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George W. Bush Virtually Endorses Joe Biden In Powerful Statement

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  1. Ubiquitin

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    https://www.politicususa.com/2020/06/02/george-w-bush-joe-biden.html

    Former President and First Lady George W. and Laura Bush issued a statement on the riots that echoed Joe Biden’s language of empathy and unity.

    In part, the statement read:
    America’s greatest challenge has long been to unite people of very different backgrounds into a single nation of justice and opportunity. The doctrine and habits of racial superiority, which once nearly split our country, still threaten our Union. The answers to American problems are found by living up to American ideals — to the fundamental truth that all human beings are created equal and endowed by God with certain rights. We have often underestimated how radical that quest really is, and how our cherished principles challenge systems of intended or assumed injustice. The heroes of America — from Frederick Douglass, to Harriet Tubman, to Abraham Lincoln, to Martin Luther King, Jr. — are heroes of unity. Their calling has never been for the fainthearted. They often revealed the nation’s disturbing bigotry and exploitation — stains on our character sometimes difficult for the American majority to examine. We can only see the reality of America’s need by seeing it through the eyes of the threatened, oppressed, and disenfranchised.

    That is exactly where we now stand. Many doubt the justice of our country, and with good reason. Black people see the repeated violation of their rights without an urgent and adequate response from American institutions. We know that lasting justice will only come by peaceful means. Looting is not liberation, and destruction is not progress. But we also know that lasting peace in our communities requires truly equal justice. The rule of law ultimately depends on the fairness and legitimacy of the legal system. And achieving justice for all is the duty of all.

    This will require a consistent, courageous, and creative effort. We serve our neighbors best when we try to understand their experience. We love our neighbors as ourselves when we treat them as equals, in both protection and compassion. There is a better way — the way of empathy, and shared commitment, and bold action, and a peace rooted in justice. I am confident that together, Americans will choose the better way.

    The better way that Bushs wrote about is exactly the way that Joe Biden advocated for during his address in Philadelphia.

    Democrats found little in policy terms to agree with George W. Bush about, but no one ever thought that Bush was a racist.


    The statement by the Bushs was a firm rejection of Donald Trump’s declaration of war on the people of his own country. When George W. Bush urged people to choose the better way, he was not only talking about the current crisis, he was also referring to your vote in November.
     
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    And this is why I voted in that poll for 5 more terms of W. over 1 more term of Trump.
     
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    Now we can finally settle the argument why you guys love Bush so much after crapping on him for the 8 years that he reigned. My all time favorite is the Hitler label you hung on him. So if I follow the trend, denouncing the Orange man and piling on with every thread in here about Trump, will I no longer be called a troll and a racist?
     
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  4. LongTimeFan

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    Did he actually endorse him? Didn't see anything that said that. Seems like a misleading title.
     
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    I have no love for W, to this day. But AFAIK, it is unprecedented that a former President would campaign against his own party's President.

    He was not racist unless you believe Kanye, but he was too socially conservative. Anti-right to die, anti-stem cells, anti-abortion, anti-evolution, anti-LGBT and too friendly with the conservative evangelicals. Pro-surveillance state, pro-death penalty, and pro-privatizing social security.
     
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  6. Ubiquitin

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    That's the articles title, nothing editorialized.
     
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    Gen has proven in the other thread he is a troll I would advise people not to engage
     
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    He’s been doing this from day one. Bush is a RINO establishment through and through. He kept his mouth shut for the 8 years during king Obama’s reign, but flapping his gums the moment Trump announces his candidacy.
     
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    Understood. I never saw anything in his remarks that flat say he's endorsing Biden. He definitely hints at it but doesn't seem like he 100% committed.
     
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    anyone with more than 2 brain cells and a conscious knows we can’t have 4 more years of Donald Trump
     
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    Wait a minute let's get one ****ing thing straight here. George W Bush is one of the worst of all time presidents. He lied to the American people to get us into war, he kept Guantanamo Bay open and violated several laws of the Geneva Convention, he crashed our economy and he ****ed up the Katrina situation where he left thousands to die after the Hurricane struck.

    However, at least post presidency, he has been a decent man and has provided some positive words that our current president has a hard time providing. I hope there is a hell, so Donald J Trump can burn in it some day.

    We don't forget the **** stain George left in this country.
     
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    At least, you’re consistent.
     
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    W was alright. I don't think he took the job seriously until 9/11. Then economy sank. Say what you want, but the defense sectors kept the economy from completely tanking. And in 20 years, who knows, you may be saying 'let's vacation in Baghdad'.
     
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    We're going to get hit by a comet aren't we?
     
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    Lol @ powerful statement.
    The out of touch OP is exactly why Trump got elected ---because of how out of touch democrats just sit around circle jerking each other with "statements" to avoid action.
    You can say all you want, but when the riots and looting and violence against police were happening under OBama in 2016, a far more "powerful statement" speaker than a 100 year old Bush, you know how pointless these "statements" are.
     
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    I’m so confident about the Orange man re-election bid, I have a few running wagers with other members here, care to join them? Loser donates to the tip jar.
     
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    Don’t feed the troll. The only thing he can resort to when he losing an argument. Don’t feed the troll
     
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    Never under estimate the voting public in this country.
     
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