George W. Bush: Trump Lacked the ‘Humility’
Necessary to be an Effective Leader
Breitbart,
by
Pam Key
Original Article
Posted By: GustoGrabber,
4/19/2021 10:33:50 AM
Former President George W. Bush said Sunday during an interview with “CBS Evening News” anchor Norah O’Donnell that he felt former President Donald Trump lacked the “humility” necessary to be an effective leader. In the interview that aired on “CBS Sunday Morning,” O’Donnell said, “Though he has refrained from criticizing his successors, he told us there’s a clear difference between him and former President Donald Trump.” Discussing Trump, Bush said, “I feel a responsibility to uphold the dignity of the office. I did then, and I do now. And I think it’s undignified to want to see my name in print all the time.” CORRECTION*
*Headline resplit by Staff. Please note correct way to splt wide headlines.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
carpathia 4/19/2021 10:36:08 AM (No. 759457)
Stay out the bushes...
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Toby Ten Bears 4/19/2021 10:36:50 AM (No. 759459)
And you lacked the brains to know you are a moron.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
jollytroll 4/19/2021 10:39:16 AM (No. 759463)
Umm, except he *was* an effective leader with REAL results....
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
athina 4/19/2021 10:40:49 AM (No. 759466)
So, george, stick to your principles; it's unbecoming to make these comments as well. Sucking up to the msm is pitiful. Keep being dignified and be quiet.
70 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
jimincalif 4/19/2021 10:43:11 AM (No. 759469)
#43 - a humble man with much to be humble about!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Californian 4/19/2021 10:44:05 AM (No. 759471)
Exactly what dignity did he bring to the office? He was in a fabulous position with sky high approvals to do anything and what did he accomplish? Nothing. He couldn't even clean up and control Iraq after invading over a false pre-text because he had zero post-war plan and he never took control of Afghanistan, nor did he dig bin laden out even though the Pakistanis were hiding him.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
RTC60 4/19/2021 10:44:12 AM (No. 759472)
Blah, blah, blah. I am so over that man.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 4/19/2021 10:46:05 AM (No. 759474)
In the past - - I sometimes had doubts about the claims that there was a "Uniparty" which tried to control everything. It sounded a bit conspiratorial to me.
But now - - now there is no doubt. Mr Uniparty himself - - has stepped up to prove it. Not a peep of criticism of Master B. Clinton or Little 0bie has ever passed his lips - - but he's all to eager to appear on radical leftist media to criticize President Trump.
Uniparty? Yes - - absolutely yes.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Quigley 4/19/2021 10:46:50 AM (No. 759475)
It's sad to hear this man descend into psychobabble. At the time of the Iraq invasion, I believed that he had made a really difficult decision that left the world a better place. Slightly analogous to dropping The Bomb- there was a situation that wasn't going to go away. His approach to terror seemed spot on- make them fight in their own lands so they don't come over here. His retreat from his own actions in failing to provide follow through with Iraq was hugely disappointing.
Perhaps he doesn't mean "humility" but means "failed to surrender to the entrenched powers."
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
TrueBlueWfan 4/19/2021 10:48:41 AM (No. 759478)
The same old establishment/RINO mantra: we must lose with dignity and maybe we'll get 'em next time, if they let us....
Could Trump be abrasive and a braggart? Sure, but he accomplished so much with such little help, the guy deserves bragging rights.
W needs to keep his piehole shut, like he did while obama was destroying the country.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Ribicon 4/19/2021 10:52:27 AM (No. 759483)
FTA: Bush said, “Totally. To me, humility shows an understanding of self. It shows a belief in a higher power that is necessary to be an effective leader. And we were short of humility.” Humility is not the right word for someone who, just like his father, sold the nation out to a "higher power" of un-American Marxists while pretending be a patriotic conservative.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 4/19/2021 10:53:38 AM (No. 759484)
How many service members died under your watch fighting your wars?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
nina584 4/19/2021 10:54:21 AM (No. 759485)
He needs to go back to painting pictures of his toes in a bathtub.Nothing but a progressive pos. How many illegals he wants for his big farm????
