Bush: won't criticize Obama, 'deserves my silence'

[cubby1223]

Bush is definitely wise to keep his mouth shut. Don't need to give Press Secretary Gibbs more diversionary tactics to deflect away from questions on transparency, or earmarks, or lobbyists, or Afghanistan, or our trade war with Mexico, or the housing plan, etc. etc. etc.

Why again is the White House more interested in what Limbaugh, Cheney, Steele, Santelli, etc. are doing than what's happening to the economy? Yeah, we don't need them diverting on another topic instead of focusing on what we really need to focus on.

 

[winnar111]

Originally posted by: Jaskalas

Originally posted by: woodie1

Originally posted by: loki8481
it's pretty much standard policy for the ex presidents

Tell that to carter.

Carter had nothing to lose anyway.

He started shooting his mouth off in 2001. I know he's still a whiner about how the nation railroaded him out of office, but get over it, already.

 

[TechBoyJK]

Originally posted by: Hacp
+1

Bush kept us safe from terrorism.

Yea. He pretty much scared the fuck out of everybody else, and now they all know that if we get pissed we will throw hell at someone, even if we are going to lose.

 

[Bowfinger]

Good for Bush. :thumbsup:

 

[HomerJS]

Cheney didn't get the memo.

 

[bbdub333]

Originally posted by: miketheidiot

Originally posted by: irwincur

Carter was right to criticize.

Carter was and is a MORON.

carter was probably in the top 1/2 of presidents since johnson. pretty low standard though, when clinton and reagan are the standard of excellence, although reagan doesn't deserve much of the credit that people give him.

You have a pretty deluded sense of history if you actually believe what you said. Carter is one of the worst presidents this country has seen. On the plus side, as we can see from Carter's example, Bush's failings will soon be forgotten in our short-sighted, forward looking society.

 

[winnar111]

Originally posted by: HomerJS
Cheney didn't get the memo.

Cheney was never President? Gore's been prattling around for 8 years.

 

[kage69]

I'm laughing at the idea that Bush is qualified to hand out criticism to anyone. Anyone.

Quite so, but it's funny to see some tripping over themselves to credit Bush with "class" when he's observing standard operating procedure for ex-presidents.

Bush couldn't even comprehend his own policies (and proved it time and time again) so I have little faith that he's been able to discern what's what irt to Obama's short history in office. Plus, he doesn't have the staff his once did to tell him what to repeat.

When I look back at the entire run of the Cheney/Bush show since 2000, only Bush's response to Britain immediately after 9/11 even remotely approaches "class," while the long list of failure, deceit, corruption and greed from that point on indicates a far less admirable trait. I wish Bush had class, so much could have happened differently these last many years!

Bush himself was practically irrelevant in office, why the hell would anyone care about what he says now? 'Obama deserves my silence'...heh...no, we all do...and you deserve a pretzel. Now go clean up some yard brush or organize your baseball cards - those universities and colleges should be calling anytime now with a *cough* lucrative political science seminar circuit!

 

[rudder]

Originally posted by: jpeyton

Originally posted by: Hacp
Bush kept us safe from terrorism.

Except he presided over the biggest terrorist attack in US history.

Kind of like Obama presiding over the worst economy since the great depression.

 

[TheSlamma]

Can he talk to his VP about STFU too? Dick's only use was to come out of hiding to abuse his power then disappear to go shoot a friend or birds that can hardly fly and now he feels he needs to take all this time to talk about the fantasy attacks we are going to get on us.

 

[kage69]

Kind of like Obama presiding over the worst economy since the great depression.

No, not really. There is so much wrong with your snarky comparison I don't know where to begin.

But if it was "kind of like" that, well then we'd have to ignore things like 'action and reaction' in terms of economics over time, we'd have to ignore Bush ignoring the actual warnings of 9/11 (something you guys do so well btw), as well as pretend there was something analogous for Obama, and then we'd have to equate terrorism on a grand scale with the short-sighted greed of corporatist America.

