GOSH, GEORGE!
WE CAN’T REMEMBER YOU HAVING ANY CRITICISMS AT ALL ABOUT YOUR SUCCESSOR (OBAMA), THE MAN YOU SUCCEEDED (BILLY CLINTON…YOUR “BROTHER BY ANOTHER MOTHER”), OR THE ‘LADY’ (HILLARY) YOU THOUGHT WOULD CHALLENGE YOUR BROTHER (JEB) FOR HIS RIGHTFUL ‘INHERITANCE’ OF THE BUSH-DYNASTY OVAL OFFICE!
HAS TRUMP HURT YOUR FEELINGS?
From The Daily Mail:
- Former U.S. president George W. Bush left little doubt about how he feels about Donald Trump on Thursday
- Rare speech in New York City was full of veiled barbs in the current president’s direction
- ‘Bullying and prejudice in our public life sets a national tone,’ he said, and ‘provides permission for cruelty and bigotry’
- Bush also slammed Trump’s trade isolationism and complained that ‘we’ve seen nationalism distorted into nativism’ and forgotten immigration’s ‘dynamism
What we are to conclude:
Bush is validating his and his families less than stellar legacy among conservatives. The “isolationism” and “nativism” epithets reflect more subtle but often felt disdain emanating from the Bush family toward conservatives. The “bullying ” comment reflects his comfort zone of appealing to liberals. His failures to fight for those who fought his political battles for him, his allies more so than any overseas, has been exposed as ignoble. To that can be added to his endorsement of grotesque criticisms of Trump and his “deplorable” supporters, most of whose support he enjoyed.
His utterances validate Trump — and Bush is too isolated to realize it. Bush has been faithless toward “having the back” of his common-man supporters. Incredibly for an alleged conservative, in a comfortable position to remark, he saw nothing in Obama’s policies demanding his expressed concern or opposition. All the things Obama did to undo things Bush were considered by Bush to be unremarkable.
One can only conclude as well that Bush’s weak enforcement and silence regarding what amounts to an invasion, accompanied by loud assaults on the validity of nation-states, has been so weak as constituting a dereliction of duty of even former presidents, certainly not protective of American independence, its culture, and the ability to assimilate others into it. His meekness and silence regarding Obama, thought pathetic, is now exposed as being largely that of a formally silent but fellow traveler.
DLH with R Mall