47 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
Daisymay 4/19/2021 10:54:34 AM (No. 759486)
He had exactly the Demeanor and Assurance that the President of the United States needs to convince other Countries that he Means What He says! One will notice our Country did not have any threats against it while Trump was in Office. There was a reason for that. Those in power knew Trump wouldn't just threaten. He would act! And they knew it! Bush was a Pushover as was Obama. Everyone knows our Current President hasn't got a clue what is happening around him and they can do whatever they want to against our country. The Democrats in the White House have no Clue and the Democrat Congress have no Clue, so we can expect some aggression against this country at any time! It's going to happen and when it does, those in Power and even our Leaders at the Pentagon, won't be effective at all. Sad for our country!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Condor44 4/19/2021 10:55:05 AM (No. 759487)
Well George, look at Patton. This was a guy that was not humble, but a heck of a leader. Trump is not a professional corrupt politician. He is a businessman, a developer, a salesman. He broufght those traits to the WH and was one of the finest leaders in my lifetime. You, not so much.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Jennie C. 4/19/2021 10:58:37 AM (No. 759492)
And he (W) lacked the spine.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 4/19/2021 10:59:30 AM (No. 759493)
Was JFK or FDR "humble?" Hardly! They were all about themselves all the time. Trump is Trump. We knew what he was when we voted for him. Smacking down Angela Merkle was PERFECT! Yanking the tail of the Dragon (China) was PERFECT! World leaders saw that as a WIN for the U.S.A. and envied Trump for doing it. As a result, populism around the globe has increased and the fight against Globalism is underway.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
CactusStar 4/19/2021 10:59:58 AM (No. 759494)
Talk about a man incapable of self-examination. Know thyself, George.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Right Time 4/19/2021 11:09:33 AM (No. 759501)
And, as poor a President as George Bush was, he had a lot to feel humility about.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
ARKfamily 4/19/2021 11:09:52 AM (No. 759502)
George W Bush could show some humility himself. He refrained from commenting about Barack Obama and he should have done the same with Donald Trump. He is jealous because his brother did not win and being quite arrogant now.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Namma 4/19/2021 11:10:57 AM (No. 759503)
I think georgies idea of humility is never defend yourself. I use to be a fan of his. Not so much anymore. His true ideals were shown after he left office. He never spoke against ole sex pot Clinton or the “citizen” hussien. To me it just proved he agreed with there destruction of our Constitution and this country.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Son of Grady 4/19/2021 11:19:08 AM (No. 759508)
We want our leaders to have a backbone so they can
stand up to our enemies foreign and domestic.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
justavoter 4/19/2021 11:21:08 AM (No. 759510)
George Bush has a great fault in that he does not understand the that the American People are greater that the "Office" is so cherishes. If you don't take care of the people, you don't have an office.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
mizzmac 4/19/2021 11:22:28 AM (No. 759511)
Is it humble to point out your superior humility? Just asking...
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
montwoodcliff 4/19/2021 11:24:42 AM (No. 759515)
More than anybody else, he is why we got Obama!
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
downnout 4/19/2021 11:28:16 AM (No. 759518)
Hard to beat comments from OP.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Jobe 4/19/2021 11:28:57 AM (No. 759519)
Yeah! We should all be just like our heroes, you know like Mitt Romney and his ilk who just couldn't wait to surrender. You know who I'm talking about, all those Rino's who are afraid of their own shadow. President Bush was little better. He was humble. He bent over and let the liberals drive him home. How many years have I watched as timid, weak,Republicans stood by sucking their thumbs and doing nothing because the liberals might say mean things about them?
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
RUReadyY3K 4/19/2021 11:30:34 AM (No. 759521)
What a disappointment. Has he started drinking again? Or, perhaps sniffing the oils of his paintings? I guess I shouldn't be surprised, since he allowed the media and other Democrats to slander, libel and insult him with impunity.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
dst4life 4/19/2021 11:34:05 AM (No. 759527)
And you're humble, Stupid Arse?
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
DVC 4/19/2021 11:35:21 AM (No. 759529)
Trump had nothing to be humble about.
But, Dubya has a LOT to be humble about, and a lot to be ashamed of. A back stabber, supporting the Uniparty and globalists against middle class Americans.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
john56 4/19/2021 11:39:38 AM (No. 759534)
Ah, shaddup./
"Humility" is a trait that very few politicians have ... had ... or need.
