Bush won't criticize Obama, wants him to succeed

[spookyturtle 9,465]

Even Bush wants Obama to succeed. Limbaugh should pay attention to this. Bush is pro America, Rush is not. This shows what an un American douche bag Limbaugh really is.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29743567/

Bush says Obama 'deserves my silence'

He says he won't criticize new president and he plans to write a book

updated 9:16 p.m. ET, Tues., March. 17, 2009

CALGARY, Alberta - Former President George W. Bush said on Tuesday that he won't criticize Barack Obama because the new U.S. president "deserves my silence," and said he plans to write a book about the 12 toughest decisions he made in office.

Bush declined to critique the Obama administration in his first speech since leaving office in January. Former Vice President ####### Cheney has said that Obama's decisions threatened America's safety.

"I'm not going to spend my time criticizing him. There are plenty of critics in the arena," Bush said. "He deserves my silence."

Bush said he wants Obama to succeed and said it's important that he has that support. Talk-show host Rush Limbaugh has said he hoped Obama would fail.

"I love my country a lot more than I love politics," Bush said. "I think it is essential that he be helped in office."

The invitation-only event titled a "Conversation with George W. Bush" attracted close to 2,000 guests who paid $3,100 per table. Bush received two standing ovations from the predominantly business crowd. About 200 protested outside the event.

Not so unpopular in Alberta

Bush is unpopular in Canada but less so in oil-rich Alberta, the country's most conservative province and one sometimes called the Texas of the north.

"This is my maiden voyage. My first speech since I was the president of the United States and I couldn't think of a better place to give it than Calgary, Canada," Bush said.

The event's organizers declined to say how much Bush was paid to speak at the gathering.

Bush said that he doesn't know what he will do in the long term but that he will write a book that will ask people to consider what they would do if they had to protect the United States as president.

He said it will be fun to write and that "it's going to be (about) the 12 toughest decisions I had to make."

"I'm going to put people in my place, so when the history of this administration is written at least there's an authoritarian voice saying exactly what happened," Bush said.

"I want people to understand what it was like to sit in the Oval Office and have them come in and say we have captured Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, the alleged killer of a guy named Danny Pearl because he was simply Jewish, and we think we have information on further attacks on the United States," Bush said.

Iraq better without Saddam Hussein

Bush didn't specify what the 12 hardest decisions were but said Iraq is better off without Saddam Hussein in power.

Bush was also full of jokes during his appearance. He joked that he would do more speeches to pay for his new house in Dallas.

"I actually paid for a house last fall. I think I'm the only American to have bought a house in the fall of 2008," he quipped.

He also said his mother is doing well. Barbara Bush was released from a Houston hospital Friday, nine days after undergoing heart surgery. "Clearly he can't live without her," Bush said of his father, former President George H.W. Bush.

Bush seemed to enjoy himself even though the event started a half hour later than expected because of tight security. "I'll sit here all day," Bush said during a question-and-answer session. "I'm flattered people even want to hear me in the first place."

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[spookyturtle 9,465]

Excellent.

[Danno 1,228]

Odd how the left, all of a sudden is giving Bush an "atta'boy".

[spookyturtle 9,465]

Odd how the left, all of a sudden is giving Bush an "atta'boy".

Maybe I posted it as a shot at Rush for hoping that Obama fails.

[Danno 1,228]

Odd how the left, all of a sudden is giving Bush an "atta'boy".

Maybe I posted it as a shot at Rush for hoping that Obama fails.

Again, what is it specifically you would expect Obama to do that any conservative would want to succeed?

[spookyturtle 9,465]

Odd how the left, all of a sudden is giving Bush an "atta'boy".

Maybe I posted it as a shot at Rush for hoping that Obama fails.

Again, what is it specifically you would expect Obama to do that any conservative would want to succeed?

Nothing. I would expect all Republicans and conseratives to sit on their lazy a$$es and ###### and moan at all that goes on around them and then refuse to participate in the solution when offered the chance. And keep up a constant diatribe about how nothing will work and how the country will be in trouble. Meanwhile conveniently forgetting that it was under their watch that this mess was created. Blame all others, take no responsibility yourself. Complain about the methods to recover, but offer none of your own. Worry more about your party platform than your country.

[Cham 3]

He wants him to succeed because he KNOWS he screwed it all up and he is about to lose his ranch house due to the falling economy. Poor bush he was reading a book the other day to feel better..he was overheard saying..see ####### run...see Jane divorce him for being a moron...HMMM could he be talking about himself...*pats his head*

[Niels Bohr 72]

If only McCain could to the same as Bush wanting Obama to succeed.

[Sofiyya 1,687]

Since when do libs give a sh!t what Bush thinks? When you come to your senses, you won't want Obama to succeed either. Wh en you come to your senses, you'll stop whining and moaning about people who disagree with you. You're being un-American.

Edited March 19, 2009 by Barza Woman

[fozzie 41]

I think bush will be a good ex-president. The shame of it all is that he got the opportunity!

[almaty 19]

[Niels Bohr 72]

Since when did Republicans becomes scientists? LOL. I like to wonder the same thing.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Odd how the left, all of a sudden is giving Bush an "atta'boy".

Since when did one person become the official spokesperson for "the left".

Who gives a flying fig what Bush thinks - he was a disaster in office, and is completely irrelevant out of it.

[Danno 1,228]

Odd how the left, all of a sudden is giving Bush an "atta'boy".

Since when did one person become the official spokesperson for "the left".

Who gives a flying fig what Bush thinks - he was a disaster in office, and is completely irrelevant out of it.

IF he is irrelevant ... then why are those on the left using him?

I think it was clear to all on the right that Bush in many ways was a poor standard bearer for Conservatism..... so why even compare Bush to Rush or any conservative?