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In reply to the discussion: G.W. Bush is on Ellen. He's making me smile. I feel like [View all]loyalsister
(13,390 posts)His laugh, his smile his "lack of intellect," having no clue what it would mean to have a president who didn't smile much less laugh. Or that it was possible to actually have a proudly inarticulate and ignorant, entitled and hateful individual as president.
So much of what I thought about him seems like hyperbole in retrospect. My cynical interpretation of the fact that he spoke spanish was way off base. I didn't buy his self depracating humor at the WH correspondants dinner.
I always thought he was in over his head and essentially following orders. But I now see much of the fear and anxiety I had then as typical partisan worry. I blame him and his administration for the hyperpartisanship promoted by his administration and participating in starting wars. But, I don't see him as truly cold blooded. It seems like he truly regrets and takes responsibility for the wars.
The fact that he has been making media rounds an getting in digs at the administration is pretty revealing and actually gutsy. I appreciate that he's doing it.