Let’s dispense with the good/shitty by comparison way of judging or memorializing former presidents. Shitty presidents are shitty presidents, and we usually have shitty presidents. When they die, we shouldn’t say that they really weren’t all that shitty compared to Nixon or Dubya or Trump. We should say they were basically shitty.
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This is proof of basically shitty.
“Atwater’s most noteworthy campaign was the 1988 presidential election, when he served as the campaign manager for Republican nominee George H. W. Bush.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Atwater
Thank you.
On FB I have asked when is it we are allowed to bring up a president’s failings. Apparently not when he dies. Called graceless for that. Nor when his successor takes office. Can’t do that. Look forward not backward.
We screwed with the Middle East after WW I when we were party to the partitioning of the area totally disrespecting and unaccepting of the political, religious and ethnic realities of the region. Which led to…
us learning nothing and mading things worse after WW II.
And so on….
This is why I’ve been avoiding the news since I first heard. I remember Bush. He was a crappy president. He was a liar who was passionate only about lowering capital gains taxes. He pardoned Weinberger and the rest of the Iran-Contra bastards.
Just because the Republican presidents who came later were far worse doesn’t mean why have to make up stories that he was halfway decent. He was shit just as Reagan was shit. His son was shit with maggots and Trump is shit with Ebola.
Republicans:
Shitty. (Nixon, Reagan, Bush I and II, Trump.)
Democrats:
Shifty. (Clinton, Obama)
Take your choice.
Or look for a different way.
AG
Yawn.
“Yawn?”
In your post today about the newest Republican boondoggle in Wisconsin, you write:
I totally agree.
Right up the political foodchain and not just when scripted distractions like “holiday shopping” are used for cover.
This bipartisan crookedness of which I speak has been happening for about 50 years because too many good, well-meaning people have not looked up from their day-to-day political alliances and raised holy hell about it.
“Yawn???!!!”
Precisely.
AG