I miss the genuineness of the man.
Posted on 11/09/2010 10:36:21 AM PST by Kaslin
Rush Limbaugh is interviewing him right now and wrapping up the interview as I type this. Asked him about TARP and the tea partiers, why he did not defend himself against attacks, etc..
Just heard a fantastic interview of our former President with Rush...loved it.
Bush = Class......all the way.
Didn’t agree with everything he did, but I always was confident the adults were in charge.
McKinnon is a lib, his job was to make TV ads I think.
That was it, I think.
George W. Bush may not have always been right, but he was always all class which comes out in the interview with Lauer last night. Amazing how the media called this humble, unassuming man “arrogant” so often even as they completely miss Obama’s “I’m the smartest man in the room” imperiousness that comes off in every statement and appearance he makes.
The left have a new villain and thats Palin. Palin will be cast as someone worst than Bush and after Palin, there will be someone worst than her. Remember all the hate against Bush/Rove? Now they’re cheering them on whenever they attack Palin
Oh. Ask Scooter Libby about that topic.
Didn’t agree with everything he did”
I also didn’t understand his position on lots of things.
BUT—I REALLY MISS him.
I miss Laura.
I miss the twins.
I miss Barbara & George Sr.
I miss Barney & the other dogs.
I miss having some real class inside the Oval Office & inside the White House in General.
I miss seeing him attending church on a regular basis & doing it openly in Washington.
I miss his class when hosting state dinners & his obvious sense of humor with Queen Elizabeth & others.
I miss his support of our troops at all times.
I miss the genuine affection his White House guard felt for him & his family.
I miss the status of the USA that he never demeaned — he did not BOW to other persons.
I will order his book & read it with pleasure.
Wise words there. The MSM will never be on a Republican's side and if they were I'd be leery.
I was impressed that Rush asked tough questions. GW seemed to be uncomfortable but Rush didn’t ease up, but the most interesting question, the one I was waiting for, was about the stories regarding ‘unnamed’ sources stating that he had said Palin was a poor choice for VP. Bush strongly denied it saying he didn’t say nor would he ever say such a thing.
President Bush has never attacked Sarah Palin — you should have listened to his interview with Rush . . .BTW: You’re right that the MSM/DNC will always CREATE a conservative villian.
“why he did not defend himself against attacks, etc..”
Because he didn’t have time to argue with idiots?
The HUGE problem with that is that if one does not defend oneself, the allegations are TAKEN TO BE TRUE ! ! !
Bush had to be stupid or on the take somehow not to know that.
It is a legal principle that if a defendant says nothing, it is an admission of GUILT.
The idea is that an innocent person would ALWAYS deny a false allegation.
I just listened to the Rush interview and it make me grind my teeth. If his deficiency can be summed up in a phrase, he still mistakenly believes that politics can be a gentleman’s game. It ain’t and you have to get your knuckles bloody if you’re going to be truly effective.
He COULD have defended himself and his policies without lowering the office of president. That year-after-year steady drumbeat of attacks on him AND on the war effort may not have bothered him personally but it wore down the national morale and spooked his political allies.
And he still bullheadedly defends his transparent amnesty scheme; simply refusing to call amnesty by its true name does not make it something else. That did more to demoralize and outrage conservatives than any other single mistake. That rancid noblesse oblige that is the curse of the Bush family kept his administration from being as effective as it could have been.
Yeah, and he mistakenly thought it was beneath him and his dignity to defend Scooter Libby. He could have done plenty about the long-running Valerie Plame sideshow and did not.
“Readers will be surprised by the number of examples in the book where President Bush takes responsibility for failures....” H’mmmm, that must be why his predecessor says “It’s Bush’s Fault” nearly every time he is criticized.
I miss the genuineness of the man.
"Oh. Ask Scooter Libby about that topic."
The problem with this line of thinking to me is that Libby and all of the DC pubbies know exactly who they're dealing with. When you choose to mix it up with the media and fail to acknowledge that they are always looking for the opportunity to f*ck you over then you really can't complain. They should always keep the media d-bags at arms distance at all times and never socialize with them. That would minimize the possibility that the media jackals will get the ammo they need. There's also the fact that Bush accepts responsibility for his mistakes and expects others to do the same. Perhaps Bush thought that Libby knowingly put himself in the position to be screwed over and didn't see any honor in circumventing the process other than to commute his sentence. *shrug*
President George W. Bush was the right man at the right time. He was a blessing to this nation. His honesty, loyalty, character, and integrity held up under the hardest of challenges and the greatest of pressures.
I pray that he lives a very happy, peaceful, life surrounded by loved ones and sleeps peacefully at night with not a weight upon his shoulders.
God Bless you, President Bush.
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