The days of Mr. Smith goes to Washington are long since past. If you aren't driven, thin-skinned, or willing to give -- and take -- Washington will either swallow you whole and you become the establishment or it will chew you up and spit you out.
And the rest of America be damned.
No more Bushes! And that includes your nephew, George P., who plays like he's pro-Trump but I expect will turn on us the first chance he gets.
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For years Bill and Hillary trashed George and his mother and father and yet W would often say Clinton was his “ brother by another mother”. He only lives half the adage
“Never be haughty to the humble or humble to the haughty “.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
Krause 4/19/2021 11:42:56 AM (No. 759538)
So enacting great national policies that helps lots of people takes a back seat to personal decorum?
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
navybrat 4/19/2021 11:50:27 AM (No. 759549)
W was an ineffective, timid. smirker president.. The Clinton's insulted him, criticized and degraded him at every opportunity. Turning the other cheek is one thing, but being weak, not defending and taking up for yourself is another. He befriended the lowlife Clinton's and even called slick willy his brother and George HW called him his other son. Obama blamed Bush for everything wrong. Bush's fault, the "go to" phrase, was on a loop and repeated daily whenever something went wrong or there was a smidgeon of criticism. .Still, W said nothing, but now seems to have found his voice and will not shut up. I wish he would, I have no respect for any Bush family member. Trump is strong man, a worker and a real man, he punches back and I admire that. He is a true leader and his years as a successful business man show. Only a strong man could deal with bureaucrats, politicians, mafia? jealous rivals and underhanded competition in Manhattan. Trump did many good things for the country, could have and would have done more if not for the self-serving democrats and RINOs and fake "news" people.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
smokincol 4/19/2021 11:56:25 AM (No. 759559)
this coming from a moron ... does he even know how to spell "humility"? the man's an insult to the logical thinking, ( conservatives ), people in this country. he only won two terms as president because no one wanted a commie to take the office, there is nothing good to say about him or, his presidency. the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
Mushroom 4/19/2021 12:06:54 PM (No. 759578)
#10, Concerning PDJT's braggadocio, as Saint Limbaugh stated many times, it's not bragging if you can do it.
PDT is way ahead of fulfilling promises than any other Pres in my lifetimes and that includes Pres Reagan.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
DARling 4/19/2021 12:14:12 PM (No. 759591)
No major governments messed with America while Trump exhibited strength. Sabers are being rattled all over the world now because Biden is a weak sister biding in the shadows of his inept vice president.
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President Trump may have lacked humility but you certainly lacked balls.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 4/19/2021 12:21:01 PM (No. 759601)
You lacked a brain to be an effective leader.
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
Italiano 4/19/2021 12:23:18 PM (No. 759604)
Tell you what, W. You seem to have a lot of time on your hands. Why not visit Arlington, Miramar and every VA hospital around the country. Apologize to them and their families for putting them there.
Not all political families from Hell are Democrats. Most. Not all.
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
hershey 4/19/2021 12:28:01 PM (No. 759611)
Hey doofus, we didn't need someone with 'humility'...we needed someone with the cohones to kick butt...
21 people like this.
Reply 42 - Posted by:
AlpineLace 4/19/2021 12:28:37 PM (No. 759612)
You are part of the reason Trump is still very popular. You let the media tromp all over you, never fought back and stayed "Mr. Nice Guy". Your supporters were and are sick to death of your roll over.
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
subal 4/19/2021 12:32:37 PM (No. 759615)
I voted for a leader of this country!
Not a pastey Sunday school teacher.
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
bighambone 4/19/2021 12:36:47 PM (No. 759618)
G.W. Bush is a liberal “insider” Republican who masked his liberalism by referring to himself and his politics as being “compassionate conservative” in nature. He is in tight with the big bankers, that has been his ancestors mantra for generations.
He started the war in Iraq under the false pretenses that Iraq was amassing large quantities of weapons of mass destruction that were nowhere to be found after the USA and the UK invaded Iraq. That invasion resulted in a number of things happening, a lot of USA and UK troops being killed and wounded, a lot of money being made by the defense contractor’s investors, the empowering of Islamists in Iraq and Iran and of course with Iraq remaining as a destabilized land housing all sorts of Islamist related terrorists still running loose, none of which is in the best interests of the USA.
