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Is anyone else noticing that we have seen very little of George W. since he left office? What's up with that? All other Presidents that leave office usually go around on speaking tours and then they settle into some sort of charity or social org. Where did George go?

 

I'm not trying to start any kind of debate or argument, I seriously wonder why he never appears anywhere.

 

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W. was so fed up with the Washington establishment that he went back to Texas and buried his head in the sand.  Living in North Dallas in a neighborhood full of billionaires is not a bad place to be.

 

I just wish he and the Republicans had been better stewards of "our money."  He started all this overspending.

 

And they then elected a socialist, free spending person with no experience in business.   O'Bama couldn't be a worse manager--completely controlled by the Chicago corrupt politicians.  And, I thought electing Hildebeast would be the worst thing to happen to the U.S.

I typed your title into google and found this. It's from August. 

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...98562d010_story.html

 

DALLAS — George W. Bush has spent much of the month with relatives at the family compound in Kennebunkport, Maine, where he played golf, rode bicycles and dined with friends. Back in Dallas, the former president will mostly play golf, ride bicycles and dine with friends.

Bush, who left office in 2009 with a historically low popularity level, seems content in self-imposed exile. “I crawled out of the swamp, and I’m not crawling back in,” he said in a rare interview with the Hoover Institution this year.

 
 
 

This is not exactly a shattering development for a Republican Party that is hoping to put its best face on display at next week’s convention in Tampa. Despite rallying around Bush for years, especially after the Sept. 11 strikes, the party hasn’t exactly clamored for input from the man who led the country for eight years.

“Why would people care?” Alberto Gonzales said in response to questions about what Bush had been up to. The former U.S. attorney general, who is now a law professor at Belmont University, said he last saw Bush at the dedication of his official portrait at the White House. At the end of the ceremony in May, Gonzales said, he found himself alone with Bush in the East Room, staring up at the painting. “What I recall was that he was very happy,” said Gonzales. “Very happy with the portrait, particularly the face.”

Bush has long said that he would leave it to history to judge his presidency. Yet he is aware that the current assessment of his term in office is less than favorable.

During an April news conference, he said he wished the “Bush tax cuts” were known by another name, because “if they were called somebody else’s tax cuts, they’d probably be less likely to be raised.”

Not every former president plays a role in his party’s nominating convention, but in Bush’s case, the political toxicity that he himself has acknowledged might explain his announced absence. (He appeared at the 2008 Republican convention via video feed.) It may also shed light on why his initial endorsement of Mitt Romney to be the Republican presidential candidate came from behind closing elevator doors, and why his congratulations on Rep. Paul Ryan’s selection as Romney’s running mate came in a news release.

The Romney campaign has kept its distance. Ryan has harshly criticized the Bush administration’s spending. On July 24, Bush and his wife visited Romney’s Boston headquarters — while the candidate was in Nevada. While there, Bush delivered a pep talk to the Romney campaign troops, yet Katie Cunningham, an assistant to Eric Fehrnstrom, Romney’s communications director, denied that Bush was, had been or would be there.

“No,” she said, shaking her head vigorously. (The campaign subsequently acknowledged the Bush visit.)

Bush, who declined comment through a spokesman, stays current politically: He keeps in touch with Karl Rove, was pleased with the selection of Ryan and is keen to discuss the election. Confidants describe him as immune from political slights.

“He is completely unfazed by any criticism,” e-mailed Mark McKinnon, a political consultant who spent time with the Bushes in Kennebunkport.

Originally Posted by Roland Pfalz:
Originally Posted by Crumbpicker:

He kept his promise of not discussing sitting presidents.  Too bad he was not given the same courtesy.

He is probably enjoying his retirement, as it is.

 

 

Yes. He has more class than to parade around like the "Perfumed Pimp" Clinton and  

"Mr. Demented Peanut". 

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i love the smell of conservative desperation!

bush was such a horrible president... even the republicans don't want him around!

Bush and his fellow conservative warmongers  lunged this country into two hugely costly wars but made no provision to pay for them.  Those varmints put us in the economic trouble we are facing today. No sensible Republican candidate for public office would want the varmint onstage with him. His endorsement is the kiss of death.

Originally Posted by Chuck Farley:

 

Bush helping renovate a Women's cancer clinic in Zambia this summer.  Can you imagine Obama doing manual labor?  Zambia is in the Africa where Obama has several siblings that live in shacks.

