America was under attack.
Bush handled it as well as anyone could have.
But nowadays, it is hard to look back at Bush fondly. As the years have unfurled we have come to learn that two attacks on America have been happening. The overt attack of the jihadist and the covert attack of the marxist.
Bush has proven himself to be a collaborator with the latter. He never has a criticism to level at those who put America last. He has nothing but for those who put it first. He hides behind the “need for civility” as his justification. But the only civility this guy cares about is the one where he is accepted into the “in” crowd.
Bush was and is the democrat’s perfect Republican, a defenseless fool who allows himself and those who bought into his false promises of “conservatism” to be savaged.
Bush ultimately corrupted the objective of preventing jihadists from attacking America. He turned it into forever war nation building. No clear objectives, no clear end game, just war and the lining of neocon pockets which was fully supported by the likes of Liz Cheney.
And the result? Twenty years later and the jihadists are stronger than they were on 9/11 courtesy of a dose of Biden. But that is how the marxists want it, isn’t it? They can use their media to cast any jihadist attack as really, somehow being “white supremacy” and the need for gun control. Meanwhile, they can use the destruction of Afghanistan to bring in more refugee voters.
And Bush’s response? His response to all that he claimed to stand for being dismantled? Silence and tempered “civility.”
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I used to cringe at Bush 2 when he almost begged the media to believe what he was saying. He had an inflection at the end of every sentence that was plaintive, like a kid in trouble trying to get his story accepted. Bill Clinton ended every sentence with a period that you could not mistake. He was confident. Bush was whiny and weak. Even as Democrats were calling him Chimpy McBush and Bushitler, he was trying to get them to like him. They like him now because he has no power other than he wants them to like him and is willing to compromise all of his principles.
Bush was aware SOMETHING was going on because of all the media jostling he could see in the background.
He handled it well, in front of children.
The media was going to give him grief no matter what he did.