"Bush museum opens: ‘Decision Points,’ the library" April 26, 2013
The appearance of President Obama and former first families at the opening of the George W. Bush Library and Museum at Dallas’s Southern Methodist University was a tribute to bipartisan spirit and the office of the presidency.
Another tribute to war criminals.
Out of the spotlight for four years, Bush more than earned the respectful reception to his library through the low-key dignity with which he has approached his post-presidency.
Related: The Black Sheep of the Bush Family
That why he was out of the spotlight?
And early accounts suggest he’s created a library that doesn’t preach. Rather, it lays out the options facing Bush on the major challenges of his presidency — Iraq, Afghanistan, the bank bailout, Hurricane Katrina, etc. — and asks visitors what they would have done in his shoes.
Well, I wouldn't have told lies about WMD in Iraq for starters.
This should be an effective teaching tool, introducing young people to the rigors of the presidency.
(Blog editor cringes at the new description for brain-washing)
But Bush is making a larger statement by choosing to present his eight-year stewardship as a series of “Decision Points.” (He took the same approach in his best-selling memoir of the same name.) Bush is offering up his briefing papers and memos and then inquiring: What, if anything, would you do differently?
Oh, he was a "$teward" now. Asking what I would do differently brought tears to my eyes. So many things. Never read his damn book.
Like some other ex-presidents, from Harry Truman to Richard Nixon, Bush wants even his detractors to give him credit for making tough calls.
That's interesting because I just finished watching Oliver Stone's "Nixon," and how he knew a lot of secrets. You might want to get a room at the Watergate and rethink that whole presidency.
He’s saying: You may not agree with what I did, but consider what it looked like from the other side of the desk.
Oh, if that were only true regarding so many things in my jewspaper.
That may be a key to understanding how Bush saw his presidency, but it loads the dice in significant ways. Presidential leadership involves more than choosing between options.
I don't want to understand a man who thought it was funny to put lit firecrackers in a frogs ass, you know, the guy who later signed off on waterboarding and other methods of torture?
As for rolling the dice, he had his chance and I actually think he was that guy and everybody missed it. He invaded Babylon and was gone after 7 years. Prophecy fulfilled.
Expertise, restraint, and finesse are useful presidential tools that Bush arguably lacked, and didn’t fit into his this-way-or-that-way mindset, which the library reinforces.
Doesn't that make him a Sith Lord?
Still, as Obama pointed out, Bush’s directness sometimes paid off, such as in the days immediately after 9/11 and, later, in the fight for global health. Every president’s legacy has its nuances — even that of a president who explicitly rejected nuance in favor of certainty.
After five years, he's no better than the guy he replaced.
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Ever notice the setting up of the SPYING APPARATUS OBAMA is now using goes UNMENTIONED by the MA$$ MEDIA?
I know everyone had to rush right down there....
"Bush library opens in Texas; Obama praises former president for his resolve" by Peter Baker | New York Times, April 26, 2013
UNIVERSITY PARK, Texas — President Obama joined all of his living predecessors Thursday to pay tribute to George W. Bush as the arguments of the past decade gave way, at least for a day, to a more generous appraisal of a leader who responded to great challenges with determination and grit.
I had a hard time getting through that paragraph, and I.... I.... I.... (heading for the porcelain God) he tortured the innocent and killed millions over lies, but....
The current and former presidents gathered to dedicate the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum here on the campus of Southern Methodist University. Joining them were a number of current and former world leaders and lawmakers, hundreds of former Bush administration officials, and thousands of admirers.
Obama praised Bush for his resolve after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, his compassion in fighting AIDS in Africa, and his commitment to overhauling the immigration system. Treading lightly over their disagreements over Iraq and other issues, the president said his predecessor had fought for what he thought was best for his country.
And Obama just had his own 9/11, although the way the ludicrous cover story has come out means the false-flagging forces of USrael may explode a bomb in an American city. That desperate posibility must never be discounted, not now.
Also see: Obama Abandons Africa to AIDS
Wow, praises the thing as he di$mantles it. You don't think they are getting more funding in this time of austerity, do you? If so, it is for the u$ual pharmacological rea$ons. I'm more prone to think there I$ money for expanding the empire into Africa, what with all the untapped and undeveloped resources, I mean, with all the terrorists there.
‘‘We know President Bush the man,’’ Obama told the crowd in front of the brick-and-limestone center on a bright, sunny Texas day. ‘‘To know the man is to like the man. Because he’s comfortable in his own skin. He knows who he is. He doesn’t put on any pretenses. He takes his job seriously, but he doesn’t take himself too seriously. He is a good man.’’
Well (blog editor just frowns in dejection)....
It was an emotional moment for Bush, coming four years after leaving office with historic low poll numbers.