You're willing to employ that kind of ignorance to fabricate bullshit one liners? Have at it hoss.

 

[Atreus21]

Originally posted by: loki8481
it's pretty much standard policy for the ex presidents

Clinton dude. He's been a lil vocal.

 

[TechBoyJK]

Originally posted by: Atreus21

Originally posted by: loki8481
it's pretty much standard policy for the ex presidents

Clinton dude. He's been a lil vocal.

Yea, I've never actually heard of a president blatently saying he explicity will not comment on his successor out of courtesy. I think it was Bush's way of saying, "leave me alone, I'm not going to give you any more soundbites to chew on no matter how I feel about Obama"

 

[nobodyknows]

Bush is wise to keep his mouth shut while Obama tries to restore the confidence in the Presidency that he squandered right along with his political capital.

 

[AliasX]

hahaha Rush Limbaugh .

Political career over? Not at all.

 

[WHAMPOM]

Bush's Presidential :roll:No. one toughest decision; pretzels or popcorn while watching TV. We know how that turned out.

 

[Phokus]

Classy my ass, he's implying that he has criticism for Obama while trumping up his own faux 'classiness'. If he really meant to be silent, he wouldn't even say this.

He's probably butthurt over Obama exposing his wretched human rights violations and his destruction of the constitution... :laugh:

 

[TastesLikeChicken]

Originally posted by: jpeyton
I'm laughing at the idea that Bush is qualified to hand out criticism to anyone. Anyone.

What's so funny? Lack of qualifications has never been a deterent to any of the critics in here.

 

[ericlp]

Well, it's good he doesn't offer any criticism since he is too stupid to form them. He was just a puppet in office and I think he could give a shit what happens.

Yeah, real class... About as much class as stepping out of the shower to take a piss.

 

[jonks]

Oh, he's still got it! Did anyone catch this in the OP article? Speaking about his upcoming book:

"I'm going to put people in my place, so when the history of this administration is written at least there's an authoritarian voice saying exactly what happened," Bush said.

Oh Georgie, you Freudian slipping putz you. Were you going for "authoritative"? Because authoritative means substantiated or supported by documentary evidence and accepted by most authorities in a field.

Quick refresher mein erstwhile fuhrer, here's the definition of "authoritarian":

?adjective
1. favoring complete obedience or subjection to authority as opposed to individual freedom:
2. of or pertaining to a governmental or political system, principle, or practice in which individual freedom is held as completely subordinate to the power or authority of the state, centered either in one person or a small group that is not constitutionally accountable to the people
3. exercising complete or almost complete control over the will of another or of others

Yeah, maybe he said exactly what he did mean after all.

 

[DealMonkey]

Bush doesn't need to criticize Obama, not directly at least, so long as Cheney is doing it for him. So anyway, he gets points for doing what he's supposed to be doing?!? Sheesh, the bar must be set pretty low.

 

[Insomniator]

Originally posted by: Bowfinger
Good for Bush. :thumbsup:

Also, Carter a good president... hahaha

 

[TallBill]

Originally posted by: Phokus
Classy my ass, he's implying that he has criticism for Obama while trumping up his own faux 'classiness'. If he really meant to be silent, he wouldn't even say this.

He's probably butthurt over Obama exposing his wretched human rights violations and his destruction of the constitution... :laugh:

You guys are reaching. If anyone honestly has zero criticisms of any leader (or anyone that they have intimate knowledge of for that matter) then they need a reality check.

 

[Robor]

Originally posted by: TallBill

Originally posted by: jpeyton
I'm laughing at the idea that Bush is qualified to hand out criticism to anyone. Anyone.

Yeah, he was only the worst President.

Fixed :laugh:

 

[Thump553]

Smart move. Keeping a low profile will only serve to rehabilitate the public's opinion of GWB-that is, if he can impose a muzzle on Dick Cheney-who blissfully spouted the same old lines in a major CNN interview last weekend.