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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)70. Rather than make fun of them or exploit them to make a point about someone else
He was a shit. He went along with doing the damage. It's a low bar, but reasonable to appreciate that he is not afraid to respectfully interact with those soldiers. Particularly after he has taken responsibility for the damage he did.
I won't forget that his father signed the ADA and he signed amendments to undo damge courts had done to the original law. He also tried to implement a decent immigration policy. Those are diffirences that matter when evaluating character.
The white supremacy embedded in the response to Katrina is still infuriating. As is the white supremacy embedded in every single presidency prior.
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Trump actually has a shot of giving James Buchanan and Andrew Johnson a run for their money.
StevieM
Mar 2017
#22
W. was very gracious and human. You'd never see Trump laugh and cut up like W. did today.
dalton99a
Mar 2017
#7
the popular vote loser only loves $$ no matter how evil he has to be to get it nt
msongs
Mar 2017
#10
Indescribable torture, countless deaths, hundreds of thousands maimed and displaced...
demmiblue
Mar 2017
#9
Rather than make fun of them or exploit them to make a point about someone else
loyalsister
Mar 2017
#70
I did, and do, hate him. Intensly, and on a visceral level. That being said,
Crunchy Frog
Mar 2017
#64
He's a first rate dickhead, nothing funny about the idiot son - 2 wars, thousand of lives destroyed,
FreeStateDemocrat
Mar 2017
#54