{"id":188241,"date":"2010-11-03T20:49:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T01:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/11\/03\/what-a-whiny-bitch-5\/"},"modified":"2010-11-03T20:49:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-04T01:49:00","slug":"what-a-whiny-bitch-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/11\/03\/what-a-whiny-bitch-5\/","title":{"rendered":"What a Whiny Bitch!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, after nearly 3,000 Americans are killed by terrorists, he leads into a war against Iraq on false pretenses, a number of the White House staff out a clandestine CIA Operative, he allows a city to drown, and, “Here, watch this swing,” George W. Bush thinks that the worst day of his Presidency was when George Bush, still thin-skinned as ever, is still stewing of Kanye West<\/a>:<\/p>\n

MATT LAUER: You remember what he said? <\/span><\/p>\n

PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH: Yes, I do. He called me a racist. <\/span><\/p>\n

MATT LAUER: Well, what he said, “George Bush doesn’t care about black people.” <\/span><\/p>\n

PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH: That’s — “he’s a racist.” And I didn’t appreciate it then. I don’t appreciate it now. It’s one thing to say, “I don’t appreciate the way he’s handled his business.” It’s another thing to say, “This man’s a racist.” I resent it, it’s not true, and it was one of the most disgusting moments in my Presidency<\/span><\/p>\n

MATT LAUER: This from the book. “Five years later I can barely write those words without feeling disgust.” You go on. “I faced a lot of criticism as President. I didn’t like hearing people claim that I lied about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction or cut taxes to benefit the rich. But the suggestion that I was racist because of the response to Katrina represented an all time low.” <\/span><\/p>\n

PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH: Yeah. I still feel that way as you read those words. I felt ’em when I heard ’em, felt ’em when I wrote ’em and I felt ’em when I’m listening to ’em.<\/span><\/p>\n

MATT LAUER: You say you told Laura at the time it was the worst moment of your Presidency?<\/span><\/p>\n

PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH: Yes. My record was strong I felt when it came to race relations and giving people a chance. And– it was a disgusting moment.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I will actually agree with Bush that the criticism was wrong. What George W. Bush doesn’t care about is poor<\/span> people, white or<\/span> black.<\/p>\n

Of course, the idea that he was more offended by the accusation of racism than he was about treason (outing CIA agent Valerie Plame), or incompetence (Katrina), or lying about weapons of mass destruction (Iraq) and killing thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, or dropping the ball before 911, is a meaningful tell.<\/p>\n

You see, he felt that the accusation by Kanye West was unfair, but that the other criticisms had some merit, because even saw that there was an element of truth to them.<\/p>\n

Still, what a remarkably small and petty man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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