I am completely torn on this. On one hand this could be used to fight unfair sentencing for minorities who are given stricter punishments then their white counterparts which is a good thing. On the other hand I worry that people might try to take this decision and erode the protections of the Jury room further in…

I don’t know, I have mixed feelings about that. I attended a good journalism school, was an editor at the school newspaper, and heated back and forth between student writers and alumni happened occasionally; not to mention the brutal weekly critique sessions with our faculty advisors. It’s part of the learning process…

He also saved the lives of millions of people through initiatives he created to combat AIDS in Africa. It is naive to call Bush evil. And I’m a diehard liberal. There was a huge uptick of drone strikes - and deaths resulting from them - under Obama, and I don’t think Obama is evil. The world is complicated.…

He also launched an inistivd in Africa to combat AIDS, which likely resulted in the saving of millions of lives. People are complicated. Except for Trump, who is a cuckoo narcissist.

You are forgetting his work to deal with the AIDS crisis in Africa. The Bushes did more to help with that than any administration before or after.

>Let’s face it, Cheney was running the country.

I think Bush was kind of a good ole boy idiot who was used by the people around him to do a bunch of things he didn’t care enough to prevent. Trump seems like he’s having a grand old time hurting everyone he can, which is different and way more pathological and perverse.

I hold an unpopular opinion that Bush was not a bad president if you look at his whole record. He did awful shit like the Iraq war and deregulation, but he also strengthened our alliances abroad, helped usher us to a service based economy and worked to alleviate distrust between us and many smaller nations. He was a…

As much as I dislike GWB (and his dad and his daughter on the Today show) I never thought he was dishonorable, which I cannot say for Trump, who acts with no honor whatsoever.

We forget that W campaigned on “compassionate conservative” as a buzzword during his initial election bid. That doesn’t mean we agree or he had good ideas, but that at the very least pre-9/11 his rhetoric and actions were very much based on trying to do good things for people (and we all know his ideas don’t work…

This has always been my opinion of the man. I disagree vehemently with his policy, but I respect the man and believe he honestly did what he thought was best for the country. Clearly it wasn’t, but that is another conversation. I think this puts him in a position where he is somewhat uniquely qualified to criticize…

It was his administration that demonised Islam and defined terrorism as a solely Islamic phenomenon, which is ridiculous.

While I don’t want to give him too much credit, he comes across as someone who’s aware that they deeply fucked up. It wasn’t like POTUS was a role he would have gone for if he’d been from any other family - he rose far higher than he expected, was puppetted by everyone around him, and followed some really shitty…

I get the impression that he knows that he fucked up a bunch.

Had a friend who worked in DC while GWB was President, and basically said this about him:

GWB was a terrible President who was woefully inadequate for the times he faced. But I never considered him an evil man with bad intentions (those who worked for him, not so much.) And he did get a one thing very right: he never blamed Islam for 9/11, and in fact, went out of his way to do the opposite. Had a white…

“I consider the media to be indispensable to democracy. We needed the media to hold people like me to account,” Bush said. “Power can be very addictive and it can be corrosive, and it’s important for the media to call to account people who abuse their power.”

Look, Bush was a giant gaping asshole as president. He’s responsible for one of the greatest disasters in U.S. military history that led to the deaths of thousands of U.S. soldiers and marines and untold hundreds of thousands of civilians.

I think the difference is the respect for the institutions of government and of the American people. GWB had bad policy that tanked the economy and got us into unwinnable, destabilizing, unjustifiable wars. But he at least respected the office of the Presidency, the humanity of Muslims and immigrants, and while he…

Find yourself someone who looks at you like Lin Manuel Miranda looks at everybody.