George W. Bush Cries Delivering Eulogy For His Father, George H.W. Bush

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President Trump: Person of the Week

Claim To Fame: 45th President of the United States

Why He's The Person of the Week: for teaming up with France and the UK to launch successful strikes on Syria to retaliate for a suspected chemical weapons attack and for pardoning former Dick Cheney Chief-of-Staff Scooter Libby.

Trump announced Friday night that he ordered precision missile strikes in conjunction with French and British allies against the Syrian government. The President noted that the strike was underway in areas in and around the Syrian capital of Damascus were struck. In proof that the mission met its target, yesterday the Pentagon announced that the Syria strikes hit the ‘heart’ of the rogue nation's chemical weapons program.

As for Libby, known as "Scooter," who was convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice in 2007 in connection with the overblown leak of a CIA officer's identity, Trump did what George W. Bush should've done while he was still President: grant Libby a full pardon. Bush had commuted Libby's sentence but did not issue a full pardon. "I don't know Mr. Libby, but for years, I have heard that he has been treated unfairly," Trump said in a statement from the White House.

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George H.W. Bush Calls President Trump a 'Blowhard'

Hey, family matters. I just think that the Bush's are still holding a grudge over the Trump slapped around Jeb Bush during the primaries last year.

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George W. Bush Quote of the Day!

"The American dream of upward mobility seems out of reach for some who feel left behind in a changing economy. Discontent deepened and sharpened partisan conflicts. Bigotry seems emboldened. Our politics seems more vulnerable to conspiracy theories and outright fabrication."

- the former President in a speech at the George W. Bush Institute this past week

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No, George W. Bush Did Not Lie Us Into War with Iraq

HotAir.com:

There is no small amount of irony in this argument coming up now. The Department of Defense and the intelligence community have active investigations looking into whether CENTCOM and other analysts have been cooking intelligence to make our anti-ISIS strategy look more successful than it truly is — and bury the threat of ISIS until it was too late. Warnings about cooked intel analyses went all the way to James Clapper, who apparently didn’t do much to correct the issue at the time. 

However, several investigations have made clear that this was not the case with Iraq. Bush didn’t lie; he relied on bad intelligence amplified by the heightened concern after 9/11. The Saddam-WMD intel preceded Bush’s term in office, and Democrats before and after 9/11 offered the same warnings about Saddam’s intentions and his preparations. And while WMD was not found in bulk quantities, some undeclared chemical weapons actually were found by US forces after the invasion, as well as records that made clear that Saddam would reconstitute his WMD capabilities after the US and UK finally left. 

On top of that, Saddam refused to comply with the terms of the 1991 cease-fire and 17 UN resolutions demanding his cooperation. 

All of this has been known for a decade. Only conspiracy theorists and manipulative demagogues continue to claim that “Bush lied us into war in Iraq.” Consider it a self-identifying behavior and choose accordingly.

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ATDH: In The News Week of 2/21/16

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New Poll Shows Marco Rubio Within Three Points of Donald Trump in South Carolina

HotAir.com:

We’ve been hearing about “Marcomentum” all week, and the endorsement of Nikki Haley was expected to have boosted Marco Rubio’s fortunes in South Carolina. Donald Trump’s eruption at the generally well-liked George W. Bush was supposed to hurt him in the Palmetto State, too, but until today, there seemed to be very little evidence of either in polling. A new poll from the Fox affiliate in Atlanta (via John Ziegler) shows Marco Rubio within the margin of error for the lead, just three points behind Trump at 27/24, with Ted Cruz falling into third with 19%.

Outlier?

A new poll conducted for FOX 5 in advance of Saturday’s GOP primary in South Carolina shows Senator Marco Rubio has jumped into second place to challenge front-runner Donald Trump.

The OpinionSavvy poll conducted for FOX 5 shows Rubio with 24% of the South Carolina Republican voters surveyed, trailing only businessman Trump with 27%.
This week’s endorsement of Rubio by South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley apparently helped push Rubio to the second spot, ahead of Texas Senator Ted Cruz with 19%.

In case you’re wondering, Opinion Savvy is the same firm that had Trump and Cruz ahead of Rubio one week ago today, 36/19/15 respectively. As Allahpundit noted last week, they also came close to getting it right in Iowa, picking up on Rubio’s late surge, even if they missed the magnitude of the vote for all three candidates.

I don't care what anybody says, if Trump loses or if it's close in South Carolina, it's mostly because of his lies about former President Bush.

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South Carolina Voters Angered by Donald Trump's Claim that Bush Lied to Start Iraq War

WeeklyStandard.com:

Did Donald Trump damage his candidacy at Saturday night’s debate when he alleged that George W. Bush knowingly lied about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq in order to launch the war? A few signs suggest the answer is yes.

On Monday, Rush Limbaugh lumped Trump in the same league as Michael Moore and Daily Kos bloggers for standing by his Iraq war conspiracy theory. Then on Tuesday, CNN released a poll that found Trump dropped 9 points after the debate—from 40 percent to 31 percent. On Tuesday night, every voter I spoke to at Trump's campaign event in Beaufort, South Carolina disapproved of Trump's comments. Their views ranged from genuine disgust to mere displeasure.

Dave Paxton from Hilton Head said he still doesn't know who he's voting for on Tuesday, but he is certain he won't be voting for Trump. Paxton said Trump's comment about George W. Bush "was horrible. I couldn't hardly watch after that. I mean, really, I was hoping they would not even ask him another question."

"I just think he made an ass of himself," Paxton added. "And then he kept interrupting."

On the ride over to Trump's event, Paxton said, his girlfriend and another friend who support Trump brought up the Iraq debate remark and both agreed that it was embarrassing. "I think it hurt him a lot. We'll see come Saturday," Paxton said.

"He just recently got crossed off my list," Michele Williams of Okatie, South Carolina said of Trump. Williams hadn't liked Trump's bullying behavior for some time, but it was "the debate that was the nail in the coffin."

"The thing about 'Bush lied'—that makes me question his conservatism. I don't trust him any more. I really don't. I don't respect him," said Williams, who has narrowed her choices down to Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, and John Kasich. "Definitely voting in the primary, but I'm as confused as ever," she said about her vote.

Trump's running as Populist, but this attack on former President Bush not only made zero sense, but in a state where Jeb Bush brought out his big brother out to specifically campaign for him, why would you risk alienating South Carolina voters with unnecessary comments about Bush and Iraq? Then too, why would would go out of your way to diss Bush when you consider the facts about us going into Iraq? And when you consider that the far-Left loons who delight in stating that 'Bush Lied' us into Iraq aren't gonna vote for you anyway? And when you consider that Saddam Hussein was a really, really bad guy who needed to go. And when there are still so many people out there who maintain skepticism of how much a 'true conservative' you really are?

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To Liberals Delight, Donald Trump Evokes 9/11 To Make Fun of Jeb Bush

Mediaite.com:

During his presser Monday afternoon from Hanahan, South Carolina, Donald Trump moved from his open criticism of Texas Senator Ted Cruz onto the Bush family, continuing the rhetoric that was hotly-contested during this weekend’s GOP debate.

On the same day that former President George W. Bush is set to stump on behalf of his brother Jeb in South Carolina, Trump called out the frequent talking point that “George W. Bush kept us safe after 9/11”.

“What about during 9/11? I was there,” Trump told the press. “I lost a lot of friends that were killed in that building. The worst attack ever in this country — it was during his Presidency.”

Trump really sounds emotional going after the Bush's like this. To think, Jeb Bush is too wooden and too prone to fumbles to win the GOP nomination. Still, Trump just can't put aside his huge ego and utter disdain for Jeb to leave him alone and let him die a slow death on his own.

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ATDH: In The News 2/14/16

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Barack Obama E-mailed Hillary Clinton 22 Times, But State Department Won't Release Them

NYTimes.com:

The State Department on Friday said for the first time that “top secret” material had been sent through Hillary Clinton’s private computer server, and that it would not make public 22 of her emails because they contained highly classified information.

The department announced that 18 emails exchanged between Mrs. Clinton and President Obama would also be withheld, citing the longstanding practice of preserving presidential communications for future release. The department’s spokesman, John Kirby, said that exchanges did not involve classified information.

The disclosure of the top secret emails, three days before Iowans vote in the first-in-the-nation caucuses, is certain to fuel the political debate over the unclassified computer server that Mrs. Clinton, the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, kept in her home. The State Department released another set of her emails on Friday night in response to a Freedom of Information Act request.

The top secret emails lent credence to criticism by Mrs. Clinton’s rivals in the presidential race of her handling of classified information while she was secretary of state from 2009 to 2013. It is against the law for officials to discuss classified information on unclassified networks used for routine business or on private servers, and the F.B.I. is looking into whether such information was mishandled.

Everyone knows damn well that if this had been a Republican Secretary of State involved in this type of email corruption, the media would be fanning the flames for some type of harsh penalty to the GOP as a whole. After all, we all remember the big deal Democrats and the liberal press made out of former President George W. Bush supposedly outing Valerie Plame some time back.

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Donald Trump: With My Immigration Plans, 9/11 Would Never Have Happened

Mediaite.com:

In what is possibly the crescendo of his recent commentary of 9/11, Donald Trump claims that his ideas for immigration would have kept the perpetrators out of America.

Chris Wallace asked Trump to comment on his recently-renewed feud with Jeb Bush, who fired back after Trump attacked George W. Bush for allowing the disaster to happen during his presidency. When asked about whether he actually blamed the former president, Trump said he did not, but has gripes with his brother arguing that W. kept America safe.

“Jeb said ‘we were safe with my brother.’ Well, the World Trade Center just fell down,” Trump argued. “Now, am I trying to blame him? I’m not blaming anybody. But the World Trade Center came down. So when he said ‘we were safe,’ that’s not safe.”

After Wallace asked how he would’ve done things differently, Trump promised that since he is “extremely, extremely tough on immigration,” there's no way the hijackers would’ve gotten anywhere near the planes with him in charge.

“Somebody says ‘well it wouldn’t have been any different.’ well it would’ve been,” Trump said. “So there’s a good chance that those people would not have been in our country. I’m not blaming George Bush, but I don’t want Jeb Bush saying ‘he kept our country safe’ because September 11 was one of the worst days in the history of this country.”

All Trump's doing is going after independent and some socially conservative Democrats voters who can't stand Hillary or Bernie Sanders with all this anti-Bush talk. Which makes sense. But blaming a new President, who was 9 months into his term, for 9/11 especially after Bill Clinton admittedly passed on a chance to kill bin laden, makes absolutely no sense when you look at the facts, which include the many misdeeds of both the Carter and Clinton administrations that led us to the World Trade Center getting attacked.

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