Five Things
That Are Revealed By Democrats’ Rehabilitation Of Bush
By Caitlin Johnstone
May 05, 2020 "Information
Clearing House" -
George W Bush is
in the news again today, and once again it’s not for
the only legitimate reason that he should ever be in the
news, namely a war crimes tribunal. No, it’s because his
voice was used in a cutesy feel-good video about unity
during the Covid-19 pandemic.
“Let us remember how
small our differences are in the face of this shared
threat,” Bush is heard saying. “We are not partisan
combatants. We are human beings, equally vulnerable and
equally wonderful in the sight of God.”
And, needless to say, Democrats are all over social
media orgasming in their pants about it.
“This video made me ugly cry,”
tweeted actress-turned-McResistance pundit Alyssa
Milano.
“A REAL president,”
tweeted the other Alyssa Milano, Debra Messing.
“In a million years I never thought I’d be crying
watching this, thinking how much better we’d all feel if
Bush were president today,”
tweeted former Democratic congresswoman Katie Hill
to thunderous online applause.
The Intercept‘s Mehdi Hasan
spent all day on Twitter defending his position that
Dubya is superior to Trump, at one point even
arguing “You can be a sane warmonger. You can be a
warmonger but be an ok human being to your friends and
family. You can be a warmonger and be able to handle a
domestic public health crisis.”
For years rank-and-file Democrats have been
giving the true Butcher of Baghdad
a majority approval rating, running with
the common narrative that while Bush
perhaps made some “mistakes”, Trump is
spectacularly worse. Here are five things
that are highlighted by that common
perspective:
