He’s no good

Gosh, George W. Bush is a bad person. He pre-emptively invades and occupies a foreign country because of its supposed possession of weapons of mass destruction, and when the weapons aren’t found, he doesn’t even bother giving the country an accounting of how this disastrous mistake happened. He solemnly pledges to his conservative supporters that he will nominate a Supreme Court justice in the conservative mold of Scalia and Thomas, then he nominates his totally unqualified liberal crony Harrier Miers instead; and when his conservative supporters complain, he sends out his wife to tell them that they are anti-woman. He tells U.S. airline companies to do everything they can to stop terrorists from boarding planes, then sues them if some Muslim complains about racial profiling. He assigns Border Patrol agents to the dangerous and thankless job of protecting America’s border from an ongoing invasion of illegal aliens, and when agents Jose Alonso Compean and Ignacio Ramos fire a shot at an illegal alien drug smuggler at the Rio Grande who they thought was firing at them, Bush stands by and lets Compean and Ramos be sentenced to 12 and 11 year prison sentences, respectively, and he doesn’t pardon them. Anyone who commits himself to this man, who follows him in any way, is making a big mistake.

A personal comment. In my eulogy for my father at his funeral many years ago I said he was “made of good stuff.” I’m reminded of that now, because it strikes me that George W. Bush is made of bad stuff.

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Spencer Warren writes:

You might add that he sends our boys to die supposedly fighting terrorists in Iraq but has long obstructed efforts to prevent terrorists crossing our borders. As a president’s term winds down after eight years everything tends to catch up with him—can’t spin anymore. This guy still has two years to go and will leave office as low as Nixon. One of the worst ever.

Is he made of bad stuff—or no stuff?

Ben writes:

He tells America that we are in a huge struggle. A struggle that we must win in order to preserve America and it’s way of life. Even though he won’t name this struggle, everybody knows it comes from the Middle East and that they are all Islamic.

Then he asks the most tone deaf question of our time:

“Why is it ok for the British to run our port security but not our friends from Dubai?”

David B. writes:

One of your correspondents mentioned George H.W. Bush’s role in the federal prosecution of the policemen in the Rodney King affair. Upon their acquittal in the state trial, large-scale riots by blacks broke out. Then-President Bush’s reaction to this was to order his Justice Department to prosecute the acquitted officers on Federal Civil Rights charges.

One thing about this has been overlooked. When he made the announcement, Mr. Bush proclaimed the accused “Guilty.” In other words, a sitting President of the United States was proclaiming defendants guilty before the trial started. There is a book by one of the accused, Stacey Koon (with a co-author). The book titled, Presumed Guilty, makes this point. Probably, Clinton would have done it upon taking office if GHWB hadn’t. However, Mr. Bush was eager to pander to blacks. As always, the Bushes didn’t get many votes from their compulsive pandering to nonwhites.

Incidentally, O.J. Simpson could have been charged in Federal Court after his criminal trial acquittal with “violating the civil rights” of his two victims, just as the Rodney King cops were. The feds were not willing to go after Simpson as they were the policeman in the King affair.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at January 24, 2007 12:05 PM | Send