He still has them; in fact, they have dropped more. No one wants that f*** back.
Bathed in the admiration of his former team and his presidential peers, he recalled the goals that guided his time in office and choked up as he finished his speech. Sitting down to applause, he smiled and wiped tears from his eyes.
I used to wipe away tears for all his victims, but I got all cried out. And now Obama is stacking 'em up like cordwood.
‘‘In democracy, the purpose of public office is not to fulfill personal ambition,’’ he said. ‘‘Elected officials must serve a cause greater than themselves. The political winds blow left and right, polls rise and fall, supporters come and go. But in the end, leaders are defined by the convictions that they hold.’’
Then his tongue turned to sand, right?
Bush, 66, acknowledged the controversies of his time, noting that freedom means the freedom to disagree.
Actually, it means the freedom to say NO! I can disagree with you all I want, but if you have the physical power to compel me to do something and imprison me if I don't, with the authority of fiat executive orders or legislation based on lies as justification, then I'm not free.
‘‘It’s fair to say I created plenty of opportunities to exercise that right,’’ he said with a smile.
For the neo-con Jewish war machine, yeah, ya' did.
But he added that visitors to his library will see how he saw it.
I don't think so, for you see, we know Muslims didn't do 9/11; Israel and its helpers did, you lying war criminal.
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That's a war-criminal media.
More bullshit shoveled by Obama:
"Obama consoles Texas community" April 26, 2013
WACO, Texas — President Obama consoled a rural Texas community rocked by a deadly fertilizer plant explosion, telling mourners Thursday they are not alone in their grief and they will have the nation’s support to rebuild from the devastation.
They always say that, and nothing gets rebuilt, be it Iraq, New Orleans, the East Coast. There is no more money. Wars, Wall Street, Israel, corporations, and selfish politicians have stolen it all.
‘‘This small town’s family is bigger now,’’ Obama said during a memorial service at Baylor University for victims of last week’s explosion in nearby West, Texas, that killed 14 and injured 200. Nearly 10,000 met to remember first responders killed in the blast, a crowd more than triple the size of West’s population of 2,700.
Biden was mouthing off in Boston, which got a hell of a lot more coverage. Why?.
‘‘To the families, the neighbors grappling with unbearable loss, we are here to say you are not alone. You are not forgotten,’’ Obama said. ‘‘We may not all live here in Texas, but we’re neighbors too. We’re Americans too, and we stand with you.’’
The April 17 explosion left a crater more than 90 feet wide and damaged dozens of buildings. The Insurance Council of Texas estimates it caused more than $100 million in damage, and crews sifted the rubble for clues to the cause of the blast or whether foul play was involved.
You aren't going to find it there, or are you? Another Pentagon situation where guys in suits are picking up the grounds.
The blast came 20 minutes after a fire was reported at West Fertilizer. Ten of those killed were first responders.
The memorial service honored those first responders and two civilians who tried to fight the fire and were posthumously named volunteer first responders....
The president spoke for 16 minutes, quoting Scripture and lauding the men whose flag-draped coffins laid before him.
Does he laud the victims of his drone strikes?
Both the president and first lady Michelle Obama wiped away a tear as bagpipes sounded ‘‘Amazing Grace.’’
I feel like crying, too.
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Related:
"After Texas blast, students return to new reality; Outside districts help, trailers used" by Nomaan Merchant | Associated Press, April 23, 2013
WEST, Texas — Students attended class in trailers with dozens of reporters and TV cameras chronicling their arrival.
At least they aren't living in one.
‘‘I’m just glad to get back to our routine,’’ said 14-year-old Sofia Guerra....
Yeah, everything is back to normal. Heard that so much the last few days. Well, back to the new normal anyway.
The White House said President Obama will attend a memorial service for victims of the explosion. The service is scheduled for Thursday at Baylor University.
Obama was already scheduled to headline a Democratic fund-raiser in Dallas on Wednesday night and then attend a dedication ceremony for President George W. Bush’s library.
Hmmmmm.
On Monday, counselors were in each classroom in West and available separately for students still dealing with the emotions of the blast — almost everyone in the town knew someone killed, hurt or displaced....
West Elementary school had its normal bunch of pre-K through sixth-graders. It also set up trailers behind the building for intermediate students. Middle-and high-school students were bused to a spruced-up vacant school in neighboring Connally district.
West and Connally are rivals — or were until Wednesday night....
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"Fertilizer explosion reveals lapses in security, oversight" April 24, 2013
Right now the blast appears to have been a horrible industrial accident....
What's with the flash of light to the left and the whizz-bam of the explosion? We have reached the point where if the ma$$ media says it, the opposite must be true.
