[Zaebal]

They aren't very different. They just act like it during election time. They purposefully make insignificant differences to their platforms and then make them seem like huge differences.

[somozasayre]

Well, I sort of have to agree that Bush always seemed like a fine guy to me at a personal level. I remember when he personally intervened when a tussle broke out between US and Chilean security personel at a meeting in Chile.

[ElenaEvgeevna]

Originally posted by The diplomat
The fact is that Bush is a friendly and gracious person. The hatred towards him is purely politically. Ah no. The hatred towards him has to do with his polical actions, not how diplomatic he is.

[oranowdenda]

Originally posted by Naked Gents Rut
Bush has always seemed liked a gracious and classy guy. Three words: Karla Faye Tucker

For a sitting governor to mock a death-row inmate's appeal for clemency with such disdain hardly strikes me as gracious or classy.

[N9NACzws]

Originally posted by DanS


He's probably trying to set a precedent counter to the childish unhelpfulness of the Clinton administration last go around. It's interesting that Bush actually has nothing but nice things to say about Clinton.

[zoolissentesy]

Originally posted by Naked Gents Rut


Karla Faye Tucker was a whitetrash murderer who hacked someone to death with a pickaxe. Boo hoo. And it is incumbent upon elected officials to show more Humanity than those we've sentenced to death. Don't get me wrong, death row conversions are about the least believable things EVAH, but that is irrelevant to then-Gov. Bush's behavior.

[Michaelnewerb]

Originally posted by Naked Gents Rut


What moralistic drivel. Yeah, because showing actual graciousness and class would totally undermine whatever the hell point you were trying to make about Bush's graciousness and class.

[TornadoPD]

Darius has just ended all future political debates in Apolyton Off-Topic for eternity with his revelatory, one sentence summary.

[mpxricyNimb]

Originally posted by MrFun
Darius has just ended all future political debates in Apolyton Off-Topic for eternity with his revelatory, one sentence summary. That's the idea.

[adverwork]

Originally posted by Darius871


Because they both are and have always been part of the same band of crooks. You've all been duped. That's Comrade Snuggles line.

[Mboxmaja]

Originally posted by Naked Gents Rut
Karla Faye Tucker was a whitetrash murderer who hacked someone to death with a pickaxe. Boo hoo. Bush = whitetrash murderer

[Acalsenunse]

Originally posted by Lord Avalon
I saw the thread title and thought: "Bush and Obama at Tanagra."

Then of course: "Bush, when the walls fell." Not being a trekkie, that allusion was stored on one lonely little neuron hiding in a dusty corner of my temporal lobe. I had to resort to google to get that little sucker to fire completely.

[Feloascarlelt]

Originally posted by Comrade Snuggles
Bush, being from the ruling class, hardly qualifies as trash. Sorry. Would it be better to call him Texas Trash?

[Calluffence]

Originally posted by Kidicious


Sorry. Would it be better to call him Texas Trash? Well, since the word he objected to was "trash", I don't really see how changing "white" to "texas" helps at all.

[Nemerov]

Every president in his last months of power adopts a conciliatory attitude, including towards his political enemies. Every pres wants to remembered in a positive way, and in vain they all try to behave like a 'good guy'. Bush tried to make peace in the Israel-Palestine conflict, but got thwarted by the failure of Livni forming a government, which in turn caused the majority to shut down peace talks with Palestinians and Syrians. Pretty much the last big failure of the Bush administration, though I have to admit this time around he didn't really **** it up himself

[Carol]

Oh you may be right.. I'm just drunk so I'm only spewing my automatic anti-Bush trashtalk now.

[poispanna]

Originally posted by DirtyMartini


Well, since the word he objected to was "trash", I don't really see how changing "white" to "texas" helps at all. He objected to "whitetrash" which implies lowerclass. Texas trash simply implies that he's from Texas.

[SoftrermaBioniaSat]

Originally posted by Kidicious


He objected to "whitetrash" which implies lowerclass. Texas trash simply implies that he's from Texas.
I'm pretty sure the part of whitetrash that implies lower class is the "trash" part, not the "white" part.

[KLhdfskja]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui


I'm positive most people would agree. But do you agree -- you are clearly not "most people".

[Reatclaplen]

Originally posted by Blaupanzer
As transitions go, this one has been pretty classy so far. Bush didn't have to be laid back, he could have gone all formal and no one would have called him out on it. However, he himself has been nice and has had his people cooperate. At least that's how it looks from the outside, which all most of us will ever know about it. He's prolly trying to make up for what Clinton did to him during the transition when he took the reins of power.