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Home Front: Politix
Don Surber: Bush speech was a cry from the swamp
2017-10-23
I live near a river. One road cuts through a backwater. When the water is high during a rainy season, the brush is green and the water clear.

But as the weather dries and the water level declines, the water looks marshy. Old tires re-appear.

Think about that as the waters drain in Washington.

This week's attack on President Trump by his predecessors is a sign of desperation.

Somebody called in his markers and got Bush to speak. He spent eight years in silence, unwilling to defend himself from Obama's bully pulpit bullying of all things Bush.

Now Dubya enters the arena again?

From the Washington Post:

George W. Bush has stayed out of the political fray for nine years now, and Barack Obama has kept his head down for the past nine months. On Thursday, both former presidents used major speeches to repudiate President Trump’s brand of politics and approach to the world.

Neither mentioned Trump by name. They didn’t need to. Instead, they preached patriotic sermons that appealed to America’s better angels.

Better angels.

You go first.

Denounce the fascist Antifa first.

But Antifa serves Washington well, just as Occupy Wall Street gave cover to the equities industry that Obama served.

Dubya would not defend himself. His father did not either. If you will not defend yourself, then why should I trust you to defend me?

They refuse to support President Trump because they are still sucking their wounds from his stomping of Low Energy Jeb.

Impolite?

Go back over what Bush 41 said about Bob Dole in 1988, or what Bush 43 said about John McCain in 2000.

Oh, and Jeb's son supported Trump. Sure. Jeb's son wants to be the third President George Bush, this time with a P.

Family honor.

Obama and Bush are just the swamp speaking.

From Politico:

Former President George W. Bush offered an unmistakable denunciation of Trumpism on Thursday without mentioning the president by name, urging citizens to oppose threats to American democracy.

“Bigotry seems emboldened. Our politics seems more vulnerable to conspiracy theories and outright fabrication,” Bush warned in remarks at the Bush Institute’s Spirit of Liberty event in New York.

By chance, Bush was standing in the same spot at the Time Warner Center where former President Barack Obama made a similar plea for democracy and American leadership in late September, shortly after President Donald Trump had finished a belligerent, isolationist speech to the United Nations General Assembly.

Bush has befriended the people who called him Hitler -- Bushitler -- and a monkey.

His father called Reaganomics "voodoo economics," but befriended the Clintons.

President Trump is saving America from these critters. I am saddened to see Bush stand up for the corruption and incompetence of Washington.

But he failed America, just as Obama did.
He FAILED to line Memorial Bridge with the heads of the Intelligence services who were evidently asleep at the switch prior to 9/11.
If they want to know who divided the country, they may wish to look in the mirror.

President Trump is the result of their neglect of the American people. They served the elites. Trump serves the rest of us.

Drain, baby, drain.
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