Posted on 09/17/2020 9:18:33 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
he George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum opened seven years ago and anchors the southeastern corner of campus at Southern Methodist University, where I teach history. In late November 2016, I took a tour of the facility with five college friends who were visiting from the East Coast. The recent presidential election was much on our minds as we wandered through the building, contemplating various artifacts from Bush’s two terms in office. Although we were hardly fans of his presidency, one of my pals—fearful, like everyone in our group, of a Trump administration—got misty-eyed when reflecting upon Bush’s obvious love of country. After an hour or so, with a requisite stop for photos in the museum’s full-sized and perfectly appointed replica of the Oval Office, we left in glum moods.
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Who is “we”, Andrew?
W’s primary virtue was that he was not that evil bastard, Al Gore
Perhaps, but then Gore was never a president, stupid, evil or otherwise; making any comparison difficult.
No way, not a chance! He damaged the cause of liberty with his perpetual wars, spying on Americans and promotion of “Religion of Peace.” What an awful President. And what an inarticulate, smarmy tool.
This article has nothing to do with “rehabilitating Bush” - who they called a racist, Hitler, etc. - but simply using him as a catalyst for yet another hit piece on the current President. The article indicates that is precisely what the motive is - otherwise Donald Trump being in the Oval Office or not would have nothing to do with their reflections on George W. Bush - he is who he is good or bad, regardless of who Donald Trump is.
Yes, I agree with you. We the People are going to take our country back.
For the Love of God.
Vastly superior to opponents who belong in Leavenworth is hardly high praise.
Nope. Wouldn’t be prudent.
He didn’t give you it. John McCain did that. George was somewhat inept, but he was not feckless. If he knew how to fight back like Trump, and if we had closed ranks around him like we do with Trump, he would have had a totally different eight years. What he did do was discuss with Mexico eliminating the Southern border entirely and making Mexico and the US into one commonwealth. No way I would close ranks with that.
1. He kept Al Gore from becoming President.
2. He kept John Kerry from becoming President.
3. He appointed Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court.
I still think of him as a decent human being, unlike any recent Democrat President or Presidential nominee going back to the 1980s (undecided about Dukakis and Mondale, before that maybe Humphrey, or maybe you have to go back as far as Truman), but if he can't say something good about Trump he should keep quiet. I don't think he has been as bad as other members of the Bush family or the Bush administrations.
What reputation ?
Nope.
Once Lyndon Johnson died, the Bushes were the most powerful political family in Texas. Texas Monthly will do anything it can to rehabilitate W.
Kind of like they're trying to rehabilitate Dan Rather now. And Jimmy Carter.
That's why W can start a war under false pretenses that kills 2 million people, and they're all in on rebranding him as Bob Ross, now.
Cut Pierce some slack. He and his wife got to watch their young son get crushed to death en route to D.C. in a railroad accident. The wife lost her mind with grief and he spent the next 4 years in a drunken fog. More pitiable than incompetent. Shrub has no excuse for his incompetence, short of being the actual idiot the left called him out to be.
If Shrub had REALLY wanted to keep Zero out of the White House, he could’ve done it. He certainly did nothing to keep McQueeg away from the nomination. He left no one behind to continue the fight. I watched him closely in the last 2 years when he lost Congress. He was happier with the Stalinazis in charge than with the GOP.
This goes back to ultimately being Reagan’s greatest error in picking his father to be VP. If he wanted to put Texas in his column, he could’ve chosen ex-Gov. John Connally. Sen. Laxalt should’ve been his running mate. Reagan and then Laxalt would’ve been President until 1997, and we could’ve stomped the left into the ground by then.
We fought tooth and nail for him and when we needed him, he stabbed us in the back.
No Bush EVER again.
McQueeg was next in line because he let Dubya get the nomination in 2000, just like Hillary was next in line because she let O get the nomination in 2008. In the political cycle, very often they switch off every eight years. But notice that just like you can argued that Dubya brought ODumbo to power, so, too, it can be argued that ODumbo brought Trump to power. I don’t see why it’s so urgent to rehabilitate Dubya. He’s time has come and gone. He had two terms. Now he’s making an ass of himself, and committing the unforgivable sin for an ex-President, and undermining a President from his own party. That’s avada cadavra unforgivable. Screw him.
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