President Obama Insults Former President Bush At His Own Portrait Hanging
Media President Obama Insults Former President Bush At His Own Portrait Hanging
President Barack Obama points to former President George W. Bush during a ceremony to unveil his official portrait, Thursday, May 31, 2012, in the East Room at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
Apparently, as with so many other things, some people who hold the Presidency have class and some don’t. To all appearances, former President George W. Bush is the former, and current President Barack Obama is the latter, at least if this afternoon‘s unveiling of former President Bush’s Presidential portrait is any guide.
This event – which is, at least in theory, supposed to be free of partisan sniping, got an earful of just that when President Obama gave his introductory remarks welcoming Bush:
President Obama on Thursday twisted the knife he‘d stuck in his predecessor’s legacy, reminding former President George W. Bush that he left the economy a mess and al Qaeda mastermind Osama bin Laden alive when he left the White House three years ago.
“The months before I took the oath of office were a chaotic time,” Obama told a crowd of mostly former Bush administration officials and members of the Bush family, including Bush’s parents, former President George H.W. Bush and former first lady Barbara Bush.[...]
“We knew our economy was in trouble, our fellow Americans were in pain, but we wouldn’t know until later just how breathtaking the financial crisis had been,” Obama continued, raising some eyebrows among the Bush crowd seated just a few feet away.
Bush, however, was the picture of grace, not saying anything remotely insulting about Obama or his wife, and instead treating them with all the deference a sitting President might expect. Indeed, the only place where Bush could have been construed to say anything insulting was when he named his own wife the best First Lady ever, with his mother Barbara Bush maybe tying her. And as to himself, he didn’t pull any punches there, using his typical self-deprecating humor.
“Madame First Lady, thank you so much for inviting our rowdy friends to my hanging,” he joked.
You can watch former President Bush and former First Lady Laura Bush’s remarks below
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/president-obama-insults-forme...
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jean 2012/06/01 19:46:16
How do you know who of us have class and who don't?? are you a judge of character without even knowing someone?? I think not..
I am not here to demonstrate class..I am here to learn and share information to others.. why are you here?? I already told you.. I research.. I researched obama for 2 years.. could write my own books.. Obama has so many bad habits and terrible raport that it's not hard to criticize him or his marxist lobster eater w...
How do you know who of us have class and who don't?? are you a judge of character without even knowing someone?? I think not..
I am not here to demonstrate class..I am here to learn and share information to others.. why are you here?? I already told you.. I research.. I researched obama for 2 years.. could write my own books.. Obama has so many bad habits and terrible raport that it's not hard to criticize him or his marxist lobster eater wife. I am never vulgar and I am not on a witch hunt.. what made you even say that?? I don't write the comments on here but for my own.. and I am responsible for what I say. A hypocrite is someone that says something and does the opposite.. so you are very wrong.. I am therefore not a hypocrite.. are you speaking of yourself perhaps? All you have done is call names and insult anyone who doesn't agree with you .. I like to deal in facts.. if you want to have a real conversation with real FACTS .. I will be happy to do so.. otherwise don't waste my time.
I am hoping your so called "witch hunt" leads to the defeat of this current president. For the sake of this nation it must happen.
I have many liberal friends who speak with civility and I treasure those friendships. There are many on your side who are simply scum.
Obama has spent the last three and a half years lambasting Bush about the failures of his administration. Then he brings the guy to the White House and gets into his face with the same BS. Bush and his entourage should have gotten up and left.
"You"ll likable enough, Hillary." - Barack Obama, smug face creep.
progressives are communists also !! Just like below......
just another form of political mud slinging