Maybe George W. Bush doesn’t know ‘weird shit’ when he sees it after all!

  • Obama tells voters to step up or ‘things can get worse’
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If we may quote from a former president, when you read or view Barack Obama’s comments, are you not moved to describe it as “some weird shit”?

When then, forgive me, but I am moved to ask of former president, George W. Bush, why he has not similarly criticized Mr. Obama when he was very anxious to label President Trump’s inaugural speech.

After all, there’s no question that Mr. Bush was as much a target of Obama’s recent remarks as Trump, and all Republicans! (see below)

An excerpt from Obama’s speech, on the occasion of his receiving an “ethics” award from the Univ. of Illinois:

“Of course, there’s always been another darker aspect to America’s story. Progress doesn’t just move in a straight line. There’s a reason why progress hasn’t been easy and why throughout our history every two steps forward seems to sometimes produce one step back. Each time we painstakingly pull ourselves closer to our founding ideals, that all of us are created equal, endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights, the ideals that say every child should have opportunity and every man and woman in this country who’s willing to work hard should be able to find a job and support a family and pursue their small peace of the American dream, ideals that say we have a collective responsibility to care for the sick and the and we have a responsibility to conserve the amazing bounty, the natural resources of this country and of this planet for future generations — each time we’ve gotten closer to those ideals, somebody somewhere has pushed back.

“The status quo pushes back. Sometimes the backlash comes from people who are genuinely, if wrongly, fearful of change. More often it’s manufactured by the powerful and the privileged who want to keep us divided and keep us angry and keep us cynical because it helps them maintain the status quo and keep their power and keep their privilege. And you happen to be coming of age during one of those moments.

“It did not start with Donald Trump. He is a symptom, not the cause. He’s just capitalizing on resentments that politicians have been fanning for years, a fear and anger that’s rooted in our past but it’s also born out of the enormous upheavals that have taken place in your brief lifetimes.”

Sometimes, when it comes to the Bushes, one must wonder if they were born with “Kick Me” signs tattooed on their foreheads.

Throughout Obama’s seemingly endless time in the Oval Office, GW was, on a daily basis, blamed by Obama for all the latter’s troubles and woes. We were regularly reminded of what mountains Mr. Obama had to climb because of the awful situation George W. Bush had left the country in.

But, like his daddy, the 41st president, G W, with great “dignity” and “respect for the Office”, held his tongue.

He did not attempt to defend himself or his administration in the face of Obama’s most self-serving and absurd criticisms. It was much like President Bush’s failure to defend his own administration and its policies while he was in office, against the most unfair, dishonest, ridiculous charges hurled against him by the media, the Democrats, and, of course, Obama.

George H W pursued the same course. In fact the greater the insults, the more outrageous the charges, the more the Bushes kept their silence…even embracing their most vicious critics, Ted Kennedy (“Bush lied, people died”), and Bill Clinton, the elder Bush’s “adopted son”, and G W’s “brother from another mother”. Jeb even stayed on track by honoring his almost “certain’ opponent in the 2016 election when he presented with an outstanding public service award.

And we were not allowed to suggest that their failure to fight back seriously damaged their party and was detrimental to our national interest…most certainly aiding the elevation of the 44th and #1 worst president in US history.

No. It was always the quiet “dignity’ the Bushes brought to the national discourse…and a reflection of their “deep respect” for the presidency.

Of course, that is until the president is from their own party and his last name isn’t Bush. There has been plenty of outspoken criticism by the Bushes of President Trump, with #43 admitting he didn’t vote for the GOP presidential candidate. And G W has dropped the phony veneer of his ‘dignity and respect’ to attack Trump on a regular basis.

The hypocrisy is now on open display.

Just as Carter and Clinton have been unrelenting in their public criticism of the other party, its leadership, and its policies beginning immediately after leaving the Oval Office, so too, is Barack Obama.

Obama’s disastrous presidency was always the fault of Bush, Trump’s remarkably successful performance so far, is now because of Obama!

So…are the Bushes ready to speak out? Don’t hold your breath…and if they do, it won’t be to defend Trump, their party, or probably not even their own “legacy”.         DLH

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