**I have no photo to post or link of George and Laura Bush visiting the families at Fort Hood – because they did not want press coverage. Think about that.***
First – although I voted for President Bush toward the end of his presidency the relentless attacks on him were beginning to rub off on me. What a stumbling bumbling twit of a president so many thought he was. And no the bank bailout and automobile company bailout just before he left office did not help one bit.
Second – many are beginning to appreciate him far more. Not only because of the contrast with the current president. But because the anti-Bush fog generated by the mainstream media and the cultural-political elite is beginning to wear off.
Before Obama was elected I was also beginning to appreciate Bill Clinton more. Oh yeah the character flaws and scandals and he was not conservative. But remember welfare reform? Remember balanced budgets?
Circulating the blogosphere has been this remarkable post by self-described “gay Hillary guys” at Hillbuzz “Thank you former President George W Bush and former First Lady Laura Bush”:
Well, we told you before how much the current president, Dr. Utopia, made us realize just how wrong we were about Bush. We shudder to think what Dr. Utopia would have done post-9/11. He would have not gone there with a bullhorn and struck that right tone. More likely than not, he would have been his usual fey, apologetic self and waxed professorially about how evil America is and how justified Muslims are for attacking us, with a sidebar on how good the attacks were because they would humble us.
Honestly, we don’t think President Gore would have been much better that day. The world needed George W. Bush, his bullhorn, and his indominable spirit that day…and we will forever be grateful to this man for that.
As we will always be grateful for what George and Laura Bush did this week, with no media attention, when they very quietly went to Ft. Hood and met personally with the families of the victims of this terrorist attack.
FOR HOURS.
The Bushes went and met privately with these families for HOURS, hugging them, holding them, comforting them.
If there are any of you out there with any connection at all to the Bushes, we implore you to give them our thanks…you tell them that a bunch of gay Hillary guys in Boystown, Chicago were wrong about the Bushes…and are deeply, deeply sorry for any jokes we told about them in the past, any bad thoughts we had about these good, good people.
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We hope someday to be able to thank George W. and Laura in person for all they’ve done, and continue to do. They didn’t have to head to Ft. Hood. That was not their responsibility.
The Obamas should have done that.
But didn’t.
Wouldn’t.
Thank goodness George W. is still on his watch, with wonderful Laura at his side.
We are blessed as a nation to have these two out there…just as we are blessed to have the Clintons on the job, traveling the world doing the good they do.
Read the whole thing at Hillbuzz. H/T Washington Rebel.
For reasons I do not fully understand the Fort Hood shootings – really a terrorist attack – have made me quite angry. Not so much that the attack happened. But (1) that it was allowed to happen despite the 10 kilometer high red flags Major Hasan was sending up at every opportunity why was this man still in the United States military?!? and (2) the breathtaking intellectual cowardice of so many who in a nutshell said “we must not jump to conclusions – but we know darn well what conclusion we must not jump to yes the only conclusion for which there are mountains of cold hard factual evidence”.
I care about people being able to handle the truth. And when people try to prevent me from handling the truth – I do not respond well.
Update (11/13/09): The British press is beginning to get what the American press will not.
(Do browse the comments. Note especially the fellow who blames nearly everything on former president Bush – fair enough he is entitled to that opinion – but including the drowning of New Orleans. Dang – Bush is responsible even for Katrina!?!)
Addendum (11/13/09): I stand by my remarks concerning President Obama – and would be willing to repeat them. But they have been removed because they were distracting.
