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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: giotto2 who wrote (768320)	1/3/2009 10:58:47 PM
From: jlallen	2 Recommendations Respond to of 769670

NYT? What kind of moron still reads that partisan rag...

To: giotto2 who wrote (768320)	1/4/2009 12:42:33 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 769670

the NY Times, I don't even trust their weather report.

To: giotto2 who wrote (768320)	1/5/2009 1:14:52 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Enough of the Bushes already Monday, January 5th 2009, 3:46 AM Jackson/AP/AP nydailynews.com At a time when just about everybody named Bush is frantically trying to rehabilitate the image, and legacy, of the outgoing commander in chief, we now get the most amazing pronouncement yet from the family: Former President George H.W. Bush feels he has another son warming up in the bullpen. "I'd like to see [Jeb Bush] run," the old man said on television Sunday. "I'd like to see him be President one day." Now this was a father sounding like a father and acting like one, straight up. That is exactly what the old man - far and away the best of all the Bushes - was Sunday, whether he was talking about Jeb or the current Bush in the White House, the one who will leave office in a couple of weeks being viewed as one of the worst and weakest Presidents in history, as much of a bust-out case as the economy he leaves behind for Barack Obama. That is why nobody, not even Bush 41, this quite honorable old man, a war hero who plans to jump out of an airplane this year to celebrate his 85th birthday, doesn't get to rewrite the story now. It is much too late in the game for that. "It's been tough on his father and his mother," the former President said Sunday, talking about Bush 43 and all the criticism he's received. Even the old man, who now looks like a giant as President compared with his kid, would have to admit it's been somewhat tougher on the country. But he was still out there punching away Sunday, a good soldier to the end, even suggesting that the media in general, and The New York Times in particular, have been "grossly unfair" in its coverage of his oldest son. Again, he's too nice a man to get caught in the crossfire directed at Bush 43 on his way out the door, because none of this mess is his fault. And the old man is allowed to think of the Oval Office as the family business if he wants to. But blaming his son's problems on the media would make about as much sense as Bill Clinton blaming all of his problems on a zipper that worked. Or Eliot Spitzer blaming his issues on the hotel. One week it's Dick Cheney trying to edit the last eight years in America, almost line by line. Then it's Laura Bush, trying to be as good a wife as George H.W. Bush is a father. You half expect them to start buying time on television trying to still run George W. Bush for President as the rest of the country gets ready to kick him to the curb. History, they all keep saying, will have a different view of the last eight years in America. Not without 3-D glasses it won't - or several stiff drinks. For now, it's as if the Bush family has some sort of grading system that it uses and the rest of us don't, one that enables the current President Bush to get to do some kind of victory lap around the White House grounds before Barack Obama gets inside to try to fix things, even though they're so broken he's probably going to need help from the Army Corps of Engineers. You listen to the various defenses of Bush, not just from his family but from his loyalists and from the wing nuts of right-wing radio - the ones who want to blame this recession on Obama and sound as if they were dropped on their heads as babies - and you think there is one scorecard for them and one for the rest of us. On their scorecard, they want to list all the countries that HAVEN'T been invaded on George W. Bush's watch. They want to talk about all the big companies and banks that HAVEN'T failed. While a cynical media want to dwell on Scooter Libby, you keep waiting to hear about all the fine public servants in the current Bush administration who HAVEN'T been indicted, at least not yet. This has been going on for a couple of weeks now and might not stop even after Barack Obama is sworn in. Now the head of the family is on television talking about Jeb Bush and making you want to hide under the bed at even the hint that what now passes for a political dynasty in this country might continue. At least George H.W. Bush did offer this one small qualification as he talked about Jeb's qualifications to be President someday. "I mean, right now is probably a bad time," the old man said. You think?