Saturday, October 21, 2017

Bush 2 seems to have recovered from his case of lockjaw

For eight long years, George Bush declined to offer any significant criticism of his successor. We were constantly assured that this represented the "high road".

How interesting that he now seems to have plenty to say, and none of it to President Trump's credit:
“We have seen our discourse degraded by casual cruelty,” Bush said. “We’ve seen nationalism distorted into nativism.”

“Bullying and prejudice in our public life sets a national tone, provides permission for cruelty and bigotry, and compromises the moral education of children,” he said at another point. “The only way to pass along civic values is to first live up to them.”
Practically all of the foregoing characterized the Obama years, during which time Bush uttered not a peep about the Democratic president's devisiveness, mendacity and authoritarian tendencies.

Perhaps Bush kept quiet all those years because of his special friendship with Michelle Obama. Or maybe he really doesn't view the Obama regime as having been anything more than ruling-class business as usual, compared to Trump's genuinely revolutionary instincts. Hard to say. But I've definitely reached one conclusion: I don't miss George Bush, and I'd be greatly obliged if he'd just shut up for the next several years; this is obviously well within the scope of his abilities, since he was so good at it during Obama's eight-year assault on liberty, patriotism and honest government.

4 comments:

RebeccaH said...

Nobody wanted to criticize the first black president because they feared being called racist. So Obama got away with a whole lot of things no white president could have, and in doing so, he opened the door for Trump. Now Trump is doing the pen and phone thing just like Obama did, except that he's undoing a lot of the damage that Obama did.

smitty1e said...

>they feared being called racist

And if that's a component of a godless Commie attack on the country, and you cower before it, then doom on you.

JeffS said...

All ex-Presidents need to keep their nose out of politics. ANY politics.

Which puts Dubya right up there with Carter, Clinton, and Obama.

No, wait, I mean "right DOWN there". My bad.

Gregoryno6 said...

Dubya and Mooch, besties.
Just when I think I'm beginning to understand the crazy world...