Stole his way into office, started two wars we had absolutely no business being involved with, destroyed the economy for the working class, pressed the unitary executive case, Katrina, outed undercover agents, exploited 9/11 continuously to scare citizens into going along with their bullshit.

Just because he wasn’t as vulgar as Piss, that doesn’t make him any better.

This whole “rehab” his image is going through disgusts me.

I believe he laid the groundwork for someone like Trump to become president. Though Bush wasn't nearly as bad as Trump, he was an incompetent, reckless president. I'm beginning to believe there is no such thing as an honest, decent republican. As such, Trump isn't really the problem, republicans are.

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"Bush will be the nominee - and if he wins, there'll be nothing but wars and recessions."

I was also fairly certain that the first such war, would come about by way of some well-staged, false-flag incident - and that the media would breathlessly follow along like Labrador Retrievers.

And the rest, as they say, is history.

He certainly brought about wars and recession in record time. Of course, it wasn't his fault that we were attacked on 9/11*, but he was responsible for his war hawk reaction. I think he went into office determined to invade Iraq as he was competing with his own father. 9/11 gave him the excuse he needed.

So what did your repug friend say?


* I know some people do hold him accountable, but I think he was more guilty of negligence when he overlooked the "Bin Laden determined to strike in the U.S." report. I'm not so sure about some of the other members of the Bush administration though. Many benefited from the invasion of Iraq.

We were working out together at the gym. He looked at me with a sideways glace that just reeked of "there he goes again, sounding crazy."

The friendship fell apart shortly afterward after he came to my house wearing a bug (I was briefly a 'person of interest' in a case of missing bank money - which, it later turned out, had been pinched by a loan officer with gambling debts). He seemed to enjoy it - which really did it.

The memory, I must admit, still bothers me to this day. A common tale, certainly.

Qué será.

I guess that was no loss then. I think we've all lost friends and even relatives in recent years. Some differences just can't be condoned or brushed aside. I guess that former friend really showed his true colors and obviously couldn't be trusted.

Small potatoes, really - but it's harder when you "clicked" with said person. Past-life issue, I shouldn't wonder.

Anyway, that was aeons ago.

Thank you for your kind thoughts, Pat, and All the Best.

It helps to have an outlet for our experiences and frustrations. DU tends to be my safe place.

George W. Bush's essay extraction:

I doubt he wrote that.

There was a song in "Hamilton" about what he is referencing though -

She's a former school teacher after all. And it always seemed that she had educational rather than political interests in mind.

and he could probably pick up the phone and call one of them (an old speechwriter perhaps) to help with a draft.

Nt

Never give any AI ap more credit than it deserves. Americans having a standard high school education can compose better essays than any AI ap.

but if you look up videos from the TX gubernatorial debates, he actually doesn't come across as an idiot. He was still wrong and an asshole, but back then he didn't sound stupid.

After 9/11 is when he turned dumb.

FTA.

...to what the Trump Cabal is doing to people they've called "unlawful combatants" with his ICE gestapo.

Same MO, like Bush provided the playbook, & he argued (his attorneys, in court) that he had the right to do it to American citizens. Capture them & send them to foreign "black sites" with no due process, by simply calling them "enemy combatants."

Trump just changed a word & uses the term "unlawful combatants," & Bush/Cheney etc set the stage for it.

I'm betting Laura wrote this!

But, we’re The Deep-State?
They deceive. Rubes believe.
All about The R?

Kinda late

Somebody else wrote this, but nice he signed off on it. He still had a disgraceful time in office.

Puppets on strings maybe.

George W. Bush: The American tragedy which proceeded Trump's farce.

HELL FUCKING NO, they are both VILE, DISGUSTING creatures who immeasurably HARMED America.

Yes, he should do a lot more and should have started criticizing sooner. However, we are in a war for democracy's existence and I won't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. I'll take what I can get while pushing for more.

and wakes up.

FUCK OFF

No amount of "charm" by this thief will ever change the reality that he killed American democracy in 2000 and helped to create the current White House monster. Our country will never be the same.