Posted on 10/19/2017 8:12:58 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
Former President George W. Bush appears to have discovered a new pastime: virtue-signaling.
On Thursday, the 43rd president piously delivered a full beat down on President Trump and the populist and economic nationalist movement that elected him.
Bush even traveled from Dallas to New York City to deliver it—just to make sure that nobody in Manhattan missed his message, which basically amounted to: I’m a good guy, unlike you-know-who. So look: I just dumped on Donald Trump! Please like me now, finally!
Yes, this is the same Bush who kept silent during the Obama years. But now that a Republican is in office, Dubya has found his voice.
In fact, 43’s quest for a post-presidential-image rehab is starting to resemble that of another failed-president-turned-full-time-virtue-signaler, Jimmy Carter.
Back in 1980, the 39th president lost the White House to Ronald Reagan in a massive landslide, and yet for the better part of four decades now, Carter has been taking potshots at his Republican successors, and the media have loved every minute of it.
For the sake of brevity, I’ll leave aside the horror that was Bush’s foreign policy, other than to say that his shortsighted hubristic foreign adventures cost America and our allies dearly in blood and treasure. The fallout will be felt for generations. But I’ll leave the chronicle of those tragedies for another day.
For now, I’ll confine myself to a few of Dubya’s domestic policy disasters. I had no trouble coming up with five off the top of my head. Please note that this is not in any way an exhaustive list of Bush Fails (as if such a list were possible).
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The simplest explanation is the correct one. The administration of George W. Bush was a wholly owned subsidiary of the Saudi royal family.
Which was completely unacceptable. Now we have what seems to be a rogue FBI which started or not cleaned up under Bush.
I would not be surprised if 41 and 42 both passed on to their eternal rewards during Trump’s presidency. Not to mention Sen. McCain and Justice Ginsberg. Fans one and all of 45. How interesting that will be.
As POTUS, DJT will likely have to give a eulogy of some sort. It will be interesting to watch. Especially if 41 and 42** have arrangements to lie in state at the Capitol with a procession up Constitution Avenue.
** Each POTUS is supposed to leave clear instructions upon leaving office of how they want their official funeral arrangements handled. The only one not to have done that was BJC. He may have done so by now. Who knows? Who cares? I know one person who won’t be going.
lolol...yup.
That picture is good only needs to change the background with the burning WTC.
I agree....the most that the past presidents should be is a adviser for the curent president.
Foreign policy post 9-11 from Bush was in favor of Saudi Arabia and its interests.
That’s why Saddam was taken out to begin with.
It continued with Obama and the Syrian Civil War.
Backing Saudi financed jihadists in Syria led to the creation of IS with all the rapes, murders and migrants resulting.
Rand Paul has been making a lot of noise about a balanced budget and opposing the tax cut this week.
The fact that our nation is 20 trillion dollars in debt and dependent on financial resources from Gulf Arab nations like Saudi Arabia should remind us of the need to get our financial house in order.
The lack of fiscal responsibility is a big factor in all the Saudi friendly policy coming out of Washington DC.
Nothing you said do I have a disagreement with. On the other hand we did not know about Bush’s reticent behavior when it came to defending himself until it was quite a bit into his term or terms as the case may be. And yes, he was a mediocre if not sub mediocre president and I do not think history will contradict that view.
His statements are nothing more than a “look at me. . .I’m still here” moment.
More and more I am inclined to believe the whole Republican vs Democrat fight is a staged fight by the uniparty with designated role that all the politicians gets assigned to.
The staged fights are meant to fool the public into thinking that their vote has an impact on what happens but really it does not, it doesn’t matter who wins and who loses. The outcome is pre-scripted.
Only Donald Trump wasn’t part of the script, he’s like a real wrestler who somehpow found himself in a WWE production. He’s wrestling for real and none of the other wrestlers know what to do with him, they don’t know how to fight for real so he beats them up easily, and they don’t know how to get rid of him without revealing to the public that all their fights are staged.
Legacy Building Time
Kissing ass so the “ media” will write a “nicer” obit
In a nutshell, Bush is just another member of the “Deep State” swamp. Whether they be Dems or RINOs, their ideology is the same.
>Bush turned out to be very bad.<
In retrospect, the only good thing to say about Bush was that he wasn’t Gore.
Gee...I wonder what the GW lovers will have to comment...
This is sort of a “Read My Lips” moment, when it becomes indisputable. GWB’s Daddy was lying when he said ‘read my lips’, and we now know GWB was lying every time he said something remotely conservative.
Was he an improvement over Al Gore? JFKerry? Yes. But were two terms of GWB, followed by two of Obama, more harmful than one of Al Gore? Maybe.
By 2004, it was obvious I was voting for a flawed man who was still a much better man than his opponent. His opponent should have been imprisoned during the Vietnam War for what HE did.
But George “Punch Me Again” Bush was a total Weak Dick from 2004-2008. In the 8 years that followed, he became a pussy-whipped follower of the Bush women - all of whom hated conservatives. No decent man could be friends with Bill Clinton. No decent man could suck up to Obama. And now? GWB may be the only male on the planet who makes Obama look manly in comparison!
How sad! He could have been a contender...and now he is just a cocksucking whore.
In retrospect, the only good thing to say about Bush was that he wasn’t Gore.
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That’s a good way to put it.
The Bush family and Obama too. You can tell when Trump one how much the Saudis were worried that for the first time in a generation there was a President that they didn’t own by looking at how much butt kissing they did to him when he went to Saudi Arabia. I don’t recall the parades and medals and all that for any prior President in recent history, only Trump. The don’t own him and can’t buy him, and that’s new territory for them.
Wow...I’m older than four presidents!
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