George W. Bush Center Board Meeting
This is definitely a "You're dicking me, aren't you?" kind of moment...
THE BUSH CENTER is still four years from
completion, but the institute is to begin operating from temporary
quarters off-campus by the end of the year. Bush’s friends and
associates say that he is eager to invite the dissidents whom he made a
point of meeting throughout his presidency — Natan Sharansky, the
Russian activist Garry Kasparov and other such figures from China, Venezuela or the Middle East. Elliott Abrams, who had a controversial tenure in the Reagan administration and who led the democracy-promotion bureau in Bush’s National Security Council,
says that Bush “met with more democracy activists and dissidents than
any other president.” (AXE comment and snark: Jimmy Carter comes to mind immediately. However, showing as usual the total lack of historical understanding and context of the late administration, James Madison.Thomas Jefferson. John Adams.
George Washington...Washington had breakfast in the field with more "activists and dissidents" than Bush ever gladhanded. And, Bush did it in so far as he did with no existential risk. I suppose Karen Hughes will rush in with a qualifier and a Texas giggle to add "while in office," as a
qualifier and possibly should -- if only to fully maintain the weasel
part of "lying weasel" that will forever be tied to these guys. Now, if Abrams phrase was "reactionaries and crooks and sadists and cowards", I could heartily endorse it.) Bush identified deeply with these lonely
champions of principle, and by the end of his time in office had come
to regard himself as a dissident, as Sharansky had called him. Saad Eddin Ibrahim,
a prominent Egyptian democracy activist, says that Bush described himself as a "fellow dissident" when he met with a group of activists
in Prague in 2007. “Everybody laughed,” Ibrahim recalls. The president
explained that the Congress, the news media and the bureaucracy wanted
to preserve the status quo; he was an outnumbered minority in his own
government.
I find this more amusingly appalling and appallingly amusing than Chuck Norris' proposal to run for the Presidency of the State of Texas, by the way. Which is pretty much the silliest thing I'd heard for a while. Obviously, Chuck has ambitions and clearly sees, if by seeing we mean hallucinate! that Texas really should take that "whole other country!" nonsense to the next level. Unlike Bush, Chuck Norris is neither stupid, undisciplined, selfish, moronical, a coward, a crook or a fratboy gone to seed. I doubt Chuck Norris was ever a cheerleader...however, this indicates that mastery of a sport that involves taking and giving kicks to the head may have deleterious side effects. Just as an aside, Norris talks about Texas having the "gumption" and the right to secede based on it's unique history. Yeah. But, then there is this..."Anyone who has been around Texas for any length of time knows exactly what we'd do if the going got rough in America. Let there be no doubt about that. As Sam Houston once said, "Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may." Oh, Houston made the list of Best Texan Presidents. It's a short list. But, Houston resigned as governor of Texas because of secession. And, in context, this reads as if things got bad for the rest of the country, Texas would run, run away. And, then there's this gem...
For those losing hope, and others wanting to rekindle the patriotic fires of early America, I encourage you to join Glenn Beck, me and millions of people across the country in the live telecast, "We Surround Them,"
on Friday afternoon (March 13 at 5 p.m. ET, 4 p.m. CT and 2 p.m. PST).
Thousands of cell groups will be united around the country in
solidarity over the concerns for our nation. You can host or attend a
viewing party by going to your local package store and stocking up on Everclear. My wife Gena and I will be hosting one from our Texas ranch, in which we've invited many family members, friends and Law Enforcement to join us. It's our way of saying "We're tired of the corruption, and we're not going to take it anymore!"
Chuck Norris just invited us all to a Klan Meeting! Imagine the fun...
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