TheBlaze published a story earlier this week revealing that former President George W. Bush was hurt over not being included in the 2008 Republican Convention, according to Dana Perino’s new book “And the Good News Is.”
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After catching a live shot of the convention, Bush asked Perino, his press secretary, “Do you think they know they’re insulting me?” Her response: "Yes, sir. I believe they do."
Here's what some readers of TheBlaze had to say about the book passage:
The-MonkIt would have been better if GW Bush was invited, attended and spoke there.
While Bush wasn’t the best POTUS, he was far from the worst. He’s an all-around nice guy to boot.
I think Bush proved he’s a better man than McCain, and, apparently, a better pilot.
A lot of people complain about how Bush did this and did that. Meeting the troops in hospitals or returning home, blah blah was an act. Well I don’t give a damn even if it was an act, he showed them some friggin common courtesy, which is more than we can say for Obama. He’s too busy bad mouthing our country and telling other world leaders how bad and sorry America is for living. God forbid he should visit some troops. He sure likes to ruin service member weddings for golf though. Bush wasn’t perfect, but he at least acted like he loved America, and quite honestly I think he does. And I definitely believe that he cares for our armed forces and didn’t take the deaths of service members lightly.
If Bush were there, they would have had unity. That' something the McCain/Graham Republicrats do not want.
He was elected president twice. Both times defeating the “smartest men” in America.
Mutual respect is something Republicrats cannot do. Look at what the McCain team is doing to Paul. I am not a Paul supporter, but it is incredibly important for him to be involved since a majority of his supporters do not have Geritol prescriptions.
Republicrats only know how to lose. Mostly because the RINOs work for the other side
I’d trade for him on his worst day for the worst president in American history — who still resides at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
What most people from our side dislike about Bush is that he tried to get along with Democrats.
He actually listened to people who stole the “W”s off of government keyboards.
The left is so full of hate and yet he tried to work with them, yet they still hate him.
Imagine if he treated the other side the way the current resident in thief does.
I’m a little surprised at the vitriol I’m reading here. GW was not the perfect president by any means, and was not as conservative on some issues as he should have been, but he was barely in office nine months when he had an impossible burden thrust upon him, set up by Clinton. I was in the military on 9/11. Can you imagine if Obama had been President then? GW was the best one to be president at the time. And seeing how he has conducted himself after being out of office shows the true class act and gentlemen he is.
You know President Bush wasn’t perfect by ANY means but this I KNOW about him: He is a TRUE American, he had AMERICA’s best interests in mind and did the VERY BEST he could. You put another Obama-like person up for election against Bush and I’d vote for President Bush every single day. He is classy, his wife is classy and he believes in American exceptionalism. President Bush, THANK YOU SIR for being our President. God bless you and your family.
While he spent like a drunken sailor and pushed for the Patriot Act, he made both sides on the aisle mad. But at least he respected the office. He never dissed the American people on our soil or on foreign soil. He never told Democrats or people who disagreed with him politically to “get in the back seat.” He was always respectful of differing views. He never went against the Little Sisters of the Poor or got involved in cherry picking local cases with Beer Summits or equivocating anyone to be one of his children. His wife never uttered a single derogatory word about this nation and never took outlandish vacations. GW needed a teleprompter, too, but he didn’t lie on a daily basis about shovel-ready jobs or that you can keep your doctor. He never shied away from calling Islamic terrorism what it was and certainly never blamed an attack on workplace violence or an obscure video. Like or not, you knew what you had and knew that he tried to protect this country. I like the well-known phrase, “Miss me yet?” Yes we do, Mr. President. Yes we do.
The McCain campaign was an exercise in failure and incompetence from beginning to end. They fed their greatest asset to the wolves and now we learn they insulted a two-term president. However much I disagree with a lot of what this president did, he should have been treated with respect by his own party. He has dignity and treated his office with respect and cared about his country and military. And at least he cared, and that makes him infinitely more respectable in my book than the current one or the one before him.
George W was to the 2008 Republicans what Walter Mondale is to the Democrats. Even Jimmy Carter — admittedly the worst president in the last 100 years, second only to Barack Obama — has addressed the Democratic National Convention. It is sad to me, since he was a far better president than the liberal media depicts.
His response to 9/11 settled the nation and brought us together in response. Most of the Democrats who later condemned him, joined him in approving his war plans.
Bush sent more money to fight AIDS in Africa than any president before or since (but got no credit for doing so).
He immediately sent the Feds into New Orleans in the aftermath of Katrina, including thousands of trailers to provide temporary housing (trailers that later proved to be unhealthy and now sit in empty fields rotting). Despite immediate money and help, he received no credit. Rather, he was falsely accused of blowing up the levies in order to kill blacks so that Republicans would win the next election. (The insanity of the claim was not enough to overturn the hateful imagination of Farrakhan and others. Even the factual investigation of the outrageous claims – which revealed nothing – did nothing to assuage the passions of the race-baiters.)
Bush overturned Saddam Hussein and his butchery in Iraq, and through the surge, left office with a stable, democratically-elected government in Iraq. Obama withdrew all troops, and opened the door to ISIS.
George Bush is a good man, wrongfully demonized.
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