Homeland Security appears not to have known that West Fertilizer existed until the plant blew up. The federal agency should have known, however. The plant’s filings with the Texas Department of State Health Services and other local agencies did include its new chemical inventory — the sudden appearance of which, in such a large quantity, should have immediately raised red flags for local emergency planning authorities. But no one seems to have noticed or shared the information with Homeland Security. The question now is why.
The owners of West Fertilizer should be held accountable for failing to follow federal regulations and not taking other steps to protect the surrounding community....
Regulations don’t work if plants don’t follow them — but also if different agencies don’t talk to one another. There is a complicated flow chart of agencies responsible for collecting and distributing information on ammonium nitrate supplies, but Homeland Security ultimately is charged with monitoring inventories as large as West Fertilizer’s. It should take the lead on oversight....
Is that why a missile was sent to destroy the place? Now government can mark, tag, and check any explosives before using them in their false flags?
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Want to stop at the Roadhouse for some chow before heading back to Boston?
"Wayne Matewsky’s appalling behavior" April 24, 2013
After a display of boorish behavior, Wayne Matewsky, Everett’s newly elected state representative, owes an apology to Kevin Bartel and his 7-year-old daughter, Bella.
Who invited Bush?
According to Bartel and several witnesses, Matewsky mocked the special needs child during an incident that occurred at a Texas Roadhouse restaurant on the night of March 6.
That wouldn't have been a Bush.
In an interview with Fox 25 News, Bartel said that his daughter had suffered a stroke as a baby, and is now blind, unable to walk, and non-verbal. However, she can make sounds, which she was doing during a night out celebrating her seventh birthday at the restaurant located at the Gateway shopping Center on Route 16.
“Bella made some noises . . . some clicking noises,” Bartel told Fox 25. At that point, according to Bartel, Matewsky, who is also a member of the Everett Common Council, began mimicking the child’s noises. A friend who was celebrating Bella’s birthday with the father and daughter confronted Matewsky: “I said to him, ‘She’s a disabled little girl, why are you carrying on like this?’ ” Ed McAloney told the television station.
A spokesman for Texas Roadhouse, a Kentucky-based restaurant chain, confirmed the incident for the Globe and said Matewsky asked to be moved away from Bella’s table. According to the restaurant staff, Matewsky, 54, used an expletive to describe the child. He also threatened to call the Board of Health on the restaurant and left without paying his $60 bill.
The incident occurred the day after Matewsky won the Democratic nomination for state representative.
He's a what? Maybe we should get up and leave.
He went on to win a special election to fill the unexpired term of Stephen Smith, who was sentenced to four months in federal prison and fined $20,000 after pleading guilty to two counts of absentee ballot fraud.
See: Everett Legislator Facing Execution For Election Fraud
Matewsky, who worked as Smith’s legislative aide, went back to the restaurant and apologized to the staff. However, he continues to deny the incident involving Bella took place, despite corroborating witness accounts. Michael Toto, a Revere resident who said he witnessed the incident, brought it up during the March 11 meeting of the Everett Common Council. “I saw him berating the child and her father,” Toto told the Globe. “I didn’t think that was right. I wanted him to step up and take responsibility for it.”
Then he's a BULLY!! Just like Bush!
After taking testimony at a private meeting, the Everett Common Council’s ethics committee determined that Matewsky “had committed misconduct, to wit, abuse of his official position for the purpose outside of his official duties.” The committee voted to issue a reprimand, the most severe action that can be taken. Last week, the full council approved the recommendation, which was taken strictly for the way Matewsky treated restaurant employees.
That's it?
During the course of the exchange at the Texas Roadhouse, Matewsky reportedly asked the restaurant’s assistant manager, “Do you know who I am?” Now, more people do know who he is, and what they know is far from flattering.
What is it about CELEBRITY, POSITION, or POWER, that makes people feel they are SUPERIOR?!?!
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UPDATE:
"Matewsky, 54, also threatened to call the Board of Health on the restaurant and left without paying his $60 bill"
Back to the library:
"Barbara Bush brushes off idea of son Jeb for president
WASHINGTON — Amid the celebration surrounding the opening of son George W. Bush’s presidential library Thursday, former first lady Barbara Bush brushed aside talk of a Jeb Bush run for the White House in 2016.
In in an interview from Dallas on NBC’s ‘‘Today’’ show, Mrs. Bush was asked if she thought that Jeb, a former Florida governor, should seek the presidency.
‘‘He’s by far the best qualified man,’’ she said, ‘‘but no.’’
‘‘We’ve had enough Bushes,’’ she said. On Wednesday, former President George W. Bush said he thought Jeb should run.
Agreed.
Related: Meet the Next President George Bush
Not Jeb?
