Uh Oh, W wants a conscience.
Admitting, regretting.
George W. Bush, ever the Dividerer, can’t quite go there.
"As his presidency nears its end, a reflective President Bush suggested Tuesday that he regrets some of his more blunt statements on the war on terrorism…"
Reflective. Suggested. Regrets. Blunt statements.
"I regret saying some things I shouldn’t have said,"
"My wife reminded me that, hey, as president of the United States, be careful what you say."
I agree. But her warning came too late.
Allow me to be reflective and suggest, Mr. Almost Not Commander in Chief, that you should watch that you don’t express how you really feel. But you did it anyway, with callousness and dismisiveness, an inherited trait.
Even while admitting and regretting, you keep safe distance between yourself and the task at hand; separate yourself from ‘those people’ who counted on you to address national and worldwide tragedies.
"I’m proud when I see people feed the hungry…."
Proud is not what I feel when I see hungry people being fed, knowing they are not getting enough to sustain them for more than that day. Not enough to battle the malnutrition that will lower their life expectancy and detrimentally affect the physical and mental heath of children for the rest of their lives.
"I’m proud when I’m in Africa and see volunteers helping those citizens dying of HIV/AIDS."
‘Those citizens’, how humanly distant. How patricianally removed. Do you mean the ‘those citizens’ that don’t have access to condoms to practice safe sex due to mandates put in place by your administration?
‘Those citizens’, ones similar to ‘those citizens’ you disenfranchised in your own country?
(warning-explicit Katrina footage)
One thing I know you will regret. It will be harder for your family to make easy money when you are no longer available to be the start-up for their business ventures. But your brother Neil won’t need your help now, he has his own connections now.
And you’re going back to Texas? If I were you, I’d go to Paraguay. No ranch there to call home? Stay with an old family friend, plenty of time to talk about World Domination.Or reminisce watching footage of days gone by spent with Reverend Moon, a diverse group of Washington friends and your family.
—–additional link note-this CNN link from Febuary 29, 2008 on Neil Bush’s visit to Paraguay no longer has the article. Just the highlight bullets.
Rev. Moon-allied group hosts Bush brother in Paraguay
* Story Highlights
* Neil Bush is the guest of a group founded by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon
* President Bush’s younger brother meets Paraguay’s president, group delegation
* Report: Neil Bush speaks at seminar sponsored by Universal Peace Federation
* Group allied with Moon says it promotes peace in Mideast, South Asia, other regions
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(I can’t believe I forgot to paste the Slam Dance Ending–Mod, if you add it in, please delete this)
But wherever you decide to go, whatever you decide to do, whatever company you keep, we will know that you really have no regrets except for one-
He used ‘I’ and ‘I’m’ a total of 33 times during that interview. To the bitter end, it was all about him.
The press corps dinner, in which Bush showed a video and joked “No WMD here,” demonstrated and cemented the fact, IMO, that he was a sociopath.
I was thinking about this earlier today. I wonder, in W’s comic ’search’ for WMD before the adoring ‘haves’-and-’have-more’ crowd . . . was there anyone in the audience whose child, or grandchild, or brother, or wife was actually in-theater, in harms’ way, looking for those non-existent WMD’s. Have any who attended that event acknowledged that their laughter was as misplaced as W’s comedic routine was inappropriate?
In a just world, dmac, GWB would be stripped of all benefits as a result
of his (so-called) presidency.
His next job should be handling the most toxic waste in a V.A. hospital -
for minimum wage.