Bush needs to go to Nairobi, and help build George Obama a better dwelling since his half-assed excuse for a president and half brother can't seem to help him.

Originally Posted by Winston Niles Rumfoord:
Originally Posted by Chuck Farley:

 

Bush helping renovate a Women's cancer clinic in Zambia this summer.  Can you imagine Obama doing manual labor?  Zambia is in the Africa where Obama has several siblings that live in shacks.

Bush needs to go to Nairobi, and help build George Obama a better dwelling since his half-assed excuse for a president and half brother can't seem to help him.

 

Nicely stated.

Originally Posted by Contendah:

Bush and his fellow conservative warmongers  lunged this country into two hugely costly wars but made no provision to pay for them.  Those varmints put us in the economic trouble we are facing today. No sensible Republican candidate for public office would want the varmint onstage with him. His endorsement is the kiss of death.

 So tell me contender, what response did you want after 9/11, invite them to tea? Ask them nicely to not do that or are you of the tin foil hat club looking for the inside job by Bush from 20 years ago?

Politics is a lot like religion in the sense that many overlook certain things about past leaders and those currently in office and tend to see what they want to see about 80% of the time. You can discuss, talk, shout, disagree and argue till you're blue in the face but nobody's view is likely to change. It all boils down to personal opinions. 

 

Originally Posted by Roland Pfalz:
Originally Posted by Winston Niles Rumfoord:
Originally Posted by Chuck Farley:

 

Bush helping renovate a Women's cancer clinic in Zambia this summer.  Can you imagine Obama doing manual labor?  Zambia is in the Africa where Obama has several siblings that live in shacks.

Bush needs to go to Nairobi, and help build George Obama a better dwelling since his half-assed excuse for a president and half brother can't seem to help him.

 

Nicely stated.

 

Odummer would be right at home.

Originally Posted by yoda:

About that stock return:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...-bgov-barometer.html

Some of the difference may stem from the fact that every Republican president since at least the end of World War II has faced a recession during his first term in office, Stovall said. Nine of 11 recessions that began since 1945 -- and seven of eight since Kennedy ran for president in 1960 --started with Republicans in the Oval Office.

 

 

If the Republicans came into office with a recession, then a dem must have started it right?

Originally Posted by yoda:

what part of "started with a republican in office" is so hard to understand?

'Faced a recession' during the first term which according to you libs means that the previous president caused it. You know, all the problems this time is Bush's fault, right?

The attack of 9/11 came because of Clinton's policies, right?

The Vietnam war was a mess because of Kennedy, correct?

 

And if you say no, then tell Obama to man up and start accepting responsibility for what he has done.

Originally Posted by SeniorCoffee:

He needs to be in The Hague awaiting trial for crimes gainst humanity. Let him sit in a 4X8 cell for a decade or so. Give him a trial and a public hanging. And show the world Americans still believe in justice.

You people are very sick!  While I do not believe in Obama's policies I would never wish him to be treated like you guys do George Bush.

Obama didn't lie us into an unnecessary war that killed thousands of innocent women and children. Bush committed crimes against humanity, and broke laws Americans demanded at the end of WWII. In my opinion, Obama's greatest failure was allowing Bush and the members of his administration to avoid facing trial for those crimes. Americans should be ashamed they were allowed to get away with mass murder.

Originally Posted by SeniorCoffee:

Obama didn't lie us into an unnecessary war that killed thousands of innocent women and children. Bush committed crimes against humanity, and broke laws Americans demanded at the end of WWII. In my opinion, Obama's greatest failure was allowing Bush and the members of his administration to avoid facing trial for those crimes. Americans should be ashamed they were allowed to get away with mass murder.

Congress voted for it !

Originally Posted by Jankinonya:

Crumbpicker you should change your screen name to "Cherrypicker" It would suit you better. You only want to address one sentence in that paragraph you posted and ignore the rest.

If all the current problems came from the previous admin according to liberals, then that should be the precedence through all the presidencies.

Originally Posted by SeniorCoffee:

He needs to be in The Hague awaiting trial for crimes gainst humanity. Let him sit in a 4X8 cell for a decade or so. Give him a trial and a public hanging. And show the world Americans still believe in justice.

Thank you for being such a good example of a bad example of liberals.  Now I'm even more sure I would vote for Satan over Obama.

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