, and 10 year long globalist wars costing multi-trillions in U.S. treasure, with thousands of dead Americans, is a sign of great leadership!

61 posted on 05/19/2020 2:40:54 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: kevcol

I’d say a couple of things:

There is ZERO chance this moron wrote a book. One of the worst communicators I’ve seen in public life.

The Clintons and then his and then Obama’s were the administrations who grew the surveillance state into the (unacknowledged) 4th Branch of Government, the one you don’t hear about in civics class. And for that alone I will never forgive him. A stupid, spoiled and unprincipled boy of a man who got lucky with a family name. History will not judge him well.


62 posted on 05/19/2020 2:56:35 PM PDT by 2big2fail
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To: kevcol

I’d say a couple of things:

There is ZERO chance this moron wrote a book. One of the worst communicators I’ve seen in public life.

The Clintons and then his and then Obama’s were the administrations who grew the surveillance state into the (unacknowledged) 4th Branch of Government, the one you don’t hear about in civics class. And for that alone I will never forgive him. A stupid, spoiled and unprincipled boy of a man who got lucky with a family name. History will not judge him well.


63 posted on 05/19/2020 2:56:36 PM PDT by 2big2fail
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To: dragnet2

I’m not going to lose sleep over Saddam’s death. He needed to go. That said, maybe we should had given the country to a Ba’athist General. An Arab Strongman. But hindsight is 20/20.


64 posted on 05/19/2020 3:39:27 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: kevcol

If the character of its citizens includes fear and compromise it won’t be a free society for long, W. And if the LEADER of that society is the biggest compromiser and wobbly representative, it won’t be a free society from the beginning...W...


65 posted on 05/19/2020 3:46:00 PM PDT by smvoice (I WILL NOT WEAR THEok RIBBON.)
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To: kevcol

Says the idiot that had to destroy capitalism to save it.


66 posted on 05/19/2020 3:49:34 PM PDT by Fledermaus (ONLY A MORON THINKS 6 FEET IS A MAGIC NUMBER!)
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To: MinorityRepublican
Bush was great on 9/11. He was resolute in the Iraq War.

Sure, getting attacked by foreigners who were taught to fly U.S. aircraft on our soil, and 10 year long globalist wars costing multi-trillions in U.S. treasure, with thousands of dead Americans, is a sign of great leadership!

I’m not going to lose sleep over Saddam’s death. He needed to go

Who TF said anything about Saddam? Ya think Saddam was a threat to the United States? Think again. It's seems pretty clear, you got hoodwinked by these globalist frauds and their endless, "Compassionate wars" costing trillions in American treasure.

We have the firepower to bounce Iraq off the lunar surface. And you come in here impling or suggesting he was somehow a threat to the U.S.? Come on now.

67 posted on 05/19/2020 4:33:14 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Zathras

“George W. Bush: Maintaining a free society ‘depends on the character of its citizens’”

“That must be in the fine print of the Constitution.”

yep, or one of the footnotes ...


68 posted on 05/19/2020 5:19:30 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: euram

This the Bush of the Haditha Marines. He let them get railroaded. Them and his pal Scooter Libby. Yeah Shrub. You have a lot of character. None of it good.


69 posted on 05/19/2020 5:29:14 PM PDT by DariusBane (Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept? Vive Deo et Vives)
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To: chris37

...a chump chimp at that. The whole bush family are defective globalist losers.


70 posted on 05/19/2020 7:07:25 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
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To: kevcol

The Bush clan has no character.

None of them.


71 posted on 05/19/2020 7:14:19 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: kevcol

HEY GW! Talk is cheap!


72 posted on 05/19/2020 7:15:12 PM PDT by dennisw
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To: kevcol
...maintaining a free society is dependent on the “character” of its citizens.

...and the character of the 'leadership.'

73 posted on 05/19/2020 8:18:05 PM PDT by gogeo (It isn't just time to open America up again: It's time to be America again.)
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To: kevcol

Yeh Dubya like hugging all the illegals as they come across the border.


74 posted on 05/20/2020 9:26:47 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight neiyour way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: kevcol

Go away moron!


75 posted on 05/20/2020 9:27:51 AM PDT by stuck_in_new_orleans
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To: americas.best.days...
😅😅
76 posted on 05/20/2020 9:27:56 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight neiyour way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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