When it comes to illegal immigration, Bush always takes the liberal “insider” Republican line that unlimited cheap foreign labor is great for the business and investor classes.
Remember Bush Never did defend his policies and programs or his personal or professional reputations as the leftist and liberal Democrats trashed him and his reputation into the gutter for many years. By just smiling and playing rope-a-dope as the Democrats slammed him, Bush essentially opened the door for the leftist Democrat Obama to be elected.
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Reply 45 - Posted by:
PCMM 4/19/2021 12:40:21 PM (No. 759624)
You have to admit that ol’ Georgie-poo has a brass set after lacking the courage to stop 9/11 or prevent GWOT by standing up to the CIA (where he was most likely endeared and indebted to Daddy’s group). Stuff it, George.
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Reply 46 - Posted by:
Melanie 4/19/2021 12:41:07 PM (No. 759627)
You were too obsequious...butt out.
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Reply 47 - Posted by:
clayusmcret 4/19/2021 12:43:24 PM (No. 759632)
George is coming out for Biden* and the left's side. Very telling. Explains why he refused to defend his own administration against years of lies the left spewed in his direction.
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Reply 48 - Posted by:
MickTurn 4/19/2021 12:45:04 PM (No. 759635)
Yea, W, and YOUR Humility was sickening. You let the Leftist Scum walk all over you and YOU never said a word in your own defense. We need leaders that will defend our Country, not hide in the closet. Go Away and SHUT UP!
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Reply 49 - Posted by:
stablemoney 4/19/2021 12:51:54 PM (No. 759645)
I don't want humility in a leader, GW. I also do not want you or your brothers, Clinton and Obama.
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Reply 50 - Posted by:
Italiano 4/19/2021 12:57:00 PM (No. 759654)
He's just miffed because Trump declined his offer of the "Kick Me" sign he wore taped to his ass for eight years.
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Reply 51 - Posted by:
kono 4/19/2021 12:58:44 PM (No. 759656)
Dubya could have gone that route, too; but as soon as he encountered the Liberal push-back, his desire to be liked by everybody led him down the RINO path, instead. Feh.
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Reply 52 - Posted by:
moebellini3 4/19/2021 12:59:41 PM (No. 759658)
The man has disgraced himself and his family. Notice how all of the swamp creatures stick together. The difference between "W" and Trump, is that Trump is a real man.
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Reply 53 - Posted by:
seamusm 4/19/2021 1:04:39 PM (No. 759664)
And you, W, lacked the balls.
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Reply 54 - Posted by:
red1066 4/19/2021 1:06:30 PM (No. 759666)
Some people never learn to shut up.
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Reply 55 - Posted by:
jasmine 4/19/2021 1:06:40 PM (No. 759667)
GW Bush is a globalist, and globalists are not humble. National sovereignty is incompatible with the way they think the world should be run. A United States population raised in freedom is incompatible with globalist plans for wealth redistribution from wealthier nations to impoverished ones. Hence, US presidents since Reagan, with the exception of Donald Trump, have been dedicated to importing poverty into the US.
Note that the "humble" GW Bush refused to secure our borders, even after 9/11. That was an inexcusable dereliction of duty. Donald Trump, on the other hand, put the interests of American citizens FIRST, which is what presidents are supposed to do. The United States is a sovereign nation, and its citizens have no duty to submit to globalism. That might explain why patriotic Americans remain skeptical of the last "election," in which the first thing the "winner" did was tell illegals "they should come" to the United States. His plan fits right in with wealth redistribution and changing the US population into one that is far less educated and more tolerant of corrupt politicians.
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Reply 56 - Posted by:
farmwife 4/19/2021 1:07:31 PM (No. 759668)
Unfortunately George W lacked the cajones to be a good leader.
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Reply 57 - Posted by:
Periwinkel 4/19/2021 1:10:23 PM (No. 759675)
Would someone please find Georgie his red finger paint jar...he lost it. He needs his paints to keep his mouth shut. .
