Every decision GWB made, he (wrongly) believed he was making the tough choices to make America safer in a time when Americans felt very unsafe.

You can be civil, even kind to someone, without calling them a friend.

Her cute little speech doesn’t acknowledge that W. is responsible for deaths. Deaths in Iraq, deaths in Louisiana, deaths of gay people whose families never accepted them. Civil rights are going to slide back because Kavanaugh is on the Supreme…

“Every decision GWB made, he (wrongly) believed he was making the tough choices to make America safer in a time when Americans felt very unsafe.”

At my old job, I was at an event where Ann Coulter was also in attendance. Everybody was getting photos with her. I did not get a photo with her and indeed avoided being anywhere near her.

That’s it. 

Dude, W Bush is responsible for starting two wars (one completely unnecessary, the other almost entirely unnecessary), started a worldwide torture program with multiple clandestine black sites that led to thousands of people getting flown around the world and tortured for years (and often just dumped on the streets of…

Everyone else is doing a pretty good job of setting you straight, but I’ll bring this up: there is no ‘far-left’ in U.S. political discourse. When you use the words ‘far-left’ as a mirror-image righteous cancellation of the sins of the far-right groups that support the current administration, you facilitate the Fox…

Those are by definition, torture

This argument sucks, man! George W. Bush isn’t a lost child; he was the president. He saw photos of the torture, from the man who approved of that torture, and then he stood up for that guy. I linked to this in the blog, which I’m now not sure you fully read.

I don’t want to flame you or be a huge dick. Because on some level, Ellen is correct that we can’t live in a country if we’re not willing to have some contact with people who think differently than we do. But when she applies this doctrine to someone like Bush, that is going a bridge too far into utter moral…

Buddy, anybody should be able to look at what Bush did to Iraq (or New Orleans, or the middle class) and put aside intent, the evil is just too much, but even if you insist on analyzing it:

He went to war with Iraq for a combination of revenge for his father and oil. He wasn’t trying to do good shit for anyone. He had…

I get where you’re at with that, and I can indicate a partial agreement with your position. It is definitely true that Bush rose to the occasion when 9/11 happened, but then of course we all know what happened after. I hate Bush, thought he was horrible, but it’s also possible to have a nice chat with him at a…

If you have a basic personal code of treating others kindly - which Ellen says she does, and doesn’t seem like the worst thing in the world to me for more people to adopt - it kind of defeats the purpose if that only extends to people you view as good or righteous.

oh thank god somebody said it. gwb wasn’t bad, he just oopsie-doopsied the country backwards into a pointless war that killed untold numbers of innocent people and eroded all kinds of civil liberties for our citizens. the road to hell isn’t paved with anything, so we can just give him a sticker for trying his best and…

Was the PATRIOT Act part of a mass hallucination?  Just because he didn't declare himself Emperor of North America doesn't mean excuse him from kick-starting the police state currently masquerading as a representative democracy.  

Because the only thing Trump does that Bush didn’t is say the quiet part loud and not know enough to get competent staff. After taking the presidency in a super non-democratic election, Bush staffed up with absolute war hawks and ghouls (who were into self enrichment as much as anyone in the Trump administration,…

Say what you will about John Wayne Gacy, at least he wasn’t a cannibal.

Oh no doubt. Nixon begat Reagan, who begat Bush the Elder, who begat Bush the Lesser, who begat Trump, who won’t beget anyone because there’s not going to be a fucking country left.

He also helped pave the way for the current president, by lowering that bar.

I got flamed to hell and back on Splinter for saying this, but I’ll say it here too, because what the hell. George W. Bush was a profoundly awful president, both in terms of domestic and foreign policy. He was, without question, a criminal of great magnitude. He was not, however, aspiring to become the dictator of a…