Bush noted that…“I’m not going to spend my time criticizing him. There are plenty of critics in the arena. … He deserves my silence.” Bush declined to critique the Obama administration in his first speech since leaving office in January.
Now, if Cheney, Gore, Carter et al could learn a bit of discretion and tact, and remember what the offices of the President and the Vice-President are supposed to represent, we might all get a little peace and quiet for a few days.
Being so Christian as he is, he probably goes by the old saying Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.
Bush wouldn’t even cast a grain of sand…
Ok. Can you show us where, 2 months out of office, any other President in recent memory criticized his successor?
That’s not the point, and you know it. The point is that Presidents NEVER used to criticize their successors. Jimmy Carter, though, broke that tradition. Stop being such an Obama Fanboy (as I was accused of being over at Digg about an article I did on Barack).
Considering that GWB couldn’t come up with a single, solitary mistake he’d made as President, it’s not surprising to hear him say he wasn’t going to criticize Obama.
Being so Christian as he is, he probably goes by the old saying Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.
Bush wouldn’t even cast a grain of sand…
I knew that’d be the meme from the pacifist lefties here in Mr. Tibbs’ fabulous Lavender Lounge
Being so Christian as he is, he probably goes by the old saying Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.
Bush wouldn’t even cast a grain of sand…
I knew that’d be the meme from the pacifist lefties here in Mr. Tibbs’ fabulous Lavender Lounge
T.
Aren’t you funny? That defense doesn’t wash: it very well may be correct.
Ok. Can you show us where, 2 months out of office, any other President in recent memory criticized his successor?
That’s not the point, and you know it. The point is that Presidents NEVER used to criticize their successors. Jimmy Carter, though, broke that tradition. Stop being such an Obama Fanboy (as I was accused of being over at Digg about an article I did on Barack).
T.
You probably shouldn’t throw around the word NEVER in such a manner. Rarely? Sure.
And, believe it or not, I was just asking for context. I figured you would have ready made some quotes from Clinton or Carter criticizing their successor’s within months of leaving office. Guess you don’t.
What, pacifists aren’t all lefties? I missed the memo saying that wasn’t so.
C’mon…you know that was funny. And you can also ascribe Dubya’s reticence in criticizing President Obama to some sort of shame, but that’d be a purely subjective observation. Which makes it an opinion. Which also makes it about as valuable as any other opinion here in our beloved LR, Ken. And don’t be such an Obama Fanboy.
See? That was opinion, too. Now, I’ve got fifty cents; can I have my cup of coffee?
Considering that GWB couldn’t come up with a single, solitary mistake he’d made as President, it’s not surprising to hear him say he wasn’t going to criticize Obama.
Now you know that is a flat out falsehood. He did admit to some mistakes, but I agree with him that he should never EVER be sorry for doing his best as President to protect the USA at all costs. Even if some mistakes were made in the process…can you tell me how many Generals Lincoln had in his administrations fighting the civil war??? Care to gander a guess?
I think Dubya sleeps the comfortable sleep of the assured. Probably not much of what anybody says about him affects him, from what I can tell. I guess it’s also a tribute that much of the foreign intelligence gathering programs, and the continued Predator Hellfire missile rocketing of AQ and Taliban forces in the Pakistan tribal areas, seems to be the programme du jour for the new administration, too.
Being so Christian as he is, he probably goes by the old saying Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.
Bush wouldn’t even cast a grain of sand…
I knew that’d be the meme from the pacifist lefties here in Mr. Tibbs’ fabulous Lavender Lounge
T.
Except I vote Conservative.
Albeit Canadian Conservative though.
but I agree with him that he should never EVER be sorry for doing his best as President to protect the USA at all costs.
I would think that with your record of being on the wrong side/incorrect on just about every issue over the past 2 years (shall we rehash Katrina, Rezko, etc?) you would learn.
I heard this today on talk radio: when will you wingnuts on the right learn: the President’s job is NOT to protect the citizens of the US at all costs—it is to protect the Constitution. The last 8 years have been a testament to what happens when gov’t forgets that minor difference.
Former President Bush has showed more grace and class during the transition than he did during the bulk of his presidency. And that’s not a knock on his presidency - at least, that’s not how I intend it; President Obama and his underlings have been unexpectedly, and at times gratuitously, undignified (IMO) in their comments about the former POTUS and his administration. I think he’s relieved to be out of the spotlight and disabused of the burden of his former post, both of POTUS and head of the Republican party. And he’s acutely aware of the precarious position in the legacy department: grace and dignity may not salvage what’s now left to the history books, but it’s certainly a step in the right direction, one he appears to be naturally inclined to.
Katrina!!! LOL, I still to this day think that the National Guard should have sent in helocopters with .50cal’s to take out the people who were shooting at police/fire/FEMA.
Those idiots were warned to get out and didnt - fuck em. Why it is that their local govt hero’s have been sitting on some $700m of federal money to this day and not rebuilding levies?
And I still want the money back that I sent to the Red Cross…it was a waste of money on people who are wasteful on our economy.
I will never ever back down from that.
Oh, Rezko is in Jail, Blago is out, Fitzpatric has people at his door in a line around the block trying to “get immunity” by singing like tweety bird, singing a tune of corruption and govt. abuse…to think that Obama is a pure as the blown snow is just foolish.
My hole? I am not dumb enough to stick around for a hurricane. Seems to me that the people who dug a hole are your brethren in New Orleans…and they are no better off today than they were the week after, or before Katrina. I am not in a hole, but many people from NO who were shooting at authorities should be in a hole - face down at that.
My hole? I am not dumb enough to stick around for a hurricane. Seems to me that the people who dug a hole are your brethren in New Orleans…and they are no better off today than they were the week after, or before Katrina. I am not in a hole, but many people from NO who were shooting at authorities should be in a hole - face down at that.
These are the same people that had a weeks notice of the hurricane but couldn’t find a way to leave but sure could find transportation to the inauguration.