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Reply 58 - Posted by:
walcb 4/19/2021 1:27:28 PM (No. 759682)
It is so easy to be critical of a President when you know the MSM will tout your comments to the high heaven. When was the last time Bush was critical of Obama, Biden or Clinton? By his lack of comment on these three he is indicating they have run a perfect presidency--that is not possible.
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Reply 59 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 4/19/2021 1:44:35 PM (No. 759697)
Bush's 'humility' went a big way to get us 8 years of Obama.
Bush's 'humility' let him be figuratively smacked in the face and kicked in the groin by his critics for years. When do you stand up for yourself? When do you stand up for your country? Bush did neither. He was President! A President is expected to defend himself. His behavior was and is disgraceful.
Trump lacked humility? Thank God.
We don't need any more 'humble' Bushes.
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Reply 60 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 4/19/2021 1:47:03 PM (No. 759700)
At least no one attacked America under trump's watch.
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No one who runs for President is humble. You don’t run for President unless your ego is big enough to fill a world.
If only George Bush was effective.
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Reply 62 - Posted by:
Hermoine 4/19/2021 2:38:32 PM (No. 759745)
If you have tell people you are humble, you most definitely are not humble.
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Reply 63 - Posted by:
Hazymac 4/19/2021 2:43:34 PM (No. 759750)
George, you abandoned whatever conservative principles you might once have had when you didn't support Trump's reelection. If you really voted for the comprehensively corrupt, stupid, senile Xiden, you have well and truly joined the enemy's side. That's a nearly unforgivable travesty of failing to recognize an unconventional but strong leader, which Trump is and you're not, especially as ex-president. You should know better, but guess you lost your judgment during your brother's unsuccessful run at the presidency.
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Reply 64 - Posted by:
Aubreyesque 4/19/2021 2:44:44 PM (No. 759751)
I’m starting to get the same responsive tic with ol’ Dubya that I used to get in the 90s whenever Billy Jeff opened his ugly fish mouth: just rage and the desire to slap the frak out of him, made all the more intense by the memory of actually having voted the wretch into office. Oh and let me at his wife too. Inwish I knew what was in those notes given at his pappys funeral. I’d give anything for the American people to put that look back on there.
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Reply 65 - Posted by:
cartcart 4/19/2021 3:22:08 PM (No. 759766)
TRUMP was the best. He stepped on toes of the swamp-dwellers and they hated him for it. GWB is now Jeb and Romney rolled into one.
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Reply 66 - Posted by:
FormerDem 4/19/2021 4:00:14 PM (No. 759798)
Trump is very humble. Those who don' t see it have deficient humor. He is not abashed; they have not shoved him a step back; i would say that humbly he stands in place.. They want to change the subject to him and his faults, and he stays on us and our issues, and on making us laugh (and laugh, he is hysterical) ... that is what they mean by not numble, that they can't get him into a struggle session and keep him there. Well YAH.
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Reply 67 - Posted by:
Omen55 4/19/2021 4:42:55 PM (No. 759836)
Any member of this family with WH hopes can forget it!!
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Reply 68 - Posted by:
lil dotty 4/19/2021 5:00:50 PM (No. 759860)
Dub Ya:
He might have lacked humility, however, he certainly had the KNOW HOW and the brains to accomplish a great deal.
You, you had neither humility or brains. Even lacked American Patriotic spirit.To be frank, we citizens were nothing but cattle to
you and yours. All that was lacking was the W on our backsides.
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Reply 69 - Posted by:
broken01 4/19/2021 7:05:36 PM (No. 759968)
And you sir lacked as Stone Cold Steve Austin says “the grapefruits” to be a effective leader..
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Reply 70 - Posted by:
anniebc 4/19/2021 8:28:54 PM (No. 760073)
Shut up! George.
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Being called an ineffective leader by George W. Bush is like being called ugly by a frog.
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Comments:
So big government luvin Ivy League underachieving sons and grandsons of money laundering Nazi and cartel money who did nothing but purge Reagan and his legacy, needlessly spent us lives in two mismanaged wars And showed no concern other than cheap labor as immigration policy Now he conducts lectures on humility and respect? History will be unkind to the bushes