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
From the bitterness you spew, I'd say it must irk you, Ira, to see the class, poise, and humor the Bush family has compared to the egotistical scumbucket who is the current POTUS. Obama has broken the laws of the Constitution because he thinks he's above it all. You are a typical LP holding onto previous LP propaganda as well. In case you cannot read or are simply too rabid an LP to admit it, there have been things found that support the existence of those WMD, empty labs, buried parts, satellite photos of convoys going to Syria ... but it's old news. As for damage, Obamass is doing so much damage that it could take generations to get out from under all the debt and Obamacare genocide unless the bastard (and he is a bastard by definition as well as actions) is defeated.