Bush Speech: Obama Deserves My Silence

It looks like we can't do without US Politics- I think it is to do with the content available on the net.

For instance, when I read what Former US President George W Bush said on a visit to Canada, it is too delicious to go unappreciated.

Yahoo! News cites an Associated Press report, where I found that Bush told his audience he won't be criticising Obama, because Obama deserves his silence- "I'm not going to spend my time criticizing him. There are plenty of critics in the arena. He deserves my silence."

And another thing he said was that he plans to write a book about his presidency. He plans to do it different: "I want people to understand what it was like to sit in the Oval Office and have them come in and say we have captured Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the mastermind of the Sept.11 attacks...", he said, indicating that his book would ask people to think what they would have done if they had been President.

Bush further confessed that it was, "going to be (about) the 12 toughest decisions I had to make"- there is no clue about what the other eleven are.

What we expect from Bush is, you guessed it, Bushism. I don't think editors would let anything get into the book, but here at Calgary, Canada, he said, "I'm going to put people in my place, so when the history of this administration is written at least there's an authoritarian (emphasis mine) voice saying exactly what happened."

There. Could anyone have said anything any better? And people jump on him for that- Democratic Underground.Com- in twenty-two minutes after publication, that particular post has logged eighteen comments, mostly unsympathetic. 

Too bad that the righteously indignant are still at it- more than two hundred protesters flung shoes outside the event, chanting, "war criminal". One Colette Lemieux of the Canadian Peace Alliance says, "It doesn't matter that he is no longer president- a bank robber who stops holding up banks can and must still be prosecuted for his crimes." See? People who are too sure they are right don't ever understand when they take a wrong turn.

They could do with some self-awareness and humour. You have a very good exemplar of this in Bush- "I'll sit here all day. I'm flattered people even want to hear me in the first place."

Truth? Inadvertence or conscious? You will never guess. He knows what is what. It is just that it comes out confused- but still, he gets it right. Most of the times.